The Harder They Come (1972)
Lucia White: Mother
Quotes
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Mother : Why you no bring mango from country?
Ivan Martin : Mango season bad this year.
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Mother : What you come to town for?
Ivan Martin : Grandma dead.
Mother : Dead? Dead? How she can dead and I never know?
Ivan Martin : We tried to get you, but the telegram came back.
Mother : And when she going to bury?
Ivan Martin : She buried already, Momma.
Mother : Bury already? Buried already and I never get to go to the funeral? Oh, God. Oh, God...
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Mother : What happened to the place?
Ivan Martin : Grandma sold the place before she died.
Mother : And what happened to the money?
Ivan Martin : She said she wanted a big funeral.
Mother : And she took all the money for her big funeral and I didn't even get to go?
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Ivan Martin : I'm staying in town.
Mother : You think town is easy? How you gonna live?
Ivan Martin : I could make a record. I can sing, you know, Momma.
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Ivan Martin : I can get a job, then.
Mother : What kind of job you can get, outside turn criminal?
Ivan Martin : Why you say a thing like that? Why you say a think like that about me?
Mother : Don't ask me any feisty question. Go back to country.