A character in Reign Over Me (2007)

Charlie Fineman quotes from Reign Over Me (2007)

Adam Sandler

Most-quoted character in Reign Over Me (2007): in 10 of its 13 quotes
Most scenes with: Alan Johnson (4)

A line from Charlie Fineman

I don't need to talk about her or look at pictures... 'cause the truth is, a lot of times, I see her... on the street. I walk down the street, I see her in someone else's face... clearer than any of the pictures you carry with you. I get that you're in pain, but you got each other. You got each other! And I'm the one who's gotta see her and the girls all the time. Everywhere I go! I even see the dog. That's how **** up I still am! I look at a German shepherd, I see our goddamn poodle. All right... All right...

More lines from Charlie Fineman

5 quotes
Charlie Fineman

You're a good husband Alan. You remind me of me.

Charlie Fineman
[picking up a vinyl record]

Ahh Graham Nash — Songs For Beginners. Just... just the album cover alone, look at that face, he knows he made a great record.

Charlie Fineman

Oh, bullshit! You stink like a shrink. You got shrink hands. You ordered your salad like a shrink.

Charlie Fineman

Nobody has a right to look that good. She's just trouble for everybody.

Charlie Fineman

I have no one. At least you two have each other. [Charlie kisses Ginger Timplemen, his mother-in-law, on her cheek and walks away]

Scenes with Charlie Fineman

4 scenes
Charlie Fineman

Can he go out? Is he allowed out?

Don't do that, dont ask my wife permisson for me to go out.

Charlie Fineman

Alright, you're right. Can you go out?
[Alan looks at Janeane]

Charlie Fineman

Are you a ****?.

Don't say ****, you just don't call people **** that's rude.

Charlie Fineman

To a gay guy it is, to you it's just a funny word like poundcake or pickle... You really need some Mel.

Charlie Fineman
[ordering tickets]

Take one adult and one ****.

Charlie Fineman
[Charlie looks at Alan]

I had three daughters.

[surprised]

I... I know.

Charlie Fineman

Geena was five. Jenny was seven, she, uh... she liked boys already. Julie was 9. She was... she was older. They all looked alike, Johnson. Like Doreen. Doreen was my wife. DT. That was her nickname. Doreen Timpleman. She had a dog, Spider. Spider... the poodle. They'd wake me up all the time, Saturday mornings, you know, singing Beatles songs to me in harmony, the four of them... so cute, so cute. Doreen never judged me... never nagged like some wives do. Wanted me to take my shoes off so I didn't wreck the carpet. That's it. Doreen and the girls were VERY female. I... I... I was the oddball, you know. Mr. Man. They adored me, Johnson...

I bet they did... I know they did, Charlie.

Charlie Fineman

With the long brown hair... except little Geena. She kept the hair short... to be different from everybody... she, um, she had a birthmark, though. Looked like a burn... but it wasn't. She always said it was gonna go away, but it... it never did. Jenny, Jenny, this one... she wanted to be a gymnast. She was such a klutz, though. I didn't have the heart to mention it as a problem. They, uh, went to see Doreen's sister Ellen and her girls in Boston, and they took Spider, because... I had to work and they didn't trust me to feed her, but that was a joke. We were all going to DT's little cousin's wedding in Los Angeles, and I was gonna meet them out there... The kids wanted to go to Disneyland, but they... they uh, were already gonna miss a couple days of school, so we had to say no. You know. So I'm going out to meet them in Los Angeles, and on the way to JFK, I'm in a taxicab and I hear on the radio... [slowly starts to cry]

Charlie Fineman

I get there and the man tells me the plane's from Boston... another man tells me there's two planes.[sobs]

Charlie Fineman

Then I go inside the airport and I'm watching. I'm watching on the television... and I... and I... I... I saw it. I saw it and I felt it at the same time. I thought about Geena's birthmark, and I... I felt them burning...

Charlie Fineman
[Charlie is meeting Angela for the first time. Angela goes off to get a cup of coffee]

Are you kidding me? She's a baby.

Listen, you're right, she's young. But, she-she's good. She's got a lot of experience with loss and grief counseling. Just...

Charlie Fineman

She's got nice tits, that's not good.

Since when?

Charlie Fineman
[pause]

Good point.

Look, we'll just do the meet-and-greet, and see if you like her, and if you do, we'll just - we'll go from there.

Charlie Fineman

Am I wrong about her tits, though?

No, you're right. They're wonderful.

Angela Oakhurst

So what are you guys talking about? What's so wonderful? [silence from Charlie and Alan]

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