Metropolitan (1989)

Allison Parisi: Jane Clarke

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• Jane Clark : Why should we believe you over Rick? We know you're a hypocrite. We know your "Polly Perkins" story was a fabrication...

  Nick Smith : A composite.

  Jane Clark : Whatever. And, that you're completely impossible and out of control, with some sort of drug problem and a fixation on what you consider Rick Von Sloneker's wickedness. You're a snob, a sexist, totally obnoxious, and tiresome. And lately, you've gotten just weird. Why should we believe anything you say?

  Nick Smith : I'm not tiresome.

• Jane Clark : What are you reading?

  Nick Smith : The story of Babar... I'd forgotten how beautiful it was.

• Tom Townsend : Pomfret. Where did you go?

  Jane Clark : Farmington. Both of us did.

  Tom Townsend : Did you know Serena Slocum there?

  Jane Clark : The inevitable question.

  Tom Townsend : What?

  Jane Clark : All the guys ask that. Serena had an incredible number of boyfriends. At least 20. She could manage it because they were all at different schools and she wrote letters incredibly quickly - three in a single study hall. She became really famous. It's incredible how naive some guys are. How do you know Serena?

  Audrey Rouget : [Interrupting]  Actually, that might give someone the wrong impression. She wrote a lot of guys, but I'm sure she liked some a lot more than others.

  Jane Clark : Oh, you think so? I never noticed that. How do you know Serena?

  Tom Townsend : I was one of her boyfriends.

  Jane Clark : [Taken aback]  Oh! You must be "Pomfret." Your letters were really good.

  Audrey Rouget : Yes.

• Nick Smith : What a mystery. Rick Von Sloneker and Serena Slocum, still together. Seems like months.

  Sally Fowler : It has been months.

  Nick Smith : Well, one thing's for certain - she's lost her virginity by now.

  Jane Clark : How can you say that?

  Nick Smith : You're right. Maybe she wasn't a virgin.

• Audrey Rouget : One thing I like about him is he doesn't say all the expected things. He doesn't just agree with everything everyone else is saying.

  Jane Clark : That's true. He disagrees with everything everyone else says.

• Cynthia McLean : It's better for her to know the truth. I don't see how knowing the truth could do anyone any harm.

  Jane Clark : It's not just the truth. It's how and when you learn it.

• Fred Neff : You don't need to put on pink eye shadow for us.

  Jane Clark : It's not for you. I've got a date.

  Fred Neff : A date? What's that? It sounds like something from the 1950s.

• Jane Clark : God, how queer.

  Tom Townsend : Well, it's not so queer really.

• Audrey Rouget : My feeling is that what happened last night has no real significance. It was just bad luck that Fred got sick.

  Jane Clark : I can't believe you're talking like this. He totally humiliated you last night.

  Audrey Rouget : Whether I've been humiliated or not is something I can judge for myself. And besides I don't think Tom's that way.

  Jane Clark : Well I'm not sure you can judge for yourself. Be careful, Audrey; there's something dubious about Tom.

  Audrey Rouget : What?

  Jane Clark : This whole thing about his being a radical when he's obviously not. And being over Serena when he's obviously not.

  Audrey Rouget : Everyone has some contradictions.

  Jane Clark : Anybody with as many conflicts as Tom, even if he seems nice, is better not to get involved with.

  Sally Fowler : By those standards, none of us should get involved with anyone.

  Jane Clark : Well, you're probably right, but in this case certainly.

  Audrey Rouget : Tom is the only guy I've liked in my whole life; I'm not going to forget about him because of some apparent inconsistencies.

  Jane Clark : You hardly even know him.

  Audrey Rouget : I know him very well.

  Jane Clark : You couldn't. You only just met him.

  Audrey Rouget : Well, I do.

• Jane Clark : Audrey's gone to Cynthia's in Connecticut for the weekend, and then on Wednesday she flies back to France. And besides that she thinks you're a total jerk. She hates you.

  Tom Townsend : [stunned]  She hates me?

  Jane Clark : Well, she despises you.

• Nick Smith : Jane? Are you familiar with Dr. Pomeroy's work?

  Jane Clark : Who?

  Nick Smith : "Girls And Sex" by Wardell B. Pomeroy. "The long-needed modern guide to the understanding of girls growing up." Quote: "The most frank and objective book currently available.' Library Journal."

  Jane Clark : Oh, that.

  Nick Smith : "The years of puberty and early womanhood are difficult, even frightening, for many girls. This is the time they most need objective, factual information and sympathetic advice about their physical and emotional changes."