Bless the Beasts & Children (1971)

Elaine Devry: Cotton's Mother

Quotes 

• Cotton : I'm almost sixteen; try gooping that over. In one year, I'll be seventeen. You know what I'm gonna do on my seventeenth birthday?

  Cotton's Mother : [turns away from him back to her vanity table mirror]  I'm listening.

  Cotton : Join the Marines. You can, you know, if your parents sign the papers. Dad will.

  Cotton's Mother : [making up her face]  And I won't, of course.

  Cotton : And you *will*, of course! Because if you don't, you know what I';m gonna do? I'm gonna make a big sign and march up and down in front of the Bay Yacht Club.

  [she freezes] 

  Cotton : "My mother's over forty-two years old," it'll say.

  Cotton's Mother : [she stares at him in the mirror, then slowly and viciously:]  I'll kill you.

  [Cotton pretends to fire a rifle at her]