Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008) - full transcript
Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. Her husband, Gilbert, has been killed overseas as a medical doctor during World War II. Her two daughters are pre-occupied with their own young families and her adopted son Dominic has yet to return from the war. When a long-hidden secret is discovered under the floorboards at Green Gables, Anne retreats into her memories to relive her troubled early years prior to arriving as an orphan at Green Gables and being adopted by the Cuthberts. Still haunted by her early childhood, the impact of this difficult period has a far-reaching effect on this older woman, once she discovers the truth about her real parents. She begins a delicate search for her birth father. It is a journey through a past fraught with danger, uncertainty, heartache and joy. In the parade of humanity Anne encounters she also faces the root of her desire to find true "kindred spirits", an inspired imagination and the impetus to use her talents as a writer to inspire others.
Anne!
Anne!
Anne!
You have been out here since lunch.
You never remember to
tell me where you?re going.
You missed our entire history class,
the fall of Rome.
This is one of the privileges
of heaving mother a schoolteacher.
What a relief to be rescued!
The book is a perfect tragedy.
It would be a tragedy indeed,
if we miss our train.
Your father is home from the logging camp, Remember.
we've got to go.
Might be that book gives me a trill!
It's the story of the daughter of a belted earl,
stolen away in infancy by a cruel nurse,
who died before she can confess.
There is nothing lovelier, then
having mother to gather me up.
Come on, Anne...
Mother!
Mother!
Where are you?
Hi!
Hi!
I figured you out here writing.
There is a read through with
the cast this afternoon,
and they had some notes
they want to share with you,
before we get started.
I am a novelist?
I'm not used to Notes
from all these people.
Could you go and just fulfill me in?
Would you tell the cast, that you
going to hold off on it for now.
I mean it's not a disaster,
Obviously you have
a different concept.
It's not stage worthy Ann.
Not yet, anyway.
My concern is that,
I don't think it?s going to be ready
to be performed this summer.
I can put in another play and
you just keep working on that.
This came for you.
The boys all off celebrating.
This is a huge victory.
You'll hear from him.
Don't worry.
Will see you later.
Thanks.
Four exciting new plays.
I know I sound like a typical mother, but
you know what your brother can be like.
Frankly I'm terrified, Franny.
Dominic said he'd be
on the first boat back from England
I know, I know, I'm sorry to bother you.
Is the baby better?
Oh don't be silly.
You come all the way to hear.
Toomey has a mom.
I just needed someone to talk to.
Why wouldn't Dominic be in touch with me?
Oh, I hear the baby crying.
You better go.
Give him a big kiss for me.
I love you. Okay. Bye-bye.
It's easy to write to cry
I never expected this life for Gil
Send Dominic home.
Get him back to me.
Maybe he is alright and just doesn't
want to get in touch with me.
You can't act like that
with people who raised you.
Though never knowing who your real parents are
can always haunt you
Well done!
Alright everybody time to packing in
before I decide to recast.
Thanks for coming out.
Goodnight, Anne.
Sorry about all this changes in the play.
10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Learn your lines.
Any word on Dominic yet?
Come on, Ann.
He will be back. Dominic is a big boy.
So you are going to start rewriting and
making me a big-time producer, or what?
Oh, the Great American impresario
was far away from the Broadway, you can get?
You know, I don't get it.
What are you doing here?
Call me and say you have
a great idea for a play,
that want to challenge yourself.
What did you come here for?
What did you come here for?
I came here to sell Green Gables.
Doing a play with you was just
an excuse to get here.
Don't waste my time.
Just go away.
Just leave me alone.
I always needed to write.
I've made up stories
about myself all my life.
Used to pretend my parents where
a perfect couple living in harmony.
I did it so often and for so along,
it's hard to know where
the truth is anymore.
I would not recognize
my father if I saw him.
Bertha I promised you I was going
to quit the logging camp.
You can build your own home instead of living in a boardinghouse.
Walter Shirley!
you are an intoxicated braggart
You're going to kill both of us with this crazy nag!
This horse can do the mail run
from Grand Falls to St. John in 12 hours.
This is pretty penny to be
made if I can get the contract.
Your mother was my best friend.
She'd like you to have this.
She would want me to look after you.
Since Dr. and Mrs. Thomas
where so close to Bertha,
Walter Shirly and I have asked Dr. Thomas
to give a few words of
eulogy toward this dear woman.
Walter Shirly was not at fault.
He loved his wife.
Our school teacher and friend Bertha,
has been stolen from our community
in an accident of Biblical proportions.
But the white majesty of death
now falls upon this beloved woman
and sets her apart to be crowned
and to live forever in God's heavenly kingdom.
I'm sorry for a your loss.
Be strong child.
Thank you.
If Mom has been crowned a
Queen then what am I?
a child of God sweetheart.
Would'nt it be better to
tell people from now on
that I was the daughter of a Queen,
than to endure the notoriety of such a tragedy.
It's better to speak the truth.
Your mother may have had a noble dreams.
but She died of no money or dignity.
Was her sore.
Now thanks to your father.
I hope my husband can find him and bring back.
Don't be so hard at yourself, Walt.
The Almighty thinks it is
better to be twelve of us. Right?
Hey, what's that saying.
"To err is human and to forgive is divine."
No, Doc.
I killed her.
Hey, stop it, stop it.
Walter.
Drunken fools!.
Somebody help me.
Walt! I am coming.
No, you're not listening, Louisa.
He went back to the river.
He wanted to drown this sorrows,
literally.
And you pushed him.
I rescued him.
You know what, I'll say,
it was a noble performance
for the entire town to see. But he's taken off.
We may never see the likes of Walter again.
Do you have any idea how mortifying it is
to be at funeral of a dear friend
while the town's esteemed doctor.
is off on a bender
The whole town knows
what the disgusting pair of
you've been up to.
This is only a drop.
Walter desperately needed my support
to absolve himself in front of town.
It's all it was.
Temperance will be preached
in this house.
Walter needs a good kick
in the pants and so do you.
Louisa.
You can have water
Don't? No, no.
Step outside now.
Hey, come on now, stop it! You're mom's making a mess here.
You're making a mess here.
Do not wake up the children.
Katie, I'm convinced that
it must have been a disappointment
to my father if he is not coming back.
Mother said,
that he was a free spirit.
I made up my mind I could be
a free spirit myself.
I'm resolved that the Thomases
will be my new family.
yet my life does not have to
be graveyard of buried hopes.
The only thing I recall about my father,
Was how my mother was drawn to him.
Like a moth to a flame.
Gene.
I don't want you to feel any pressure
about producing my play.
Good.
I'm feeling pressure
to make money this summer.
What would you say about me
going to Green Gables to write.
It's a great idea.
That's doing both us a word of good.
Come on, Elsie!
I promised Anne,
we will be ready by 10.
You know what a pistol she is.
You can't clear out 30 years
of living in old place like this
in a couple of days.
Look how young mom and dad looked
when we first moved here.
I'm furious at them for letting
this place get so ran down,
when Anne was so generous
for letting us live here for years.
When we had nowhere else.
Oh, do not preach them.
They took them place in Albafras
Why Ann's own kids have not
taken any interest?
just playing weird.
Too far to come.
Ann is just easier for our family
to fix everything.
Elsie, John? it's Anne...
Aunt Ann come up.
What mischief are you up to Marilla's room.
Terrific to see you.
Oh, your mother finally
written aren't she?
I just was wondering if she lost
every letter I have written her
in those two months.
Oh, I know she's been awful at
responding to everybody.
She's taken up golf.
We were just finishing
packing or, so we thought.
And we have found all these
letters in the closet,
in the floor.
These are Marilla's love letters
between Marilla and John Blight.
They quarreled, you know, and she
was really sorry she
didn't forgive him
when she had a chance.
What a great well-kept secret.
Who is Walter Sirley?
How did Marilla know your family if
your parents died when you were born?
My dearest?
Shall I to?
my dearest daughter,
please, accept this note,
as a confirmation, that I have come to
a much better circumstances in my life
and so I feel it is my duty
to try to locate you.
I have finally had the good luck
to marry that wonderful woman.
I have prosperous hardware
business in Fredericton now.
It is my sincere hope that
you can forgive me
for the expanse of time
that has lapsed between us,
and come back to me.
I realize you are likely in
a much better circumstances,
than we can ever provide.
