Jake's Corner (2008) - full transcript

[upbeat music]

[upbeat rock music]

♪ There's a fire breathin'
on my back as I rode ♪

♪ These tires burning my concrete soul ♪

♪ I won't be put down, shut
down, I'm headin' home ♪

♪ There's a friction mixin' in my head ♪

♪ Where the down is
blue and the up is red ♪

♪ I'm feeling sorry, the
clear sky is takin' me home ♪

♪ Takin' me home ♪

♪ Takin' me home ♪

♪ Heart of chrome ♪



[engine rumbling]

♪ First come, last come, eyes wide awake ♪

♪ To the tricks free risk ♪

♪ And I think I'm gonna take ♪

♪ Blacktop, backdrop,
get a ride take me away ♪

♪ Takin' me home ♪

♪ Takin' me home ♪

♪ Heart of chrome ♪

♪ Baby let me go, I'm goin' home ♪

♪ Never be never be soon ♪

[engine rumbling]

♪ I feel like a million years old ♪

[singing faintly]

[water sloshing]
[people speaking faintly]



[singing faintly]

- There you go, number 34.

♪ You always got my number ♪

♪ And you're a natural star ♪

♪ You know the way ♪

[people chattering]

♪ You can find me here
any time of the day ♪

♪ You know the way ♪

♪ So how 'bout ♪
- Doc.

- [Doc] Hey.

[woman shrieks]
- Gentlemen, Johnny Dunn.

Johnny, you've got that
perfect slump going for ya.

- [Johnny] Thanks a lot.

- [Dave] Hey, Johnny.

- Big Dave.

- Kettle red, cheeks are burning.

- [Sylvia] Beans are up.

- Johnny, breaker one nine.

Ricki's dipping into the jar.

Fire in the mouth, Donald's
about to serve a Whirly Derby.

- You hear that, Sylvia?

Your daughter's got her
boyfriend wound up again.

- Don't blame me, that's
the Brazilian in her.

I'm 100% Mexicano.
- I hear that.

- Hey, Johnny, that
Scottsdale crew's inside.

Trust-funders on 'roids.

- Hey, man, our rifles?

They're just a stroll away.

- Everything's good, fellas.

[lively rock music]
[patrons laughing]

- Touch her ass again, I'll kill you, man.

- It's okay, babe, got it covered.

- I don't like this shit.

This guy's really
pissing me off, you know?

- Really?

You know?

- Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Easy, easy.
- Why you gotta be

such a hard ass, Stan?

- Mind your own damn business

and go find your has-been boyfriend.

- Who's a has-been?

Johnny Dunn?
- Is that his name?

I forgot.

- You know what else you forgot?

You're not in Scottsdale.

- This isn't Club Shit-for-Brains.

Hey, we're all has-beens
here, right, Johnny?

- Absolutely.

- Let's stop all this macho bullshit

and eat some jalapenos.

- Let's get ready!
- Jalapenos!

[patrons cheering]

- Becky said to give you a big hug.

- That's not a big hug,
that's as shoulder crunch.

I'll show you a big hug.

- I remember, she said shoulder crunch.

That's right; hey, next one's on me.

Line one up for Corrinne,
too, will you please?

Thanks, Dado.

- Workin' hard, gettin' thirsty.

Workin' hard, gettin' thirsty.

Workin' hard, gettin' thirsty.

- That girl is driving me crazy, man.

- [Bar Patrons] Whoa!

- You better simmer down or
you're gonna run her off.

- If she wanna go, she can
go, that's fine with me.

- I like havin' her here.

- Yeah, you, me, I guess that guy, too.

[bar patrons exclaiming in awe]

- You like having me around.

- Absolutely, Clint.

[bar patrons cheering]
- Dado, hook me up!

- Listen, Clint, I don't
serve you until after five.

- It's 5:02.

- It's 5:02, he says, 5:02.

[singing faintly]

[crowd whooping]

[crowd exclaiming in disappointment]

- Clint, I think it's
time to take those clothes

to the laundromat.

- Time to work, time to drink.

[crowd hollering]
No time to go to the sink.

- Tomorrow, take two
hours off your work day

and go wash those clothes.

- [Crowd] Six!

- Okay, boss, tomorrow.

- [Crowd] Seven!

- I think you're starting to twitch, Stan.

- Come on, Stan, we have a lot
of money ridin' on you, man.

- Ready for number eight, tough guy?

- [Man] Give him some water!

[crowd laughing]

[crowd cheering]

- We have a winner, the
Brazilian Bombshell!

[crowd cheering]
[crowd applauding]

[people whistling]

[singing faintly]
[people speaking faintly]

[crowd applauding]
[crowd cheering]

[people speaking faintly]
[singing faintly]

[telephone ringing]

[motorcycle engines rumbling]

- Jake's Corner.

Fran, it's Gus.

The sheriff?

Fran, there's only one person
who answers this phone,

and there's only one person
who calls this phone,

and guess what?

We're both on the phone.

This is the fifth time
that you've called today.

- Johnny Dunn.

- Lianus is back at the Corner
with a new pair of shades.

- Eh, thought I'd come back
and pursue my true calling,

stacking shelves and cleaning bait tanks.

- Welcome back, Lianus.

- He just misses his mother.

- Don't we all?

- I know he comes to
visit you every Sunday.

Maybe he's planning on coming up later.

Fran, this phone is
for emergency use only.

What?

There's a bear outside your trailer?

Come on, Fran, take one of
your pills and take a nap.

Better yet, take two of your pills; yah!

[telephone clunks]

[telephone ringing]

Fran, I said emergencies only.

[knocking at door]

[knocking at door]

- [Johnny] What is it?

- Phone call.

[footsteps echoing]

- Yeah, this is Johnny Dunn.

Are they alive?

Are they alive, just answer my question.

I'm comin' down there.

Oh, no.

[receiver clatters]

[slow sad guitar music]

No.

[gravel crunching]

Gus?

[engine rumbling]
[horn blaring]

[slow sad guitar music]

[footsteps echoing]

[door latch clicks]

[door bangs]

[morgue table rattles]

That's him, Patrick.

[morgue table rattles]

[morgue table clicks]

[morgue table rattles]

Your face, it's so clean.

- [Officer] Her chest was
pinned between the seats.

She suffocated.

- That's Becky, my sister.

[morgue table rattles]

Where's the boy?

[sirens wailing]

- [Woman] Dr. Johnson.

Doctor [speaking faintly].

- I'm Johnny Dunn, the boy's uncle.

- Dr. Rivera.

- What's his status?

- He's stable; he suffered
a severe concussion,

a small laceration with eight stitches.

We'd like to watch him
for another 24 hours or so

and then he'll be able to go home.

- Go home?

- I'm sorry.

[water sloshing]

[dog barking]

[door bangs]

[dog whining]

- Rags.

[slow melancholy piano music]

Yeah, I'd like to cancel my subscription

to the newspaper, Patrick Walsh.

That's it, thanks.

[Johnny sighs]

[slow, melancholy music]

[cell phone beeping]

- [Kerry] Hello?

- Kerry?

- [Kerry] Yes?

- This is Johnny Dunn.

- [Kerry] Oh, hi Johnny,
is everything all right?

You sound a little, what's going on?

