Quotes
 Charlotte Flax: I want to stay!
Rachel Flax: And do what?
Charlotte Flax: Finish high school
Rachel Flax: Great start. What`s your major? Town tramp?
Charlotte Flax: No Mom, the town already has one.
Charlotte Flax: I wanted to ask her what color her bra was and if she had pure thoughts every second of the day, but...
Charlotte Flax: I`m going to make real sandwiches; big ones that a man can sink his teeth into.
Rachel Flax: Who`s that?
Charlotte Flax: That`s Mr. Crane, my history teacher, and he is very nice.
Rachel Flax: *He* is an asshole.
Charlotte Flax: You haven`t even spoken to him yet!
Rachel Flax: Charlotte, I don`t need to speak to him. He`s driving an Edsel, for Christ`s sake.
Rachel Flax: Charlotte, I know you`re planning a celibate life, but with half my chromosomes, I think that might be tough.
Charlotte Flax: A word about Mrs. Flax and food: the word is "hors d`oeurves." Fun Finger Foods is her main source book and it`s all the woman cooks.
Charlotte Flax: Oh, I`m going to hell for sure. Here he is, talking about his dead mother and I can`t help wishing his hands were unbuttoning my dress!
Rachel Flax: Alright, you know what? I`ll make you a deal. You stop being a little bitch for, let`s say, oh, I don`t know, an hour or two, and I won`t knock the religion of your choice for a week.
Charlotte Flax: Please God don`t let me fall in love and want to do disgusting things... Dear God, I love the way he throws.
[Charlotte is praying at a shrine she has made in her room to the Virgin Mary]
Rachel Flax: Charlotte, we`re Jewish.
Rachel Flax: One thing you can rely on about your father: He can`t be relied on.
Rachel Flax: Don`t do anything I wouldn`t do! Or don`t do anything I would!
Dr. Reynolds: [Charlotte thinks she is pregnant because she kissed Joe] Has your mother ever talked to you about sex?
Charlotte Flax: Uh... oh yeah! All the time. We talk about everything. She`s a wonderful mother.
Dr. Reynolds: So you do know how babies are made?
Charlotte Flax: Oh, yeah.
Dr. Reynolds: Then why did you think you were pregnant? You`re still a virgin.
Charlotte Flax: Oh god. I think I might be pregnant with the next Jewish Italian Messiah
Charlotte Flax: Sometimes I feel like you`re the child and I`m the grown up.
Mary O`Brien: See that woman right there? That`s my mother and when I grow up... I want to be just like yours.
Charlotte Flax: Mary, you already are.
Charlotte Flax: Okay mom, if you want to drive Lou away, that`s your buisness. If you want Joe, it`s war.
Charlotte Flax: So Joe, tell me about the nuns in the convent. Do they wear underwear in the shower?
Trivia
The role of Charlotte initially went to Emily Lloyd, who went to receive $435,000 and 2.5% of the net profits from the film. When Cher complained that the fair-haired Lloyd could not look like her daughter, she was cast out of the film and replaced by Winona Ryder. Lloyd then sued Orion Pictures Corporation and Mermaid Productions, reaching a settlement on the second day of the trial, 30 July 1991.
Emily Lloyd had actually started shooting when Winona Ryder became available and Lloyd was unceremoniously dumped. (She later won a sizeable cash settlement from the production company for being booted off the film). Original director Frank Oz was also replaced, reputedly at Cher`s insistence.
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# In the scene where Charlotte and her mother fight about Kate`s accident, Charlotte gets angry and breaks a plate. The scene ends with her mother slapping her in the face after a rude comment. The exact same things happened in Cher`s film Mask (1985).
This was to be the American film debut for director Lasse Hallström, until he repeatedly clashed with lead actress Cher and was replaced first by Frank Oz and then by `Richard Benjamin`.
Christina Ricci`s debut.
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Winona Ryder
(as Charlotte Flax)
with Michael Schoeffling
(as Joe Porretti)
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