Blessing (1994) - full transcript

-[coughing] [spits]

-Good morning, girls.

Come on, girls.

Here we go.

MALE SPEAKER [ON RADIO]: Your
early morning radio show.

And now the markets
from Milwaukee.

Here's Jack.

JACK: [ON RADIO]: Thursday
the cattle market.

Premium bulls were higher at 67,
with a couple at 68 and 6850.

MALE SPEAKER [ON
RADIO]: Thank you, Jack.

It's 6 o'clock in the morning.



and now we move to
Wednesday and our experts.

FEMALE SPEAKER [ON
RADIO]: Good morning.

MALE SPEAKER [ON
RADIO]: It is a little

chilly out there
this morning, eh?

FEMALE SPEAKER [ON
RADIO]: Yeah, it is.

34 degrees is what I've got--

MALE SPEAKER [ON RADIO]:
And our weather report

brought to you by Rottweilers
TV, thank you for shopping.

[radio playing]

[phone ringing]

-[sighs]

MALE SPEAKER [ON RADIO]:
Hello, Americans.

This is Paul Heart.

Recreation vehicles
or an airplane.



People got together to exchange
information about new ways

to get more enjoyment
out of their travels.

All of us learn from one
other to be sure to have

a [inaudible]. [laughs] So
innovative that this little

beauty has even the Japanese
doing their shopping

in Cleveland.

[shouts]

[rock music playing]

-Tell me I don't
know what I'm seeing.

You can see for yourself.

-What?

-That father of yours Go
up there again flirting

with that neighbor lady.

You can come look for yourself.

You think what you want, but she
can see that from over there.

You better believe it.

They've probably got
some kind of code set up.

Ha.

We know her.

She's flipping her fat ass
every time he's around.

Mmm.

-You start in on
stuff again, and you

know what's going to happen.

-I'll tell you something else.

I wouldn't trust that floozy
as far as I could throw her.

-I brought this milk for
our little kitty girl.

The milk truck's
coming this morning.

There won't be any
more until tomorrow.

I don't see how you can stand
listening to that stuff.

You can hear it clear
down to the barn?

-The TV?

I'm not even watching it.

-No, I don't mean that.

I mean the garbage
she listens to.

She must be half deaf.

-That's not what
bothers me around here.

-Well, I'll tell
you something else.

She'll get that boy hooked into
listening to that stuff, too.

That's not good for him.

Well, is it?

I can hear it all the
way from the barn.

I think it would
drive you crazy.

-Oh, buddy.

Come on.

Oh, god.

Oh, damn.

I don't know what she's eating.

-You're too damn good to her.

She's been eating
those goddamn rats.

They've been sons
of bitches lately.

-Well, maybe you've
got rats where you are,

but I haven't seen non
around here-- no siree.

-Hi, Lyle.

-Good morning, Fran.

-Hey, you're back with
a full load already?

Uh, listen.

Bud next door has been
asking how long you're

going to keep that
camper parked out there.

You know, it's kind
of an eye sore.

-I should have it
going in no time.

-Bud's one of these guys who
likes to worry about things.

-And I think you give him
enough to worry about, Franny.

-Who, me?

Well, yeah.

I give him his share.

Well, it's about time.

Good morning Clovis, honey.

You've got a lot of
work to do, young lady.

-Sorry.

We had a sick cow.

-Sick cow or no sick
cow, it's high time

you came to work
on time for once.

I hope you washed your hair
after being in that barn.

-Snuff.

Did you find out what
time you were born?

-Hell, I think everyone's
forgotten by now.

[laughs]

-I've been telling
Fran she ought

to let you do her
horoscope chart.

-Oh, I don't believe
in that stuff.

Heaven's sake.

It's superstition.

That's what it is.

It reminds of that Ouija Board.

-Oh, i think it's
pretty neat stuff.

-Ah.

It gives me the creeps.

I don't suppose my stars would
line up to make sense anyway,

no matter how you look at 'em.

