The War at Home (1996)

Emilio Estevez: Jeremy Collier

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• Jeremy Collier : I'm not having dinner

  Bob Collier : And why not?

  Jeremy Collier : I had a big breakfast.

  Bob Collier : Jeremy, I'm not joking around out here!

  Jeremy Collier : I'm not laughin' around in here!

• Karen Collier : Okay, I know you don't want to hear this right now. And I know you think I'm a complete idiot, and I know that the last you want to do right now is have a conversation with me.

  Jeremy Collier : Knowledge is power.

• Jeremy Collier : D'you ship to Gnome, Alaska?

• Bob Collier : Look, I know you had a rough time over there.

  Jeremy Collier : 'Over there'! You can't even say it.

  Bob Collier : What?

  Jeremy Collier : Vietnam

• Bob Collier : Seen all your stuff downstairs.

  Jeremy Collier : I want Karen to take me to the bus station.

  Bob Collier : Alright, fine.

  [pulls money out of his pocket] 

  Bob Collier : I got twenty-one hundred dollars here for you; it's all the cash I had at the office. It's not a fortune, but it'll get you where you want to go, and help you get started if you're careful with it.

  Bob Collier : [pauses]  And look, don't think that I'm kicking you out of the house, see. I think you should leave for for your own good, I think it's the right thing to do, and it's my responsibility as a father. Once you're away from here, and had time to think about, I think you'll agree.

  Jeremy Collier : I don't want it.

  Bob Collier : Well I want you to have it.

  Jeremy Collier : No you don't. You want me to take it, so you won't feel guilty, so you won't feel responsible.

  Bob Collier : [sighs]  It's funny how I can be so wrong. I honestly thought you were gonna say 'thank you'.

  Jeremy Collier : Thank you? That's what you thought I'd say? No. You just want everyone to think you did the right thing.

  Bob Collier : I'm not doing this on what anybody might think.

  [puts the money down] 

  Bob Collier : I'll have Karen drive you wherever you want to go.

  [starts to close the door] 

  Bob Collier : I hope you'll think better of me someday.

• Jeremy Collier : Look if you're going to talk to me about car-wrecks you can stop right now!

  Bob Collier : What? What are you talking about?

  Jeremy Collier : You told me that more people die in car-wrecks each year than died in Vietnam.

  Bob Collier : Well, I may have said that...

  Jeremy Collier : Not 'may have', did!

• Bob Collier : What was that?

  Jeremy Collier : I said the blessing.

  Bob Collier : I didn't hear anything.

  Jeremy Collier : I wasn't talking to you.

• Melissa : They were scary, your letters.

  Jeremy Collier : They were scary cus I was scared.

• Jeremy Collier : Look, it's not that I'm asking for the car...

  Bob Collier : Hm?

  Jeremy Collier : But you know Jesus didn't have a job.

  Bob Collier : That's right. He didn't have a car either, and he walked everywhere.

• Karen Collier : You know what? I'm sorry I prayed for you. I am! I never thought it'd be possible to be sorry for a thing like that! But I apologize to myself for all the times I got down on my knees and begged to God to bring you home safe!

  Jeremy Collier : Such a self-righteous little BITCH.

  Karen Collier : I am not taking this from you. You are NOTHING. You are a freak, an absolute zero, and you're not my brother anymore!

• Karen Collier : [on their mother]  She's gonna have a nervous breakdown.

  Jeremy Collier : I know she wants one. I know she ain't gonna be happy until she has one.

• Karen Collier : You know, I'm not gonna be mad at you, because I know you have personal problems.

  Jeremy Collier : What are they? What are these personal problems that I have?

  Karen Collier : I don't know the medical term, but I suppose you could describe it as being a terminal jerk.

• Jeremy Collier : Stay away from my door.

  Karen Collier : It is only your door on the inside. It's anyone's door out here, and I'll stand by it as long as I want to, and you just try and stop me.

• Maurine Collier : I wish they could would make Thanksgiving on a Sunday. Then everyone could go to a service before they eat with their families. It'd be more religious, like it was with the Pilgrims.

  Jeremy Collier : What about the Indians?

  Maurine Collier : Oh, Jeremy, there were no Indians at the first Thanksgiving.

  Jeremy Collier : That's why they have it. The Indians saved the Pilgrims from starvin' to death, so the Pilgrims invited the Indians to share their first harvest feast.

  Maurine Collier : Well, I'm sure the Indians were all Christians by then.

  Jeremy Collier : Oh no, they weren't.

• Melissa : Jeremy is this class a part of your major?

  Jeremy Collier : I don't have a major.

• Jeremy Collier : [from inside his room]  Fuck off.

  Bob Collier : [speechless at first]  What did you say?

  Jeremy Collier : I said fuck off, go fuck yourself!

  Bob Collier : [furious]  I'm gonna beat the shit outta you!

  [pounds on door] 

• Jeremy Collier : [it is late at night, and Jeremy has caught his father sneaking peanut brittle]  What is that, peanut brittle?

  Bob Collier : Yeah, your mother made some tonight for Thanksgiving. I thought I'd be clever and sneak a piece, when you just come in here and catch me.

  Jeremy Collier : Well if it makes you feel any better, she probably counted all the pieces before she went to bed. She'll wake up, check on it.

  Bob Collier : [looks scared]  Y'think?

  Jeremy Collier : Yup.

• Maurine Collier : What the hell are you trying to do?

  Jeremy Collier : Nothing.

  [walks away] 

  Maurine Collier : [calls after him]  What is the matter with you?

  Jeremy Collier : You are what's the matter with me!