And so I'm trusted in
our mutual acquaintance
Ms. Nelly Parkhurst to make
contact with you again
and to determine if my
approach is acceptable
to you and your guardians.
For so many years your
mother wanted me
to quit the logging camp
and build a home for us.
Maybe now I can fulfill my promise.
If you cannot forgive me for
the harm that has come to you,
as a result of my neglect,
I will respect your wishes.
Any response will be welcomed.
Your loving father Walter.
Marilla must have felt
she needed to protect me,
or she was frightened, that I'd leave.
Protect you from what?
Ah, with Marilla that would
have been an instinct.
So you were not an orphan.
As a child I made up stories
about my parents.
No one knew within
about me so it was?
it was easy.
I have given up hope of ever
finding my father.
Let me help.
What luck is finding Marilla's letters.
What a luck.
Do you mind if we tell mom?
She always said,
with your imagination,
you are destined to be
a great writer.
Yeah I'd longed to write once,
but now I just do it to work
out everything else.
You never can tell,
why certain people
do decide to write.
Obviously it's very personal.
Yes, well,certain people
like me are born to travel,
while others, like your mother,
blessed with a desire to play golf.
Thank you, Anne,
for my entire family.
Mother said, she will call, when
she knows the place is sold.
She has not written before,
because she didn't want to discuss it.
We had so many wonderful
years growing up here.
Why did you ever give it to us?
Well, Gil's medical practice wasn't in this aria
and your parents were down on a luck ------
Don't sell it, Ann.
Oh, well I have complicated
feelings about this place.
We will talk soon, okay.
I don't know how
I survived the time
before I was adopted
by the Cuthberts.
It was horrible after
my mother died.
the Thomases gave up on me and
I lost hope of ever
seeing my father again.
The cash from selling
your mother's things
were given to the town.
I will pay you board for a time.
We are leaving.
Suddenly my husband has
lost his license
for practice medicine.
Can you have me until
my father comes?
You need to know that your
father has gone for good.
I heard someone say: "he is
drowned in his own sorrow".
He is not really dead, is he?
In some respects he is.
Things haven't worked out well
for either of us, Anne.
No need for theatrics, Louisa,
you have done your duty.
God help you keep that sorry
husband of your sober
in the next town.
Thanks God the county
found the room.
The child would be much b
etter placed
in an orphanage or a Foster house.
No family will take her in,
after that sorry
business with her father.
You have to take her.
The Dr. Thomas are leaving town
it's the county's responsibility
We'll do what we can.
We don't normally take children.
A little beggar like you
should thank the Lord
that we're taking pity on you at all.
Stop it!
I need water!
Some of them here need to be
kept and checked all times.
You will sleep here with these three.
To sleep in such cramped quarters,
is much more, than my
imagination can be abide by.
We don't harbor to royalty here Miss.
I understood you might have
been paid for on my behalf.
You either put up or shut up.
Put this uniform on at
sunrise when you get up.
Move, our girls!
you will not need whatever in their
You will get your chores
assigned first thing.
By the way, I heard all
about Walter Sirley.
Can you move over, please.
I really didn't understand.
I had never experienced
hypocrisy before.
It was incomprehensible to me.
How our God could abandon me!
I didn't want to give in.
I decided, that
God just forgotten
about everyone in that place.
And in my heart I was afraid
something awful
was going to happen.
What did you bring
in your suitcase?
What are you doing?
No, stop!
Nice! That's pretty.
Silence!
God in his wisdom has chosen
to make you poppers,
not animals!
But dependent upon a charity
of others, none less
harmony and peace must be
maintained here at any cost.
No, those are my only possessions. No!
Come here, you.
You see this young rat?
Her father is a criminal,
accused of doing in his own wife.
Keep away from her.
Beware of her manner of speech,
which she uses to deceive.
Only stiff punishment can save her.
No one gets away with this
kind of behavior here.
You will remain standing
until daybreak.
God punishes the disobedient
with eternal damnation.
I've tried imagine
someone finding me.
Someone who would rescue
me and care for me.
I gathered no one is
supposed to speak to you.
Want some water?
You have been here an
eternity haven't you?
I was staying in a dark
trying to imagine
I was a bride in a misty veil,
waiting in eternity for her betrothed
who has left her at the altar.
This is a far worst place,
than even I could ever imagine.
So it was a task to pretend.
I'm sorry for rambling on so.
Nobody talks
to me here do go on.
Well, when I sow how tyrannical matron
was to you on my very first Stay.
I would instinctively you must be
the product of lifelong sorrow.
I don't dare talking about that.
The walls have years.
Why was she so cruel to you, then?
She's afraid.
I know the secret to free
everyone in this place.
But, you see, I am not leaving
until I finish my
life's vocation.
And there is so much
in I need help.
I have the key into freedom.
And why do you allow yourself
to remain imprisoned.
I am editing in the history
of every word
in English language
for posterity.
I'm so sorry.
I don't mean to
be impolite, Sir.
but I am afraid, the dictionary
has already been invented.
Did you not know that?
I have never heard
such a word before.
You don't have a single soul
in the world, do you?
I had a wife and a daughter once.
They still console me...
Here,
as life marches on.
You don't know how
difficult it is
to draw a line between
a past and a presence.
We are imprisoned here forever?
Please, there is so much
work to be done.
Memories, notations?
They all need to be copied.
Only at night,
when no one can see.
I will help you.
what's your name?
Gabriel? Blake.
Gabriel?
Gabriel was a heavenly
messenger, wasn't he?
The County should be pleased with
the God fearing ideals
with our attendance here.
Purge of pride and
eager for employment,
each one earns his keep.
What devilment, are you up to?
Where did you get this?
Get in there.
This child is very disobedient.
Gabriel Blake has been
filling her head
full of foolishness.
As members of the board,
I am pleased to be able to demonstrate to you
our exacting method of
inmate discipline.
Her flaming red hair
is a real cause
of her devilish behavior.
Scissors, please, matron.
No, no, no!
Take it matron and burn it.
You will stand again until daybreak.
I'd like to speak to you outside.
Don't you dare!
No one acknowledge this guttersnipe!
You know the routine orderlies
Get me that cup!
Come on, Gabriel.
Your little scrap
just worsening your trial here by inciting calamity.
I'm devastated.
It's all my fault.
Never mind,
there is a darkness here
which needs to be rectified.
Your innocence may assist me,
if I have my way.
I can see we have no choice, doctor?
We must condemn the building
and expel the overseers.
But I indeed want
this child to speak
to our entire board at
the right opportunity.
Gabriel, are you awake?
I heard the superintendent.
She wants to help.
She wants the doctor to send me away.
I go fetch your books and notes.
The secret?
The key?
under the board in the bag.
It's yours.
Go, now.
Freedom I never... you'll need it.
I will not go till
they bring you back.
Hold my hand.
So splendid to have a friend!
You are a true kindred spirit.
What's that?
A kindred spirit's someone
you can rely on,
right to the innermost part
of your soul.
I feel so tired.
Gabriel!
Angels have watched
over me all my life,
rescuing me.
The board of the Boulinbrook County poorhouse
listened to me.
It was a feeling I'd never
experienced before.
It made me begin to feel
like I had a voice.
The County Board has found a special
foster home for you and ---- girls.
Consider it an honor that
they have gone to such trouble.
You leave tomorrow.
No honor having you be the one
to tell me so, matron.
You and your husband have
no spark of kindness in you.
I will never forget what
you did to Gabriel.
You had no right.
First County Poorhouse will be sent
to a brand new building.
You will be better there.
You are so kind.
We'll come back for the
next group in an hour.
Where is that red head kid?
She is on the next load.
Coming, mom, coming!
Mrs. Thomas!
Good Lord, Ann Shirley!
What, in heavens name,
are you doing here?
Violetta!
Mrs. Thomas!
Fate has brought us together.
Jock, Keith, wait!
You look entirely like thieves
running away in the night.
That is pretty putting it mildly.
I don't know what you're doing
I cannot possibly
take on another runaway
when we are running away ourselves.
You will help me? I'm begging you Mrs Thomas.
I know how to be resourceful.
I even thought of changing my name.
So No one would ever recognize me again!
I'd love to be called
something elegant,
like Cordelia.
That's a horrible name.
What about Geraldine Fitzgerald?
Who Cares what's you called!
You can't stay with
us that's final.