-Yeah.

You could say that again, Fran.

You and a lot of the
people around here.

-Watch your tongue, young lady.

-You spent all
that time in there

and you're still not dressed?

You're not a baby
anymore, you know?

-Well, when she catches
a cold, Clovey, we'll

just get a big syringe
in from the barn

and we'll give her a
shot of penicillin.

Hmm?

We'll give her a great big
shot of penicillin, eh?

-Ah! [laughs]

-Stop it, now.

Let him eat supper.

I think you'd be,
uh, worn out climbing

on top of that silo every day.

-What?

Just trying to knock a few
pigeon's nests down it.

-It must be awfully
interesting for you

stay up there for so long.

-I wasn't up there that long.

-25 minutes this time,
according to that clock.

I'm not blind.

-Do I have to listen
to this every night?

-All I said was--

-I would think you would
have better things to do.

-All I said was--

-No, god damn it, I know
what you said, all right.

-Oh.

Go and waste all your food.

That's going to prove a lot.

-Garbage.

I wouldn't feed it
to a goddamn dog.

I'm a farmer my whole life,
and I gotta eat this shit?

-Will you just stop it?

-It's my own goddamn house.

I'll say what I want.

You hear me?

-Yeah, well you're not the
only one living here, you know?

-You don't like it?

You know what you can
do about it, don't you?

-Let's just drop it.

-You can get the hell out.

That's what you can do.

-No.

Stop it.

Stop it.

I'm sorry I said anything.

Let's just change the subject.

Come on, Clovis.

Come on.

-You can follow that
good-for-nothing brother

of yours into the Army or Navy
or wherever the hell he is.

-[SINGING] La, la, la, la, la.

La, la, la.

-You've been leeching
off home long enough?

-Leeching?

I'm not leeching.

Pay me the money you
owe me and I'll go.

-Pay you.

Pay you.

Pay you.

-You know we can't
pay you right now.

Why even bring it up?

-[ANGRILY] Yeah, right.

-Come on, Clovis.

Help me sing, huh? [SINGING]
La, la, la, la, la, la.

-Oh, be quiet, would you?

-Will you two
then-- I don't know

why you have to talk
to her that way.

-What'd I say?

You shoot off your mouth
whenever it suits you.

You would certainly
have been interesting

for you to sit up
there for so long.

My God, if I wanted to flirt
with the neighbor's wife,

I wouldn't be passing
notes back and forth

like a damn schoolkid.

But that's what you
think, isn't it?

You sit here at the
window spying on me.

-I'm not spying.

-I'd think you have
better things to do.

My God.

Don't you have enough to do?

Is that it?

You don't have enough to do.

-All I said was
I don't know what

you're looking at from the top
of the silo-- taking pictures.

It's suspicious.

-Suspicious.

Suspicious!

My God.

If you don't have enough
to do, I can sure as hell

find you something to do.

By god, I'm going to
give you something to do.

-He's a dick.

-Oh, well, you're setting
a good example, now.

I didn't know you smoked too.

-Yeah.

You two drive me to smoke.

-Well, I don't know what
he's up to out there.

Ugh.

Oh, he's got the
loader tractor going.

-Clovis, why don't
you go outside

and see if he needs your help.

I don't know why you
couldn't just keep quiet.

He worked hard all day.

-Me quiet?

You started it.

God.

You are so two-faced.

-Two-faced?

Listen here, young lady.

You can just give me
a little more credit.

I told him just the other
day that he was lucky

that you were still
at home, helping out.

We plan to pay you
for helping us.

-Yeah.

Just like you were
going to pay Tommy?

-If Jack had just treated
Tommy a little bit better,

he might still be here
farming with us instead of

halfway across the world.

-I bet Tommy's a lot happier
now than when he was here.

-I'll bet you anything
Tommy regrets his decision.

Well, that's a fact.

If you go and
leave now, you know

who's going to get
stuck with all the work?