- Your brother and my sister were killed

in a car accident last night.

- [Kerry] What?

- To repeat that would be difficult.

[Kerry crying softly]

Spence survived the accident.

[Kerry weeping]

The boy needs a home; since
you have a home and a husband,

three other boys, and I live
alone and keep uncle hours,

you need to get down
here as soon as possible.

I'm not much of a phone person,

so I'm gonna go now, okay?

- [Kerry] Okay.

[cell phone beeping]

[melancholy music]

[dog whining]

- [Kerry] How is Spence?

- [Johnny] He had a concussion,
cut on his forehead.

But he's okay, he's gonna be fine.

- [Kerry] Does he know?

- No.

I have a suitcase with some
of his clothes and Rags.

That dog is a shadow to him,
they can't be separated.

You'll have to take him, too.

- I can't.

- What do you mean?

- We're adding onto our house.

We're living in a hotel out of suitcases.

It's chaos.

- My lifestyle is not suited
for a little boy, Kerry.

- It would just be for a couple of months

until the house is done.

Believe me, I wanna take
him, he's my brother's son.

[Johnny sighs]

- [Johnny] I run a bar,
I live in a trailer

in the middle of nowhere,
you understand that?

- [Kerry] I think that you
would be the best thing

for him right now, Johnny.

Patrick always says that
Spence idolizes you.

- [Johnny] It's easy to idolize an uncle.

I come and go as I please.

An uncle's role is not to say no.

[insects chirring]

[thoughtful guitar music]

[traffic rumbling]

- [Spence] Who is that?

- That's Clint.

He left here a long
time ago, now he's back.

[thoughtful guitar music]

- Is something wrong with him?

- He just likes to walk
with his head down.

- How come?

- The Earth spins less like that for him.

[insects chirring]

I had Gus call all of you here

'cause I need to get somethin' straight

between everyone in this room.

You probably know what
happened to my sister.

What you may not know is that their son,

Spence, my nephew,

he survived.

And he's here, living with me,
living with us for a while.

He doesn't know his parents were killed.

He thinks they're alive,
getting well in the hospital,

and we're not allowed to visit right now.

That's what I told him.

He's a boy and he's been through a lot.

The good thing is that

he doesn't remember
anything from the accident.

I wanna keep it that way for now.

I wanna keep...

Lianus, you wanna say something?

- So you want us to lie to the boy?

- Yeah.

I do, I want you to lie.

You're gonna see him tomorrow
and he's gonna walk around

and say something to you and
I want you to lie to him.

- Don't you think he
should know the truth?

- I think he should know
the truth, and he will,

but I will decide when
the time and place is.

- Lianus, sit down, shut
up and pay attention!

- That's okay.

He's gonna be workin'
in the saloon, bus boy.

Teach him what you know,
treat him with compassion,

as I know all of you will,
but don't treat him with pity.

He's a smart kid and
he'll see the difference.

I want the Corner to be
the Corner as it always is,

business as usual.

So whatever you have to do
to get ready, get ready.

Here's your shares.

We had a good month this month.

Wheels, you pass 'em out?

Dado, you lock up?

Ricki, you take the bag
of groceries up to Fran's?

Put some of your mom's beans in it.

I couldn't find any in the cooler.

She likes those beans.

- She does?

- Hmm.

- I just made a new
batch, I'll go get some.

- Okay.

[zipper on bag rasps]

- I never even met Spence.

So what am I supposed to say to the boy?

- You say nothing, you just be yourself.

- Gus.

[insects chirring]

- John?

How can this happen again?

- Gus.

- We go way back,

since our freshman year at U of A,

and I've been blockin'
for you ever since, right?

- Right.

- So I can tell you how
I feel inside, right?

- Right.

[bird calling]

- Spence asleep?

- He is.

- I been trying to hold it
together, but it ain't easy, bro.

Becky's gone!
[broom thuds]

[Gus weeping]
- Don't think of me,

or Becky, or what's happened in the past

or why it's happening again, it just is.

Think of Spence.

He doesn't need his whole
world turned upside down

because you can't hold it together.

- How are you gonna do that?

- Gus, listen.

Look at me.

Trust me, I can deal with this.

But I need your help,
you know what I'm sayin'?

Spence is gonna look you right in the eye,

either tomorrow or the next day,

and he's gonna talk to
you about his mother.

You know he will.

You can't be sad in
front of him, all right?

- All right.

- I know how much you care, Gus.

I know how much you care.

You can do this.

[Gus sniffling]

- All right.

- Gus.

Remember Stanford game, senior year?

I fumbled the ball, you picked
it up and ran the wrong way.

[Gus chuckling]

I never asked you this,
but didn't it feel strange

that no one else was chasing you but me?

- I thought that you were cheerin' me on

until you tackled me on the two-yard line.

- It was a tough decision.

Either let you score two
points for the wrong team

or tackle you before you crossed the line,

and now it's third and 98.

- And the very next play, you
run 98 yards for a touchdown.

- I had 44 slot right off the left tackle.

Big Gus McPhillamy, number 75 from Jersey.

You pancaked that defensive end.

And I was gone.

- I was pissed!
- You were.

See you tomorrow, Gus.

- Goodnight, bro.

- I'd like you to sleep
inside with me tonight.

I'm feeling sad.

- Why don't you sleep outside with me?

- [Ricki] There's too
many creepy crawlers.

- [Dado] I'll protect you.

- [Ricki] How the hell
you gonna protect me

from a spider or scorpion?

- Spiders, scorpions?

If you don't feel safe with
me, then you sleep inside.

- Fine, I'll sleep at my mom's.

- I'll still sleep outside,
what's the big deal?

- You'll miss me one day, you know that?

- What the hell is that supposed to mean?

- It means nothing.

- I miss a lot of people that
I never planned on missing.

- This is far enough for
you, I'll take it from here.

- What's the big deal?

I'm already here.

- Johnny said only me, you
might scare her, stay back.

Give me the bag, please.

[coyotes howling]

- [Fran] Who is it?

- Fran, it's Ricki.

From the Corner.

Johnny wanted me to drop
off some groceries for you.

- [Fran] Who's with you?

- That's just me.

- [Fran] I heard an angry
man's voice out there.

- [Ricki] That's my
boyfriend, Dado, don't worry.

- [Fran] Leave the bag
on the steps and go away!

Now go away!

[coyotes howling]

- Angry man's voice?

That woman is really crazy.

- You are angry; let's go.

- Ah, yeah, [speaking
in foreign language].

[birds twittering]

[gentle rock music]

- [Spence] Who are you?

- I'm Lianus.

- Like, in Charlie Brown, Linus?

- Yeah, like in Charlie Brown, Linus.

Spelled different.

- I'm Spence, this is my dog, Rags.

- Like in rags to riches.

- I've never seen you here before.

- My mom is Peg.

- You look like my friend, Richie Dean.

- Is Richie Dean black?

- Yeah, kind of.

Richie's mom is black
and his dad was white.

His dad ran away before he was born.

- Runaway dads, it's an epidemic.

- What's that?

- Richie Dean and I,
we got a lot in common.

- My mom's a painter, are you?

- I'm an artist.

- What's the difference?

- A painter paints things.

An artist creates a work of art.

- Do artists wear dark
sunglasses in the morning?

