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Lt. Col. Frank Slade:
Your father pedals car telephones at a 300 percent markup. Your mother works on heavy commission at a camera store. Graduated to it from espresso machines. Hah!Lt. Col. Frank Slade:What are you, dying of some wasting disease?Charlie Simms:No, I'm right - I'm right here.Lt. Col. Frank Slade:I know exactly where your body is. What I'm looking for is some indication of a brain. Too much football without a helmet? Hah! Lyndon's line on Gerry Ford. Deputy debriefer, Paris, peace talks, '68. Snagged a silver star and a silver bar. Threw me into G-2.Charlie Simms:G-2?Lt. Col. Frank Slade:Intelligence. Of which you have none
Your father pedals car telephones at a 300 percent markup. Your mother works on heavy commission at a camera store. Graduated to it from espresso machines. Hah!Lt. Col. Frank Slade:What are you, dying of some wasting disease?Charlie Simms:No, I'm right - I'm right here.Lt. Col. Frank Slade:I know exactly where your body is. What I'm looking for is some indication of a brain. Too much football without a helmet? Hah! Lyndon's line on Gerry Ford. Deputy debriefer, Paris, peace talks, '68. Snagged a silver star and a silver bar. Threw me into G-2.Charlie Simms:G-2?Lt. Col. Frank Slade:Intelligence. Of which you have none
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Your father peddles car telephones at a 300 markup
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Your mother works on heavy commission in a camera store
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Graduated to it from espresso machines
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What are you dying of some wasting disease
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No I'm right I'm right here
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I know exactly where your body is
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What I'm lookin' for is some indication of a brain
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Too much football without a helmet
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Lyndon's line on Gerry Ford
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Deputy Debriefer Paris Peace Talks '68
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Snagged the Silver Star and a silver bar Threw me into G 2
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G 2
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Intelligence of which you have none
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Movie Summary
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.