It's going to be up to that boy.

You better believe it.

-He's digging a hole.

-A hole?

-Mhm.

-I'll give you something
to do, all right.

-Are you crazy?

-You're going to fill that
hole up with that shovel.

Then we'll see how much time
you've got left to spy on me.

RANDI: What am I supposed to do?

ARLENE: You can go down
there and apologize.

That's what you can do.

RANDI: Why should I
have to go down there?

ARLENE: Well, I
can't talk to him.

Then just let him drive off
a cliff and kill himself.

That's what's going
to happen, you know?

-Put some clothes on.

You're going to
drive the truck back.

-Dad.

-What are you doing here?

-Dad, let's go.

I'm sorry.

-I'm sorry, Dad.

-Come on, Dad.

Let's go.

Mom's waiting.

-Let her wait.

-[explosion sound effect]

-Let's go, Clovis.

We're running late.

-Well, well, well.

Is our little sleepy-head Randi?

-Ahh.

Knock it off.

-[laughs] Excuse me.

Pew.

Ah.

I smell that barn of yours.

-Yeah.

You don't smell
so great yourself.

-She just told me this morning
what happened to her husband.

-She drove the poor bird crazy.

-So you have trouble getting
up in the morning too?

-Oh.

I get up way before
I come to this hole.

I have to milk those cows
365 and one fucking quarter

days a year.

-Dad says she sleeps until
the sun shines up her ass.

-Clovis!

-[laughs]

-You ever had your
horoscope chart read?

-Nope.

-That's Fran's.

-What star from hell
was she born under?

-I can do yours if, uh, if you
give me the exact time and date

you were born.

-Well, I'd have to ask my
mom about the exact time.

Do people pay you for these?

-Donations.

-What, are you a
church or something?

-I could do yours for free.

-So these things can
really tell something

about what's going
to happen to you?

-It's like an emotional
weather report.

I should get going.

I have a couple of
more stops to make.

The Olsons are milking
three times a day.

You want to ride with me, sport?

-Please?

-Don't be late.

Mom and Dad will be wondering
what happened to you.

Oh.

Don't forget to ask
your mom about the time.

-[laughs] Oh.

Yeah.

OK.

Bye.

-What's the matter?

You don't like this music?

-Oh, it's OK.

Dad plays country in the barn.

[SINGING] Ooh, darlin', you
broke my heart when I broke

my back.

Ooh, darlin', how I miss you.

-[laughs]

-If you dig a hole deep
enough, will you get to China?

-That's what they say.

-Dad dug a big hole in the yard.

-Is he trying to get to China?

-It's for mom.

-Maybe he's going to
plant her something.

-I don't know.

-You got any other
brothers and sisters?

-No.

Well, there's Tommy, but he
doesn't live with us anymore.

Why is that?

-I don't know.

He sent me this.

[airplane sound effect]

-See that?

I used to tell you
they were rabbits

running through the corn.

When it would blow like that,
you'd watch that for hours

through the kitchen window.

Remember that?

-I'd just love to go-- go
on one of these things.

-Fran's getting on my case
about it being parked out here.

-Did you know that whales
were land animals that

returned to the ocean?

Did you know that
baby whales have

a nose in front, like a dog,
and then right before it's born,

it moves to the top of
their head, like a-- like,

right here, and then it makes
that sprout that the spew water

out of. [laughs]

-No, I did not know that.

-It's true.

My brother's in the Navy.

That's what I'm thinking about.

-You?

Join the Navy?

-Fuck you!

What's wrong with that?

They'd take me.

-You're too
free-spirited for that.

-You think so?

Well-- well, I
haven't joined yet.

[clears throat] I'm-- I'm
working at home for now,

and I'm getting
paid really good.

I'm working here, too.

I'm saving a lot of money.

See, I have to take
care of Clovis, too.

He doesn't really have
anyone else to influence him,

and stuff, you know.