[blues singer sings faintly]

[Lianus chuckling]

[blues singer sings faintly]

What is it?

- It's Queen Kong, King Kong's brother.

- King Kong's brother's a queen?

- I'm afraid so.

- Looks like a mean queen.

- It's tough being called a queen

when your brother's called a king.

- He doesn't like it, huh?

- No.

- Maybe he'll be called king one day.

[Lianus scoffs]

- I doubt it.

- Spence, you gotta let me
know when you go someplace.

- I don't have to tell my mom and dad

when I go down the street.

- This isn't your street, it's a desert,

and I don't get up early.

- King Kong has a brother named Queen.

- What?

- Queen Kong, look.

[blues singer sings faintly]

- Spence, would you do me
a favor and go in the store

and tell Peg I'd like a cup of coffee?

- Okay, bye, Lianus.

Come on, Rags.

- What is this?

- King Kong's brother.

- King Kong's brother, Queen.

- It's no big deal, Johnny.

I was being me like you said to be.

- Okay, you're right, thanks.

- I'm gonna sleep in
here late, like Elvis.

- I guess not.

- [Radio Host] 95
degrees under clear skies

and the fire hazard has increased.

KRN 90 [speaking faintly]
[Spence speaks faintly]

Friday night fish fry.

- Oh, Clint.

[blues guitar music]

Gee whiz, Clint, put some clothes on.

- They're in the wash.

- Did my nephew see you?

- Who?

- Get in the bathroom.

- What for?

- You're naked, Clint.

- [scoffs] I know that, Johnny.

- Come on, get in here.

[door bangs]

Peg, where are the rain ponchos?

- Second aisle back, top shelf.

[blues guitar music]

- Are we going fishing, Uncle Johnny?

- No, we're gonna feed Walter Payton.

- Who's Walter Payton?

- He's our pet bass.

He survived the drought.

- Why are you wearing a rain poncho?

It hasn't rained in 100 days.

- I don't know.

Johnny thinks there's a
storm comin' or somethin'.

- There's not one cloud in the sky.

- Clint, this is my nephew, Spence.

- Hi, little guy.

- Go finish the laundry, Clint.

- Peg, how long does it
take to wash the clothes?

- Well, I've never timed it, Clint,

but I'd say around 30 minutes.

- [Johnny] Let's go, Spence.

Thanks, Peg.
- See ya.

[blues guitar music]

- Hey, Peg?

Can I have a Slim Jim and a Budweiser?

- [Peg] It's not five o'clock, Clint.

- Walter Payton has swum for more yards

than any other bass in history,

from the big lake about 30 miles away

up the river all the way to Jake's Corner.

- The river's empty.

- That's the thing about it,
we found him just in time

in a tiny little puddle

before the drought sucked the river dry.

- [Spence] Wow, that's Walter Payton?

Can I feed him?

- Yeah, that's one of your jobs,

feedin' Walter Payton every mornin'.

Go ahead, grab one, throw him in.

- [Spence] Did you see that, Uncle Johnny?

He got one.
- Yeah!

- I think he wants another one.

- I bet he does, only three
a day, though, remember that.

Now, put the container under here

to keep it out of the sun, okay?

- [Spence] Okay.

- Now, let's go get some breakfast.

We've got a big day of work ahead of us.

- Will Walter Payton ever
go back to the big lake?

- Yeah, someday, but right
now, he likes it here with us,

and we like him here with us.

♪ Walter Payton wandered
in on the desert floor ♪

- Food up on the style spin,
rotator ring-ding, Spence.

- Rotator ring-ding?

- Five number table.

- What's five number table?

- Wheels has his own
language, Spence; follow me.

♪ Time, and when I'm
gone, I'm gonna stay ♪

- That was table number five.

- Rotator ring-ding, that's
what Wheels calls it.

- [chuckling] No, forget that.

See, I write all the table
numbers on my tickets.

Table one, it starts in the back corner,

counting down from one to 12.

- What happened to your arm?

- We working, Spence, pay attention.

Table number eight needs clearing now.

Two pitchers of beer, six glasses!

- [Wheels] Get this one up!

- Remember, towel in the
pocket, dishes first.

[dishes clattering]

- What the piss-shit!

- First pitcher's on us.

This is my nephew, Spence,
it's his first day.

- [Customer] Your nephew, Johnny?

- Yeah.

- Shit, no disrespect, huh?

- No problem.

- Sorry, kid, didn't mean
to curse up a streak,

but it's kind of cold and you
got me in an awkward spot.

- The ladies, they don't like
it when a man wets himself.

[all laughing]

- Spence, Shoots, Flaps,
Stacy and Courtney.

They're regulars.
- Howdy, Spence.

- You're a cutie, darlin'.

- [Johnny] Let's get back to it.

- Make some room, let's
give the kid some work here.

- You take the plates,
you put them on here.

Get the plates, there you go.

Okay, let's go.

Take your dirty plates,
glasses and silverware

and put it in the tub here, okay?

- Okay.

- Go ahead.

[dishes clattering]

Now take your time, Spence.

Don't rush or you're gonna
spill it like you just did.

Don't grab more'n you can handle.

If it takes three or
four trips to be safe,

take three or four trips, okay?

Now go wipe down that table.

[people speaking faintly]

♪ Went down, shadows
dance across the ground ♪

♪ I was just ♪
- Beans are up!

- Steak bleedin' on the bumper load!

Croppie duck hiding underneath.

Swimmin' in the streamline, Spence.

- Wheels is a-wheelin'.

- Wheels is a-wheeling.

- How you doin' today, Eight?

Same here.

- I wanna welcome a new member

of the family here to Jake's Corner.

He's the little man workin'
his butt off over there.

His name is Spence; want
you to treat him right

and put a few coins in his
pocket for his hard work.

- Don't be stingy, folks.

And be sure not to
report us to Child Labor.

[audience laughing]

- This one's for the little man.

[gentle music]

♪ I like livin' ♪

♪ The grass is green and
the sun's big in the sky ♪

♪ I'm just sittin' on
the front porch steps ♪

♪ Watchin' the world go by ♪

♪ With a cool, cool breeze ♪

♪ Rustlin' through the leaves ♪

♪ Been a while ♪

♪ Since wakin' up has
felt this good to me ♪

♪ I've lived a lot of days like this one ♪

♪ Don't know why today is different ♪

♪ There's only one good reason I can see ♪

♪ Yeah, it's nearly half past nine ♪

♪ And you still haven't crossed my mind ♪

♪ And I like livin' ♪

♪ For the first time
in a long, long time ♪

♪ Cup of coffee ♪

♪ Almost empty but it
looks half full today ♪

♪ And the clouds ♪

♪ Instead of showers I'll bet
they'll just bring shade ♪

♪ And a beautiful ♪

♪ Girl just walked on by ♪

♪ When I smiled ♪

♪ Today she stopped and
said hello this time ♪

♪ I've lived a lot of days like this one ♪

♪ Don't know why today is different ♪

♪ There's only one good reason I can see ♪

♪ Yeah, it's nearly half past nine ♪

♪ And you still haven't crossed my mind ♪

♪ And I like livin' ♪

♪ For the first time
in a long, long time ♪

- [Clint] It's gonna be five pretty soon.

