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Backbeats (Margot at the Wedding) Margot at the Wedding (2007)

The film in 43 beats, structured by the Two Approaches framework. Margot's initial approach is to diagnose the family from outside — name what's wrong with Pauline's life, Malcolm, the wedding, Claude — and the post-midpoint approach is to drop the apartness and stop standing at the curb managing other people's lives. Ten structural rivets mark the turns. The quadrant is better tools, sufficient — minor key: the film grants one small redemption (Margot getting on the bus with her son) and refuses to fix the wider mess.

Beat timings are derived from subtitle caption files and are approximate.

1. [~0m] On the train to Long Island, Margot moves Claude away from "the wrong person." (Equilibrium)

Margot and Claude ride a commuter train out from Manhattan to Pauline's house. Margot has switched seats — her opening explanation to Claude is that she sat next to "the wrong person."1 She tells him not to look back.

2. [~1m] Margot tells Claude she doubts Pauline knows anyone anymore.

On the train Claude asks if the wedding will be crowded.2 Margot doesn't think so.

3. [~4m] Arrival at the family beach house; first sight of Malcolm and the contested tree. (Inciting Incident)

Margot and Claude pull up to Pauline's house — the sisters' childhood home, on Long Island, with a large old tree leaning over the property. Pauline is in mid-skirmish with the Voglers next door,3 who want the tree cut down.4 Malcolm appears: bearish, mustachioed, wearing the temporary moustache he saved for last while shaving — "meant to be funny."5

4. [~5m] Pauline shows Margot to her room — Malcolm's painting storage.

Pauline apologizes for the makeshift accommodation: the room is normally Malcolm's storage space, paint-smelling, formerly their sister Becky's bedroom.6 Pauline says she has only just started to feel the house is hers and not her parents'.7 Margot corrects her: "Our parents."

5. [~6m] Pauline tells Margot she's pregnant. (Commitment)

In the bedroom Pauline says she is pregnant, "really early."8 She brings up the couples' seminar in Maine where they got engaged,9 the self-help book On Loving by a man named Strickland she wants to lend Margot.10 Margot's reactions are small and clinical.

6. [~10m] Malcolm at dinner explains his "hobby"-musician status; Margot files it.

Around the dinner table Pauline narrates Malcolm's transition from musician to painter to writer-of-letters-to-music-magazines. Malcolm earns nothing; Pauline frames it as artistic meticulousness. Margot listens without comment and stores it.

7. [~13m] At dinner Pauline and Margot drop into childhood reference; Margot bristles.

The sisters slip into the syntax of growing up in this house — which sister did what to whom, who Becky was, the old fights. Claude watches.

8. [~14m] Margot diagnoses Malcolm to Jim on the phone, then tells Claude that Pauline is pregnant. (Resistance / Debate dissolving)

In the bedroom Margot calls Jim and reads Malcolm out — "unattractive," "He has no job," "best I can make out, he's a letter writer."11 Then she tells the half-asleep Claude that Pauline is pregnant and keeping it from Malcolm and Ingrid.12 Cross-cut with Pauline and Malcolm post-coital, Pauline saying "Margot doesn't seem as crazy as you made her out to be."13

9. [~18m] Pauline goads Margot into climbing the tree. (Escalation 1)

In the yard Pauline asks Claude if he has ever seen his mother climb a tree,14 and tells him Margot climbed everything as a child — "even that tree."15 Margot agrees, reluctantly.

10. [~21m] Margot climbs partway, gets stuck, then comes down accusing Claude of mocking her.

Margot grunts up the trunk, makes it some distance, then gets stuck. The family watches. She comes down breathing hard, has to dig a bug out of her ear,16 and snaps that Claude was taking too much pleasure in her embarrassment.

11. [~21m] Pauline asks Margot to do a reading in town; Margot mentions the Friday bookstore interview.

Pauline mentions Claude could hand out programs at the wedding;17 Margot mentions she has agreed to "a conversation at the bookstore in town on Friday."18 Pauline registers that Margot did not invite her.

12. [~24m] Dick Koosman is sighted in the driveway.

Margot notices their neighbor — Dick Koosman, the local writer.19 Pauline confirms Dick is the interviewer at Friday's bookstore event,20 and that he and Margot are collaborating on a screenplay.21 Margot has not mentioned any of this.

13. [~25m] At the Koosmans' pool, Dick chats up Claude; Maisy is introduced.