Don't you miss your daughter?

-Sure I do.

-It's 10:30 already.

She still hasn't come home.

I don't know what's taken her.

I hope she didn't run
off the road somewhere.

Can you do this for me?

My hands are so crippled
up I can't even open it.

[sighs] I suppose it's going
to be clouded up by morning.

Hmm.

[sighs] Crazy weather.

-You sure this is OK
with your mom and dad?

-Yeah.

I'm sure.

-You asked them and
they said it was OK

that I parked it up there?

-Yes.

My dad really likes you.

He even said that you're the
best milkman we ever had.

-Yeah, right.

Let's go.

-Oh, shit.

See I told you you
would see everything.

Oh, man.

Stop.

Come on.

-Get out of there.

For god's sake.

[shouts]

-Give me that shovel, Arlene.

-Come on, Mom.

Give him the shovel.

You're going to get sick.

-I'm not going to
have people talking--

-Come out of there.

Give me that shovel, Arlene.

-Mom-- give him the shovel.

-Clovis, go get a
raincoat from the house.

Get out of there,
for God's sake.

This is crazy.

-[shouts] Stupid hoe!

-For God's sake.

This is crazy.

-Mom.

-Get out.

Get out, dammit.

-You think you can
humiliate me with this.

Climbing that silo.

I know what you're
looking at up there.

-Thank you.

You can park that thing
anywhere you want.

Just don't get stuck.

And keep this quiet.

-Hi.

-Hi.

I thought I'd see you down
at the Grill this morning.

-Oh, I had to stay home again
today and help with something.

-Oh.

-A stupid cow died.

-Really?

-So how long do you plan on
keeping this job, anyway?

-This job right here?

-Well, do you have
another job? [laughs]

-I read astrology charts.

-Oh yeah.

Are you really going to do mine?

-Sure.

Like I told you, I need the
exact time you were born.

This stuff here?

Just between you and me, I don't
have a very good track record

when it comes to
sticking out a job.

-So you don't plan on
staying around that long?

-I didn't say that.

It's just that I-- I don't know.

-Do you know where you're
going to go from here?

He's stuck out there.

-Did you see a red sticker for
this new sweepstakes entry?

They say right here
there's supposed

to be a red instant
winner's sticker.

-Oh.

I forgot to give you these.

-Oh.

Oh, good.

Good.

You know, I am, uh,
tempted not even

to send this one in this year.

They never tell you who wins.

It's probably just a hoax.

-No.

-Oh, stop it.

Now you can all make fun of me.

As soon as I give up,
that'll be my lucky day.

We can't give up hope, you know.

Where would we be then?

-Lyle's pulling him
out with his truck.

-Can use the money as
well as the next guy.

Maybe everyone would
be a little happier

around here, digging holes
in the middle of the yard.

Is he crazy?

Who in their right mind
would do a thing like that?

-Lyle's almost got him out.

-Yeah, sure.

And he'll leave a
little bigger hole

than he dug in the first
place, I'm telling you.

You better believe it.

[sighs] That Lyle
seems like a nice man.

Do you think he has any
interest in farming?

-Do you remember
what time I was born?

-Uh, what time you were born?

Well, why do you
want to know that?

-Lyle's going to
do my horoscope.

-Horoscope?

Well, that's neat.

He believes in that.

Well, let's see.

I remember it was early morning.

And I'd been up all
night with labor pains.

It must have been
5:00 or 6 o'clock.

I'd have to check
with the hospital.

You know, you had
your umbilical cord

wrapped around your
neck three times.

Heh.

The doctor was scared
when he saw that.

I didn't know, of course.

I was so drugged up.

I never had much trouble
with you after that.

You-- you know, Tommy
took care of you.

You were always by his side.

Oh, you know?

I remember Dad taking
you out to the barn,

and he'd put you up on that
old gray cow we used to have.

The kids used to
call her Popsicle.

-[laughs]

-I don't know why you
called her Popsicle.

