Ulee's Gold (1997)

Patricia Richardson: Connie Hope

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• Ulysses Ulee Jackson : Once you're better, I don't care what you do. But you're not moving until all that poison's out of your body. Even if only for a day.

  Helen Jackson : Oh, man. You always think you know, don't you?

  Ulysses Ulee Jackson : Well, I know better than to run from responsibility.

  Helen Jackson : Is that right?

  Ulysses Ulee Jackson : Right.

  Helen Jackson : There's all kinds of running, Ulee. Your body might have stuck around, and that lousy bully part of your mind, but your heart took off a long time ago.

  Ulysses Ulee Jackson : Oh, you can't say that. That's not true.

  Helen Jackson : Maybe you're right. Maybe you never cared anything about anybody. Year after year, nothing touches Ulee!

  Ulysses Ulee Jackson : No. No, it was you and Jimmy wanted too many shortcuts. I told Jimmy if he went down that road, I wouldn't lift a finger to help him. And you both managed major fuck-ups!

  Connie Hope : Ulee, come on.

  Ulysses Ulee Jackson : I mean, who the hell are you, Mrs. Helen Jackson? A mother? Wife? No, you're nothing!

  Connie Hope : Come on.

  Ulysses Ulee Jackson : And we don't need the whole damn world knowing what's going on in our house.

• Connie Hope : Me, I'm divorced twice. No kids, fortunately. I guess, fortunately.

• Connie Hope : You are almost a good man, Ulee Jackson, but you try too hard.

• [last lines] 

  Connie Hope : What's so special about this Tupelo honey?

  Ulysses Ulee Jackson : Well first, it's very uh, very rare...

• Connie Hope : You're an old fashioned 'ties that bind' kinda guy. Whatever happens you stay the course, isn't that right?

  Ulysses Ulee Jackson : Miss Hope... I'm just realizing I don't know enough about anything to say nothin'.