Regina Roma (1983) - full transcript
An aging couple search for peace and family harmony when their only son returns home after a long absence with his fiancee.
(soft music)
(tense music)
- [Papa] That's 12 two.
You don't have to wait for a suitcase
and leave the train station,
walk over to find a bus.
- Oh, Lord those buses
this time of the night,
they're miles apart.
It's raining cats and dogs (indistinct).
- Well, at least I've had a great job.
- Hm, like father like son.
We don't know that.
We don't even know if he passed.
It's so emotional.
Papa?
- [Papa] Hmm.
- [Mama] Take off your shoes.
- What for?
- You'll be more comfortable,
put your slippers on.
- But just before dinner?
- You think you can indulge.
- [Papa] What's the matter with you?
- Papa, where's his letter?
- Here.
- You had to pocket it.
It's not addressed to you
personally, so far as I know.
Carry is my son too.
- Mama, I just wanted to read it again.
I mean-
- You know it by heart.
Give it to me.
- Boy, boy, (laughs).
You're something (laughs).
- Papa, did you get the wine?
- Yeah, I bought him two bottles.
- Two?
- Well, you said two.
- One.
You're not allowed to drink wine.
I only have a sip or two
and carry only drinks water.
What do we need two bottle for?
- Mama, we should celebrate
his return, I mean-
- By getting him drunk?
Good lord, what a brilliant idea.
For a kid who can't even
(indistinct) part of me.
- What does that mean?
- His stomach, his pancreas, his liver.
Poor baby.
I bet he got hungry.
I know he is cold.
Oh, it's so dirty out there,
I was a fool to ever let him go.
Papa, watch out for the wine,
are you trying to break it?
(Papa laughing)
Filthy garbage bin.
- I told you not to touch
that, I was gonna fix it.
Are you bleeding?
- Where do you want me to put the garbage
on the table, Papa?
- I promise you I'll fix it
as soon as I have a chance.
- Oh, please, wait, wait.
(dog whining)
(feet shuddering on the floor)
- What is it that noise?
(Mama shushing)
(dog barking)
- It's a dog digging in the trash.
(Mama sighing)
Papa stop standing with the cork.
- God dammit.
(bottle bangs on the table)
- [Mama] Papa?
- [Papa] Hm?
- [Mama] What's the matter with your back?
- [Papa] No, nothing.
- No, nope, you're walking funny.
Did you hurt your back.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- Does it hurt?
- No, no, not at all.
Not at all.
- You're all twisted, did you
take your rheumatism pills?
- Yes, the blue ones, the blue ones.
- The blue ones, oh, Lord
Papa, if you keep mixing
your colors you're really
gonna be in trouble.
Blue heart, yellow liver,
gray spleen, green kidneys-
- Green, kindeys.
- Green kidneys, yellow liver,
gray spleen, blue heart.
- What about the pink ones?
- Your intestines.
- Oh, God (laughs).
- I took the blue ones, the
blue ones are for the heart.
- Papa, take the white ones,
the white ones, rheumatism.
How many times did Dr. Otero told you
not to stop taking them.
Do you think you're still a young man?
- Honey, please stop treating
me like an old man, honey.
I'm fine, look, look
- Papa, no, no
don't do that.
- One, two, three, four.
- [Mama] Listen you're hurting your back.
- Oh, dammit.
- Oh, Lord you're paralyzed.
- Oh, no, no something
is stuck in my back.
- [Mama] Just a minute,
wait, I'll call doctor-
- Don't call the doctor,
just give me a hand.
- Oh, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it,
I'm suffering for you, but you deserve it.
- Will you help me, will you help me?
- Yes, Papa-
- Just, just
help, help me will you.
- Oh, Lord, exhausted as are (indistinct)
You've got to take care Papa,
I keep telling you over and over again.
- That's why I'm exhausted.
- [Mama] Oh, I'm exhausted too.
- You're exhausted, I'm
exhausted, we're all exhausted.
Just push on my leg, will you.
Oh, no, harder, harder.
(groans) That's it.
- All right, okay.
- [Papa] Thanks.
- Come on, here we go, Papa.
Yeah, now, (groans).
- [Papa] Steady, stead.
- There, you can make it.
There we go, on your feet.
There, oh, Papa, come on.
Here, can you walk?
- Yeah.
- Try and walk, try and walk, that's it.
Your age, no shame to be handicaped.
- Oh, God.
- There, Papa, don't lean on the table.
Oh, Papa, oh, there's grease on the table.
- I want you to find
any grease on my hands.
- You tried to make a (indistinct),
I mean, there's a grease mark.
Oh, he must have missed his train,
otherwise he'd be here.
Look at that rain.
Oh, and he's so fragile, so fragile.
Ever since he was a child,
he's been so delicate,
so prone to illnesses.
- A baby that weighed 10 and a half pounds
when he was born, he was
almost abnormal, he was so fat.
- You're telling me, it
wasn't you was ripped apart
when he was born.
I almost lost my life,
he was such a big child.
Oh, Papa, why did he have to grow up?
- He had to become a man.
- Are you a man?
(jazz instrumental music)
Got to lay in bed, Papa.
(Papa sighs)
- You know sometimes I feel
that you've got something against me.
(feet thumps)
(knife scraping on the board)
- Well, don't slice too much.
Once it's sliced it'll dry out.
No point in wasting it.
We're doing without
enough things as it is.
- [Papa] For instance?
- The little niceties in life
- Are you hinting about that car again?
What the hell would we do with a car?
You know I failed my driving test.
- Five times.
I couldn't look the neighbors in the eye.
- You think I didn't wanna pass?
First, I couldn't afford a car.
When I saved a little money
they wouldn't give me my license.
- Oh, why didn't you open the wine.
(Mama sighs)
It's so dark out there.
(daunting music)
Evening, I begin to feel
tense, it's black, pitch black,
and they keep talking about
putting in the street lights.
It's like the sea.
You were gonna take to see, remember?
- Mama, we went.
- One for 15 minutes, 27 years ago.
And I still up here (indistinct).
I smell the salt air,
the seagulls circled,
screaming high above my head.
Would it be real if it
comes right out of my head.
- Mama?
Mama, I promise I'll take you back.
- When, when, (laughs), my life's over,
and I've never seen any of the world.
How many times I stood at
this window and I looked out,
at what, nothing.
When all the people were
driving away in a nice cars
and waving and smiling, we
like a couple of dummies
motored down, like a couple of nules
for miles and miles to catch and old bus,
that wasn't eve on time.
Oh, God, just like poor folk.
- Mama we were rich.
- Well, whose fault was it.
- It was because of the depression.
(suspense music)
- I could have Had a life like Lena's.
- Tell me what the hell does Lena have
that you don't?
- A rich husband, and she has a maid,
and she goes to the beauty parlor.
She travels, I mean, in the winter time
they go down to Orlando
and stay in this palace.
- Tell me, can you see yourself staying
at a palace in Orlando?
- I sure could.
- Mama, the place where she's goes is full
of old people they ain't
gonna find their rent,
they will come and collect phones.
You know their main distraction
is comparing their varicose veins.
They're all alone and bought a desk.
Nobody likes him.
And they like nobody.
And they expect money,
and you know what Mama?
You want to know something now, ah?
They are without love.
- But they are rich.
- Well Mama then, you
shouldn't have met me,
(indistinct) just as awful.
It's shocking.
- Shocking.
