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Man, I am out of here! This family is so fucked!
We're studying the Holocaust in Social Studies.
Oh, yeah?
Well, I'm supposed to watch Schindler's List for homework. The movie's like almost four hours. And then I'm supposed to write a report on survivors. You know any survivors, Dad?
Hmmm...Do I know any...personally...?
Hi, I'm here to pick up Ben.
Does Jackie know this?
No. I'm doing it behind her back.
In seven years Jackie's never missed one of Tucker's parties. Where is she?
Something came up. C'mon Ben! I've got a shoot at three...
Tucker hasn't penned Ben's present yet it won't be too much longer.
Okay, if they're going to <u>have</u> a sauce, put something <u>in</u> it besides flour and chicken broth...
It was a veal stock, I thi...
Well, it wasn't a reduction like you do it! Boiling down half a ton of bones...
The way you cook. If you could make love, I'd marry you.
We have to talk.
Uhoh. I mention marriage, all of a sudden... Ve <u>haff</u> to ta...
I didn't want to spoil our supper...
You'd rather spoil our walk home.
Yeh, it's cheaper.
I just found out I have to go to Boston to get a deposition. I might not be back until Saturday.
So I'll have to order in?
We have the kids this weekend, so...
Jesus.
Anyway, I thought...while I'm gone...maybe I'll hire in some help.
For what?
Just a babysitter I mean...you're working...
I can take them to work with me I can shift things around
You don't need to. I don't expect you to handle them yourself.
Can't handle them myself is what you mean. Can't.
You don't trust me to be alone with them.
I trust you of course I do but
But? But what?
But you're not good at this. Not yet. I'm sorry.
I know how responsible, caring adults parent children. I'm bribe 'em. But 'em a dog or something. Maybe a Doberman.
Look. I know they hate me.
They don't hate you
And what you're telling them is keep hating her keep up the good work
Nobody's telling them to hate you
Really? Look in your exwife's eyes.
It's complicated for Jackie. It's complicated for me...You don't have kids you don't understand
Oh right...So it's just complicated for you and Jackie for me it's pretty simple cause I just don't understand...
No you don't. And I'm not gonna screw with my kids heads right now
You know I don't need another person in this family making me feel like an idiot...your exwife's doing a bang up job and I have to face it every Tuesday and Thursday and every other goddamn weekend and I just don't know how the hell you were married to her for so goddamn long! Jesus what did you see in her? I don't get it I just don't get it.
Get ready. To get <u>really</u> mad.
Uh. Annabelle's video report has been switched again.
Not yet.
Hey, I sold my body to Satan to clear Friday at two o'clo...
We have the kids. Next weekend.
And it's <u>my</u> call. I promised them waterskiing, instead o...
Our weekend. At that sweet little B &amp; B.
Why are you taking this out on <u>him</u>?
Rache, get out of th...
You haven't done <u>one</u> goddam thing to make any of this easier...
Oh my God. Are you serious?
I think so...What do you think?
I think so too...
It's forever you know.
Okay...Is that the good thing or the bad thing?
Because I can't hurt anyone like this ever again.
Everything's gonna work out. The kids and I...we're going to love each other.
Rache, it may take time.
What's eight, ten years? Hell, you'll still be ambulatory. I think.
Well, I think you should tell him you changed your mi...
It's no biggie.
It's just an assignment.
It's Anna Sui, you should be doing it.
Are you hungry? You could make us something?
They're my kids.
Great, wallow in guilt, you <u>sure</u> you're not Jewish?
She's not gonna die.
I know that.
No problem.
I made that paella you liked. It's on the stove.
What a great surpri...
Hold your applause. We're not having fun, here.
Just like to make sure. That your past. And my future. Are real different.
Well, they will be.
Imagine my relief. So what's for dinner?
Why in the world would she t...
You took a fishing trip with the boys. Liked it so much, you took another.
I needed some time away.
...while she watched the kids. Then, you booked this flat in Paris for your family's summer. But she said...
'...the kids have camp. Their friends are here. Over there, I'll just be shopping in a language I don't even know. My life, and the kids' lives, aren't here to service your midlife crisis.' Did it go like that?
She called it a fight. <u>The</u> fight.
What do you call it? You told her you had doubts.
Can we go sit somewhere?
Let me put it this way. Hell, no.
I told her I loved her.
By way of saying you were unhappy.
Restless.
Excuse me. 'Things are so confusing for me, Jack. Our life feels too comfortable, too safe, too predict able. It's a partnership, it's juggling schedules. When I think of playing that out, every day, for the rest of my life...'
'...I don't know if I can make it.' That's what I said. But I didn't leave.
No, she threw you out. What a difficult woman.
That's a pretty ugly thing you just said.
No, here's ugly. 'I love <u>you</u>, babe. It's just our <u>life</u> together I'm not so sure about...'
'But keep dancing, and if you're lucky, I might just never leave, who knows?'
That's not us.
Because you've changed so much.
We make our lives, one step at a time. We do the best we can. The truth about the future? A promise. Is only a hope.