Dick has invited the household to swim.22 Malcolm refuses ("I just hate swimming. It's disgusting to me").23 At Dick's, his teenage daughter Maisy is present.24 Dick tells Claude that he and Claude's father once shared a thesis advisor at Stanford,25 and that he once dated Margot.

14. [~27m] Margot and Pauline race in the pool; Margot is accused of cheating.

The sisters swim a sprint to the wall and back. Pauline wins; Claude calls out "Mom cheated. You didn't touch the wall."26 Margot dismisses it.

15. [~35m] Driving home from a dinner out, Malcolm offers his theory about women drivers; Pauline calls him incompetent.

In the car Malcolm holds forth on his "Hannah Arendt's Eichmann theory" about women drivers;27 Pauline says he tells that one a lot. Malcolm panics that he's "lost the brakes" for a second;28 Pauline calls him "so incompetent";29 Malcolm pulls over and gets out.

16. [~36m] Dick asks Margot to come home with him; Margot says Pauline is pregnant.

Dick presses Margot to "come home with me tonight."30 Dick says he has been trying to get her "up here all year."31 Margot deflects with the news: "She's pregnant."32

17. [~37m] In Ingrid's room, Ingrid asks Claude if he is obsessed with Maisy; Claude says his mom bleaches his moustache.

Ingrid asks if Claude is "obsessed with Maisy,"33 says he's "always staring at her tits,"34 then tells him he has a moustache; Claude says "My mom bleaches it."35

18. [~38m] Malcolm shaves the moustache.

Claude walks down the hallway; through an open door he sees Malcolm shaving. Malcolm emerges clean-shaven. Pauline later confirms (in beat 22) that she "made him shave the 'stache."36

19. [~38m] Claude asks to sleep in Margot's bed; Margot allows it with a pillow between them.

Claude appears at her door. Margot agrees "just for tonight"37 with "a pillow between us."38 She tells him that as a baby she "wouldn't let anyone hold him" and thinks now that may have been a mistake.

20. [~40m] Pauline accuses Margot of telling Claude the pregnancy.

Pauline confronts Margot: "Margot told Claude something… in confidence."39 Margot defends it as sister-trust.

21. [~44m] In the kitchen Margot and Malcolm have their first one-on-one.

Malcolm tries to thank Margot for arriving — "I guess I have to thank you."40 Margot lets the conversation collapse: "Besides the thing with Dick?"41 Malcolm tries to keep up.

22. [~45m] Pauline and Malcolm try to ask the Voglers next door not to mention the tree; the conversation degrades.

Pauline and Malcolm walk over to invite the Voglers "for a glass of champagne"42 and ask them not to "mention the tree."43 Mr. Vogler asks "You gonna cut that tree down?"44 Malcolm fumes back at the house, threatening violence.45

23. [~46m] Malcolm explodes at Pauline; she diagnoses him in self-help vocabulary.

Malcolm vents that he's trying hard and getting no credit. Pauline asks, calmly, "Did you drink your teas?"46 Malcolm snaps back: "I drank my fucking teas."47

24. [~48m] Jim, Margot's husband, arrives unexpectedly; tense family lunch.

Margot's husband Jim (and Claude's father) appears at the house. Conversation turns to school logistics — Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Packer.48

25. [~50m] Margot opens her gift from Jim — slippers — and says she already has slippers.

Margot opens a wrapped present from Jim: slippers. "I already have slippers."49 "It makes me sad to get a present I already have."50

26. [~51m] Driving Jim back, the family hits a dog with a car; Margot will not get out.

A woman flags them down — a dog (Roger) has been hit.51 Jim stops despite Margot saying not to. Margot sits in the car: "I can't stand her."52 Then to Jim, plainly: "I wouldn't have stopped."53

27. [~52m] Margot tells Jim she hates herself when she's with him.

Margot tells Jim "I hate myself"54 when she's with him, that she finds him "despicable."55 Jim absorbs it.

28. [~53m] In the yard Margot and Pauline sit; Margot asks how to be all the people she is.

The sisters sit close. Margot asks "How can I be all these people? How can I be married to Jim and fuck Dick and want them both, and then neither of them?"56 Pauline says they are at the age where they become "invisible to men"57 — and that if a guy still wants to fuck them, that is "very tempting."

29. [~54m] Margot tells Pauline she shouldn't marry Malcolm.

