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The clip thanksgiving dinner from One True Thing (1998)

Oh, Ellen. You did this?
Oh, Ellie.
You don't have to be concerned with things like that.
There's plenty of time.
I have to pay my father when I get back.
I don't know if I feel good about it.
Would you like some wine?
Well, you know, there is plenty of time.
A writer writes something. He calls his friend. He says...
"I'm finished writing a little something, and it's not very good.
In fact, it's terrible. The worse part about it is it's the best thing I can do. "
And that was Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath.
Your father tells me you write literary reviews from time to time.
Mm-hmm. That's right.
That's interesting. Like father, like daughter.
Tell me, have you ever had the opportunity to review any of my work?
Um...
I want to say grace now.
Oh, good.
Uh, no, George, I want to say my own grace.
Of course.
Thank you for the world so sweet.
Thank you for the food we eat.
Thank you for the birds that sing.
Thank you, God, for everything.
And thank you, Ellie, for making such a beautiful Thanksgiving dinner.
Sure.
Bravo.
To Chef Boyardee.
Shut up. That's terrible.
Well...
to our great surprise and delight...
tonight has become a night to go down in our family's history books.
We have the honor to have with us Oliver Most, who...
whose work means so much to me...
and who was the first to encourage me with Comeback Inn.
He's agreed after dinner to read to us from his new book...
for which I...

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