The Shipping News (2001)

Jeannetta Arnette: Silver Melville

Quotes 

• Silver Melville : Tell him who let our insurance lapse. Wham! Oh, it took six very expensive lawyers to weasel us out of it. An inch from bankruptcy. The moral of the story: when you marry a tour guide, confine his authority to mixing the drinks.

  [stumbles away] 

  Quoyle : Did I come at a bad time?

  Bayonet Melville : Yeah, ten years ago would have been better.