“I sent two healthy 65-year old parents to South Florida. 30 years later - dead! I mean what is it, the water, the air - it's a death camp!”
Robert Klein - Himself
“- Charlene: Where are his parents? - Milly: That's the weird part. When Eric was five years old, his parents went on a trip to Spain or France or someplace like that. The plane crashed and they died.”
Bonnie Bedelia - Charlene
Lucy Deakins - Milly
“So many youngsters already gone forever. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters back home must have a difficult time retaining any belief in the internal rightness of things.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
“- Mary Katherine Gallagher: I thought you said that mom and dad were savagely ripped apart and eaten by a school of hammerhead sharks. - Grandma: I just told you that to make you feel better.”
Molly Shannon - Mary Katherine Gallagher
Glynis Johns - Grandma
“- Mary Katherine Gallagher: So what really happened to your parents? - Slater: They were savagely ripped apart and eaten by a school of hammerhead sharks. - Mary Katherine Gallagher: That happens a lot.”
Molly Shannon - Mary Katherine Gallagher
Harland Williams - Slater
