♪♪♪
- Julie!
Julie, Julie, Julie!
Oh, honey, I'm so sorry I'm late,
but I got caught in this roundy-round thing...
Oh, never mind, I'm here now and you're here.
Ohhh, I'm so glad to see you!
Oh, my God, you look just like your mother.
Aww, honey, I'm so glad to see you.
- Is that your pond?
- Yes. And we have all kinds of fish--
bass, bluegills, and some piggish catfish
who hog all the food.
You like to fish?
- Nah.
- Oh, I have lots of poles.
I'll teach you. It's very satisfying.
- Whoa, this is my room?
- Yeah.
Used to be Grandpa's as a boy.
Been using it for storage, but I fixed it up for you.
- Well, it's beautiful.
- I started most of these from seed,
and these blue ones I brought from Malibu.
Want to drive?
Slow down!
Ahh! Ohh! Ahh!
Stop the truck, stop!
[ commotion ]
Stop! I said stop!
God!
You can drive, you can drive--
just go slower.
- No, that's okay. You drive.
- No, you do it. I want you to. Come on.
- Look, I don't want to anymore.
- Well, you might as well learn
since you'll be living here. Come on.
Oh! Goddamnit!
[ tires screech ]
- Oh, Mama, Mama...
- What, what is this? What are you...
Ay, Dios! What happened to you?
- I caught fire...
- 9:00? Huh.
Two hours past my bedtime.
- You're serious?
- Yep.
[ voices continue on TV ]
- I'm gonna die, Mama. No, no, don't cry.
- Eh.
- I beg you, lift this curse...
♪♪♪
[ Julie crying ]
- I'm sorry if I was abrupt with you today.
But I'm old and set in my ways.
You know, and I--I...
- No, I'm okay.
Don't worry about me.
- I know, darling, but...
I miss her, too.
She was my little girl.
[ crying ]
But now you're here, and you're her little girl,
and we have each other, don't we?
Hmm?
Don't we?
Would you like to sleep with me tonight? Hmm?
- No, it's okay.
- You want me to stay with you?
- No. I can sleep now.
- I have to think of things that she would enjoy
that we can do together.
It's so many years since Belinda was her age,
I'm out of practice.
- Take her bowling.
- [ laughs ] Can you see me bowling?
I'll go rolling down the alley with the ball.
Besides, I know she wouldn't do it.
Can't you do something with her?
I mean, take her somewhere,
have a good time, enjoy her company.
- I wouldn't know what to do.
I never had kids.
- Yeah, well, that's too bad, isn't it?
How 'bout this?
- Ew.
Goth.
- Goth? Goth...
- Yeah, you know...
- You know, it's a little creepy
watching you sit there by the hour
with that sickly white light shining up in your face.
Eyes riveted on Satan's toy.
I'm really against those things
because it steals time from everything else
and numbs the brain.
- No, it doesn't.
- Do you ever read?
- All the time. I devour books.
- Oh, you devour books?
Oh, I'm so glad to hear that because, you know,
I've got plenty of books.
Thousands of them.
Come and see. Come on.
Come on.
- Okay.
- Okay, what?
- Wait, what did you want to do?
- What do--Dear girl,
I've waited four hours for you to turn the iPad off,
and now I don't feel like doing anything together.
I know it's petty of me at my age,
but it hurts my feelings.
- I'm sorry.
- Let's let it pass, okay?
We have some adjusting to do.
I'd like to send her back to Pittsburgh today.
You and Terry can take her to the airport,
and I'll say goodbye from here.
- Now, come on, Karen, you're better than that.
- No, I'm not.
I'm not.
If she didn't look so much like Belinda...
Damn.
- What?
- Why is this gloomy atmosphere necessary?
- What?
- Is it this way at home?
- My home?
- Yes.
Is this unpleasant atmosphere
a usual thing at home?
- Well, mostly because of Sybil.
Well, is there any reason
you and I can't coexist in a friendly manner?
- What am I doing wrong now?
- Honey...
is there something I can do to help you?
Huh?
- I was long gone a long time ago.
- Wow.
- There's no helping me.
♪
- Her name was Snapper, and she had--
she was white...
- Karen, haven't seen you in a long time.
You making any more movies lately?
- Not really, no.
- I saw you in one with Al Pacino
the other night. - Ahh.
- You sure were beautiful.
- Oh, well. [ chuckles ]
- You should be doing more things like that.
- I'm kind of a big fish in a small pond.
You'll get used to it.
So do you like your school?
- Yeah. - What do you like best?
- English, science, I don't know,
but I stink at math.
- Oh, so do I.
Terrible at math.
Still am. - Mm- hmm.
- I need a little adding machine in my wallet.
I can't add at all.
- Adding machine?
- Little adding machine.
- Calculator?
- A little one, a little cal--
Yes, calculator, thank you, dear.
How stupid of me.
What are you thinking about?
Hmm?
- How I'm stuck here.
- Oh.
Do you feel you're stuck here?
Well...
I don't know what to say about that.
I'm very glad to have you here.
Very glad to have you here.
You're my daughter's... little girl.
Well, I guess it'll take time
for us to get used to each other.
We'll...
We'll manage.
Right? Won't we?
Will we try?
