Greener Mountains (2005) - full transcript

Greener Mountains is the coming of age story of JP Barton, an adopted boy raised on a throwback Vermont family resort. Since being found as an infant by the mercurial aging owner, JP has essentially never left the resort grounds. But with the arrival of a young, free spirited New York artist, Alice Flynn, his sheltered life is suddenly turned upside down. Her arrival, plus a convergence of events, propels JP on a bumpy ride of self-discovery. It's not until JP accepts who he is, that he realizes what's most important to him. As a result he is finally able to win Alice and in the process save the resort. Greener Mountains is a story of finding out where you belong in the world and discovering that who you are is often more than enough.

OH.

- What's wrong?

- Oh, nothing. Oh.

I was just thinking. I...

I always thought I was
going to outlive this old oak.

700 years old and I think
I'm gonna outlast it.

If that isn't human conceit,
I don't know what is.

- Well, you still might.

- And it still might rain
Johnnie Walker in April.

I also always thought
you'd be taking over this place.

- I can't.



- I know.

I know.

I know.

THE LAKE, IT MOVES.

Sometimes it quivers,

like it's filled with
a feeling it can't express.

That's 'cause it has no outlet.

It's fed by a deep
unsounded crevice.

- Hey, bug.
Want to help me out?

- Sure.
- All right.

I want you to see
if you can find

any dirty glasses
hanging around.

- Okay, then, uh,
are we going fishing?

- Yeah. We're gonna be
eating perch till Christmas.



Very funny.

OH, MAN.

- Oh. Hey, I think there's
some more dirty glasses...

LIFE'S FUNNY SOMETIMES.

You never know what
tiny turn of events

is gonna tilt your
entire life on its axis.

I'm J...

p... oh my god!
- Oh, I'm sorry.

- That's my fault.
- I... oh, I'm such a dork.

I'll get it.
- Are these yours?

- Yeah, but they...
- they're really good.

- Really?

Oh, thank you.

I've never been here before.
It's...

- It's pretty amazing.
Do you want a little tour?

- Yeah, that'd be great.
I mean, if you're not too busy...

- no! No. No.

Welcome to barton's.

- Thanks.

- You're welcome.

- Are you sure you don't
want me to get something?

- I got it. It's fine.
- Okay.

- THIS IS THE LAKE.
- LOOK AT THE DUCK!

LOOK AT THE DUCK!

It's beautiful.
- It's bottomless.

Jacques cousteau
came here in 1968

and swam down to this crevice
and almost got lost.

Yeah, so...

HERE'S A LITTLE SECRET.

You really do
only have one soulmate alive.

Oh sure, you can find
a decent backup along the way.

But, oh, you're gonna be

kicking yourself
the rest of your life

if you didn't do
everything in your power

to grab 'em
when you had the chance.

- Yeah, a lot of things
I don't know how to do.

Is that poison Ivy?

NO, THAT IS.

Thank you.

Oh my god, this tree.

- Yeah, the old oak.

- How old is this tree?

- Uh, 700 years, give or take.

- Unbelievable.

My sister always
gives it to me straight.

So I was kind of dreading
the conversation,

but when I finally
talked to her, she said,

"Alice, you know
what you got to do."

So I finally got the courage
to break up with him

and move out.
And that's why I'm here.

- Cure your broken heart.
- No, mm-mmm!

To clear my head,
so I don't make any more stupid choices about men.

THIS IS SO GOOD.

- Real Vermont
cheddar cheese soup,

every single Friday
come rain or apocalypse.

- So what about you?

- About what?
- Well... who are you?

What do you do
when you're not here...

when you're not up here working?

- What do you mean?
- Well, what do you do?

I mean...
- Hey, bug!

You got to meet someone. Come here.
- Okay.

- Hey, bug, Alice.

YOU SHOULD HAVE
SEEN ME TODAY, J.P.

I got four perch this big.

- Aww, man, I wish
I could have gone with you.

- Want to go fishing tomorrow?

- Yeah sure, maybe if
we go real early.

Let me help you
out with that, bug.

So this is Alice.

She's from New York.

- Yup. Pleasure
to meet you, bug.

- But she's not coming fishing.

- Uh-uh, that's just
me and you, bug.

Fishing is just me and you.

He loves sunglasses.

♪ THERE WAS
A TIME IN MY LIFE... ♪

- All right, we've got art,
temporary art,

science of art,

sports science.

- Why can't you tell her that
you work here all year long?

- Oh yeah, that's good, toe.

"Howdy, I'm j.P.

I work at barton's."
That's hot.

- What's wrong with that?
- She's an artist.

She lives in New York City.

Her last boyfriend
was a law student.

- SO?
- HERE'S SOMETHING.

Environmental architecture.

See... see that sounds smart.

- Why don't you pick
something that you...

that you know?
- You don't get it, toe.

She was hugging the tree.

MEN...
UNZIP THEIR FLIES

and their brains fall out,
I swear.

I AM NEVER GONNA
DO JUSTICE TO THAT OLD OAK.

- Stop putting your work down.

You've a real talent.

It's something to be proud of.

- It's nothing compared
to what you're studying.

- Sustainable architecture
using renewable resources,

big deal.

- It is a big deal,
a very big deal.

- Thanks, Alice.
- Hey, Jimmy!

- Hey, Holly, Mike.

Hey, me and toe rigged up
an antenna for the old 13-inch,

so you can catch the sox-yanks games this weekend.

- Oh ho ho.

Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy.

When are you gonna learn?
It's August!

The Yankees have been beating
the Red Sox in August

longer than your
ma's been around.

Nothing has changed since 1918.

- 1918?
- Walk away, Alice.

- And you obviously
weren't born in new england,

were you, uh...
- Alice.

- Alice. Alice,
there are three dates

that all new england children
know by heart.

1620, 1776...

- And 1918.

- Why?
- Aha!

Because that was the year

that the Red Sox
spat in the eye of the gods.

They sold the greatest player
who ever played the game,

babe Ruth.

And they sold him
to the hated New York Yankees.

And they have not won
a world series...