You and my mother
were best of friends.
That practically makes us kin.
Didn't you hear, our mother
were in too much troubles as it is.
And it is all thanks to you.
Stop it, Jock.
There is a poetic irony
that we altogether as fugitives
Is that the trouble,
you mean Mrs. Thomas?
Yes, well, you see, Ann,
things went from bad to worse
after your father vanished
so did all the funds from
the parish roof box.
And the town accused my husband.
But he insisted that
was your father
Your father's trash, Anne.
And so we've been living
under house arrest
in the half way hotel.
Awaiting an inquest,
because my husband was
killed by a train.
Do you think he was?
I've been in the depths of despair.
Being a doctor's wife has been
a life of bitter disappointment, Annie.
I can hardly swallow.
It will be too much for mother,
to be cross examined and have to go back
over and over for the inquest.
Our grandmother's very rich
and she wants us to come
and live with her.
if they're anything I can do to help
Leave us alone!
When we get to St. John's we will
go you to some place safe.
Stand back.
Apparently there is a family
home in Fredrickson.
just outside of Marysville.
Yes that would be
St. Agatha Asylum, ma'am.
I'm sorry Annie but we have
to drop you off there.
Thank you for your directions.
Hurry, boys.
Boys, harry up the train
leaves in three minutes.
I've made up my mind to simply
enjoy this train ride.
Train rides are so thrilling!
Anne, That's only a train.
Now, would you take
your own ticket?
It's your responsibility.
We need to get some flowers
for grandmother.
You choose a color and
Mother'll have change.
What lovely wild roses!
looking so happy
to be roses.
Could I just have some change?
We're going to buy
flowers for grandmother.
I wish roses could talk.
Oh, they surely have
hopeful thoughts.
All passengers! Now boarding for...
Here you go.
Hurry up,
mother says we?re late.
Hurry up, Anne.
I suppose mother is
already on the train.
I hope your grandmother likes pink.
Red head people can never wear pink.
Did you ever know anybody who's head
was red when they were young,
but changed color when they grew up?
No, put your bag up.
Could you help me, please, sir?
We?re this way mother!
All Aboard!
Here we go.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
All in the board.
Mrs. Thomas!
Mrs. Thomas!
Mrs. Thomas!
Ann what are you doing there?
You're going the wrong way!
Last call for passengers to Marysville and Fredrickton. All aboard!
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Mrs. Thomas you are on
the wrong train!
No, Anny, you are
on the wrong train.
We don't have much time.
Anne!
Jump!
Where is my purse?
I left it right here.
Hurry, that's our train.
The only train to Fredrickson
until tomorrow.
Grandmother will be waiting
on the other end
and she'll be burst
of blood vessel.
I blame myself
entirely Mrs. Thomas.
Violetta was following me.
If I hadn't lost myself
in the beauty
of those colorful blossoms,
at so little color
in my life, lately.
And salt has been added to injured,
and now we obliged to sleep in
a common Railway Station.
I'm cursing myself because
I lost my purse,
and all my money.
My mother in law will
be entirely unimpressed.
Feel free to blame this entire
mess on a hopeless orphan
who wasn't given a brain God
gave kiss, Mrs. Thomas
You must call me Louisa.
You know your mother
was quite brilliant.
She used to help
me with Sunday school.
She really knew how to fasten
Intellect, she was a wonderful teacher,
who knew so many lovely
promises by heart.
The Lady of the lake,
Seasons by Thurston.
She cultivated me and if you a
half as bright as she is,
then I know that you will make
a wonderful teacher too one day.
You have given me hope Mrs. Louisa.
I'd hate to part ways on bad terms,
especially since I was trying so hard
to imagine you will keep me forever.
I have a confession to make yet.
I took some money from
the selling of your mother's things.
I mean, not a lot, but
I wish at the time when my
husband was not bear dependable,
he was so cross with your father.
I know, see, you and I
destined to be great friends.
And I won't desert you, either.
I will help you all morning,
if you could give us a rid.
If you really want a ride
you better tell me your name.
My name is Cordelia Shirley.
We walked all along from Bolingbroke,
and missed our train.
Don't know Walter Shirley
from Bolingbroke area?
Accused of doing his wife in
as I recall.
No, ma'am.
I've never heard of such a man.
Under contract for the mailroute up to Grand Falls.
My father's name was Jedediah.
I know it's rather an awful
name, don't you think?
Hard name to be sure.
What did Jedediah Shirley did?
My parents are both teachers
at the Bolingbroke primary school.
They each died of fever
when I was only three months.
They were a pair
of babies themselves.
I've had the good fortune to be
rescued from the Asylum by friends.
We all are going to live in Marysville.
They are members of the affluent Thomas family.
Thomas you say?
And you never met old Mrs T.?
No, but young Mrs. Thomas over there
is as benevolent as she is loyal.
Get your bags.
Anyone knows the Thomas?s place,
if they know Marysville.
Oh, thank you.
Luisa! Violetta, boys, wake up!
The Sun is shining on
us this morning.
The chaos that I've caused is over.
I cannot believe we had to stay
over at that train station.
Thanks to you, Ann.
I'm sorry,
I vexed you, Violetta.
It gives me great
satisfaction to know,
the inequity has been raided.
I feel just like a hero-women
in the novel.
You talk too much.
Don't be so certain,
grandmother will throw you out
on your head.
Be nice to her she
is interesting.
It would be more to a point,
if she were useful.
Grandmother will toss us all,
when she hears her nonsense.
I will not worry about asylum
for a little while longer.
Or to imagine us all of part
of a beautiful Mirage.
I thank God for two or
three times a minute.
We're right proud of this place.
Marysville is named
by old Mr. Thomas.
who built a mill on the count of it's always been so merry.
Christopher Columbus
I must be dreaming.
You certainly are.
There is no need
to be nasty, Violetta.
God's nightgown!
We wondered what in heaven's
name had happened to you.
Now Mrs. Thomas is gone all the way
into St. John looking for you.
Oh, Hapzabah, no, Please don't?
if she has a coronary on her way,
you will never hear the end of it.
Louisa Thomas!
What is that?
It?s the most heartrending story
Please, just keep my mother-in-law
calm, until she has a chance
to get used to that idea.
You don't meant to think
I'd take in a street urchin like that?
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You don't march in here
with some stray cur
that can be
of use to me.
But she is such
a bright little creature.
And her mother was a
good friend of mine.
I promised a little thing that
she could stay with us.
I'm not about to break my promise,
she can do a house chores.
She doesn't cross this
threshold of the household.
I have been waiting settlers
go without went for a while.
You have any trouble ?
ask for Nellie.
Thank you
I'm grateful
for all your help.
Get up.
Hapsapah will not let
you do any house chores,
but she is agree you can help
out in the stables, though.
Violetta will show you
the barn out back.
Please tell her I?m very good
at washing dishes.
but I'm resigned to fit into
a household any way I can.
What a splendid property!
Hurry up, Anne.
I'm just so excited to imagine,
I can stay for a little while.
Stables are this way.
A brooke!
Brooks is such a cheerful
things aren't they?
Always laughing even in
winter under the ice.
Can't you ever quit
being so phony?
Trashcan Anne! That's what I
going to call you,
because you are garbage!
I would not give myself such errors
in the presence of a true aristocrat
myself, being a progeny
of Royal Irish blood.
The only royal blood
you'll ever have
is of my fist at in the end
of your nose.
You are con just like your father.
You are so queenly?
the test of a true noble
is having such a high instep
a stream of water could run
right underneath it.
I don't believe anybody has that,
and least of all - you.
My family are descendants of
the warrior Monarch
Queen Maeve who led the Celts into battle
riding
bareback like moonlight,
see
Queen Maeve sounds more like a
witch than a queen.
Besides you couldn't ride
by moonlight, let alone mount a horse.
Could you?
You just watch.
I have a way with equines.
Who do you think you are?
This is foolish!
You can't blame me if
you get yourself killed.
I shall prove you're
a liar or perish!
Anne!
Mother, she is out of control!
Hepzibah!!!
it's Anne!!!
Charles, what the devil
is going on
Charles don't you
have any control?
But where are the grooms? Where is the stable boy?
Stop, who is that?
Whose horses is that?
Stop this coach at once!
Oh, stop, stop, please!
I'm going to lose my lunch!
Louisa!
