Home for the Holidays (1995)

David Strathairn: Russell Terziak

Quotes 

• Claudia : Didn't you have a girlfriend, or...

  Russell 'Sad Sack' Terziak : Yeah, she went and married my best buddy Ray.

• Russell 'Sad Sack' Terziak : Well, duty calls. Merry Christmas, if I don't ever see you again. You have a nice life, Claudia.

  [leaves; Claudia walks past Tommy and Leo, nearly in tears] 

  Tommy : She'll bounce back. Trust me on this.

• Russell 'Sad Sack' Terziak : I'm just lettin' the guys have the day off, you know, so they can visit their families, since I'm all alone this year.

  Tommy : [to Leo]  This is the saddest sack in the universe.

  Russell 'Sad Sack' Terziak : Yeah, I don't have anybody anymore, my brother and sister got canned and they left town, and then my parents went and died on me.

  Claudia : I'm so sorry. I had no idea.

  Russell 'Sad Sack' Terziak : Yeah, well, you know - it was a car wreck, last summer, drunk driver, cut right across the, uh what was it, you know... meridian, pow-pow! Head on.

• Claudia : You know, maybe next year will be better for you.

  Russell 'Sad Sack' Terziak : Hey, yeah - or worse.