BUT YOU LIKE THE Red Sox.

Jimmy, I LIKE THE Red Sox.

I have no choice.
I wasn't taught differently,

but you?
You're young.

There's still hope.

Every Summer the sox suck us in

with glorious aprils
and record-setting mays,

giving us hope
for the whole Summer months.

And then it's August
and they start to fade.

Sometimes
they'll... they'll

wait until mid-September
to turn on us.

And sometimes,
once in a blue moon,

they'll wait and wait and wait

until late October...

world series...

and then...
And then Billy Buckner

lets a dribbler through his legs
and they carve your heart out...

That is the curse
of the bambino, Alice.

That is the curse
of the bambino.

So whatever you do,
do not let this kid

talk you into being
a Red Sox fan.

- But you're still gonna
watch the game tonight, right?

- Well, I wouldn't miss it.

- Thank you, Mike.
- You're welcome.

- I know this one.
Artist is...

Monet!

- Van gogh.

- Van gogh! Really?
- Yeah.

- Damn it!
Okay. Keep 'em coming.

- Where would you find
brueghel's painting,

uh, "icarus"?

- I don't know.
- Musee des beaux-arts.

- All right, whatever.

Okay, quiz me on
Manhattan geography.

- Where is
the statue of Liberty?

THAT'S NOT NICE.

- Staten island.

SEEMS TO ME
YOU GOT TWO CHOICES:

Become what others
want you to be

or be what you are,

and then others
will want to be that.

- So when you study,

do you hole yourself up
in a little carrel in a library

or do you go
to a coffee house or what?

- You know where I like to go?

Um, "the cloisters."

Yeah, it's so peaceful there.

- J.P., I go there to draw.

- No way.
- Yes, we should meet up there in the fall.

- Yeah, definitely.

- Wait a minute,
you go all the way

up to the cloisters
from nyu to study?

- Hm-hmm, yeah.

- Nyu...
- That's it. Give me that.

It's in greenwich village.

What was I thinking?
- You weren't thinking.

- Come on, Alice.
Big stick!

- Run! Run run run run!
- Oh! Oh ho ho!

Well, I guess we found
the boy's weakness.

- Cue the fairies.

- I don't want to be
a fairy anymore, j.P.

- What?

- I don't want

to be a fairy anymore, j.P.!

- No one else can play
mustardseed like you.

I think I... I should be
a leading man or something.

- Actors.

♪ SO BLACK OF HUE ♪

♪ with orange-tawny bill ♪

♪ the throstle
with his note so true ♪

♪ the wren
with little quill. ♪

- What angel wakes me
from my flowery bed?

- She's your mom?

- Yeah, I'm adopted.
- Cool.

- I know. My name's j.P.

- Threetoe.
- Huh?

- That's my name. Threetoe.
Don't ask.

So are you sure this is okay?

'Cause we didn't
rehearse this part.

- Don't worry, threetoe.

I'm a professional stuntman.

- Wow.
- I know.

Peaseblossum, cobweb,
moth, mustardseed.

- Grab the rope.

- Ready!
- And I...

- go.

- Damn.

- You're the best
mustardseed we've ever had.

Threetoe?

Toe, toe?

- Really?

- Yeah, really.

Perfect. Perfect.
- Right?

- "Weaving spiders,
come not here;

hence, you long-legg'd
spinners, hence!"

I can't believe
you roped me into this.

When does your semester start?

- The first week of September.

- How 'bout I stay up here
and we drive down together?

WE PROBABLY MAKE
A MILLION DECISIONS

in our lives.

Two, maybe three,
have the capacity

to truly alter
our lives forever.

When did you decide this?

- I've been thinking
about it for a while now.

Just seems right.

- You're bluffing.

- Huh? He hasn't placed a bet.

- Gee, buddy, I thought
you were going to u.V.M.

I mean, Holly and me
were gonna come up...

YOUR BET, J.P.

- Plus this.

- Your lucky softball?
- Yup.

- That's a mighty
steep bet there, partner.

- I can handle it, Mike.

- Ah, it's too rich for me.

- Yeah, if I wanted high stakes,
I'd go to Vegas.

- Call.

- Pair of twos.

- Nines and fours.

- Damn!

- Oh, it ain't wise
to bluff the bluffer

who taught you
in the first place.

Holly AND ME,
WE WERE GONNA COME UP.

Maybe catch a few games,
remember?

IN ANY CASE,
Jimmy, IT'S WAY TOO LATE

to transfer to nyu now.
You'd have to wait a year.

- Well, I can't.

- Well, hell,
let's get Eric up here.

Raise.
- Eric your grandson?

- Yeah, he's managing
the whole nyu

endowment portfolio
or something.

Isn't he, counsel?

- That he is.
- Well, hell,

let's get him up here.

YOU REMEMBER MUGGS.

- How are you?
- Eric.

- And this is Max.
He's the sherriff of our town.

- Yeah, I remember you used
to come up when you were a kid.

- That's right.
That's right.

J.P., I remember.
- Yeah, I'm your uncle.

- He is my uncle, isn't he?

How are you, uncle j?
- I'm good.

- Enough yapping.
Who's dealing?

- All right, give me those.

- You okay, grammy?

- Oh, I would be
if the damn doctor

would give me something stronger

than cherry syrup
to get rid of it.

- Maybe Dr. A should
be writing prescriptions

down at the state liquor store.

- Well, if you shut up,
I'll go see him tomorrow.

- So can you
help out j.P., Eric?

- Are you kidding?

Grammy, I would do
anything for you.

I would do anything for her.

I'll make it happen.

- Cool.

So I'm going to nyu.

All right.

- "Fairies, skip hence..."

Len asked me if I wasn't

too old to bring up a baby.

I told him any baby'd
be lucky to be brought up by me.

Most moms don't have
a speck of wisdom to pass on,

haven't lived long enough.

- Mommy's losing
too much for you?

AND OF COURSE I'm BONDED

through two different companies.

I maintain
an independent auditor

for my books if you like.

Although that does
cost a little more.