If this is your manner
of appreciation
for my munificence,
you can pack your bags and go!
Oh, don't excite yourself.
Of course, I'm going to excite myself
how long in a day go on
searching hither and yon for relatives,
as giddy as cats out of a bag?
and, then, to come home to this mania in my front yard:
Horses tearing up my garden
And you driving
my only son to drink!
With as much upheaval I'm sure
Mother, I'm sorry but, please,
And don't you think for one minute
that the gang of you can
worm your way in here, like I'm a doormat!
To take advantage of a
mother's broken heart.
Mrs. Thomas!
Please, don't think I'm
lacking in sympathy.
Louisa she is neither a worm
and you're not a dormant
What are you rumpled in a head child?
I may be rumble in spirit but
not in a head Mrs. Thomas.
Luisa and her children
came to you, grieving
for a father and a husband.
The least you can do is over some pity.
They have nowhere to go either.
Who are you?
Ann Shirley, ma'am.
I should know better than to speak,
but they're in just as much anguish as you.
Alright, alright, no need to get
yourself in such a state on our account.
But There is a need.
Imagine you are an orphan
nowhere to go
and you come to a place
like this hoping
an important person like
yourself might grant you a chat.
All right, listen. I know tomfoolery when I see it. Stand
up for heaven?s sake
and enough of this begging business.
And don't cast my
prominence up at me either.
It's been an extremely difficult day
and I have a right to say
what is on my mind.
Of course Louisa can stay.
Oh, thank you, Mrs. Thomas!
"Withhold not my heart from any joy."
Ecclesiastes chapter 2 verse 10
Yes, I know stand up dear,
and stop with the Biblical authority!
Any child who can act
like a pagan one minute
and quote the Old
Testament the next
..well, it just turns my stomach
This is such a dissolute age,
Louisa, don't you think?
Hepzibah, come here.
Why aren't my grandchildren
settled in for goodness sake?
Don't ogle me like that!
Just can't bear my housekeeper
so incompetent.
How do I tolerate you?
You're a walking disaster and
you're never prepared for anything.
I have to do everything myself.
You boys are good on
getting her to laugh.
Go!
Thank you, Anne.
Could have made a more flower
if I had time to think it through.
Wish she were so inhospitable.
Well, she needs us as much
as we need a place to stay.
I hope someone will
always need me.
We've got to get you a bath
if we are ever going to persuade
Hepzibahin to give you a place indoors.
You are the disaster.
I just had enough of your tatterwalling and your shennanigans.
You know what to do, ladies.
Get her in there.
No, no, no!
It's freezing!
You just behave yourself!
Louise you have some weird ideas.
Her poor mother was
a gifted teacher,
and so the child
is incredibly bright.
I think that maybe she could help
the children with their studies,
since they missed so much school in this year.
Louisa, you are so irresponsible.
I refuse to be taught by a stray.
I felt some responsibility
to her mother.
Anne's well rendered
with a heart of gold.
She's very odd, if you ask me.
I don't have it in me to send
her to another asylum.
You have a head and a
heart soft as my son?s.
I think I'll check and see if a local family
need some help.
I can tutor the boys,
grandmother.
Your life is to be elevated
above that of your parents.
A girls education begins
with the proper governance.
I have found one.
She will be here right away.
She will provide a firm hand.
They will make all the difference
in the world to you.
Enough if you don't mind?
I had enough?
Goodnight.
My life will never be
the same again.
Someone left a pitcher of lemonade
for the hired help.
Want some?
Sure, go bring me some.
Please, wait here.
Mrs. Thomas will see you now.
What are you doing in here?
I was just looking at
those crows up there.
You come back in here again
and those crows will pick your eyes out.
Go on, get out of here.
Alright. You can close your notebooks now.
Your grandmother wants to see
all three of you for lunch.
So you can break now while
I mark your notebooks.
The courses were so hard.
I know, the math was so hard.
Go put this back in the key cover
of the kitchen,
and then come and help
with the pond well.
They are missing as sure
as the day is long,
and I caught her loitering
in the summer kitchen.
Did you know this assigned key
is lying anywhere?
Yes.
I put away the stable key
in a cover an hour ago.
What business was it of yours?
You don't meddle with my kids.
I did exactly as Mr. MakAdams told me.
He said: ?Put away this stable's
Key in the cover
and come and help me in the pond?
Which I did dutifully.
Only...
Only she likely mixed
up the stable key
with the missing key,
and can't remember
where she put them.
Of worse that she stole them.
Didn't you just steal them you're little...
Hepzibah, don't you stop it?
Did you catch any other set of key?
Believe me, if I only being led to the block for it
Only I'm not certain
where the block is.
I never touched any other keys.
Only the stable keys.
I will not allow this
child to sleep in the house,
until she finds the upstairs keys.
She can sleep in the
barn until she rots
or else returns the upstairs keys.
There is something else.
What is it?
Nothing.
Ready to tell me what happened
to the missing key?
Yes.
That's preposterous Mrs. Thomas.
I am to be accused by a mischievous child
who's never had a
proper upbringing?
Well she's getting one now.
this goes beyond the mirror
scolding, ma'am.
Louisa, the child is a liar.
I speak the truth,
because, to be unjustly accused,
is an assault on my good name.
My heart maybe broken,
by one consolation
that one day
you will feel remorse
for having crushed it.
I'm setting my hands
to the plow, Louisa.
The child will go to that
home in Fredericton.
You are a heartless woman.
I'm sure your own poor son
was driven to drink
by you pushing him away.
No, she did that.
Hepzibah, pack the child's bag.
I did my best, dear, but
working in the lumber yard
will be much better than a foundling home.
Goodbye, dear friend.
I don't believe God himself
could do any better in the face
of such an abstinent person.
Hello.
Who is it?
You might at least have woken me up,
instead of breaking in.
Real estate agent from Avonlea was running around town,
telling people that she caught you
talking to yourself in the yard.
Real estate agents have no diplomacy.
That was a good sign.
Maybe you would make
some major revisions?
You got something here.
You finish by next week
and I will have time to do
the cast read through.
What got you going again?
A letter?
from my father.
Maybe take the play in
a different direction.
Father? Always thought you are a stray.
You would never get
what the place is worth anywhere.
40 years may have passed,
but your letter
finally have arrived
into my hands a week ago.
I'm hoping that your return
address is still available.
I don't know, if you've ever
come across my work,
but I'm a well published author,
and recently an inspiring playwright.
I still publish in my
maiden name Anne Shirley,
even though I'm a widow.
I have two wonderful daughters,
who all have grown up their families,
and also adopted son,
who is still oversees.
It's never been easy for
me to put into words
my feelings about you.
My memory of you has been somewhat
rekindled in a play
I am currently working on.
I hope that we can arrange
to finally meet,
and that this letter actually gets to you.
I suppose this up to fate again.
Your loving Ann.
In time the Thomases forgot
about me completely.
My fear of being sent to an orphanage
was replaced by a hardship
of trying to survive In the lumber mill.
at people who
could have not cared less about me.
Katie... I miss you.
I don't believe
I'm long for this world.
I pray I'll see what the next.
Mrs. Thomas was feared
and disliked
by all of her workers.
I suppose it was her stubbornness,
that frustrated people most.
Fortunately I could not see
how grossly our lives would be tied together.
I can't fill my orders because
they are working slow.
a lot of bickering amongst the men
and an uproar's been brewing.
They're threatening to go on strike
because of unsafe conditions.
Come on.
Let's go.
You folks thinking you
terrorized management
Torn off the blow water.
Close the gate!
What's wrong?
Bunch of damn troublemakers
trying to tamper with the shoots.
Saying there are unsafe
and a true guilty reference
are caught under.
Quick, move.
Hey, kid come here.
We need you to climb in here.
This guy's still moving.
Come on, you're little.
Get in there.
Go on there.
Can you lift up the pin?
Pull.
Give us his arm.
Good job, kid.
Hurry!
Hey, come on get
up, he in here.
That man you rescued?
that was Walter Shirley, girl.
I know.
He saw his arm
was badly mangled, but he?s safe.
Our men got him away.
I'm taking you to the workers cottage.
near the cider mill
You will be safe there.
No, no, no, no.
I don't think so
What about the girl?
We can't afford to
have her go to police.
I don't understand.
I can't make up
what you're saying.
