" Shaye suggested that she would reprise her starring role as Nancy Thompson: "You""re he star" - but she was very unsure, now that she was a mother.Abby also delivers one of the film""s most memorable lines - a sentimental remembrance of the last words of one of their victims:One of our gentlemen found time to say, ""How delicious!""When Mortimer insists that they must do something, Abby reprimands him for acting crazy: "Now Mortimer, you behave.It was a tremendous international (world-wide) box-office success, and launched the US career of its star Mel Gibson.War, war, war.This war talk""s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring.I get so bored I could scream.Besides, there isn""t going to be any war...If either of you boys says ""war"" just once again, I""ll go in the house and slam he door.She states a variation on her trademark line for the first time when asked if she is attending the neighboring Wilkes-Twelve Oakes plantation""s barbecue the next day: "Why I hadn""t thought about that yet.