Drop Dead Fred (1991)

Marsha Mason: Polly

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Quotes 

• [Polly has just finished reading a Fairy Tale] 

  Young Elizabeth : Did they live happily ever after?

  Polly : Of Course Elizabeth.

  Young Elizabeth : How do you know?

  Polly : Because, she was a good little girl, if she would have been naughty, the Prince would have run away.

  Young Elizabeth : What a pile of shit.

• Elizabeth : Mother, do you remember when I was little, I had a friend, he was make-believe?

  Polly : No.

  Elizabeth : Don't you remember? Only I could see him?

  Polly : No, I don't remember Drop Dead Fred at all.

• Elizabeth : Go away

  Fred : go away? why do you want me to go away? Fine! say the magic words and i'll piss off

  Elizabeth : Piss off!

  Fred : Ha! I lied those weren't the magic words

  Polly : What did you say?

  Fred : She told you to piss off

• [first lines] 

  Polly : And the prince took the beautiful young girl in his arms and said, will you marry me? Yes, she whispered, I will be your princess.

  Young Elizabeth : Did they live happily ever after?

  Polly : Of course, Elizabeth.

  [tucking her in] 

  Young Elizabeth : How do you know?

  Polly : Because she was a good little girl. If she had been naughty, the prince would have run away.

  Young Elizabeth : What a pile of shit!

• Polly : [walks up to Nigel who is holding young Elizabeth at the bottom of the stairs] 

  [offering him the tape] 

  Polly : Nigel, do it.

  Nigel : No, I won't. I don't want anything to do with it, it's not right.

  Polly : Alright, I'll do it.

  [begins to tape the jack-in-the-box close] 

  Nigel : [kisses Elizabeth and then goes to Polly] 

  [quietly] 

  Nigel : It's not right.

  Polly : What do you know about raising a child?

  Nigel : [looks to Elizabeth and to Polly]  Apparently nothing.

  [he leaves the house]