Network (1976)

Beatrice Straight: Louise Schumacher

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• Louise Schumacher : Then get out! Go anywhere you want, go to a hotel, go live with her, but don't come back. Because after twenty-five years of building a home and raising a family and all the senseless pain that we have inflicted on each other, I'm damned if I'm going to stand here and have you tell me you're in love with somebody else. Because this isn't a convention weekend with your secretary, is it? Or - or some broad that you picked up after three belts of booze. This is your great winter romance, isn't it? Your last roar of passion before you settle into your emeritus years. Is that what's left for me? Is that my share? She gets the winter passion, and I get the dotage? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to sit home knitting and purling while you slink back like some penitent drunk? I'm your wife, damn it. And if you can't work up a winter passion for me, the least I require is respect and allegiance. I hurt, don't you understand that? I hurt badly.

• Louise Schumacher : Do you love her?

  Max Schumacher : I don't know how I feel. I'm grateful I can feel anything.

  [his wife flinches] 

  Max Schumacher : I know I'm obsessed with her.

  Louise Schumacher : Then say it. You keep telling me that you're obsessed, you're infatuated. Say that you're in love with her.

  Max Schumacher : [pauses]  I'm in love with her.