Daily Dialogue — April 8, 2020

Milo Dean: Have you read “Marley and Me?”
Maggie Dean: Yeah. Sad.
Milo Dean: Why is it sad?
Maggie Dean: You don’t know what happens?
Milo Dean: No, that’s why I’m reading it.
Maggie Dean: Sorry.
Milo Dean: What?
Maggie Dean: Nothing.
Milo Dean: Does the dog die at the end?
Maggie Dean: No. I didn’t say that.
Milo Dean: The fucking dog dies at the end.
Maggie Dean: I’m didn’t — I’m not saying anything!
Milo Dean: Look how much I had left!

Milo flings the book onto the ground and sighs.

Maggie Dean: I’m sorry I ruined it.
Milo Dean: Maggie, I know the dog dies. Everyone knows the dog dies. It’s the book where the dog dies.
Maggie Dean: Asshole. I see you’re getting your sense of humor back.
Milo Dean: Yeah, they can’t take that away from me.

— The Skeleton Twins (2014), written by Craig Johnson, Mark Heyman

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Siblings.

Trivia: Early in the film, Maggie (Wiig) and Milo (Hader) discuss the book Marley & Me, the film version of which starred Owen Wilson. Owen’s brother, Luke, appears in this film as Lance, Maggie’s husband.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A wonderful movie focusing on the fraternal twins — Maggie and Milo.