I mean, he'd like to be home for Christmas, but, well, it just hasn't worked out that way.
6 seconds sound clip from the Shadowlands movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:30:36.718 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- You should see the garden before it gets dark.
- There's a lake, Mum, a wood with a lake.
- It's really a flooded clay-pit for the old brick works.
- Be careful, Douglas. Douglas!
- Sun's well over the yardarm.
- I mean, he'd like to be home for Christmas, but, well, it just hasn't worked out that way.
- What are you doing for Christmas?
- Some lucky English hotel, I expect.
- So your husband will have to look after himself. Is that it?
- Yes, he's pretty good at that.
- The lake is much older than the house, of course.
- They say Shelley used to sail paper boats here.
- All made out of early drafts of his poems, no doubt.
- I don't like to think of you Christmassing in a hotel. Why don't you come here? You're very welcome.
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Actors: Anthony Hopkins (C. S. Lewis), Debra Winger (Joy Davidman), Edward Hardwicke (Warren Lewis), Joseph Mazzello (Douglas Gresham)
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