Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge (1995) - full transcript
Based on the lives of mother-daughter singers the Judds.
(soothing music)
(crowd cheering)
- [Man] Hey, Naomi.
- Naomi, hi.
- Hi.
(emotional music)
- Sandy, yeah I got her here right now.
- No sign of Wynonna.
- [Crowd] We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
(people murmuring)
- She isn't here yet.
- [Crowd] We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
- [Naomi] Why?
- I can't do this, Mama.
I can't do this.
- Why?
'Course you can.
Come on.
Come on, baby.
- [Wynonna] No, no.
I'm not like you.
- Honey, some of these people
have driven cross country to be here.
And millions more are waiting
in front of their televisions to see us.
- Yeah, us.
Me and you.
The Judds.
Not the Judd.
I'm not ready.
- Baby, you are ready.
You've never been more ready.
(emotional music)
- Not ready to die.
- I'm scared too, baby.
I don't know what's gonna
happen anymore than you.
(gentle piano music)
(crowd cheering)
♪ Maybe I'm wrong ♪
♪ Maybe I'm right ♪
♪ Maybe I just don't know ♪
♪ Will I ever fall in love ♪
♪ And never have to worry ♪
♪ That I'm falling all alone ♪
♪ Maybe it's true ♪
♪ I was just born to be blue ♪
(crowd cheering)
♪ Maybe it's true ♪
♪ I was just born to be ♪
♪ Blue ♪
(upbeat rock music)
(crowd cheering)
♪ See everybody's got a someone ♪
♪ A sweet somebody to love ♪
♪ It might be fate or destiny ♪
♪ May be written in the stars above ♪
♪ I can't help but wonder ♪
♪ After all that I've been through ♪
♪ Maybe my baby's nowhere to be found ♪
♪ And I was just born to be blue ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Was I born to be unhappy ♪
♪ Just to live heartache street ♪
♪ Was I born to go to bed each night ♪
♪ And cry myself to sleep ♪
♪ Can somebody out there help me ♪
♪ Give me some kind of clue ♪
♪ Tell me I'm wrong ♪
♪ Tell me I'm right ♪
♪ But don't tell me I
was born to be blue ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
(crowd cheering)
♪ They say nobody dies from a heartache ♪
♪ You can't drown in your own tears ♪
- [Ashley] For Mama, the road began
back in the safe and distant '50s
in Ashland, Kentucky,
long before anyone had
ever heard of Naomi Judd.
Back then, everyone
knew her as Diana Ellen,
the first child of Polly and Glen Judd.
- Is that all you got?
- Get out of my room!
Mama?
Margaret stole all my barrettes again.
- Did not!
- Did too, big liar.
You get in 'em again, I'm
gonna staple your hair
to the sides of your head.
- You two, cut it out!
- [Mark] She started it!
- Mama, it's the biggest night of my life
and my dress doesn't fit.
- If I were you, I'd worry
about my teeth, metal mouth.
- I hope Prince Charming
doesn't have anything magnetic on him.
- How can you read this crud?
I don't love him any more,
but I don't love him any less.
- It's romance, Brian, not that
you know anything about it.
- My heart beat so loud I was afraid
he might ascertain my true desire.
- My true desire?
Maybe you better stick
to Seventeen Magazine.
Remember to sit up straight.
- Can I wear lipstick?
- All right.
I wanna get a picture
of you for our album.
- You'd think she was going out with Elvis
instead of some military school geek.
- He's not a geek, Brian.
Linda said he's the best looking boy
at Fork Union Military Academy,
and you know what else?
He drives a brand new Imperial with fins.
- Fins?
If she were my daughter,
I wouldn't even let him in the door.
- Oh, phooey.
He comes from an excellent family.
- Oh, you know what else, Mama?
They have a maid, too.
- Sounds like they know how
to waste money, if you ask me.
He's here.
- He's here?
- Don't forget your curfew, now.
- Yes, sir.
- Oh, zits.
His face looks like a pepperoni pizza, Di.
(kids giggling)
- Bri, get out!
- Act like a lady, and if you don't know
which fork to use, watch him.
- Yeah, watch him.
(upbeat music)
(people chattering)
- Irish linen, Parisian china.
- You wanna dance?
(smooth jazz music)
Not this one, bud.
Linda lied when she said you were pretty.
You're beautiful.
(audience applauds)
- Song's over.
- Well then why am I still hearing music?
- You know, Teen Beat says
that's the number one line used this year?
Second one being, "Is when
they made the alphabet,
"they should have put U and I together."
I never knew these were so good.
- You never had shrimp before?
- Mm-mm, no.
Only fish my family
eats is salmon patties.
They're not so bad if
you put ketchup on 'em.
- You know by the end of the night,
this here's gonna be our song.
- I'm 14 stinkin' years old, all right?
He's not like any of the
other boys in Ashland.
He knows how to cha-cha,
and he's the diving champion at the club.
- What club?
- Bellefonte Country Club.
He taught me how to do the twist.
- Oh, well.
- And you know what else?
He didn't even say
anything about my braces.
- Well, I'm impressed.
(both chuckle)
- It was so dreamy, Mama.
I wish you and Daddy
would go out sometimes.
You know, like on a date,
or just go out to dinner or something.
You never do anything.
- He has to close out the service station.
- Yeah, but Mama, he doesn't
even ever take you out
for your birthday, or even
buys you any birthday presents.
- He's never been much for shopping.
- I've never even seen him kiss you.
- Well, you know marriage
isn't always a bed of roses,
especially when you get
married at 15, like I did.
But, your life is gonna be
different when you get married.
- I wanna travel, and see things.
I wanna see everything
that's out there, Mama.
I wanna meet the most interesting people.
I just want my life to be different.
- Well, you make it different.
It's all up to you, Diana.
Lord knows you've got the imagination.
(both giggle)
- Who are you?
What do you want?
Get away from her!
Get away I tell you, I'm warning you!
(man screaming)
- Michael.
I'm not like your college girls.
- I think I know what kind
of girl you are by now.
- You have to go back
to college in one week.
You wanna waste it pickin'
on this same ol' thing?
- Well, I'm not gonna wait around forever
while you try and decide.
- Well, what do you want from me, Michael?
- Marry me?
- I'm not even out of high school!
- When you graduate, then.
- Michael, I don't love you.
- Well, I love you.
I love you enough for both of us.
You are mine, Diana.
You just don't know it yet.
- I don't belong to anybody.
(door slams)
Hi.
- Hey.
Michael?
- Mm-hmm.
- You know, it doesn't make any sense.
I mean, he could have any girl in Ashland
and he's in love with you.
- A man of impeccable taste.
- Even the Johnstone sisters.
What's he got that I don't have?
Well, okay, besides dark wavy hair,
a big ol' car, and a rich daddy.
- Brian.
- Can he match this body?
- Ooh, big muscles.
- Shut up.
- What's that bump?
- Excuse me?
- No, seriously.
- What?
- See this?
- What?
- Right there.
(birds chirping)
Hi.
- Dr. Franz wants us to take Brian
into Columbus for tests tonight.
- Why, what's wrong?
- Well, he's afraid
that it might be cancer.
- Cancer?
- Mm-hmm, I'm gonna need
you to get the kids ready
for their first day of school tomorrow.
Mark's gonna want his peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches,
and Margaret's gonna want
to wear her blue dress,
so you be sure it's pressed, okay?
- I won't let you down, Mama.
- I know you won't, honey.
I know.
Now let me go, I gotta
go get packed, okay?
All right.
♪ As I think of the past ♪
♪ And all the pleasures we had ♪
(doorbell rings)
♪ As I watch ♪
♪ The mating of the doves ♪
♪ It was in the springtime ♪
♪ That you said goodbye ♪
- You shouldn't be here.
♪ Remember our faded love ♪
- I'm so scared, Michael.
- Sh, sh, sh, sh.
It's gonna be okay.
♪ I miss you darlin' ♪
♪ More and more ♪
- You should go.
- Diana, I don't want you to be alone.
♪ Heaven would miss the stars ♪
- You should go.
(birds chirping)
Hi.
- Hey.
I got good news and bad news.
Good news is I don't have to go to school,
and the bad news is
reticulum cell sarcoma.
- Which is what?
- It's, it's the big C.
(emotional music)
- What do they do now?
- Well, I have to go to the hospital,
and get chemotherapy and
then radiation treatments.
- Brian, go upstairs and rest.
- Is his hair gonna fall out?
- I don't know.
- Does it hurt?
- I don't know.
- [Diana] Well, is he gonna be okay?
- I don't know, Diana, so stop asking.
I am tired.
I've gotta iron your daddy's shirts.
(emotional music)
- Do you know how much I
esteem oatmeal cookies?
- I'm not hungry.
- Is your tummy still bothering you?
- No.
- Oh.
You dropped four grades.
- As to Bs, big deal.
- You got a C in algebra,
stop right there.
Brian, go inside.
You went from a 3.5 to
a 3.0 in one semester.
Do you think any decent college
will take you with grades like this?
- Why did you just make Brian leave?
- 3.0, what kind of a future
are you gonna have without an education?
- You're afraid to talk about the future
in front of him, aren't you?
- We're not discussing
Brian, we're discussing you.
- He's dying, Mama.
You can't even own up to it.
All you care about is my grades?
- Brian's future is in God's hands.
But yours is still in mine.
(birds chirping)
- For wither thou goest, I will go.
And where thou lodgest, I will lodge.
Thy people shall be my
people, and they God, my God.
Who was this Naomi that
could inspire such devotion?
She was no great prophetess
or saintly heroine.
She was just an ordinary,
hard-working housewife.
But one faithful, loving daughter-in-law
vowed to follow her.
To love, and support her, and God,
seeing this bond of pure
love between the two women,
led both to a treasure greater
than any had ever known.
Let us sing.
♪ I come to the garden alone ♪
♪ While the dew is still on the roses ♪
♪ And the voice I hear ♪
♪ Falling on my ear ♪
♪ The Son of God discloses ♪
♪ And he walks with me,
and he talks with me ♪
♪ And he tells me I am his own ♪
♪ And the joy we share as we tarry there ♪
♪ None other has ever known ♪
- I only did it once, Brian.
- That's all it takes.
- I know.
- How far along are ya?
- Dr. Franz said about two months.
What am I gonna do?
I've never had a job before.
I get $1.50 allowance a week.
I can't even drive.
- Well, maybe Mom and Dad
will raise your allowance?
- I haven't even graduated yet.
- So what, me neither.
- But you're not gonna be a mother.
- Probably not a father, either.
- Don't you say that!
- But I'm gonna be an uncle soon.
If it's a boy, you can call him Brian.
And if it's a girl,
you can give her up for adoption, I guess.
- Brian!
- I'm sorry, that was
a stupid thing to say.
You can call her Briana.
Briwina?
It's gonna be okay.
Now, you're not gonna make me call you
Mrs. Ciminella, are ya?
(Diana laughs)
(Diana sniffles)
- You think Mom and Dad are happy?
- Yeah, I guess.
- I don't.
Content, maybe, but I don't
think that they're really happy.
- Well, content is good.
- Oh Brian, it's not good enough.
- No.
No, it's not.
Life is short, Di.
I don't want you to waste a drop.
(emotional music)
(birds chirping)
- Old Spice.
Must be another letter from Michael.
(somber music)
- It's gotta be a heck
of a lot better in there
than it is out here.
It's just you and me.
Mama?
Is it Brian?
- I found this under your mattress.
- I'm sorry, Mama.
- Well, sorry doesn't
count for much right now.
Didn't I teach you anything, girl?
What were all our plans for?
All our preparations, our dreams?
- I'm sorry, Mama.