Margot says it: "He's not good enough for you. He's so coarse. He's like guys we rejected" at sixteen.58 Pauline asks who she should be with then.

30. [~55m] Claude is bitten by a Vogler boy.

Ingrid and Claude wander off the property. A Vogler boy taunts "You a fruity?"59 then bites Claude.60 They run home; Pauline says she will "call the police."61 Claude blames Margot for talking to the neighbors: "you couldn't keep your fat mouth shut."62

31. [~57m] At the bookstore, Pauline tells Claude that Margot's New Yorker story used things she had told her in confidence.

Pauline tells Claude that Margot wrote a New Yorker story using things she had told her "in confidence"63 about "Lenny and me," and that the story helped "end our marriage."64 Claude says, "She doesn't hate you."65

32. [~58m] Bookstore: Dick Koosman interviews Margot about her story "Middle Children." (Midpoint)

Dick takes the interview chair across from Margot in front of an audience. He probes the "loathsome character"66 in her story "Middle Children,"67 then asks "how autobiographical" the portrait is.68 Margot tries to recover with a long, derailing anecdote about a Whirlpool repairman she "became afraid for my life" of and "called Jim at NYU" about69 — eventually trailing off into "I think it was Frigidaire who made our fridge."70 She asks for "a moment,"71 stands and walks off, then whispers "You're an asshole."72

33. [~62m] On the way back, Pauline tries to comfort Claude about Margot.

Pauline tells Claude his mom is "going through a rough time," can be "scary when she's angry,"73 and that if she says she's leaving his father she "often changes her mind."74 Pauline also tells Claude that "it's hard… to find people in the world you love more than your family."75

34. [~67m] Pauline confronts Malcolm about emails with one of her students; Malcolm confesses to making out with her.

Pauline asks "Have you ever cheated on me?"76 then pushes him on "those e-mails… with that student of mine."77 He concedes "really, it was hardly a kiss"78 — then upgrades it: "Our tongues touched."79 Outside, the chainsaw starts and stops on the tree.80

35. [~71m] At the wedding-tent setup Dick attacks Malcolm over a kiss with Maisy. (Escalation 2 — first half)

Wizard the dog has gone missing.81 Maisy has gone missing. Dick's car grinds into the driveway. Malcolm bolts toward the water; Dick catches him on the beach and beats him in the sand while Malcolm shouts "I didn't do anything!"82 Dick tells Malcolm "I don't ever want… to see you again."83 Inside, Margot tells Pauline she has to leave with her.

36. [~75m] Loading the car: the tree comes down, the brakes fail, Pauline soils herself. (Escalation 2 — second half)

The contested tree falls and rips through the half-built tent. The sisters and children load the car to leave; Margot drives. The brakes go: "We don't have any brakes."84 "The brakes are bad. That's right."85 Margot pulls over, and Pauline says quietly, "I've ruined these shoes."86

37. [~76m] Margot phones Jim and arranges to put Claude on the bus to Vermont.

Margot tells Claude "there's a bus" — "And I'll put him on the bus."87 Aren't you coming? No.

38. [~78m] Pauline confronts Margot about the bookstore-incident story; Margot lies in bed with her.

Pauline catches Margot with a notebook and warns: if she sees a story with "a hotel room" in it, she will "take your bowels out."88 Then Pauline climbs into the bed beside Margot, pregnant and hot.89

39. [~81m] Pauline takes Malcolm back on the phone; Margot listens from the next room.

Malcolm calls. He apologizes through tears, says he is a "fucking idiot,"90 asks her to "please marry me."91 Pauline suggests they "do another seminar."92

40. [~83m] Mother and Becky appear across the street; Margot hurries Claude past them toward the bus.

Ingrid spots Margot's mother (Nana) and Becky across the street, with ice cream cones.93 Margot tells Claude not to look, keep walking.

41. [~85m] At the bus stop Claude pleads with Margot to come; Margot tells him to stop.

She returns to a memory: when he was small he was always afraid she would "go out the back door"94 — "Our backyard didn't lead anywhere."95 Claude says "I masturbated last night… in the bathroom."96 Margot tells him to go: "you're acting like a baby."97

42. [~86m] Margot lets the bus pull away, then runs after it shouting "Wait!" (Climax)

The bus pulls out. Margot stands. Then she runs — "Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!"98 — chasing it down the road, catches it, boards.