I have received
three different awards

from chambers of commerce

for excellence
in resort management.

I love my work.
I have no pets,

or children,

or a spouse or...
or friends of any kind.

- Well, this looks great.

I just have one question.

Why did you leave
the catskill resort?

- The comics,
they drove me nuts.

- You're in.

- Is this Chuck estes?

I love Chuck estes.

- Yeah, I caught him
at smalls jazz club

last time I was down there.

- You're the most interesting...

Who are you, j.P. Barton?

J.P.

- Is that your girl?

- Yeah.

Yeah yeah, that's...
uh, you can wave to her.

All right, that's Alice.
She's from New York.

I'm gonna get
your salads for you.

- Uh, with chicken.
- Yeah, with chicken.

- She's a little cutie.

PEASEBLOSSUM!
COBWEB! MOTH!

Mustardseed.

- READY.
- AND I.

BE KIND AND COURTEOUS
TO THIS GENTLEMAN.

Hop in his walks
and gambol in his eyes.

- Dude, this is whack.

- Whack doesn't even cover it.

It is a pretty place,
though, huh?

- Yeah.

- It really is an incredible
piece of land.

I got to show you guys
what's across the lake.

It's been years
since I was there,

but there're acres

AND ACRES ALL UNDEVELOPED.

- J.P., we're gonna miss you.

There're three things

that people choose
to live their lives by.

Religion, money,

or love.

If you choose religion,
don't worry about which one.

They're all just guesses anyway.

If you choose money,

always remember that
the more you have,

the dumber the ways
you'll find to spend it.

- And last but not least,

love.

LOVE.

Well, you're just gonna have to work that one out for yourself

'cause I'm not divulging
my secrets yet.

- I may still need 'em.

To j.P.

- Okay.
We have to...

6:00 a.m.... we have to meet,

and then we're leaving.
6:00, okay?

HELLO?! UNCLE J.P.!

OH MY GOD!

THERE HE IS.

- Uncle j.P.!
- J-bird!

- Hi.
- Hey, Eric tells me

you could take us for a little
cruise across the lake.

- Oh man, it's way too dark.
- Come on.

- You won't be able
to see anything.

- Come on, j.
- Boo. Boo.

- Slides.

I've got slides
of the whole area

in the lodge.
- Yeah.

SLIDES.

- Slides.
- Let's go.

Let's go, excellent.
- Okay.

- So, Mr. J.P.,

I brought you some
Vermont cheddar cheese soup.

WHERE ARE
YOU GUYS THINKING HOUSES?

- This is the lake. Pretty?
- Wow.

This shows there's
4,000,000 miles in acres.

THAT IS A LOT OF ACRES.

What's that.
- That's the gazebo.

The best view of the lake from here.
- That's nice.

- That's gorgeous.

That's the chest
sweat lodge.

I burned it down once.

WAIT, THERE WAS A FIRE
IN THE SWEAT LODGE?

- THAT IS THE OLD OAK.
- THE OLD OAK!

- THAT'S PRETTY.
- WAIT WAIT.

It's on the wrong side.

IT'S ON THIS SIDE.
- WHAT?

- Yeah.
- What am I talking about?

- I don't know.
- I don't even...

seriously, this whole area

is next to the abenaki
sacred land.

- Sacred like church?

- Beck does like
a good slide show.

THAT'S A PARTY.

THAT WAS NICE.

Is this blurry to anyone else?

LOOK AT THIS JUNK.

- Hey, uncle j, I have a question.
- Huh?

- Why the hurry?
- Huh?

- I mean, for me
to get you into nyu.

Why... why the hurry?

- Oh, 'cause I told Alice
I was already a student there.

YOU WHAT?

- Wait, you, uh...

What? You made that up
to... to impress her?

YEAH,
I've NEVER BEEN TO New York.

LOOK AT Mr. SLICK HERE.

- I told her I was studying
environmental architecture.

- I even found out
what kind of music she likes

AND I BURNED CDs
OF THE SAME STUFF.

I... I... I...

I told her I jogged
from greenwich village

to the cloisters to study.

THAT IS HILARIOUS!

That's hilarious.
- Oh man, I love her.

I love her more than anyone
can love anyone.

I would do anything
to make that girl happy.

Anything.

I'll be whoever that girl
wants me to be.

And I can do it too.

- Hey, you okay?

- What do you want?

- Uh, j.P. Sent me.

He said you wanted
to talk to me.

- What?

- Well, I feel really stupid.

Um, I'm sorry.
- He sent you over here?

- Yeah, he... he said
you wanted to see me.

Um, I don't know.
I guess he thought

we'd get along,
New York and all.

- Look, I'm sorry.

I'll... I'll leave you alone.

- I'm not pissed at you.

- What are you doing?

- I'm leaving.

- Really?

You know, Alice,
you're not gonna be able

to catch a bus in town tonight,

but, uh...

You're more than welcome
to catch a ride to New York

with me in the morning.

- Yeah?

I'm sure I could
tell you some stories

of some of the losers
I fell in love with.

- What are you still doing here?

- I think she went into town
with Eric for something.

- Right.

- She'll be back.

She'll be back.

"ABOUT SUFFERING,
THEY WERE NEVER WRONG,

the old masters.

How well they understood
its human position.

How it takes place when
someone else is eating

or opening a window,

or just walking
dully along."

W.H. Auden wrote that.

- Come on.

- Howdy, I'm Randall.

Oh, uh, did you
forget something?

- I'm gonna have to let you go.

- Why?

Did I do something wrong?

I can change.
I'm malleable.

Was it the way I said "howdy"?

- No, we don't need you anymore.

- But I just started.

- Yeah, well,
you just finished too.

- Well...

if that doesn't beat all!

Hmm.

- Why are you still here?

- Well, I figure
if I'm gonna get fired,

I might as well get
a free meal out of it.

- 935.
- What?

- I just figured it out.

I've had 935 bowls.

- Well, technically,
that's a cup.

- I've had 935 cups

of real Vermont
cheddar cheese soup

every Friday lunch
of my stupid life.