- Oh, Lord have mercy.
Your life was gonna be special,
it was gonna be different.
- I know, but what can I do?
- Well, what do you think you do?
You marry him.
- No Mama, I can't do that.
- You are the last girl in town
I would've expected this from.
I must've failed you somewhere.
But you have made your bed,
now you have to lie in it.
I told your father.
(crickets chirping)
- You love him?
- Yeah.
- Then I guess you'll marry him.
- Yeah.
(bells tolling)
- For you.
That's my daddy, Ogden.
He once told me there's only two things
you can give your kids.
Looks, and wings.
I hope I've given you both.
- Thank you, Daddy.
- Well, don't you look all grown up?
I guess it's that time.
- I feel like the sacrificial lamb.
- You sure aren't the sacrificial virgin.
- Dearly beloved, we are gathered
here in the sight of God,
and in the face of this company,
to join this man and this
woman in holy matrimony.
If any man can show just cause
why these two should not be so joined,
let him now speak, or
forever after hold his peace.
Do you, Diana Ellen Judd,
take Michael Ciminella
to be your lawful wedded husband?
For rich or for poor,
in sickness and health,
'til death do you part?
- I do.
- Do you, Michael Ciminella,
take Diana Ellen Judd
to be your lawful wedded
wife, for rich or for poor,
sickness and in health,
'til death do you part?
- I do.
- I now pronounce you man and wife.
You may kiss the bride.
(birds chirping)
- What'd he say?
- I have to have a C-section.
- They gotta cut you?
- I wanna go by my house.
- Di, you keep calling it your house.
It's not your house anymore,
you live with us now.
- Well, I can forget
for a moment, Michael.
- Don't start with me, okay?
- Look, your parents have been wonderful,
but it is their house.
I don't have a home anymore.
- Right, we're gonna have our own place
once I go back to school.
Student housing up in Lexington
isn't that bad, either.
We'll probably get a two bedroom place
since we'll have a baby.
- I wanna see how Brian's doin'.
- It'll take forever, just call him, Di.
- Michael, please!
I wanna ask my mama about the C-section.
- All right, fine.
(Diana knocking)
- Hello!
- [Michael] I don't
think they're home, hon.
- Mama!
Brian?
- Look hon, they probably
took him up to Columbus
for his chemotherapy.
(Diana knocking)
- Hello!
- Di, they're not home.
- Uh-huh.
- Di, come on, let's go.
- Let me in.
- Come on, come on, let's go.
- Please let me in!
- Diana, they are not home.
Now, come on!
- Please let me in, please.
I wanna go back to my room.
I wanna go back home.
I want my bed, I want my family.
- Diana, we are gonna
have a house of our own,
and a family of our own.
(emotional music)
(baby crying)
(dramatic music)
- It's a girl?
- Well, Penny Webb's folks
were out in the front yard
taking pictures of her
in her cap and gown.
And they're gonna have
a big party tonight.
- You know you got an
A on your term paper?
Her tutor said it was the
best one she ever read.
- You wrote a term paper?
- Yeah, havin' a baby.
Things every teen mother should know.
- Slumber party etiquette
for the expecting,
learning how to share your
stuffed animals with your kids,
and how to say no and really mean it.
- Brian.
- Bye-bye.
- Bye.
- Hard to imagine my
little girl had a baby.
- Yep, well I reckon we'll
grow up together then, huh?
- Bye, honey.
- Bye, Mama.
- [Announcer] Dr. Edgars
to the OR, please.
Dr. Edgars to the OR, please.
- You okay?
- Thank you.
(baby fussing)
Oh, hi.
Oh, look at her.
Isn't she the most beautiful
thing you've ever seen?
- Yeah, well she comes from a
long line of beautiful women.
(baby crying)
- She's got a set of lungs.
- Di, I'm gonna go get some coffee, okay?
(baby fussing)
- Looks like it's just you
and me, little partner.
(baby crying)
Shh.
I promise you I'll
always take care of you.
- Di, we don't have room
for all this stuff in the apartment.
- [Diana] Well, you
leave some of your junk,
I'll leave mine.
- Will you two stop your bickering?
- Thanks, Mama.
- It's a long way to Lexington.
You're off to college after all,
just not like we planned.
- Bye, Daddy.
- Bye.
- Bye.
- Take care of my girls.
- Yes, sir.
Brian.
- Come back and see Nana
before you get all grown up.
(baby crying)
(pleasant music)
(cup clatters)
- Christina.
(phone ringing)
Hello.
Michael, I'm a little busy right now.
Can't you come get it?
Okay.
(phone ringing)
What now, Michael?
Oh, sorry Mama.
Okay, I'll be there.
(people chattering)
(TV blaring)
- [Woman] No, what are you doing, no!
- Can you take her please?
- What's the matter?
What, what's the matter with Mommy, huh?
I'll be right back, Diana!
Look Di, I don't know what
you think was goin' on,
but we were just talking.
- I don't give a damn right now, Michael.
I need the car for a few days,
and I need you to take care of Christina.
- Brian?
Oh baby, I'm...
(emotional music)
- Hi.
- Hey.
What are you doin' here?
I must be pretty bad, huh?
- No, I just thought that if I was here
then Mom and Dad could rest a bit.
Talked 'em into going out
to get something to eat.
- Good.
They haven't left this room for weeks.
(Brian gasps)
- Brian.
Brian, what do you need?
Can I get you something?
- How about a beer?
- A beer?
You don't drink.
- Well, I figure I better
start before it's too late.
(bell ringing)
- Where is that nurse?
- She gave me a shot about an hour ago.
- Well, I don't think it's workin'.
You know if I were your
nurse, you wouldn't hurt.
- I know.
No, you were always bringing
home wounded creatures.
Stray cats, birds, that mangy mutt.
- Remember when you
shot Aunt Sora's rooster
with your slingshot?
- You told Daddy you did it
so I wouldn't get a lickin'.
You were always takin' care of me.
- [Diana] Yeah.
- It's weird.
I mean, we're talkin' about our childhood
like it was ancient history or something.
- Yeah, seems like another life.
- I wanna be at home.
- I know.
- Get me outta here.
Just take me home, please.
Just take me home.
- I can't, Bri.
Nurse?
Brian, Brian.
Brian, listen to me.
♪ I come to the garden alone ♪
♪ While the dew is still on the roses ♪
♪ And the voice I hear falling on my ear ♪
♪ The Son of God discloses ♪
♪ And he walks with me ♪
♪ And he talks with me ♪
♪ And he tells me I am his own ♪
♪ The gospel train is comin' ♪
♪ Now don't you want to go ♪
♪ And leave this world in sorrow ♪
♪ And troubles here below ♪
♪ Talk about sufferin' here below ♪
♪ And let's keep followin' Jesus ♪
♪ Talk about sufferin' here below ♪
♪ And let's keep lovin' Jesus ♪
♪ Oh can't you hear it brother ♪
♪ Now don't you want to go ♪
♪ And leave this world of sorrow ♪
♪ And troubles here below ♪
- [Ashley] My daddy was
offered a sales position
in Los Angeles, California,
and he was pleasantly surprised
when Mama not only agreed with the move,
but told him she was excited for the kids.
That's right, kids.
I was born on April 19th, 1968,
and I was named Ashley so that
every time my name was said,
we'd all be reminded of Ashland, Kentucky.
♪ How many seas must a white dove sail ♪
♪ Before she sleeps in the sand ♪
♪ Yes, and how many times
must the cannonballs fly ♪
♪ Before they're forever banned ♪
♪ Well the answer my friend ♪
♪ Is blowin' in the wind ♪
♪ The answer is blowin' in the wind ♪
- Mommy, you see?
You can see the whole city
from here, it's so pretty.
- Let's go, girls.
♪ Listen, how many years ♪
- Christina honey, grab the lemonade.
Thank you.
- Are we gonna wait for Daddy?
- No honey, we've waited long enough.
Chicken leg for Ashley.
Okay girls, eat up.
- [Christina] I wanna eat with Daddy.
(Diana sighs)
- Well I know you're real hungry,
so how 'bout you eat some of it now,
and then you can eat the
rest when Daddy gets home.
- No, I wanna eat with Daddy.
♪ Don't be cruel ♪
♪ To a heart that's true ♪
♪ Don't want another love ♪
♪ Baby, you I'm thinkin' of ♪
♪ Don't be cruel ♪
♪ To a heart that's true ♪
- Christina, can you help your sister
clear the table, please?
♪ Don't want no other love, baby ♪
♪ It's you I'm thinkin' of ♪
(Michael clapping)
- Hey hey, come here.
- Daddy!
- Oh yeah, how's my big
girl doin', huh, huh?
Come here.
- You're home late.
- Well, I got tied up at the office.
- You smell good, like perfume.
- So, who were you tied up with?
Not that I care.
- See you inside.
The Senate votes to vetoing the draft.
I guess war is good business.
- We need to talk.
- Yeah?
- Michael.
- What?
- I can't do this anymore.
- Do what, Diana?
- Look, neither one of us is happy.
- No, I am happy, all right?
So don't tell me I'm not, because I am.
- All right, I'm not happy.
- You haven't loved me.
Not since day one.
You think I don't feel it?
Think it doesn't hurt every single day?
- Yes, I think you feel it,
and I'm sick of being a martyr.
I'm tired, and miserable, and lonely.
- Well, you can add cold
mean to that list, honey.
- I want a divorce.
- What about our girls, Di?
Are you even, are you
even thinking about them?
- Of course I'm thinking-
- Oh bull, you are just
looking out for number one!
- Well you know what, no one
else is, so I guess I better.
- Oh, you been talking
to your sister again?
- Yeah.
She's moving out here.
- Oh, oh I see, so if she can split,
well then so can Diana?
What about her baby, huh?
Is she even thinking about that child?
- At least she has the
guts to leave the bum.
- So now I'm a bum.
- Michael, this is not about you.
I am not gonna let my girls grow up
thinking that they're
just supposed to settle!
- Don't you tell me that
that's what this is about!
- Don't talk to Mommy
in that tone of voice.
- I'm sorry, everything's gonna be okay.
You wanna make some popcorn?
Yeah?
Well why don't you go in the kitchen
and you wait for me, all right?
Okay, good girl.
(tense music)
- Why do you gotta be such a malcontent?
You have a husband who loves you.
You got food on the table,
you got a roof over your head.
- I'm dying inside.
- What do you think marriage
is supposed to be, Diana?
Supposed to be some big
ol' day at the beach?
- I made my bed, so now I gotta lie in it?
- That's right.
- My mama told me that
once, and I listened.
I'm not listening anymore, Michael.
- [Ashley] Outside motherhood,
Mama had no vocation, and no training.
She held a dozen different
clerical and service jobs,
but no matter how hard she
worked, we were always hard up.
But she sure had a friend in
her sister, my Aunt Margaret,
who had come west from
Kentucky, and moved in with us.
- Howdy.
- Hey.
- The red one moved.
- Did not.
- Did too!
- Hello!
- [Both] Hi.
- Try to contain your excitement.
Sorry I'm late, the lines
at the market were 10 deep.
- [Christina] Did you get popsicles?
- Honey, I didn't have enough.
- Why don't you get a new
job so you'd have more money?
- They're all the same.
Patted on the butt, and paid in pennies.
- Ooh, you said butt!
- Oh, that doesn't mean you can.
Oh these shoes feel
like pencil sharpeners.
- [Margaret] Mom called.
She asked how you were doing.
- Did you tell her I
was dating Hell's Angels
and taking LSD?
Truth's worse.
- I told her you never do anything
but work, cook, clean, and shop.
- Well she can certainly relate to that.
But I have a date tonight.
