The War at Home

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Release date 1979

Duration 100 min

Producer(s) Barry Alexander Brown, Glenn Silber...more

Director(s) Glenn Silber, Barry Alexander Brown...more

Writer(s) ...more ...less

Cast Karleton Armstrong, Betty Boardman, Allen Ginsberg...more

Genre Documentary, History, Music,

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Karen Collier:
[narration] The history of my family, like the history of civilization, is the history of war. The getting into it, and outta it, and over it... and Vietnam should have been no different. But it was. It's final battle was fought on an unrecognized front, far from the shellings and the napalm and the guns and the shooting... it was a battle my brother Jeremy fought when he came back.

Melissa:
Jeremy is this class a part of your major?
Jeremy Collier:
I don't have a major.

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Jeremy Collier:
Look if you're going to talk to me about car-wrecks you can stop right now!
Bob Collier:
What? What are you talking about?
Jeremy Collier:
You told me that more people die in car-wrecks each year than died in Vietnam.
Bob Collier:
Well, I may have said that...
Jeremy Collier:
Not 'may have', did!

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Karen Collier:
[Jeremy is sitting outside on the porch] You know it could be that he's waiting for someone to talk to him.
Bob Collier:
Maybe... but it's not us.

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Karen Collier:
[on their mother] She's gonna have a nervous breakdown.
Jeremy Collier:
I know she wants one. I know she ain't gonna be happy until she has one.

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Maurine Collier:
[the phone is ringing] Tell whoever it is I died.

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Uncle Howe:
[Bob is cutting the turkey] Listen, Bob, if you hold that knife right here, then you get a better- [attempts to guide Bob's hand, and the knife cuts Bob's hand]
Uncle Howe:
Oh, oh, I'm sorry there, Bobby!
Bob Collier:
[mutters to himself] Why don't you carve the goddamn turkey yourself, you old fart!
Uncle Howe:
[is surprised] Uh, what's that?
Bob Collier:
[looks Howe squarely in the eye] I said why don't you carve the goddamn turkey yourself, you old fart!

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Bob Collier:
Two hundred and ninety nine.
David:
What?
Bob Collier:
Two hundred and ninety nine, I said, don't tell me you don't know what that means David. I think your old man knows what it means don't you Howe? That's your goddamn birthday David. For when they pulled the numbers out for the draft card lottery. Two ninety-nine, that's the number that saved your ass from having to go and fight in Vietnam! Would you like to know what Jeremy's number was? It was eight, eight, EIGHT! [throws cloth at David]
Bob Collier:
Don't you ever tell me what to say or what I can't say in my own house, or I'll take this goddamn turkey and shove it down your throat!

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Jeremy Collier:
D'you ship to Gnome, Alaska?

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Bob Collier:
Seen all your stuff downstairs.
Jeremy Collier:
I want Karen to take me to the bus station.
Bob Collier:
Alright, fine. [pulls money out of his pocket]
Bob Collier:
I got twenty-one hundred dollars here for you; it's all the cash I had at the office. It's not a fortune, but it'll get you where you want to go, and help you get started if you're careful with it.
Bob Collier:
[pauses] And look, don't think that I'm kicking you out of the house, see. I think you should leave for for your own good, I think it's the right thing to do, and it's my responsibility as a father. Once you're away from here, and had time to think about, I think you'll agree.
Jeremy Collier:
I don't want it.
Bob Collier:
Well I want you to have it.
Jeremy Collier:
No you don't. You want me to take it, so you won't feel guilty, so you won't feel responsible.
Bob Collier:
[sighs] It's funny how I can be so wrong. I honestly thought you were gonna say 'thank you'.
Jeremy Collier:
Thank you? That's what you thought I'd say? No. You just want everyone to think you did the right thing.
Bob Collier:
I'm not doing this on what anybody might think. [puts the money down]
Bob Collier:
I'll have Karen drive you wherever you want to go. [starts to close the door]
Bob Collier:
I hope you'll think better of me someday.

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Jeremy Collier:
Look, it's not that I'm asking for the car...
Bob Collier:
Hm?
Jeremy Collier:
But you know Jesus didn't have a job.
Bob Collier:
That's right. He didn't have a car either, and he walked everywhere.

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Maurine Collier:
I wish they could would make Thanksgiving on a Sunday. Then everyone could go to a service before they eat with their families. It'd be more religious, like it was with the Pilgrims.
Jeremy Collier:
What about the Indians?
Maurine Collier:
Oh, Jeremy, there were no Indians at the first Thanksgiving.
Jeremy Collier:
That's why they have it. The Indians saved the Pilgrims from starvin' to death, so the Pilgrims invited the Indians to share their first harvest feast.
Maurine Collier:
Well, I'm sure the Indians were all Christians by then.
Jeremy Collier:
Oh no, they weren't.

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