- Well, to be so lucky.
- Lucky?

Well, don't be so sure.

Do you realize what
a waste of your life it is

to eat this every Friday
of every week

of every year of your life?

- Well, I love dairy.

Milk, cheese, butter,
you name it,

I love it.

Especially your more
viscous dairy.

Oh, homogenized milk is fine

and I really enjoy sour cream
because of the texture.

It's very, very thick.

But I prefer dairy
with a little more meat to it,

you know, more lumpy dairy.

Your cottage cheeses,
your paneers,

your clabbered creams.

Whew, give me a plate of curd

and a glass of warm
clabbered milk

and I'm in pig heaven.

You ever churn your own butter?

♪ All around the lake tonight ♪

♪ the darkness is punctured
by little light ♪

♪ you've seen them
so many times before ♪

♪ but now you wonder what's
on that further shore... ♪

♪ The night is still,
you hear no sound ♪

♪ but there's a voice
in your heart ♪

♪ that won't quiet down. ♪

- Later, toe.

- Why don't you just
go down there?

- Where?
- "Where, where"?!

- She obviously doesn't
want to talk to me!

I wouldn't want to talk to me.

- I don't want to talk to you.

- J.P.?
- Yeah.

- Can I talk to you a sec?

I just got back
from the hospital.

The news isn't good.

- ♪ Been together
for oh, so long ♪

♪ and now you tell me ♪

♪ that you'll be going away ♪

♪ and now I know where
you're going to... ♪

- Howdy, I'm j.P.
- ♪ I hope you find your way ♪

♪ I say ♪

♪ what's forever
if you're gone? ♪

♪ I'll find the strength ♪

♪ to carry on ♪
- hi. J.P.

Merry Christmas.
- ♪ Only you ♪

♪ can stop the pain ♪

♪ and our love will
always remain. ♪

- What did Dr. Amonte
have to say this morning?

- That I'm not smoking
or drinking nearly enough.

He thinks you should
go out and get me

a carton of winstons
and a bottle of Glenfiddich.

- Seriously, how're you feeling?

- Don't you start too.

So...

Have you heard from her?

- What are you talking about?

- You know you have
to write a letter

to get a letter?
- I did.

- Send another one.
- She doesn't want to talk to me,

she doesn't want to talk to me.
- Oh, then that's that.

I mean, you did write
one whole letter.

- I'm better off by myself.

- Alone is fine.
Lonely ain't.

- Just leave it, okay?
It's none of your business.

- Doesn't mean you aren't acting
like a complete doofus.

- All right, fine.
Tell me, what should I do?

- Oh, I don't know.
Like you said,

it's your business.

But let me just tell you

how foolish it seems

from the vantage point
of a woman

who has only a few years
left on this planet

to see you give up the chase

on a person you love.
- I don't l...

- shut up, let me finish.

THANK YOU.

In 73 years, I've made my share
of bone-headed choices,

things that I wish
I had done differently.

But looking back,

the one thing
I never ever regret

was doing too much
for someone I love.

- Okay, here... here we go.

Studio right across
from hunter campus.

No, it's got to be
in the east village, my man.

- Then you're gonna have
to take a subway to class

every day.
- I don't care.

If it's not in this radius,
skip it.

- There's a fine line between
romancing and stalking.

- Funny.

- You can't just hop in the car,
drive down there, say hi?

- No, I can't.
I told her I'm this guy,

this New York guy.
I got to be prepared.

That's why she went with Eric.

Why wouldn't she?
I'm a nobody

from the middle of nowhere.
Who would you choose?

- You.

Of course your breasts
would have to be a lot bigger.

- How come you're not unpacked?

- I figured I'd wait
to see what transpires.

- Believe me.
You can unpack.

I'm so out of here this time.
- Hm-hmm.

- Trust me.

Hey, what's up, my man?

Big ones biting?
Let me see.

- These fish suck.

- Well, there's always tomorrow.
- No.

Threetoe says
you're leaving today.

- Yup, I'm going
to New York City.

You're gonna come visit me,
aren't you? You better.

Me and bug in the big apple,
sounds fun, doesn't it?

- A bug in a big apple.
That's funny.

- It kinda is.

All right, hold on.
A couple more minutes.

A lot of cords under here...

I got to get this TV...

- I've already got one TV
I don't watch.

- Well, I thought
since you can't get out

that this way you can still
keep in touch with things.

Watch.

- Oh.

But... aww.

Where's the shower cam?

It's been awhile since
I've seen myself a naked man.

I haven't seen
a wrinkle-free naked man since

the Johnson administration.

A lot of restless people
in my family.

My mother was restless,

my brother, my husband,

all got the hell out of here.

I guess I've always
prepared myself to live alone.

Well...
- Well, what?

- You gonna get
your butt out of here

or do I have to drive you
down to New York myself?

- You sure you're
all right up here?

- If you're not off
the premises in 30 seconds,

I'm calling the cops.

30...

29!

28.
- All right.

Wish me luck.
- Luck!

- Whoo-hoo! How you doing, Francis?
- Hey, j.P.

- Hey, j.

I thought you'd be gone by now.

- What are you doing here?

- I've been so bored
with my job,

really for longer than
I care to think about.

So I quit.

I heard you were
leaving, so, uh,

I figured I'd jump
at the chance.

I'm gonna take over
for you for a while.

This way there's someone
to look after m,

keep an eye on the books,

you know, make sure things
are running okay.

You have no idea how much
I needed a change like this.

Well, good luck in New York.

Let me know
if there's anything I can do.

Okay?

- Shit!

I'll have to have muggs
take a look at this

piece of junk as soon
as he gets back

from St. Albans.

Since I'm stuck here,

maybe we can...

maybe we can grab lunch later.
I don't know.

- Definitely, we'd love to.

He's fine.
You know, the same.

He actually talked about

coming up here
later this Summer.

I'll believe it when it happens.

OH DEAR.

This place was never much
your father's type of place.

- It's funny.
He always talks about

how much he loved
growing up here.

- That's only because
he got out.

Oh, you'll find out

that everything
looks much better

in hindsight, everything.

