The Ice Storm (1997)

Elijah Wood: Mikey Carver

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• [Stopping by his son's room, momentarily putting down his luggage] 

  Jim Carver : Hey guys, I'm back!

  Mikey Carver : You were gone?

• Mikey Carver : Because of molecules we are connected to the outside world from our bodies. Like when you smell things, because when you smell a smell it's not really a smell, it's a part of the object that has come off of it, molecules. So when you smell something bad, it's like in a way you're eating it. This is why you should not really smell things, in the same way that you don't eat everything in the world around you because as a smell, it gets inside of you. So the next time you go into the bathroom after someone else has been there, remember what kinds of molecules you are in fact eating.

• [Mikey rides up behind Wendy] 

  Mikey Carver : I don't ever want to see you.

  Wendy Hood : Then why did you come after me?

  [Mikey stops, turns his bike around and rides off] 

• Sandy Carver : [Sandy needs help with homework]  Hey Mikey?

  Mikey Carver : Yeah.

  Sandy Carver : Geometry?

  Mikey Carver : Sure, anything but this English.

  Sandy Carver : How come your so good at Math, but not at English?

  Mikey Carver : I'm not good at Math, just good at Geometry. It's like you now when they say you have 2 squared, you think it mean 2 times 2 equals 4, but really they really mean a *square*. Its really space, its not numbers, its space. And it's perfect space. But only in your head, because you can't draw a perfect square in the material world. But in your mind, you can have a perfect space. You know?

  Sandy Carver : Yeah, but I just need some help with my homework...

• Sandy Carver : Where are you going?

  Mikey Carver : Out.

  Sandy Carver : Its freezing!

  Mikey Carver : Yeah

  Sandy Carver : Then why are you going?

  Mikey Carver : When it's freezing, because it means the molecules aren't moving, so when you breathe, there's nothing in the air, you know. You breathe into your body, the molecules have stopped. It's clean.

• Janey Carver : Mikey have you heard the explosions coming from the back yard?

  Mikey Carver : ...I dunno

  Janey Carver : Do you know what you brothers been up to?

  Mikey Carver : I... I dunno.

• Mikey Carver : [quickly jumps off of being on top of Wendy after being interrupted by her father]  "When Worlds Collide".

  Wendy Hood : [wearing a Nixon mask]  What?

  Mikey Carver : 4:30 movie. "When Worlds Collide".

  Ben Hood : What the hell are you kids doing down here?

  Wendy Hood : What do you think we're doing, Dad?

  Ben Hood : What do I think? I think you're probably... touching each other. I think... You're touching that reckless jerk-off for God's sake, and I think he's trying to get into your slacks! I think at 14 years of age, you're getting ready to give up you're girlhood!

  Mikey Carver : Hey, hang on there, mister.

  Ben Hood : Hey, don't you direct a single word at me, Mikey. I don't wanna hear it. I'll be discussing this matter with your parents very soon. Young lady.

  Wendy Hood : Talking to me, Dad?

  Ben Hood : Who else would I be talking to? And take that thing off!

  Wendy Hood : [She takes the mask off]  You can forget all this stern dad stuff.

  Ben Hood : I'm not interested in your smart remarks right now, young lady. Let's go. Right now. You and I can discuss it on the walk home.

• Wendy Hood : What's that?

  [grabs Nixon mask] 

  Wendy Hood : Oh, wow.

  Mikey Carver : Wendy.

  Wendy Hood : [she puts the mask on and turns around]  I won't take my pants off. I'll touch it, but that's as far as it goes.

  [Mikey gets on top of her and starts dry humping] 

• Janey Carver : Excuse me, don't you kids have homework?

  Mikey Carver : It's Thanksgiving break.

• Mikey Carver : No one's here.

  Wendy Hood : Maybe just watch some TV.

  Mikey Carver : Maybe we can mess around. You know, only if you want to.

  Wendy Hood : I don't know.

• Mikey Carver : I'm gonna check out the ice storm. Wanna come?

  Wendy Hood : Maybe. I don't know.