- With who?
- Oh, just a new guy that
moved in down the canal.
- The one that looks like Jim Orson?
- Yes, I ran into him in the bookstore
and he asked me to go to The Troubadour.
- Oh, he's that cute and he reads?
- And paints, and cooks.
- Well, what about my science project?
You said you'd help.
- I'll help you.
Your mom needs to get out
and shake her tail feathers.
- Mommy doesn't have feathers.
- Well, it's time she grew some.
(upbeat music)
♪ Together we stand ♪
♪ Divided we fall ♪
♪ Come on now people,
let's get on the ball ♪
♪ And work together ♪
♪ Come on, come on, let's work together ♪
♪ Because together we stand ♪
♪ Every boy, every girl, every man ♪
♪ When things go wrong
as they sometimes will ♪
♪ And the road that you
travel is all uphill ♪
♪ Let's work together ♪
♪ Come on, come on, let's work together ♪
- Great outfit.
- Thank you!
- Janis Joplin had one like it.
- Did you know Janis?
- Can we really know anybody?
I mean, in this vast universe,
can we even know ourselves?
Who's Janis Joplin, who's Grace Slick?
Who's Diana Judd?
- I'll take that to
mean you never met her?
- Busted.
(Diana laughs)
Where you from?
- Kentucky.
- Oh, birthday?
- The 11th of January.
- Capricorn, Leo.
Year?
- 1946.
- A dog?
- What?
- The year of the dog, Chinese calendar?
- Oh.
- You're honest, and loyal,
and you are generous, yet stubborn.
I value loyalty above all else.
- Me too.
♪ Let's all work together
and make life worthwhile ♪
♪ Let's work together ♪
- What animal are you?
♪ Come on, come on ♪
♪ Let's work together ♪
♪ Now now people, come on ♪
♪ Together we stand, every
boy, girl, woman, and a ♪
- Pancakes and eggs, then.
- Toast and coffee.
- Would you like some cream?
- Just sugar, Diana.
- Hey, what are you doing here?
- I'm addicted to you, baby.
I need my fix.
Did you miss me?
- James, my boss is complaining
about you being here so much.
- It's a free country, isn't it?
- Yeah, but could you just
order something to eat?
- My coffee, Diana?
- Who's that guy?
- He's a customer.
- Is that why you don't want me here?
- I have never seen him before.
Don't you trust me?
I've been with you every
night for the last two months.
- Don't be tripping on me, Diana.
- James, I'm telling you the truth.
- Do you want me to get it myself?
I'll get it myself.
- Hey, we're talkin'
here okay, so shut up!
- James.
Here you go, here's your coffee.
- Hey, you know what?
Keep your coffee, I'm leaving.
Excuse me.
- I'm sorry.
Hey.
- Hey!
- Oh, could you do me a favor?
Can you babysit tonight?
James wants to go to The Troubadour.
- I thought we were gonna take the girls
to see "Fantasia" at the Dome.
- I just, he's been
acting kinda weird lately.
- Di, (sighs) he's been
acting weird for months.
He calls every half hour.
He asks the girls where you've
been, who went with you.
- I think he's been following me.
- This is gettin' out of hand.
- It's just that he's insecure, you know?
- Will you quit makin' excuses?
- I'm gonna break up with him tonight.
(upbeat music)
♪ Well I rolled and I tumbled ♪
♪ I cried the whole night long ♪
♪ Oh well I rolled and I tumbled ♪
♪ I cried the whole night long ♪
♪ I haven't seen my baby ♪
♪ Something's going on ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Well I really love you, baby ♪
- You're seeing him, aren't you?
- I'm just watching the band.
- Uh-huh.
♪ Well I really love you, baby ♪
- Let's go.
♪ Come and say your mine ♪
- James, stop, I'm not leaving.
Let go of my arm.
Let go, you're hurting
me, let go of my arm!
What are you doing?
Let go, you're' hurting
me, what are you doing?
- Excuse me, the lady-
(people screaming)
(glass tinkles)
- [Man] Knock it off!
- Come on, come on, come on.
- I'm cool, I'm cool!
Come on, come on, I'm
cool, I'm sorry, all right?
(people murmuring)
- [Man] Play some music now, come on.
- [Man] Come on, music!
(tense music)
- What are you doin' here?
Oh James, please.
The girls are in the
other room, James, please.
Just, James, please.
Come on, please.
- Why can't we go with Aunt Margaret?
- 'Cause we're hidin', stupid.
- 'Til the police find him?
What if he finds us?
He scared me.
- It's gonna be okay.
I'll take care of you, okay?
(tense music)
Collect from Diana?
Mama?
No Mom, I didn't mean
to, no everything's fine.
I didn't mean to scare ya, I
just wanted to hear your voice.
You know, no Mama, you know what?
Just you should go, go back to sleep.
I'm gonna call you in a couple days.
No, I'm sure, I'm, I'm sure, yeah.
I'm fine, okay.
All right, bye-bye.
(somber music)
Come on.
- I wanna go home.
- I'm gonna find us a new home,
and we're gonna be safe.
(dramatic music)
- [Ashley] Eight very
long years in Los Angeles
made Mama yearn for the
traditional rural lifestyle
that she had known as a child.
Getting back to nature
was popular in the '70s,
and few places were as
natural as Camp Wig, Kentucky.
- Da da dah!
We've got four cases of jam put up.
There's nothing quite as
satisfying as an honest day's work.
- Yep, I could watch people do it all day.
- Okay, let's get supper on,
and then we are finished for the day.
- Do we have to?
- What is on that sheet?
(birds chirping)
Christina?
It's beautiful, isn't it?
Never had nights like this in LA.
- Yeah, we had fun there.
- Pollution, and traffic,
crime in the streets.
- No crime in the streets here.
There's no streets here.
No movies, no nothin'.
- I miss the Specific Ocean.
- Pacific, you twerp!
- I don't want you two
growing up with all that.
Just think, you're gonna
have a new river to swim in,
and all kinds of neat
new things to explore.
- I saw Mr. Shanks eat a carrot today.
- Hot news flash in Camp Wig.
I can see the headlines now.
Mr. Shanks eats a carrot!
- Well, he doesn't have any teeth.
- Maybe later, we could
go watch the corn grow.
- I like it here lots better.
She does, too, she just
doesn't wanna say so.
- Can I go down to Donny's?
- Donny is 17, and it's Saturday night.
He's probably at that pool hall.
- If we had a phone, I could call.
- We have to make some sacrifices
if I'm gonna stay in college, honey.
- What am I supposed to do now?
- I know.
(crickets chirping)
(guitar twanging)
It was your daddy's.
- Here, let me.
(gentle guitar music)
- [Class] Pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America,
and to the republic for which it stands.
One nation...
(engine rumbling)
- Yeehaw!
(people chattering)
- [Dwight] I swear it on my pappy's grave,
I'd beat him seven out of 10 games.
- You're so full of bull, Dwight.
- Donny, you promised you'd
teach me how to play pool.
- Him, he can't teach you nothin'.
- Five bucks says she can beat ya.
- You're on.
(country music)
- Break.
(pool balls clatter)
- Your mama know you're not in school?
- No ma'am.
- She's gonna if you don't hightail it
back there on the double, young man.
You see this little girl?
You take a good look at her.
You find her back in here again,
you send her packing.
We understand each other?
- Let go!
- Serves you right.
- Sucker!
- [Diana] Wait 'til I get you home.
- I don't wanna go home.
- You are goin' home if I gotta tie you
to the bumper of that car and drag you.
- Oh I'm really scared.
- Don't you dare, Christina, get me, ow!
(Christina laughing)
Open the door, Christina.
Open the door.
- Nope.
- Open that door right
now, do you hear me?
Open the door!
(people chattering)
(pleasant music)
- Mighty fine and a great
big happy to you, buckaroos.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- I hung the towels on the
porch, but they won't dry.
- Why are you doing Christina's chores?
- 'Cause she said she's
put my head in the wringer
if I didn't, and she made me
burn all the garbage, too.
- Did you do any of your chores?
- All she ever does is
play that stupid guitar.
- It's not stupid!
- [Diana] Stop it right now.
- And she took that brand
new jar of peanut butter
you brought back from the store
and traded it in for candy.
- You what?
- Big tattletale.
- I oughta slap you silly.
- I was sick of peanut butter.
- Did you soak the beans like
I asked, or bring in the coal?
- Must've slipped my mind.
- Yesterday you forgot your homework.
The day before, you left
your history book at school.
- Who cares about history?
I'd rather write my own.
- First you need to learn how to write.
- Well, if my schoolbooks are an example,
I guess just any idiot can do it.
- Here, I got these for you.
- Thank you.
Can I read before I set the table?
- Your sister's gonna set
the table for you tonight.
I got these for you.
- I never heard of Hazel & Alice.
- They're a couple of women singers.
You don't hear that very often.
Can't believe I work all
day to come home to this.
(lively guitar music)
♪ One day a mother came to a prison ♪
♪ To see an erring but precious son ♪
♪ She told the warden ♪
♪ How much she loved him ♪
♪ It did not matter ♪
♪ What he had done ♪
♪ She did not bring to him ♪
♪ Parole or pardon ♪
(birds chirping)
- "Please excuse Christina
from school today, I was sick."
Now if you ever attended
your English class,
you would've known to
write "She was sick."
- Someone else was sick, too.
- Don't wisecrack me!
Your grades stink, you've ditched
five days of school this semester,
and you have not done a
chore around here in a week.
- That's not true.
- Oh really?
- I ditched seven days of school.
(gentle guitar music)
- You think being a liar is cute?
I'm not amused, do you hear me?
Look at me, I am struggling
against all odds to improve myself.
If you wanna be anything in life,
you have got to get an education.
- Sorry, my books have
lost their text appeal.
- That does it.
- Give it back!
- Not on your life.
- Why'd you bring us here anyway?
I hate it!
- I'm trying to teach you something.
- Well I'm tired of being cold,
and living on soup beans and cornbread.
I'm tired of other kids
laughing at my clothes.
I'm sick and tired of being poor!
- We have more than most people.
- Stop it, okay?
Stop pretending it's all
some pioneer adventure.
- Don't talk to Mama
in that tone of voice!
- Butt out, buttface.
- It's okay, baby.
Since you don't wanna
do any work around here,
and you're not interested in school,
what do you intend to do with your life?
- Music.
It's the only thing in
this world I care about.
Now you want to take that away, too.
- Look, I'm doing the best I can.
If you're not happy here,
maybe you should go try
it with your father.
(emotional music)
(gentle guitar music)
Deer lay in the shady groves,
and there are plenty of wild berries.
Bluejays flew with their sunbonnets
and scolded because they
were taking the berries.
'Cause they were taking the berries.
Snakes hurried.
They crawled away from them,
and in the trees, the squirrels
woke up and shouted at them.
(gentle guitar music)
♪ One day a mother ♪
♪ Come to a prison ♪
♪ To see an erring ♪
♪ But precious son ♪
♪ She told the warden ♪
♪ How much she loved him ♪
♪ It did not matter ♪
♪ What he had done ♪
♪ She did not bring to him ♪
♪ Parole or pardon ♪
♪ She brought no silver ♪
♪ Brought no gold ♪
♪ No pomp nor style ♪
♪ For him to see ♪
♪ It was a halo bright ♪
♪ Sent down from heaven's light ♪
♪ The sweetest gift ♪
♪ A mother's smile ♪
♪ She left a smile ♪
♪ You can remember ♪
♪ She's gone to heaven ♪
♪ From heartaches free ♪
♪ Them bars around you ♪
♪ Will never change her ♪
♪ You were her baby ♪
♪ And e'er will be ♪
♪ She did not bring to him ♪
♪ Parole or pardon free ♪
♪ She brought no silver ♪
♪ Brought no gold ♪
♪ No pomp nor style ♪
♪ For him to see ♪
♪ It was a halo ♪
♪ Bright ♪
♪ Sent down from heaven ♪
♪ Heaven's light ♪
♪ The sweetest gift ♪
♪ A mother's smile ♪
♪ It was a halo ♪
♪ Halo bright ♪
♪ Sent down from heaven ♪
♪ Heaven's light ♪
♪ The sweetest gift ♪
♪ A mother's ♪
♪ Smile ♪
(people chuckling)
(people applauding)
- Oh, y'all sound like angels to me.
