Cider House Rules

Cider House Rules1999

Genre: Drama, Romance
In adapting his own novel The Cider House Rules for the screen, John Irving sacrificed at least some of the depth and detail that made his humanitarian themes resonate, while the film--directed with Scandinavian sobriety by Lasse Hallström--is often… more »



Fuzzy:
Is your father dead?

Dr. Wilbur Larch:
Cirrhosis. It's a disease of the liver.

Fuzzy:
What, a liver killed him?

Dr. Wilbur Larch:
No, alcohol killed him. He drank himself to death.

Fuzzy:
But did you know him?

Dr. Wilbur Larch:
Barely. But it hardly mattered that I knew him.

Fuzzy:
Did you know your mother better?

Dr. Wilbur Larch:
Mm-hmm. She's dead now too. She was a nanny.

Fuzzy:
What's a nanny do?

Dr. Wilbur Larch:
She looks after other people's children.

Fuzzy:
Did she grow up around here?

Dr. Wilbur Larch:
No. She was an immigrant.

Fuzzy:
What's an immigrant?

Dr. Wilbur Larch:
Someone not from Maine.

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