Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)

Richard S. Castellano: Frank

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• Frank Vecchio : We're all strangers. But after a while you get used to it. You become deeper strangers. That's a sort of love.

• Bea : Frank, you want some veal?

  Frank Vecchio : No, I don't want no more veal.

  Bea : The butcher gave you good veal.

  Frank Vecchio : He's a good butcher.

  Bea : It's not veiny.

  Frank Vecchio : I hate veiny veal.

• Richie Vecchio : Don't you understand, Joan and I are just not happy together.

  Frank Vecchio : You hear that, Beatrice? They're not happy together.

  Bea : I heard, Frank.

  Frank Vecchio : So who's happy?

  Bea : Who's happy?

  Frank Vecchio : What, do you see me running around dancing in the streets?

  Bea : Do you see your father running around dancing in the streets?

  Frank Vecchio : What are you, better than me? You think your mother and I are happy?

  Richie Vecchio : You mean you and mom aren't happy?

  Frank Vecchio : [together with Bea]  No!

  Richie Vecchio : Then why did you stay together?

  Frank Vecchio : [pause]  We're content.

  Bea : We're content.

  Frank Vecchio : These kids today, all they're looking for is happiness.

  Bea : Don't look for happiness, Richie. It will only make you miserable.

• Frank Vecchio : So, what's the story, Richie?

• Frank Vecchio : So, what's the story Ritchie?

  Mike Vecchio : Look, get off his back, let him work out his own problems.

  Bea : You be quiet, we're not talking about marriage.

  Frank Vecchio : We're talking about divorce.

  Bea : If we were talking about marriage, you could talk.

  Frank Vecchio : Marriage is different from divorce.

• Frank Vecchio : So, what's the story Ritchie?

  Richie Vecchio : We're just not compatible.

  Frank Vecchio : You hear that Beatrice, they're not compatible.

  Bea : I heard, but I'm not listening, Frank.

  Frank Vecchio : They're married for six years, all of a sudden they're looking to be compatible.

  Bea : It's a phase they're going through.

  Frank Vecchio : You stupid kids today, they don't know what to do with themselves, they get a divorce, for kicks.

  Bea : That's what it is, Frank, kicks.

• Richie Vecchio : Look, it's 1970, it happens to a lot of couples, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Frank Vecchio : It's never happened in our family!

  Bea : We don't believe in it.

  Frank Vecchio : It happens to people who don't give a damn.

  Bea : You think the king and queen of England would get a divorce?

  Frank Vecchio : Of course not.

  Bea : They don't believe in it.

  Frank Vecchio : That's why they're together all these years.

  Bea : They know what would happen to England if they broke up.

  Frank Vecchio : Yeah, but our son believes in it.

  Bea : He doesn't care what happens to England, he doesn't care what happens to anybody, it's 1970, so he's getting a divorce.