Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

Sharon Acker: Estelle Wainwright

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• [Hal phones the cottage, where Virginia's birthday party is being arranged] 

  Hal Wainwright : Estelle, I've been trying to call you all day. I can't get home until the weekend. Tell Ginny I'll make it up to her.

  Estelle Wainwright : Tell her yourself, you bastard.

  Estelle Wainwright : [to Virginia]  It's your loving father.

• [Virgina hangs up the phone after speaking to her father] 

  Estelle Wainwright : Why did you say that, Virginia - that your friends were here?

  Virginia Wainwright : I didn't want him to feel bad.

  Estelle Wainwright : Your father's never kept a promise in his life. Well, where are they - your little friends from the Crawford Academy?

  Virginia Wainwright : They're not coming.

  Estelle Wainwright : What?

  Virginia Wainwright : There's a party at Ann Thomerson's house. I heard them talking.

  Estelle Wainwright : Why didn't they invite you?

  Virginia Wainwright : Mom, they don't even know me.

  Estelle Wainwright : Those goddamn little snots. We'll show them. If they won't come to our party, we'll go to theirs.

• Estelle Wainwright : Bernadette O'Hara, Etienne Vercures, Steve Maxwell, Alfred Morris, Greg Hellman and Ann Thomerson - six of the richest. Nothing but the best for my little girl. It's almost 5:00. Did you tell them to come at 4:00?

  Virginia Wainwright : Yes, Mom.

  Estelle Wainwright : I suppose this is what they call "fashionably late".