Ordinary People (1980)
Timothy Hutton: Conrad
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Quotes
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Conrad "Con" Jarrett : [Berger is pretending to be Buck, Con's older brother] Bucky, I didn't mean it! Bucky, I didn't mean it!
Dr. Berger : What?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : I said put the sail down, but you said keep it starboard, and then we go over! And you say "Hang on, Hang on!", but then you let go! Why'd you let go?
Dr. Berger : Because I was tired!
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Oh yeah? Well, screw you, you jerk!
Dr. Berger : [Back in reality] It hurts to be mad at him, doesn't it?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : God, I loved him. It's not fair. You just do one wrong thing, and...
Dr. Berger : And what was the one wrong thing you did? You know. You know.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : I hung on. I stayed with the boat.
Dr. Berger : Exactly.
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Dr. Berger : Now you can live with that, can't you?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : I'm so scared! I'm scared.
Dr. Berger : Feelings are scary. And sometimes they're painful. And if you can't feel pain, then you're not going to feel anything else, either. You know what I'm saying?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : I think so.
Dr. Berger : You're here, and you're alive. And don't tell me you don't feel that.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : It doesn't feel good.
Dr. Berger : It is good, believe me.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : How do you know?
Dr. Berger : Because I'm your friend.
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Conrad "Con" Jarrett : When I let myself feel, all I feel is lousy.
Dr. Berger : Oh well excuse me, I never promised you a rose garden.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Oh fuck you Berger.
Dr. Berger : What?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : FUCK YOU!
Dr. Berger : Hey, that's it!
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Geez! You're really weird huh, what do you feel huh? Do you jerk off, or jack off, or whatever you call it?
Dr. Berger : What do you think?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : What do I think? I think you're married to a fat lady and you go home and you fuck the living daylights out of her!
Dr. Berger : Sounds good to me.
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Jeannine : [In a McDonalds restaurant booth Conrad sits with Jeannine, the suicide attempt scars on Conrad's wrist are displayed] Did it hurt?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : I don't remember, really.
Jeannine : You don't want to talk about it?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : I've never really talked about it. To doctors. But, not to anyone else. You're the first who's asked.
Jeannine : Why did you do it?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Uh... I don't know. It was like... falling into a hole. It keeps getting bigger and bigger and you can't escape. All of a sudden, it's inside... and you're the hole. You're trapped. And it's all over. Something like that. It's not really scary... except when you think back on it. 'Cause you know what you were feeling...
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Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Anyway.
Jeannine : Hm, what?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Oh just anyway. It's a conversation starter.
Jeannine : Hm, catchy.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : I knew you'd like it, I've been working on it all day.
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Beth Jarrett : It's really important to try and hurt me isn't it?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Don't you have that backwards?
Beth Jarrett : Oh, and how do I hurt you? By embarrassing you in front of a friend? "Poor Beth, she has no idea what her son is up to, he lies and she believes every word of it."
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : I didn't lie!
Beth Jarrett : You did! You lied every time you came into this house at 6.30! If its starting all over again, the lying, the covering up, the disappearing for hours, I won't stand for it, I can't stand for it, I really can't!
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Well don't then! Go to Europe!
Calvin "Cal" Jarrett : Connie!
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : No! The only reason she cares, the only reason she gives a fuck about it is because someone else knew about it first!
Calvin "Cal" Jarrett : Just stop it Connie!
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : No! You tell her to stop it! You never tell her a goddamn thing! And I know why she never came to the hospital because she was too busy going to goddamn Spain and goddamn Portugal! Why should she care if I'm hung up by the balls out there!
Beth Jarrett : Maybe this is how they sit around and talk at the hospital, but we're not at the hospital.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : You never came to the hospital! How do you know about the hospital!
Calvin "Cal" Jarrett : Connie! Your mother did come to the hospital, you know she did, she had the flu and couldn't come inside but she came to the hospital!
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : She never would have had any flu if Buck was in the hospital, she would have come if Buck was in the hospital!
Beth Jarrett : Buck never would have been in the hospital!