Shocking is the living (indistinct).
I've been humiliated too often.
During the depression,
I had to go out and strap doors,
and clean those filthy houses,
for those devious greedy
but rich white trash.
You, how are you and a nourish idiot.
You had a little meat on your bones.
You would chucky white almost transparent.
Oh God, enough what now,
you pride yourself on not cheating.
You were honest, God knows you're honest,
but so them (indistinct)
and you guys are going to kill.
How long is it taken.
But as I'm speaking to you today,
I was at lesson live in the poorest
of the poor should expect.
You expect me to give up my
dream of going to Orlando.
You who can't even prevent my
son from leaving his mother.
- And what are you doing
for my (indistinct)?
(indistinct) Can give this woman what-
(door bell rings)
- Oh my God.
- I know it's him.
- Oh, Papa look at me.
- No, honey you look fine, you
look wonderful (indistinct).
- Well go open the door.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Yeah, don't go Papa,
wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, wait.
(door bell rings)
Papa don't stand there open the door.
Oh, Papa, Papa, they are
here to see me looking mad.
- Carry.
- Hey, Papa.
- Can I help you?
- No Papa your bag it's okay.
I got It, I got it.
Well, well, my goodness.
- Oh no.
Here, give me that.
- No, it's okay Papa
I've got another meeting in five.
- Mama, here he is.
- What about your Mama?
Have you got something to say to her?
- Hey Mama.
- Yeah, hug me.
- Hug me too Mama.
- [Both] Oh, I missed you.
(indistinct)
- What Mama what?
- The rose is bad.
- My baby, my big beautiful baby.
- I'm here now mama, I'm here.
- It's a disaster I tell you.
It's a disaster Carry.
- Is okay Mama.
- Carry.
- Yeah.
- Did (indistinct)?
You don't look well.
- Mama, myself is a horse.
- I tell, you lost weight.
Papa look at him, he's lost weight.
- I know.
- I may have a good look at you.
Ah, those bags.
Where have you been?
What have you been doing, Carry?
- Mama listen please.
- No, no, listen lets go
in come on, quickly Papa.
I'm gonna take care of you,
I'm gonna put the meat back on you,
get the roses back in those cheeks.
- Mama, please listen to me.
Let me have your attention
just for one second, okay?
- Oh, stop right there
but tell him, tell him.
- Your Mama was
(indistinct) we're in need.
- Can you see my Telegram?
- Telegram what?
- What?
Papa go close the door.
- No, no, no Papa leave it open.
You really didn't receive my Telegram.
- No I didn't.
- I'm not alone.
- What do you mean?
There's someone with you?
- In the hallway, just a second.
- Three whole months.
Three whole months how crazy you Carry.
- Mama there someone out in the hallway.
- Oh, kiss, (kisses) kiss your mommy.
- We can have all the time
in the world for that Mama,
but right now I-
- You left me, you know you
left me what it was like.
- Mama if there's some in the hallway,
we can't leave him out there, you know.
- What is he doing there?
- He said there's someone
in the hallway, honey.
- In the hallway.
Let me go and get her.
- He said her?
- Papa.
- Regina?
- Come on in, don't be shy now.
This is my house.
(ambient music)
Mama, Papa, this is Regina.
My friend from the training center.
Papa, meet Regina.
Here is Papa.
- Welcome Regina, welcome
pleased to meet you.
- Regina this is Mama.
Mama say hello to Regina.
- Madam.
- Madam, you must be joking Mama.
You can call her Ms, I mean, Regina.
You can call her Regina.
Mama can call you Regina, right Regina?
(ambient music)
(laughs)
- It's raining.
- Oh, yes we saw (indistinct).
- We took a cab Mama.
- For the drive, huh?
- It was good.
- Well, Mama has been cooking all day.
- I'm gonna take some
of Mama's home cooking,
different from this stuff
you've been eating at the cafeteria.
(laughs)
Papa, do you have anything to drink?
Something dry bourbon, whiskey, vermouth.
- Cherry bounds.
- Cherry bounds.
(Papa laughing)
This is Papa's secret recipe.
- Well, it's you remember that?
- Well, I put wild cherries,
90 proof alcohol sage and-
- Cashews, cashews.
- Cashews (laughs).
It's cashews, go Papa,
you can't have any alcohol, really?
The doctor's orders.
I mean, maybe just this
once you can break the law
to celebrate my return home Papa.
- Maybe a little drunk
to keep you come here,
if Mama agrees.
- Will you let him Mama?
- Your father does as he pleases,
his health is his own business.
(dramatic music)
- It's well then all right,
why don't you sit down, Regina.
- (indistinct) anybody(laughs).
May please view.
- (indistinct) for you Mama?
- No, no I have to get
back to the kitchen.
- Feels good to be home.
- Yeah.
- This was strange.
I feel like things have gotten spawn,
did you change things around here?
- [Papa] Oh, nothing's changed nothing.
- Nothing seems to be the same.
Everything was so huge at Baton Rouge.
- Oh, Baton Rouge, that's a big city.
- Big, gigantic Papa.
And the living quarters were
an old national guard barracks.
Papa, can you believe that?
It had its 24 dorm.
I tell you about 25.
Cheers.
- All right, all right, all right.
(group laughs)
- Oh, burns a little (laughs).
You're doing very good.
(Regina coughs)
Well, as you can see.
- What about mama?
- Well, you saw her.
- Still has Migraine headaches.
- Who is Migraine headaches
little has pain (mumbles) you know.
Oh please I'm sorry.
Please sit down.
Make yourself comfortable.
- Don't be shy Regina.
Thanks Papa (laughs).
- (sighs) As soon as
something doesn't go away.
She was very worried
about you (indistinct)
it's still 10-years-old.
Now she has a son in
the middle of the night,
sometimes when they get
up to go to the bathroom,
sorry I find it right
here, sitting in this chair
just staring off into the distance.
- On that chair?
- Her eyes wide open, the bathroom
airflow just lower inner thoughts.
- What did she think about Papa?
- Who not you I guess, who else
would she be thinking about?
- [Mama] Carry.
- Coming Mama.
So Papa tell me some more.
- Mama didn't want Carry to
go to the training center.
You know, after all he'd
never left home before.
I suppose you have to say
probably your parents.
- Her father's already dead.
- Oh, I didn't mean, please
accept my condolence.
- Okay Papa, he died over 30 years ago.
- [Mama] Carry?
- Coming.
You don't like that, you
don't like guns, a father.
You're still a father.
I mean, you only get one in life,
for terrible loss when the father dies.
I mean, something you never did over.
Even at my age, it's
still I haven't gotten
to know what they did to my father.
And I don't mean to say that
a mother is not important.
It's just, I don't know why,
it's different case with a mother.
I mean, I don't know.
It's just different, you know.
You Really, you don't write the deal.
I totally changed to get the drinking.
(Papa whispers)
(laughs)
- Carry tells me that his
friend from the training center
wants to stay for diner.
- (indistinct) There was no problem.
It's totally natural.
- Got a surprise for you, Mama.
Just wait a second, I'll get it for you.
(piano music)
Come on Mama, today you gonna like this.
- They won't be enough food fall.
(piano music)
(laughs)
- Mama is in incorrigible.
She doesn't mean that
there won't be enough.
Of course we have plenty of food
and we're delighted to have
you here as a guest for dinner.
Would you please help me set the table?