You were fool when
bringing the union organizers
to help you. But you know,
what about the girl or you know
what she knows, who she's talking?
That's enough now.
Want some breakfast?
What's you name?
Cordelia.
Don't be shy have a seat.
Stay and pick up apples.
We're here until September
then we will move on to Main.
Penny a bushel.
There is lots of kids
here to help you, all right?
Yes, ma'am.
Let's go.
Helen Parker says we are
to look after that one.
Anne!
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Anne!
Anne!
You have been out here since lunch.
You never remember to
tell me where you?re going.
You missed our entire history class,
the fall of Rome.
This is one of the privileges
of heaving mother a schoolteacher.
What a relief to be rescued!
The book is a perfect tragedy.
It would be a tragedy indeed,
if we miss our train.
Your father is home from the logging camp, Remember.
we've got to go.
Might be that book gives me a trill!
It's the story of the daughter of a belted earl,
stolen away in infancy by a cruel nurse,
who died before she can confess.
There is nothing lovelier, then
having mother to gather me up.
Come on, Anne...
Mother!
Mother!
Where are you?
Hi!
Hi!
I figured you out here writing.
There is a read through with
the cast this afternoon,
and they had some notes
they want to share with you,
before we get started.
I am a novelist?
I'm not used to Notes
from all these people.
Could you go and just fulfill me in?
Would you tell the cast, that you
going to hold off on it for now.
I mean it's not a disaster,
Obviously you have
a different concept.
It's not stage worthy Ann.
Not yet, anyway.
My concern is that,
I don't think it?s going to be ready
to be performed this summer.
I can put in another play and
you just keep working on that.
This came for you.
The boys all off celebrating.
This is a huge victory.
You'll hear from him.
Don't worry.
Will see you later.
Thanks.
Four exciting new plays.
I know I sound like a typical mother, but
you know what your brother can be like.
Frankly I'm terrified, Franny.
Dominic said he'd be
on the first boat back from England
I know, I know, I'm sorry to bother you.
Is the baby better?
Oh don't be silly.
You come all the way to hear.
Toomey has a mom.
I just needed someone to talk to.
Why wouldn't Dominic be in touch with me?
Oh, I hear the baby crying.
You better go.
Give him a big kiss for me.
I love you. Okay. Bye-bye.
It's easy to write to cry
I never expected this life for Gil
Send Dominic home.
Get him back to me.
Maybe he is alright and just doesn't
want to get in touch with me.
You can't act like that
with people who raised you.
Though never knowing who your real parents are
can always haunt you
Well done!
Alright everybody time to packing in
before I decide to recast.
Thanks for coming out.
Goodnight, Anne.
Sorry about all this changes in the play.
10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Learn your lines.
Any word on Dominic yet?
Come on, Ann.
He will be back. Dominic is a big boy.
So you are going to start rewriting and
making me a big-time producer, or what?
Oh, the Great American impresario
was far away from the Broadway, you can get?
You know, I don't get it.
What are you doing here?
Call me and say you have
a great idea for a play,
that want to challenge yourself.
What did you come here for?
What did you come here for?
I came here to sell Green Gables.
Doing a play with you was just
an excuse to get here.
Don't waste my time.
Just go away.
Just leave me alone.
I always needed to write.
I've made up stories
about myself all my life.
Used to pretend my parents where
a perfect couple living in harmony.
I did it so often and for so along,
it's hard to know where
the truth is anymore.
I would not recognize
my father if I saw him.
Bertha I promised you I was going
to quit the logging camp.
You can build your own home instead of living in a boardinghouse.
Walter Shirley!
you are an intoxicated braggart
You're going to kill both of us with this crazy nag!
This horse can do the mail run
from Grand Falls to St. John in 12 hours.
This is pretty penny to be
made if I can get the contract.
Your mother was my best friend.
She'd like you to have this.
She would want me to look after you.
Since Dr. and Mrs. Thomas
where so close to Bertha,
Walter Shirly and I have asked Dr. Thomas
to give a few words of
eulogy toward this dear woman.
Walter Shirly was not at fault.
He loved his wife.
Our school teacher and friend Bertha,
has been stolen from our community
in an accident of Biblical proportions.
But the white majesty of death
now falls upon this beloved woman
and sets her apart to be crowned
and to live forever in God's heavenly kingdom.
I'm sorry for a your loss.
Be strong child.
Thank you.
If Mom has been crowned a
Queen then what am I?
a child of God sweetheart.
Would'nt it be better to
tell people from now on
that I was the daughter of a Queen,
than to endure the notoriety of such a tragedy.
It's better to speak the truth.
Your mother may have had a noble dreams.
but She died of no money or dignity.
Was her sore.
Now thanks to your father.
I hope my husband can find him and bring back.
Don't be so hard at yourself, Walt.
The Almighty thinks it is
better to be twelve of us. Right?
Hey, what's that saying.
"To err is human and to forgive is divine."
No, Doc.
I killed her.
Hey, stop it, stop it.
Walter.
Drunken fools!.
Somebody help me.
Walt! I am coming.
No, you're not listening, Louisa.
He went back to the river.
He wanted to drown this sorrows,
literally.
And you pushed him.
I rescued him.
You know what, I'll say,
it was a noble performance
for the entire town to see. But he's taken off.
We may never see the likes of Walter again.
Do you have any idea how mortifying it is
to be at funeral of a dear friend
while the town's esteemed doctor.
is off on a bender
The whole town knows
what the disgusting pair of
you've been up to.
This is only a drop.
Walter desperately needed my support
to absolve himself in front of town.
It's all it was.
Temperance will be preached
in this house.
Walter needs a good kick
in the pants and so do you.
Louisa.
You can have water
Don't? No, no.
Step outside now.
Hey, come on now, stop it! You're mom's making a mess here.
You're making a mess here.
Do not wake up the children.
Katie, I'm convinced that
it must have been a disappointment
to my father if he is not coming back.
Mother said,
that he was a free spirit.
I made up my mind I could be
a free spirit myself.
I'm resolved that the Thomases
will be my new family.
yet my life does not have to
be graveyard of buried hopes.
The only thing I recall about my father,
Was how my mother was drawn to him.
Like a moth to a flame.
Gene.
I don't want you to feel any pressure
about producing my play.
Good.
I'm feeling pressure
to make money this summer.
What would you say about me
going to Green Gables to write.
It's a great idea.
That's doing both us a word of good.
Come on, Elsie!
I promised Anne,
we will be ready by 10.
You know what a pistol she is.
You can't clear out 30 years
of living in old place like this
in a couple of days.
Look how young mom and dad looked
when we first moved here.
I'm furious at them for letting
this place get so ran down,
when Anne was so generous
for letting us live here for years.
When we had nowhere else.
Oh, do not preach them.
They took them place in Albafras
Why Ann's own kids have not
taken any interest?
just playing weird.
Too far to come.
Ann is just easier for our family
to fix everything.
Elsie, John? it's Anne...
Aunt Ann come up.
What mischief are you up to Marilla's room.
Terrific to see you.
Oh, your mother finally
written aren't she?
I just was wondering if she lost
every letter I have written her
in those two months.
Oh, I know she's been awful at
responding to everybody.
She's taken up golf.
We were just finishing
packing or, so we thought.
And we have found all these
letters in the closet,
in the floor.
These are Marilla's love letters
between Marilla and John Blight.
They quarreled, you know, and she
was really sorry she
didn't forgive him
when she had a chance.
What a great well-kept secret.
Who is Walter Sirley?
How did Marilla know your family if
your parents died when you were born?
My dearest?
Shall I to?
my dearest daughter,
please, accept this note,
as a confirmation, that I have come to
a much better circumstances in my life
and so I feel it is my duty
to try to locate you.
I have finally had the good luck
to marry that wonderful woman.
I have prosperous hardware
business in Fredericton now.
It is my sincere hope that
you can forgive me
for the expanse of time
that has lapsed between us,
and come back to me.
I realize you are likely in
a much better circumstances,
than we can ever provide.
And so I'm trusted in
our mutual acquaintance
Ms. Nelly Parkhurst to make
contact with you again
and to determine if my
approach is acceptable
to you and your guardians.
For so many years your
mother wanted me
to quit the logging camp
and build a home for us.
Maybe now I can fulfill my promise.
If you cannot forgive me for
the harm that has come to you,
as a result of my neglect,
I will respect your wishes.
Any response will be welcomed.
