In the Bedroom (2001)
Tom Wilkinson: Matt Fowler
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Quotes
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Matt : You wanna know why our son is dead? You really wanna know? He was with her not because of me. He went there because of you. Yes he did, because you are so... controlling, so... overbearing... so angry... that he was it! That he was our only one!
Ruth : That is not true!
Matt : Oh, yes it is. Yes it is. Even when he was a kid, you were telling him how, how he was always wrong. Oh! I remember. Uh... one time you yanked him out of a Little League game. And sent him home. For throwing his, his glove in the dirt. He was what? Nine years old.
[long pause]
Matt : Everything he did... was wrong. Well, what was wrong with him, Ruth?
[long pause]
Matt : You're... you're so... unforgiving. You are. That's what he said. And you're pulling the same shit with me. And that's a horrible way to be, it's horrible. You're bitter, Ruth. And you can point your finger at me all you like, but you better take a damn good look at yourself.
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[after Matt shoots and kills Richard]
Willis Grinnel : Matt! What did you do? This isn't what we talked about!
Matt : He... he tried to run.
Willis Grinnel : We were going to wait and take him out in the woods.
Matt : I couldn't wait.
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Matt : [pulls out hamburger buns from paper bag] Oh, Ruth hates these.
Willis Grinnel : What?
Matt : I got the wrong kind of buns.
Willis Grinnel : Maybe we can borrow hers.
[points towards Natalie, who is bending over and feeding Duncan]
Willis Grinnel : Ah, what I would give to have back my youth.
Matt : Yeah, well, Willis, you never had that in your youth.
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Matt : [greets Frank on the dock] How'd you pull?
Frank Fowler : Not too bad, about 40 pounds.
Matt : I haven't caught sight of you in days.
Frank Fowler : You know where to find me.
Matt : When are you coming home?
Frank Fowler : Has it come to this?
Matt : Come to what?
Frank Fowler : You having to run errands for Mom.
[Matt laughs silently]
Frank Fowler : I'm thinking of building a couple hundred more traps. See if can do better than break even.
Matt : It'll take you more than two years to get a license to fish off-season.
Frank Fowler : Right. Unless Henry takes me on as his sternman.
Matt : Do you think he would do that?
Frank Fowler : Maybe. It's as good a life as any. It was good enough for your father, and sometimes things just skip a generation.
Matt : You don't think... You don't think that you might need something more?
Frank Fowler : Why... so I can have an Ivy League education like you, and... Christ, if it's so great, how come you sneak out of your office every day to come down here?
Matt : I like spending time with my son.
Frank Fowler : Uh-huh.
[Matt sits down next to Frank]
Frank Fowler : I don't know, Dad. It's just- I don't know. She is a wonderful girl, and that's what I see.
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Matt : [Last line in the film after Matt has killed Richard] "I don't know."
