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The Car (1977) More at IMDbPro »

Chas: I shouldn't have left her.
Wade Parent: Nothing would have changed. He would have taken you out too. I talked to her... she called me when she got back here. She could hear the engine coming down the street.
[choking back the tears]
Wade Parent: She was so frightened. I don't know... I don't know.
Luke: I know why he didn't go into the cemetery.
[Wade turns to look at Luke]
Luke: I know why. There's no other reason... the ground... was hallowed.
[Wade gives Luke a skeptical glare]
Luke: That's what I say... but you think about it. Everything that's happened... what it did to the guys, and how.
[Wade turns and walks out of the house]
Luke: Everybody else was killed on the street! Lauren was killed in the middle of her own living room! She was special... why? Because she cursed him, that's why!
Wade Parent: I don't believe it, I don't accept it.
Luke: Wade, that car flew into that house four feet off the ground. And how did he know where she lived?
Wade Parent: Keep the road blocks up, get all the other guys. Get 'em down at the station right away.
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Everett: [addressing his officers] So look... I want everybody out on the streets. I want you to remember... a young man was killed today, passing through our town... and I don't like it... I don't like it at all. Goodbye.
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Wade Parent: Yeah... yeah, ten years of giving out traffic tickets, and all this in one day!
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Donna: Wade... there's something I... I wanna tell you about last night. Well, the old lady... well, Chas, he didn't translate everything that she said.
Wade Parent: What do you mean?
Donna: Well, uh... she said... there was no driver in the car.
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Chas: [to Lauren, as they drive past his mobile home] Just checkin' the tipi.
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Amos Clements: [complaining about Morris' french horn] If I hear another sound out of that thing, I'll ram it so far up your ass you'll be farting music for a year.
John Morris: [thoughtfully considering the idea] Wouldn't that be fantastic? Farting music!
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Everett: [to Wade] As your father once said to me....
[pauses a moment]
Everett: [Wade's looking at him interested] Forget it, I would have made it up anyway!
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Wade Parent: Whatever happened to last Thursday? I had it made last Thursday.
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Everett: Are you gonna stand there philosophizing, or are you gonna buy me a drink? You're not smart enough to do both.
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Lauren: [taunting the car's unseen driver] Hey, you! Why don't you get outta your big ugly car, huh? We'd like to see what you look like. I'd like to see what a creep like you looks like!
[the car angrily drives around in circles and then stops]
Lauren: Well, come on, come on, get outta your car, huh? Let us all see what a lunatic son of a bitch you are! Come on, crawl out! I'll let you crawl out! Oh, I got your story now! I see! As long as you're in your car, you're big, and you're bad! Come on, buddy, let me tell you something. You know what you are? A chicken!
[the car angrily revs its engine]
Lauren: You're a chickenshit! Scum of the Earth, son of a bitch!
[she hurls a tree branch at the car]
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