North

North1994

Stars: Elijah Wood, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Marc Shaiman
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Rating: PG
Runtime: 87 minutes

Emperor of the North, a vivid Depression-era drama, opens with a friendly, down-home song that doesn't prepare the audience for what follows: The brutal killing of a train-hopping bum at the hands of a cruel conductor named Shack (Ernest Borgnine, M… more »



Pa Tex:
Remember before when I told you that everything I own is the biggest and the best? Well you're already the best. Now there's nothing left but to make you the biggest.

Ma Tex:
And don't fret about not being able to clean up your plate. Why soon your stomach will stretch and stretch and your capacity for food will grow and grow.

North:
You say that like that's a good thing to have happen to your stomach.

Pa Tex:
It is.

North:
Why?

Ma Tex:
Then you'll be like Buck.

North:
Who?

Pa Tex:
Our first son. The biggest boy this big state's ever seen. Why he could eat more in one day than anyone else could eat in a whole month.

Ma Tex:
That's why Buck hated February.

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