The Indian Runner (1991)

David Morse: Joe Roberts

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• Joe : [about Frank]  Where is he?

  Mr. Roberts : Columbus. Now he didn't send a card, but a girl named Dorothy. "Dear Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, Frank hit me. My daddy says he has to go to jail. But don't worry because I'm here to take care of him."

  [he and Joe laugh] 

• Mr. Roberts : Gonna sell the house, I think.

  Joe : Are you?

  Mr. Roberts : Think so.

  Joe : We're you thinking of living?

  Mr. Roberts : There's a trailer park over on Bright's. They got a pretty good deal there.

  Maria : It's nice there. They have a vegetable garden in the back where you can rent a plot. Grow your own.

• Joe : This place looked better when I had it.

  Frank : I'll bet it did. You know why? Because you had fire in you.

• Joe : My brother Frank was due back from Vietnam within the week. We hadn't seen each other since I'd lost the farm in '65, and took the uniform job to make ends meet.

• Joe : We didn't see or hear from Frank for a good six months, when our lives took a turn.

• Joe : You got a place to stay? You got money?

  Frank : I already took forty dollars from your wallet.

• Joe : I tried to tell myself I did my job. That it was in self-defense. I didn't believe me.

• Joe : With your record you could do a year on this.

  Frank : What can I say, I fucked up! I get in a violent way, look around a room, I wanna bust it all up!

• Joe : [about how he used to own farmland]  I burned.

  Frank : Land must churn

  Joe : I burned!

  Frank : It's always turned.

  Joe : I burned!

  Frank : They took what you earned.

  Joe : [Grins]  Lesson learned.

  Frank : [Smiles back]  Meetin' adjourned.

• Joe : I thought you were done with this shit.

  Frank : Well...

  Joe : What about Dorothy? What about the baby? Can you touch that?

  Frank : Outside party.

  Joe : What?

  Frank : Outside party. Give me a light.