Bless the Beasts & Children (1971)
Elaine Devry: Cotton's Mother
Quotes
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Cotton : I'm almost sixteen; try gooping that over. In one year, I'll be seventeen. You know what I'm gonna do on my seventeenth birthday?
Cotton's Mother : [turns away from him back to her vanity table mirror] I'm listening.
Cotton : Join the Marines. You can, you know, if your parents sign the papers. Dad will.
Cotton's Mother : [making up her face] And I won't, of course.
Cotton : And you *will*, of course! Because if you don't, you know what I';m gonna do? I'm gonna make a big sign and march up and down in front of the Bay Yacht Club.
[she freezes]
Cotton : "My mother's over forty-two years old," it'll say.
Cotton's Mother : [she stares at him in the mirror, then slowly and viciously:] I'll kill you.
[Cotton pretends to fire a rifle at her]