Do you remember her?

And she could wiggle her
skin up and down her back.

Oh, I'd go out there, and
he'd have you up on that cow,

walking up and down the
barn aisle, every light on

and the radio
blaring, full volume.

I tell you.

It was like a circus.

I was afraid you were
going to fall off.

-I remember touching the lights
on the top of the ceiling

when we were on the cow.

-You could have
been electrocuted.

Now, I tell you, I worried
plenty raising you kids.

[laughs] Oh, well you ought to
remember when I brought Clovis

home from the hospital,
you wouldn't hardly

let anyone touch him.

You was just used to parading
around the house with him

in your arms saying,
isn't he cute?

Mmm.

Isn't he cute?

All day long.

[bell rings]

Ah, I don't know if these
things do any good or not.

Sometimes I think
I just feel worse.

-Why don't you go
see a better doctor?

-A better doctor.

What's he going to do?

I'd be fine if it weren't
for all this commotion.

I just want everybody
to be happy.

-Happy.

Oh, yeah, we're all really
happy-- one happy family.

-Yeah.

Well, now, they, uh,
have things on TV

and in the newspapers
that inform people

a little bit more.

If Jack would have read
some of those things

on raising families, we
might still have Tommy here

to farm with this.

-And you think if
you-- if you-- if you

buy enough of these stupid
lotteries we'll get rich

and everything
will be different?

-Listen.

We can't give up hope.

Where would we be then?

Maybe I'll get lucky someday.

-You don't just get lucky
and everything changes.

God, you don't
understand anything

except for your stupid jackpot
and your fucking statues.

-Oh!

Stop that.

Stop that.

Oh.

Oh, what am I supposed to do?

-Wait.

Let me do it.

Does my hair still
smell like the barn?

-Nope.

-Are you sure?

I think I can still smell it.

-It smells like you.

-Great.

If the world only knew that
my chaperone, hairstylist,

chauffeur was a 10-year-old boy.

What?

What is it?

-Be still.

-Come on.

We've got to go.

He's going to leave without us.

-No he won't.

-[coughing]

You get me so worked up.

I'm just not myself anymore.

You had no right
digging that hole.

That was cruel.

Well.

I guess it can just sit
out there staring at us,

like a big gaping mouth.

Oh, I don't know why it's
always got to be like this.

[clears throat]

-We're going.

-Ah.

Well, don't be late.

You know how the mornings are
for you getting out of bed.

I'm not going to be out
there tomorrow to help out.

-Clovis will sleep
in my room tonight.

He can get me up in the morning.

-You know, I would
think that you'd just

dress a little nicer if you
were planning on dancing, huh?

Come on.

Give me a kiss.

Kiss.

You have fun.

-This place is pretty wild.

My mom has candles like these.

I used to stare
at them for hours

while she said her prayers.

-What did she pray for?

-Oh, I don't know.

I guess things people
usually pray for-- her kids,

her marriage, sick
cows, rain, crops.

Her eyes looked so sad.

What's your mother like?

-Mine?

Oh, I don't know.

Let's see.

My dad left when we were kids.

She missed him--
that much I remember.

-Why'd he leave?

-He didn't believe in families.

He said they were unhealthy
institutions of domination,

or some bullshit.

He thought kids should
have more freedom.

-He probably thought he
should have more freedom.

-Yeah.

That's more like it.

In the end, I think I
kind of respected him

for all that freedom.

Maybe it was just as well
I didn't have an old man

to fuck me up, huh?

[laughs]

-Mmm.

My dad used to beat my
brother Tommy up all the time.

He used to try running
away, and then my dad

would promise him things
to get him to come back.

And then everything would
start all over again.

You probably wonder
why I'm still here.

You probably think I'm
some sort of stupid farm

girl who doesn't have a clue.

I plan on leaving,
just not right now.

-I know No place where
you can ride dolphins,

near where I used to live.

