Lou (2022) Best Movie Quotes

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Starring: Allison Janney, Jurnee Smollett, Logan Marshall-Green, Ridley Asha Bateman, Greyston Holt, Matt Craven

OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆

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Netflix action thriller directed by Anna Foerster. Lou (2022) centers on gruff loner, Lou (Allison Janney), who is living a quiet life with her dog. Thinking she’d put her dangerous past behind her, Lou finds her quiet life interrupted when a desperate mother (Jurnee Smollett) begs her to save her kidnapped daughter (Ridley Asha Bateman). As a massive storm rages, the two women risk their lives on a rescue mission that will test their limits and expose dark and shocking secrets from their pasts.

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'I guess we've all been through things other people will never understand.' - Lou Click To Tweet

Best Quotes

Hannah: [after Lou nearly runs over her daughter] What the hell is wrong with you? Why you got to drive so goddamn fast when you know there’s a child nearby?!
Lou: The world’s not a playground. Teach your kid to look out for herself.

Chris: [referring to the book on death and dying] I bought it for a friend of mine. Her ex died three months ago, and she’s just, she’s having a hard time facing it.
Philip: I see. And you want to help her face it, right? Because you want to be more than just friends?
Chris: Oh, look, she has a kid. She wants to take it slow.

Vee: [referring to the friendship bracelet] This one is for Lou.
Hannah: You’re making a bracelet for Lou? Why?
Vee: I like Lou. I know you don’t.
Hannah: Yeah, I do. Okay. I actually don’t like Lou. But why do you like her?
Vee: Well, Jax likes her. And I like Jax.

Lou: [writing a letter] There are certain decisions I made that you will never understand. But that’s all in the past now. Life can be cruel. What made me great at some things made me lousy at others. I wish I could say that some good came from what I did. In truth, I left the world a more dangerous place.

Hannah: [referring to Vee] Her father took her.
Lou: Her father?
Hannah: He’s here. How the hell is he here?
Lou: Hold on. You saw him?
Hannah: No.

Hannah: [referring to Philip] He’s supposed to be dead, but he found us. I thought we were free of him.

Hannah: [after the truck explodes] How did you know it was going to blow up?
Lou: Bombs tend to.

Hannah: A bomb? It means he’s been planning this, Lou. We got to get more help. We need to get to the sheriff.
Lou: Can’t get to him. No cars. Phones are down. We’re ten miles outside of town. Your kid’s getting further away by the second. I have to track them.
Hannah: What? Track them? You?

'Life can be cruel. What made me great at some things made me lousy at others. I wish I could say that some good came from what I did. In truth, I left the world a more dangerous place.' - Lou Click To Tweet

Hannah: He’s highly trained. An explosives expert. Well, we’re no match for him, Lou. We need professional help. You and the dog ain’t going to cut it.

Lou: Did he take anything from your trailer?
Hannah: Her favorite stuffy, Mr. Hippo. And a blanket.
Lou: He wants her comfortable.
Hannah: He wants her quiet.

Hannah: [referring to Philip] When they tried to arrest him, he blew his apartment up. They sent a death certificate. How the hell could he still be alive?

Lou: [referring to Philip and Vee] He’s pulling her in something. If he gets her off the island, this will get a lot messier.

Lou: Hey, where are you going?
Hannah: To find my child.
Lou: You don’t know what you’re doing. If you slow me down, I will leave you behind.

'Everything that matters is right here in front of you.' - Hannah (Lou) Click To Tweet

Lou: [to Hannah] Stay down. Your jacket might as well have a target painted on it.

Hannah: Suppose this is just a distraction? Buying him more time to get away with Vee. It’s the kind of game he likes to play. Dangling something shiny in front of you, and you don’t notice when he’s about to bash you over your goddamn head.

Lou: [referring to the gun] If anybody gets too close, use this. Go for the eyes. A man can’t kill what he can’t see.
Hannah: How do you know all this?
Lou: Girl Scouts.

Lou: [referring to the island] It’s an acquired taste. I love it though.
Tony: Good place to hide, I reckon.
Gerry: Come on, Tony. Relax. She’s just an old lady.

'Sometimes, I'm just so damn mad at her. And then other times I miss her.' - Hannah, 'Isn't that just how it is with family?' - Sheriff Rankin (Lou) Click To Tweet

Lou: [after she kills Gerry and beats up Tony] Where is he taking her?

