The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag is a 1992 American screwball comedy film about an ignored, small-town librarian who confesses to a murder she didn't commit to get attention.

Directed by Allan Moyle. Written by Grace Cary Bickley.

She was a nobody until someone found... (taglines)

Betty Lou

• Look at this: Barry Manilow, Debbie Boone, Paul Anka in Vegas. This guy deserved to be shot.

Ann Orkin

• Am I supposed to feel sorry for you? If you're unhappy, drink. Get laid. See a shrink like normal people.

• Eight years I went to law school. Three times I took the bar. I finally get a client and my client is a lunatic.

Alex

• You can have the house, the furniture. I don't want anything. Except Scarlett. I want the fucking dog.

Dialogue

Betty Lou: Why is it so hard to believe, that I might be exciting to other men? People have affairs. People have lovers. Why not me, Alex?

Alex: Because I never did. I never had anyone but you.

Betty Lou: You had everyone but me. You had Frank, and the boys, and the force and the bars and the games.

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Alex: You know my wife?

Reba: Yeah.

Alex: How do you know she like gone with the wind?

Reba: She's a friend of mine.

Alex: Jesus, she knows everybody. Where the hell was I?

Reba: Well, sugar. I think that was a real good question.

Alex: What do you mean?

Reba: Where were you?

Taglines

• She was a nobody until someone found...

• The Notoriously Hilarious Comedy!

Cast

• Penelope Ann Miller - Betty Lou Perkins
• Julianne Moore - Elinor
• Alfre Woodard - Ann Orkin
• Cathy Moriarty - Reba
• William Forsythe - Beaudeen
• Eric Thal - Alex

External links

• The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag quotes at the Internet Movie Database