Manderlay (2005)

John Hurt: Narrator

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Narrator : America had proffered its hand, discreetly perhaps, if anybody refused to see a helping hand he really only had himself to blame.

• Narrator : Indignation is a rare emotion for a gangster.

• Narrator : What Grace had felt at the bathhouse was undignified, shameful.

• Narrator : Joseph, a legal expert, with the ability to interpret the most incomprehensible texts, had met his match in the 1923 Ford Owner's Manual.

• Narrator : There were still 10 minutes until her slavishly punctual father would arrive outside to wait for his 15-minutes-and-not-a-second-longer.

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : It was in the year of 1933, when Grace and her father were heading southward with their army of gangsters.

• Narrator : Grace and her father resumed their legendary discord, even as they pulled out of Dogville. And although Grace had been employing the technique of letting things go in one ear and out the other for a pretty long time now, she was, to be frank, somewhat weary of her overweening daddy, who still believed any nagging woman could be pacified with the good old bouquet of carnations.

• Narrator : Her actions would comprise an unconditional enrichment of these people's lives, there was no doubt about that. Or was there?