#54. At school
ANNA | As for your pitiful knowledge of what a woman really wants... |
I'm not wasting my time on some pathetic loser... | |
who doesn't know what snowblowing is. | |
ANNA'S FRIENDS | Loser! Anna, good one. |
ANNA | Oh, and the guy l see is in high school and it has to be said |
that every time we talk about you, he laughs his ass off. | |
BRAD | Yeah, right. |
ANNA | You don't believe me? He's standing right over there. |
BRAD | No way. |
ANNA | Well, believe it. (goes to the guy, hugs and kisses) |
ANNA'S FRIENDS | You rule, Anna! You rule! |
BRAD'S FRIENDS | You blew it. Loser! He's a model. You're such a retard. |
JACKIE | Hi? |
ESABELLE | What are you doing here? |
JACKIE | I'm here to pick up my kids from school. |
Who is that? He looks familiar. | |
Looks like that guy in his underwear on the side of a bus for Calvin Klein. | |
ESABELLE | No. Fully dressed for Ralph Lauren. |
JACKIE | What? |
ESABELLE | No. |
ANNA'S FRIENDS | Go, Anna! He's such a loser. Moron. |
ANNA | (runs to Esabelle and hugs, very excited) Oh, it worked, it worked! |
Did you see the look on Brad's face? Thank you so much. | |
ESABELLE | Oh, honey. |
#55. At Jackie's house
JACKIE | Okay, "limp dick" I know. What exactly is ''snowblowing''? |
ESABELLE | It doesn't matter. I didn't explain it to her. |
JACKIE | Oh, you're gonna have to explain to me, because I'm gonna have to explain to |
about 20 or 30 parents who're gonna call in the next half-hour or so. | |
ESABELLE | Give them my number. |
JACKIE | l think they're gonna wanna talk to Anna's mother, thank you. |
ESABELLE | What is it you're worried about, looking bad at the P.T.A.? |
JACKIE | Are you defending what you did? |
ESABELLE | Right to the ground. |
JACKIE | You put filth in my child's mouth. |
ESABELLE | Oh, please. |
JACKIE | You had her lie about that model. |
ESABELLE | And it worked like a charm. |
JACKIE | And you became a hero, and l became a schmuck. |
Basically, you taught my child that I am a loser who doesn't reaIly care about her pain. | |
ESABELLE | That's not what I was trying to do. |
JACKIE | That's what you did. |
Did you think that I didn't have some dirty words for that little putz? | |
I couldn't figure out some low blows? | |
ESABELLE | You weren't passing them out. |
JACKIE | l believe, in a crisis you have an opportunity to learn something. |
ESABELLE | That's deep. |
JACKIE | lt was a lie. Winning without dignity or grace is not winning. |
She has to figure out who she is so she can stand up to peer pressure... | |
so that she can steer her own course. | |
ESABELLE | She wasn't steering her own course. |
She was steering yours. | |
JACKIE | That's what parenting is all about, little girl. |
They are pleading for you to tell them how to do the right thing... | |
and sure as hell, that's what you've done. | |
The next time something happens, and the stakes are really high... | |
she's gonna look back and she's gonna remember how easy it was and how good it felt. | |
ESABELLE | And she's going to stand up for herself. Dear God, what have I done? |
JACKIE | You have turned her into you. |
ESABELLE | That's what this is about. That's all this is about. |
JACKIE | Oh, how would you know what this is about? |
You haven't been here from the beginning worrying every minute of every day | |
that the decisions you make are gonna shape the people they are going to be. | |
And you are not what I want my children to be. | |
ESABELLE | I don't want that either. But this isn't about me or you. It's about them. |
And believe it or not, l am trying and I do have their very best interests... at heart. |