Mommie Dearest (1981)

Priscilla Pointer: Mrs. Chadwick

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• [Christina has been discovered making out with a boy in a stable] 

  Joan Crawford : How? How could this happen, how could you humiliate me this way? I am ashamed to be your mother!

  [to Mrs. Chadwick] 

  Joan Crawford : And you? How could you let this happen?

  Mrs. Chadwick : Both students have been put on probation and will have no privileges for a month.

  Joan Crawford : Probation. This is appalling. I have devoted myself to making Christina a proper young lady. That boy should be EXPELLED.

  Mrs. Chadwick : Now, Miss Crawford. When this sort of thing has happened before, we've...

  Joan Crawford : BEFORE? Is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel?

  Mrs. Chadwick : Chadwick has an impeccable reputation. And when students break the rules we curtail their freedom.

  Joan Crawford : Well, we are leaving here, right now. Obviously she cannot be controlled in this environment.

  Mrs. Chadwick : Nothing really happened between your daughter and the young man, it was innocent.

  Joan Crawford : No thanks to you.

  Mrs. Chadwick : I think you're overreacting, Miss Crawford.

  Joan Crawford : And I think you're underreacting, Mrs. Chadwick.

  Joan Crawford : [Grabs Christina and drags her to the door]  My compliments to your school on its impeccable reputation. CHRISTINA, COME ON.