- Well, we couldn't
afford a real gift, so.
- Oh that's the best present
I ever got in my life.
Thank you.
- They think they're gonna be stars.
(people laughing)
- We could be, you know.
- You be careful what you wish for, kid.
You just might get it.
- Kids look great.
- Yeah.
- Country life agrees with 'em.
Christina still got problems in school?
- Hey, stop that.
Christina, stop that.
It's okay.
Problem is they send her
home at the end of each day.
- Long as she's getting an education.
- An education?
She's gonna end up in a trailer park
with five kids by the time she's 30.
- I doubt that.
- No, I mean it.
She is outta control.
Only thing she cares about is music.
- So, find a way to use that.
- You know, I've been thinking
a lot about Brian lately.
And I'm thinking about
going for a nursing degree,
and I found a great
school in Marin County.
It's near San Francisco,
and they are doing real progressive stuff.
So I was thinkin' of moving this summer,
when the girls are visiting
their grandparents.
- I thought you said you never
wanted to live in the city again.
- Well, Marin County's not like LA.
- It's not like home, either.
- Neither is Camp Wig.
There's gotta be someplace on the planet
that feels like home.
And maybe it's Marin.
- Oh, sounds like another
movin' truck to me.
(both laughing)
- Stop it.
I wish Daddy didn't have
to go fishing this weekend.
You know, this might be our
last family reunion for a while.
- He didn't go fishing.
He's left Mom.
They're divorcing.
(emotional music)
- Mama, Margaret told me.
- Oh, your daddy.
He's got a girlfriend.
- What?
- Yeah, he's got a girlfriend.
She's your age, and she jogs every day.
- Mama, I'm so sorry.
- I'm gonna want you and Mark
to talk to my lawyer, honey.
I don't imagine that Margaret
could fly back in, do you, to testify?
- What do you mean, testify?
- On my behalf.
- I can't testify against Daddy.
- You are not a child any longer.
Have I ever asked you
for anything in my life?
- No, you haven't.
You've given everything
you had to us kids.
But so has Daddy.
- Well, well he's with somebody else.
I mean, he's happy as a bridegroom.
Is that what I deserve?
- Mama, you both deserve better.
Neither of you have been happy for years.
- Well, and that's my fault?
- No, I'm not saying it's your fault.
- Well, I might've known
that you'd disappoint me.
- I'm always gonna
disappoint you, aren't I,
no matter what I do, I'm just
gonna always disappoint you.
- Is that what this is all about?
That I forced you to
face up to your mistake?
- I was 17.
(emotional music)
I needed you.
(Polly sighs)
- Well, now you're grown.
I guess you don't.
♪ Flow on ♪
♪ River of time ♪
♪ Wash away the pain ♪
♪ And heal my mind ♪
♪ Flow on ♪
♪ River of time ♪
♪ Carry me away ♪
♪ And leave it all far behind ♪
- [Ashley] Though sad years would pass
before Mama and Mom
would heal their breach,
Mom's bond with sister and
me grew stronger every day.
When Ma changed her name to Naomi,
Christina was inspired to do the same.
So I set off on a new journey,
this time traveling
with a couple of ladies
named Naomi, and Wynonna.
♪ Flow on river of time ♪
(people chattering)
(gentle piano music)
- We're in the third row,
near the center aisle.
Honey?
Break a leg.
- Oh I, uh-uh, I don't
think I can do this.
- Honey, of course you can.
- No, I don't even know any of these kids.
- Well, by the time you're
done, they are gonna know you.
- I can't.
I can't.
- Can't isn't in our vocabulary.
You're gonna go out there,
and you are gonna sing,
and you're gonna be great.
(audience applauds)
Okay?
You're gonna be great.
(gentle guitar music)
♪ Rows and flows of angel hair ♪
♪ And ice cream castles in the air ♪
♪ And feather canyons everywhere ♪
♪ I've looked at clouds that way ♪
♪ But now they only block the sun ♪
♪ They rain and snow on everyone ♪
♪ So many things I would've done ♪
♪ But clouds got in my way ♪
♪ I've looked at clouds
from both sides now ♪
♪ From up and down ♪
♪ And still somehow it's
cloud's illusions I recall ♪
♪ I really don't know clouds ♪
♪ At all ♪
(audience applauds)
- Yahoo!
That's my little girl.
(birds chirping)
(people chattering)
- [Professor] So whatever you
may or may not be able to do
with the technology, you gotta get
to the essence of the music yourself.
So you gotta take a risk.
(Naomi knocks)
- [Naomi] Professor Morello?
- Ray.
- Ray.
- [Ray] Come on in.
Aren't you in one of my classes?
- I'm a nursing student, but I have been
auditing your lectures
for the last few weeks.
- Switching majors?
- Oh Lord, no.
I have trouble finding the
power button on my stereo.
But I heard that you
finish up the semester
by recording a demo, and
my daughter, Wynonna and I,
we wanna be your singers.
(Ray chuckles)
- Well, you've got some chutzpah, miss?
- Judd, Naomi.
- Where you from, Naomi?
- Does my accent give me away?
- Little bit.
- I'm from Kentucky.
- Well, everybody in the class
is a musician, or a singer.
So they're gonna do their own-
- My daughter, she's got
something very, very special.
So if you could just
give us a chance, please?
- She says you can sing.
- Well, I can.
- She's awesome, she's
an incredible singer.
- I can sing.
- All right, let's find out.
- Thank you.
- Okay?
Can you just have a seat over there?
- We'll wait right here,
okay, thank you, thank you.
- Sorry.
- [Ray] You know, to do this right,
we should record you separately.
Let's start with you, Wynonna.
- No.
- Can we just try it together?
- Okay.
(gentle guitar music)
♪ We know a fella from down Alabama Way ♪
♪ He plays the blues in
a most peculiar way ♪
♪ He's got no piano 'fore
they head to the bar ♪
♪ So he picks out a
boogie on his old guitar ♪
♪ He plays a hillbilly boogie ♪
♪ In a lowdown way ♪
♪ Yeah he can play the boogie ♪
♪ Play it for me any old day ♪
♪ Yeah, we know a fella
from down Alabama Way ♪
♪ He plays the blues in
a most peculiar way ♪
♪ He's got no piano 'fore
they head to the bar ♪
♪ So he picks out a boogie
from his old guitar ♪
♪ He plays a hillbilly boogie ♪
♪ In a lowdown way ♪
♪ Yeah, he can play the boogie ♪
♪ Play it for me any old day ♪
♪ Yeah, he can play the boogie ♪
♪ He can play the boogie ♪
♪ He can play the boogie ♪
♪ Play it for me any old day ♪
(Ray chuckles)
- You're great.
- Told ya.
- First you change your names,
and now I'm supposed to leave
my friends, and my school,
and I won't even get to
be in the school play,
just so you and Wynonna can sing.
It's a stupid name, and a stupid idea.
- It's not stupid.
Honey, you're gonna get straight As,
and you are gonna be
popular wherever we go.
But this is a chance for your sister
to make something of herself.
It's the only thing she loves.
- Why can't she just sing here?
- Because we sing country.
It's gotta be Nashville.
- Nana says you've lost your mind.
- You told her?
When?
- I called her last night.
- Ashley.
- That's it.
- Okay, anytime.
- Ashley!
- See you later.
(people chattering)
- What'd you say to her?
- What rock did you find them under?
- The one with the goatee,
he's a tattoo artist.
He said he'd do me for free.
- Over my dead body.
- He could probably arrange that, too.
- Ashley, honey!
- Just let her go, Mama.
- I need to talk to her.
- You're not gonna go
back on our deal, are you?
- Honey, she's 11 years old.
- Goin' on 40.
- She doesn't understand.
- You promised.
- She needs a home.
- We've been back and
forth across this country
a billion times doin' your thing.
This is the first time it's
ever had anything to do with me.
You gave me that guitar,
and you told me that I was special
and you said that we were
gonna travel, and see stuff.
You said it was up to me.
Did you mean it?
- Of course.
- Well, we got our tape.
You heard what Professor Ray said,
he said our harmonies are magical.
- Honey, they're only gonna get better
the more we work on them.
What if we just stay here another year,
let Ashley finish junior high-
- I've never asked you
for anything before.
I'm willing to work
for it, I'll work hard.
Professor Ray told you where we belong.
N-A-S-H-V-I-L-L.
E.
I'm gonna do it, Mama.
I'm goin' to Nashville.
- You're 16 years old.
- It's your dream, too.
Nana told me how you used
to sing to Uncle Brian.
What would he have wanted you to do?
We can do this together, Mama.
I want you to be there with me.
(emotional music)
I'm not blind, I know
Nana wasn't there for you.
Not the way you needed.
- You'll stay in school?
- Yeah.
- Okay, let's go.
- You mean it?
- Yeah.
(pleasant music)
- [Michael] Your own father
thinks this is crazy.
- When did you talk to my father?
- When I picked up the girls.
He said if Christina really wants this,
she will still want it when she's 18.
He also said he couldn't believe
you'd struggle all those years
getting a nursing degree,
and then just throw it away.
- I'm not throwing it away.
I will get a Tennessee
license once I'm there.
- What about school?
Christina barely made
it outta junior high,
and now she's gotta start over?
- I don't care about school.
- We have a deal.
No school, no music.
(Michael sighs)
- I heard your tape.
You've got talent, I'll give you that.
But you know how many
people go to Nashville
with the same dream?
What are you gonna live on?
If you really cared about these girls,
you would think about that!
- Who do you think has
cared for these girls
for the last nine years?
Who has taken care of
them while they were sick?
Who has put food on the table for them,
made sure they had a Christmas tree?
- Not my fault I wasn't there.
I begged you to stay!
- Stop it, just stop screaming!
- Maybe I haven't been the
best father in the world,
but I tell you what, I love these girls.
I've got a good job now, and I am settled,
and Doris and I want 'em to
come live with us for a while.
- But we're goin' to Nashville.
- No.
- All right.
You two have to go off and
chase this rainbow, fine,
but Ashley is gonna stay here with me.
- Don't do that.
Michael, don't do this.
- I'm not doin' it!
This is your choice, Diana.
- No one ever asked me what I want.
I want to stay here, with Dad.
- Honey, you really mean that?
(emotional music)
- Don't drop me!
- I'm not gonna wait around forever
while you get it together, Di.
- Don't threaten me, Michael.
- Christina is my daughter, too.
- Bye, Ash.
- I love you, Mommy.
How could I not love you?
- I know that, baby.
It's not your fault.
You know what, I'm
gonna get us a new home.
I'm gonna get us
something real, real nice,
and then I'm comin' back for you.
You hear me?
(emotional music)
You take care of her.
- Are we doing the right thing, Mama?
- I don't know.
♪ Heartaches ♪
♪ You know my heart aches ♪
♪ Every time I ♪
♪ Think of you ♪
♪ Lonesome ♪
♪ I'm on my own some ♪
♪ Yes I could loan some ♪
♪ Tears to you ♪
(dramatic music)
(soothing music)
(crowd cheering)
- [Man] Hey, Naomi.