There really is no fear of
Mama cares from the depression.
That's why she always piles food.
We're loaded down with cans
of everything from flour to rice.
How many plates (indistinct),
is this late, you wait.
Here would you please (indistinct).
Sometimes they have so much food
that I have, I could throw
it away behind his back
and put the glasses.
She can't help.
She's always afraid of running up.
I tell you, it goes there.
Are they look so-
(door bangs)
- You look so beautiful.
Papa, Regina look at
Mama, isn't she beautiful?
She's stunning.
Gorgeous.
- Mama, look at Mama (claps).
- (indistinct) about me.
- Mama, shall we dance lovely lady?
- Getting crazy.
Papa make him stop (laughs).
- Excuse me sir may I cut in please.
- Papa Regina is with you, you
can dance with Papa, come on.
- I don't think if I can remember.
- He can not dance.
Dr. Otera specifically
told you not to dance.
- Mama I feel fine, Mama.
- With your heart condition,
do you want to get sick?
- Mama what heart condition, come on.
♪ Ra ra ri ♪
Come on Mama.
♪ Ra ra ri ra ra ♪
- Papa come on.
- Mama, Papa, should we eat something?
Where do you want us to sit, Mama?
- Oh, you over there.
Sit down.
- Okay.
- Carry?
- Yes Mama.
- Just a minute get up please.
- Sure Mama.
(gentle music)
- Papa there's a draft
on my neck right here.
Come over and see for yourself.
- Oh my darling, I just put...
What is could be when I
made it just be a draft.
- Papa, just sit there please.
- Mama.
- Don't get involved.
- So, well, you take your father place.
- Frankly now Mama.
- Don't argue.
You stay where you are.
There's no sense that
you catching your death.
That where she stopped.
Where did you where'd you put your scuff?
- I don't need a scuff.
- Papa where do you put your scuff?
- Mama, don't.
- I put her right here, right here.
Mama I don't need it.
- Papa.
- Please will you pass your plate.
- This is your favorite.
(indistinct).
Go ahead Scot.
I got to get a little more than usual.
(indistinct)
(laughs)
- It's full of great
ideas, congrats, really.
Why don't you taste it
doing good, doing good.
- Please son, please.
Don't wait for us, don't be fooled.
- Would you pass the bread please?
Regina do you like it, is it good?
- Don't answer Regina, his
trick he does this all the time.
He's gonna say, now I want
this potato unusual taste.
(laughs)
I'm gonna say it.
- You see all the cashews in it.
(laughs) With nothing.
- Yeah so that's what gives it this-
- Naive flavor.
- Yes naive flavor, yes.
- By the way Mama, our uncle is a butcher
and is the husband of her mother's sister.
He it's in Baton Rouge in there,
right in the center of town there
prepares his own deli food.
Right, Regina about your uncle? (laughs)
Spices already is gonna look
like one of his bright rib. (laughs)
- Papa, don't eat so first
you're gobbling your food,
(indistinct) sort of context.
I mean, are you in a hurry?
Chew it well.
Of course with your teeth.
Carry, a little bit more.
Well, I bought it just for you.
- Mama (indistinct).
- All right, you didn't like it?
- I like it Mama.
- Doesn't want any more.
Why do you always have to insist.
- When will you know the results?
- Theoretically, end of the week.
- Making complaints like it's a shame.
- Don't worry about it, Mama.
- Yeah, but asked you a father and I,
we sacrificed everything
to send you over there.
Tell me about that, what's your shot back.
It it big?
- It's huge Mama.
It's gigantic, it's got six
employees, two apprentices
two cashiers, turnover is what?
Three times a day?
- [Papa] Three times.
- Oh, Papa.
They got show him.
Show the plank, Rolled
Shane, Porter House, T-bone.
I mean, Papa, Mama,
they have a special display
for the color of the day.
I mean, it's the best place in town, Mama.
- I have always wanted to run a shop.
- Our uncle gets up 4:00 AM
every morning, right Regina?
About your uncle.
- But I'm not arguing, Carry.
I know it's hard work,
but it's a lively job
running a butcher shop.
And you're in the mainstream of things,
seeing people talking to people.
- Mama, hard work is very hard.
- Mama is hard work is very hard work.
Your mama doesn't realize
that a man when he gets up to go to work-
- And what did you think
about this about halfway.
Do you think that's easy?
- No sweetheart am not saying that's easy.
- And what do we get paid for it.
- (indistinct) excavators
(indistinct) big problem.
I really can't say I help
my matters, big problem.
I really don't know what to do.
I want some lunch, she gives me water.
I fix the windows she
says, it's the driver.
I mean, did I?
Did I step out of line or something?
- No, no Papa.
You're right.
- Now she even insult other people says
some item about my teeth.
I mean, what's the matter of my teeth?
These are my own teeth.
- Am with you Papa.
But no headaches and everything
and gentlemen can celebrate
the 40th wedding anniversary.
- 40 years.
(ambient music)
Have to be 40 years of pleasure.
Don't have a few (laughs) squabbles.
- Papa, you like her?
Regina, do you like her?
- Oh, quite an embarrassing
thing to ask me.
Well, I think she is...
Why I don't know.
Yeah, nothing to say.
- Okay.
I'm gonna get married to her.
- Carry, hurry one thing.
- Oh my God (indistinct).
- Don't worry about it Mama it's empty,
don't worry about it.
- We've already dropped one bottle.
Oh Lord, we're crazy.
- How come give me a bottle.
- Okay Papa.
Papa, don't forget the
cool skirt right there.
- For Papa, Papa.
- He's never get lonely.
Find it more and more
difficult walking (indistinct).
Before you.
(dramatic upbeat music)
(Papa coughs)
- Well, it's okay, Mama.
We are here now,
the four of us together, (laughs) right?
- I'm sure this needed
not as good is your uncle.
That's all it tell me potluck dinner.
- It's a white rose
potluck dinner (laughs).
- This is tasty.
It's really delicious, okay Carry?
- Hmm, Mama perfect. (laughs)
- It's all right, I told
her, I told her, I told her.
- I'm glad you like it Mama is delicious.
- Yeah.
(indistinct) She thought
it was burned (laughs).
- Yes Mama.
- Of course not.
- Now.
- What's the matter?
Are you ashamed because of this company?
- No.
(kisses)
- Carry do (indistinct).
Do you ever drink?
- Practically except for
the part of pork once
it was rotten.
- How could a pot of pork?
- What?
- Yeah, it was running at a
post strike and got rotten.
- Part of pork with a brandy!
Oh my God.
- Well Papa.
Food to cafeteria was quite good.
I'm gonna sit down to just after the game.
- What game?
- Games Mama.
No matter of speaking
they were games actually.
They would test.
I mean, it really has to be on your toes.
Right Regina, about the test?
When we show them I say what
I'm talking about, right?
Well you come out.
(ambient music)
Ready, and one, two,
three, four, five, six.
One, two, three, four, five, come on Papa.
Come on Papa, come on, right?
- That's right.
- One, two, three, four, five, six.
You nail it Papa on you're toes.
- Stop it, stop it.
You want to be sick?
All of you jumping like that
right in the middle of dinner.
- We may love jumping.
- (sighs) First thing tomorrow morning,
I'm gonna call Lugen Mandini.
- Mandini, what for?
- To get the results.
All this waiting is worrying me sick.
- What does Mandini have
to do with these kids?
- He knows a lot of people.
