The Cider House Rules (1999)
Jane Alexander: Nurse Edna
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Nurse Angela : [looking at an X-Ray] Do you know what this is?
Homer Wells : Oh, that's my heart.
Nurse Angela : No, actually, it's Fuzzy's. There's nothing wrong with your heart.
Nurse Edna : Dr. Larch wanted to keep you out of the war. That's why he told you it was yours.
Nurse Angela : He was worried about his own heart. He said it would never stand up to Homer Wells going off to war.
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Nurse Edna : Dr. Holtz seems nice. I think he only wants to help.
Dr. Wilbur Larch : He's a goddamn psychiatrist! Of course he wants to help. He'd be happy to help to commit me.
Nurse Angela : It's this Mrs. Goodhall you have to be careful of, Wilbur.
Dr. Wilbur Larch : We have to be more than careful of Mrs. Goodhall. She has enough Christian zeal to start her own country. I'd like to give her a little ether.
Nurse Edna : So, what are you going to do?
Dr. Wilbur Larch : Take this. Homer Wells, born Portland, Maine, March 2, 1915.
Nurse Angela : But Homer was born here.
Dr. Wilbur Larch : In what was it? 1922?
Nurse Angela : Mm-hmm.
Dr. Wilbur Larch : Graduated Bowdin College, 1935. Harvard School of Medicine, 1939.
Nurse Angela : That's you, Wilbur. You went there.
Dr. Wilbur Larch : An internship and two years of training at the Boston Lying-In, South End Branch, he was judged an accomplished gynecological and obstetrical surgeon...
Nurse Angela : That's not him.
Dr. Wilbur Larch : ...with experience in pediatric care.
Nurse Angela : Wilbur, you're making this up.
Dr. Wilbur Larch : Angela, the board is going to replace me. That is what the new blood is for.
Nurse Edna : You mean they're going to replace you with someone who doesn't perform abortions.
Dr. Wilbur Larch : Well, we can only guess at that. They are against the law.
Nurse Angela : These credentials are against the law, Wilbur.
Dr. Wilbur Larch : We all know I trained Homer, so his credentials are as good as mine are.