My daughter is crazy
about dolphins.

In fact, let me show you
what I got for her birthday.

[toy squeaking]

-Where are your
wife and daughter?

-Back East, with my wife.

I mean, my daughter
is with my wife.

I haven't seen them for
a year and four months.

-You miss 'em, don't you?

Where'd you go?

Those guys from John's
Valley came down to the Grill

again tonight.

Is Mom sleepin'?

-Where you been?

-What?

-I said, where have you been.

-At the Grill.

Where do you think?

-You drove in the
yard two hours ago.

Where have you been since then?

-Talking with Lyle.

-You want to know something?

He can drive that piece
of junk right down

the road anytime he wants to.

You know that, don't you?

That son of a bitch hasn't got
a pot to piss in or a window

to throw it out of,
and he never will.

-Well, you're the one who said
he could park it out there.

-I know I said he could
park it out there.

That dumb thing I did.

-Did Mom take her medication?

-How should I know?

-She doesn't sleep when
she doesn't take it.

She should see a doctor.

-What are you dressed
like that for?

You look like a damn slut.

-You're

Drunk.

-I heard some things about you.

-Yeah.

I'm sure you'd be the first one
to believe what you hear, too.

You always have.

-What?

I'm still the boss around here.

JACK [VOICEOVER]: If
you don't like it,

you know what you can
do about it, don't you?

You can get the hell out.

That's what you can do.

-Oh.

I always wanted to make
myself really, really small

and ride away in one of these.

-Mmm.

I always think of that
spaceship that they sent up--

you know, with the greetings
from around the world

in different languages.

-Ah.

Imagine how confusing that'll be
when someone or something finds

it in a zillion years.

-Why is that?

-Well, I think we went
extinct because no one knew

how to talk to one another.

-Well, I think
it's like a prayer.

[laughter]

Why don't you come with me?

I'll fix this thing, and we'll
go traveling anywhere you want.

You said you wanted
to go to the ocean.

-Yeah.

But, um--

-But what?

Just up and disappear.

-[laughs] Oh, little guy.

Oh.

Hey, come on.

Oh, good.

I have an itch in my back.

Crazy.

There's straw down there
or hay or something.

-Let me see.

-He's-- he's growing
an inch a day.

-Yeah.

He's getting big.

-I'm going to give
you this calf.

-Why?

-Well, if you're going to
take over the farm someday.

-I came to ask if Lyle
can help with chores.

He's never even
milked a cow before.

-Sure.

Yeah.

You know what?

I've got some things to do.

You can go ahead and
get started without me.

-Oh.

-Well, I've got to show
you how to do this.

-Like that?

-[laughs]

-Ah, help!

-Get back here.

Get back here!

Hey!

Hey!

Get back here!

-Ah!

Stop it.

You're hurting me.

Stop it.

-All the milk's been going
down the drain because

of all of your
goddamn daydreaming!

-Fuck you, you bastard!

Stop it!

Leave him alone!

-What are you looking at?

Get the fuck out.

-Hey.

Wait a minute!

-[coughing]

-Where's Randi?

-She didn't come
home last night.

-What?

She didn't come home?

-Dammit.

-Oh!

-Move over.

Move over.

Come on!

Move over!

-Ow!

-Come here, you son of a bitch!

God damn you.

Son of a bitch.

God damn it.

That's the last time
you're going to get me,

son of a bitch.

God damn it.

[groaning] God damn
it, son of a bitch!

-I just stopped to
get some things.

-I'm sorry.

It's my fault.

-It wasn't your fault.

Look.

I'm not mad at you, toe head.

Honest.

-Are those coveralls Lyle's?

-Yeah.

They're pretty
cool, aren't they?

-Yeah.

-Where you planning on going?

Need any blankets?

You can have the, uh,
blue one off my bed.

-Did she check to see if
there's enough gas in the car?

-She's right there.

Ask her yourself.

-I'm not taking the car.