Will we, will we? Yes, yes, yes.
We will?
Okay.
There he is again.
Every time I drive by, poor bastard.
Out there in the snow in the middle of winter,
and in the boiling heat.
God.
You know, I called the animal hospital--
welfare people, but they--
they said there's nothing they can do
because he has a shelter with straw
and water and food.
How can people be so cruel to animals like that?
He's always hoping somebody will come out
and feed him and pet him,
maybe let him in the house.
How dare they?
I...
- I'd like to chain them up.
Make them lay in their own poop.
- Hmm.
Hello, dog!
- Hi.
Hi, puppy. Come here.
I'm not gonna bite you.
Come here.
You a good dog? Oh, you're a very good dog.
[ dog whimpers ]
- Nice dog.
Do you know what his name is?
- What?
- Oliver.
[ chuckles ]
Isn't that funny?
- Hello, Oliver.
- Oliver. Such a grand name.
Good doggie.
- Grandma?
- ♪ If you ever go across the sea ♪
♪ To Ireland
♪ Then maybe at the closing of your day ♪
♪ You will sit and watch the moonrise ♪
♪ Over Claddagh
♪ And see the sun go down on Galway Bay ♪
[ male and female duet singing ]
♪♪♪
♪ ...this lullaby
[ Julie humming ]
[ duet continue singing ]
[ Julie vocalizing ]
[ Man continues singing ]
♪ Every night after listening to ♪
[ volume lowers ] ♪ This lullaby
♪ We're going back to the life ♪
♪ La la la la la la
♪ Back to the life where we used to belong ♪
♪ Where they can re...
♪ La la la la
♪ ...as they know
♪ I can see...
♪ Ohhh
[ vocalizing ]
- What a lovely voice you have.
Do you sing in the choir at school?
- No.
- Well, Espy is gonna love you in theirs.
[ Duet continues singing ]
[ vocalizing ]
[ Woman continues singing ]
- I have to go someplace.
You wanna go for a ride, have a little outing?
- No, I'll wait here.
- No, dear,
you will shut that thing off,
and you will get in the car.
- ♪ If they don't win, it's a shame ♪
♪ 'Cause it's one, two, three strikes you're out... ♪
- What are we doing here?
- ♪ At the old ball game
- Thank you very much.
Who's next?
- Now is the summer of our discontent.
May glorious...
- ♪ Comin' for to carry me home ♪
[ piano plays ]
- ♪ O, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling ♪
♪ From glen to glen and down the mountainside ♪
- What do you think?
- She's okay.
- You can sing better.
- ♪ O, Danny boy, da- da- da ♪
♪ I must go
- That was very good, but your vocal range
is a little high for the part.
- Why don't you go up there and show them how?
- ♪ B- I- N- G- O - Go, go.
- I knew that was what you were up to.
- ♪ And Bingo was his name- o ♪
- Why not? They'd be luck--
[ piano plays ] [ sighs ]
What's the matter with you?
You can show them how to do it
and get the part.
- I don't want to.
- Why not? - I just don't!
- Oh, okay, okay. Sorry I mentioned it. I just--
- In the first place, I'm not from here.
I'm from Pittsburgh.
- You're from here now, aren't you?
So go back in there
and show them how it should be done.
Julie.
Julie, honey, look at me. Look at me.
- No, no! - Come here!
Damn it!
Come back here!
Don't go in there!
It's full of poison ivy!
Don't touch anything, just come straight
to the bathroom and take off
every stitch of clothing,
including your shoes,
and put them in this bag.
Go on. - I know!
You think I don't know about poison ivy?
- Don't talk to me in that tone of voice.
- I didn't! - Yes, you did.
- Did not!
- Yes, you did.
- Did not.
- Don't try my patience, Julie.
- What am I doing wrong now?
- Just do what I told you.
Take your shoes off and everything
and put them in that bag.
God.
- Excuse me, I don't like being watched
when I undress.
- Well, get used to it.
- You want me to watch you undress, too?
- You're welcome to if you have the stomach for it.
Now, when all your tainted things
are in that bag, stand in the tub.
- Why do you always have to make a face about everything?
- I don't. - Yes, you do.
Now put everything in that--
Bag. Yes, good. All right.
Now stand in the tub.
Good, all right.
What's the matter? Here.
What's the matter with you?
- I've had poison ivy before,
and it was nothing much.
- Well, you were lucky.
I used to be wildly susceptible to it,
but I took my own cure, made myself
a poison ivy sandwich and ate it.
- You did not.
- Yes, I did.
I had the most awful case of poison ivy
in the world for a whole month.
Had it from my head to toe,
even internally, too.
I thought I'd die.
- That was stupid.
- I know it was.
But it worked.
Here, sit on the edge of the tub
so I can scrub your feet.
Well, don't expect me
to eat any poison ivy sandwich.
- Of course not.
- What if you'd died from it?
- Well, then I wouldn't be here to scrub you, would I?
- And I wouldn't be here.
- That's right.
Let me help you.
That's--That's okay.
I can dry myself off now, Grandma.
- I love when you call me Grandma.
♪♪♪
Good morning.
- Morning.
- What would you like to do today?
- I don't know.
- I see.
- We could go to the beach again.
- Not really.
