Betty Parker Quotes in Pleasantville (1998)

Betty Parker: Mary Sue?

Jennifer: Yeah?

Betty Parker: What goes on up at Lover's Lane?

Jennifer: What do you mean?

Betty Parker: Well, you hear these things lately... kids spending so much time up there. Uh, is it holding hands? That kind of thing?

Jennifer: Yeah! That and...

Betty Parker: What?

Jennifer: It doesn't matter.

Betty Parker: No, I wanna know.

Jennifer: Well, sex.

Betty Parker: Oh. What's sex?

[after Mary Sue explains to Betty about sex]

Jennifer: Are you okay?

Betty Parker: Um, yes. It's, uh, just that your father would never do anything like that.

Jennifer: Ahhhh.

Betty Parker: Mmm.

Jennifer: Well, you know, Mom, there are other ways to enjoy yourself... without Dad.

Betty Parker: [Betty is in color, George is still black & white] George, look at me. Look at my face. That meeting is not for me.

George Parker: You'll put on some make-up.

Betty Parker: I don't want to put on make-up.

George Parker: It'll go away. It goes away.

Betty Parker: [firmly] I don't want it to go away.

[last lines]

George Parker: So what's going to happen now?

Betty Parker: I don't know. Do you know what's going to happen now?

George Parker: No

George Parker: [laughing]

George Parker: ...I don't!

Bill Johnson: I guess I don't either.