Three for the Road (1987)

Sally Kellerman: Blanche Kitteridge

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• Robin Kitteredge : Mom?

  Blanche Kitteridge : [shocked]  Robin.

  Robin Kitteredge : I surprised you, huh?

  Blanche Kitteridge : You look fantastic, Robin.

  Robin Kitteredge : I guess you're wondering what I'm doing here. This is going to sound crazy, but Dad's trying to put me away in a reform school. So I got my friends to drive me here. They're right outside. See, they're my friends, but they work for the senator too. I was thinking you could maybe call him and talk to him... he doesn't really care anyway.

  Blanche Kitteridge : And then what?

  Robin Kitteredge : And then I could stay here with you.

  [Blanche looks at her sadly] 

• Blanche Kitteridge : [Blanche has just crashed the gate in her pickup]  Need a lift?

  [Robin, Paul, T.S. and Missy all pile in] 

  Blanche Kitteridge : Robin!

  [they embrace] 

  Senator Kitteredge : Blanche, stop! Stop or I'll press charges!

  Blanche Kitteridge : Did you say something about charges?

  Senator Kitteredge : Breaking and entering, child endangerment.

  Blanche Kitteridge : Yeah? Well, how does this sound? Statutory rape, the babysitter in Seattle, remember? Or bribery, the defense contractor at Irvine, huh? You so much as breathe one word of this, buddy, and I'll have your dick in a pencil sharpener!

  Senator Kitteredge : Well Blanche, this may be true...

  Blanche Kitteridge : Oh, something else. Come here.

  [the senator leans forward, she sucker punches him] 

• Blanche Kitteridge : Robin, your father is a very powerful man... and it's impossible to keep him from getting what he wants. I tried years ago when I left. There was no way the court was going to give me custody. I used to tell myself that it was all Clark's fault, but that wasn't true. I couldn't go through it again, Robin... I couldn't.

  Robin Kitteredge : I shouldn't have come.

  [she turns to leave] 

  Blanche Kitteridge : Robin!

  [Robin pauses] 

  Blanche Kitteridge : You've got to understand... there hasn't been a day that I haven't thought about you. Dreamed of what you've become, what kind of friends we could be. If I thought I could go up against your dad and beat him, I wouldn't hesitate. But that's not gonna happen.

  Robin Kitteredge : [on the verge of tears]  You're lying. 'Cause you never would have let him take me in the first place! You can both go to Hell!