- I've been thinking.
- What?
- Is it too late
for me to try out for that play?
- I don't know, but I'm sure they've already cast it.
But I'll call around and see if there's
something else somewhere.
[ man singing in a foreign language ]
- Betsy Farrell. I'm gonna sing "The Star- Spangled Banner."
♪ Oh, say can you
- ♪ Oh, what needless pain we bear ♪
- [ singing in foreign language ]
- Thank you, that's all we need.
- You only stopped in my garden
to take the sweetness from my flowers.
- ♪ I'm half crazy
- Well, Frederick.
[ piano plays ]
- [ singing in foreign language ]
- ♪ God bless America
♪ Land that I love
♪ Stand beside her and guide her ♪
♪ Through the night with the light from above ♪
♪ From the mountains to the prairies ♪
♪ To the oceans white with foam ♪
♪ God bless America
♪ My home sweet home
♪ God bless America
♪ My home sweet home
- Hold on a second. I forgot to tell him something.
- I liked that little precious blonde.
She had a sweet, sweet temperament.
- Yes, she's good.
- I liked her, too.
[ whispering ]
- Excuse me.
How did she do?
- I liked her, and she's very pretty.
She's in the running.
We have another girl, too.
- Oh. Just one girl?
- Just one girl so far, yeah.
- But she's in the running?
- She is in the running, yeah.
[ phone rings ]
- Hello?
Jesus Christ, Terry,
I thought it was the theater.
What's up?
- I got something awful to tell you.
- God, what?
- I...
I kinda got the part.
- [ laughs ]
Whoopie!
Oh, my God!
No, you didn't get the part, did you?
- Yes, I did! - You did?
Oh, my God!
♪ How doth the little crocodile ♪
♪ Improve his shining tail
♪ And pour the waters of the Nile ♪
♪ On every golden scale
♪ How cheerfully he seems to grin ♪
♪ How neatly spreads his claws ♪
♪ And welcomes little fishes in ♪
♪ With gently smiling jaws Snap!
- Could her pants be any tighter?
- You're just jealous 'cause she got your part.
- Am not.
- Yeah, right.
- How'd it go? - Good.
- I heard you're a local celebrity,
so I looked you up on the computer.
Your credits are very impressive.
- Oh.
Thank you. - Yeah. Well...
Would it be all right with you
if I watched rehearsal sometimes?
- Oh, absolutely.
In fact, I hope we'll become friends.
- Boy, if I was 60 years younger,
I'd take him home and show him a thing or two.
- Ew.
♪♪♪
- That's my granddaughter.
- Oh.
- Um, Dad and Sybil are coming
for opening night,
and they're gonna stay here.
- How am I supposed to get any work done?
Huh?
- It'll be nice to see Arthur again.
- Really? - What?
What are you looking at me like that for?
- Nothing. I'm not.
Ohh. In- laws.
They're like a rash on the heart.
- Hey, Julie.
So a bunch of us are going to the beach tomorrow.
Do you wanna come?
- Sure.
- Good.
♪♪♪
- You wanna get a soda?
[ giggling ]
- ♪ I who have nothing
♪ Beyond this bleeding heart ♪
♪ Just won't take another day ♪
- Julie.
Will your grandma let you sleep over tonight
after the fireworks?
- I think so.
I'll call her.
- That's pretty cool. [ cheering ]
- Good night.
- Night. - Good night.
- Night.
- Meet me outside.
[ crickets chirring ]
Hey.
Back here.
[ coyote howling ]
- Let's take it from the Mad Tea Party.
- This whole thing, what we're going through,
my life at home,
is all like a mad tea party to me.
- Oh! - Hi.
- Hello! - How are you?
- I'm glad to see you.
- Remember Sibyl?
- Hey! [ laughing ]
How are you?
- Good.
- This. - I got it.
- I'm just so surprised.
I didn't even know she could sing.
- I told you she could.
- Yes, but I never heard her.
- Because she's shy.
- I don't know why people take babies on planes to begin with.
It's just, ugh, you can't rest.
You can't think. You've got this crying baby.
Ugh, and the mother, she's, of course, you know,
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." [ horn honking ]
Just don't bring a baby on a plane.
It's just-- it's not rocket science.
[ turn signal clicking ]
[ sound of galloping ]
- Oh, my God.
- You're lost?
- No.
Yes, Arthur, I confess I am.
Too much distracting conversation,
and that damn roundy-round traffic thing.
I can see those politicians getting kickbacks
from bogus construction jobs.
- [ mouthing ] Alzheimer's.
[ laughing ]
Wow.
Everything looks so pretty.
- Thank you.
- How's her behavior with you?
- Oh, well, she was withdrawn at first, but, uh...
- Did she say why she was so miserable at home?
- Well, you know, losing her mother d--
well, it was kind of devastating, you know?
And I imagine remarrying so soon...
- Oh no, I tried everything... - ...didn't help matters much.
- ...to make her like me. She hates me.
- She never gave me that impression.
I mean, I think you have some difficulty together,
but I don't think she hates you.
When she first got here, when she first got here,
she never took her nose out of that damned iPad.
But now she's much improved.
Being in--in the musical gives her a sense of importance,
something, a-- an accomplishment
and self- esteem that she lacked before.
