The Haunting (1999)
Owen Wilson: Luke Sanderson
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Quotes
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Luke : Hey, you guys wanna hear something really scary? I just found this out. It turns out there's a more darker chapter in the Hugh Crain fairytale. Remember his lovely wife Renee? Well Renee, the town beauty, she didn't just die, she killed herself.
Theo : Really? He just told you that?
Luke : Yes, but you can't say anything because he actually swore me to secrecy.
Eleanor "Nell" Vance : Why did she kill herself?
Luke : The stillborn children story is more sinister, and maybe Hugh Crain was a horrible monster that drove her to it.
Eleanor "Nell" Vance : Monster? But he built this house with the woman he loved like the Taj Mahal.
Theo : The Taj Mahal wasn't a palace, it was a tomb. And equally overdone.
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Luke : [as noises come from chimney, he goes under it and yells up] Hello, Santa!
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Theo : [Opening up a bottle of wine and begins filling up everyone's glass] You know what? The rest of you may hate your insomnia, but I'm not sure I want a cure for mine. That's when I get all my best ideas when I'm waiting to fall asleep. I'm alone, occasionally, with no distractions, my mind is racing with creative ideas and come 3am, I feel like a genius.
Luke : Are you kidding me? 3am, I start feeling like I'm losing my mind watching those informercials on psychics or... listening to Tony Robbins and the psychic hotlines. Have you ever seen that late night T.V.?
Dr. David Marrow : [laughing] Oh, yeah.
[to Theo, who has just poured the wine]
Dr. David Marrow : Thank you.
Luke : I swear to God, you get a steady diet of that crap and pretty soon, you start thinking about moving to Montana and becoming a survivalist.
Theo : That's why God created barbiturates, honey.
Todd Hackett : Nembutal?
Theo : Mm-mm.
Luke : You know, Todd? I think we have a classic Seconal woman on our hands. In fact, I think I see a little... Jackie Susann in Theo.
[Theo laughs sarcastically, then glares at Luke]
Luke : [Softly] Ow.
Dr. David Marrow : [Finishes laughing] Alright, you two, enough about pharmaceuticals. So, what do we all need in life? What are the basics? Food, water, shelter...
Theo : Sex.
Luke : [Softly] Meow.
Dr. David Marrow : And sleep. Sleep. I'm working on a 5-year study, with the help of Mary here, making profiles of bad sleepers. I'm looking for a common psychological link. I hope that the work we do here will, someday, will be able to help people like yourselves.
Theo : God knows I'm all for helping people, saving the world, but doesn't everyone have a problem sleeping these days? Life's too frantic.
Mary Lambetta : What about you, Nell?
Eleanor "Nell" Vance : Um, well... it seems that you all have trouble sleeping because your... lives are exciting and it's complicated and you think about it when you go to sleep. But, um, I don't know, nothing's ever really happened to me, so I don't have a reason to sleep badly.
Dr. David Marrow : But in your application, you said you had trouble sleeping.
Eleanor "Nell" Vance : Um, yes, but it's not like them. It's because... there was always somebody calling me, there was always somebody banging. Ever since I was little, well, I took care of my Mother and... she would wake up in the middle of the night. She would bang, with her cane, on the wall. And it was just this relentless... it was a relentless banging all through the night. That's weird because... even though she's dead, I still hear it when I wake up.
Dr. David Marrow : Well, that's why we're here, Eleanor, to try and help you.
Luke : Yeah, Nell, I think what Dr. Marrow is trying to say is that you're a basket case just like the rest of us.
[They all laugh, including Nell]
Luke : .
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Luke : What's the deal with the Addams Family mansion?
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Dr. David Marrow : Let me explain what's happening here. You're participating in a study on group fear and hysteria.
Luke : What? That's it, that's what this was all about?
Theo : You brought us here to scare us, is that it?
Dr. David Marrow : Yes.
Luke : And you were just waiting for her to have a total nervous breakdown before you said it? I mean, what is your problem?
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Luke : [looking at a statue] These carvings are really creepy. All these fat little cherubs and angels with furry animals, it's really bizarre, I think.
Eleanor "Nell" Vance : I think they're the children Hugh Crain built the house for.
Luke : I don't buy that for a second - that Hugh Crain was this lovable old tycoon with a soft spot for kids? This guy was obviously running a sweatshop, had children working 16 hours a day. Then he builds all this crap, it's propaganda. It's like those Teletubbies, those things freak me out also. Then they sing, so they're actually kinda scarier when you think about it.
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Luke : Oh come on, this is crazy. Maybe she doesn't want to be found.
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Luke : I'm not staying in this freaking house another second, so come on.
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Luke : I don't know, I just think Dr. Marrow's up to something. And you know what, I'm going to find out. Right after I check on Theo, that is. I wonder how she's doing.
Eleanor "Nell" Vance : Doing or wearing?
Luke : Yeah, no kidding. Did you see what she had on yesterday? Hey I definitely got a soft spot for Theo.
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Luke : We don't have time for baby talk.
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Dr. David Marrow : The gate is still locked; we have to wait until the Dudleys arrive.
Luke : What? That's really compassion. Yeah, "let's wait until the morning, so tomorrow I have time to write a few more Welcome Home Eleanors."
Dr. David Marrow : Luke, I didn't write that stuff, okay?
Luke : Of course you didn't, that wouldn't be ethical, would it doc...
Theo : Would you guys just shut up?