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Calvin "Cal" Jarrett : No don't do that to yourself! Somethings things happen in this world people don't always have the answers for them you know! I don't know what I'm yelling at you for.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : No that's good! Haul my ass sometimes! You know, the way you used to for him!
Calvin "Cal" Jarrett : Oh he needed it! You were always so hard on yourself, I never had the heart.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Oh Dad, don't.
Calvin "Cal" Jarrett : No it's the truth!
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Conrad "Con" Jarrett : [about Karen's suicide] I feel bad about this! I feel really, really bad about this! Just let me feel bad about this!
Dr. Berger : Okay. I feel bad about it, too.
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Dr. Berger : So what are you thinking now?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : That I jack off a lot.
Dr. Berger : So what else is new? Does it help?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : For a minute.
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Conrad "Con" Jarrett : It's impossible after all the shit I've pulled.
Dr. Berger : What shit have you pulled?
[pause]
Dr. Berger : Hey, remember, I'm talking proportion here, now what shit?
[pause]
Dr. Berger : C'mon, you must be able to come up with at least one example.
[pause]
Dr. Berger : And don't give me, "I tried to kill myself." That's old turkey.
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Calvin "Cal" Jarrett : I should have gotten a handle on it somehow.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : You know I used to think you had a handle for everything. I really admire you for that sometimes.
Calvin "Cal" Jarrett : Well, don't admire people too much. They'll disappoint you sometimes.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : I'm not disappointed. I love you.
Calvin "Cal" Jarrett : I love you too.
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Conrad "Con" Jarrett : You woulda visited Buck if he was in the hospital.
Beth Jarrett : Buck would have never been in the hospital!
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Dr. Berger : So you felt great. You brought home a Christmas tree and everything was hunky dory. Okay?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : You're the doctor.
Dr. Berger : Listen, don't take refuge in one-liners like "you're the doctor". Okay? Because that pisses me off.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Okay.
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Conrad "Con" Jarrett : [seeing Beth set the table] Can I help?
Beth Jarrett : Help with what?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : With... this?
Beth Jarrett : No. I'll tell you what you can do is go upstairs to that room of yours and clean out the closet.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : [still desperately trying to talk with her] Mom?
Beth Jarrett : [sensing this, but is afraid] Okay? Because it really is a mess.
[they stare at each other in silence for a moment before the phone rings]
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Dr. Berger : Maybe you were stronger. Did it ever occur to you that you might have been stronger?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : [realizes the implications of what Dr. Berger just said to him]
Dr. Berger : How long are you going to punish yourself? When are you going to quit?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Oh God, I'd like to quit...
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Conrad "Con" Jarrett : I made a 74 on a trig quiz.
Beth Jarrett : Oh really? Gosh I was awful at trig.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Oh. Really? You took trig?
Beth Jarrett : No... wait a minute... ha, did I take trig? Huh... anyway, I bought you two shirts they're on your bed.
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Jeannine : Can you ever break the ball?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : You can't break the ball. Can't break the floor. Can't break anything in a bowling alley. And that's what I like about bowling alleys. Can't even break the record.
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Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Give her the Goddamned camera!
Beth Jarrett : Smile!
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Conrad "Con" Jarrett : [yelling at Calvin about Beth] ... and I know why she never came to the hospital! She was busy going to goddamn Spain and... and... goddamn Portugal! Why should she care if I'm hung up by the balls out there?
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Buck : Dad's gonna haul our asses when we get back!
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : I don't think it's so goddamned funny
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Jeannine : Hey, you stand behind me in the choir, you sing well, you have a lot of energy.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Oh you do, I mean, I do?
Jeannine : I mean that's a good thing. I'm Jeannine Pratt.
Gail : And you're Conrad Jarrett, remember?
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Yeah, right!
Jeannine : Well I'll see you around.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Bye.
Lazenby : [mocking Jeannine] You have a lot of energy!
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Jeannine : Conrad, I'm not a very good bowler, what I mean is, I'm a funny bowler.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Oh, well we don't have to go bowling if you'd rather not. How funny are ya?
Jeannine : On a scale of one to ten... about a ten.
Conrad "Con" Jarrett : Oh... yeah, that's pretty funny.