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Inventing the Abbotts (1997) More at IMDbPro »

Lloyd Abbott: Keep your poor-boy dick out of my daughters.

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Lloyd Abbott: I know all there is to know about screwing your way into a wealthy family and there's no way I'm gonna let you screw your way into mine.

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Doug Holt: My brother and I were born strangers.

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Doug Holt: Every time an Abbott girl gets her period they throw some kind of party!

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Eleanor Abbott: I just do things. I let other people figure them out. That's what parents are for; they're really good at doing all the thinking, so why should I?

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Narrator: My mother's life had been damaged by a lie, and my brother was forever lost in a maze of illusions that lie had created... and I had followed him there. Jacey would never find his way out, but I had to... and the only way I could do that was to forgive, but I could never forget.

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Narrator: Although she seemed unique to me then, I now know that the world is filled with working women raising children by themselves. There was nothing especially original about my mother... not even in the way she finally brought her sons back together again.

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Narrator: The truth about our mother and Lloyd didn't comfort Jacey, because the truth seemed to him just as unfair as the lie he had always believed in.

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Lloyd Abbott: You didn't know your mother at all if you think someone like me would ever stood a chance with someone like her.

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Narrator: My mother was right; if the Abbotts didn't exist, Jacey would have had to invent them, but it seems to me that inventing the Abbotts was something that almost everyone in Haley did, and still do. Alice reunited with Peter, lived out the same lie of a happy marriage that her mother and father have lived, and a new generation of Abbott parties began.

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Helen Holt: You do realize you may be the only person at this party with artificial sideburns?

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Pamela Abbott: Don't look at me as though someone just ran over your dog!

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Helen Holt: There's different kinds of love, darling. Some people you love no matter what, and others you love if the situation is right. To me, the best kind of love is the "no matter what" kind.

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DougHolt: Either you're mad at me because you're mad at me or you're mad at me because you like me, because that's how girls act. I mean... I don't know much but I know that. So, uh, which is it?
Pamela Abbott: Both.

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Doug Holt: Backyard nudity is hypocritical. It's insincere. People should do and say exactly what they feel and think and not try to hide things.

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Narrator: Jacey pretended to care for Alice so well, the illusion became so complete that even he was fooled.

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Jacey: [talking about Doug's artificial sideburns] You look like a clown. He looks like a clown, mom, and he doesn't even know it.

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Narrator: The end of my innocence began in 1957. It is remarkable to me now just how little I knew then about the people around me. It took me years to figure out exactly what the truth was, especially given my brother's knack at inventing himself.

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Narrator: Everything Jacey wanted in life, the Abbott's already had: their cars, money, country clubs. But in the beginning, more than anything else, he wanted Eleanor Abbott. I'd witnessed enough of my brother's social agony to resolve early on I would never let the Abbotts matter to me.

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Narrator: I had always thought of Eleanor Abbott as just another stuck-up rich girl, a flirt, a tease. But she proved to be a bigger riddle than I ever was.

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Narrator: My brother was more successful at re-inventing himself than I was. Jacey's parties at the University of Pennsylvannia werethe hippest ones around. And even though he had a major in architecture, he seriously minored in beautiful coeds.

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Pamela Abbott: Look, I'm not rich. My father is. And I don't pick my father. And if I had a choice between having tons of money or having another father, I'd be absolutely deligthed to be poor. But unfortunately, life is just not a cafeteria.

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Doug Holt: You always loved me no matter what I did, right?
Pamela Abbott: Yeah.
Doug Holt: Maybe that's how I love you. No matter what. It's the best kind of love, you know?

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Lloyd Abbott: Eleanor?
Eleanor Abbott: Daddy.
Lloyd Abbott: What are you doing out here?
Eleanor Abbott: Fucking Jacey.

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Doug Holt: Hey, Jacey... Remember that time I got my dick caught in my zipper?

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Co-ed: You know, I'm engaged.
Jacey Holt: So am I.
Co-ed: You are?
Jacey Holt: Sure. I'm engaged in conversation with you.

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