The Ice Storm (1997)

Joan Allen: Elena Hood

Photos 

Quotes 

• Philip Edwards : Sometimes the shepherd needs the comfort of the sheep.

  Elena Hood : I'm going to try hard not to understand the implications of that.

• Philip Edwards : Perhaps you find in books what I try to find in people.

  Elena Hood : That sounds vaguely like an insult.

  Philip Edwards : Oh, my, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it that way at all. Perhaps I meant it simply as a - a provocation.

• Dorothy Franklin : And to think - they met at a key party of all things.

  Elena Hood : A key party?

  Dorothy Franklin : Oh, you know, it's a California thing. That scuzzy husband of hers dragged her kicking and screaming to one when they were out in L.A. You know, the men put their car keys in a bowl, and then at the end of the evening the women line up and fish them out and whoever's they got they go home with. Anyhow that's how she met this Rod person or whatever his name is. He's left his wife and she's packing for California and Irwin is devastated. It's so ironic.

  Janey Carver : Ironic?

  Dorothy Franklin : Well, yes, ironic. His name's Rod.

• Elena Hood : I haven't been on a bike for years. When was the last time you rode a bike?

  Philip Edwards : They say you never forget.

• Ben Hood : Elena, you know...

  Elena Hood : Ben.

  Ben Hood : I've been thinking...

  Elena Hood : Ben, maybe no talking right now? If you start talking, you're going to...

  [long kiss] 

• Ben Hood : Technically, it's not what you're thinking, Elena.

  Elena Hood : Please have the decency to at least not tell me what I'm thinking.

• Ben Hood : Elena, you're just getting wound up to get wound up.

  Elena Hood : So let's just go to this fiasco - if that's what you want. Let's just go on in. I'd rather talk to anyone else but you.