- Mama, he's a clerk at City Hall.
- He knows a lot of very
influential people Papa,
are you afraid of him?
Using your contacts Mandini
will be more than pleased
to do the favor for me.
- Mama, Papa forget about
Mr. Mandini (laughs).
Got some good news for you.
We both passed (laughs).
We got it well (mumbles).
Bailey.
- Bailey what?
- Albert Bailey,
- The Albert Bailey?
- Very same one.
- Lady you mean, Albert
Bailey is your grandfather?
- Papa, stop it.
You always can't help it.
What please?
- (indistinct) Mama.
He contacted the board of
directors of the training center
and use this facility would
do anything to make him happy.
They practically gave us
our diplomas, right Regina?
I mean, it's officially passed.
- (laughs) Mama.
- (indistinct) from me, oh.
- No, Mama, our grandfather made me swear
not to tell anybody,
you would have found out
the day after tomorrow.
- Three months of
tortured sleepless nights
he talks about that after tomorrow,
I would have been dead
by day after tomorrow.
- Mama wanted to be a surprise.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, some
surprise look at Mama.
She's all pale and-
- Don't say that.
No, I'm just so happy.
Do you mind me just all
shaking, sit down, yeah.
- Sit down Papa.
(Papa laughs)
(Mama and carry kissing)
Oh, you're back.
- Yeah, Yeah (indistinct) and guess Mama.
Guess what?
I've had some level three,
which means I'm guaranteed 50%
of my salary based upon retirement.
- Oh, 50%.
- Oh, that's okay, let's celebrate.
Drink to your success.
- Both you are all right.
- Yeah, Regina.
- We need it all.
Your godfather, the Albert Bailey senator.
What's he doing exactly?
- Mama, he's a Senator.
- Bobby, that's not a job.
- To pay the steel mills, Mama.
- Oh, that's him.
Oh I knew it.
The minute you came in,
I knew your face was familiar.
It's Bailey Papa, she's
just sitting in a Bailey.
- But they're not related by blood.
Bailey is her godfather that-
- Well you know like Moses
did they count the same thing
if I give Regina some whine.
Oh I hope you like (indistinct).
- You know once I found you
balancing yourself on the store,
just Nick McCann email
and I need (indistinct).
(laughs)
Oh, no come here and
help me with the dishes.
- Yes Mama.
- You must have been about
(indistinct) to be there.
- That's the year you want a thing Mama.
- What thing are you talking about?
- After night will you
handle (indistinct).
- Never born anything.
- No Mama.
- What I do have a pig?
- Where the ads of memes?
- The year the Caddy
Melon on top of the engine
with all left town long before,
it was a guy who proposed to take.
- No, no, no Mama.
- Yeah, yeah, they probably sold.
They were Cuban.
And so many not a kid never did find out.
Oh no and how many of them,
one of the girls did you like.
- Stop earing them.
- Yeah I never spoke to them again.
- Just because of the way?
- Mama (mumbles) they died.
I mean, they often forgot
to send their kids to school
but boy, they would sing Spanish song,
they would play the guitar
and they would laugh (laughs).
Oh my God.
They laugh all day long,
they were nice people
and I liked them.
- Papa, if your kids are filled with Pat.
Thank you keep them at home.
- Oh Mama, come on.
- Oh Lord, I had to comb
your hair with a week
with a fine tooth comb.
What job it was!
It was such a long beautiful hair Danby.
Soft and Kenny, I saved him a rock.
I had to hide and drive a day
at your (indistinct) camp.
- Another minute too soon.
You were already seven-years-old.
Do you know what the kids
called you at school?
Carry you're a girly.
- What?
- Your mother she didn't mind.
- I wanted a girl.
- Always you dressed him like a girl
when he was five, didn't you?
- (laughs) Can you imagine
me as a girl, Regina.
- [Mama] Why not?
- Oh, Mama what would you call me?
- Oh, the name will speak out.
Carry, yeah Carry, are you Carry?
Carry, Carry, Carry.
- I'm gonna get the cake.
- Mama, Mama wait.
We already bought the cake, Mama.
- But I wasted three hours
baking you this round cake.
- And Mama 12 night cake is traditional
and January 16th and tomorrow
just won't be the same.
- What about Mama's rum cake?
Oh, what when we throw it out?
- He's right.
Today isn't sick.
I go and get your cake baby.
Don't bother us anymore
with your rump cake.
Papa, would you stop.
Papa, go and get plates.
- Yes Mama.
- Go on.
You'd be surprised that all the garbage
they put into everything today.
Just awful.
I won't allow any food in my house
unless I know exactly where it comes from.
Everything from the outside
is suspicious to me.
Can't be too careful.
I mean danger is everywhere.
- Your plates Mama.
(plates shuttering)
- Papa this knife.
- (clears throat) Here's the cake.
Here it is Mama.
Hmm, Regina would you build the crown?
- Thank you.
- Well, doesn't look too spoiled.
- [Papa] Has to put grade, Mama.
- Mama, do you mind if
I tell you about us?
It's really incredible.
We unbelievable Mama.
Such a coincidence.
Do you remember that game we were playing,
the game I showed you before,
the one that we were playing-
- Done the thing that I didn't understand.
But what does that have to do-
- Papa, stop interrupting let him talk.
- Thank you Mama.
Frankly Papa between us.
I never found out, I didn't
understand anything about us.
Anyway, Mama,
well, it was the first
night right before jumping
and line this up in two rows Mama,
boys on one side and
girls on the other side.
And strangely enough,
I know that I think about it,
nobody had chosen it.
- Papa, Papa, you got
your elbow right the cake.
- Mama it's really healthful.
- Didn't get on it?
- Papa, Papa, let me clean please.
Mama there is nothing on.
- [Papa] I didn't get anything on it.
- (indistinct) all over his pants, here.
- There you go.
- Come on they're saying
they're basically face
and they were wired.
- Yeah, face to face.
And believe it or not Mama,
you know who my partner was?
Regina.
- This Cake is awful.
(Regina coughs)
- Drink the water.
(Regina coughs)
What do you think about that Papa?
- Oh, incredible, incredible.
- One chance in a million Papa.
I mean Mama hip was a
miracle really a miracle.
And here I am in Baton Rouge,
and I don't know anyone
and I'm jumping with Regina
on a very first night.
I mean, that was credible.
I knew right there Mama
that something was going on.
There was something happening again.
Yeah, an attraction Mama.
I got the bean.
I got the bean.
(Papa laughs)
- You didn't hurt your self.
- Mama, I didn't hurt myself.
Ready to be the king.
I'm just the king.
- Well, long live the king.
- Now you can kiss your queen.
- Long live the queen.
(gentle music)
- There, long live the queen.
Long live Regina.
You're not drinking, Mama.
- I'm not thirsty.
- Come on Mama, come on
finish your drink Mama please,
come on baby.
- I'm not hungry.
- Mama, cake, the party is in.
- Long live Mama.
Long live Mama.
Long live the queen.
- I have no use for a cardboard crown
that wasn't even meant for me.
- Mama.
- Mama, Mama, Mama, now come on,
I'm giving it to you.
- No.
- Mama, I'm begging you, come on now.
- Not up to someone else.
- No problem, Mama, Mama please,
please listen to me for a second, okay?
You have to understand something, Mama,
for now on you and Regina are same thing.
You and me Mama.
We're gonna get Married, Mama.