Can I have the money you owe
me for working here, please?

-The money we owe you.

We just don't have it.

-You promised.

-That boy cleaned
the whole house

hoping that you'd come home.

-He stood by the window waiting
for you to come home all night.

You can't leave us like this.

-Morning.

Did Father Walter
tell your mom and dad

when he was going to come over
tomorrow to do the blessing?

We're going to have plenty
of food-- that's for sure.

I made three hot dishes.

Clovis is going to love that.

Lyle quit his job.

Did you know?

Yeah.

He sat up here all night
until I kicked him out.

He said you and he are
going off together.

-Do you know if he's gone?

-I haven't seen him
so far this morning.

Come here.

You know, after Roger died, I
felt so guilty and responsible.

There was this one
guy that I could

have married after
it was all over.

It was my own stupid
fault-- my godson's father.

Oh, he was a handsome dish.

I loved him, believe me.

-Why didn't you marry him?

-Well, I kept asking
myself-- how can I

be a godmother and a stepmother
all at the same time?

Isn't that incredible?

So here I sit.

Sometimes we can't see
the forest for the trees.

-[sighs] Oh.

I'll be damned.

They finally got that
eye sore going then, huh?

-So what's up?

-Nothing.

-What do you mean nothing?

-I can't leave right now.

We have problems at home and
I have to stay and help out.

Sorry.

-Sorry?

Look.

I just quit my job.

I burned my bridges for you.

-Don't give me
that, like you need

any help burning your bridges.

-Oh, what the hell is that
supposed to mean, huh?

Maybe you should
burn some and stop

feeling sorry for yourself.

-Fuck you!

-Just cause you
think you can-- you

can run away every time you
can't handle it anymore.

-Yeah right.

-Why aren't you with
your wife and daughter?

-That is none of your business.

-Yeah.

It's because you're afraid,
just like your old man.

-Fuck you.

-Yeah, fuck you too!

This isn't any of your
goddamn business either.

I don't give a flying fuck about
what's going to happen to me.

I'm my own self.

Just leave me alone.

CLOVIS [VOICEOVER]: Daddy.

Daddy.

JACK [VOICEOVER]: You can follow
that good-for-nothing brother

of yours into the Army or Navy
or wherever the hell he is.

Oh.

God--

[glass breaking]

CLOVIS [VOICEOVER]: [crying]

JACK [VOICEOVER]:
You can get the hell

out-- that's what you can do.

[gunshot]

-Look.

-Cool.

-No.

You can have it.

-Thanks.

Hey Clovis, do you
ever think about what

you want to be when you grow up?

How would it be if I
left you for a while?

-Where would you go?

-To the ocean.

Maybe get a job on a
fishing boat or something.

See, I eventually want to
get a really good job working

with whales-- maybe at a marine
biology place or something.

And then I could come back
here and-- and get you.

And then you come live with me.

How would that be?

-A farmer.

-[laughs] What about a farmer?

-I think I'll be a
farmer when I grow up.

Wait.

-You'll miss me?

[sighs]

-Ahh!

[echoing] Ahh!

-I-- I can't do it.

[gunshot]

-Have you ever
been to the ocean?

Have you ever seen a whale?

They're a lot like
cows, you know.

They even call them
cows and calves.

Did you know that?

I've always felt
that I could make up

for something that I did.

It isn't my fault Tommy left.

You chased him away.

He wanted to be a farmer,
but you chased him away.

-Everything was sick.

Everything.

Everything's more and more sick.

-Every time I
tried to leave, you

make promises to make me stay.

I feel so stupid.

What have I been thinking?

I was afraid of you.

Suddenly I feel so stupid.

It's just like when I stopped
being afraid of the dark.

You're just an old man.

That's all.

-We are gathered here today
for a special blessing--

a blessing for our land and
the fruits of your labor.

Let us give thanks.

Lord, yours are the praises--
the glory, the honor,

and blessing be to
all your creatures.