- Naomi, hi.
- Hi.
(emotional music)
- Sandy, yeah I got her here right now.
- No sign of Wynonna.
- [Crowd] We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
(people murmuring)
- She isn't here yet.
- [Crowd] We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
We want the Judds!
- [Naomi] Why?
- I can't do this, Mama.
I can't do this.
- Why?
'Course you can.
Come on.
Come on, baby.
- [Wynonna] No, no.
I'm not like you.
- Honey, some of these people
have driven cross country to be here.
And millions more are waiting
in front of their televisions to see us.
- Yeah, us.
Me and you.
The Judds.
Not the Judd.
I'm not ready.
- Baby, you are ready.
You've never been more ready.
(emotional music)
- Not ready to die.
- I'm scared too, baby.
I don't know what's gonna
happen anymore than you.
(gentle piano music)
(crowd cheering)
♪ Maybe I'm wrong ♪
♪ Maybe I'm right ♪
♪ Maybe I just don't know ♪
♪ Will I ever fall in love ♪
♪ And never have to worry ♪
♪ That I'm falling all alone ♪
♪ Maybe it's true ♪
♪ I was just born to be blue ♪
(crowd cheering)
♪ Maybe it's true ♪
♪ I was just born to be ♪
♪ Blue ♪
(upbeat rock music)
(crowd cheering)
♪ See everybody's got a someone ♪
♪ A sweet somebody to love ♪
♪ It might be fate or destiny ♪
♪ May be written in the stars above ♪
♪ I can't help but wonder ♪
♪ After all that I've been through ♪
♪ Maybe my baby's nowhere to be found ♪
♪ And I was just born to be blue ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Was I born to be unhappy ♪
♪ Just to live heartache street ♪
♪ Was I born to go to bed each night ♪
♪ And cry myself to sleep ♪
♪ Can somebody out there help me ♪
♪ Give me some kind of clue ♪
♪ Tell me I'm wrong ♪
♪ Tell me I'm right ♪
♪ But don't tell me I
was born to be blue ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
(crowd cheering)
♪ They say nobody dies from a heartache ♪
♪ You can't drown in your own tears ♪
- [Ashley] For Mama, the road began
back in the safe and distant '50s
in Ashland, Kentucky,
long before anyone had
ever heard of Naomi Judd.
Back then, everyone
knew her as Diana Ellen,
the first child of Polly and Glen Judd.
- Is that all you got?
- Get out of my room!
Mama?
Margaret stole all my barrettes again.
- Did not!
- Did too, big liar.
You get in 'em again, I'm
gonna staple your hair
to the sides of your head.
- You two, cut it out!
- [Mark] She started it!
- Mama, it's the biggest night of my life
and my dress doesn't fit.
- If I were you, I'd worry
about my teeth, metal mouth.
- I hope Prince Charming
doesn't have anything magnetic on him.
- How can you read this crud?
I don't love him any more,
but I don't love him any less.
- It's romance, Brian, not that
you know anything about it.
- My heart beat so loud I was afraid
he might ascertain my true desire.
- My true desire?
Maybe you better stick
to Seventeen Magazine.
Remember to sit up straight.
- Can I wear lipstick?
- All right.
I wanna get a picture
of you for our album.
- You'd think she was going out with Elvis
instead of some military school geek.
- He's not a geek, Brian.
Linda said he's the best looking boy
at Fork Union Military Academy,
and you know what else?
He drives a brand new Imperial with fins.
- Fins?
If she were my daughter,
I wouldn't even let him in the door.
- Oh, phooey.
He comes from an excellent family.
- Oh, you know what else, Mama?
They have a maid, too.
- Sounds like they know how
to waste money, if you ask me.
He's here.
- He's here?
- Don't forget your curfew, now.
- Yes, sir.
- Oh, zits.
His face looks like a pepperoni pizza, Di.
(kids giggling)
- Bri, get out!
- Act like a lady, and if you don't know
which fork to use, watch him.
- Yeah, watch him.
(upbeat music)
(people chattering)
- Irish linen, Parisian china.
- You wanna dance?
(smooth jazz music)
Not this one, bud.
Linda lied when she said you were pretty.
You're beautiful.
(audience applauds)
- Song's over.
- Well then why am I still hearing music?
- You know, Teen Beat says
that's the number one line used this year?
Second one being, "Is when
they made the alphabet,
"they should have put U and I together."
I never knew these were so good.
- You never had shrimp before?
- Mm-mm, no.
Only fish my family
eats is salmon patties.
They're not so bad if
you put ketchup on 'em.
- You know by the end of the night,
this here's gonna be our song.
- I'm 14 stinkin' years old, all right?
He's not like any of the
other boys in Ashland.
He knows how to cha-cha,
and he's the diving champion at the club.
- What club?
- Bellefonte Country Club.
He taught me how to do the twist.
- Oh, well.
- And you know what else?
He didn't even say
anything about my braces.
- Well, I'm impressed.
(both chuckle)
- It was so dreamy, Mama.
I wish you and Daddy
would go out sometimes.
You know, like on a date,
or just go out to dinner or something.
You never do anything.
- He has to close out the service station.
- Yeah, but Mama, he doesn't
even ever take you out
for your birthday, or even
buys you any birthday presents.
- He's never been much for shopping.
- I've never even seen him kiss you.
- Well, you know marriage
isn't always a bed of roses,
especially when you get
married at 15, like I did.
But, your life is gonna be
different when you get married.
- I wanna travel, and see things.
I wanna see everything
that's out there, Mama.
I wanna meet the most interesting people.
I just want my life to be different.
- Well, you make it different.
It's all up to you, Diana.
Lord knows you've got the imagination.
(both giggle)
- Who are you?
What do you want?
Get away from her!
Get away I tell you, I'm warning you!
(man screaming)
- Michael.
I'm not like your college girls.
- I think I know what kind
of girl you are by now.
- You have to go back
to college in one week.
You wanna waste it pickin'
on this same ol' thing?
- Well, I'm not gonna wait around forever
while you try and decide.
- Well, what do you want from me, Michael?
- Marry me?
- I'm not even out of high school!
- When you graduate, then.
- Michael, I don't love you.
- Well, I love you.
I love you enough for both of us.
You are mine, Diana.
You just don't know it yet.
- I don't belong to anybody.
(door slams)
Hi.
- Hey.
Michael?
- Mm-hmm.
- You know, it doesn't make any sense.
I mean, he could have any girl in Ashland
and he's in love with you.
- A man of impeccable taste.
- Even the Johnstone sisters.
What's he got that I don't have?
Well, okay, besides dark wavy hair,
a big ol' car, and a rich daddy.
- Brian.
- Can he match this body?
- Ooh, big muscles.
- Shut up.
- What's that bump?
- Excuse me?
- No, seriously.
- What?
- See this?
- What?
- Right there.
(birds chirping)
Hi.
- Dr. Franz wants us to take Brian
into Columbus for tests tonight.
- Why, what's wrong?
- Well, he's afraid
that it might be cancer.
- Cancer?
- Mm-hmm, I'm gonna need
you to get the kids ready
for their first day of school tomorrow.
Mark's gonna want his peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches,
and Margaret's gonna want
to wear her blue dress,
so you be sure it's pressed, okay?
- I won't let you down, Mama.
- I know you won't, honey.
I know.
Now let me go, I gotta
go get packed, okay?
All right.
♪ As I think of the past ♪
♪ And all the pleasures we had ♪
(doorbell rings)
♪ As I watch ♪
♪ The mating of the doves ♪
♪ It was in the springtime ♪
♪ That you said goodbye ♪
- You shouldn't be here.
♪ Remember our faded love ♪
- I'm so scared, Michael.
- Sh, sh, sh, sh.
It's gonna be okay.
♪ I miss you darlin' ♪
♪ More and more ♪
- You should go.
- Diana, I don't want you to be alone.
♪ Heaven would miss the stars ♪
- You should go.
(birds chirping)
Hi.
- Hey.
I got good news and bad news.
Good news is I don't have to go to school,
and the bad news is
reticulum cell sarcoma.
- Which is what?
- It's, it's the big C.
(emotional music)
- What do they do now?
- Well, I have to go to the hospital,
and get chemotherapy and
then radiation treatments.
- Brian, go upstairs and rest.
- Is his hair gonna fall out?
- I don't know.
- Does it hurt?
- I don't know.
- [Diana] Well, is he gonna be okay?
- I don't know, Diana, so stop asking.
I am tired.
I've gotta iron your daddy's shirts.
(emotional music)
- Do you know how much I
esteem oatmeal cookies?
- I'm not hungry.
- Is your tummy still bothering you?
- No.
- Oh.
You dropped four grades.
- As to Bs, big deal.
- You got a C in algebra,
stop right there.
Brian, go inside.
You went from a 3.5 to
a 3.0 in one semester.
Do you think any decent college
will take you with grades like this?
- Why did you just make Brian leave?
- 3.0, what kind of a future
are you gonna have without an education?
- You're afraid to talk about the future
in front of him, aren't you?
- We're not discussing
Brian, we're discussing you.
- He's dying, Mama.
You can't even own up to it.
All you care about is my grades?
- Brian's future is in God's hands.
But yours is still in mine.
(birds chirping)
- For wither thou goest, I will go.
And where thou lodgest, I will lodge.
Thy people shall be my
people, and they God, my God.
Who was this Naomi that
could inspire such devotion?
She was no great prophetess
or saintly heroine.
She was just an ordinary,
hard-working housewife.
But one faithful, loving daughter-in-law
vowed to follow her.
To love, and support her, and God,
seeing this bond of pure
love between the two women,
led both to a treasure greater
than any had ever known.
Let us sing.
♪ I come to the garden alone ♪
♪ While the dew is still on the roses ♪
♪ And the voice I hear ♪
♪ Falling on my ear ♪
♪ The Son of God discloses ♪
♪ And he walks with me,
and he talks with me ♪
♪ And he tells me I am his own ♪
♪ And the joy we share as we tarry there ♪
♪ None other has ever known ♪
- I only did it once, Brian.
- That's all it takes.
- I know.
- How far along are ya?
- Dr. Franz said about two months.
What am I gonna do?
I've never had a job before.
I get $1.50 allowance a week.
I can't even drive.
- Well, maybe Mom and Dad
will raise your allowance?
- I haven't even graduated yet.
- So what, me neither.
- But you're not gonna be a mother.
- Probably not a father, either.
- Don't you say that!
- But I'm gonna be an uncle soon.
If it's a boy, you can call him Brian.
And if it's a girl,
you can give her up for adoption, I guess.
- Brian!
- I'm sorry, that was
a stupid thing to say.
You can call her Briana.
Briwina?
It's gonna be okay.
Now, you're not gonna make me call you
Mrs. Ciminella, are ya?
(Diana laughs)
(Diana sniffles)
- You think Mom and Dad are happy?
- Yeah, I guess.
- I don't.
Content, maybe, but I don't
think that they're really happy.
- Well, content is good.
- Oh Brian, it's not good enough.
- No.
No, it's not.
Life is short, Di.
I don't want you to waste a drop.
(emotional music)
(birds chirping)
- Old Spice.
Must be another letter from Michael.
(somber music)
- It's gotta be a heck
of a lot better in there
than it is out here.
It's just you and me.
Mama?
Is it Brian?
- I found this under your mattress.
- I'm sorry, Mama.
- Well, sorry doesn't
count for much right now.
Didn't I teach you anything, girl?
What were all our plans for?
All our preparations, our dreams?
- I'm sorry, Mama.
- Oh, Lord have mercy.