- Okay, so she's not stealing, she's not lying to you?
- No, why, did she steal from you?
- Yeah, little things.
- Karen, how is this for you?
I mean, is it too much?
I mean, at your, uh...
- At my age?
I'm strong, dear.
But how is it for you? I mean...
without her?
- I miss her.
I love her.
- So do I.
It got really difficult.
She refuses to be happy. - Oh!
- No, she took pills.
- She did not take pills. - Yes, she did.
She tried to kill herself.
- What?
Is that true?
- It's not true.
♪♪♪
[ indistinct conversation ]
Five, six, seven, up.
- I have to warn you, there's a very delicate balance
of self- confidence,
so we'd better sit far enough back
so that she--you know, so that she doesn't--
[ tires squealing ]
[ crash ]
- Oh my God.
- You all right?
- Yeah, I'm all right.
- Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so--
it was my fault.
I--I'm--I'm so sorry.
- Yeah, it's your fault.
You ran the red light.
Didn't you see it? You're dangerous, lady.
Get some glasses, you old hag!
- Hey, hey!
- Maybe you shouldn't be driving anymore.
- Don't you start on that. It's you.
You were making me nervous.
- For your own safety and everybody else's, Grandma.
- I'm not your grandmother.
- [ whispering ] I'll handle this.
- I'm just saying that she's too old to drive.
- I passed the test a few months ago.
Mind your--
Mind your own business!
- It is our business.
If you're gonna drive around our d--
Oh, come on. - [ crying ]
- They...
They thought they were keeping it from me,
but I knew.
I knew for years.
She was thinner all the time, and...
I could see the veins sticking out of her hands
and on her brow.
[ sniffles ]
I knew she was fighting to stay alive for me.
I said, "I hate you.
I wish you'd die."
God, I can't stand it.
- Hey, it's not your fault. It's not your fault.
Kids say these kinds of things all the time,
and you didn't mean it, did you?
- None of this would have happened
if it weren't for me.
- It's over now.
- I wish it wasn't.
Excuse me.
Here's my frickin' stepmother.
- Hey. - Hi.
I missed you.
- Um, this is my dad.
Yeah, this is Anthony. - Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
- This is my stepmother Sibyl.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- I'm sorry we missed your rehearsal.
- [ sighs ]
- Your grandmother ran into another car.
- You did? - It--It--It was--
It was very confusing.
- Nobody's hurt. - The other car--
Nobody's hurt.
- It was nothing...
- So, uh, tell me about this play.
And who is this Anthony?
- Today at rehearsal,
he was standing in the--in the wings
and the choreographer was telling us,
uh, you know, what to do,
and he was just standing in the sidelines
making faces the whole time.
He's so weird.
[ birds chirping ]
[ door closing ]
- Arthur.
Long time no see.
How's it goin'?
- Good.
Good, you?
- Oh, I'm just fat and sassy.
- You know, I never got a chance to thank you
for bein' so kind to Belinda that time she was here.
- Yeah.
Well, me and Marge have been through our own hard times.
I was drinkin', you know, and she left me a couple times.
That's the new wife, huh?
- Yeah.
- Terry's been makin' the most beautiful furniture.
- Really? - Yeah.
I been usin' her husband's shop.
He got me started on it.
- Yeah, been sellin' up on the Red Arrow Highway.
Lots of high- end clients from Chicago.
- He's a real artist.
- Aren't they pretty?
You know why they light up?
'Cause it's mating season.
I don't remember which one lights up,
males or the females, but...
Julie, do you wanna take 'em to your room tonight?
- Why?
- For beauty's sake.
- Nah, no thanks.
♪♪♪
- Oh, for heaven's sake.
This is not a big city where people have chauffeurs, Arthur.
This is farm country.
- My Julie is in the car with you,
and I fear for her life.
I don't mean to insult you.
I love you, and I don't want to see anything happen
to you or my daughter.
Do you understand that her life is in your hands?
- Yes.
Believe me, I don't want to do this,
but if you don't find somebody,
I'm going to take her home with me.
- You can't. You can't. You can't. She's in a play.
- Not if she's in a horrific car accident.
- I'll have Terry drive her.
- Always?
- If he's busy, I will have Marge drive her.
- Always?
- Always.
♪♪♪
♪ If I only had known
♪ What I know now
♪ If the things that seem
- Well, there he is again.
- ♪ So clear today
- What kind of dog is it?
- I don't know.
- ♪ And if I only had known
♪ How true love grows
♪ I'd have stayed right here and lived forever ♪
♪ With my Indiana Rose
- You got the main role?
Wow.
If you were my daughter, I'd be real proud.
- Don't you have any kids?
- No.
We've never been blessed.
Too late now.
[ hum of engines ]
Now that's music to my ears.
I miss old Jezebel.
- You had a motorcycle? - Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I used to be a biker, you know.
I wasn't always a handyman.
No, I--I was a real bad boy.
- Did you, like, take drugs and stuff?
- Yeah, oh, yeah.
Some drugs.
- Which ones?
- [ sighs ]
You know, pot, LSD, you know.
- LSD?
Gosh.
You mean, like, a lot?
- No.
[ laughing ]
Not a lot a lot.
You know, uh...
