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Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.
Antwone Fisher: It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.
Jerome Davenport: "Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone / Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own" Antwone Fisher: "Who will cry for the little boy, he cried himself to sleep / Who will cry for the little boy, who never had it for keeps / Who will cry for the little boy, who walked on burning sands / Who will cry for the little boy, the boy inside a man / Who will cry for the little boy, who knew well hurt and pain / Who will cry for the little boy, who died and died again / Who will cry for the little boy, a good boy he tried to be / Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me" Jerome Davenport: Who will cry for the little boy Antwoine? Antwone Fisher: I will, I always do.
Jerome Davenport: "Regard without ill-will despite an offense." That's Webster's definition of forgiveness. Antwone Fisher: Why do I have to forgive? Jerome Davenport: So you can get on with your life.
Jerome Davenport: Where'd you spend your childhood? Antwone Fisher: Cleveland. Jerome Davenport: Parents still live there? Antwone Fisher: I never had any parents. Jerome Davenport: They deceased? Antwone Fisher: I never - I never had parents. Jerome Davenport: That would make you a medical miracle, Seaman Fisher. Where you from? Antwone Fisher: I'm from under a rock. [pause] Jerome Davenport: Okay!
[Antwone's all-purpose conversation starter] Antwone Fisher: I could eat.
[last lines] Jerome Davenport: Are you hungry, sailor? Antwone Fisher: I could eat, sir.