43. [~87m] On the moving bus Margot and Claude breathe hard; Karen Dalton plays. (Wind-Down)

Claude: "Did you see me running out there?" Margot: "Yeah."99 A beat. "That was a lot of running." "I'm out of breath."100 The bus moves. Karen Dalton's "Something's on Your Mind" comes up over the credits.101

The Two Approaches Arc

Equilibrium → Commitment. The film opens with Margot's diagnostic-from-outside approach in repose: a writer-mother on a train moving her son away from the wrong person. The inciting incident is the arrival at Pauline's house, which converts an abstract wedding visit into a concrete management problem (a specific groom, a specific weekend, a specific family of children Margot must read). Resistance is brief — Margot fences a little but is already sharpening — and the Commitment arrives in beat 5, when Pauline confides the secret pregnancy in the bedroom and Margot acquires the inside information that turns the visit into an active intervention.

Commitment → Midpoint. Through beats 6 to 31 the diagnostic project executes at full force: dinner readings of Malcolm, the swim at Dick's that surfaces the parallel affair, the Hannah-Arendt brake-rehearsal in the car, Margot leaking the pregnancy to Claude and to Dick, the Voglers, Jim's arrival and the slipper scene, Margot refusing to get out of the car for the dog, and the bedroom-and-yard conferences with Pauline that culminate in the bald instruction not to marry Malcolm. Escalation 1 (the tree-climb, beats 9–10) is the first physical undermining of the from-above stance: Margot cannot even perform her former self in front of the family. The Midpoint at beat 32 — Dick Koosman's bookstore interview — turns the diagnostic gaze back on Margot in front of an audience and she breaks. Her authority for the rest of the film is gone.

Midpoint → Climax. The post-midpoint stretch is mostly drift rather than a clean new approach. Margot keeps trying to manage Pauline's life, but with diminishing force; her affect collapses; she leans on Claude harder; Pauline starts managing her in front of her son. Escalation 2 (beats 35–36) — the Malcolm/Maisy revelation, Dick's beating, the brakes-fail drive home with Pauline's bodily collapse — pulls Margot inside the consequences at the wheel, no longer observer. Then Pauline takes Malcolm back by phone (beat 39) and the interventionist project is decisively defeated. The Climax is the bus stop and the chase (beats 41–42): Margot, who has spent the film standing at the curb of other people's lives, runs after the bus carrying the only person who is actually hers, and gets on.

Wind-Down. The bus pulls away with both of them on it (beat 43). The new approach — drop the apartness, be in — is small and physical and minor-key. The film places itself in the better tools, sufficient quadrant by ending here, before the test can be re-administered. Was there an ideal approach not taken? Probably: Margot could have arrived at this earlier, before the bookstore breakage or the Vogler tree-fall; the film does not pretend the small redemption rescues anyone but Claude and the breath she catches running. The wider equilibrium reasserts itself off-screen — Pauline marries Malcolm in some form, the family the film documented persists — but the one thing the film stages a test for, Margot's chosen presence with Claude on this bus, holds.

Footnotes

  1. "I sat next to the wrong person." (SRT 5, [0:00:55]) ↩

  2. "Will the wedding be crowded?" (SRT 10, [0:01:44]) ↩

  3. "It's the Voglers." (SRT 75, [0:04:?]) ↩

  4. "We have to cut down the tree." (SRT ~485, [~0:11:00]) ↩

  5. "The moustache is temporary. He saved it for last when he was shaving. It's meant to be funny." (SRT 87-89, [0:05:50]) ↩

  6. "This was Becky's room. Poor Becky." (SRT 93, [0:06:01]) ↩

  7. "I've just started to feel like it's our house" (SRT 95, [0:06:08]) ↩

  8. "It seems I'm pregnant, but it's really early." (SRT ~115, [~0:07:00]) ↩

  9. "We did a couples' seminar two months ago or so in Maine." (SRT ~119, [~0:07:20]) ↩

  10. "Strickland… On Loving." (SRT ~122-124, [~0:07:30]) ↩

  11. "unattractive… He has no job… he's a letter writer." (SRT ~263-266, [~0:14:10]) ↩

  12. "She's pregnant." Margot to Claude. (SRT ~298, [~0:15:30]) ↩

  13. "Margot doesn't seem as crazy as you made her out to be." (SRT ~316, [~0:16:30]) ↩

  14. "Claude, have you ever seen your mother climb a tree?" (SRT ~362, [~0:17:55]) ↩