♪ I've been picking up trash since noon ♪

[mid-tempo country music]

♪ Gonna write a song
about an Arizona sunset ♪

- Clint, it's only 4:30.

You're not allowed in the bar till five.

- The Corner's clean, the
garbage is in the garbage

and I'll swat flies for 30 minutes

if you want.

♪ In a place of Southern
[singing faintly] ♪

[ice rattles]

♪ Yeah, somethin' might special ♪

- Don't tell Johnny.

[singing faintly]

- [sighs] Don't tell Johnny. [chuckling]

- Dado, wanna play some Uno?

- What's Uno?

- I need the same color or number?

What's the point of this game?

- You gotta pick up more cards then.

- I still don't get it.

- It's simple, pick up
more cards. [laughing]

- Clint, shut the hell up,
are you playing this game?

- Don't be a mope.

- What the hell is mope?

- Yeah, don't be a mope,
don't be a mope. [laughing]

- Clint, you'd better shut the hell up

or I'm gonna start acting
like the United Nations

and put some sanctions on your ass.

[singing faintly]

Finally.

What now, little boy?

- Pick up four more.

- Four more, pick 'em up,
pick 'em up, four more!

- Why did I let you in before five?

I just don't know.

But now, United Nations
has got their shit together

and got a new resolution,
which means you gotta go.

- I'll be silent like Eight Seconds.

- [Dado] You got eight
seconds to get up and go.

- Dado, he'll be good.

- Yeah, I'll be good.

- No, he won't, you gotta go, Clint.

I'm serious, Clint.

- I'll be good.

- You better go.

[faint blues guitar music]

- Clint, come back after five.

- Why can't he be in here before five?

- Because everything has rules,

like this game we're playing.

- Hi, I'm Johnny Dunn for Becky Walsh.

- Very nice to meet you, sir.

Won't you please step
in here and have a seat?

[pleasant folk guitar music]

♪ The pain atop the train ♪

♪ Runnin' late because of rain ♪

♪ Been kind of stuck ♪

♪ No one ever had luck ♪

[beer can pops]
♪ Got no cares ♪

- This one's on Johnny, Eight.

- How come Eight Seconds never talks?

- He won 10 rodeo championships,
there's no need to talk.

- You talk funny.

- What do you mean I talk funny?

I'm from Bosnia.

- Where's that?

- Far away.

- Is that your home, Bosnia?

- It was until they kicked us out.

- Who kicked you out?

- Our neighbors.

There was a war, it's very complicated.

- What's complicated?

- This game.

♪ Don't have no problem, simply cheats ♪

- What the hell?

Where's green?

♪ So you're scared to
ride in a hurricane ♪

♪ When it comes time to walk on water ♪

♪ Time to hear the angels sing ♪

♪ Love can do anything ♪

♪ Yeah, love's king ♪

♪ Yeah, I heard it's off the bus ♪

- Does your mom and dad live in Bosnia?

[singing faintly]

- No.

- Where do they live?

- They were killed in the war.

[singing faintly]

- How come you weren't killed?

- That's a good question.

I guess I was the lucky one, I survived.

- I'm glad you did.

♪ Love is near to ride out a hurricane ♪

- Uno.

- What's that mean?

- [Spence] It means I have one card left.

- Spence, your grilled
cheese with beans is ready.

- No beans.

- No beans?
- No beans.

- Okay, I'm almost done.

- What do you mean, you're almost done?

- Your turn.

Always a hope, never a mope.

I win.

- You win?

This is it?

This is the end of the game?

Don't be a mope, always a
hope, what the hell is that?

- Mm.

♪ Oh I wished I had a heart to break ♪

- Johnny?

- Hey, Corinne.

- How are you doing?

I just came up here to...

- I know.

I just need some time
alone with him right now.

- I understand.
♪ Love don't have ♪

♪ No problem sittin' in the cheap seats ♪

♪ Love ain't scared to
ride in a hurricane ♪

♪ And when it come time to walk on water ♪

♪ Time to hear the angels sing ♪

♪ Love can do anything ♪

♪ Yeah, love's king ♪

[insects chirring]
[litter rustles]

- [Clint] It rained last night.

- [Spence] Yeah, it woke
me up out of my dream.

- Yeah. [chuckling]

Woke me up, too, I was
sleepin' out in my hammock.

Should have slept in that
poncho Johnny gave me.

[insects chirring]

What happened to your head?

- I got in an accident.

- Is that why you're here?

- I'm staying with my uncle

until my parents get
better in the hospital.

- You look sad.

- No, I don't.

- Are you sad for Walter Payton?

- Why would I be sad for Walter Payton?

He's a fish.

- I'm sad for all [speaking
in foreign language].

Fish, animals, lizards, tarantulas.

Except flies.

Flies bothered us at the
[speaking in foreign language],

when we were little.

- What's a [speaking in foreign language]?

- It's a place where [speaking
in foreign language] go.

- What's a [speaking in foreign language]?

- [speaking in foreign language], kids

that don't have families.

- Are you [speaking in foreign language]?

- Not no more.

I have to go, I have to clean
up the rest of the Corner.

You have a good day, okay?

- Okay.

I wanna go home, Uncle Johnny.

- What's goin' on?

- I want to go visit my
mom and dad right now.

- We can't go visit 'em right now.

- Why not?

- Right now we just can't.

- Why?

- Soon, we'll go visit 'em soon, okay?

- I think I dreamed about the accident.

- [Johnny] Yeah?

- My head hurts.

- Let me see, where does it hurt?

- It just hurts.

- Look at me.

Can you see me all right?

- I wanna go home, Uncle Johnny.

- Let's get ready and go see Doc, come on.

- [Spence] How many
stitches have you taken

out of people's heads before?

- [Doc] Lots, and I've put lots in.

- Doc was a medic in the war.

- In Dado's war?

- No, in Johnson and Nixon's war.

- Who's Willy?

- Willy?

Oh, Willy was a dear friend of the Corner

who is not with us anymore.

- Is Willy one of the loved
ones on the wall inside the bar?

- Yeah, he is.

- How come Grandma and Grandpa's
names aren't on the wall?

- 'Cause they never stayed here.

- But they're loved ones.

- Hold still, buddy.

All right, that's the last one.

[medical instruments clicking]

You're gonna have a scar, but
no need to worry about it.

Everybody's got one,

and if they say they don't, they're lyin'.

- Let me see.

Ah, you're all right.

- Head straight, now, head
straight, follow my finger.

[Spence's feet tapping]

Oh, looks like the rain last
night brought a friend out.

No need to be frightened.

You don't hurt them, they won't hurt you.

Put your hand out and
you'll have a new friend.

- No.

- Spence, go get your tip money.

We'll take a drive to Pace

and you can buy yourself somethin'

for all that hard work you've been doin'.

- [Spence] Can I buy something for Rags?

- You can buy whatever you
want for whoever you want.

It's your money, you worked hard for it.

- Okay.

- He had a dream about
the accident last night.

Could it be a memory and not a dream?

- More than likely, yes.

- Hope it's a dream.

- He needs to remember so he
can choose to forget, John.

- Johnny, Fran keeps
ringin' me on the phone.

She says there's a bear
outside her trailer.

There's a bear outside her
trailer, do you hear me, bro?

