Meryl Streep credited as playing...
Ricki
- Pete: Why did you walk out on my daughter that way?
- Max: I made a mistake. We got married too young.
- Pete: If you're too young to be married, Max, what makes you think that you're ready to raise Kenzie and Krash?
- Nicole: It's Kash and how do you know my kids' names?
- Ricki: Everybody on Highway 70 knows your kids' names.
- Max: Look, lady, you weren't even at our wedding. Julie hates you.
- Ricki: That may be. And I have to live with that every day of my life. But now *you* have to live with the pain you caused.
- Ricki: Our child attempted suicide and you didn't tell me?
- Pete: I didn't - I didn't even find out till the day after, okay? And then I was a little more concerned with Julie than Ricki.
- Ricki: You should've called me and told me.
- Pete: I did. That's why you're here.
- Ricki: I didn't realize that she was suicidal. I thought she was just depressed because of Max leaving.
- Pete: Depressed? No, I could've manage that alone. No, I'm - Julie's always been a moody kid. I wouldn't have even bothered to call you.
- Ricki: Well, why not?
- Pete: Because historically, Linda, you don't really give a damn.
- Ricki: Yes, I do!
- Ricki: I can't believe - I can't believe you tried to kill yourself. Julie, you - You're precious.
- Julie: Listen, a lot of horrible things have happened to me since you left. You know, this is just the incident you know of.
- Ricki: Please, don't.
- Single Dad: Excuse me. Could you guys take this conversation outside?
- Ricki: What, are you listening in? That is so Midwestern.
- Single Dad: [tries to get attention from someone] Excuse me.
- Ricki: Hey, you can't raise kids in a bubble, man.
- Single Dad: You know, I can't enjoy my time with my kid when it's my weekend.
- Julie: Your weekend? Your weekend? Maybe you should've tried to stick it out with her mother instead of just leaving the second that your boner wilted.
- [Ricki laughs]
- Single Dad: Let's go, Journey. Come on
- [takes his daughter and leaves]
- Julie: Journey?
- Ricki: That's sweet. I like that name.
- Julie: Oh, you would.
- Ricki: It's a great band.
- Ricki: You shut me out of this family.
- Pete: I shut you out?
- Ricki: Yup.
- Pete: You came back here from California, if you recall, with a chip on your shoulder, you were completely shut down.
- Ricki: Well, I did come back.
- Pete: Well...
- Ricki: You had moved on.
- Pete: I had to move on. I wanted the kids to have a mother who is there.
- Ricki: It was my dream, man.
- Pete: Yeah, and that stupid me. I thought we were your dream.
- Ricki: I can't have two dreams?
- Pete: No, in fact, Linda, you can't.
- Julie: My heart is dead and rotten.
- Pete: Don't say that.
- Ricki: No, a heart isn't something like a steak, you know, that spoils. A heart is like a Big Mac. It just sits and sits and sits. It gets older, yeah, but it doesn't change.
- Pete: What? You're saying that a Big Mac never goes bad?
- Ricki: Yeah. That's what I'm saying.
- Pete: Interesting.
- Ricki: It - It lives forever. I saw it on 60 Minutes.
- Julie: That's disgusting.
- Pete: Arugula.
- Ricki: 9-4-8-8-4
- Pete: You just know that right off the top of your - ?
- Ricki: Boom.
- Pete: Is it - ?
- [shuts refrigerator door]
- Pete: Yes, you're absolutely right.
- Ricki: Of course I'm right. I know all the PLU codes. I ring stuff up all day long. Go ahead, try me. Anything, anything, anything.
- Pete: Bananas.
- Ricki: Organic or regular? Organic is 9-4-2-3-7.
- Pete: Yes. You're like a memorizing genius.
- Pete: You know, they say, like... all kids are screwed up now. It's the air on the radio waves or the - the peanuts.
- Ricki: Hey, do you remember the pediatrician, the one - What was his name? Fa - Dr. Fa - Farling. Fena - Fenamana. Fenan - Fenan.
- [they laugh]
- Pete: Yeah. The guy in Wheaton. What about him?
- Ricki: That doctor. Remember, he said Joshy was hyperactive. Turns out he's drinking too much pop.
- Pete: Pop, yeah.
- Ricki: Right?
- Pete: They know nothing.
- Ricki: Yeah, they know nothing.
- Pete: We know nothing.
- [He checks on Julie]
- Pete: She's gonna be fine. She's gonna be fine.
- Ricki: I don't know.
- Pete: Oh, yeah, she is.