Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
Jennifer Jason Leigh: Anney
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Quotes
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Doctor : How'd she break her coccyx?
Anney Boatwright : Her what?
Doctor : Her tailbone, lady! Her ass! What you been hitting' this child with, or maybe you just been throwin' her up against the damn wall!
Anney Boatwright : What are you sayin'? What are you sayin'?
Doctor : [to Bone] Do you wanna talk about it, honey? How 'bout we ask your mama to leave, and then, maybe you can tell me what happened, okay?
Anney Boatwright : Let me have my girl!
Doctor : This child's been beaten! This child's been beaten, and I'm gonna call the authorities!
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Anney Boatwright : I don't care what they say, Bone. I won't have anybody call you trash.
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Anney Boatwright : Hey, Bone. You sleepin'? You startin' to look like me, Bone. You're growin' up. What do you think, honey? You think I'm doin' the right thing?
Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : I don't know.
Anney Boatwright : I think I am. I hope I am! Sometimes I just get so tired, you know? Sometimes I just want somebody strong to stand by me. To stay with me.
Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : I'll stay with you.
Anney Boatwright : I know you will, Bone.
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Glen Waddell : We're movin'.
Anney Boatwright : What? Where?
Glen Waddell : Found us a new place over by the JC Penney mill.
Aunt Ruth : Why? What's wrong with this place?
Alma : Damn you, Glen Waddell. Don't you take Anney so far away.
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Anney Boatwright : Not my kids. I was never gonna have my girls know what it was like. I was never gonna have them go hungry or cold or scared. Never, you hear me? Never!
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Glen Waddell : [Glen, takes money out of envelope] Anney, what the hell is this?
Anney Boatwright : Earl was just tryin' to help, Glen. Good Lord.
Glen Waddell : How can you shame me like that? I'm a grown man, Anney. I don't need your brother to pay my damn way,
[slams money on the table]
Glen Waddell : you give that back to him tomorrow.
Anney Boatwright : Glen, that's crazy. We need this money.
Glen Waddell : You just do as I say and
[rips cord from wall]
Glen Waddell : sell the damn radio, while you're at it!
Glen Waddell : The things I do ain't good enough for you. I put my hand in a honey jar, comes out piss! Nothing I do is right!
Anney Boatwright : Glen, everybody has troubles now and then, honey. Just give it time, sweetie. Things are gonna work out.
Glen Waddell : [Annoyingly] Shut up. You shut up, you don't give me that mama crap! You shut your mouth, you just shut up! Shut Up!
[the girls looks in horror]
Glen Waddell : I'm sorry Anney. Anney, you know I don't mean to yell at you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
[Grabs Bone's arm firmly, and she yelps in pain]
Glen Waddell : You know how much I love your mama.
Anney Boatwright : Oh, Jesus, Glen! You don't know your own strength!
Glen Waddell : I guess, I don't. But Bone knows I never mean to hurt her. Bone knows I love her. Hell Anney! I love all of you, you know that!
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Granny : Ruth Anne's all right, but Mattie Raylene would've been better. 'Course nobody bothered to ask me.
Anney Boatwright : Nobody bothered to ask you? Nobody bothered to ask me. It's my baby.
Granny : That's your own damn fault for sleepin' three whole days.
Anney Boatwright : I had a concussion, Mama!
Granny : How many babies I had, and did I sleep through any of 'em? I don't think so.
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Anney Boatwright : Bone, I got somebody who wants to meet you. Bone, this is Glen Waddell. Say hey.
Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : Hey.
Glen Waddell : Hey, Bone. How you doin'?
Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : Fine.
Glen Waddell : You sit out here every night?
Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : After school.
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Anney Boatwright : Glen's not like that.
Granny : You don't what that boy's like.
Anney Boatwright : I know he loves me.
Granny : Love. Can't even hold a job for more than a month.
Anney Boatwright : That's not true.
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Anney Boatwright : Oh, Jesus, Glen. You don't know your own strength.
Glen Waddell : I guess I don't. But Bone knows I'd never mean to hurt her. Bone knows I love her. Hell, Anney, I love all of you. You know that.
Narrator : No, he never meant to hurt me. Not really, I told myself. But more and more those hands seemed to move before he could think.
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Glen Waddell : Bone, what're you doing up here? How many times you gonna make me call you, girl?
Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : I didn't hear you.
Glen Waddell : Didn't hear you? I've been callin' you for five minutes. Your mama needs your help down there.
Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : I didn't hear you.
Glen Waddell : Don't you sass me. Don't you dare sass me. You think just 'cause your aunt died, you can talk to me like that? You're in my house, now. I am the boss of my house. Do you understand that?
Anney Boatwright : Glen! Of all days, Jesus! Glen!
Glen Waddell : Anney! Anney!, let me handle this! Please, let me handle this!
Anney Boatwright : No, Glen! No, Glen! Glen! Glen!