She's killin' me, you hear me?

- [Doc] Maybe there is a bear.

- There is no bear.

- Just a thought.

- Wheels, two burgers, two dogs.

- [Wheels] Flames are
heatin' on the fire burner!

- What?

- [Wheels] Time's a-takin'.

- I don't understand anything you say.

[birds twittering]
[gentle music]

- You forgot to knock.

- I didn't want to disturb you.

- Pick up the bag and bring it in, hurry.

[door bangs]
There.

I bought that doll from
an artist in Sao Paolo.

- [Ricki] Sao Paolo, Brazil?

- Is there another Sao Paolo?

- That's where I grew up,
my father lives there.

- Yes, I know.

Put the bag here.

And sit, I've made some tea.

- Let me help you.
- Do not need your help.

Sit down.

On the couch.

This time, you listened to
Johnny and you came alone.

- Dado is a good man.

- I said that he was an angry man.

He's not a bad man.

- He's had a tough life.

- So have you.

- Dado loves me and I love him.

- He's unsure of where he sleeps

and

[Fran sighs]

if

you really love him...

- You don't know me or Dado.

- I know you.

I have filled your cup.

Now you fill my cup.

Would you care for a cookie?

- How come you never visit the Corner?

- Mm, I'm an old dog

and I dislike playing with puppies.

Johnny sent you to me.

- What do you mean?

- What do you mean

"what do you mean"?

What do you think I mean?

- I'm out of here.

- Don't leave, okay?

Don't, there is a bear out there.

[dog barking]
Shut the door!

Shut the door, shut it!

[door bangs]
- No, there's not.

- [Fran] [sighs] Yes, look, come here.

Uh-huh, look, see?

- I don't see anything.

- [Fran] I'm enjoying your company, sit.

- I know why Clint walks
with his head down.

- Why is that?

- So he doesn't step on any lizard

or tarantula [speaking
in foreign language].

[speaking in foreign language]

Orphans.

I don't want that, I want this.

Is this your team jersey?

- Yeah, that's right, Kansas City Chiefs.

- There's no number on it.

- They put the number on for you.

- What's your number?

- [Johnny] Maybe you wanna pick your own.

- What's your number?

- 29.

- I'll take this.

- All right, take that, come on.

- [Ricki] Is that your son?

[gentle music]

[gentle music]

- Every Sunday, Johnny comes to visit me

and I make him a grilled cheese sandwich,

with a side of ketchup,

and every Sunday, he rests
his thoughts on my lap.

Lately, his thoughts have been restless,

and my Sundays have been vacant.

- Did something happen to your son?

- When loved ones die,

we search for their spirits in others.

A mother finds her son,

a son finds his mother.

A brother searches for his sister.

- Maybe my time at the Corner
is just a rest stop for me.

Maybe I need something more.

- You need to be needed.

One needs your love to melt his anger.

The other needs your
spirit to lessen his pain.

May I?

The world put its fangs into you.

Cities can suck your soul
with no resting place.

You got yours, just before

it was stolen from you for good.

- I thought about my mom.

I thought about how sad

she would be if something happened to me,

so I came back to the
Corner, just to be with her.

- And look what you found.

You don't have to search for a home

that you already have here.

- [Dado] Uno.

- [Spence] Uno?

- Uno.

- [Spence] Pick up four.

[grumbling in foreign language]

♪ It's inside ♪

♪ And it's goin', movin' inside ♪

- Hey.

I love you.

- I'm playing Uno, baby.

[singing faintly]

♪ Despite what you do,
what you should be doin' ♪

♪ Make us [singing faintly] ♪

- I made you some lunch.

[singing faintly]

Frannie invited me in this time.

[singing faintly]

- How's she doing?

- Her Sundays are vacant.

♪ And I'm much better [singing faintly] ♪

- Thanks for the lunch.

♪ Mm hmm ♪

♪ Gandhi, Martin Luther King ♪

♪ Princess Di and Albert Einstein ♪

♪ Helen Keller and Will Rogers ♪

♪ A host of anonymous
mothers and fathers ♪

♪ Policemen and firemen
who died too soon ♪

♪ That man in the unknown soldier's ♪

- [Johnny] All right, first
down, you gotta tuck it.

♪ It's up to you and me ♪
- Tuck it under.

Grab it like that and tuck it.

Strong.
♪ To keep the dream alive ♪

- Part of your body.

All right, strong.
♪ When a hero dies ♪

- All right.

It's not a trick.

All right.

Tight and strong.

♪ They may be gone but
they're not forgotten ♪

♪ What they started ♪
[Johnny sighs]

♪ Won't be stopping ♪

[music drowns out speech]

♪ It's a priceless thing
that they provide us ♪

♪ The fire in our heart,
the light in our eyes ♪

[music drowns out speech]

♪ Never really have to say goodbye ♪

♪ My ♪

- [Johnny] Now remember [speaking faintly]

♪ Johnny Cash and CS
Lewis, John Wayne and JFK ♪

- Tuck the ball.
♪ Bob Hope, Mother Theresa ♪

- Ready?
♪ A host of anonymous ♪

♪ Teachers and preachers,
policemen and firemen ♪

[Spence grunts]
♪ Who died too soon ♪

♪ That man in the unknown ♪

♪ Soldier's tomb ♪
- All right.

- Yah!

- [Johnny] Good job, yeah!

♪ It's up to you and me ♪
- Go, go!

♪ To keep the dream alive ♪

- Let it cover your stomach.

♪ Dies. ♪
- Let it come all the way in.

All right?

Take it, take off.

♪ It's up to you and me ♪
- Touchdown!

♪ To keep the dream alive ♪

♪ When a hero dies ♪

[slow folk guitar music]

[door bangs]

[key rattling]

- Chief, is that my slide driving?

Good morning to you on the
lick-tor side, or what?

- Oh, what, what?

- Or what, what, that!

- What are you doing here?

- My brakes reverse cycle.

- What does that mean?

- 18 wheels rollin' like raging waters.

Found this reservoir here,
like a deer in the headlights.

- You're a truck driver?

- Was when, was then.

- Can you take me to my home?

- It's permanently disabled free.

Here I live and sleep
like a booster chair.

- Like a booster chair?

- Yeah, come on, let me show you.

[gentle music]

Home rides the wheel bells!

- Wheels is a-wheelin'.

- Keep your peeper twins folded.

- Hey, a pinball machine.

- [Wheels] Pinball as I
hauled for the makers.

Go ahead, it's a freebie jingle.

[pinball clacking]

[pinball machine ringing]

- The flippers are broken.

- It's a freebie jingle.

[pinball clacking]

[pinball machine ringing]

- Cool.

- Point never at the sun.

It shrinks the innards of the pupils.

- Can you see Phoenix?

- Phoenix?

South, west-south.

Mountains run high in the glacier front.

- Were you drinking
for America last night?

Goin' for the gold?

- Did you eat for America?

You seen Spence?

- Lost again.

- No, I just like bothering people.

Gummy bears, healthy breakfast.

- Sexy shorts, ya, [chuckling],
hey, wait for the big guy!

- That's where Phoenix is?

- Road winds like a rattler,
west-south to Phoenix you fly.

- How do you know which
way is west and south?

- Wake up, the sun does rise east,

falling west to rest and sleep.

