The Kid (2000)

Spencer Breslin: Rusty Duritz

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• Rusty Duritz : So, I'm forty, I'm not married, I don't fly jets, and I don't have a dog?

  [long pause] 

  Rusty Duritz : I grow up to be a loser.

• Rusty Duritz : How old are you?

  Russ Duritz : Forty. In a couple days.

  Rusty Duritz : That is old! I'm turning eight. In a couple days.

  Russ Duritz : Eight. You're eight. I'm eight.

  Rusty Duritz : This is scary.

  Russ Duritz : No. This is hilarious.

• Rusty Duritz : Mom, look. Daddy's home. Daddy?

  Sam Duritz : Gloria, what're you doin'? Are you out of your mind?

  Gloria Duritz : I'm fine. I'm fine.

  Sam Duritz : Come on, dear.

  [starts taking Gloria inside] 

  Sam Duritz : Shhhh. Get you inside.

  [turns to Rusty] 

  Sam Duritz : You stay there!

  Gloria Duritz : Please don't scare him. He's had a hard day.

  Sam Duritz : Gloria, the doctor said you weren't to leave the house.

  [Russ turns up to find Rusty standing outside awaiting his father. After getting his wife inside the house, Sam angrily goes to his son and accosts him] 

  Sam Duritz : WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?

  Rusty Duritz : I'm sorry!

  Sam Duritz : [Shakes Rusty violently]  How could you do this to your mother? What're you trying to do, kill her faster?

  Rusty Duritz : WHAT?

  Sam Duritz : We're gonna LOSE her.

  [Shakes Rusty again] 

  Sam Duritz : God, and you pull some stunt like you did today; you're KILLING her!

  Rusty Duritz : [Rusty begins to helplessly break down]  I found the screw, Dad. The screw.

  Sam Duritz : [Grabs hold of Rusty's face]  Stop cryin'.

  Rusty Duritz : [Russ begins to tear up as he watches the confrontation]  Here's the screw, Dad! Look, here it is! Here it is, I found it!

  Sam Duritz : Just stop cryin'.

  Rusty Duritz : Please, Dad, look at the screw! Here it is!

  Sam Duritz : Stop crying!

  [He painfully rubs the tears away from Rusty's eyes] 

  Sam Duritz : STOP.

  [He lets go of Rusty's face] 

  Sam Duritz : You gotta grow up, now. Do you understand?

  Rusty Duritz : Yes, Sir.

  Sam Duritz : [He grabs Rusty and pulls him again]  Grow up.

  [He hastily lets go of Rusty] 

  Sam Duritz : Grow up!

  [He storms back inside and slams the door behind him] 

  Rusty Duritz : [Rusty notices Russ has seen the ordeal and heads over once his father has gone back inside]  Mom's dying.

  Russ Duritz : I know.

  Rusty Duritz : Soon?

  Russ Duritz : Yeah, before your next birthday.

  Rusty Duritz : Did I do it?

  Russ Duritz : No. No, you didn't do it.

  [He hugs Rusty] 

  Russ Duritz : It's not your fault. Dad was just saying those things because he's scared. 'Cause he knows that he has to raise you alone, and he doesn't know how to do it.

  Rusty Duritz : I thought you never cried.

  Russ Duritz : Not since my eighth birthday. Guess I'm starting up again.

  Rusty Duritz : How come?

  Rusty Duritz : 'Cause I just figured out where I got that twitch from.

  Rusty Duritz : Somebody call the "waahmbulance."

  Russ Duritz : [laughing]  Yeah. Yeah. Gonna need 'em now, huh?

  Russ Duritz : Come on. You wanna get outta here?

  [Rusty nods and they begin to leave] 

  Russ Duritz : Let's go. Let's go get something to eat.

  Rusty Duritz : Okay. But I'm eating whatever I want.

• Rusty Duritz : Isn't it cool we both have to go to the bathroom at the same time?

  Russ Duritz : Yes. I'll cherish this moment for a lifetime.

• Russ Duritz : What's done is done.

  Rusty Duritz : Yeah.

  Russ Duritz : But, hey, today's your birthday. Happy birthday, kid.

• Rusty Duritz : Am I in trouble?

  [wiping his runny nose on his hand and going to wipe it on the car seat] 

  Russ Duritz : You're going to be in *trouble* if you wipe that snot on my calfskin seat, don't do it!

• Rusty Duritz : When do I learn how to drive?

  Russ Duritz : When you're sixteen.

  Rusty Duritz : When do I get a car?

  Russ Duritz : When you're eighteen.

  Rusty Duritz : When do I get a hickey?

  Russ Duritz : [smile]  When you're seventeen.

  Rusty Duritz : When do I find out what a hickey is?

  Russ Duritz : Not tonight.

• Rusty Duritz : Holy smokes... 99 channels and there's nothing on!

• Rusty Duritz : [watching airplane take off]  Wow! Look at us go!

  Russ Duritz : Yeah, look at us go... Look at us go, kid.

• Rusty Duritz : [angrily, in the trailer]  Let me get this straight, I'm forty, I'm not married and I don't have a dog? I GROW UP TO BE A LOSER!