Not Without My Daughter (1991)

Alfred Molina: Moody

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• Moody : I don't know how to say this to you. We're not going back. We're staying here.

  Betty Mahmoody : [pauses]  What do you mean? How long?

  Moody : I want to get a job here in a hospital.

  Betty Mahmoody : What?

  Moody : I want us... to live in Iran.

  Betty Mahmoody : [softly]  No... No...

  Moody : There's nothing for me in America.

  Betty Mahmoody : No... What? Are you crazy? We're Americans. Your daughter's an American! Moody, honey, you're upset about your job. I understand that. We're going to go back today and we're going to fix it.

  Moody : I want Mahtob to grow up here.

  Betty Mahmoody : [increasingly angry]  No!

  Moody : I think she should become a Muslim!

  Betty Mahmoody : [screams]  No! No!

  [pauses] 

  Betty Mahmoody : You lied to me. You lied to me! You held the Koran and you swore to me that nothing was going happen. You were planning this all the time. You lied to me!

• [Moody laughs unexpectedly] 

  Betty Mahmoody : What's so funny?

  Moody : You know, they think we make love all the time.

  Betty Mahmoody : Who?

  Moody : The family.

  Betty Mahmoody : Why?

  Moody : Well... because here, you know, after they make love, they have to take a shower because, you know, they can't pray unless they do, you know. It's considered unclean. And we're taking two, three showers a day!

  [Moody continues laughing] 

  Betty Mahmoody : Oh God! What do they think? We're two rabbits or something!

  [Betty is now laughing] 

  Betty Mahmoody : I'm not taking another shower the whole time I'm here. You *knew* that the whole time!

  Moody : They didn't know you were such a swinger!

  Betty Mahmoody : You knew that all the long! They were all giggling every time we took a shower.