Right of west, north you go,
backwards from north, south,

you be like a banjo player.

- Do that again.

- Wake up, the sun does rise east,

falling west to rest and sleep.

Right of west, north you
go, backwards from north,

south, you be like a banjo player.

- Like a banjo player?

- Like a banjo player.

[twangy guitar music]

[insects chirring]

[birds twittering]

- Doc?

- I'm taking a piss, John.

- I hope so.

- You seen Spence?

- [Doc] No, I haven't seen him.

Gus, I'd be gentle waking him.

- What are you talkin' about?

Dado!
[blow thudding]

[Dado grunting]
[Gus groaning]

It's me, Gus!

- That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

- Are you stupid or something, Gus?

- What's going on here?

- Spence is missin' again.

- Don't worry about it,
I'll go find him, relax.

- Bingo!

He's with my mom!

- [Johnny] Spence?

[twangy guitar music]

- Spence, what are you doing here?

- Eating pancakes.

- [Sylvia] Hey, you
guys want some pancakes?

- You bet!
- Sure.

- All right, I will help you, Mom.

- [Sylvia] Who's ready?

- I am.

- Dado, how come you sleep outside?

- Because there's more room outside.

- Why don't you sprinkle
some gummy bears on top?

- Good idea, bro, I forgot I had 'em.

[candies rattling]

- Hey, Uncle John.

- [Johnny] What's up?

- I wrote my mom and dad
a letter, can you send it?

- Yeah, I'll send it to 'em.

[slow thoughtful guitar music]

[paper rasps]

[can taps]

[insects chirring]

[crows cawing]

[telephone ringing]

[birds twittering]

[knocking at door]

- Gus! Gus!

[pounding on door]

Gus! Gus!

- What time is it?
- I don't know.

- [Gus] Day or night?

- It's morning, it's light outside.

- I'm still staring at my eyelids.

- There's a lady on the phone

that says there's a bear by her trailer.

- [Gus] Don't answer the phone, Spence.

- I already answered it, Gus.

- How long you gonna wear that jersey?

- [Spence] From now on.

- She can wait, I'm gettin' dressed.

[door rattles]

- What did she say?

- Same thing she always says.

There's a bear outside her trailer.

[gentle music]

- How come you haven't asked about my mom?

- What?

- You always ask about my mom

and say the same thing
over and over again.

"Am I your mom's favorite?"

And I say, "Besides, me, my dad

"and my Uncle Johnny,
you're her favorite."

- Where's Rags?

- Right there.

- How come he doesn't have a leash?

- He doesn't need one.

My mom said you beat up a jerk

at one of Uncle Johnny's football games.

- Yeah, some slap-dick was tryin'

to make her feel uncomfortable,

so I made him feel uncomfortable.

- What's a slap-dick?

- It's a jerk.

Hey, don't you repeat
that word near your uncle.

He'll get upset with me.

- A jerk?

- No, slap-dick.

- Gus, what are you looking for?

- I forgot which rock it was

that I put the patrol car key under.

- That rock you're standing on?

- Man, how am I supposed to see that?

This is reverse, okay?

Now there's the brake,
now we put it in low.

- How'd you get to become sheriff?

- Your uncle gave me a
sheriff's badge, yah!

[engine rumbling]

- [Spence] What if there is a bear?

- [Gus] There's not.

[knocking]

- [Fran] Who is it?

- Sheriff.

- [Fran] I sense someone else.

- Does she sense the bear?
- There is no bear.

- [Fran] Who's with you?

- Spencer, Johnny's nephew.

[gentle music]

- You have a fresh scar.

Johnny doesn't visit me anymore.

- He works hard and sleeps late.

- He's hiding from me.

- We're leaving, Fran.

- Gus, you've just arrived.

Come in.

- In order for us to come
in, you have to let us in.

- No dogs, they shit on the floor.

- He's house-trained.

- Does this look like a house to you?

- He's trailer-trained, too, Fran.

[Fran sighing]

[Gus imitates sighing]

- Ow.

- Shut the door.

[dog tags jingling]

- There's no bear, Fran.

- It's not safe, Gus, close the door.

- Close the door, Gus.

[door bangs]

- Okay, be comfortable, sit.

[Gus groans]

- Did you see the bear today?

- [Fran] Lately, I have
seen him every day.

- What's he do?

- He wanders and wanders around.

- No one else has seen him.

- Oh, he's there.

Some people just don't
wanna see him, do they, Gus?

- Whatever you say, Fran.

- Lianus painted that, Queen Kong.

- Lianus painted all the pictures.

- Queen Kong?

- King Kong's brother.

[Fran exhales sharply]

- Spence?

It was a bad accident, wasn't it, darling?

- Give the boy some room, Fran.

- Lianus told me all about you.

- [Gus] All right, Spence, let's go.

- What did he tell you?

- Well, he said you're a nice boy

and that he is so, so sad.

- About what?

- About the accident.

- Whoa, Fran, that's enough, okay?

- I'm okay, everyone's okay.

My mom and dad are okay, right, Gus?

- Right, Spence.

[gentle guitar music]

- Spence, how would you like

a grilled cheese sandwich
with some ketchup?

I'm gonna make you one, okay?

- No, I don't want one.

I don't like that painting.

- Artists paint what they see.

- It's ugly.

All his paintings are ugly!

[painting clattering]

I hope there is a bear
out here and he eats you!

- Nice goin', Fran.

Spence, get back here!

- Why would you take him up there?

- I thought he could be my deputy.

- What are you, a
Saturday morning cartoon?

- I screwed up, I know, I'm sorry, bro.

- Lianus, have you seen Spence?

- No.

- Why would you paint a
picture of the boy and his dog?

That was stupid.

- Easy, Gus, easy.

- What's he talkin' about?

- Don't worry about it.

- Spence saw your painting up at Fran's.

[intense bluesy guitar music]

- [Spence] Your paintings are ugly.

- Hi, Spence.

Your uncle and Gus are lookin' for you.

- Why do you always wear sunglasses?

- 'Cause the sun's bright.

- How come your paintings
never have the sun in them?

My mom always has the
sun in her paintings.

I like them way better than yours.

[engine rumbling]

[melancholy Old West whistling music]

[dude sighs]

- Can I get you boys something to drink?

- Boys? [scoffs]

We'll get it at the bar, sweetheart.

Cut out the broker.
[dudes laughing]

- I would never be your sweetheart, boy.

[dudes chuckling]
- She likes you a lot.

Good going, dude.

- Don't take that shit from a foreigner.

- Shut up, man.

[singing faintly]

- Fran didn't mean to upset you.

She's just upset with me
because I haven't had the time

to go up and visit her lately.

Now, if you work really
hard, this will be yours.

A brand-new $100 bill.

It will be waiting for you,
right here under the motorcycle.

How does that sound?

Good.

Always a hope,

- [Both] never a mope.

♪ Ooh, Cheyenne ♪

- Go on back.

♪ Yippee eye oh ♪
- What's that?

- Shirley Temple, drink it
or ice your head with it.

- Just drink it.

- [Dude On Right] Hey,
you guys won't believe

who I just saw.

- Who?
- Johnny Dunn.

Look, there he is.

♪ Playin' of that guitar ♪

- Who?