  15. "Margot climbed everything… that tree." (SRT ~366-367, [~0:18:00]) ↩

  16. "bug in my ear" (SRT ~399, [~0:21:04]) ↩

  17. "could hand out programs." (SRT ~400, [~0:21:10]) ↩

  18. "I'm doing this conversation at the bookstore in town on Friday." (SRT ~404, [~0:21:30]) ↩

  19. "Is that Dick Koosman?" (SRT ~493, [~0:24:10]) ↩

  20. "the interview with me in town on Friday." (SRT ~510, [~0:24:50]) ↩

  21. "on a screenplay?" (SRT ~512, [~0:25:00]) ↩

  22. "to swim tomorrow." (SRT ~501, [~0:24:30]) ↩

  23. "I just hate swimming. It's disgusting to me." (SRT ~536-538, [~0:26:00]) ↩

  24. "Hey, Maisy." (SRT ~526, [~0:25:40]) ↩

  25. "a thesis advisor at Stanford." (SRT ~553-554, [~0:26:30]) ↩

  26. "Pauline wins! Mom cheated. You didn't touch the wall." (SRT ~559-561, [~0:26:45]) ↩

  27. "It's akin to Hannah Arendt's Eichmann theory." (SRT ~715-716, [~0:35:28]) ↩

  28. "I thought I lost the brakes" (SRT ~727, [~0:35:50]) ↩

  29. "You're just so incompetent." (SRT ~734, [~0:36:00]) ↩

  30. "Come home with me tonight." (SRT ~742, [~0:36:26]) ↩

  31. "up here all year." (SRT ~745, [~0:36:40]) ↩

  32. "She's pregnant." (SRT ~750, [~0:36:50]) ↩

  33. "Are you obsessed with Maisy?" (SRT ~754, [~0:37:08]) ↩

  34. "staring at her tits." (SRT ~756, [~0:37:15]) ↩

  35. "My mom bleaches it." (SRT ~759, [~0:37:20]) ↩

  36. "shave the 'stache." (SRT ~922, [~0:45:00]) ↩

  37. "Okay. Just for tonight." (SRT ~775, [~0:38:23]) ↩

  38. "a pillow between us." (SRT ~774, [~0:38:20]) ↩

  39. "Margot told Claude something… in confidence." (SRT ~793-794, [~0:40:09]) ↩

  40. "I guess I have to thank you." (SRT ~836, [~0:44:02]) ↩

  41. "Besides the thing with Dick?" (SRT ~847, [~0:44:30]) ↩

  42. "for a glass of champagne" (SRT ~917, [~0:44:45]) ↩

  43. "mention the tree." (SRT ~918, [~0:45:00]) ↩

  44. "You gonna cut that tree down?" (SRT ~927, [~0:45:30]) ↩

  45. "I want to punch that guy in the nose." (SRT ~941, [~0:46:00]) — verified via screenplay; line is in the post-Vogler scene ↩

  46. "Did you drink your teas?" (SRT ~963, [~0:46:55]) ↩

  47. "I drank my fucking teas." (SRT ~965, [~0:47:00]) ↩

  48. "Bronx Science… I didn't get into Stuyvesant… I'd rather stay at Packer." (SRT ~983-988, [~0:47:43]) ↩

  49. "I already have slippers." (SRT ~1010, [~0:49:49]) ↩

  50. "a present I already have." (SRT ~1012, [~0:49:55]) ↩

  51. "Roger's an innocent." (SRT ~1029, [~0:50:30]) ↩

  52. "I can't stand her." (SRT ~1031, [~0:50:45]) ↩

  53. "I wouldn't have stopped." (SRT ~1037, [~0:51:00]) ↩

  54. "I hate myself" (SRT ~1043, [~0:51:36]) ↩

  55. "I find you so despicable." (SRT ~1049, [~0:51:50]) ↩

  56. "How can I be all these people? How can I be married to Jim and fuck Dick and want them both, and then neither of them?" (SRT 1017-1018, [~0:52:55]) ↩

  57. "we're at that age where we're becoming invisible to men." (SRT 1019-1020, [~0:53:00]) ↩

  58. "He's not good enough for you. He's so coarse. He's like guys we rejected" (SRT 1083-1085, [~0:53:54]) ↩

  59. "You a fruity?" (SRT ~1107, [~0:54:50]) ↩

  60. "He bit me." (SRT ~1129, [~0:56:32]) ↩

  61. "I will call the police." / "I'm calling the police." (SRT ~1098, 1132, [~0:54:31, ~0:56:40]) ↩