Your life was gonna be special,
it was gonna be different.
- I know, but what can I do?
- Well, what do you think you do?
You marry him.
- No Mama, I can't do that.
- You are the last girl in town
I would've expected this from.
I must've failed you somewhere.
But you have made your bed,
now you have to lie in it.
I told your father.
(crickets chirping)
- You love him?
- Yeah.
- Then I guess you'll marry him.
- Yeah.
(bells tolling)
- For you.
That's my daddy, Ogden.
He once told me there's only two things
you can give your kids.
Looks, and wings.
I hope I've given you both.
- Thank you, Daddy.
- Well, don't you look all grown up?
I guess it's that time.
- I feel like the sacrificial lamb.
- You sure aren't the sacrificial virgin.
- Dearly beloved, we are gathered
here in the sight of God,
and in the face of this company,
to join this man and this
woman in holy matrimony.
If any man can show just cause
why these two should not be so joined,
let him now speak, or
forever after hold his peace.
Do you, Diana Ellen Judd,
take Michael Ciminella
to be your lawful wedded husband?
For rich or for poor,
in sickness and health,
'til death do you part?
- I do.
- Do you, Michael Ciminella,
take Diana Ellen Judd
to be your lawful wedded
wife, for rich or for poor,
sickness and in health,
'til death do you part?
- I do.
- I now pronounce you man and wife.
You may kiss the bride.
(birds chirping)
- What'd he say?
- I have to have a C-section.
- They gotta cut you?
- I wanna go by my house.
- Di, you keep calling it your house.
It's not your house anymore,
you live with us now.
- Well, I can forget
for a moment, Michael.
- Don't start with me, okay?
- Look, your parents have been wonderful,
but it is their house.
I don't have a home anymore.
- Right, we're gonna have our own place
once I go back to school.
Student housing up in Lexington
isn't that bad, either.
We'll probably get a two bedroom place
since we'll have a baby.
- I wanna see how Brian's doin'.
- It'll take forever, just call him, Di.
- Michael, please!
I wanna ask my mama about the C-section.
- All right, fine.
(Diana knocking)
- Hello!
- [Michael] I don't
think they're home, hon.
- Mama!
Brian?
- Look hon, they probably
took him up to Columbus
for his chemotherapy.
(Diana knocking)
- Hello!
- Di, they're not home.
- Uh-huh.
- Di, come on, let's go.
- Let me in.
- Come on, come on, let's go.
- Please let me in!
- Diana, they are not home.
Now, come on!
- Please let me in, please.
I wanna go back to my room.
I wanna go back home.
I want my bed, I want my family.
- Diana, we are gonna
have a house of our own,
and a family of our own.
(emotional music)
(baby crying)
(dramatic music)
- It's a girl?
- Well, Penny Webb's folks
were out in the front yard
taking pictures of her
in her cap and gown.
And they're gonna have
a big party tonight.
- You know you got an
A on your term paper?
Her tutor said it was the
best one she ever read.
- You wrote a term paper?
- Yeah, havin' a baby.
Things every teen mother should know.
- Slumber party etiquette
for the expecting,
learning how to share your
stuffed animals with your kids,
and how to say no and really mean it.
- Brian.
- Bye-bye.
- Bye.
- Hard to imagine my
little girl had a baby.
- Yep, well I reckon we'll
grow up together then, huh?
- Bye, honey.
- Bye, Mama.
- [Announcer] Dr. Edgars
to the OR, please.
Dr. Edgars to the OR, please.
- You okay?
- Thank you.
(baby fussing)
Oh, hi.
Oh, look at her.
Isn't she the most beautiful
thing you've ever seen?
- Yeah, well she comes from a
long line of beautiful women.
(baby crying)
- She's got a set of lungs.
- Di, I'm gonna go get some coffee, okay?
(baby fussing)
- Looks like it's just you
and me, little partner.
(baby crying)
Shh.
I promise you I'll
always take care of you.
- Di, we don't have room
for all this stuff in the apartment.
- [Diana] Well, you
leave some of your junk,
I'll leave mine.
- Will you two stop your bickering?
- Thanks, Mama.
- It's a long way to Lexington.
You're off to college after all,
just not like we planned.
- Bye, Daddy.
- Bye.
- Bye.
- Take care of my girls.
- Yes, sir.
Brian.
- Come back and see Nana
before you get all grown up.
(baby crying)
(pleasant music)
(cup clatters)
- Christina.
(phone ringing)
Hello.
Michael, I'm a little busy right now.
Can't you come get it?
Okay.
(phone ringing)
What now, Michael?
Oh, sorry Mama.
Okay, I'll be there.
(people chattering)
(TV blaring)
- [Woman] No, what are you doing, no!
- Can you take her please?
- What's the matter?
What, what's the matter with Mommy, huh?
I'll be right back, Diana!
Look Di, I don't know what
you think was goin' on,
but we were just talking.
- I don't give a damn right now, Michael.
I need the car for a few days,
and I need you to take care of Christina.
- Brian?
Oh baby, I'm...
(emotional music)
- Hi.
- Hey.
What are you doin' here?
I must be pretty bad, huh?
- No, I just thought that if I was here
then Mom and Dad could rest a bit.
Talked 'em into going out
to get something to eat.
- Good.
They haven't left this room for weeks.
(Brian gasps)
- Brian.
Brian, what do you need?
Can I get you something?
- How about a beer?
- A beer?
You don't drink.
- Well, I figure I better
start before it's too late.
(bell ringing)
- Where is that nurse?
- She gave me a shot about an hour ago.
- Well, I don't think it's workin'.
You know if I were your
nurse, you wouldn't hurt.
- I know.
No, you were always bringing
home wounded creatures.
Stray cats, birds, that mangy mutt.
- Remember when you
shot Aunt Sora's rooster
with your slingshot?
- You told Daddy you did it
so I wouldn't get a lickin'.
You were always takin' care of me.
- [Diana] Yeah.
- It's weird.
I mean, we're talkin' about our childhood
like it was ancient history or something.
- Yeah, seems like another life.
- I wanna be at home.
- I know.
- Get me outta here.
Just take me home, please.
Just take me home.
- I can't, Bri.
Nurse?
Brian, Brian.
Brian, listen to me.
♪ I come to the garden alone ♪
♪ While the dew is still on the roses ♪
♪ And the voice I hear falling on my ear ♪
♪ The Son of God discloses ♪
♪ And he walks with me ♪
♪ And he talks with me ♪
♪ And he tells me I am his own ♪
♪ The gospel train is comin' ♪
♪ Now don't you want to go ♪
♪ And leave this world in sorrow ♪
♪ And troubles here below ♪
♪ Talk about sufferin' here below ♪
♪ And let's keep followin' Jesus ♪
♪ Talk about sufferin' here below ♪
♪ And let's keep lovin' Jesus ♪
♪ Oh can't you hear it brother ♪
♪ Now don't you want to go ♪
♪ And leave this world of sorrow ♪
♪ And troubles here below ♪
- [Ashley] My daddy was
offered a sales position
in Los Angeles, California,
and he was pleasantly surprised
when Mama not only agreed with the move,
but told him she was excited for the kids.
That's right, kids.
I was born on April 19th, 1968,
and I was named Ashley so that
every time my name was said,
we'd all be reminded of Ashland, Kentucky.
♪ How many seas must a white dove sail ♪
♪ Before she sleeps in the sand ♪
♪ Yes, and how many times
must the cannonballs fly ♪
♪ Before they're forever banned ♪
♪ Well the answer my friend ♪
♪ Is blowin' in the wind ♪
♪ The answer is blowin' in the wind ♪
- Mommy, you see?
You can see the whole city
from here, it's so pretty.
- Let's go, girls.
♪ Listen, how many years ♪
- Christina honey, grab the lemonade.
Thank you.
- Are we gonna wait for Daddy?
- No honey, we've waited long enough.
Chicken leg for Ashley.
Okay girls, eat up.
- [Christina] I wanna eat with Daddy.
(Diana sighs)
- Well I know you're real hungry,
so how 'bout you eat some of it now,
and then you can eat the
rest when Daddy gets home.
- No, I wanna eat with Daddy.
♪ Don't be cruel ♪
♪ To a heart that's true ♪
♪ Don't want another love ♪
♪ Baby, you I'm thinkin' of ♪
♪ Don't be cruel ♪
♪ To a heart that's true ♪
- Christina, can you help your sister
clear the table, please?
♪ Don't want no other love, baby ♪
♪ It's you I'm thinkin' of ♪
(Michael clapping)
- Hey hey, come here.
- Daddy!
- Oh yeah, how's my big
girl doin', huh, huh?
Come here.
- You're home late.
- Well, I got tied up at the office.
- You smell good, like perfume.
- So, who were you tied up with?
Not that I care.
- See you inside.
The Senate votes to vetoing the draft.
I guess war is good business.
- We need to talk.
- Yeah?
- Michael.
- What?
- I can't do this anymore.
- Do what, Diana?
- Look, neither one of us is happy.
- No, I am happy, all right?
So don't tell me I'm not, because I am.
- All right, I'm not happy.
- You haven't loved me.
Not since day one.
You think I don't feel it?
Think it doesn't hurt every single day?
- Yes, I think you feel it,
and I'm sick of being a martyr.
I'm tired, and miserable, and lonely.
- Well, you can add cold
mean to that list, honey.
- I want a divorce.
- What about our girls, Di?
Are you even, are you
even thinking about them?
- Of course I'm thinking-
- Oh bull, you are just
looking out for number one!
- Well you know what, no one
else is, so I guess I better.
- Oh, you been talking
to your sister again?
- Yeah.
She's moving out here.
- Oh, oh I see, so if she can split,
well then so can Diana?
What about her baby, huh?
Is she even thinking about that child?
- At least she has the
guts to leave the bum.
- So now I'm a bum.
- Michael, this is not about you.
I am not gonna let my girls grow up
thinking that they're
just supposed to settle!
- Don't you tell me that
that's what this is about!
- Don't talk to Mommy
in that tone of voice.
- I'm sorry, everything's gonna be okay.
You wanna make some popcorn?
Yeah?
Well why don't you go in the kitchen
and you wait for me, all right?
Okay, good girl.
(tense music)
- Why do you gotta be such a malcontent?
You have a husband who loves you.
You got food on the table,
you got a roof over your head.
- I'm dying inside.
- What do you think marriage
is supposed to be, Diana?
Supposed to be some big
ol' day at the beach?
- I made my bed, so now I gotta lie in it?
- That's right.
- My mama told me that
once, and I listened.
I'm not listening anymore, Michael.
- [Ashley] Outside motherhood,
Mama had no vocation, and no training.
She held a dozen different
clerical and service jobs,
but no matter how hard she
worked, we were always hard up.
But she sure had a friend in
her sister, my Aunt Margaret,
who had come west from
Kentucky, and moved in with us.
- Howdy.
- Hey.
- The red one moved.
- Did not.
- Did too!
- Hello!
- [Both] Hi.
- Try to contain your excitement.
Sorry I'm late, the lines
at the market were 10 deep.
- [Christina] Did you get popsicles?
- Honey, I didn't have enough.
- Why don't you get a new
job so you'd have more money?
- They're all the same.
Patted on the butt, and paid in pennies.
- Ooh, you said butt!
- Oh, that doesn't mean you can.
Oh these shoes feel
like pencil sharpeners.
- [Margaret] Mom called.
She asked how you were doing.
- Did you tell her I
was dating Hell's Angels
and taking LSD?
Truth's worse.
- I told her you never do anything
but work, cook, clean, and shop.
- Well she can certainly relate to that.
But I have a date tonight.
- With who?