-Come on.

Get up.

Come on, girls.

Get out of there.

Come on.

Get out of there!

Ya!

Ya!

Ya!

Ya!

Come on.

Ya!

Ya, ya!

Hya!

-Praise and blessing to the
wind and air and every kind

of weather, with which comes
sustenance for those creatures.

JACK: Ah.

Ya!

Ya!

Ya.

Ya!

Come on.

Ha Go.

Come on.

Ya.

-Lord make us instruments
of your peace.

Where there is hatred,
let us so love.

Where there is injury, harden.

Where there is doubt, faith.

-[shouts]

[shouts]

[shouts]

-Where there is despair, hope.

Where there is sadness, joy.

Grant that we may
not so much seek

to be consoled as to console.

To be understood,
as to understand.

To be loved as to love.

For it is in giving
that we receive,

and pardoning that
we are pardoned.

-Dad?

Dad?

[gunshot]

[gunshot]

MALE SPEAKER: Take it easy.

FEMALE SPEAKER: Oh my god.

[gunshot]

-Oh my god.

-[shouts] They're all sick.

Let them go.

-Dad!

Dad!

[gunshot]

[gunshot]

-Let them go.

Let them go.

-Oh.

MALE SPEAKER: Over there.

Over there.

-Oh my god.

[gunshot]

Oh my god, you're
going to kill somebody.

-Let them go.

I've been watching
them from up here.

They're all sick.

Let them go.

[shouts]

-Dad?

JACK: Go!

-Dad?

JACK: You don't understand.

Let them go.

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go!

-Dad!

[gunshot]

[gunshot]

[gunshot]

[sirens]

[gunshot]

-I'm warning you,
don't try to stop me.

They're all sick.

-Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

-Jack?

JACK: Don't try to stop me.

I don't give a damn.

Let 'em go.

Yo.

Yo.

Yo.

Yo.

Let them run.

-Ugh.

Ah.

JACK: I'm warning you.

Don't try to stop me.

Let them run.

[shouting]

-Dad!

Dad!

-Hey.

Everyone's looking for you.

We thought something might
have happened to you.

My dad's driving my mom
crazy with these photos.

I can't believe he's been
carrying those things around

with him.

-Nobody knows what to do.

-He ain't gonna
listen to anybody.

-Well, maybe you
can talk to him.

-Talk to him.

I talked to him last night.

[crashing noise]

-[coughing] Oh.

Oh.

Ah.

Ah.

Whew.

Whew.

Oh, I didn't know I still
had that much strength left.

What's got into you, Jack?

Sometimes it's still the farm
I saw when I was 20-- the farm

I always dreamed about.

From up here, it's all green--
fields in straight rows,

trimmed, the grass around
the house, a herd of cows,

beautiful cows in the pasture,
all facing the same direction

with their heads held high, as
if they were smelling something

on the air.

I always thought I
could pass it along.

Why do you think I've worked
so hard all of these years?

It's the only thing
I ever really wanted.

-Randi's leaving, Jack.

You've got to stop blaming her
and Tommy for all the things

that have gone wrong.

She's a grownup.

She has to live her own life.

I'll help you, Jack.

I will.

I, uh-- I brought you
something to show you.

Hmm?

There's not a day
that I don't thank

the good Lord for
that little boy.

-It's that field out there.

-What's he got planted in it?

-Rabbits.

-Sorry.

-It's all over.

-Hey, sport.

-How big a engine
they got in there?

-Rebuilt 351.

153,000 miles on it.

I think they'd be putting Honda
engines in these things by now.

-Maybe I'll be lucky sometime
and win one of these.

Wouldn't that be nice?

You know, in a lottery
or sweepstakes contest?

Then we could, uh-- we
could come out and visit you

sometime.

-Bye, Mom.

-Can I use your knife?

-Dad.

-Bye.

Be good.

Don't take any wooden nickels.

If you see Tommy, say hello.

-OK.

Here.