Her middle-aged mother Elaine (Brooke Bundy), arriving home with a gentleman date downstairs, burst into the room and demanded that her daughter go to sleep, although 16 year-old Kristen Parker (Patricia Arquette) protested, claiming she was still experiencing "awful dreams.He told her why he chose a life of boxing: """Cause I can""t sing or dance."After skating, she joined him as he returned to his bleak and dingy, cramped apartment, where she tentatively climbed the stairs.This was Kubrick""s ninth feature film, appearing between2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)andBarry Lyndon (1975)."The neck""s broken; the brain is useless.We must find another brain," laments Frankenstein - not surprising since the manwasthe victim of a hanging." However, he could choose Gryffindor if he wanted ("The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account").