Lost in America (1985)

Julie Hagerty: Linda Howard

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• David Howard : Weren't you scared? What were you talking about?

  Linda Howard : Oh, God. I - He was telling me his whole life story. He was divorced. He got kicked out of the Army. He couldn't keep the job. Do you know he escaped from prison?

  David Howard : What did he do?

  Linda Howard : Well, to hear him tell it, he says those two guys were dead when he got there.

  David Howard : Oh, God!

• Linda Howard : [repeated line, at the roulette table]  Twenty-two, twenty-two, come on back to me, come on back to me!

• David Howard : Why didn't you tell me when we got married that you were this horrible gambling addict? It's like when you have a venereal disease - you tell somebody!

  Linda Howard : I've only gambled twice in my life. This was the second time.

• David Howard : Linda, quit, I'll wait right here.

  Linda Howard : Why - I can't quit now.

  David Howard : Yes you can!

  Linda Howard : No I can't!

  David Howard : I did!

  Linda Howard : I know, but even if I wanted to, my boss isn't here, there's no one I can quit to.

  David Howard : Well, it's time to get out. We have to touch Indians. We have to see the mountains and the prairies and the whole rest of that song. Let's make love right now. I want to have sex with you right here. Right now! Right here!

• David Howard : I was on the road to nowhere. Do you know the road? It's a nowhere road. It goes nowhere! You're on it! You don't know it?

  Linda Howard : No.

  David Howard : It's a nowhere road.

• Linda Howard : We really can do anything we want, can't we?

  David Howard : Who's stopping us?

  Linda Howard : Nobody.

• Linda Howard : Why don't we make this like a real old-fashioned honeymoon? Let's go to the best hotel, get a honeymoon suite and just celebrate our heads off.

  David Howard : We don't want to stay in Las Vegas. This represents everything we left. This is the worst money-grubbing place in the world!

  Linda Howard : Yeah, I know. But, just tonight. Wouldn't it be fun to have room service, make love in a big bed, and watch porno movies? Wouldn't that be fun?

  David Howard : Porno movies? We want to touch Indians.

• David Howard : We're up!

  Linda Howard : We're still down.

  David Howard : How down?

  Linda Howard : Down.

  David Howard : How down is she?

  Desert Inn Casino Manager : Down.

• David Howard : Quit!

  Linda Howard : What?

  David Howard : Quit your job.

  Linda Howard : Quit my job?

  David Howard : I did. You too do it.

  Linda Howard : You quit your job?

  David Howard : Well, I didn't really quit, but I got fired. But it was the same thing. Linda, you were right. No more "responsible David". I'm free! I was responsibly blind, honey. I was a dead man.

  Linda Howard : I would never have used that word, if I knew you'd have taken it so literally. I didn't mean anything by it.

  David Howard : I'm crediting you for saving my life.

  Linda Howard : It was just a word!

  David Howard : Linda, they were jacking me off!

  Linda Howard : Ssssh!

  David Howard : [in hushed tone]  They were jacking me off!

• Linda Howard : This morning, after the contractor left, I was all alone and I sat in the middle of the living room floor. I got so sad. You know, a preview of the next ten years. I just started shaking. I don't like anything anymore. I don't like my life. I don't like my house. I don't like anything.

  Patty : What do you mean?

  Linda Howard : Nothing's changing. I'm not. David's not. We've just stopped. Life's just going by.

• David Howard : After tomorrow, everything is going to be better. I'm positive. Don't you think so?

  Linda Howard : You always say that.

  David Howard : I know, but, for eight years its been one way. I've been this employee. And then tomorrow, I'll get this promotion and that's it! I mean, I'll have stock in this agency. That makes me responsible. Genuinely responsible. So, I can fool around now. Now, I can be irresponsible. I'll get a position of responsibility. Do you know what I mean?