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Quotables #104: Order in the Court!
The American judicial process has served as the basis for hundreds of Hollywood films. Here are some snippets of dialogue among its participants in courtroom settings. Your job is to guess which movies they're from.

Prosecutor: When they arrived, you went up to the house and murdered them?
Witness: No. I was sobering up. I realized she wasn't worth it. I decided to let her have her quickie divorce.
Prosecutor: Quickie divorce, indeed. A .38 caliber divorce, wrapped in a hand towel to muffle the shots, isn't that what you mean? And then you shot her lover!
Witness: I did not. I got back in the car and drove home to sleep it off. Along the way, I stopped and threw my gun into the Royal River. I feel I've been very clear on this point.
Prosecutor: Yes, you have. Where I get hazy, though, is the part where the cleaning woman shows up the next morning and finds your wife and her lover in bed, riddled with .38 caliber bullets. Does that strike you as a fantastic coincidence, Mr. [name deleted], or is it just me?
Witness: Yes. It does.
Prosecutor: I'm sorry, Mr. [name deleted], I don't think the jury heard that.
Witness: Yes. It does.
Prosecutor: Does what?
Witness: Strike me as a fantastic coincidence.
Prosecutor: On that, sir, we are in accord...
Movie 1:
Witness: You want answers?
Defense Attorney: I think I'm entitled.
Witness: You want answers?
Defense Attorney: I want the truth!
Witness: You can't handle the truth!
Movie 2:
Bailiff: Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Defendant: No.
Judge: No?
Defendant: Your Honor, I'm an atheist. I can't very well, uh, swear to a God I don't believe exists.
Judge: Mr. [name deleted], you are a handful.
Defendant: I know, Your Honor.
Movie 3:
Prosecutor: Now, Ms. [name deleted], being an expert on general automotive knowledge, can you tell me...what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic-inch engine and a four-barrel carburetor?
Witness: That's a bullshit question.
Prosecutor: Does that mean that you can't answer it?
Witness: It's a bullshit question. It's impossible to answer.
Prosecutor: Impossible because you don't know the answer!
Witness: Nobody could answer that question!
Prosecutor: Your Honor, I move to disqualify Ms. [name deleted] as an expert witness!
Judge: Can you answer the question?
Witness: No, it is a trick question!
Judge: Why is it a trick question?
Witness: ...'Cause Chevy didn't make a 327 in '55 - the 327 didn't come out 'til '63. And it wasn't offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb 'til '64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top-dead-center.
Prosecutor: Well...uh...she's acceptable, Your Honor.
Movie 4:
Prosecutor: ...What was the longest personal relationship you have had in your life - other than parents and girlfriends?
Witness: Ah...I guess I'd have to say...with my child.
Prosecutor: Whom you've seen twice in a year? Mrs. [name deleted], your ex-husband, wasn't he the longest personal relationship in your life?
Witness: I suppose...
Prosecutor: Would you speak up, Mrs. [name deleted]? I couldn't hear you.
Witness: Yes.
Prosecutor: How long was that?
Witness: We were married two years before the baby. And then four very difficult years.
Prosecutor: So, you were a failure at the longest, most important relationship in your life.
Defense Attorney: Objection!
Judge: Overruled.
Witness: I was not a failure.
Prosecutor: Oh? What do you call it then - a success? The marriage ended in divorce.
Witness: I consider it less my failure than his.
Prosecutor: Congratulations, Mrs. [name deleted]. You have just rewritten matrimonial law. You were both divorced, Mrs. [name deleted]...
Movie 5:

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