- U of A?

Johnny Dunn, Heisman winner?

- [Dude] Oh, I remember that guy.

- I think he runs this place.

He's got his Heisman as a doorstop.

♪ On fire with ghost riders in the sky ♪

- I think I'm gonna go get
an autograph for my dad.

- No autographs, dude.
- Check this out.

I've got an idea.

- I know what you're thinking.

♪ Yippee eye oh ♪

♪ Yippee eye ay ♪

- You need something?

- Having a cold one, relaxin', dawg.

- What's with the face-paint?

- First of all, it's war paint.

- Yeah, right.

- I'm a soldier, doin' recon
training in the desert.

Gettin' ready for Iraq.

- Good luck.

- You Russian?

- No, I'm not Russian, man.

- Hey, Old Man River, how you doin'?

♪ Hear the spurs a-jinglin' ♪

♪ On that dusty timber floor ♪

♪ As he pounded out the good ones ♪

♪ And the crowd called out for more ♪

♪ I ain't seen nothin' like ♪
- Hey, come here.

Is your father Johnny Dunn?

- No, he's my uncle.

- Well, you know, my dad was
a huge fan of your uncle.

- What's that say on your shirt?

- Oh, they're Greek letters.

It's the name of my fraternity.

When you get older and you go
to college, never join one.

♪ Yippee eye ay ♪

[crowd chattering]
[lively country music]

- Your friends are asking for trouble.

- Hey!
- Hey, back off!

- Problem, son?
- Hey, guys!

- What, man?
[overlapping voices]

- [Man] What do you
think you're doin', huh?

[men shouting]
- What?

- [Man] Hey, hey, hey.

[men shouting]

- Easy, easy.
- All right.

This is over, this is over,
you guys, move out, move out.

Look, everything's cool.

- Uncle Johnny, he took the Heisman!

♪ Gonna work it yeah ♪
[dude laughing]

[men shouting]

♪ Right, oh, right oh ♪

[dude chortling]
[paint balls splatting]

[Dado yelling]

- Gus, don't shoot,
they're paint-ball guns!

- Let's go right now!
- Don't shoot!

- Go, go, go!
[tires squealing]

U of A sucks!

- [Man] Sigh new, Biggie!

- I'm shot, man.

- It's a paint-ball, Dado.

- What do you mean, paint-ball?

- It's a war game.
- Are you serious?

- Johnny, let's go get those punks.

- No, forget it, forget it.

- Are you okay?

- I think I got one with my spear.

- Good, Clint, good.

- They can't steal your Heisman.

- All right, everyone, let's go inside.

No one's hurt, let's go, come on.

Get back inside.

[toy clatters]
[Johnny groans]

- Johnny, if it had been my
gold buckle those boys stole,

I'd throw a rope around 'em and
tie 'em to a herd of buffalo

and bring that trophy back
here where it belongs.

Teach those boys a lesson.

- Listen up, pledges.

We've discovered a lost
relic of the enemy,

U of A Johnny Dunn's Heisman Trophy.

- Those of you still standing
after the firing squad

will have the honor of
destroying this relic

in front of the enemy sidelines
during tomorrow's game.

- This is wrong!

Where are the other fraternity brothers?

Did you clear this with the council?

- Stand down, soldier,
this is a secret mission.

- Do you even know what happened
to Johnny Dunn's sister?

- I said, stand down, soldier.

- You know, when we got back,
I looked up on the internet

and found out that his
parents, and now his sister--

[paint-ball gunshot booming]

[shot pledge moaning]

That's against the rules!

[paint-ball gunshots booming]

♪ Yeah, whoa, whoa ♪

[frat dude yelling]

♪ Hey, hey, mess it oh ♪

♪ Oh ♪
[frat guy groaning]

♪ Oh, no no ♪
- Get up

♪ or I'll hit you even harder. ♪

♪ Yeah, no, no ♪

- Give me back my hundred, now!

♪ No, yeah ♪

- You almost got your head
blown off today by my sheriff.

Stupid move, next time
you go into someplace,

know what kind of room you're
in, who's in that room.

You almost died today.

- You have no idea how
lucky you are, man, no idea.

[speaking foreign language]

- Hey, Flaps, want a cold beer?

- I could use one.

- [Shoots] Pour us a couple, get to it.

- I'm sorry I didn't have
the balls to stop 'em.

I'm sorry about your family, too.

[mid-tempo rock music]

- All right.

Let's get outta here.

[Shoots sighs with gusto]

♪ Oh no ♪

[shouting in foreign language]
[paint gunshots booming]

[Dado yelling]

♪ Oh no ♪

- [Dado] What's with the pose?

- Pose says it all, it
says, "Look out, fellas,

"I got the ball, here I come."

- You miss the game, don't you?

- No, I don't miss the game,
I miss playing for my parents.

They loved watching me play.

- Ricki told me they
died in a plane crash.

- Yeah, they did.

I had a feeling that day
that somethin' was wrong.

They always arrived at my games early,

you know, just to watch us warm up.

I'd always look up in
the stands and show 'em

that I knew that they were there.

After the game, the coach
said I had a phone call.

It's my sister, Becky, she was hysterical.

She said my dad's plane was missing.

They found it the next day,
crashed in the Sierras.

I had my best game as a pro that day.

Rushed for 210 yards, four touchdowns.

We blew out the Niners.

My parents would have loved to see that.

When they died, football died for me, too,

and everything else.

♪ Ah ♪

- Yeah, after seeing my
parents burn in their house,

not being able to help them,

I just couldn't stay there anymore.

I said hell with everything,

I need to get out of this place.

♪ I've been ♪

- I'm glad you're here, Dado; cheers.

[shot glasses clink]
♪ I'll play ♪

- I gotta tell him soon, real
soon, I've taken it too far.

Just don't know how.

- I don't know what to tell you, man.

I only know that life goes on.

Like Heisman runs, forward.

♪ That's why you ♪

♪ Knew me ♪

♪ As I did know ♪

♪ Sympathy ♪

[bill rustling]

♪ Oh ♪

- Is everything okay?

- Yeah.

- Did you get the Heisman back?

- We got it.

How was Spence?

- He's quiet.

[Johnny sighs]

[slow blues rock music]

[dog barking]

[dog whining]
[paws scrabbling]

[dog slurping]

- [groans] Rags!
[dog barking]

Boy.

- What is it?
[dog whining]

[dog barking]

[dog barking]

- [Corinne] He's not with Lianus.

- [Gus] Someone stole my ATV!

- [Johnny] Did they cut the bolt?

- No, they must have found my hidin' spot.

- Did Spence know where that is?

- Maybe he might have saw it one day.

- He might have.

- Why would he take the ATV?

- Road winds like a rattler.

Left on 87 to Phoenix you
fly, boy's goin' home.

- [Johnny] He wouldn't
know how to get home.

- Took a look-see through the
telescope like a banjo player.

- Like a banjo player?

- How much gas was in the ATV?

- It was practically on empty.

- He couldn't have gotten

too far, man.
- Let's go.

- Like a banjo player?

- [Johnny] You guys see anything?

- [Gus] Nothing, Johnny.

[traffic roaring]

- [Wheels] Got a view vision.

- Wheels got something.

- Bro, the engine's cold.

