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Nobody's Fool is a 1994 film about an aging man whose estranged son comes back into his life at the same time that he faces challenges in his home and in his employment.
In a town where nothing ever happens... everything is about to happen to Sully.taglines
- Directed by Robert Benton. Written by Robert Benton, based on the novel by Richard Russo.
Others
- Toby: [to Sully] Go ahead, steal our snowblower. You're the slowest goddamn thief that I ever saw.
- Judge Flatt: Ollie, you know my feelings about arming morons: you arm one, you've got to arm them all, otherwise it wouldn't be good sport.
- Miss Beryl: Mr. Sullivan, you're wearing a necktie. Are you in trouble with the law again?
Dialogue
- [Wirf and Sully bet on the People's Court]
- Sully: Okay, Shyster, who do you like?
- Wirf: The plaintiff. It's a lock.
- Sully: I'll take the defendant.
- Birdy: You weren't even here for the stories.
- Sully: Yeah, but I know my lawyer.
- Wirf: Sooner or later we'll wear the bastards down. The court is already starting to get pissed. You heard the judge.
- Sully: He's pissed at you, Wirf!
- Wirf: Only because he knows I won't go away.
- Sully: I know how he feels.
- Sully: [about Toby] Don't tell me she's pregnant.
- Carl: Knocked up like a cheerleader. Eh, I suppose now you're gonna to want to be godfather.
- Sully: Hey... I can't be the father and the godfather. You got to goddamn do something.
- Toby: Did you come to steal our new snowblower?
- Sully: I've already done it, just about.
- Toby: I could legally shoot you, you know.
- Sully: Not unless I'm breaking and entering.
- Toby: ARE you gonna break and enter?
- Sully: What's happening with Dummy?
- Toby: I don't know. He took my threat to shoot him a lot more seriously than you just did.
- Sully: Poor guy just had a bypass. Maybe he's trying to cram everything he can do into six months. When he realizes he's going to live until he's seventy, he'll slow down.
- Toby: If I had my way, he wouldn't live to Thanksgiving.
- Toby: Oh, you're a man among men, Sully.
- Sully: Well, thanks.
- Toby: That wasn't a compliment!
- Carl: Sixty years old and still getting crushes on other men's wives. I would hope by the time I'm your age, I'm a little smarter than that.
- Sully: Can't hurt to hope. You sure are off to a slow start.
- Peter: Mom's greatest fear is that your life was fun.
- Sully: Tell her not to worry.
- Peter: It's not gonna be easy being you, is it?
- Sully: Don't expect much from yourself at the beginning. I couldn't do everything at first, either.
- Miss Beryl: Do you still bet on that horse race of yours?
- Sully: What, the trifecta?
- Miss Beryl: Yes. Has it ever come in?
- Sully: Not yet.
- Miss Beryl: But you still bet on it.
- Sully: Well, sure. I mean, the odds have gotta kick in sooner or later.
- Miss Beryl: Fine. That's exactly the way I feel about you.
- Peter: [as Sully buys raw hamburger] You want some buns?
- Sully: Dogs don't eat buns.
- Peter: You're buying ground beef for your dog?
- Sully: I don't own a dog.
- Peter: Oh, God. I don't believe this. I'm a member of Greenpeace and I just helped poison a dog.
- Sully: Well for one thing, it ain't poison. For another, you didn't help much.
- Sully: You ain't naked or anything, are ya?
- Toby: No, but I can be in about 2 seconds.
- Sully: Well, take your time. I need a cup of coffee. [on phone] Ace Towing? Sullivan. I'm just around the corner. 313 Harvin. Pick me up. Charge it. Tip Top Construction Company. Thanks. [hangs up phone] Horace?...
- Horace Yaney: Hi, Sully. I ain't naked either.
- Sully: Thank God for that!
- Sully: Go home, you jerk. You're married to the best-looking woman in Bath.
- Carl: Who was it that said, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp?"
- Charlotte: How can you live in a town this size and not see your ex-wife all the time?
- Sully: That's easy, dolly. Peter's mom and I don't exactly travel in the same circles. As a matter of fact, Vera pretty much travels in a straight line.
- Peter: SOMEBODY in this family had to.
- Sully: I should have known better than to hire a one-legged lawyer.
- Wirf: You can't afford a two-legged lawyer.
- Sully: A condemned man has a right to a last request doesn't he? I got my truck out back whaddya say we get in the back get naked and see where it goes from there?
- Birdy: Ok
- Sully: Haven't you got any pride?
- Birdy: Go to jail, Sully, it's where you belong.
- Sully: I can't believe it's gonna take you that long to get me out of jail.
- Wirf: Don't blame me, I'm a Jew. They're not my holidays.
- Sully: A Jew? Really? I didn't know that. How come you ain't smart?
- Wirf: How can I start getting you out of jail when you won't go in?
- Peter: So if you're not a father to me, how come you're a grandfather to Will?
- Sully: 'Cause you gotta start someplace.
- Sully: What's the matter with you?
- Wirf: I'm trying to communicate with you telepathically.
- Carl: Forget about it. The only way to communicate with Sully's to whack him in the head with a shovel.
- Wirf: You'd keep my leg, wouldn't you?
- Sully: You don't need a leg, you need a parrot.
- Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you?
- Sully: Not often. Now and then.
Cast
- Paul Newman - 'Sully' Sullivan
- Jessica Tandy - Beryl Peoples
- Bruce Willis - Carl Roebuck
- Melanie Griffith - Toby Roebuck
- Dylan Walsh - Peter Sullivan
- Pruitt Taylor Vince - Rub Squeers
- Gene Saks - Wirf Wirfley
- Josef Sommer - Clive Peoples Jr.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - Officer Raymer
- Philip Bosco - Judge Flatt
Taglines
- In a town where nothing ever happens... everything is about to happen to Sully.
- Worn to perfection