26 times or--or so?
But the best was laughing gas.
- [ laughing ] - Nitrous oxide.
- That's, uh, that's the stuff you get from the dentist.
- Mm- hmm, yeah.
- Well, how did you get it?
- Somehow the dentist tank ended up in my garage,
but it was very safe 'cause we borrowed his chair, too.
That was a great chair.
Of course, I haven't done any drugs in 20 years,
and I can't tell you how better my life is.
I wouldn't go back to that for anything.
- Does my grandmother know all that stuff?
- Oh, yeah. She knows everything about me.
- Did your wife do it, too?
- No, Marge? No, no, she...
She's, uh, always been a good girl.
Yeah, she straightened me right out.
- You know, uh...
my--my mother...
always liked you.
- [ chuckling ]
All right, Vern, I'll catch you on the flip flop.
- Five, six, seven, and...
[ clap ]
And...
[ clap ]
And...
[ clap ]
And go shuffle.
Slide-slide-slide.
- ♪ Onward dreamily
- Slide-slide-slide.
- ♪ In an evening - Slide-slide.
- ♪ Of July - Smooth.
♪ Children three that nestle near ♪
♪ Eager eye and willing ear ♪
♪ Pleased a simple tale to hear ♪
♪ Long has paled that sunny sky ♪
♪ Echoes fade and memories die ♪
♪ Autumn frosts have slain July ♪
♪ Still she haunts me, phantomwise ♪
♪ Alice moving under skies
- What'd you tell her all that stuff for?
She's just a little girl. You wanna get fired?
- Me and Karen understand each other real well.
- Oh, yeah? Well, what about her father?
He never even liked you.
True. And I never liked him. He never deserved Belinda.
- Belinda, Belinda.
I am so sick of hearing about Belinda.
The woman is dead. Can't we just leave her there?
♪ A boat 'neath a sunny sky ♪
♪ Lingering onward dreamily
♪ In an evening of July
♪ Children three that nestle near ♪
♪ Eager eye and willing ear
♪ Pleased a--
- Don't point to your eye and ear.
- Why not?
- Well, we know where they are.
- Well, yeah, but--
- No, no, no, trust me.
- ♪ Eager eye and willing ear
♪ Pleased a simple tale to hear ♪
♪ Long has paled that sunny sky ♪
♪ Echoes fade and--
- Well, you can do the sky.
- Why? Because we don't know where it is?
- No, smartypants.
Because it's good.
- ♪ Long has paled that sunny sky ♪
♪ Echoes fade and memories die ♪
- Yeah, but it's--it's better if you do it before the word.
- Mm.
- ♪ Long has paled that summer sky ♪
See, it's better never to do-- do it right on the word itself.
- Never? - Well, uh...
on the rare occasion for emphasis you might,
but almost always before or after is better.
Usually before is better.
- [ mimicking chicken ]
- [ laughing ]
♪ Long has paled that summer sky ♪
♪ Echoes fade and memories die ♪
- I never thought that you would come into my life,
and here you are,
and you'll be here for the rest of my life,
and I will be in yours.
We will never ever forget each other.
You know that, don't you?
It's an important moment in our lives.
Okay.
You're a deep girl.
Deep soul.
So lucky.
So lucky to have you.
[ sighs ]
♪♪♪
- Grandma!
Grandma!
- Oh, my God.
[ laughing ]
What have you done?
- [ laughing ]
- You naughty girl, you naughty boy.
Oh, you darling. I'm so glad to see you.
What--what did you do?
Oh...
♪♪♪
Oh no, no, no, no, no!
Oh! Come back!
- Oliver! - Oliver!
- Oliver, come back!
[ groaning ]
♪♪♪
[ goats bleating ]
- You bitch!
[ grunts ]
- Get off of her!
Get off.
- You apologize to her this minute.
Get him! You've had it, boy.
♪♪♪
Oh, boy.
[ clicks tongue ]
Julie?
Aah! Oh my God.
Oh, my God, oh, my God! What have you done?
Help! Help! - What's goin' on?
- Help! - What--What's goin' on?
She drank iodine.
- She drank iodine? - Iodine!
- Sibyl! - Oh, my God.
- Sibyl, get the car!
♪♪♪
- You okay?
Oh, Jesus.
- The doctor will be out. He'll let you know what's what.
- [ stammering ]
[ gasps ]
- You okay? - My God.
- Karen? - Get up.
- Karen? Karen.
- Karen. [ alarm sounding ]
[ monitor beeping steadily, ventilator whooshing ]
- How do you feel?
- What--what--how did I--
- You had a heart attack.
- Oh, my God.
- Now it was just a small one, but you've got to take it easy.
- Julie. How is Julie? - They flushed the poison.
Her throat's really raw. She's just down the hall.
- This--this is--oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, God.
[ monitor beeping steadily ]
- They've got her sedated. - Oh, my God.
- They're not takin' any chances that she might try it again.
- Mrs. Shanahan, what do you think you're doing?
Your heart is in trouble. You need to get back to bed.
You want to damage it further?
- It's my heart, and I'll damage it if I want.
[ monitor beeping steadily ]
[ footsteps approaching ]
[ birds chirping ]
♪♪♪
- John.
[ gasps ] John.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Oh, my darling.
