Mother's Boys (1993)

Jamie Lee Curtis: Jude

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• Jude : So? What're we gonna do?

  Kes Madigan : About what?

  Jude : About Callie.

  Kes Madigan : Callie?

  Jude : I want to come home Kes and she won't let me. I-it's as if she's got your dad under some kind of spell or something.

• Callie : What do you want?

  Jude : It's Kes. I'm... concerned about his studies.

  Callie : I wish that was true.

  Jude : Well, then, why am I here?

  Callie : Sizing up the competition?

  Jude : There is no competition.

• Jude : Mother loves you.

• Jude : [First Lines]  He's not gonna get away with this.

  Lansing : You understand, you set this in motion the day you left.

  Jude : I never said I wanted a divorce, just some time away. I was suffocating.

  Lansing : That was several years ago. You haven't been back since.

  Jude : They're my boys. How can he think I'm gonna give them up? Robert wouldn't divorce me. I know him. There must be someone else. I'm not gonna let it happen. I'm going home.

• Jude : Wouldn't you rather have a real mother than... a substitute teacher?

  Kes Madigan : She's not a substitute teacher. She's an assistant principal.

  Jude : Oh. Kes. Children belong with their mothers.

• Jude : What'd you think of the movie?

  Kes Madigan : It was okay.

  Jude : I thought it was funny.

  Kes Madigan : I thought it was kinda sad.

  Jude : Sometimes sad is funny.

• Jude : Mother, I know that you love Robert and the boys very much. And that you want what's best for them. But so do I.

  Lydia : You left those boys. You've been gone for three years.

  Jude : I know... it took me a long time... to get back here to understand. To forgive myself.

  Lydia : Jude, do you realize Kes nearly lost his mind when you left?

  Jude : I want my family back.

• Jude : Kes are you trying to punish me... by starving yourself?

  Kes Madigan : I'm not going to starve if I don't eat one dumb sandwich.

  Jude : You don't have to talk to me that way. I just asked. Kes I want us to be together.

  Kes Madigan : You're too late Jude. Dad's marrying someone else.

• Jude : [Jude has an alcohol glass in hand, only wearing a rope]  Oh Robert.

  Robert : Stay away from Callie.

  Jude : Robert, I'm completely uninterested in what happens with your little whore. All I ever wanted was for us to be happy. To get my family back.

  Robert : You can't have this family back. You broke it, it doesn't go back. You left us.

  Jude : I had to.

  Robert : You-You had to? You... how did you "have to"? Leave Callie and us alone. Leave us alone.

  Jude : No! I will not leave you alone Robert! Because in the courts eyes, I'm still their fucking mama! So unless you truly relish every penny you've ever earned in your fucking life ending up in your lawyers pocket, you really ought to think about being nicer.

  Robert : In the courts eyes, you think what you did to those kids makes you a fit mother? Look at you. Is this how you are when the boys are over here?

  Jude : No. I'm like this.

  [Drops her robe and stands there naked]