I can look back on
your grandfather's funeral

with nostalgia.

But then again, he was
a cheating bird-dogger.

That's not much of a surprise.

- Well, I love it here.

And I'm going to raise you

two peanuts.

- Huh.

I fold.

- Got you again, grammy.
- Not bad.

But I'm gonna find it.

- Yeah? Find what?

- Your tell.
Everyone has one.

Particularly men.

Oh, they're the worst bluffers

because they enjoy it so much.

- Randall, don't worry.

It's just for a little...
- don't talk.

- Like two more...
- don't talk!

- Hey.

Can we talk?
- I'm playing the piano.

- Oh, yeah.
Didn't notice that.

So New York mail's

running a little
slow down there, huh?

- Uh-huh.

- You shouldn't be with him.

He's so unbelievably
wrong for you.

Okay, I'm sorry.
It's none of my business.

He's such an asshole though!

- Is that why you pimped me
out to him?

- What?
Did you he tell you that?

My god, the guy's
a freaking sociopath!

- Oh, after he got you into nyu?

Nice work.

- You're the asshole.

UH, IT'S GETTING LATE.

We should let you
have some rest.

- M: No, you should let me
have some scotch.

I'll be getting all the rest
I need soon enough.

- Now don't say that.
- Oh please.

As my legal counsel, I order you

to sit your ass back down

and play some cards, Lenny.

And watch this one.

I think he's palming the deck.

Hey, Sundance, you in or what?

Good, double ante.

This is the guy
who looks after my books.

Hey, len, is it too late

for me to write him
out of my will?

- I already told you.
I don't want anything.

- Oh, sure you do.
You just don't know it yet.

- Look, I don't want it, okay.
I don't want to...

I don't want to live
your life over again,

all right?!

- So?

- Awful nice of you
helping j.P. Out like this.

- He's a really good kid.
I like him.

I like him a lot.
Did you...

did you figure out
what's wrong with it?

- Yeah, I think so,

but unfortunately
it's gonna take a couple days

to get the parts I need.

- Can't you just
jury-rig it?

- I'm sorry, sorry.
It's the best I can do.

- J.P., you're still here!
That's great.

- Let me just sign you guys in.

- Thank you. We usually
get the oak tree cabin.

- You'll have to wait.

Walter, why don't
you take number 12?

This is good.
- Thank you.

TOMORROW WE'LL
HEAD OUT ACROSS THE LAKE.

You know, I saw the sketches
you did of the oak this morning,

you're really amazing.

- You know,
there's just something

magical about this place.

I could paint it forever.

- Well, you won't have to

if I set you up
at the right gallery.

I mean, you could make
a fortune off those sketches.

- I'm good.

- I know how much
you love it here.

That's... that's why
I brought you.

That's why I called you
after so long.

- You know, I think I'm going
to take a walk around the lake

before it gets too dark.

- Okay.
I'll go with you.

- Oh, thank you.
I just...

I'd rather be alone tonight.

KINDA WANTED
TO GET UP EARLY AS WELL.

YEAH, ME TOO.

I just love waking up
to a sunrise.

- It's amazing
how similar we are.

It's always been
one of my favorite things.

- HEY, J.
- HEYA.

Hey, can I talk
to you for a second?

- Sure.
- Over here.

I want to talk in private.

Why'd you lie to Alice?

- Come again?

- You told her I set you two up.

- You didn't?
- You know I didn't.

- Set us up, didn't set us up,

you know, it was so long ago,
I hardly remember.

- You're a real asshole,
you know that?

- What do you want from me?

Huh? I mean, what is it
that you want, j?

And why are you still here?

Look, don't take
your frustrations out on me.

All right.

Even if I hadn't told her
you set us up,

who do you think she would
have ended up with, huh?

No hard feelings, okay.

- What do you think Alice
would say

if I told her you
lied to her that night?

- Go ahead. Tell her.
Tell her anything you want.

It's your word against mine,
but right now, Jimmy,

yours really doesn't
stack up that well.

- I guess she'll just have
to take your word for it,

won't she?

- Uh, excuse me, what
do you think you're doing?

Excuse me!

Hello! What are you...

- you got to see this.

- I'm not gonna deal
with your crap!

- No, Alice, come here.

No, come here.

- Let go of me.
Stop!

Let go of me,
what is your problem?!

- Alice, just sit down...
- I swear,

if you don't let go of me,

I'm gonna kick you so bad!

- Sit down
and watch this, please.

- Gosh!
- No.

- Aah!

Get off of me!
- Alice.

Oww! Damn it, Alice!
Just watch this.

Watch!
- What?!

- Watch. This stupid...

- watch what?!
- Ah, here it comes.

Hey, can I talk
to you for a second?

- Sure.
- Over here.

I want to talk in private.

What?! You've got
to be kidding me?!

- Get off me.
- Stupid!

- That is you!
God, grow up.

- Damn it!

- What's wrong?

Is something wrong?

- She's resting.
I just came by

to see how she was doing.
- Roxanal.

This is morphine.
- It's low dosage

for her pain.

- She has been suffering a lot.

- This is what
you're giving her?

- It'll make her feel better.

- What do you have
that'll make her better?

- Look, Jimmy,
if I could do more,

I'd do more.
- Come on, j.

- Vick would never
do anything to hurt m.

- Right now we need to make
the time she has left

as comfortable as possible.
- Come on, wake up. Shut up, Eric!

Just shut up.

You write her something else.

Write her something else!

- All right, m, wake up.
- Take easy, j.P.

- Come on, m, wake up.
- Don't shake her.

- Wake up.
Wake up, m.

- That's way out of line.
- What are you guys giving her?

Come on, m, wake up!
- Stop it, let's go.

I want you out
of here right now.

Go!

VERY GOOD, MY LORD.

- Very good, my lord.

Very good, my lord.

- Bug, stop itching it.
You're gonna make it worse.

- I can't help it.

- Unbelievable.

Come on, bug.
Stop itching it.

- What up, bro?
What's up, man?

Listen, we got box seats.