- Oh, just a new guy that
moved in down the canal.
- The one that looks like Jim Orson?
- Yes, I ran into him in the bookstore
and he asked me to go to The Troubadour.
- Oh, he's that cute and he reads?
- And paints, and cooks.
- Well, what about my science project?
You said you'd help.
- I'll help you.
Your mom needs to get out
and shake her tail feathers.
- Mommy doesn't have feathers.
- Well, it's time she grew some.
(upbeat music)
♪ Together we stand ♪
♪ Divided we fall ♪
♪ Come on now people,
let's get on the ball ♪
♪ And work together ♪
♪ Come on, come on, let's work together ♪
♪ Because together we stand ♪
♪ Every boy, every girl, every man ♪
♪ When things go wrong
as they sometimes will ♪
♪ And the road that you
travel is all uphill ♪
♪ Let's work together ♪
♪ Come on, come on, let's work together ♪
- Great outfit.
- Thank you!
- Janis Joplin had one like it.
- Did you know Janis?
- Can we really know anybody?
I mean, in this vast universe,
can we even know ourselves?
Who's Janis Joplin, who's Grace Slick?
Who's Diana Judd?
- I'll take that to
mean you never met her?
- Busted.
(Diana laughs)
Where you from?
- Kentucky.
- Oh, birthday?
- The 11th of January.
- Capricorn, Leo.
Year?
- 1946.
- A dog?
- What?
- The year of the dog, Chinese calendar?
- Oh.
- You're honest, and loyal,
and you are generous, yet stubborn.
I value loyalty above all else.
- Me too.
♪ Let's all work together
and make life worthwhile ♪
♪ Let's work together ♪
- What animal are you?
♪ Come on, come on ♪
♪ Let's work together ♪
♪ Now now people, come on ♪
♪ Together we stand, every
boy, girl, woman, and a ♪
- Pancakes and eggs, then.
- Toast and coffee.
- Would you like some cream?
- Just sugar, Diana.
- Hey, what are you doing here?
- I'm addicted to you, baby.
I need my fix.
Did you miss me?
- James, my boss is complaining
about you being here so much.
- It's a free country, isn't it?
- Yeah, but could you just
order something to eat?
- My coffee, Diana?
- Who's that guy?
- He's a customer.
- Is that why you don't want me here?
- I have never seen him before.
Don't you trust me?
I've been with you every
night for the last two months.
- Don't be tripping on me, Diana.
- James, I'm telling you the truth.
- Do you want me to get it myself?
I'll get it myself.
- Hey, we're talkin'
here okay, so shut up!
- James.
Here you go, here's your coffee.
- Hey, you know what?
Keep your coffee, I'm leaving.
Excuse me.
- I'm sorry.
Hey.
- Hey!
- Oh, could you do me a favor?
Can you babysit tonight?
James wants to go to The Troubadour.
- I thought we were gonna take the girls
to see "Fantasia" at the Dome.
- I just, he's been
acting kinda weird lately.
- Di, (sighs) he's been
acting weird for months.
He calls every half hour.
He asks the girls where you've
been, who went with you.
- I think he's been following me.
- This is gettin' out of hand.
- It's just that he's insecure, you know?
- Will you quit makin' excuses?
- I'm gonna break up with him tonight.
(upbeat music)
♪ Well I rolled and I tumbled ♪
♪ I cried the whole night long ♪
♪ Oh well I rolled and I tumbled ♪
♪ I cried the whole night long ♪
♪ I haven't seen my baby ♪
♪ Something's going on ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Well I really love you, baby ♪
- You're seeing him, aren't you?
- I'm just watching the band.
- Uh-huh.
♪ Well I really love you, baby ♪
- Let's go.
♪ Come and say your mine ♪
- James, stop, I'm not leaving.
Let go of my arm.
Let go, you're hurting
me, let go of my arm!
What are you doing?
Let go, you're' hurting
me, what are you doing?
- Excuse me, the lady-
(people screaming)
(glass tinkles)
- [Man] Knock it off!
- Come on, come on, come on.
- I'm cool, I'm cool!
Come on, come on, I'm
cool, I'm sorry, all right?
(people murmuring)
- [Man] Play some music now, come on.
- [Man] Come on, music!
(tense music)
- What are you doin' here?
Oh James, please.
The girls are in the
other room, James, please.
Just, James, please.
Come on, please.
- Why can't we go with Aunt Margaret?
- 'Cause we're hidin', stupid.
- 'Til the police find him?
What if he finds us?
He scared me.
- It's gonna be okay.
I'll take care of you, okay?
(tense music)
Collect from Diana?
Mama?
No Mom, I didn't mean
to, no everything's fine.
I didn't mean to scare ya, I
just wanted to hear your voice.
You know, no Mama, you know what?
Just you should go, go back to sleep.
I'm gonna call you in a couple days.
No, I'm sure, I'm, I'm sure, yeah.
I'm fine, okay.
All right, bye-bye.
(somber music)
Come on.
- I wanna go home.
- I'm gonna find us a new home,
and we're gonna be safe.
(dramatic music)
- [Ashley] Eight very
long years in Los Angeles
made Mama yearn for the
traditional rural lifestyle
that she had known as a child.
Getting back to nature
was popular in the '70s,
and few places were as
natural as Camp Wig, Kentucky.
- Da da dah!
We've got four cases of jam put up.
There's nothing quite as
satisfying as an honest day's work.
- Yep, I could watch people do it all day.
- Okay, let's get supper on,
and then we are finished for the day.
- Do we have to?
- What is on that sheet?
(birds chirping)
Christina?
It's beautiful, isn't it?
Never had nights like this in LA.
- Yeah, we had fun there.
- Pollution, and traffic,
crime in the streets.
- No crime in the streets here.
There's no streets here.
No movies, no nothin'.
- I miss the Specific Ocean.
- Pacific, you twerp!
- I don't want you two
growing up with all that.
Just think, you're gonna
have a new river to swim in,
and all kinds of neat
new things to explore.
- I saw Mr. Shanks eat a carrot today.
- Hot news flash in Camp Wig.
I can see the headlines now.
Mr. Shanks eats a carrot!
- Well, he doesn't have any teeth.
- Maybe later, we could
go watch the corn grow.
- I like it here lots better.
She does, too, she just
doesn't wanna say so.
- Can I go down to Donny's?
- Donny is 17, and it's Saturday night.
He's probably at that pool hall.
- If we had a phone, I could call.
- We have to make some sacrifices
if I'm gonna stay in college, honey.
- What am I supposed to do now?
- I know.
(crickets chirping)
(guitar twanging)
It was your daddy's.
- Here, let me.
(gentle guitar music)
- [Class] Pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America,
and to the republic for which it stands.
One nation...
(engine rumbling)
- Yeehaw!
(people chattering)
- [Dwight] I swear it on my pappy's grave,
I'd beat him seven out of 10 games.
- You're so full of bull, Dwight.
- Donny, you promised you'd
teach me how to play pool.
- Him, he can't teach you nothin'.
- Five bucks says she can beat ya.
- You're on.
(country music)
- Break.
(pool balls clatter)
- Your mama know you're not in school?
- No ma'am.
- She's gonna if you don't hightail it
back there on the double, young man.
You see this little girl?
You take a good look at her.
You find her back in here again,
you send her packing.
We understand each other?
- Let go!
- Serves you right.
- Sucker!
- [Diana] Wait 'til I get you home.
- I don't wanna go home.
- You are goin' home if I gotta tie you
to the bumper of that car and drag you.
- Oh I'm really scared.
- Don't you dare, Christina, get me, ow!
(Christina laughing)
Open the door, Christina.
Open the door.
- Nope.
- Open that door right
now, do you hear me?
Open the door!
(people chattering)
(pleasant music)
- Mighty fine and a great
big happy to you, buckaroos.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- I hung the towels on the
porch, but they won't dry.
- Why are you doing Christina's chores?
- 'Cause she said she's
put my head in the wringer
if I didn't, and she made me
burn all the garbage, too.
- Did you do any of your chores?
- All she ever does is
play that stupid guitar.
- It's not stupid!
- [Diana] Stop it right now.
- And she took that brand
new jar of peanut butter
you brought back from the store
and traded it in for candy.
- You what?
- Big tattletale.
- I oughta slap you silly.
- I was sick of peanut butter.
- Did you soak the beans like
I asked, or bring in the coal?
- Must've slipped my mind.
- Yesterday you forgot your homework.
The day before, you left
your history book at school.
- Who cares about history?
I'd rather write my own.
- First you need to learn how to write.
- Well, if my schoolbooks are an example,
I guess just any idiot can do it.
- Here, I got these for you.
- Thank you.
Can I read before I set the table?
- Your sister's gonna set
the table for you tonight.
I got these for you.
- I never heard of Hazel & Alice.
- They're a couple of women singers.
You don't hear that very often.
Can't believe I work all
day to come home to this.
(lively guitar music)
♪ One day a mother came to a prison ♪
♪ To see an erring but precious son ♪
♪ She told the warden ♪
♪ How much she loved him ♪
♪ It did not matter ♪
♪ What he had done ♪
♪ She did not bring to him ♪
♪ Parole or pardon ♪
(birds chirping)
- "Please excuse Christina
from school today, I was sick."
Now if you ever attended
your English class,
you would've known to
write "She was sick."
- Someone else was sick, too.
- Don't wisecrack me!
Your grades stink, you've ditched
five days of school this semester,
and you have not done a
chore around here in a week.
- That's not true.
- Oh really?
- I ditched seven days of school.
(gentle guitar music)
- You think being a liar is cute?
I'm not amused, do you hear me?
Look at me, I am struggling
against all odds to improve myself.
If you wanna be anything in life,
you have got to get an education.
- Sorry, my books have
lost their text appeal.
- That does it.
- Give it back!
- Not on your life.
- Why'd you bring us here anyway?
I hate it!
- I'm trying to teach you something.
- Well I'm tired of being cold,
and living on soup beans and cornbread.
I'm tired of other kids
laughing at my clothes.
I'm sick and tired of being poor!
- We have more than most people.
- Stop it, okay?
Stop pretending it's all
some pioneer adventure.
- Don't talk to Mama
in that tone of voice!
- Butt out, buttface.
- It's okay, baby.
Since you don't wanna
do any work around here,
and you're not interested in school,
what do you intend to do with your life?
- Music.
It's the only thing in
this world I care about.
Now you want to take that away, too.
- Look, I'm doing the best I can.
If you're not happy here,
maybe you should go try
it with your father.
(emotional music)
(gentle guitar music)
Deer lay in the shady groves,
and there are plenty of wild berries.
Bluejays flew with their sunbonnets
and scolded because they
were taking the berries.
'Cause they were taking the berries.
Snakes hurried.
They crawled away from them,
and in the trees, the squirrels
woke up and shouted at them.
(gentle guitar music)
♪ One day a mother ♪
♪ Come to a prison ♪
♪ To see an erring ♪
♪ But precious son ♪
♪ She told the warden ♪
♪ How much she loved him ♪
♪ It did not matter ♪
♪ What he had done ♪
♪ She did not bring to him ♪
♪ Parole or pardon ♪
♪ She brought no silver ♪
♪ Brought no gold ♪
♪ No pomp nor style ♪
♪ For him to see ♪
♪ It was a halo bright ♪
♪ Sent down from heaven's light ♪
♪ The sweetest gift ♪
♪ A mother's smile ♪
♪ She left a smile ♪
♪ You can remember ♪
♪ She's gone to heaven ♪
♪ From heartaches free ♪
♪ Them bars around you ♪
♪ Will never change her ♪
♪ You were her baby ♪
♪ And e'er will be ♪
♪ She did not bring to him ♪
♪ Parole or pardon free ♪
♪ She brought no silver ♪
♪ Brought no gold ♪
♪ No pomp nor style ♪
♪ For him to see ♪
♪ It was a halo ♪
♪ Bright ♪
♪ Sent down from heaven ♪
♪ Heaven's light ♪
♪ The sweetest gift ♪
♪ A mother's smile ♪
♪ It was a halo ♪
♪ Halo bright ♪
♪ Sent down from heaven ♪
♪ Heaven's light ♪
♪ The sweetest gift ♪
♪ A mother's ♪
♪ Smile ♪
(people chuckling)
(people applauding)
- Oh, y'all sound like angels to me.
