Surviving (1985 TV Movie)

Ellen Burstyn: Tina Brogan

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• Tina Brogan : Why are people so cruel to each other?

• Tina Brogan : Doctor David the big expert on child rearing. Tell me all about it, Doctor David. Tell me how careful you were with your son, Rick. Wait, you really kept him hopping didn't you? No time to relax, no time for for anything frivolous. Like friends!

  David Brogan : I never stopped him from having friends.

  Tina Brogan : Ho he always had to study more and do more and be more. He was too busy for friends. Too busy expanding his vocabulary. Too busy trying to be perfect. Trying to be... like his dad!

  David Brogan : I wanted a lot for him. I- I thought I was doing the right thing.

  Tina Brogan : This is all your ego. Isn't it? You just wanted another you. Your son. God. There were never any real feelings. That why you liked being a surgeon so much your patients are anesthetized. You can talk but you don't have to listen. He worshiped you! All these years building this house... this family. I bought all of it. Love, honor and truth. Beauty. I bought it. You betrayed me, David! You betrayed all of us!

  David Brogan : I love you, Tina.

  [she walks away] 

  David Brogan : I love you, now don't do this!

  Tina Brogan : Don't you touch me, don't you ever touch me ever again. It wasn't just Rick and Lonnie in that car. We were there too.

  [she closes his briefcase and give to to him] 

  Tina Brogan : Take all your stuff and get out of here, just get out of my room.