Yeah, it's next Saturday.

Yeah, tell Stacey
to bring all her friends.

Oh, I'll call you back
in a few, Kevin.

J-bird, if you're
not busy later,

me, Eric, and his chick
are going boating.

- Who?
- Eric and, uh...

Ally... whatever her name is.
- Alice.

Her name's Alice.
She's not his chick.

- Right.

- Don't touch, okay, bug?

And stay out of the woods,
you got it?

GOT IT.

- Barton's.
- Hey, j.P., it's Russ.

- Yeah.
- Listen, about that linen order.

I just want to let you guys know

my boss is being
a real tight-ass

and won't let me return
the deposit.

- Deposit?
- Yeah, there was a cancelation fee.

- I didn't...
I didn't cancel.

- Someone did.

Joe got a call
from you guys this morning.

J.P.?
- Yeah.

HEY, Eric.

What are you really doing here?

- I don't follow.

- I spoke to your boss
in New York.

He said you didn't quit.

- Well, no, not officially.
- Thank you! So?

- So firstly, I didn't quit.

- Do you see, Alice?
He's lying.

He's not here to run the place.

- What's the issue?
I wanted to keep

my health benefits
a couple months.

- You called his boss?

- Yeah, for good reason.

- You called up his boss
out of nowhere

and interrogated him?

- No, not really?
- You're unbelievable!

- It's all right...
- no, it's not all right.

What has gotten into you?
- Nothing.

- Nothing?! Nothing!
You accuse Eric,

you attack m!
- I didn't attack m.

He's lying.
- Eric didn't tell me!

Len did!
- Len?

You're being
a real asshole lately.

- Yeah, for good reason.

- Well, I don't know
why you care, anyway.

I thought you were leaving.
- Maybe I will.

- Well, no one's stopping you.

- No one's stopping you.
- Shut up, Eric.

- M: "The moon methinks
looks with a watery eye;

and when she weeps,

weeps every little flower,

lamenting some
enforced chastity."

I wasn't too bad
in my day, was I?

- You're great.
- Oh, you're full of it,

but I'll let it slide this time.

Quickest way to kill somebody

is to save 'em from the thing

that you think
is gonna kill 'em.

- M, we're going for a ride.

SLEEP THOU,

and I will wind thee in my arms.

Fairies, begone,
and be all ways away.

So doth the woodbine
the sweet honeysuckle

gently entwist...

- M: The female Ivy so enrings
the barky fingers of the elm.

HOW I LOVE THEE.

How I adore thee.

- Welcome, good Robin.

See'st thou this sweet sight?

Her dotage now
I do begin to pity:

For, meeting her of late
behind the wood,

seeking sweet favors
from this hateful fool,

I did upbraid her...

- M: Oh.

What's wrong?

- Oh nothing.

I was just thinking. I...

I always thought you would
be taking over this place.

- I can't.

- I know.

I know.

It's not too late.

- For what?
- To change your mind.

Len is still putting
together a new will.

- I'm sorry.
I wish I could,

but I... I can't.

I just don't want it.

- What were you thinking of
taking her out like that?

- I thought it'd be good
for her to see the play.

- She is in no shape
to be dragged

halfway across this resort.

- Take it easy, vick.
His heart

was in the right place.
- It's inexcusable!

He could have killed her!
- Yeah, I know.

- I'm sorry.

- I want you
to stay away from her,

do you hear me?
You're not to go near her.

- That's enough.
- So you just stay away.

- I should never have
taken m out last night.

SHE LOOKED
PRETTY HAPPY TO ME.

- No, I'm an idiot.

I screw everything up...

with m, with Alice.

I don't know what to do, toe.

You should have seen the smile she gave me last night.

No matter what I try,

it just ends up being
the wrong thing.

- Yeah.
- It's true my entire life.

And with Alice, it's even worse.

The minute I talk to her,
I just...

ugh!

I'm an idiot.

I give up.

THAT'S OKAY.

- M: Hold it! Hold it.

Hold it!

This is my lucky softball.

It never let me down.

Play ball!

RIGHT DOWN
BY THE OLD DOCK.

- Hey, threetoe.
- Hey.

- Uh, can I ask you a favor?

- Uh-huh.
- I... I was supposed

to repaint the whole
shake by the lake scene.

And I kind of messed it up

and it looks like
a four-year old did it.

And you're like the best
drawer that I've ever seen.

- No worries.
I'll take care of it.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

- You coming?

- Yeah, I'll be right there.

I should have known.

- Alice, hold on a second.

I just wanted
to apologize for before.

I was being stupid, okay?

Besides, they really do
need to be painted.

And I can't draw.

- Fine. Bring 'em over.

- You rock.

- Whatever.
- Thank you.

The whole time I was
up in that tree fort,

I just stared at the stars.

And that feeling,
I don't know where it came from,

but that feeling stayed
with me the entire night.

It was like that tree
held me in its palm.

And, uh...

I knew what it was all about.

- You really are meant
to live here, aren't you?

I mean, it was nothing
like the first time

I went to the top
of the empire state building.

That was just
an unbelievable feeling.

That's why I'm so pumped
to go back down in the fall.

I'm gonna go to
hunter college though.

Much better...
- don't.

Just don't.

- What?

- Why do you have to lie?

- No, really, I'm going
to hunter college.

- You've never been to New York.

- Sure I have.
I grew up there.

I just spent my summers here.

- J.P., I heard you
that night.

I heard you laughing
and telling everyone

how you fooled me.

- Um...

- Everything
is a lie with you, j.P.

Now, you have no idea

how much I...

Everything is a lie.

- Eric's a liar.
I swear.

- Have you ever
been to New York?

Hey.
- Hey.

- How's she doing?

- This is for her pain.

- Does it help?

- I don't know.

Uh, it's really
the best they can do.

I'm afraid to leave it out

with the way
j.P.'S been acting.

- J.P. Would never do
anything to hurt m.

- No, I hate to think it.

You know, but I have
to be on the safe side.

This is...
this is my grammy.

This is my grammy
we're talking about.

