Swimming Upstream (2003)
Geoffrey Rush: Harold Fingleton
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Quotes
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Harold Fingleton : [to Tony while having Harold Jr. beat him up in a boxing lesson] What're you crying for?
Young Harold Jr. : [whilst boxing] You are. You're crying!
Young Tony : [sobbing] I'm not!
Young Harold Jr. : [punches Tony again] You are now!
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Harold Fingleton : [in a drunken stupor, to Tony] When I was your age, I was tougher.
Tony Fingleton : What are you talking about?
Harold Fingleton : You're far too weak. You make me feel ashamed. I wish you didn't exist.
Dora Fingleton : Oh, Tony, come to bed.
[Tony leaves]
Harold Fingleton : They were a bunch of animals. Bastards.
Dora Fingleton : Harold, what happened? What happened today, hmm? What happened? How'd you get that mark on your face?
Harold Fingleton : Coppers came out and, um... I think I fell over. Coppers...
Dora Fingleton : Was it...
Harold Fingleton : It was all so long ago that they were animals. And my mother... My mother, she was there. THEY WERE ANIMALS!
Dora Fingleton : What?
Harold Fingleton : You're a very good woman, Dora. Where's Tony?
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Dora Fingleton : [about Tony, proudly] Your son's just won the junior championship.
Harold Fingleton : [to John] Wait'll these mugs see what you can do.
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Brother Campbell : Oh, Harold, uh, Father Dillon is hearing confession right after mass.
Harold Fingleton : Is he? That's nice.
Brother Campbell : Probably been awhile?
Harold Fingleton : I'll pop along next week.
Brother Campbell : Since you're here, and since your boys will be coming here...
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Harold Fingleton : [on his way to confession] Hot in here, isn't it?
Dora Fingleton : Not for us Protestants.
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Tony Fingleton : [struggling to connect with his dad prior to leaving Australia for Harvard College in the United States] Do you remember the first time you took me to the pool, Dad? Put me in the water?
[Harold shakes his head]
Tony Fingleton : I do. At the old Spring Hill Baths. I remember being terrified of drowning. You had me there and then you just... you just... let me go.
Harold Fingleton : Oh. I remember that.
Tony Fingleton : Yeah. But I didn't go under. I floated. And then, uh... and then I swam away from you, and... I swam away across to the other side maybe, but...
Tony Fingleton : [suddenly embarrassed at how directly this childhood story connects to his current actions] I should go. I've got things to do.