Ironweed (1987)

Carroll Baker: Annie Phelan

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• Francis Phelan : [suddenly seeing his ghosts]  You goddamn spooks. You ain't real. You're dead! Or if you ain't, you ought to be. I'd rather be dying out in the weeds than standing here watching you pining away. *I'm* the one that's living. I'm the one that put *you* on the map! You don't know nothing that I don't know. See? So get your asses gone! I'm sick to death of looking at the bunch of youse anyway.

  Annie Phelan : [bringing him to his senses]  Fran. Fran.

  Francis Phelan : Annie, I'd eat all the dirt in this yard for you. And all the weeds, and all the dog bones too, if you asked me.

  Annie Phelan : [lovingly]  I think you probably are all that already.

• Francis Phelan : [walking into the house]  How are you doing, Margaret?

  Margaret 'Peg' Phelan : [defiantly]  I'm doing fine. No thanks to you.

  Francis Phelan : Yep.

  Billy Phelan : Let's give the man a break, for chrissake. He just got here.

  Margaret 'Peg' Phelan : What break did he ever give me? Or you? You don't just pop up here one day and all is forgiven.

  Francis Phelan : I ain't expecting to be forgiven. I'm way past that.

  Margaret 'Peg' Phelan : Oh. So why have you come back here like a ghost, to force this scrawny turkey on us?

  Annie Phelan : That's twelve and a half pounds!

  Margaret 'Peg' Phelan : Why did you come here, is what I want to know. This is a home you didn't build.

  Francis Phelan : I built you. I built Bill. Helped to.

  Margaret 'Peg' Phelan : I wish you never did.

  Billy Phelan : Shut up! Rotten tongue of yours. Shut it the hell up.

• [last lines] 

  Annie Phelan : [Francis imagining the home he never had]  That's Danny's room. It's a nice big room. It gets the morning light.

  Francis Phelan : [entering a brightly decorated nursery]  It's nice.

  Annie Phelan : The room's got some space to it. We could set up an extra cot.

  Francis Phelan : It's a mighty nice room. It's the morning light.