To him, she's just a person

that he's mooched off of
all these years.

You never know what
somebody like that will do.

- I found it up here.

See?

This thing.

- Let's go, bug.

You had no intention
of running this place.

- Of course I did.

I just feel like barton's
needs a little renovating.

- It worked the way it is
for the last 80 years.

- Yeah, but you change
this place up a bit,

you can get a clientele
with some serious bank.

- It's never been what m wanted.

- God bless her
and I love her to death,

really I do, but m is
from a different generation.

You know, she doesn't understand

that change is exactly
what this place needs.

- A championship golf course,

a luxury spa, a conference room?

Our guests could
never afford this.

- Well, maybe they're not
the kind of guests that we want.

- Maybe yours aren't.
- Maybe.

Fortunately,
it's not your business.

- I grew up on this property.

Anything that happens here
is my business.

- No, I mean
it's not your business.

You're not family.

- If you leave right now,
I won't tell m

about any of this.

I wouldn't want her to get hurt.

- I don't think you get it.

See, this is gonna happen
whether you like it or not.

Okay, but don't get me wrong, j.

I think you're terrific
at running this place.

Really, I do.

But I feel like
you could be better

if you had more to work with.

I'm saying there's no reason

why you couldn't stay on.

You help me out.
I help you out.

That is the way the world works.

I can make you
a very rich man, j.

- I never wanted
to be a rich man.

- Wake up, m.

M, are you awake?
Can you hear me?

Please wake up.

- Wake up, j.

Wake up. Come on,
you're out of here, buddy.

- What the...
- look, we got a restraining order,

Jimmy, all right?
Len says you're out of control.

Now you got to stay away from m.
- I'm out of control?!

What about this guy?
You know what he's trying to do?

He's trying to take
this place away from m.

- What'd you do
with m's medicine?

- Huh?
- You flush it again.

- You liar! He's lying!
- Let's go.

- You stupid...
- you have to get him away from her.

Get him away from her!

- Just walk away, walk away.
- M, wake up!

M! Eric's lying.
This is ridiculous.

- I guess he's just not himself.

- Hey, how come you guys
aren't out at the game?

WE'RE SITTING THIS ONE OUT.

- Yeah, it just felt
kind of weird playing,

you know, with m...
- Yeah.

That's exactly why
we have to play.

You know how much
she loves that game.

- She's not even gonna see it.

- If she wakes up
for even two seconds,

it's gonna be worth it.

- What did you do to this thing?

- Oh shit.
- Don't put more logs on it.

- Jesus.
- HEY, LEN.

This is, uh...
- What the hell is this?

- What did you do?
- I don't know about fires.

I'm FROM Manhattan.

- Okay, careful.
Careful.

Come on, toe, faster! Faster!
- I'm going, I'm going!

I'm so so sorry, m.

I'm so sorry.
- Oh, my bad, sorry.

This is insane, j.P.
- I know what I'm doing.

- We're pushing an old lady

through the forest
like a keg of bud.

And you say that you know
what you're doing.

- I got a plan.
- Okay, well, what's your plan?

- Sneak m out.
- We did that.

- I know I didn't really
figure it out past that.

I kind of thought
we'd be caught by now.

FOR GOD'S SAKE, LEN.

He tried to burn her house down.

He tried to kill my grandmother.

- Well, I don't think
he was trying to kill her,

but, yes, I think it is
time to do something.

- Damn right, it is.

COME ON, YOU GUYS.
M'S WATCHING.

Mike, you're pitching.

- Play ball.
- Play ball!

- They're coming, j.P.
- Come on.

GAH! CAN YOU HEAR ME?

Can you hear...
wake up! Wake up!

I need you to listen
to me right now, m.

I want it! Okay,
you can't give it to Eric.

He's gonna ruin everything
you've done with the place.

Wake up.
Come on, m.

Do you understand
what I'm saying, m?

- Get him off of her.
- I want it.

I want it. I want it.
- Jim, Jim, come on.

Calm down!
- Damn it, Eric!

Sorry, Max.
- Jesus! Jimmy!

- Threetoe, come on, man.

All right, let him go.
Let him go.

Help me get her
back to the house

while len is still...

before she catches pneumonia.

So all she has to do
is sign, right?

- Come on, holl...
big stick! Big stick!

You've got it.

- This should just be between
your grandmother and me.

- Sure.

Let's go.

- All right, you guys!

- T... turn it on.

The monitor.

I want to watch the game.

I haven't missed a game
in 37 years.

- J.P., jump in, man.

J.P., there was nothing else
you could do.

They're gonna lock you up.

Okay?

Just jump in.

I'll drive you
anywhere you want,

in town, New York, Japan.

Just jump in!

- M: Your bet, j.P.

- Come on!

Thank you.

- M: Oh, it ain't wise
to bluff the bluffer

who taught you
in the first place.

You can keep your softball.

IT'S NOT THAT.

- Oh, my dear boy.

You know what a googolplex is?

It's a one with
a hundred zeros after it.

- That's a lot.

- It's a lot a lot.

But it's nothing compared
to what you're worth to me.

No matter what your title is

or what you win or lose at.

It's who you are right now...

That's just perfect.

So I'm betting
a googolplex of these

on you, on this guy here.

- Stop!
- The cops are right there.

- Toe, stop the truck!

- J.P., look,
if you go back there,

they're gonna arrest you.
You tried already. Okay?

- I got to tell her.

- Tell who?!

- I got to tell her.

- Alice or m?!
I don't know what you're...

- yup.

- Come on, right here.
Right here, bug.

YEAH!

GO, J.P.

Yeah!
- Yeah, j.P.!

- There he is.

- Just at the top is
just the list of, uh,

people who will get something.

Okay? And then we go to...

- Here you go, buddy.

- Thanks, bug.
- New batter!

- I'm just gonna bat.

- Let's let him
play the game, sir.

- Looks like
I'm gonna need a ball.

Let's give m
one last show, okay?

Hit one out there.

- Why aren't the cops
stopping him?

- Doesn't matter.
She's signing the will right now.