Your loving father Walter.
Marilla must have felt
she needed to protect me,
or she was frightened, that I'd leave.
Protect you from what?
Ah, with Marilla that would
have been an instinct.
So you were not an orphan.
As a child I made up stories
about my parents.
No one knew within
about me so it was?
it was easy.
I have given up hope of ever
finding my father.
Let me help.
What luck is finding Marilla's letters.
What a luck.
Do you mind if we tell mom?
She always said,
with your imagination,
you are destined to be
a great writer.
Yeah I'd longed to write once,
but now I just do it to work
out everything else.
You never can tell,
why certain people
do decide to write.
Obviously it's very personal.
Yes, well,certain people
like me are born to travel,
while others, like your mother,
blessed with a desire to play golf.
Thank you, Anne,
for my entire family.
Mother said, she will call, when
she knows the place is sold.
She has not written before,
because she didn't want to discuss it.
We had so many wonderful
years growing up here.
Why did you ever give it to us?
Well, Gil's medical practice wasn't in this aria
and your parents were down on a luck ------
Don't sell it, Ann.
Oh, well I have complicated
feelings about this place.
We will talk soon, okay.
I don't know how
I survived the time
before I was adopted
by the Cuthberts.
It was horrible after
my mother died.
the Thomases gave up on me and
I lost hope of ever
seeing my father again.
The cash from selling
your mother's things
were given to the town.
I will pay you board for a time.
We are leaving.
Suddenly my husband has
lost his license
for practice medicine.
Can you have me until
my father comes?
You need to know that your
father has gone for good.
I heard someone say: "he is
drowned in his own sorrow".
He is not really dead, is he?
In some respects he is.
Things haven't worked out well
for either of us, Anne.
No need for theatrics, Louisa,
you have done your duty.
God help you keep that sorry
husband of your sober
in the next town.
Thanks God the county
found the room.
The child would be much b
etter placed
in an orphanage or a Foster house.
No family will take her in,
after that sorry
business with her father.
You have to take her.
The Dr. Thomas are leaving town
it's the county's responsibility
We'll do what we can.
We don't normally take children.
A little beggar like you
should thank the Lord
that we're taking pity on you at all.
Stop it!
I need water!
Some of them here need to be
kept and checked all times.
You will sleep here with these three.
To sleep in such cramped quarters,
is much more, than my
imagination can be abide by.
We don't harbor to royalty here Miss.
I understood you might have
been paid for on my behalf.
You either put up or shut up.
Put this uniform on at
sunrise when you get up.
Move, our girls!
you will not need whatever in their
You will get your chores
assigned first thing.
By the way, I heard all
about Walter Sirley.
Can you move over, please.
I really didn't understand.
I had never experienced
hypocrisy before.
It was incomprehensible to me.
How our God could abandon me!
I didn't want to give in.
I decided, that
God just forgotten
about everyone in that place.
And in my heart I was afraid
something awful
was going to happen.
What did you bring
in your suitcase?
What are you doing?
No, stop!
Nice! That's pretty.
Silence!
God in his wisdom has chosen
to make you poppers,
not animals!
But dependent upon a charity
of others, none less
harmony and peace must be
maintained here at any cost.
No, those are my only possessions. No!
Come here, you.
You see this young rat?
Her father is a criminal,
accused of doing in his own wife.
Keep away from her.
Beware of her manner of speech,
which she uses to deceive.
Only stiff punishment can save her.
No one gets away with this
kind of behavior here.
You will remain standing
until daybreak.
God punishes the disobedient
with eternal damnation.
I've tried imagine
someone finding me.
Someone who would rescue
me and care for me.
I gathered no one is
supposed to speak to you.
Want some water?
You have been here an
eternity haven't you?
I was staying in a dark
trying to imagine
I was a bride in a misty veil,
waiting in eternity for her betrothed
who has left her at the altar.
This is a far worst place,
than even I could ever imagine.
So it was a task to pretend.
I'm sorry for rambling on so.
Nobody talks
to me here do go on.
Well, when I sow how tyrannical matron
was to you on my very first Stay.
I would instinctively you must be
the product of lifelong sorrow.
I don't dare talking about that.
The walls have years.
Why was she so cruel to you, then?
She's afraid.
I know the secret to free
everyone in this place.
But, you see, I am not leaving
until I finish my
life's vocation.
And there is so much
in I need help.
I have the key into freedom.
And why do you allow yourself
to remain imprisoned.
I am editing in the history
of every word
in English language
for posterity.
I'm so sorry.
I don't mean to
be impolite, Sir.
but I am afraid, the dictionary
has already been invented.
Did you not know that?
I have never heard
such a word before.
You don't have a single soul
in the world, do you?
I had a wife and a daughter once.
They still console me...
Here,
as life marches on.
You don't know how
difficult it is
to draw a line between
a past and a presence.
We are imprisoned here forever?
Please, there is so much
work to be done.
Memories, notations?
They all need to be copied.
Only at night,
when no one can see.
I will help you.
what's your name?
Gabriel? Blake.
Gabriel?
Gabriel was a heavenly
messenger, wasn't he?
The County should be pleased with
the God fearing ideals
with our attendance here.
Purge of pride and
eager for employment,
each one earns his keep.
What devilment, are you up to?
Where did you get this?
Get in there.
This child is very disobedient.
Gabriel Blake has been
filling her head
full of foolishness.
As members of the board,
I am pleased to be able to demonstrate to you
our exacting method of
inmate discipline.
Her flaming red hair
is a real cause
of her devilish behavior.
Scissors, please, matron.
No, no, no!
Take it matron and burn it.
You will stand again until daybreak.
I'd like to speak to you outside.
Don't you dare!
No one acknowledge this guttersnipe!
You know the routine orderlies
Get me that cup!
Come on, Gabriel.
Your little scrap
just worsening your trial here by inciting calamity.
I'm devastated.
It's all my fault.
Never mind,
there is a darkness here
which needs to be rectified.
Your innocence may assist me,
if I have my way.
I can see we have no choice, doctor?
We must condemn the building
and expel the overseers.
But I indeed want
this child to speak
to our entire board at
the right opportunity.
Gabriel, are you awake?
I heard the superintendent.
She wants to help.
She wants the doctor to send me away.
I go fetch your books and notes.
The secret?
The key?
under the board in the bag.
It's yours.
Go, now.
Freedom I never... you'll need it.
I will not go till
they bring you back.
Hold my hand.
So splendid to have a friend!
You are a true kindred spirit.
What's that?
A kindred spirit's someone
you can rely on,
right to the innermost part
of your soul.
I feel so tired.
Gabriel!
Angels have watched
over me all my life,
rescuing me.
The board of the Boulinbrook County poorhouse
listened to me.
It was a feeling I'd never
experienced before.
It made me begin to feel
like I had a voice.
The County Board has found a special
foster home for you and ---- girls.
Consider it an honor that
they have gone to such trouble.
You leave tomorrow.
No honor having you be the one
to tell me so, matron.
You and your husband have
no spark of kindness in you.
I will never forget what
you did to Gabriel.
You had no right.
First County Poorhouse will be sent
to a brand new building.
You will be better there.
You are so kind.
We'll come back for the
next group in an hour.
Where is that red head kid?
She is on the next load.
Coming, mom, coming!
Mrs. Thomas!
Good Lord, Ann Shirley!
What, in heavens name,
are you doing here?
Violetta!
Mrs. Thomas!
Fate has brought us together.
Jock, Keith, wait!
You look entirely like thieves
running away in the night.
That is pretty putting it mildly.
I don't know what you're doing
I cannot possibly
take on another runaway
when we are running away ourselves.
You will help me? I'm begging you Mrs Thomas.
I know how to be resourceful.
I even thought of changing my name.
So No one would ever recognize me again!
I'd love to be called
something elegant,
like Cordelia.
That's a horrible name.
What about Geraldine Fitzgerald?
Who Cares what's you called!
You can't stay with
us that's final.
You and my mother
were best of friends.
That practically makes us kin.
Didn't you hear, our mother
were in too much troubles as it is.
And it is all thanks to you.
Stop it, Jock.
There is a poetic irony
that we altogether as fugitives
Is that the trouble,
you mean Mrs. Thomas?
Yes, well, you see, Ann,
things went from bad to worse
after your father vanished
so did all the funds from
the parish roof box.
