The Good Father (1985)

Jim Broadbent: Roger Miles

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• Bill Hooper : You don't even seem to be angry.

  Roger Miles : I can't afford to get angry. If I ever let myself get angry I could do some real damage.

• Bill Hooper : I decided they really piss me off, women.

  Roger Miles : What do you mean?

  Bill Hooper : What? All this relating. Relationships. Inter-relating.

  Roger Miles : That's what they're good at.

  Bill Hooper : Oh, don't get me wrong, I always endorsed all that. I used to argue Feminism against women. I was such a good boy, you know. I even joined the men's group once. God, that was really depressing. Endless whingeing. It's not like the women's group, they enjoy themselves. They used to meet at our flat. I used to hear them haranging one another or roaring with laughter while I was making the bloody tea. I really envied them. I knew at the time they were right to be angry. They were absolutely justified, never disputed that for a moment. All the same, they really pissed me off.

• Bill Hooper : Couldn't they come up with some sort of compromise?

  Roger Miles : Compromise? She's taking him to Australia. What sort of compromise do you suggest, Singapore?

• Leonard Scruby : So you had absolutely no idea your wife was subject to these tendencies?

  Roger Miles : None whatsoever.

  Leonard Scruby : Good. And how did you find out?

  Roger Miles : My son told me.

  Leonard Scruby : Oh, excellent. What did he say?

  Roger Miles : She shares a bed with this women.

  Leonard Scruby : Who is a known Lesbian?

  Roger Miles : Yes. She got married once.

  Leonard Scruby : Excuse me?

  Roger Miles : To another women. Read something about it somewhere. Gay News. Don't know if she's had a divorce.

  Leonard Scruby : Well, this is most promising. And where has your wife taken the boy?

  Roger Miles : Brixton.

  Leonard Scruby : Oh, wonderful.

• Roger Miles : Well, we certainly jerked her lead.

  Bill Hooper : Why did you have to say that?

  Roger Miles : I wouldn't have. But it's true.