Mother's Boys (1993)

Luke Edwards: Kes

Quotes 

• Kes Madigan : I knew dad was lyin'

  Ben Madigan : Dad's don't lie.

  Kes Madigan : Oh, yeah?

• Ben Madigan : [Referring to Jude]  I saw her Kes... She was at school. She didn't think I knew her. But I did.

  Michael Madigan : Whatch ya guys doin'?

  Kes Madigan : Ben says he saw Jude at school.

  Michael Madigan : He's full of it. He was too little to remember her.

  Ben Madigan : I was not. Callie saw her too. She asked me if I knew her. I said no.

  Michael Madigan : Why'd ya say no if you did?

  [Ben shrugs his shoulders] 

• Ben Madigan : Kes can I get in your bed?

  Kes Madigan : Yeah, come on.

  [Moves aside as his brother clambers into bed] 

  Ben Madigan : I was thinkin' about us talkin' to this judge, Kes.

  Kes Madigan : He just wants us to ask a bunch of stupid questions.

  Ben Madigan : About mom?

  Kes Madigan : She didn't like to be called Mom. Call her Jude.

  Ben Madigan : What if I don't remember stuff?

  Kes Madigan : Well, that's okay. It's not a test.

• 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.

• 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.

• Kes Madigan : Are you going to her house tonight?

  Robert : I was planning to.

  Kes Madigan : Why can't you just do it here? Wait 'til we're asleep or something.

  Robert : Jesus, Kes.

  Kes Madigan : It's not like we don't know.

• 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.

• Callie : [Callie wakes up tied to a chair]  Kes? Kes! What are you doing?

  Kes Madigan : You've been found guilty of breaking up this family. Of making our dad not want to be with Jude and trying to take her place. We sentence you to be banished from this house.

  [Smacks the meat cleaver on the ground with a loud bang] 

  Callie : Ben, Michael, do you feel the same?

  [Ben is about to talk] 

  Kes Madigan : Shhhh

  Callie : All right, let me go Kes! I want to leave now!

  Ben Madigan : I'm sorry Callie.

• 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.