The Ice Storm (1997)

Sigourney Weaver: Janey Carver

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• Ben Hood : We were golfing. You know, golfing, to me, is something I'm *supposed* to enjoy. And I was on the goddamn golf team in college, so it's something one would assume I'd do well. I used to do well. But basically, these days, golfing for me is like hoeing... or plowing. It's like farming. And George Clair has obviously, in the mere two years since he's been with the firm, he's obviously been taking secret lessons with a golf pro. And I bet the entirety of his disposable income has been dedicated to humiliating me on the golf course. That guy talks nonstop throughout the entirety of the misery of the miserable 18 holes...

  Janey Carver : Ben.

  Ben Hood : On topics that are the supposed domain of my department.

  Janey Carver : Ben.

  Ben Hood : Yeah?

  Janey Carver : You're boring me. I have a husband. I don't particularly feel the need for another.

  Ben Hood : You have a point there. That's a very good point. We're having an affair. Right. An explicitly sexual relationship. Your needs, my needs. You're absolutely right.

  Janey Carver : You better get dressed. The boys will be home soon.

  Ben Hood : Gotcha.

  [they both get out of bed] 

• Ben Hood : Elena and l, we don't - we don't go in for those sort of histrionics. About the only big fight we've had in years was about whether or not to go back into couples therapy.

  Janey Carver : It appears you won.

• Janey Carver : Have you noticed anything with Mikey lately? The kid seemed a little out of it tonight, eh?

  Janey Carver : Tonight? Mikey's been out of it since he was born.

• Janey Carver : Wendy, a person's body is his temple. This body is your first and last possession. Now as your own parents have probably told you, in adolescence our bodies tend to betray us.

• Janey Carver : [caught his youngest son Sandy playing with explosives]  Sandy! You idiotic little dope! You could blow yourself fucking sky high with this demented crap!

• Janey Carver : Mikey have you heard the explosions coming from the back yard?

  Mikey Carver : ...I dunno

  Janey Carver : Do you know what you brothers been up to?

  Mikey Carver : I... I dunno.

• Janey Carver : Sandy, you idiotic little dope! You could blow yourself sky high with this demented crap!

  [relenting] 

  Janey Carver : Hey... hey. I'll take this.

  Sandy Carver : You're not going to tell Dad, are you?

  Janey Carver : Would it matter? What's this?

  Sandy Carver : You know, just a whip. The one Uncle Frank got me from Mexico.

  Janey Carver : Not packed with explosives, is it?

  Sandy Carver : No.

  Sandy Carver : Play with the whip.

• Ben Hood : [Janey hands drink to Ben]  Thanks. You having one?

  Janey Carver : In a bit.

  Ben Hood : [he leans his head onto Janey]  You know, I think Elena might suspect something. Maybe, it's all for the better, you know?

  [he starts unbuttoning his shirt] 

  Ben Hood : Yesterday at dinner, she - Well, she didn't say anything. Has she acted funny to you? Have you noticed anything?

  [he takes his shirt off] 

  Janey Carver : Have I noticed anything?

  Ben Hood : Mmm.

  Janey Carver : I'm not married to her, Benjamin. You are. I think you've probably a better vantage point from which to observe her.

  Ben Hood : Yeah, but... I've been working a lot lately and - No, that's not it. I... I guess maybe we're just on the verge of... saying something. Saying something to each other. On the verge.

• Janey Carver : I'll be back.

  Ben Hood : Hmm?

  Janey Carver : Birth control.

  Ben Hood : Right. Gotcha.

  [he drinks and takes his pants off leaving him wearing nothing but boxer shorts and socks. He heads to the bedroom doorway] 

  Ben Hood : Janey?

  [hears car starting. He looks at the window through the blinds seeing that Janey is going somewhere leaving Ben all alone] 

• Janey Carver : Excuse me, don't you kids have homework?

  Mikey Carver : It's Thanksgiving break.

• Ben Hood : What's all that about? I mean, what the hell happened?

  Janey Carver : A prior engagement overcame me.

  Ben Hood : What?

  Janey Carver : Listen, Benjamin Hood, I have obligations that precede your... From before you showed up. I mean one or two good natured encounters, that doesn't mean that I'm... I'm not just some toy for you. When I remembered some chores I wanted to get done before the party, I just did them, that's all. Because I wanted them to get them done before I saw Jimmy.

  Ben Hood : Jimmy? Jimmy? I'm not sure how to take this. Wh-what do you mean Jimmy? I thought you and your husband had...

  Janey Carver : How you take it isn't that all that interesting to me, Benjamin. I'm sorry.

  Ben Hood : I just can't believe you could be so...

• Janey Carver : Oh, jeez, Benji. Well, here you are.

  Ben Hood : Damn right. Where the hell are you?

  Janey Carver : What are you talking about?

  [she drinks her Martini] 

  Ben Hood : Don't bullshit me around, Janey. Jesus Christ. I've waited around for more than half an hour in nothing but my boxer shorts.

  Dorothy Franklin : Ben. Janey.

  Ben Hood : Oh, hi, Dorothy. Ted.

• Dorothy Franklin : And to think - they met at a key party of all things.

  Elena Hood : A key party?

  Dorothy Franklin : Oh, you know, it's a California thing. That scuzzy husband of hers dragged her kicking and screaming to one when they were out in L.A. You know, the men put their car keys in a bowl, and then at the end of the evening the women line up and fish them out and whoever's they got they go home with. Anyhow that's how she met this Rod person or whatever his name is. He's left his wife and she's packing for California and Irwin is devastated. It's so ironic.

  Janey Carver : Ironic?

  Dorothy Franklin : Well, yes, ironic. His name's Rod.

• Jim Carver : It was a benefit for the ACLU or something. Harry Reems himself was there.

  Dorothy Franklin : The man with the - from "Deep Throat"?

  Jim Carver : The very one. Something about a first amendment defense fund.

  Dorothy Franklin : Ted took me to see it.

  Janey Carver : Oh, Ted, how romantic.

  Dorothy Franklin : You know, I have to admit, the movie didn't do much for me. But being in that theater, surrounded by all those horny young college boys and perverts, I mean, there was something in the air that...

• Neil Conrad : And you're asking yourself this question, like "What is - is?"

  Janey Carver : Oh, wait, this is the - the training, where they don't let you go to the bathroom?

  Neil Conrad : That was the hard part. But I did it.