- Oh, I know we forgot the rum cake Papa.
- Mama, Mama, Mama, do you understand
I just said, I'm gonna marry Regina.
- Papa, get me the rum cake.
- He was telling you he's
going to marry Regina.
- Yes Mama.
- In other words Mama,
Carry is announcing his marriage.
- Go and get that rum cake.
- Okay Mama.
- Mama I don't get a damn about the cake.
Mama, I'm talking about my life here Mama.
Go get the cake.
Mama, that's too much.
Mama, please when you...
I mean, do I need you
permission to get married?
Are you gonna stop me?
Who's gonna stop me from
getting married, Mama?
I'm 36 years old Regina, 36 years old.
I need your permission to do everything?
Mama, I mean, enough is
enough, what's the matter
you don't like my fiance.
You don't like Regina tell me.
Papa, you don't like my fiance?
Tell me.
- I didn't say anything.
- I beg make himself talking, please Papa.
- Carry please come on, let's
sit down have some rum cake.
- No, forget got a rum cake.
God damn cake.
I'll stop when I want to stop
because I'm a man now Mama,
I'm free, free Mama.
I don't care, I'm a man.
No, no Carry no more (indistinct)
and all of that stuff.
- What have I done? (crying)
I sacrifice my whole life
and my job, everything.
And now (indistinct)
Somebody who's not even related to you.
- (indistinct) Mama, is you who
are no longer related to me.
- Were you Papa?
I'm leaving to come on Regina.
- Get out, get out, the door is wide open.
- Papa stop it no.
- Mama, please, please,
please do apologize poor Mama
right this minute.
- No, no, I hate that cake.
Will you two apologize to me.
- Yes I'm apologizing.
I Apologize yes.
Oh, Carry, Carry.
No, no listen, I apologize to you baby.
What you took for hostility with joy.
Come on, we're going to sit down
we'll settle this peacefully, come on.
Everybody, let's sit down, come on.
- Mama.
- Carry, pour me a drink.
- (clears throat) Yes, Mama.
- You see three red candles.
One for each month you were away.
Carry?
Yeah, to your return.
Look at me.
Now really look at me.
We don't want any more
misunderstanding too.
- No mother.
- You're not upset tonight?
- No.
- You're sure?
- I'm sure.
- You swear it?
- I swear.
- And if you're still mad
at me I couldn't survive.
Carry?
- Hmm.
- Kiss me.
You never left me before, did you?
- Mama? (laughs)
- We've always lived together
just the three of us.
We devoted an entire
life to his education.
We wanted him to do better than we did.
We sacrificed everything for it.
- I didn't ask for anything, Mama.
- Oh, I didn't mean that.
Honey, I have no regrets.
It's that I don't understand.
With your father's education,
you could have done far better.
My husband never mentioned it
but he's got a stack of diploma.
And it's quite a responsibility.
He's in charge of all those parking lots.
- Mama one lousy parking
Ilana crumby (laughs).
I'm just one of the attendants.
- Are you drunk?
- In a four-by-four booth
and I see a bunch of tickets.
A bunch tickets with this
all day long (laughs).
Oh, yes, sometimes I make changes.
- He doesn't drink very much.
No drink (indistinct)
I suppose you're not gonna tell us
that you didn't finish high school.
- Well, like everybody else.
- Too petty.
Back then you had so many
chances, so many contexts.
(indistinct)
What makes you money?
What about Leo Graham?
- I didn't know him.
What?
But he is a girl with your child
that you played together Little Mitchelle.
- Oh my God, you're right
I was four-years-old.
I had a fight with a little
girl on this public park
and about a pain and a shovel
and the news broke it up and she told
the nurse told my mother that the child
was related to Leo Graham.
I never saw a little girl again.
- It would make a liar of me.
You think we were half cast.
We know nobody, we've
never had any friends.
- Mama we didn't have any friends.
- Well, what about the bikini,
the bone gay, the Bradley's.
I mean, they were all our
friends, rich, brilliant.
They invited us
everywhere, do you remember
all the lovely parties? (laughs)
- Sure mama, all because I did
him a favor at the City Hall.
You're right, you're right.
There is the bikini didn't
write as one and only once.
And that was to a funeral of the niece.
I don't think we went, did we?
- No, problem, but we couldn't.
Baby you had chickenpox and
they couldn't leave him.
You dispatch yourself like a
dog would have been. (laughs)
Do you know I didn't want
you to have birth marks.
So I tied my hands to yours
so I could suffer with you.
You were such a difficult child.
No approach though (sighs).
And I think that the
patience I had with myself
just to teach you the first word
mama, mama, mama.
- That's why he didn't say
Papa until he was 2 1/2.
- Three.
Your lungs was so delicate.
I had to put you into my bed every night,
I hold you close me just to keep you warm.
- I wasn't allowed to come
into your room for months,
for months I slept on
that damn coach all along.
- [Mama] Papa had to bail all alone.
- I was asking for my
sister come between you
once in a while.
Was I asking too much.
- Would you take my body from him.
- I know how to sleep with my wife.
I mean, men get married
to sleep with their wives.
- Why didn't you tell my father
when you are (indistinct)
- Because you were pregnant.
- I guess that's when
I was on the way, huh?
(dramatic music)
- No, the other one.
- Papa.
- What other one?
Mama what are you two talking about?
Was there another child or what?
- That child as I know would
be four years older than him.
It was stillborn.
- Mama this is true?
- The birth is recorded to the County.
- Papa, that's enough.
- Baby was baptized in the name of Carry.
(somber music)
She was a girl.
Mama we promised ourselves
the story we would tell him
and I think the time has come.
I'm gonna get some coffee.
- Papa.
- Your father is sick.
Carry he is really sick.
- What are you talking about Mama?
- Carry I've been trying
to get him to doctor.
- Mama tell me the truth.
What was he talking about, Mama?
Was he telling the truth?
Yes or no Mama?
Tell me.
Mama, was there anybody
in this house named Carry besides me?
Tell me Mama.
- She didn't live.
- So Papa told the truth?
- Being named Carry just long enough
to come out of the womb
and go into a casket.
Does that really count?
- Mama listen to me,
was her name Carry, yes or no, Mama?
- Yeah.
- Tell me.
- Carry yes.
Yes, that was her name.
Thank you Mama.
Come on Regina.
- What have I done to you?
- Mama, Regina and I gonna
get married in a month
on the 15th in Baton Rouge
and I don't want you to come.
- You're judging us
without knowing the facts.
- I know it Mama.
- You'll listen to me anyhow.
- Why?
- Because your father is
jealous of his own son.
- What the hell are you
telling the boy for jealous.
- Yes, jealous, jealous.
Jealous fro that moment he
was born you've been jealous,
and you forced yourself on me,
I didn't know anything I was innocent.
You lie, you bragged enough
about not being a virgin.
- Don't make me feel
guilty about that murder.
- What do you mean murder?
- Who are you to decide what's a murder?
I was alone, alone.
Fighting, desperate, shame.
Yeah I took some pills.
I did everything I could do,
anything to get rid of
that illegitimate thing
that was inside me.
- You succeeded my Carry, my Carry died.
- If I have the same need to do again,
I would do it exactly the same.
- Oh God, oh God.
- What about me?
Where do I fit to all these?
I'm like the feeling that I'm
taking somebody else's place.
- Oh no my baby, no, no.