Lou: [after Hannah finds her with Gerry and Tony dead] Things escalated.

Hannah: Gerry, he say anything about Vee before you killed him?
Lou: Not a word.

Hannah: You know, I was in the Girl Scouts too. Got my archery badge, pen pal, first aid. There wasn’t one for hand-to-hand combat or murder with household objects.
Lou: Really? Must’ve just been my troop then.

Hannah: What branch of the military were you in?
Lou: CIA. Twenty-six years in the field.
Hannah: A spy? Wouldn’t have guessed that.
Lou: I’d be a s**t spy if you did.

'Life doesn't give you second chances, but sometimes it does offer a fresh start.' - Lou Click To Tweet

Philip: [to Vee, referring to the butterfly] Sometimes, in nature, when a creature’s damaged, there’s nothing you can do to save them. It’s almost like they were meant to die.

Lou: [referring to Hannah’s injured foot] You walked a long way on that. You should’ve said something.
Hannah: And give you an excuse to abandon me?

Lou: [as she sees the burn scars on Hannah’s arm] And yet you stayed. Well, should’ve done something.
Hannah: Yeah. Thanks, Lou. That’s very helpful.
Lou: Just saying you could’ve left him sooner.
Hannah: What is it you know about being with someone like him? So maybe don’t tell me what I should have done.

Hannah: [referring to Philip] That son of a b**ch is a monster. Whatever the hell made him this way. There ain’t no amount of love in this entire world that’s going to be able to save that man.

'You're going to wonder why I did it. Why I left this all for you. The simple answer is, you'll leave the world a better place than I did.' - Lou Click To Tweet

Hannah: He always said, if I took Vee away, he’d kill us both. Go on. Tell me what I should’ve done.
Lou: I guess we’ve all been through things other people will never understand.

Hannah: I can help you if you just let me.
Lou: I don’t need your help.

Hannah: Can you stop being so stubborn? We need help.
Lou: There is no one who can help us. I’m all you’ve got. Now keep moving.
Hannah: Why are you helping me, Lou?

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Lou: [to Hannah] Maybe you’re right. Maybe we do need help.

Lou: [as she gives Hannah a gun] Try not to blow your brains out.

Philip: Just tell me one thing. And be honest here. Why did you sell me out?
Lou: I knew you’d track down Hannah and Vee sooner or later. I wasn’t going to be able to protect them forever.
Philip: Protect them?

Philip: All of this is happening because of you. Okay? And Hannah may be too naive to see it, but I don’t.
Lou: Hannah doesn’t know who I am.
Philip: You still can’t even admit I’m your son.

Lou: So what’s the plan, Philip? Why the elaborate chase? Why let us track you? You don’t want to hurt your kid.
Philip: Did you know that Vee is the same age as I was when those men took me? Yeah, but they weren’t as nice as I’m being to her. Can you appreciate that? The symmetry of that?

Philip: [to Lou] You chose the f***ing CIA over your own child. Yeah, how did that work out for you?

Lou: Hannah and Vee had nothing to do with my mistakes. Leave them out of this.
Philip: Oh, spare me the f***ing morality lesson. You gave up that right a long time ago.
Lou: It’s not too late.
Philip: You move, I’m going to put a bullet in you.

Lou: Philip, listen to me. You’re right. I didn’t protect you when you were a kid. So let me do it now.
Philip: Shut up.
Lou: What, you want to kill me? Do it.

Lou: I’m not afraid to go.
Philip: You just can’t stop messing with my head, can’t you?
Lou: Kid, I wouldn’t even know where to start.

Lou: [to Philip] I thought Hannah and Vee were safe. My mission was complete. But you tricked me there, didn’t you? You always were smarter than me. Beat my a** at chess when you were five years-old. Remember that? I do.

Philip: You know what? For once, we’re playing my game. It’s time to end this legacy. Put this whole family out of its misery.
Lou: Philip, you’re her father.
Philip: And you’re my mother.
[Lou suddenly stabs him in his shoulder]

Sheriff Rankin: [over phone] There’s a kidnapped girl and her mother out there.
Dominick Crown: Hold.
Sheriff Rankin: Excuse me? A**hole put me on hold. Unbelievable. Unf***ing believable.

Lou: [referring to the postcards Philip had sent Lou] I found those at the cabin. I meant to tell you.
Hannah: You’re lying. This message isn’t for me, is it? None of them are.

Hannah: Say it. I need you to say it. Say it!
Lou: He’s my son.