- Oh. - I'm here.
- Where have you been? Where have you been?
- I know.
Oh, my darling.
Darling, darling John.
Stay with me. - I will wait for you.
- Belinda.
Oh...
Oh, my darling.
Are you all right?
Did it go away?
Terry.
No.
Belinda.
[ monitor beeping steadily ]
- Woman: Stop!
Stop, stop, stop.
- Get out of my way. - Ma'am.
- Get out of... - Has she been released?
- No. - ...my way.
- Ma'am, where are you going?
- You have no right to keep me here.
Get out of my way. Do you understand me?
- Nobody's gonna stop you. - Get out of...my...way.
That's right.
[ bird cawing ]
[ door creaks ]
[ door slams ]
- Where is she? - Upstairs packing.
We're taking her home.
- The hell you are.
I don't know what I would have done if you had died.
How do you feel?
- [ scratchy voice ] Throat hurts.
- Not worth killing yourself for a boy.
-It's not just Anthony.
The whole world's so terrible,
I don't see any reason to go on.
The fact is I'm gonna lose everyone I love.
My mom left me.
My dad doesn't want me.
I have no one.
- You have me.
- For how long?
- Oh...
Your mother fought so hard for her life.
She tried to live long enough to see you off to college.
But she couldn't make it.
And now you want to kill yourself?
Huh?
[ birds chirping ]
You have a great gift, Julie.
- What? - You have a beautiful voice.
- Not anymore. I mean, listen to me.
- Oh, it'll come back.
- No, I don't--I don't care. I'm done.
- I know.
- It's too humiliating.
I can't go back.
I'm done. I'm finished.
- No, you're not.
It'll come back quickly, you'll see.
And then someday-- someday it'll bring you freedom.
Yes, bring you freedom and success and happiness
if you let it.
[ birds chirping ]
Something happened to me at your age,
maybe a year older.
There was a thing called the All-City High School Chorus.
Thousands of boys and girls
from all five of the New York City boroughs--
I think 90 or 100 kids were accepted,
and you had to audition for it.
And...
I did.
I was scared to death.
I--I--and I sang, I knew I had a pretty voice,
but I--I doubted that I would actually get in
the high school chorus, a big thing.
So...
I went down there to Carnegie Hall,
which was where they were doing these,
just Carnegie Hall, this grand place,
and there were hundreds of kids there.
The auditorium was filled with them.
And it came my turn, and I walked up to the piano,
and the head of the thing, the director,
said, "What are you gonna sing?" and I said, "Summertime."
And I started to sing. I was scared to death.
Started to sing,
and I--I sang it with all my heart.
And I got in.
[ chuckles ] I got in.
Little old skinny old stupid me, I got in.
And I ran all the way home, which was about, I don't know,
2 1/2 miles or something like that
from where we lived uptown.
My father was--he was sitting in the kitchen
playing chess with Uncle Gustoff,
his German pal.
And my mother was doing the dishes.
Well, I could hardly catch my breath from running.
I kept--and I got-- "I got into the chorus," I said.
"He picked me! You want to hear that--what I sang?"
And they didn't answer.
They just continued doing what they were doing, and...
So I started singing.
I started singing it anyways.
♪ Summertime, and the living is easy ♪
Of course, I can't do it anymore now, but I sang it,
and as I sang,
my father and Gus stopped playing chess,
Mama stopped washing dishes,
and one by one without a word,
they walked past me and continued walking
all the way into the front room.
And in silence I watched them do that.
And something happened to me right then.
It was a pivotal moment in my life, Julie.
Whether or not they or anyone in the world cared,
I sang that song loud and clear,
right there in the kitchen,
and to the very last note, I sang that song.
From that moment on, I decided to believe in myself
and pursue my dreams.
So I say to you, my darling granddaughter,
if nobody in this world is there for you,
if you're all on your own,
sing.
Sing loud and clear. Sing with all your heart,
and your voice will be heard, my darling.
And years from now when you're a great singer...
...I hope you'll remember me.
[ gears shift ]
- This is a big mistake, honey.
You need to let go of this so- called musical
and come home with me and Sibyl.
- In case you don't remember, Daddy,
you and Sibyl wanted to get rid of me.
- That was a mistake.
- No, marrying Sibyl was the mistake,
- so why don't you two just go home and leave me alone?
♪ Autumn frosts have slain July ♪
♪ Still she haunts me phantomwise ♪
♪ Alice moving under skies
♪ Never seen by waking eyes
♪ Children yet the tale to hear ♪
♪ Eager eye and willing ear
♪♪♪
♪ Lovingly shall nestle near
♪ In a Wonderland they lie
♪ Dreaming as the days go by
♪ Dreaming as the summer...
[ piano stops playing ]
[ music stops ]
[ piano resumes playing ]
♪♪♪
[ footsteps depart ]
♪ A boat 'neath a sunny sky
♪ Lingering onward dreamily
♪ In an evening of July
♪ Children three that nestle near ♪
♪ Eager eye and willing ear
♪♪♪
♪ Pleased a simple tale to hear ♪
♪ Long has paled that sunny sky ♪
♪ Echoes fade and memories die
♪ Autumn frosts have slain July ♪
♪ Still she haunts me phantomwise ♪
♪ Alice moving under skies
♪ Never seen by waking eyes
♪ Children yet the tale to hear ♪
♪ Eager eye and willing ear
- Thanks, Terry.