I wanted you with all my strength,
with every fiber of my body
with my eyes, with my blood.
- Can you do that?
Carry, Carry I wanted you,
I wanted you long before
I knew you could exist.
I loved you long before
you were conceived.
I used to pray for you night after night.
Night I wake up with eyes
wide open in the dark
and imagine the warm of your flesh.
Is your cry, your smile.
Oh, I used to talk to Carry.
And I waited and waited
for you months after months
and when the moment you came
and I hold you in my arms.
Nothing is started, but you nothing.
(dramatic music)
- Excuse me.
Excuse me I'm going to bed.
- Tell me before you go anywhere,
in front of your son,
have you anything at all against me?
- No.
- And you and the presence of your father?
- No.
- Nothing.
- Nothing.
- Have I been a perfect mother to you?
- Yes.
- Hey, well then, good night Papa.
- Good night.
- Papa, aren't you sleeping in your room?
- (mumbles) Today comfortable.
- It's a nice place to sleep.
You can share my room with me.
- No, thank you, Mama.
- It's your father just
giving you his place?
- No.
- Carry, be nice.
(gentle music)
- Papa I play, you have
to get up with it anymore.
Don't forget to put out the lights.
Don't make any noise in the morning,
you might wake the child.
Papa, aren't you going
to say good night to me?
- Oh, goodnight.
- Goodnight who?
- Goodnight Mama.
- Goodnight Papa.
- Papa?
- Yes.
- Sleep well.
- You too.
- Papa?
- Yes.
- Nothing.
Good night Papa.
(gentle music)
(door bangs)
You're ready?
- Well, where are you going?
- I can't sleep here I have
to go somewhere else Mama.
- There's no need I'll make room for you.
- No Mama, that's-
- Oh, no.
If anything I cannot bear (mumbles).
- Mama.
(upbeat music)
Mama.
Mama we got enough
problem for one evening.
- Go tell your father.
- Mama.
- You don't know me.
- Mama, would you just
listen to me for a second?
- You don't know me.
I know, I'm a nuisance.
I'm in the way, but I'm getting
out you'll be (indistinct).
Maybe won't take me long
to park, I have nothing.
- Mama.
- Oh, nothing, no.
Everything I carry, always I carry.
Before anything in your first communion,
I have nothing, I owe nothing.
I owe you my house,
and I'm living it to you.
Take your hands off me,
I'm ashamed of you, I've paid
your mortgage, all paid off
and (indistinct) humiliation.
And to you, I'm leaving everything
in perfect working order, the pasta bands,
the dishes, the whole ball of wax.
You'll find the cleanses under the sink
and the canned goods, the
beverages in the pantry
and if you look for a barbecue
because there isn't one.
- Why are you doing all these?
Why are you packing and it's stupid Mama?
I mean nobody's asking
you to go any place,
this is ridiculous, please.
- Somebody's going to replace me.
- Nobody is going-
- No, I'm living.
- Mama, nobody's going to
replace you stop putting-
- Take your hands off me.
My little treasure, stop it.
They're mine,
they are my park.
They're my park, and I'm leaving now.
Give me back my suitcase.
- You're going to listen
to me for one second now.
- I'll tell your father.
- Well I'll tell him too I'm warning you.
- Shut up now get out.
Get out of my way.
- Mama get the hat off
nobody was hurt anymore.
- I wanna go, I wanna live.
- Where do you wanna go.
- Oh, I don't know, somewhere,
somewhere I can die.
- Just like when I was a kid.
Just like with my with my
father you blackmail us
if we don't please you die.
- I died the day I gave you birth.
- Well, then you shouldn't
have given me birth.
- Right I mean no.
- Would you have done, you
would have taken some pills
and got rid of me just
like the other one, got it.
- I wanna live, I wanna
die, wanna get it over with.
- Mama what's the killing
us with your death threats.
I've seen you die at least 100 times,
Mama you can cut to the
dozen agonies for us
and for what Mama?
For nothing, for nothing mama.
Always your migraines,
your mood, your tears.
Mama I wanna live, I'm
alive, I wanna live Mama.
- I know you're alive
but I'm dying (cries).
This sleepless nights, the agonies,
the angry, the danger.
Oh God the fear the fear of
not doing enough the fear.
Not having enough. (sobbing)
You always feel (indistinct),
Oh, God I feel faint.
- Mama, Mama why are
you getting sick Mama?
And all I said was that I would want
to marry Regina, that's all.
- She got that I have got.
- [Regina] Carry?
- What, what?
- There's a train in one hour Baton Rouge.
- [Carry] What are you saying Regina, huh?
- [Regina] I want to go home.
- [Carry] Regina, you
can't leave me like this
with Mamamy's condition.
Look at her she sick.
Now come on.
- [Regina] It will be better.
- [Carry] Regina we sleep here.
- Where?
- We'll sleep in my room.
Regina can sleep in my room,
I'll sleeping on the couch.
- [Mama] What's wrong (indistinct).
- Papa did it 1000 times, I can do it.
- [Mama] Carry please.
- Regina, It's settled.
We'll manage if we don't, we find a hotel.
- Oh, there you can take my room.
- Quick test Mama.
(indistinct)
- Mama will you do me a favor, please?
Will you take off that hat?
Looks like you're visiting us.
It's my girl.
Come here that's good, that's better.
You look pretty, okay.
Everything's gonna be nice, will be fine.
- All right.
You know miss.
we haven't really talked, have we?
- Well that's because
you're scaring her, Mama.
- Tell me about yourself.
Have you any brothers and sisters?
- She's an only child.
- And your parents?
Her father died before she was born, Mama.
You see, her mother is a
companion to Mr. Bailey's mother,
he live in New York.
The lady is very, very old.
- I keep forgetting this Mr. Bailey.
Is he your uncle, godfather or-
- He is her godfather, Mama.
You see, they become
very, very good friends.
In fact, some years ago, Mr.
Bailey had gone to the spa
for his health he was already very sick
and became such good friends
at Mr. Bailey hired Regina's mother
is part of his household staff.
- Oh gosh, that's nice.
- Soon as Regina was born, Mr.
Bailey became her godfather.
- Maybe and then we have
the spa we met her mother.
Are there any other children,
legitimate children?
- Legitimate?
Let's see five children,
three boys, two girls.
Of course, they've all grown
up and are at home by now.
You see, the more or
less on speaking terms
with Virginia's mother.
- Is there Mr. Bailey?
- Mr. Bailey is a widower.
In fact Mama you know,
he's promised to be the
best man in our wedding.
You'll come, won't you?
Will come to our the wedding you and Papa?
I'll buy you a nice beautiful dress
to walk down the aisle together.
- It's all so quick.
- Oh Mama I'm 36-years-old.
- Which means you're a very young man.
How old is your chick?
- 39.
- Oh, 39.
- Come on Mama things are changing now.
You come down to Baton Rouge
and visit us weekends and vacation.
To babysit the grandchildren.
- You won't have any children.
- Mama we wanna have three?
- She's too old.
Her womb already dried out.
- What are you talking about Mama?
- Oh look at her white tickling, a looser,
she has nothing, she is nothing.
But she'll be a burden to you.
- How can you say that Mama?
- She'll crush you by her
dullness, her emptiness.
- Mama, I want to marry her.
- Did she ever tell you about
her life before you met her?
- What difference does it make?
- She's the daughter of a (indistinct)
and if your of sexual betrayal deathbed
with a colleague politician,
doesn't like her mother.
