Drowning Mona (2000)

Casey Affleck: Bobby

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• Wyatt Rash : [In questioning Bobby about the "landscaping demise" of a customer's small dog]  I understand you don't cut the Schneiders' lawn anymore.

  Bobby Kalzone : No, Sir. Not since Jeff killed Peaches.

  Wyatt Rash : Jeff killed Peaches ..? I thought it was the other way around.

  Bobby Kalzone : Peaches killed Jeff?

• Ellen : You're supposed to have that thing in your head that says, "BAD FUCKING IDEA, BOBBY!"

  Bobby Kalzone : I do have it! It just didn't work!

• Bobby Kalzone : [after grabbing the golf club Mona is using to damage Bobby's Yugo]  God... this is. I mean, enough's enough. All I ever wanted was a nice professional business so that Ellie and I could have a...

  Jeff Dearly : [Cuts off Bobby and begins tapping his thumb and middle finger together]  Ya, ya, ya, you know what this is? This is the world's smallest tambourine, and it's, and it's playing some sort of song or something.

  Mona Dearly : Shut up! Shut up! That's a violin, you asshole, give me that thing, give me that!

• Bobby Kalzone : Dude, she's like 13.

  Jeff : Finally!

• Bobby Kalzone : Mona Dearly's dead.

  Ellie : What?

  Bobby Kalzone : She's dead- It was just a- car accident.

  Ellie : You gotta be kiddin' me. Well- We gotta celebrate!

  Bobby Kalzone : Jesus, God, Ellie she's a human being. Have a little respect.

  Ellie : I don't gotta have respect for no one in that family. Think how they treated you.

  Bobby Kalzone : How did they treat me?

  Ellie : Badly, they're a houseful of freaks.

• Ellen : Yeah, but you're not even supposed to get that far, you're supposed to have that thing in your head that goes off and says, 'bad FUCKING idea, Bobby!'

  Bobby Kalzone : I have that thing! I have that thing. It just didn't go off.

  Ellen : [pause]  Yeah, well, I'm pregnant.

  Bobby Kalzone : What? You're pregnant? That's great!

  Ellen : Uh huh! I thought so too, till a moment ago. I can't believe you killed someone!

  [gets up to leave] 

  Bobby Kalzone : Where you going?

  Ellen : Home!

  Bobby Kalzone : We need milk.

• Bobby Kalzone : [after Ellen slaps him after explaining what he did]  What you do that for?

  Ellen : [outraged]  You killed Mona Dearly!

  Bobby Kalzone : [chastened]  I know.

  Ellen : BUT WHY!

  Bobby Kalzone : Because I thought I was killing Jeff!

  Ellen : Bobby, my dad is the chief of police!

  Bobby Kalzone : I know, but I wasn't gonna go through with it.

  Ellen : It doesn't matter; you killed someone!

  Bobby Kalzone : I know, but I was doing it for us. Jeff was killing the business, and Mona wasn't gonna let me out of the partnership, so - Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

  Ellen : A good idea at the time? 'Cut the grass at 6:00, lay sod at 7:00, DROWN THE DEARLYS AT 8:00'!

• Bobby Kalzone : [Regarding the cost of boneless chicken for the wedding]  All right, uh, listen Murph, what's up with the whole chicken thing - You gonna help us out?

  Murph : Bobby, Look... if you want somebody to sit there and yank the bones out of a hundred chickens, it's gonna run ya money.

  Bobby Kalzone : Alright look, but, you're my - y' know, you're the best man at this wedding, Murph...

  Murph : I'm not makin' any money on this weddin' as it is!

  Bobby Kalzone : [High-pitched voice cracks]  ... You know, you're my brother. Can't ya jist... do a brotherly deboning, or something?