Overboard Movie Quotes

Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.

I know Nicky’s happy she’s alive, but that woman just paraphrased the plot of Overboard as an explanation for why she’s been missing for six years.” “Great movie,” Riley said, rubbing her head. “I thought it was just me who kept picturing Kurt Russell while she was talking.

[...] symbolism is bullshit. Because my sister's room is not preserved, but no one has moved on. We're all still stuck in place. [...] I don't want to remember it. Memories go into the memory hole. That's where they belong. [...] There may be symbols and symbolism in books and movies—sometimes it's even fun to find them—but in real life, we only have boxes and bags, old sagging shelves, and attics with fake Christmas trees. And none of it means anything. It's all just the detritus of life, our own jetsam, heaved overboard, then washed back to us by the waves and the tides. Coming around and around again. And the water disgorges the same sights, same house, same me, same Mom.

I don't want to remember it. Memories go into the memory hole. That's where they belong. [...] There may be symbols and symbolism in books and movies--sometimes it's even fun to find them--but in real life, we only have boxes and bags, old sagging shelves, and attics with fake Christmas trees. And none of it means anything. It's all just the detritus of life, our own jetsam, heaved overboard, then washed back to us by the waves and the tides. Coming around and around again. And the water disgorges the same sights, same house, same me, same Mom.