- You are lying.
- No, I'm protecting my son.
Your mother lived as a
man who takes pity of her,
because she gave him an illegitimate child
conceived in a moment of bored and you.
- That's not true.
- Oh yes you're bastard.
- Okay, please.
- Mama, take back what you just said.
- If you follow her you'll
live a life of poverty,
the dreams that four people dream
without even having children
This is not exactly what
I dream for you, Carry.
- [Carry] Are you making
all these up, Mama?
- Oh no, you drawn away all of it,
just wondering how this
would have ended all
is very simple.
Regina is going to the door,
she is going back to the train,
tonight you'll spend all alone.
- Regina aren't you gonna say something.
Defend yourself at least.
- I want to go home.
- I'm gonna go with you.
- No Carry.
- [Carry] I have to go with her Mama.
- Damn, it's raining, you can't go.
But you'll understand, won't you Regina?
- Goodbye Carry.
- Regina, Regina don't.
Regina don't live me like
this, please, Regina.
- Goodnight Regina.
(door bangs)
(suspense music)
(indistinct)
At the moment, you
can't see beyond things,
you can't hear beyond words.
Do the condemn man.
Believe me honey, I'm not
against you getting married.
But not just anywhere,
anytime with anyone.
And also, it's not very nice
to show up without an invitation.
It's really bad manners.
(thunder rumbling)
- Should blame me for
that Mama was my fault.
- Oh you will miss that.
You're handsome boy.
You sentimental, honest,
gullible, the ideal prey.
Mama hasn't got a chance to
get the cleverness of a woman.
Nowadays I'll go to any
lengths to get your man.
(thunder roaring)
- What do you do all these clothes, Mama?
- I'm going to put them back in that box.
- You keep everything?
- Everything, I never throw anything away,
might come in handy.
Tomorrow we'll call Mandini.
I'm going to arrange for you
to be transferred back home.
Paint your room, change your mattress.
- And my springs too?
- Mm-hmm, the whole bed.
- You'll be very comfortable.
Do you like some tea?
You're (indistinct).
- No, Mama.
- Papa?
- I had a nightmare.
(dramatic music)
Just woke up.
Oh, I'm thirsty.
(dramatic music)
I must be late.
- Very late.
- I didn't think it's gonna be up.
What's all this?
- I was just (indistinct).
- Is your friend on to bed?
- Papa, it's late.
You have to get up in the morning.
(Papa sighs)
- What are you dong?
- Sitting in my own chair.
- In the middle of the night.
- I slept, didn't I?
- No, you have, now come on Papa.
Go on, go back to bed.
- Where is Regina?
- Do you mind if I have
just a few moments alone
with my own son.
- Is she gone?
- Oh God, Carry.
You let her go through you?
- What do you expecting to do, chain her?
- No, I'd follower her?
His live you might have
dared to say no to you.
- Have you ever said no to me?
- Mama.
- Don't you get involved in this.
- She must still be there on the platform,
under the rain.
- Let her stay there.
- You're idiot.
Son this is your chance.
Come on.
- You're crazy Papa.
- Carry.
- You let him go.
- No, no.
- Carry, what are you waiting for?
Believe me, you're gonna miss her.
Go on, go on.
What?
- Carry, Carry, Carry, Carry.
- No, please let him go, please Mama.
Please let him.
(Mama crying)
- He's gone Papa.
- Mama, Mama he's 36 years old.
He has a right to his own life, dear.
Mama, come on.
I swear I'll make it up to you honey.
Mama I'll make it up to you.
Just you and me, sweetheart,
I'll make it up to you.
Oh honey, oh Mama, Mama, Mama. (kissing)
- You make me sick.
- What the hell did you say?
Don't you to treatment me like that,
don't you ever talk to me like that again.
(indistinct)
Life hurts.
I could have put 16 of
then, everyday of my life.
Do you know that?
You know I've never
looked at another woman?
I never even got caught.
Look at me, I'm getting old.
I'm not used to anybody
and I regret, oh God.
Oh God I regret.
Tell me where was my life gone?
Look at me, look at me,
what have I done with my life?
What the hell have you done with my life?
- I'll tell you.
- I'll tell you what?
All your nudging, you're personality,
you're God damn scuff, you take your pill.
And I love to live you like...
I gave him to your lovely
women you know why?
Hey you wanna know why?
Just to get a smile out of you.
No come on, you made me pushed
that baby cage every Sunday afternoon
on empty street sniping with heat.
You wearing a tie with
prattle leather shoes.
Just so you could show
off your blue ribbon baby
in your model husband.
I'd come at home, having every
(indistinct) with that dummy
to whom was the pharmacist but the baker,
the grocer, the Cuban.
You could have cared less.
My god I was 30-years-old.
People behind my back were snickering.
Do you know what they were calling me?
Do you know what they said about me?
(laughs)
There goes the same.
- Papa, it's the worst thing.
- I'm a jackass, so as my son.
You wanna know something I don't?
I don't even think he is my son.
- I got you.
- Come on, come on.
I know what I'm saying.
I know what I'm saying.
Well, what about that Cuban?
Yeah, what about that?
You thought I was blind?
Did you really think I was blind
that every time you went into a shop,
I mean, that Winx behind my back
the snickering and oh, boy.
Oh, boy, did you love it?
Tell me, tell me, just tell me.
What went on in the afternoons
when I was stuck away in my office?
- Oh god you've been living
with this life of worrying.
Nobody's ever touched me but you, nobody.
I love you.
- You were right.
You swear?
- Oh, I swear, I swear on me.
- Come on, don't touch me.
You swear on your son's head.
- I swear on all that.
Your son (indistinct).
- Stop it.
Okay.
All right.
Good night.
You wake me at six
on some bacon eggs and strong coffee.
(door bangs)
(dramatic upbeat music)
(soft music)
(tense music)
- [Papa] That's 12 two.
You don't have to wait for a suitcase
and leave the train station,
walk over to find a bus.
- Oh, Lord those buses
this time of the night,
they're miles apart.
It's raining cats and dogs (indistinct).
- Well, at least I've had a great job.
- Hm, like father like son.
We don't know that.
We don't even know if he passed.
It's so emotional.
Papa?
- [Papa] Hmm.
- [Mama] Take off your shoes.
- What for?
- You'll be more comfortable,
put your slippers on.
- But just before dinner?
- You think you can indulge.
- [Papa] What's the matter with you?
- Papa, where's his letter?
- Here.
- You had to pocket it.
It's not addressed to you
personally, so far as I know.
Carry is my son too.
- Mama, I just wanted to read it again.
I mean-
- You know it by heart.
Give it to me.
- Boy, boy, (laughs).
You're something (laughs).
- Papa, did you get the wine?
- Yeah, I bought him two bottles.
- Two?
- Well, you said two.
- One.
You're not allowed to drink wine.
I only have a sip or two
and carry only drinks water.
What do we need two bottle for?
- Mama, we should celebrate
his return, I mean-
- By getting him drunk?
Good lord, what a brilliant idea.
For a kid who can't even
(indistinct) part of me.
- What does that mean?
- His stomach, his pancreas, his liver.
Poor baby.
I bet he got hungry.
I know he is cold.
Oh, it's so dirty out there,
I was a fool to ever let him go.
Papa, watch out for the wine,
are you trying to break it?
(Papa laughing)
Filthy garbage bin.
