Prozac Nation (2001)

Jessica Lange: Mrs. Wurtzel

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• Mrs. Wurtzel : [Elizabeth is about to go off to college]  This is the most important day of your life.

  Elizabeth : I thought that's when you get married.

  Mrs. Wurtzel : No, honey, that's the worst day of your life.

• [Elizabeth is drunk and behaving badly during dinner with her mother and grandparents] 

  Grandmother : Is she on drugs?

  Elizabeth : Oh, I wish I was on drugs.

  Mrs. Wurtzel : Lizzie!

  Grandmother : Did she say that she w...

  Mrs. Wurtzel : It's OK. Everything is OK.

  Elizabeth : Mom, believe me, if I was on drugs, I'd tell you.

  Grandmother : People don't behave this way if they're not on drugs!

  Elizabeth : I fucking do!

• Mrs. Wurtzel : [on the phone]  Mom, she looks beautiful.

  Elizabeth : Pity, I was aiming for psychotic.

• Mrs. Wurtzel : I kill myself to get you to Harvard and you come back looking like a zombie!

• Mrs. Wurtzel : What is wrong with you?

  Elizabeth : Nothing.

  Mrs. Wurtzel : Oh, God. You're not...

  Elizabeth : Pregnant? No, Mom, I'm not pregnant. Anyway, it's the eighties, that would hardly be a problem.

• Elizabeth : I don't have to go to Harvard to become a writer.

  Mrs. Wurtzel : Lizzie, what are you talking about? At Harvard you'll meet people. You'll get contacts, you'll have people to help you. I know what I'm talking about, Lizzie. I had my whole life ahead of me. You don't want to go to Harvard? Well, you just wait until you have no choices left, where you've got nothing. No one. No one who cares about you. Then you see how you feel.

  Elizabeth : Mom, I didn't say I wasn't going.

  Mrs. Wurtzel : Dr. Isaacs warned me.

  Elizabeth : Mom, I said I'm going.

  Mrs. Wurtzel : He told me you'd isolate. Stay in your room all day.