- Well, we couldn't
afford a real gift, so.
- Oh that's the best present
I ever got in my life.
Thank you.
- They think they're gonna be stars.
(people laughing)
- We could be, you know.
- You be careful what you wish for, kid.
You just might get it.
- Kids look great.
- Yeah.
- Country life agrees with 'em.
Christina still got problems in school?
- Hey, stop that.
Christina, stop that.
It's okay.
Problem is they send her
home at the end of each day.
- Long as she's getting an education.
- An education?
She's gonna end up in a trailer park
with five kids by the time she's 30.
- I doubt that.
- No, I mean it.
She is outta control.
Only thing she cares about is music.
- So, find a way to use that.
- You know, I've been thinking
a lot about Brian lately.
And I'm thinking about
going for a nursing degree,
and I found a great
school in Marin County.
It's near San Francisco,
and they are doing real progressive stuff.
So I was thinkin' of moving this summer,
when the girls are visiting
their grandparents.
- I thought you said you never
wanted to live in the city again.
- Well, Marin County's not like LA.
- It's not like home, either.
- Neither is Camp Wig.
There's gotta be someplace on the planet
that feels like home.
And maybe it's Marin.
- Oh, sounds like another
movin' truck to me.
(both laughing)
- Stop it.
I wish Daddy didn't have
to go fishing this weekend.
You know, this might be our
last family reunion for a while.
- He didn't go fishing.
He's left Mom.
They're divorcing.
(emotional music)
- Mama, Margaret told me.
- Oh, your daddy.
He's got a girlfriend.
- What?
- Yeah, he's got a girlfriend.
She's your age, and she jogs every day.
- Mama, I'm so sorry.
- I'm gonna want you and Mark
to talk to my lawyer, honey.
I don't imagine that Margaret
could fly back in, do you, to testify?
- What do you mean, testify?
- On my behalf.
- I can't testify against Daddy.
- You are not a child any longer.
Have I ever asked you
for anything in my life?
- No, you haven't.
You've given everything
you had to us kids.
But so has Daddy.
- Well, well he's with somebody else.
I mean, he's happy as a bridegroom.
Is that what I deserve?
- Mama, you both deserve better.
Neither of you have been happy for years.
- Well, and that's my fault?
- No, I'm not saying it's your fault.
- Well, I might've known
that you'd disappoint me.
- I'm always gonna
disappoint you, aren't I,
no matter what I do, I'm just
gonna always disappoint you.
- Is that what this is all about?
That I forced you to
face up to your mistake?
- I was 17.
(emotional music)
I needed you.
(Polly sighs)
- Well, now you're grown.
I guess you don't.
♪ Flow on ♪
♪ River of time ♪
♪ Wash away the pain ♪
♪ And heal my mind ♪
♪ Flow on ♪
♪ River of time ♪
♪ Carry me away ♪
♪ And leave it all far behind ♪
- [Ashley] Though sad years would pass
before Mama and Mom
would heal their breach,
Mom's bond with sister and
me grew stronger every day.
When Ma changed her name to Naomi,
Christina was inspired to do the same.
So I set off on a new journey,
this time traveling
with a couple of ladies
named Naomi, and Wynonna.
♪ Flow on river of time ♪
(people chattering)
(gentle piano music)
- We're in the third row,
near the center aisle.
Honey?
Break a leg.
- Oh I, uh-uh, I don't
think I can do this.
- Honey, of course you can.
- No, I don't even know any of these kids.
- Well, by the time you're
done, they are gonna know you.
- I can't.
I can't.
- Can't isn't in our vocabulary.
You're gonna go out there,
and you are gonna sing,
and you're gonna be great.
(audience applauds)
Okay?
You're gonna be great.
(gentle guitar music)
♪ Rows and flows of angel hair ♪
♪ And ice cream castles in the air ♪
♪ And feather canyons everywhere ♪
♪ I've looked at clouds that way ♪
♪ But now they only block the sun ♪
♪ They rain and snow on everyone ♪
♪ So many things I would've done ♪
♪ But clouds got in my way ♪
♪ I've looked at clouds
from both sides now ♪
♪ From up and down ♪
♪ And still somehow it's
cloud's illusions I recall ♪
♪ I really don't know clouds ♪
♪ At all ♪
(audience applauds)
- Yahoo!
That's my little girl.
(birds chirping)
(people chattering)
- [Professor] So whatever you
may or may not be able to do
with the technology, you gotta get
to the essence of the music yourself.
So you gotta take a risk.
(Naomi knocks)
- [Naomi] Professor Morello?
- Ray.
- Ray.
- [Ray] Come on in.
Aren't you in one of my classes?
- I'm a nursing student, but I have been
auditing your lectures
for the last few weeks.
- Switching majors?
- Oh Lord, no.
I have trouble finding the
power button on my stereo.
But I heard that you
finish up the semester
by recording a demo, and
my daughter, Wynonna and I,
we wanna be your singers.
(Ray chuckles)
- Well, you've got some chutzpah, miss?
- Judd, Naomi.
- Where you from, Naomi?
- Does my accent give me away?
- Little bit.
- I'm from Kentucky.
- Well, everybody in the class
is a musician, or a singer.
So they're gonna do their own-
- My daughter, she's got
something very, very special.
So if you could just
give us a chance, please?
- She says you can sing.
- Well, I can.
- She's awesome, she's
an incredible singer.
- I can sing.
- All right, let's find out.
- Thank you.
- Okay?
Can you just have a seat over there?
- We'll wait right here,
okay, thank you, thank you.
- Sorry.
- [Ray] You know, to do this right,
we should record you separately.
Let's start with you, Wynonna.
- No.
- Can we just try it together?
- Okay.
(gentle guitar music)
♪ We know a fella from down Alabama Way ♪
♪ He plays the blues in
a most peculiar way ♪
♪ He's got no piano 'fore
they head to the bar ♪
♪ So he picks out a
boogie on his old guitar ♪
♪ He plays a hillbilly boogie ♪
♪ In a lowdown way ♪
♪ Yeah he can play the boogie ♪
♪ Play it for me any old day ♪
♪ Yeah, we know a fella
from down Alabama Way ♪
♪ He plays the blues in
a most peculiar way ♪
♪ He's got no piano 'fore
they head to the bar ♪
♪ So he picks out a boogie
from his old guitar ♪
♪ He plays a hillbilly boogie ♪
♪ In a lowdown way ♪
♪ Yeah, he can play the boogie ♪
♪ Play it for me any old day ♪
♪ Yeah, he can play the boogie ♪
♪ He can play the boogie ♪
♪ He can play the boogie ♪
♪ Play it for me any old day ♪
(Ray chuckles)
- You're great.
- Told ya.
- First you change your names,
and now I'm supposed to leave
my friends, and my school,
and I won't even get to
be in the school play,
just so you and Wynonna can sing.
It's a stupid name, and a stupid idea.
- It's not stupid.
Honey, you're gonna get straight As,
and you are gonna be
popular wherever we go.
But this is a chance for your sister
to make something of herself.
It's the only thing she loves.
- Why can't she just sing here?
- Because we sing country.
It's gotta be Nashville.
- Nana says you've lost your mind.
- You told her?
When?
- I called her last night.
- Ashley.
- That's it.
- Okay, anytime.
- Ashley!
- See you later.
(people chattering)
- What'd you say to her?
- What rock did you find them under?
- The one with the goatee,
he's a tattoo artist.
He said he'd do me for free.
- Over my dead body.
- He could probably arrange that, too.
- Ashley, honey!
- Just let her go, Mama.
- I need to talk to her.
- You're not gonna go
back on our deal, are you?
- Honey, she's 11 years old.
- Goin' on 40.
- She doesn't understand.
- You promised.
- She needs a home.
- We've been back and
forth across this country
a billion times doin' your thing.
This is the first time it's
ever had anything to do with me.
You gave me that guitar,
and you told me that I was special
and you said that we were
gonna travel, and see stuff.
You said it was up to me.
Did you mean it?
- Of course.
- Well, we got our tape.
You heard what Professor Ray said,
he said our harmonies are magical.
- Honey, they're only gonna get better
the more we work on them.
What if we just stay here another year,
let Ashley finish junior high-
- I've never asked you
for anything before.
I'm willing to work
for it, I'll work hard.
Professor Ray told you where we belong.
N-A-S-H-V-I-L-L.
E.
I'm gonna do it, Mama.
I'm goin' to Nashville.
- You're 16 years old.
- It's your dream, too.
Nana told me how you used
to sing to Uncle Brian.
What would he have wanted you to do?
We can do this together, Mama.
I want you to be there with me.
(emotional music)
I'm not blind, I know
Nana wasn't there for you.
Not the way you needed.
- You'll stay in school?
- Yeah.
- Okay, let's go.
- You mean it?
- Yeah.
(pleasant music)
- [Michael] Your own father
thinks this is crazy.
- When did you talk to my father?
- When I picked up the girls.
He said if Christina really wants this,
she will still want it when she's 18.
He also said he couldn't believe
you'd struggle all those years
getting a nursing degree,
and then just throw it away.
- I'm not throwing it away.
I will get a Tennessee
license once I'm there.
- What about school?
Christina barely made
it outta junior high,
and now she's gotta start over?
- I don't care about school.
- We have a deal.
No school, no music.
(Michael sighs)
- I heard your tape.
You've got talent, I'll give you that.
But you know how many
people go to Nashville
with the same dream?
What are you gonna live on?
If you really cared about these girls,
you would think about that!
- Who do you think has
cared for these girls
for the last nine years?
Who has taken care of
them while they were sick?
Who has put food on the table for them,
made sure they had a Christmas tree?
- Not my fault I wasn't there.
I begged you to stay!
- Stop it, just stop screaming!
- Maybe I haven't been the
best father in the world,
but I tell you what, I love these girls.
I've got a good job now, and I am settled,
and Doris and I want 'em to
come live with us for a while.
- But we're goin' to Nashville.
- No.
- All right.
You two have to go off and
chase this rainbow, fine,
but Ashley is gonna stay here with me.
- Don't do that.
Michael, don't do this.
- I'm not doin' it!
This is your choice, Diana.
- No one ever asked me what I want.
I want to stay here, with Dad.
- Honey, you really mean that?
(emotional music)
- Don't drop me!
- I'm not gonna wait around forever
while you get it together, Di.
- Don't threaten me, Michael.
- Christina is my daughter, too.
- Bye, Ash.
- I love you, Mommy.
How could I not love you?
- I know that, baby.
It's not your fault.
You know what, I'm
gonna get us a new home.
I'm gonna get us
something real, real nice,
and then I'm comin' back for you.
You hear me?
(emotional music)
You take care of her.
- Are we doing the right thing, Mama?
- I don't know.
♪ Heartaches ♪
♪ You know my heart aches ♪
♪ Every time I ♪
♪ Think of you ♪
♪ Lonesome ♪
♪ I'm on my own some ♪
♪ Yes I could loan some ♪
♪ Tears to you ♪
(dramatic music)
(soothing music)