Some of the Cast Names:
Susan Stone-media journalist and wife.
Larry Moretto-husband and restaurant owner.
Lydia-teenager.
James-teenager.
Russell-teenager.
Walter-the dog.
HOME
Susan: "As a member of the professional media...Here is what I found out. That all of life is a learning experience. Everything is part of a big master plan. Sometimes its hard to read. If you get too close all you see is a lot of dots but if you step back you see the big picture. And when you do, it all comes into focus. (The camera moves closer and closer to a picture of Susan Stone that dissolves into dots and the resolves into her face addressing the audience.) Hello, my name is Susan Moretta. At least that's my married name...My own name is Susan Stone. That's my professional name. Susan Stone."
Larry: "She looks fragile and delicate but...the...the details are too graphic, but she's like a volcano." Sister: "Will people come from miles around just to watch her explode..." Larry: "She's it, she's the golden girl of my dreams." Sister: "She can't even bowl." Larry: "She pure and delicate and fragile. She's like a delicate china doll." Sister: "Have you tried kissing a doll? They don't kiss back!" Larry: "You just look at her and you want to take care of her the rest of her life. She like a porcelin figure that mom collects."
Susan: "There are some people who never know who they are or who they want to be until it's too late. And that's a real tragedy in my book, because I always knew who I was and wanted to be. Always."
Cut to an image of the young Susan Stone playing to her father's home video camera.)
Susan: "I believe Mr. Gorbachev would still be president if he had taken that big purple thing off his forhead."
Susan: In describing Barbara Walters: "She has many admirable qualities--a wide range of knowledge and deep sympathy for others that is typical of the Jewish persuasion."
Susan: "You are not anybody unless you're on TV. On TV is where we learn about who we really are. Because what's the point of doing something worthwhile if no-one is really watching. And if everyone is watching it makes you a better person."
Lydia: She [Susan] bought me this dress which I hope to fit someday...She was a beautiful person with real dreams and aspirations. "Susan use to say that opportunity is always knocking. But if you don't answer, its knuckles get sore and it goes to another house."
Television Personality: "The medium of television joins together the global community. TV journalists are the messengers of this community, bringing the world into our homes and our homes into the world."
Susan: "This is a dream I've had all my life. I'd do anything to get this job. Anything."
"I believe that in our age of computer technology and global communication it is the medium of television that joins us together. TV journalists are the messengers of this world, bringing the world into our homes and our homes into the world. It has always been my dream to become such a messenger. I look to you gentlemen now to make that dream a reality."
James: "James. See, nobody ever called me that before. Everyone just called me Jimbo. She said I was named after her favorite movie star, Jimmy Dean. I like to think it's after Jim Morrison of the Doors. He had this great kind of life--travelling around and writing songs...That's the kind of life I would want to have."
Susan: "He calls them love handles, I call them flab."
"I think if you wanted a baby-sitter you should have married Mary Poppins."
Susan: "It's true the road my husband and I chose to travel on was paved with speed bumps...The word failure is not a part of my vocabulary. My commitment to my career or my marriage is 110%. Regardless of my career I would never leave Larry behind. The word divorce was never mentioned."
Susan: "You grow up. You think it's going to be a fairy tale. Like you're sleeping beauty and the prince appears and kisses you and takes you into his arms etc. And then you wake up and it's daylight and you look at him....Does anyone ever say, "did you have a good shoot today," or "how is the editing going," or anything of that nature? The point is Larry is a nice guy but he doesn't know anything about television."
Susan: "You just have to block that out of your memory like some scary TV movie. You just change the channel and you pretend like it never happened. And pretty soon it will be like a bad dream."
Susan: "I could be like those women on the Sally Jesse Raphael Show with a disguise and move to another state so my husband couldn't find me. But I would lose the car and the condo. He would take Walter from me."
James: "It was like I was in one of those scary movies about the living dead. You know, one of those great movies where everyone is coming out of their graves with their eyes hanging out and their flesh falling off and everything and all walking around like this, walking around and grunting, all looking for the same thing--for the live people to eat their flesh and drink their blood. They can't help themselves because they are dead. And that's just what happened. That's what I felt like.
"I could never do anything bad to you, or ever hurt you. Whoever would do that doesn't deserve to live. That's the truth, he doesn't deserve to live."
Lydia: "It was like living in a really great movie. Except it was kind of x-rated on account of all the sex and stuff."
Susan: "What's the matter with you people? Don't you ever watch Mystery Theater? Lydia, we can't be like before. We have to act as if we never knew each other. Get real!"
Susan: "My husband was a cocaine addict. I have no choice anymore. I have to defend myself with the truth...I look to that day when my fight is over and I will find my husband in the heaven in which he believed."
Lydia: "You are not anybody unless you're on TV. On TV is where we learn about who we really are. Because what's the point of doing something worthwhile if no-one is really watching. And if everyone is watching it makes you a better person. But if everyone were on TV who would be left to watch?...Well anyway, they want me to go on Oprah. Susan would die if she knew I'm the one who will be famous."