That Night (1992)

Eliza Dushku: Alice Bloom

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• Alice Bloom : I thought if either of my parents died, I'd die too, that if they stopped breathing they'd draw me back inside, like they once told me they kissed each other and breathed me into life.

• Sheryl O'Connor : I knew it from the moment we met we'd be together forever.

  Alice Bloom : Well... who told you?

  Sheryl O'Connor : Nobody tells you. You just feel it. It's like being on fire. Your whole body is glowing, like you're burning up. And your heart beats so fast, it feels like it's gonna burst.

  Alice Bloom : I knew it! I wish I'd been in love ten thousand times already!

• Alice Bloom : I wanted to call out to them, to say "goodbye" or just a "Hey, now". But it was enough just to see them together, one last time.

• [Ten-year-old girls rubbing on breast enlargement cream] 

  Alice Bloom : They won't get too big?

  Kathryn : I wouldn't worry about it Alice.

• Kathryn : Yeah, he's really a creep. Too bad he's such a great kisser...

  Alice Bloom : He kissed you? When?

  Kathryn : Last night during "Father Knows Best". And... Max kissed Barbara!

  Alice Bloom : Well... did he lean waaaaayyyy back and did it sound like

  [makes kissing noises] 

  Alice Bloom : Then it wasn't a love kiss... That's a *fact*, Kathryn.

  Kathryn : Don't embarrass yourself, Alice. Besides... What would *you* know about L-O-V-E?

• Rick : That's it? Where's the rest of the letter?

  Alice Bloom : I ate it. I memorized it, and then I ate it.

• Sheryl O'Connor : God, what's the matter?

  Alice Bloom : I want to kill him.

  Sheryl O'Connor : Oh, one of those.

• Alice Bloom : No, stop it, I'm not...

  [kicks Mickey in the privates] 

  Carol Bloom : What's going on?

  Max Meyer : Alice castrated Mickey!

• Alice Bloom : It would be just the three of us, like that night.

  Sheryl O'Connor : Stop, stop it, Allie, you've got it all so twisted up! Ordering me around like I'm some goddamned princess! Wearing my perfume and listening to my records? I'm just this girl that lived across the street from you and I don't now!

• Alice Bloom : Drink lots of Gingerale!

• Alice Bloom : [voiceover, as Rick and Sheryl drive along]  I couldn't say that Venus was in the sky that night, but it could have been. After that night, they were inseparable.