- We looked around, no sign of him.

- Yeah.
[traffic roaring]

[keys click]

[traffic roaring]

He went to the highway to get a ride.

- God forbid, nothing
happens to that kid, man.

[truck engine rumbling]
[brakes squeaking]

- Thanks, Big Joe.

- You tell that church group
that God's gonna rain down

on 'em for leaving you behind.

That'll scare the bejeebers
out of 'em. [laughing]

- I hope the Cubs win the World Series.

- Me too, little man, me too; be safe.

[door bangs]

[engine rumbling]

[door creaking]

[leaves rustling]

♪ It's too hot for the
corn and the grain ♪

♪ Cotton's not gettin' much rain ♪

♪ And why anyone lives on the plains ♪

♪ Ain't nobody knows ♪

♪ Years that seem not to end ♪

♪ Go out like a lion and then ♪

♪ Springtime comes stragglin' in ♪

♪ All windblown ♪

♪ It's a lovely sight for sore eyes ♪

♪ But it's all windblown ♪

♪ Do you think it's unkind to suppose ♪

♪ That the desert's no home for a rose ♪

♪ Guess I'll always wish I could know ♪

♪ Things that you never told me ♪

♪ Sometimes it's so real I could swear ♪

♪ I can see you standin' right there ♪

♪ With the sand in your
eyes and your hair ♪

♪ All windblown ♪

♪ What a welcome sight
you would be tonight ♪

- They're not coming back, are they?

- No.

No, they're not.

♪ There's a whisper I hear ♪

♪ On the ♪

♪ Like a ghost in the ♪

- I remember.

I remember now.

Mom couldn't breathe.

She was trying to talk to
me but she couldn't breathe.

♪ Ghosts ♪

♪ They're stealin' down the street ♪

♪ And you can't hear them ♪

- [Johnny] I know, Spence.

♪ Just tell them ♪

- I'm so sorry you had to go through this.

I couldn't tell you.

I didn't want you to go through this.

[Johnny sniffs]

I know how bad it hurts.

It hurts bad.

I'm so sorry.

- Why did they have to die?

- I don't know, Spence.

Nobody knows.

I don't know.

But me and you,

we're gonna be okay.

We're gonna get through this.

You remember one thing.

I'll always be there for you, Spence.

I'll always be there.

[melancholy guitar music]

[birds twittering]

Every morning when you wake up,

sit at the end of your bed
in front of the Heisman,

and take a good look at it and
think about your mom and dad

and the way they raised you,
to be strong, to be kind,

to take that football and tuck
it hard underneath your arm

so no one can ever knock
it out and run with it,

like you're playin' in
front of a packed stadium

with your mom and dad sitting

on the 50-yard line watchin' you play.

Every day, they'll be
watchin' you, Spence.

Every day, cheerin' you on.

Every day, you remember that.

Never a mope.

- Always a hope.

[emotionally stirring guitar music]

- 29, choose play!

Hut one, hut two, hike!

Let's go, let's go, nice!

[father applauding]

- Nice one, Spence!
- Way to go, Spence, woo!

- You guys just got showed up.

- That's not fair, I
want Spence on my team.

- No, I want Spence on my team.

- [Mother] All right,
let's shine it up, Spence.

- [Father] Okay, let's go,
guys, nice goin', good.

[birds twittering]
[gentle music]

♪ She was just 16 and all alone ♪

♪ When I came to be ♪

♪ So we grew up together ♪

♪ My mama child and me ♪

♪ Now things were bad ♪

♪ And she was scared ♪

- Yah!
♪ But whenever I would cry ♪

♪ She'd calm my fears and dry my tears ♪

♪ With a rock-and-roll lullaby ♪

♪ And she'd sing ♪

♪ Sha na na na na na na ♪

♪ It'll be all right ♪

♪ Sha na na na na na ♪

- Streamline on the bulker
load, Wheels is a-wheelin'.

♪ Singin' ♪
- Wheels is a-wheeling.

♪ My mama, my my my mama ♪

- Here you go, handsome.
- Thanks, babe.

♪ Sweet until oh mama ♪

♪ Let me hear it ♪
- Pick up four, Eight.

♪ Rock and roll ♪
- This game's ridiculous.

♪ Lullaby ♪

[pleasant guitar music]

♪ Now we made it through the lonely days ♪

♪ But Lord, the nights were long ♪

♪ And it would be a better morning ♪

♪ When Mama sang a song ♪

♪ Now I can't recall the words at all ♪

♪ It don't make sense to try ♪

♪ 'Cause I just knew lots
of love came through ♪

♪ That old rock-and-roll lullaby ♪

♪ And she'd sing sha na na na na na na ♪

♪ It'll be all right ♪

♪ Sha na na na na na na ♪

♪ Just hold on tight ♪

♪ I can hear you Mama ♪

♪ My my my ♪

♪ Nothin' moves my soul ♪

♪ Like the sound of a good old ♪

- Hey!
♪ Rock-and-roll lullaby ♪

- Thank you.

- To the Corner?

- You bet, it's time.

[emotionally stirring rock music]

♪ Sha na ooh ♪

♪ Sha na ooh ♪

♪ Just hold on tight ♪

♪ Sing it to me Mama ♪

♪ My my my my ♪

♪ Sing it sweet and clear oh Mama ♪

♪ Let me hear that rock-and-roll lullaby ♪

♪ Sha na na na na na na ♪

♪ It'll be all right ♪

♪ Sha na na yeah ♪

♪ Just hold on tight ♪

♪ I can hear you singin' ♪

[slow peaceful guitar music]

♪ I can honestly say, I'm doin' okay ♪

♪ It feels really good to be me ♪

♪ I might not be rich, but
I've got all the goods ♪

♪ That anyone ever would need ♪

♪ But all of that stuff ♪

♪ Doesn't add up ♪

♪ To what I hold dear in my heart ♪

♪ It's all just stuff ♪

♪ To help me get by ♪

♪ It's not the best things in my life ♪

♪ 'Cause the best things
in life aren't things ♪

♪ They're people and places ♪

♪ And memories of faces we love ♪

♪ Little magical moments in time ♪

♪ When everything shines ♪

♪ And the angels sing ♪

♪ The best things in life aren't things ♪

♪ The Little League
park right before dark ♪

♪ My first home run clearin' the fence ♪

♪ Singin' along to a James Taylor song ♪

♪ As Emily Jones and I danced ♪

♪ My brother and I on
a cross country drive ♪

♪ Bein' splashed by the salt of the sea ♪

♪ My first kiss goodnight ♪

♪ In the next mornin' light ♪

♪ And hearin' my sweet
brand new baby girl cry ♪

♪ Oh, the best things
in life aren't things ♪

♪ They're people and places ♪

♪ And memories of faces we love ♪

♪ Little magical moments in time ♪

♪ When everything shines ♪

♪ And the angels sing ♪

♪ The best things in love aren't things ♪

♪ So when life gets too crazy ♪

♪ Then here's your reminder ♪

♪ To slow down and take
some time to remember ♪

♪ The best things in life aren't things ♪

♪ They're people and places ♪

♪ And memories of faces we love ♪

♪ Little magical moments in time ♪

♪ When everything shines ♪

♪ And the angels sing ♪

♪ The best things in life aren't things ♪