The Swimmer (1968)
Jimmy Joyce: Jack Finney
Quotes
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Ned Merrill : How's the family, Howie?
Howie Hunsacker : My oldest boy just won the American Legion Scholarship Award. Straight A's this year.
Ned Merrill : That's wonderful...
Lillian Hunsacker : [Butting in] Yeah, then we bring our kids up to behave themselves. We don't let *our* kids run around drunk, wrecking cars.
Jack Finney : He kept his daughters' names outta' the paper *that* time.
Sylvia Finney : I'll bet *that* check didn't bounce!
Ned Merrill : [Getting agitated] You leave my daughters out of this!
Sylvia Finney : Well, why didn't you teach 'em some manners?
Lillian Hunsacker : Ah, those girls never paid no attention to him.
Howie Hunsacker : You, shut up...
Lillian Hunsacker : Look, I'm not blaming the girls. It's him. Always chummin' around with the kids, tryin' to be "one of the gang."
Ned Merrill : My daughters worship me. The love me and respect me. Because I'm their father. And they respect me. They respect me!
Lillian Hunsacker : [Sarcastically] Yeah?
Ned Merrill : My girls love me.
Lillian Hunsacker : How many times we heard those girls talkin' in our place. We heard your girls givin' you the raspberry.
Ned Merrill : You're a liar.
Howie Hunsacker : Come on, Mr. Merrill, don't talk to my wife that way.
Ned Merrill : She's a goddamned liar!
Howie Hunsacker : Wanna' know what your girls thought of you, Mr. Merrill? Your girls laughed at you. I heard them. They thought you were a great big joke!
[Ned, disgusted, angrily shoves Howie aside and runs off]
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Jack Finney : You ought to see the orders I had to send up to his house. French strawberry jam, his wife made me stock for her. American strawberries ain't good enough - for her.
Sylvia Finney : Plain mustard ain't good enough for Mrs. Merrill. She had to have Dijon mustard.
Jack Finney : Hearts of palm, hearts of artichokes, hearts of this, hearts of that. Some rich diet you had up there.
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Jack Finney : You oughta' see the orders I had to send up to his house. French strawberry jam his wife made me stock for her. American strawberries weren't good enough for her.
Sylvia Finney : Plain mustard ain't good enough for Mrs. Merrill. She had to have Dijon mustard.
Jack Finney : Hearts of palm. Hearts of artichoke. Hearts of this, hearts of that... Some rich diet you have up there.
Lillian Hunsacker : Hearts of Jack Finney, that's what they got.
[Everybody laughs]
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Lillian Hunsacker : Well, are you gonna ask him or not?
Howie Hunsacker : [embarrassed] Will you shut up?
Lillian Hunsacker : Okay, then I'll ask him. When are you going to pay your bill, Mr. Merrill?
Jack Finney : Yeah, how about that? We're decent people trying to make a living.
Sylvia Finney : We got bills to pay too, you know.
Lillian Hunsacker : You want to know something? You're the first deadbeat we ever got in our place.
Howie Hunsacker : Tone it down, Lil!
Ned Merrill : Wait a minute. Listen. I'm going to send the both of you a check tomorrow.
Lillian Hunsacker : That's a laugh alright.
Howie Hunsacker : Alright.
Lillian Hunsacker : Oh listen, what's the matter with you? He's no friend of yours. His check isn't worth the paper it's written on.