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| Character | Ruth Popper | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Female | |
| Age Range(s) | Adult (36-50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Angry, Scolding, Crying, Flips out, Neurotic, Lamenting | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Year | 1971 | |
| Period | Any | |
| Genre | Drama | |
| Description | Ruth flips out on Sonny | |
| Details | 1 hr 59 minutes into the film | |
Summary
Set in the 50s in a small Texas town, this is a coming of age drama about a group of young kids between boyhood and manhood. One of them is Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms), who has an affair with the 40 year old wife of his highschool baseball team coach, Ruth Popper. However when he gets the chance to date Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd), the pretties girl in town, he soon forgets about Ruth.
This scene comes at the end of the movie. Billy, a friend of Sonny's, dies when he is run over by a truck. Sonny is distraught and ends up at Ruth's place and asks if he can walk in for a cup of coffee. She lets him in but soon flips out on him, throws the cup of coffee to the wall and shouts at him for leaving her....
This scene comes at the end of the movie. Billy, a friend of Sonny's, dies when he is run over by a truck. Sonny is distraught and ends up at Ruth's place and asks if he can walk in for a cup of coffee. She lets him in but soon flips out on him, throws the cup of coffee to the wall and shouts at him for leaving her....
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| RUTH POPPER: "What am I doing apologizing to you? Why am I always apologizing to you, you little bastard?!! Three months I've apologized to you without you even here! I haven't done anything wrong! Why can't I quit apologizing!?! You're the one ought to be sorry! I wouldn't be in my bathrobe if not for you. I'd have my clothes on. You're the one made me quit caring if I got dressed or not! Now just because your friend got killed you want me to forget what you did and make it all right. I'm not sorry for you. You'd have left Billy, just like you left me. I bet you left him plenty of nights, whenever Jacy whistled. I wouldn't treat a dog that way. You thought I was so old and ugly you didn't owe me any explanation. You didn't need to be careful of me. There was nothing I could do so why be careful of me? You didn't love me. Look at me. Can't you even look at me?? See? Shouldn't have come here. I'm around that corner now. You've ruined it. It's lost. Completely. Just your needing me won't make it come back..." |