[ crickets chirping ]
What are you doing, Grandma?
Come on.
Let's go inside.
It's been a long day.
- I feel so tired.
- Well, we'll clean you up and get you to bed.
Okay?
- When I die, which I have no intention
of doing anytime soon,
Marge and Terry will take care of you.
You'll go to Esperance Academy
and then to a college of your choice,
hopefully Sarah Lawrence, like your mom,
and... [ exhales deeply ]
everything I own will be yours.
- No, don't talk like that.
- But you have to trust me.
I know what's best for my beloved daughter's little girl.
♪♪♪
[ insects chirping ]
[ geese honking ]
[ doors squeaking ]
[ sighs ]
Oh, my God.
[ slurping ]
[ exhaling deeply ]
Honey, I think it's best if I stay home and rest.
Though I certainly don't want to miss
your opening night performance.
Go on now, I'll--I'll--I'll see you after the show, okay?
You better.
- [ whispers ] Okay.
- [ singsongy ] Do good.
I know you will.
- Thanks, Terry.
♪♪♪
[ bird cawing ]
- [ gasps ]
[ exhales deeply ]
♪♪♪
[ pained grunting ]
[ panting ]
[ exhales deeply ]
- What time is it? - 6:30.
- Oh, my God. I have to get dressed.
- There's no hurry. It doesn't start for an hour and a half.
[ phone rings ]
Hello?
It's Julie.
Hi.
- How are you feeling, Grandma?
- Great, and I'll be there with bells on.
- No bells, Grandma. They'll make too much noise.
- Now, remember what you're gonna think
when you're standing in the wings
before your first entrance?
- Yep, I'm gonna
take a deep breath and think, "Okay, everybody,
"sit back and relax, 'cause now you're gonna see
the real Alice in Wonderland."
- Exactly. And remember that also when you--
- Oops, uh, gotta go. I'll talk to you after.
Bye.
- Okay.
[ performing vocal warm- ups ]
[ indistinct conversations ]
- Five minutes.
Thank you, five.
[ indistinct conversations ]
Curtain.
Go.
♪♪♪
- Whoo!
[ rhythmic clapping ]
Whoo!
♪♪♪
Oh, whoa!
Whoo! Whoo, whoo!
[ rhythmic clapping ]
[ bells tolling ]
Whoo!
[ whooping continues ]
[ rhythmic clapping continues ]
♪♪♪
[ whooping continues ]
♪♪♪
[ laughter ]
♪♪♪
[ laughter ]
♪♪♪
- ♪ Teach me to sin
♪ Lock me in your velvet arms ♪
♪ Enslave me to your wanton charms ♪
♪ Teach me to sin
♪♪♪
♪ Teach me to sin
♪ Teach me
♪ Inflame my blood with blue desire ♪
♪ Your senses reeling, pulses swim ♪
♪ Teach me to sin
♪♪♪
♪ If I cannot be your master ♪
♪ Let me be your slave
♪ You're so disreputably delicious and depraved ♪
♪ Explore the very depths of me ♪
♪ I love to misbehave
♪ With the lowest of God's creatures ♪
♪ It's your nastiness I crave ♪
♪ Teach me to sin
♪♪♪
♪ Why don't you rock me in your velvet arms? ♪
♪ Enslave me to those wanton charms ♪
♪ And teach me to sin
♪♪♪
Class, I would like to introduce you to...
[ voice echoing ] Sin...101.
♪ Teach me to sin
♪♪♪
Oh, show me your stuff!
♪♪♪
[ cheers and applause ]
- Go. I'll be okay. - No, I have another chance.
- I don't want to leave you. - Don't argue with me.
Marge can stay with me. Now go.
Go, go, go!
- I'm not going to.
- Terry.
[ crickets chirping ]
You don't want to miss your daughter's opening, do you?
- My what?
- Yes.
Think about it, Terry. Figure it out.
- Are you serious?
- Yes, I'm serious.
- Yeah, but--
- Look.
Figure it out. Arthur wasn't around.
Youwere around.
- Around what?
- Yes.
- [ chuckles ]
- Now go.
Go, go, go, go, go.
[ sighs ]
- Are you sure? - Yes.
- Does she know? - No. Now, hurry.
It'll be over before you get there.
- Why didn't you tell me before?
- Get out of here.
[ engine starts ]
♪♪♪
- ♪ I wanted desperately to hold you ♪
♪ And told you as much
♪♪♪
♪ As flowers tenderly enfold you ♪
♪ And cling to your touch
♪♪♪
♪ Nobody told me life was endless ♪
♪ Full of these things we dare not speak ♪
♪♪♪
♪ I know the world's not cold and friendless ♪
♪ It's more the company
♪ You keep
♪♪♪
♪ I spent all day inside a garden ♪
♪ And waited in vain
♪♪♪
♪ I felt the rain and watched it harden ♪
♪ On the shivering plain
♪ Nobody warned me of these feelings ♪
♪♪♪
♪ The clever lies we must forsake ♪
♪♪♪
♪ The fear we spend our lives concealing ♪
♪♪♪
♪ From all the promises we make ♪
♪ And still I'm left without an ending ♪
♪ Pretending you're near
♪ But I can still go on remembering ♪
♪ Pretending you're here
♪♪♪
[ applause ]
♪♪♪
[ drum beating ]
- Off with her head!
