Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

Jane Alexander: Margaret Phelps

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• Ted Kramer : Margaret, I just need to know something. Did you put Joanna up to this?

  Margaret Phelps : No, I did not put Joanna up to this.

  Ted Kramer : Give her a little pep talk, maybe?

  Margaret Phelps : Joanna is a very unhappy woman and it took a lot of courage to walk out this door.

  Ted Kramer : How much courage does it take to walk out on your kid?

• Ted Kramer : The fact is that for the last six months I've been spitting blood to get this agency one of the biggest accounts its ever had and at five o'clock this afternoon we got the account! At eight o'clock I'm walking home with the Vice President who tells me I'm going to be the next Creative Director of this Department and I come through this door, to share with my wife who what was going to be one of the five best days of my life and she looks at me and tells me she doesn't want to live with me anymore! Don't you understand what she's done to me?

  Margaret Phelps : Yeah, she lost her part of one of the five best days of your life.

• Ted Kramer : You had a date. I knew it! I knew you were keeping something from me.

  Margaret Phelps : Well, you know, I told you I thought he was a pretty neat guy, right.

  Ted Kramer : Right.

  Margaret Phelps : So, we go to dinner.

  Ted Kramer : Yeah.

  Margaret Phelps : I find out he's married, he's deep in analysis, and, get this, he starts to tell me his life story. And all I can think of, while I'm sitting there, is that I'm paying a babysitter three dollars and a quarter an hour to listen to his problems!

• Margaret Phelps : Ted, you don't seem to realize we have a serious problem.

  Ted Kramer : Who on, Margaret? Me! I got the problem. All you got to do is Psst! go out the door Psst! go down stairs and go back to bed.