Claire Danes credited as playing...
Ann Grant
- [from trailer]
- Buddy Wittenborn: What if we just sang and laughed together... for the rest of our lives.
- Young Ann: It wouldn't work.
- Buddy Wittenborn: Not for you...
- Buddy Wittenborn: Hey, I've finally had an idea for my novel.
- Young Ann: Shoot!
- Buddy Wittenborn: It's about a gangster who's in love with a rich girl.
- Young Ann: Honey, that's The Great Gatsby.
- Buddy Wittenborn: Damn. Well, in my version, they all get married and live happily ever after, and it'll be the fun Great Gatsby.
- [Ann slaps Buddy when he comes up the cliff]
- Young Ann: You're not a hero. You're pathetic!
- Buddy Wittenborn: Oh Ann!
- Young Ann: Have some *guts*. Go live your own life.
- Buddy Wittenborn: What? This isn't it?
- Young Ann: Write a first line and then write a second one. *Kiss men if you want to. Horrify your parents.*
- Buddy Wittenborn: Annie, what...
- Young Ann: *Be a man.* Just leave me out of it. Don't carry around some... some stupid note I wrote you years ago.
- [pause]
- Young Ann: You're not interested in me. You just have this *idea* of me. Have the nerve to admit it and just... leave me alone.
- [Walks away]
- Buddy Wittenborn: Hell, I got the note all wet.
- Young Ann: Why do I feel like he's been this way since he was about 10?
- Harris Arden: Ah, he didn't actually start drinking till he was 12.