And the town accused my husband.
But he insisted that
was your father
Your father's trash, Anne.
And so we've been living
under house arrest
in the half way hotel.
Awaiting an inquest,
because my husband was
killed by a train.
Do you think he was?
I've been in the depths of despair.
Being a doctor's wife has been
a life of bitter disappointment, Annie.
I can hardly swallow.
It will be too much for mother,
to be cross examined and have to go back
over and over for the inquest.
Our grandmother's very rich
and she wants us to come
and live with her.
if they're anything I can do to help
Leave us alone!
When we get to St. John's we will
go you to some place safe.
Stand back.
Apparently there is a family
home in Fredrickson.
just outside of Marysville.
Yes that would be
St. Agatha Asylum, ma'am.
I'm sorry Annie but we have
to drop you off there.
Thank you for your directions.
Hurry, boys.
Boys, harry up the train
leaves in three minutes.
I've made up my mind to simply
enjoy this train ride.
Train rides are so thrilling!
Anne, That's only a train.
Now, would you take
your own ticket?
It's your responsibility.
We need to get some flowers
for grandmother.
You choose a color and
Mother'll have change.
What lovely wild roses!
looking so happy
to be roses.
Could I just have some change?
We're going to buy
flowers for grandmother.
I wish roses could talk.
Oh, they surely have
hopeful thoughts.
All passengers! Now boarding for...
Here you go.
Hurry up,
mother says we?re late.
Hurry up, Anne.
I suppose mother is
already on the train.
I hope your grandmother likes pink.
Red head people can never wear pink.
Did you ever know anybody who's head
was red when they were young,
but changed color when they grew up?
No, put your bag up.
Could you help me, please, sir?
We?re this way mother!
All Aboard!
Here we go.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
All in the board.
Mrs. Thomas!
Mrs. Thomas!
Mrs. Thomas!
Ann what are you doing there?
You're going the wrong way!
Last call for passengers to Marysville and Fredrickton. All aboard!
______
Mrs. Thomas you are on
the wrong train!
No, Anny, you are
on the wrong train.
We don't have much time.
Anne!
Jump!
Where is my purse?
I left it right here.
Hurry, that's our train.
The only train to Fredrickson
until tomorrow.
Grandmother will be waiting
on the other end
and she'll be burst
of blood vessel.
I blame myself
entirely Mrs. Thomas.
Violetta was following me.
If I hadn't lost myself
in the beauty
of those colorful blossoms,
at so little color
in my life, lately.
And salt has been added to injured,
and now we obliged to sleep in
a common Railway Station.
I'm cursing myself because
I lost my purse,
and all my money.
My mother in law will
be entirely unimpressed.
Feel free to blame this entire
mess on a hopeless orphan
who wasn't given a brain God
gave kiss, Mrs. Thomas
You must call me Louisa.
You know your mother
was quite brilliant.
She used to help
me with Sunday school.
She really knew how to fasten
Intellect, she was a wonderful teacher,
who knew so many lovely
promises by heart.
The Lady of the lake,
Seasons by Thurston.
She cultivated me and if you a
half as bright as she is,
then I know that you will make
a wonderful teacher too one day.
You have given me hope Mrs. Louisa.
I'd hate to part ways on bad terms,
especially since I was trying so hard
to imagine you will keep me forever.
I have a confession to make yet.
I took some money from
the selling of your mother's things.
I mean, not a lot, but
I wish at the time when my
husband was not bear dependable,
he was so cross with your father.
I know, see, you and I
destined to be great friends.
And I won't desert you, either.
I will help you all morning,
if you could give us a rid.
If you really want a ride
you better tell me your name.
My name is Cordelia Shirley.
We walked all along from Bolingbroke,
and missed our train.
Don't know Walter Shirley
from Bolingbroke area?
Accused of doing his wife in
as I recall.
No, ma'am.
I've never heard of such a man.
Under contract for the mailroute up to Grand Falls.
My father's name was Jedediah.
I know it's rather an awful
name, don't you think?
Hard name to be sure.
What did Jedediah Shirley did?
My parents are both teachers
at the Bolingbroke primary school.
They each died of fever
when I was only three months.
They were a pair
of babies themselves.
I've had the good fortune to be
rescued from the Asylum by friends.
We all are going to live in Marysville.
They are members of the affluent Thomas family.
Thomas you say?
And you never met old Mrs T.?
No, but young Mrs. Thomas over there
is as benevolent as she is loyal.
Get your bags.
Anyone knows the Thomas?s place,
if they know Marysville.
Oh, thank you.
Luisa! Violetta, boys, wake up!
The Sun is shining on
us this morning.
The chaos that I've caused is over.
I cannot believe we had to stay
over at that train station.
Thanks to you, Ann.
I'm sorry,
I vexed you, Violetta.
It gives me great
satisfaction to know,
the inequity has been raided.
I feel just like a hero-women
in the novel.
You talk too much.
Don't be so certain,
grandmother will throw you out
on your head.
Be nice to her she
is interesting.
It would be more to a point,
if she were useful.
Grandmother will toss us all,
when she hears her nonsense.
I will not worry about asylum
for a little while longer.
Or to imagine us all of part
of a beautiful Mirage.
I thank God for two or
three times a minute.
We're right proud of this place.
Marysville is named
by old Mr. Thomas.
who built a mill on the count of it's always been so merry.
Christopher Columbus
I must be dreaming.
You certainly are.
There is no need
to be nasty, Violetta.
God's nightgown!
We wondered what in heaven's
name had happened to you.
Now Mrs. Thomas is gone all the way
into St. John looking for you.
Oh, Hapzabah, no, Please don't?
if she has a coronary on her way,
you will never hear the end of it.
Louisa Thomas!
What is that?
It?s the most heartrending story
Please, just keep my mother-in-law
calm, until she has a chance
to get used to that idea.
You don't meant to think
I'd take in a street urchin like that?
______
You don't march in here
with some stray cur
that can be
of use to me.
But she is such
a bright little creature.
And her mother was a
good friend of mine.
I promised a little thing that
she could stay with us.
I'm not about to break my promise,
she can do a house chores.
She doesn't cross this
threshold of the household.
I have been waiting settlers
go without went for a while.
You have any trouble ?
ask for Nellie.
Thank you
I'm grateful
for all your help.
Get up.
Hapsapah will not let
you do any house chores,
but she is agree you can help
out in the stables, though.
Violetta will show you
the barn out back.
Please tell her I?m very good
at washing dishes.
but I'm resigned to fit into
a household any way I can.
What a splendid property!
Hurry up, Anne.
I'm just so excited to imagine,
I can stay for a little while.
Stables are this way.
A brooke!
Brooks is such a cheerful
things aren't they?
Always laughing even in
winter under the ice.
Can't you ever quit
being so phony?
Trashcan Anne! That's what I
going to call you,
because you are garbage!
I would not give myself such errors
in the presence of a true aristocrat
myself, being a progeny
of Royal Irish blood.
The only royal blood
you'll ever have
is of my fist at in the end
of your nose.
You are con just like your father.
You are so queenly?
the test of a true noble
is having such a high instep
a stream of water could run
right underneath it.
I don't believe anybody has that,
and least of all - you.
My family are descendants of
the warrior Monarch
Queen Maeve who led the Celts into battle
riding
bareback like moonlight,
see
Queen Maeve sounds more like a
witch than a queen.
Besides you couldn't ride
by moonlight, let alone mount a horse.
Could you?
You just watch.
I have a way with equines.
Who do you think you are?
This is foolish!
You can't blame me if
you get yourself killed.
I shall prove you're
a liar or perish!
Anne!
Mother, she is out of control!
Hepzibah!!!
it's Anne!!!
Charles, what the devil
is going on
Charles don't you
have any control?
But where are the grooms? Where is the stable boy?
Stop, who is that?
Whose horses is that?
Stop this coach at once!
Oh, stop, stop, please!
I'm going to lose my lunch!
Louisa!
If this is your manner
of appreciation
for my munificence,
you can pack your bags and go!
Oh, don't excite yourself.
Of course, I'm going to excite myself
how long in a day go on
searching hither and yon for relatives,
as giddy as cats out of a bag?
and, then, to come home to this mania in my front yard:
Horses tearing up my garden
And you driving
my only son to drink!