♪♪♪
Get her!
♪♪♪
[ tearing cards ]
♪♪♪
[ tearing card ]
♪♪♪
[ tearing card ]
♪♪♪
[ tearing card ]
♪♪♪
- Undici.
[ tearing card ]
Dodici.
Tredici...
- ♪ A boat 'neath a sunny sky
♪ Lingering onward dreamily
♪ In an evening of July
♪ Children three that nestle near ♪
♪ Eager eye and willing ear
♪ Pleased a simple tale to hear ♪
♪ Long has paled that sunny sky ♪
♪ Echoes fade and memories die
♪ Autumn frosts have slain July ♪
♪ Still she haunts me phantomwise ♪
♪ Alice moving under skies
♪ Never seen by waking eyes
♪ Children yet the tale to hear ♪
♪ Eager eye and willing ear
♪ Lovingly shall nestle near
♪ In a Wonderland they lie
♪ Dreaming as the days go by
♪ Dreaming as the summers die
♪ Ever drifting down the stream ♪
♪ Lingering in the golden gleam ♪
♪ Life, what is it
♪ But a dream?
[ applause ]
[ cheering ]
♪♪♪
[ applause continues ]
♪♪♪
[ cheers and applause continue ]
- Ah, I'm so proud of you.
- No Grandma or...
- No, she felt dizzy at the last minute
and had to stay home. Marge is with her.
Comin' tomorrow night, and she's anxious
to hear how it all went.
[ crickets chirping ]= Grandma?
[ footsteps approach ]Grandma.
- Huh?
Oh...
- You missed it.
- I know, honey, and I'm sorry.
You know I wanted to go, but...
tell...
tell all how--
how did it go?
Were you scared?
- How did you-- - Well, I--I was,
but I told myself just as you told me to.
Hang on to your hats, folks, 'cause now you're gonna see
the real Alice in Wonderland.
Well, it worked.
I was concentrating way too much to be scared.
I wish you would have been there, though.
Grandma?
[ sobbing ]
Grandma.
- Shh. - Grandma.
You can't just take her!
[ moans ] No, let me go.
[ sobbing ] Open the door!
Oh my God.
Don't let 'em leave.
- A lot of you probably don't know who John Simon is,
but I want to read you what he wrote in "The New York Times"
about Karen's performance in her first picture.
"Karen Shanahan can make her face
into a dozen different faces-- beautiful, pain- riddled,
childlike, wizened, otherworldly,
furious, ethereal,
Earth- Motherish,
you name it, and even the unnamable.
Now she's the prototypical dowdy faculty wife,
now a blazing maenad unleashed on our libido,
now a china shepherdess so fragile
her own breathing might shatter her,
now a goddess shooting up high above any mere man
in the immensity of her love and wrath.
The picture should be seen
just for that shiningly irrefutable..."
- [ lowered voice ] You have all that in you.
- "...performance."
- I saw it.
- Now I want you to hear something she recorded
when she was not much older than her granddaughter here.
- ♪ If you ever go across the sea ♪
♪ To Ireland
♪ Then maybe at the closing of the day ♪
♪ You will sit and watch the moon rise ♪
♪ Over Claddagh
♪ And see
- [ singing along ] ♪ The sun go down on Galway Bay ♪
[ sniffles ]
♪ Just to hear again the ripple of a trout stream ♪
♪ The women in the meadows making hay ♪
♪ And to sit beside the turf fire ♪
♪ In a cabin
[ sniffles ]
[ voice breaking ] ♪ And watch the barefoot gossoons ♪
♪ On their way
♪♪♪
[ birds and insects chirping ]
♪♪♪
[ birds chirping ]
♪ Sometimes a wind blows
♪ And you and I
♪ Float
♪ In love
♪ And kiss forever
♪ In a darkness
♪ And the mysteries of love
♪ Come clear
♪ And dance
♪ In light
♪ In you
♪ In me
♪ And show
♪ That we
♪ Are love
♪ Sometimes a wind blows
♪ And the mysteries of love
♪ Come clear
♪ And dance
♪ In light
♪ In you
♪ In me
♪ And show
♪ That we
♪ Are love
♪♪♪
- ♪ I wanted desperately to hold you ♪
♪ And told you as much
♪♪♪
♪ As flowers tenderly enfold you ♪
♪ And cling to your touch
♪♪♪
♪ Nobody told me life was endless ♪
♪ Full of these things we dare not speak ♪
♪♪♪
♪ I know the world's not cold and friendless ♪
♪ It's more the company you keep ♪
♪♪♪
♪ I spent all day inside a garden
♪ And waited in vain
♪♪♪
♪ I felt the rain and watched it harden ♪
♪ On the shivering plain
♪ Nobody warned me of these feelings ♪
♪♪♪
♪ The clever lies we must forsake ♪
♪♪♪
♪ The fear we spend our lives concealing ♪
♪ From all the promises we make ♪
♪♪♪