  62. "keep your fat mouth shut." (SRT ~1141, [~0:56:55]) ↩

  63. "in confidence." (SRT ~1144, [~0:57:00]) ↩

  64. "about Lenny and me… end our marriage." (SRT ~1144, 1149, [~0:57:00]) ↩

  65. "She doesn't hate you." (SRT ~1151, [~0:57:30]) ↩

  66. "a loathsome character" (SRT ~1156, [~0:58:35]) ↩

  67. "Middle Children." (SRT ~1155, [~0:58:30]) ↩

  68. "how autobiographical" (SRT ~1158, [~0:59:00]) ↩

  69. "sent over by Whirlpool… suddenly I became afraid for my life… I called Jim at NYU." (SRT 1161, 1168-1170, [~1:00:35]) ↩

  70. "I think it was Frigidaire who made our fridge." (SRT 1173, [~1:01:20]) ↩

  71. "I'm gonna need to take a moment here." (SRT 1174, [~1:01:25]) ↩

  72. "[WHISPERING] You're an asshole." (SRT 1175, [~1:01:42]) ↩

  73. "your mom's going through a rough time… scary when she's angry." (SRT ~1218-1220, [~1:04:00]) ↩

  74. "she's leaving your father… changes her mind." (SRT ~1222-1224, [~1:04:15]) ↩

  75. "It's hard, I think, to find people in the world you love more than your family." (SRT 1202-1203, [~1:03:30]) — line is Pauline's, addressing Claude after the bookstore. ↩

  76. "Have you ever cheated on me?" (SRT 1281, [~1:07:12]) ↩

  77. "Those e-mails that you have with that student of mine?" (SRT ~1290, [~1:07:40]) ↩

  78. "Really, it was hardly a kiss." (SRT ~1305, [~1:08:42]) ↩

  79. "Our tongues touched." (SRT ~1310, [~1:08:55]) ↩

  80. [CHAINSAW STARTS]/[CHAINSAW STOPS] (SRT ~1252-1320, [~1:05:00–1:09:00]) ↩

  81. "Has anyone seen Wizard?" (SRT ~1325, [~1:09:30]) ↩

  82. "I didn't do anything!" (SRT ~1361-1362, [~1:11:23]) ↩

  83. "I don't ever want to see you again." (SRT ~1365, [~1:11:35]) ↩

  84. "We don't have any brakes." (SRT ~1442, [~1:14:26]) ↩

  85. "The brakes are bad. That's right." (SRT ~1444, [~1:14:28]) ↩

  86. "I've ruined these shoes." (SRT ~1449, [~1:14:44]) ↩

  87. "And I'll put him on the bus." / "Sweetie, there's a bus" (SRT ~1469-1471, [~1:15:56]) ↩

  88. "a hotel room or… take your bowels out." (SRT ~1492-1494, [~1:18:31]) ↩

  89. "It's hot. I'm pregnant." (SRT ~1499, [~1:19:00]) ↩

  90. "I'm such a fucking idiot." (SRT ~1535, [~1:21:00]) ↩

  91. "Please marry me." (SRT ~1539, [~1:21:18]) ↩

  92. "do another seminar." (SRT ~1559, [~1:22:00]) ↩

  93. "There's Nana and Aunt Becky, and they have ice cream." (SRT ~1563, [~1:22:30]) ↩

  94. "out the back door." (SRT ~1604, [~1:24:30]) ↩

  95. "Our backyard didn't lead anywhere." (SRT ~1605, [~1:24:35]) ↩

  96. "I masturbated last night… in the bathroom and did it." (SRT ~1607-1608, [~1:24:56]) ↩

  97. "you're acting like a baby. Go on." (SRT 1617, [~1:26:02]) ↩

  98. "Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!" (SRT 1618-1621, [~1:26:41–1:26:55]) ↩

  99. "Did you see me running out there? — Yeah." (SRT 1622-1623, [~1:27:05]) ↩

  100. "That was a lot of running. — I'm out of breath." (SRT 1624-1625, [~1:27:15]) ↩

  101. Karen Dalton's "Something on Your Mind" appears in the closing-credits SRT lyric blocks (SRT 1626 onwards, [~1:27:36]); the song is listed in the film's official soundtrack credits. (Margot at the Wedding — IMDb Soundtracks) ↩

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