Child of Rage (1992 TV Movie)

Johannah Newmarch: Stephanie

Quotes 

• Doris : [Over drinks in the strip club where Stephanie works]  Stephanie, nobody's blaming you.

  Stephanie : You can blame who you want. I did what I had to. He'd get drunk and come into my room. When I got bigger, I'd fight him; he'd beat me up, but I'd still fight him. And after I got to be more trouble than it was worth he started going upstairs.

  Jill Tyler : [Clearly shaken]  But she was just a baby...!

  Stephanie : [stony-faced and indignant]  ... what do you think I was? I can still hear her screaming, the dog going crazy, except one night she stopped... I thought she was dead... so I snuck upstairs... almost. He'd passed out. I had to roll him off of her...!

  [Jill is crying] 

  Stephanie : .

• Doris : [At the strip club where Stephanie works]  Stephanie?

  Stephanie : [Scornfully looks up from her drink]  What do you want?

  Doris : This is Jill Tyler, she'd like to talk with you.

  Jill Tyler : [Politely offers her hand]  Hi!

  Stephanie : [Annoyed, thinking that it's a proposition]  I don't do women.

  Jill Tyler : [Clarifying]  My husband and I adopted Catherine and Eric.

  Stephanie : [Bitterly sarcastic]  Oh, lucky you!

  Jill Tyler : We want to know what their life was like, what your life was like, what happened. Catherine's very disturbed. She hurts Eric; she tried to kill him. Please, help us!

  Stephanie : [Sarcastically, extending her open hand]  Lucky me!

  [Doris wordlessly urges Jill to pay Stephanie, who looks on in silent annoyance as Jill gives a large wad of bills to her. Stephanie then throws a couple of bills on to the bar, addressing the bartender] 

  Stephanie : Drinks

  [snidely] 

  Stephanie : for the ladies!