Chance (2002)

Christine Estabrook: Desiree

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Quotes 

• [Simon, play-acting as Chance in wearing a dress and makeup greets Chance's mother, Desiree at the front door] 

  Simon : [high-pitched voice]  Mother! It's so wonderful to see you!

  Desiree : [amused]  Hello Simon.

  Simon : Simon? Don't you recognize your own daughter?

  Desiree : No, you're Simon. I can tell by your aura. Yours is white, Chance's is turquoise...

  Simon : But I'm Chance! It's me, mother!

  [Chance comes out of the bedroom wearing Simon's pants and shirt. She's drawn a little beard and moustache on her lower face with an eyeliner pen] 

  Chance : Hello. I must sleep.

  [Chance goes right for the couch and lays down] 

  Simon : Mother, why don't you come inside and I'll fix you a nice glass of iced tea.

  Desiree : But you're Simon...

  [beat, deciding to play along] 

  Desiree : Alright... Chance, sweetheart, love of my loins, yes, let's sit and drink the fruit of the Earth together. We shall give thanks for the bounty the mother goddess has seen fit to provide us with.

• Desiree : Chance was conceived on a gondola ride in Venice.

  Simon : You seem to have luck with conceiving while in transit.

  Desiree : I suppose.

  Simon : I didn't think you could have sex while you were driving.

  Desiree : Oh, it's a lot of fun. Especially when you're on police watch.

  Chance : You did it backwards?

  Desiree : Of course. That way I could watch the road as I steered.

  Simon : I bet you have to push the chair way back.

• Chance : You're getting a divorce? But why? You guys are so perfectly psychotic together!

  Desiree : Chance, your father has fallen out of the nest of our love and into the waiting arms of a young, ex-bomb vulture.

  Chance : Dad met another woman?

  Desiree : [nods]  She's 18...

  Chance : Eighteen? She's younger than me! She was like conceived in the eighties! Jesus, Mother...

  Desiree : That's why I left. I couldn't stand to see them together...

  Chance : She's living in the house?