“Madhouse” quotes

(1990)
Movie Madhouse
Title Madhouse
Year 1990
Director Tom Ropelewski
Genre Comedy
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Plot – Mark Bannister and his wife Jessica live a second honeymoon in their new house in Santa Monica. Suddenly Fred, Mark's cousin, and his wife Bernice show up. They think to leave soon, but Bernice falls and her gynecologist forces her to bed because she's pregnant. The Bannister are visited too by Claudia, Jessie's sister. Soon her son Jonathan joins them. The couple is exasperated and sends Claudia and Jonathan to their neighbor Dale's. An incident burns Dale's house and Mark is forced to host them all again. Jonathan reveals to be a cocaine trafficker. The police rushes to arrest him. Everyone goes away and finally Mark and Jessica manage to remain alone.
All actors – John Larroquette, Kirstie Alley, Alison La Placa, John Diehl, Jessica Lundy, Bradley Gregg, Dennis Miller, Robert Ginty, Wayne Tippit, Paul Eiding, Aeryk Egan, Deborah Otto
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“Madhouse” Quotes 8 quotes
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    - Bernice: I need your opinion on something here. These are my favorite names for the baby so far: "Amaretta", "Caramel", or "Treblinka"...
    - Claudia: You yokel, naming your baby after a German concentration camp!
    - Bernice: I thought Treblinka was one of those cute little fairies from Cinderella.
    - Claudia: You moron!
    - Bernice: I hope my water... (continue)    (continue reading)
    Jessica Lundy - Bernice
    Alison La Placa - Claudia
    [Tag:ignorance, name]
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    “Don't worry about me having dinner, I'll just lick the crumbs off my filthy sheets!”
    Jessica Lundy - Bernice
    [Tag:dinner, poverty]
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    “- Jessie Bannister: Claudia, I... What are you doing?
    - Claudia: Making a list of potential husbands. There are plenty of former suitors just waiting to sweep me off my feet.
    - Jessie Bannister: Ranked in financial order?
    - Claudia: One has to know what one is getting into.
    - Jessie Bannister: What's the asterisk for?
    - Claudia: Over eighty.”
    Kirstie Alley - Jessie Bannister
    Alison La Placa - Claudia
    [Tag:husband, wealth]
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    “- C.K.: It's just so boring here.
    - Mark Bannister: Now you listen to me, you psychotic little shit. You either get your act together, or you're gonna be a face on a milk carton, you got it?
    - C.K.: You touch me, I sue you.
    - Mark Bannister: I got a lawyer on retainer!”
    Aeryk Egan - C.K.
    John Larroquette - Mark Bannister
    [Tag:threat]
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    “Married, turned gay, married, in jail-malpractice, dead! I'm telling you good marriage material is getting tough to find!”

    Alison La Placa - Claudia
    [Tag:husband, wealth]
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    “- Claudia: Well, what was I supposed to think. They looked insane.
    - Bernice: We're not insane. We're from New Jersey.”
    Alison La Placa - Claudia
    Jessica Lundy - Bernice
    [Tag:america, madness]
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    “- Jessie Bannister: Oh, Claudia...
    - Claudia: Uh, I'm not decent.
    - Jessie Bannister: Tell me something I don't know.”
    Kirstie Alley - Jessie Bannister
    Alison La Placa - Claudia
    [Tag:dignity]
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    “- Claudia: He barely knows I'm alive, he cut my allowance.
    - Jessie Bannister: He cut her allowance, honey!
    - Mark Bannister: To what? $9000.00 a month?
    - Claudia: He makes me drive his old Jaguar.
    - Jessie Bannister: Now Claudia, some people have worse problems.
    - Claudia: Like Who?
    - Jessie Bannister: Like people who don't have cars.
    - Claudia...” (continue)    (continue reading)
    Alison La Placa - Claudia
    Kirstie Alley - Jessie Bannister
    John Larroquette - Mark Bannister
    [Tag:divorce, poverty, wealth]
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