With as much upheaval I'm sure
Mother, I'm sorry but, please,
And don't you think for one minute
that the gang of you can
worm your way in here, like I'm a doormat!
To take advantage of a
mother's broken heart.
Mrs. Thomas!
Please, don't think I'm
lacking in sympathy.
Louisa she is neither a worm
and you're not a dormant
What are you rumpled in a head child?
I may be rumble in spirit but
not in a head Mrs. Thomas.
Luisa and her children
came to you, grieving
for a father and a husband.
The least you can do is over some pity.
They have nowhere to go either.
Who are you?
Ann Shirley, ma'am.
I should know better than to speak,
but they're in just as much anguish as you.
Alright, alright, no need to get
yourself in such a state on our account.
But There is a need.
Imagine you are an orphan
nowhere to go
and you come to a place
like this hoping
an important person like
yourself might grant you a chat.
All right, listen. I know tomfoolery when I see it. Stand
up for heaven?s sake
and enough of this begging business.
And don't cast my
prominence up at me either.
It's been an extremely difficult day
and I have a right to say
what is on my mind.
Of course Louisa can stay.
Oh, thank you, Mrs. Thomas!
"Withhold not my heart from any joy."
Ecclesiastes chapter 2 verse 10
Yes, I know stand up dear,
and stop with the Biblical authority!
Any child who can act
like a pagan one minute
and quote the Old
Testament the next
..well, it just turns my stomach
This is such a dissolute age,
Louisa, don't you think?
Hepzibah, come here.
Why aren't my grandchildren
settled in for goodness sake?
Don't ogle me like that!
Just can't bear my housekeeper
so incompetent.
How do I tolerate you?
You're a walking disaster and
you're never prepared for anything.
I have to do everything myself.
You boys are good on
getting her to laugh.
Go!
Thank you, Anne.
Could have made a more flower
if I had time to think it through.
Wish she were so inhospitable.
Well, she needs us as much
as we need a place to stay.
I hope someone will
always need me.
We've got to get you a bath
if we are ever going to persuade
Hepzibahin to give you a place indoors.
You are the disaster.
I just had enough of your tatterwalling and your shennanigans.
You know what to do, ladies.
Get her in there.
No, no, no!
It's freezing!
You just behave yourself!
Louise you have some weird ideas.
Her poor mother was
a gifted teacher,
and so the child
is incredibly bright.
I think that maybe she could help
the children with their studies,
since they missed so much school in this year.
Louisa, you are so irresponsible.
I refuse to be taught by a stray.
I felt some responsibility
to her mother.
Anne's well rendered
with a heart of gold.
She's very odd, if you ask me.
I don't have it in me to send
her to another asylum.
You have a head and a
heart soft as my son?s.
I think I'll check and see if a local family
need some help.
I can tutor the boys,
grandmother.
Your life is to be elevated
above that of your parents.
A girls education begins
with the proper governance.
I have found one.
She will be here right away.
She will provide a firm hand.
They will make all the difference
in the world to you.
Enough if you don't mind?
I had enough?
Goodnight.
My life will never be
the same again.
Someone left a pitcher of lemonade
for the hired help.
Want some?
Sure, go bring me some.
Please, wait here.
Mrs. Thomas will see you now.
What are you doing in here?
I was just looking at
those crows up there.
You come back in here again
and those crows will pick your eyes out.
Go on, get out of here.
Alright. You can close your notebooks now.
Your grandmother wants to see
all three of you for lunch.
So you can break now while
I mark your notebooks.
The courses were so hard.
I know, the math was so hard.
Go put this back in the key cover
of the kitchen,
and then come and help
with the pond well.
They are missing as sure
as the day is long,
and I caught her loitering
in the summer kitchen.
Did you know this assigned key
is lying anywhere?
Yes.
I put away the stable key
in a cover an hour ago.
What business was it of yours?
You don't meddle with my kids.
I did exactly as Mr. MakAdams told me.
He said: ?Put away this stable's
Key in the cover
and come and help me in the pond?
Which I did dutifully.
Only...
Only she likely mixed
up the stable key
with the missing key,
and can't remember
where she put them.
Of worse that she stole them.
Didn't you just steal them you're little...
Hepzibah, don't you stop it?
Did you catch any other set of key?
Believe me, if I only being led to the block for it
Only I'm not certain
where the block is.
I never touched any other keys.
Only the stable keys.
I will not allow this
child to sleep in the house,
until she finds the upstairs keys.
She can sleep in the
barn until she rots
or else returns the upstairs keys.
There is something else.
What is it?
Nothing.
Ready to tell me what happened
to the missing key?
Yes.
That's preposterous Mrs. Thomas.
I am to be accused by a mischievous child
who's never had a
proper upbringing?
Well she's getting one now.
this goes beyond the mirror
scolding, ma'am.
Louisa, the child is a liar.
I speak the truth,
because, to be unjustly accused,
is an assault on my good name.
My heart maybe broken,
by one consolation
that one day
you will feel remorse
for having crushed it.
I'm setting my hands
to the plow, Louisa.
The child will go to that
home in Fredericton.
You are a heartless woman.
I'm sure your own poor son
was driven to drink
by you pushing him away.
No, she did that.
Hepzibah, pack the child's bag.
I did my best, dear, but
working in the lumber yard
will be much better than a foundling home.
Goodbye, dear friend.
I don't believe God himself
could do any better in the face
of such an abstinent person.
Hello.
Who is it?
You might at least have woken me up,
instead of breaking in.
Real estate agent from Avonlea was running around town,
telling people that she caught you
talking to yourself in the yard.
Real estate agents have no diplomacy.
That was a good sign.
Maybe you would make
some major revisions?
You got something here.
You finish by next week
and I will have time to do
the cast read through.
What got you going again?
A letter?
from my father.
Maybe take the play in
a different direction.
Father? Always thought you are a stray.
You would never get
what the place is worth anywhere.
40 years may have passed,
but your letter
finally have arrived
into my hands a week ago.
I'm hoping that your return
address is still available.
I don't know, if you've ever
come across my work,
but I'm a well published author,
and recently an inspiring playwright.
I still publish in my
maiden name Anne Shirley,
even though I'm a widow.
I have two wonderful daughters,
who all have grown up their families,
and also adopted son,
who is still oversees.
It's never been easy for
me to put into words
my feelings about you.
My memory of you has been somewhat
rekindled in a play
I am currently working on.
I hope that we can arrange
to finally meet,
and that this letter actually gets to you.
I suppose this up to fate again.
Your loving Ann.
In time the Thomases forgot
about me completely.
My fear of being sent to an orphanage
was replaced by a hardship
of trying to survive In the lumber mill.
at people who
could have not cared less about me.
Katie... I miss you.
I don't believe
I'm long for this world.
I pray I'll see what the next.
Mrs. Thomas was feared
and disliked
by all of her workers.
I suppose it was her stubbornness,
that frustrated people most.
Fortunately I could not see
how grossly our lives would be tied together.
I can't fill my orders because
they are working slow.
a lot of bickering amongst the men
and an uproar's been brewing.
They're threatening to go on strike
because of unsafe conditions.
Come on.
Let's go.
You folks thinking you
terrorized management
Torn off the blow water.
Close the gate!
What's wrong?
Bunch of damn troublemakers
trying to tamper with the shoots.
Saying there are unsafe
and a true guilty reference
are caught under.
Quick, move.
Hey, kid come here.
We need you to climb in here.
This guy's still moving.
Come on, you're little.
Get in there.
Go on there.
Can you lift up the pin?
Pull.
Give us his arm.
Good job, kid.
Hurry!
Hey, come on get
up, he in here.
That man you rescued?
that was Walter Shirley, girl.
I know.
He saw his arm
was badly mangled, but he?s safe.
Our men got him away.
I'm taking you to the workers cottage.
near the cider mill
You will be safe there.
No, no, no, no.
I don't think so
What about the girl?
We can't afford to
have her go to police.
I don't understand.
I can't make up
what you're saying.
You were fool when
bringing the union organizers
to help you. But you know,
what about the girl or you know
what she knows, who she's talking?
That's enough now.
Want some breakfast?
What's you name?
Cordelia.
Don't be shy have a seat.
Stay and pick up apples.
We're here until September
then we will move on to Main.
Penny a bushel.
There is lots of kids
here to help you, all right?
Yes, ma'am.
Let's go.
Helen Parker says we are
to look after that one.
Anne!
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