The Kid (2000)

Daniel von Bargen: Sam Duritz

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• 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.