Boiler Room (2000)

Ron Rifkin: Judge Marty Davis

Photos 

Quotes 

• Judge Marty Davis : [in a diner]  I'm not your best friend. That's your mother's racket. I'm your father. I tell you when you screw up. What did you think I was gonna do? Pat you on the back for this casino idea? Tell you what a great entrepreneur you are? So what do you want me to do, Seth? I mean, my God, if I would have called my father to meet me for a cup of coffee to talk about my screw-ups, he probably would have laughed. We didn't have nice little chats about why I was a bad boy. I got smacked. And I didn't do it again. Much simpler.

  Seth Davis : Look, you know, I'm just trying to restore what's left of our relationship. I mean...

  Judge Marty Davis : Relationship? What the fuck are you talking about, relationship? What, are we dating? I'm not your girlfriend, Seth. I'm your father. Clean up you life, make an honest living, and then you and I can talk like normal people, all right?

• Judge Marty Davis : [to Seth]  when I came up to you behind that car, it was the hardest thing I ever had to bear because I wanted to make your pain disappear, I don't even know how to describe the feeling I had at the time, I just want you to know one thing: not a single day of my life goes by that I don't think about that moment, I don't think about being back there just to have one more chance to make your pain disappear, I am more sorry than you'll ever know

  [They hug] 

• Seth Davis : I need to talk to you

  Judge Marty Davis : [while in his chambers]  What is it?

  Seth Davis : I want out of the firm

  Judge Marty Davis : Great leave I don't care what you do anymore I'll tell you this, you coming here is unacceptable to me, what do you want me to do? You want to cost me my judgeship?

  Seth Davis : No

  Judge Marty Davis : I can't have any connection to you

  Seth Davis : I want to get out the firm like you told me to but I just need your help

  Judge Marty Davis : What do you need my help for? You're getting out, fine whatever I don't care if you stay there or not, just gets out of here

  Seth Davis : There was an investment I wanted to talk to you about

  Judge Marty Davis : You've got to be kidding me

  Seth Davis : You could make a lot of money we could go in on a couple big trades that JT Marlin wants you to invest in and when the next IPO comes out...

  Judge Marty Davis : Stop, are you asking me to go in on a stock scam with you? Are you out of your fucking mind?

  Seth Davis : [Picks up a photo of Seth as a child with a new bike]  Do you remember this day?

  Judge Marty Davis : Yes of course I bought you that bike

  Seth Davis : Do you remember what happened a month after that?

  Judge Marty Davis : What do you want from me? Yes, I remember when I broke your leg

  Seth Davis : [Crying]  My fucking leg was broken I'm sorry I couldn't get the job you wanted me to have, who gives a shit? Because I am good at what I do and the casino was a fucking business and I ran it pretty fucking well and to think I closed it for you and then I went after this job because I thought it was what you wanted me to be doing and I tried to make the changes you wanted me to make and I'm JT now and I'm just asking you for this one thing, just to help your son

  Judge Marty Davis : I can't, I'm sorry

• Judge Marty Davis : [Over the phone]  Hi Seth how are you?

  Seth Davis : Dad?

  Judge Marty Davis : Yeah can I change your mind about doing this IPO scheme?

  Seth Davis : No I've already gone in with somebody

  Judge Marty Davis : Then I'll help you out with this

  Seth Davis : You're going to do it with me?

  Judge Marty Davis : No I can't do that but I can at least make sure you don't get caught, I know somebody over at Ellis Proud he can talk to you about it so why don't you come over the house tomorrow night?

  Seth Davis : Thank you dad I'm so glad you called

• Seth Davis : [while having with their family]  I dropped out

  Judge Marty Davis : Do you want to tell me why?

  Seth Davis : I gave it a year and it just wasn't for me

  Judge Marty Davis : I see so that means you've been lying to us for six months "school's fine dad, my grades are good dad", alright let's just leave that for a second, so you drop out, that means you haven't been getting you student loan checks, how are you paying the rent every month?

  Seth Davis : I'm running a business, earning a living

  Judge Marty Davis : "Earning a living?

  [Throws poker chips across the table] 

  Judge Marty Davis : "Is this what you call "earning a living"?

• Judge Marty Davis : [while having with their family]  How come I've never heard of this firm?

  Seth Davis : It's a smaller firm, there are probably a million others you've never heard of

  Judge Marty Davis : The reason I ask is I thought you'd join a firm like Goldman Sachs or something of that stature

  Seth Davis : The reason the larger houses don't like to hire kids straight out of college unless you went to an ivy league school or if you want to do cash flow analysis for the next fifteen years they usually want you to work outside their firm for a few years and get a good sense of the market but most brokers start out at little firms like JT Marlin

  Judge Marty Davis : good, So all you have to do now is close the casino

• Judge Marty Davis : I spoke to Howard Goldberg over at Prudential, you lied again you unbelievable piece of shit, you lied to all of us, tell me about J.T. Marlin, it's a chop shop Seth, you've selling their shit all this time, how many people have you fucked over? All that bullshit about how their business works? "The great training program", remember? "All the profits you made for your customers", did you do anything for them? Did you make them any money at all? I'm done with you Seth, this it, I've had it with you, I don't ever want to see you again, I don't want you to come by the house, I don't you to call, this is worse than the casino, you've been stealing, you're destroying people's lives

• Seth Davis : What do you want from me?

  FBI Agent David Drew : I want you to testify.

  Seth Davis : What are you offering?

  FBI Agent David Drew : Full immunity.

  Seth Davis : What about my father?

  FBI Agent David Drew : He won't do any time.

  Judge Marty Davis : [to Seth]  I haven't done anything illegal.

  Seth Davis : Then what's the deal?

  Judge Marty Davis : The deal is I lose my judgeship just going along for the ride.

  FBI Agent David Drew : I have nothing to do with that.

  Judge Marty Davis : What's that supposed to mean? You're going to release the tape to the press? Make your case much more glamorous with the involvement of a federal judge?

  Seth Davis : No, no, deal, you take my father out the back door and you bring him home, he has nothing to do with case. I swear to God if his name ends up in one newspaper I do not testify, and I mean that, for me, it'd be worth going to jail for.

  FBI Agent David Drew : Are you serious?

  Seth Davis : What do you think?

  FBI Agent David Drew : Alright, before we get ahead of ourselves, what are you offering?

  Seth Davis : I'm going to hand you this case on a "silver fucking platter", I know everything you don't, I know how it all works, I know how Michael makes his money, I know how he hides it, I know who he goes in with, I even know where he moves if you guys get too close, I know everything. So, tell me what happens now?

  FBI Agent David Drew : You go back to work tomorrow like nothing happened, for one day I need your client book and your whole C drive backed up on a floppy and we're going to have hold you overnight.