I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Toni Collette: Mother

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• Mother : I love romantic meeting stories. Like in Forget Paris. Billy Crystal?

  Father : I didn't like that movie. Billy Crystal is a nancy.

• Mother : I'm saying, take the darn nightgown to the basement. Live dangerously!

• Father : Doesn't get any easier as it trudges along, I'll say that.

  Mother : What?

  Father : Doesn't get any easier.

  Mother : What doesn't?

  Father : *Life!*

  Mother : Oh, no it doesn't. It's basically a fast train to hell.

  Jake : For God's sake, mom!

  Mother : All right, all right, yes. I'm overstating it. I agree... .it's a fast train to heck!

• Young Woman : I don't think Jake wants me down there.

  Mother : Jake can be controlling. You can't allow him to control you. I think it's the other side of his type of personality, this diligence thing, needs to control everything! There are so many, many things that make him nervous and he keeps closing off more and more of the world. It's a problem! And the few people he does have left in his life follow all sorts of rules, it really is a problem. I guess I'm probably to blame. All this guilt causes me to feel obligated to bend over backwards to accommodate his every little whim, it's a vicious cycle!

  Young Woman : So what exactly are you saying to me?

  Mother : I'm saying take the darn nightgown to the basement. Live dangerously.