- Here, do you want
to sign right here, m?

- Oh.

- All right, come on, let's bat.

Batter up.
- Go, j.P.

Okay, here he goes.
- Hey, batter, batter, batter.

- Okay, hit this one
out of here.

- Yeah!

- Yeah!
- Yeah!

- You did it.
- I hope so.

- You hope so?

- All right, he got to play
his stupid game.

Can you please now...

- You were right.

You were right about everything.

I am a liar.

I've been lying to you
since I first met you.

I've never been to New York.
I wasn't going to nyu.

I don't know
what a cloister even is.

I've never been out of Vermont.

I've never been
20 miles from here.

I'm just some dumb nobody guy

from some dumb nowhere place.

That's...
that's not even right.

I'm a dumb nobody,
but this place isn't.

I don't care what anyone thinks.

It may not be
the fanciest place,

but I love everything about it.

I love the lake,
I love the staff

and I love the crazy guests.

I love m.

I love this place
because this place is m.

I never wanted to lie to you.

I didn't, but I had to.

I wanted to be with you so much,
more than anything,

that I would have told
you anything,

anything that I thought
would make you like me.

I don't have money.
I got a crappy car.

I've never been anywhere cool.

And I couldn't see
how you could ever like me

the way that I liked you.

Then I blew it even worse.

I don't know if telling
the truth from the start

would have changed anything,
but I needed to tell you now

because I'm sick of pretending
to be who I'm not.

I know it makes me sound
like a dumb hick

to love everything here,
but I do.

Oh, I can't wait

to sit under the old oak
when I'm 90.

And be amazed that that tree is gonna be here longer than I am.

- Okay, Jimmy. Come on,
come on, come on.

- You... you probably think

I'm lying about all this.

Why would you ever believe me?
- Come on, Jimmy.

Come on.
- Just once I want you to know

that I'm telling you the truth.

- Listen, Jimmy, look, look.

Jimmy, we're talking about
assaulting an officer,

breaking and entering,
reckless endangerment,

I got to do this, okay?

Come on.
- I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

Now am I telling the truth?

- It is pretty funny you're
going to jail, isn't it?

- Jail or no jail, I don't care.

Just knowing you're not
gonna run the place

is all I need to know.

- Guess what?
- Hmm?

- I was just talking to len.
It turns out

m didn't see
the end of the game.

So enjoy your new digs

and stay out of trouble, okay?

- M: Days in between
the seasons are the best.

You can feel movement
in everything.

Change...
I never feared change

or death.

You can't live
in a place like this

and fear death.

- How are you?

I'm so glad you could make it.

- I'm sorry, j.P.

She was a remarkable woman.

Why don't the three of us

get together in the dining room

after the memorial?
- Sure.

- Well, there's never
a good time

to talk about these things,
but given the circumstances,

it's best to deal with it
as soon as possible.

I'm NOT SURE
WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES.

She left the place
to me, so let's...

- well, actually, she didn't.

- What do you mean "she didn't"?

- It's a little complicated.
- She left it to him?

- Sort of.

- What do you mean "sort of"?

- Well, m left it to j.P.,
but only if he wants it.

She never wanted to put
pressure on you, j.P.,

to stick around.

- What...

what if he doesn't want it?

- Then it goes to you.

Well, he doesn't.

You don't.

You don't want to...

you don't want to be stuck
in this dump forever.

- As a matter of fact,

I can't think of anything
I want more

than to be stuck
in this dump forever.

- This is...

Len, he's not...
he's not blood.

He's not family.

She said she was
leaving it to me.

How could she not
leave it to me?

- Well, she did
leave you something.

- Yeah, what?
- Your tell.

- My what?

- Your tell.

She told me to let you know

your left eyebrow raises.

- She got you.

She's giving you your tell.

Your left eyebrow
raises when you bluff.

- Max.

Max, uh, you guys can go now.

Just get him out of here.

- He's family.

- No, he's not.

He's not.
He is not family.

Okay, I am family
and I want him out of here now.

- Jimmy is more family
than anyone here.

I GOT TO GET BACK TO THE STATION.

Will you excuse me for now?
- This is unbelievable.

I don't unders...
what are you doing?

Why... why aren't you
taking him with you?

- I just gave him
a ride over here.

The charges have been dropped.

- By whom?
- By me.

- Okay, Max, hey!

Listen to me.
Are you listening?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

He tried to kill my grandmother.

He attacked me.
He is a felon.

I am still pressing charges.

Now do your goddamned job!

- I wouldn't do that
if I were you.

- What is this?
What is...

- well?

- S... why don't you
just forget it?

- Yeah, I thought
you might say that.

I brought a pie.
Would you like some pie?

- M: I never found
the will to travel.

There was so many places
in the world

that I wanted to see,

but there're worlds here too

in one drop of water,

in one cloud.

♪ YOU CAN WALK AWAY ♪

♪ you can close the door ♪

♪ ain't it right? ♪

♪ You got nothing to say ♪

♪ you can't say no more
to me tonight ♪

♪ before you go,
let me look into your eyes ♪

♪ 'cause I got
something to say ♪

♪ I know it's not
what you're made of ♪

♪ so don't turn your back
on this love ♪

♪ just spend forever with me ♪

♪ I'll be at your side ♪

♪ I'm standing in open prayer ♪

♪ to spend forever with you ♪

♪ with nothing to hide ♪

♪ I need you to hear
what I'm saying ♪

♪ I want to spend
forever with you ♪

♪ yeah, 'cause until now ♪

♪ we've had a heaven
going day-to-day ♪

♪ plans were made
and the future that we saw ♪

♪ seemed like fun and games ♪

♪ this voice inside my head ♪

♪ it told me
hold onto this girl ♪

♪ it's not too late ♪

♪ I know it's not
what you're made of... ♪

- ♪ I know it's not what
you're made of... ♪

- ♪ so don't turn your back
on this love ♪

- ♪ don't turn
your back on this love ♪

- ♪ just spend forever with me ♪

♪ I'll be at your side ♪

♪ I'm standing
in open prayer. ♪