Lou: I wasn’t helping him. I was helping you. You and Vee.
Hannah: Stop lying to me. Tell me the goddamn truth!

Hannah: You didn’t save us. I got Vee away from him. I took care of her every goddamn day and made sure she was safe. Now she’s out there with him because of you. You’re no damn hero. You’re a f***ing coward.

Hannah: All that rage that that man felt. All the rage inside of that man that he felt, that he aimed towards me, is because of you.
Lou: Not everybody is meant to be a mother!
Hannah: Yeah, maybe not. But you could have been a little more human.

Hannah: You drove past our trailer every day. You drove past your own granddaughter, Lou. You didn’t talk to her. You didn’t speak to her. You didn’t look at her. What kind of person could do that to their own family?

Lou: Come on. We got to keep moving.
Hannah: There ain’t no more “we”.

Lou: It’s a trap. Please. There’s one thing I’m good for.
Hannah: Not anymore. You’ll just slow me down.

Lou: Never thought I’d be excited to see you.
Sheriff Rankin: First time for everything.

Lou: [referring to Philip] He’s armed. Very dangerous.
Sheriff Rankin: That’s exactly what the feds said about you.

Sheriff Rankin: Are you going to tell me why the CIA’s looking for you, Lou?
Lou: I used some evidence I held onto.
Sheriff Rankin: What kind of evidence?
Lou: Documents. Proving CIA involvement in the coup in Iran.
Sheriff Rankin: I can see why they’d be pi**ed about that.

Philip: [to Hannah] Hey, how’s Lou doing? Is she on her way? Jesus, look at me. Still waiting for my mommy to come back after all these years, huh? But we do need her here to finish this.

Philip: [as Hannah points her gun at him] Wow, Lou is really rubbing off on you. Come on, just give me the gun. We both know you’re not going to shoot me.
Hannah: You don’t know me, Phil. You never did.

Philip: [to Hannah] I know that if you were going to shoot me, you would have done it years ago. I know that you’re not like Lou and me. You’re not. Yeah, because she would’ve shot me already.

Philip: You abandon me, and then you steal my baby from me, and now you shoot me?
Hannah: That s**t won’t work on me. Not going to work on me anymore, Phil. I’m not afraid of you anymore. And I won’t let you hurt my little girl the way you hurt me.

Lou: My gun.
Hannah: Lost it.
Lou: Knife?
Hannah: Stuck in Philip’s hand.

Lou: Where are you going?
Hannah: One of us was actually a Girl Scout.

Philip: We’re all here. I was hoping that we could all do this together. Face to face! So that we could end this the right way. End this right. As a family. As a family. But sometimes, you don’t get what you want.

Lou: The CIA is on the hunt.
Hannah: They coming for Philip or you?
Lou: They won’t want either one of us to leave here alive.

Hannah: I’ll just slow you down.
Lou: I’m not going to leave you here.
Hannah: Lou, go get your granddaughter to safety. I’ll catch up.

Lou: You got to go. Take the road back towards town. Bring Jax with you.
Hannah: You come with us.
Lou: Hannah, you take care of your kid. I’ll take care of mine. I left a letter for you at my house. Make sure you find it.

Hannah: Don’t die on me now, Lou. Everything that matters is right here in front of you.
Lou: I know.

Agent Hampton: [after Philip is shot by the CIA and Lou is seemingly dead] Ms. Dawson, did Lou Adell ever mention anything about documents from her time in the CIA to you?
Hannah: She’d be a pretty s**t spy if she did.

Sheriff Rankin: I wanted to tell you, you just did a beautiful job with the memorial service.
Hannah: Stop.
Sheriff Rankin: No, you did. And I think Lou would have really appreciated it.
Hannah: Come on now. All that sincere emotion would have made her puke.

Sheriff Rankin: She was her own person.
Hannah: I mean, sometimes, I’m just so damn mad at her. And then other times I miss her.
Sheriff Rankin: Isn’t that just how it is with family?

Lou: [from her letter] I’ve never been one for many words, so I’ll keep this short. The house is yours. Sell it. There’s a month’s worth of meat for Jax in the freezer, and some cash for you. Life doesn’t give you second chances, but sometimes it does offer a fresh start. Hannah, you’re going to wonder why I did it. Why I left this all for you. The simple answer is, you’ll leave the world a better place than I did.
[we then see Lou is watching Hannah and Vee from afar as they leave the island]

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