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Favorite Scene?

posted 17 years ago by Joshf84
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I just saw this for the first time and was compeletely in awe of the superb performance from William H Macy. I am also a huge fan of both Kathy Baker and Helen Mirren so this only made the film that much more enjoyable for me. I was just curious what scene other people had memories of or liked. For me I loved the scene where Bill and his mother are eating in the diner and the teenagers behind them are calling Bill a "retard" when his mother hears this she turns around and asks for the ketchup and while grabbing it knocks over a glass of ice water on the particularily rude teenager and cooly responds "Sorry I must be a retard". A great scene in a fantastic made for television film!

[–] lewisjs 16 years ago

Where Bill is shown to the womans room, who died of "vodka and sleeping pills", where its full of all the things she bought from him. Its a great movie! Way too good for a television movie. And Will Macy! God he's one of my favourite actors

[–] deadpan_diva 16 years ago

The restourant scene is one of my favorites. I also love the scene where he visits his mother and they are sitting on the porch. I can't remember what he says to her but she asks him for the newspaper and then she rolls it up and hits him with it.

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[–] TenPercenter 15 years ago

Same answer for me. The scene that most sticks out in my memory is when his mother says "Sorry, I must be a retard." Priceless. Cuts those kids to the bone.

[–] MuchToBeGratefulFor 15 years ago

Oh, there are several:

When Bill makes his first sale, to Kathy Baker. He asks the standard salesman line "how many shall I put you down for?" and she says "Two" to which he replies, "Really?" I just love the way he says "Really?" that he made his first sale.

The scene where he breaks down crying when talking to the mother with her baby in her arms, so soon after his mother's death.

My VERY favorite: the Salesman of the Year scene. It moves me to tears every time.

Since I bought the DVD (well worth it!) I've found other scenes I appreciate more, just because the acting is so good:

When Bill is heading away from a house where he has just caught an adulterous husband with his mistress, and then the wife is driving up with their ill daughter, and he offers to take the daughter across the street to a neighbor, and his gentle insistence and glances at the house let the wife understand what is going on.

When Shelly takes Bill out for his birthday and he says she's the best thing that ever happened to him, her discomfort and his subsequent disappointment/embarrassment is communicated without either of them saying a word -- just great acting.

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