By MICHAEL SMITH Movie Critic on Jan 7, 2010, at 5:49 PM Updated on 1/07 at 5:49 PM
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In the last couple of minutes of "Youth in Revolt," the very funny teen comedy opening on Friday, Tulsa actress Mary Kay Place makes a reference that you won't get unless you're from Oklahoma.
Listen close, or you'll miss her clearly improvised comment made while playing cards with her husband, played by M. Emmett Walsh. She needs a particular card, and he lays it down, making her quite happy.
"Thank you very much," she says, mischievously toward her husband, whom she has just defeated, "and here's your change. Thank you for shopping at Otasco."
Most under the age of 30 might not know that Otasco was Oklahoma Tire and Supply Company, a chain of retail stores specializing in auto parts and appliances, that was based here in Tulsa. That's because the company filed for bankruptcy in 1988.
But Mary Kay Place remembers the place, and her hometown.
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