- I told you not to touch
that, I was gonna fix it.
Are you bleeding?
- Where do you want me to put the garbage
on the table, Papa?
- I promise you I'll fix it
as soon as I have a chance.
- Oh, please, wait, wait.
(dog whining)
(feet shuddering on the floor)
- What is it that noise?
(Mama shushing)
(dog barking)
- It's a dog digging in the trash.
(Mama sighing)
Papa stop standing with the cork.
- God dammit.
(bottle bangs on the table)
- [Mama] Papa?
- [Papa] Hm?
- [Mama] What's the matter with your back?
- [Papa] No, nothing.
- No, nope, you're walking funny.
Did you hurt your back.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- Does it hurt?
- No, no, not at all.
Not at all.
- You're all twisted, did you
take your rheumatism pills?
- Yes, the blue ones, the blue ones.
- The blue ones, oh, Lord
Papa, if you keep mixing
your colors you're really
gonna be in trouble.
Blue heart, yellow liver,
gray spleen, green kidneys-
- Green, kindeys.
- Green kidneys, yellow liver,
gray spleen, blue heart.
- What about the pink ones?
- Your intestines.
- Oh, God (laughs).
- I took the blue ones, the
blue ones are for the heart.
- Papa, take the white ones,
the white ones, rheumatism.
How many times did Dr. Otero told you
not to stop taking them.
Do you think you're still a young man?
- Honey, please stop treating
me like an old man, honey.
I'm fine, look, look
- Papa, no, no
don't do that.
- One, two, three, four.
- [Mama] Listen you're hurting your back.
- Oh, dammit.
- Oh, Lord you're paralyzed.
- Oh, no, no something
is stuck in my back.
- [Mama] Just a minute,
wait, I'll call doctor-
- Don't call the doctor,
just give me a hand.
- Oh, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it,
I'm suffering for you, but you deserve it.
- Will you help me, will you help me?
- Yes, Papa-
- Just, just
help, help me will you.
- Oh, Lord, exhausted as are (indistinct)
You've got to take care Papa,
I keep telling you over and over again.
- That's why I'm exhausted.
- [Mama] Oh, I'm exhausted too.
- You're exhausted, I'm
exhausted, we're all exhausted.
Just push on my leg, will you.
Oh, no, harder, harder.
(groans) That's it.
- All right, okay.
- [Papa] Thanks.
- Come on, here we go, Papa.
Yeah, now, (groans).
- [Papa] Steady, stead.
- There, you can make it.
There we go, on your feet.
There, oh, Papa, come on.
Here, can you walk?
- Yeah.
- Try and walk, try and walk, that's it.
Your age, no shame to be handicaped.
- Oh, God.
- There, Papa, don't lean on the table.
Oh, Papa, oh, there's grease on the table.
- I want you to find
any grease on my hands.
- You tried to make a (indistinct),
I mean, there's a grease mark.
Oh, he must have missed his train,
otherwise he'd be here.
Look at that rain.
Oh, and he's so fragile, so fragile.
Ever since he was a child,
he's been so delicate,
so prone to illnesses.
- A baby that weighed 10 and a half pounds
when he was born, he was
almost abnormal, he was so fat.
- You're telling me, it
wasn't you was ripped apart
when he was born.
I almost lost my life,
he was such a big child.
Oh, Papa, why did he have to grow up?
- He had to become a man.
- Are you a man?
(jazz instrumental music)
Got to lay in bed, Papa.
(Papa sighs)
- You know sometimes I feel
that you've got something against me.
(feet thumps)
(knife scraping on the board)
- Well, don't slice too much.
Once it's sliced it'll dry out.
No point in wasting it.
We're doing without
enough things as it is.
- [Papa] For instance?
- The little niceties in life
- Are you hinting about that car again?
What the hell would we do with a car?
You know I failed my driving test.
- Five times.
I couldn't look the neighbors in the eye.
- You think I didn't wanna pass?
First, I couldn't afford a car.
When I saved a little money
they wouldn't give me my license.
- Oh, why didn't you open the wine.
(Mama sighs)
It's so dark out there.
(daunting music)
Evening, I begin to feel
tense, it's black, pitch black,
and they keep talking about
putting in the street lights.
It's like the sea.
You were gonna take to see, remember?
- Mama, we went.
- One for 15 minutes, 27 years ago.
And I still up here (indistinct).
I smell the salt air,
the seagulls circled,
screaming high above my head.
Would it be real if it
comes right out of my head.
- Mama?
Mama, I promise I'll take you back.
- When, when, (laughs), my life's over,
and I've never seen any of the world.
How many times I stood at
this window and I looked out,
at what, nothing.
When all the people were
driving away in a nice cars
and waving and smiling, we
like a couple of dummies
motored down, like a couple of nules
for miles and miles to catch and old bus,
that wasn't eve on time.
Oh, God, just like poor folk.
- Mama we were rich.
- Well, whose fault was it.
- It was because of the depression.
(suspense music)
- I could have Had a life like Lena's.
- Tell me what the hell does Lena have
that you don't?
- A rich husband, and she has a maid,
and she goes to the beauty parlor.
She travels, I mean, in the winter time
they go down to Orlando
and stay in this palace.
- Tell me, can you see yourself staying
at a palace in Orlando?
- I sure could.
- Mama, the place where she's goes is full
of old people they ain't
gonna find their rent,
they will come and collect phones.
You know their main distraction
is comparing their varicose veins.
They're all alone and bought a desk.
Nobody likes him.
And they like nobody.
And they expect money,
and you know what Mama?
You want to know something now, ah?
They are without love.
- But they are rich.
- Well Mama then, you
shouldn't have met me,
(indistinct) just as awful.
It's shocking.
- Shocking.
Shocking is the living (indistinct).
I've been humiliated too often.
During the depression,
I had to go out and strap doors,
and clean those filthy houses,
for those devious greedy
but rich white trash.
You, how are you and a nourish idiot.
You had a little meat on your bones.
You would chucky white almost transparent.
Oh God, enough what now,
you pride yourself on not cheating.
You were honest, God knows you're honest,
but so them (indistinct)
and you guys are going to kill.
How long is it taken.
But as I'm speaking to you today,
I was at lesson live in the poorest
of the poor should expect.
You expect me to give up my
dream of going to Orlando.
You who can't even prevent my
son from leaving his mother.
- And what are you doing
for my (indistinct)?
(indistinct) Can give this woman what-
(door bell rings)
- Oh my God.
- I know it's him.
- Oh, Papa look at me.
- No, honey you look fine, you
look wonderful (indistinct).
- Well go open the door.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Yeah, don't go Papa,
wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, wait.
(door bell rings)
Papa don't stand there open the door.
Oh, Papa, Papa, they are
here to see me looking mad.
- Carry.
- Hey, Papa.
- Can I help you?
- No Papa your bag it's okay.
I got It, I got it.
Well, well, my goodness.
- Oh no.
Here, give me that.
- No, it's okay Papa
I've got another meeting in five.
- Mama, here he is.
- What about your Mama?
Have you got something to say to her?
- Hey Mama.
- Yeah, hug me.
- Hug me too Mama.
- [Both] Oh, I missed you.
(indistinct)
- What Mama what?
- The rose is bad.
- My baby, my big beautiful baby.
- I'm here now mama, I'm here.
- It's a disaster I tell you.
It's a disaster Carry.
- Is okay Mama.
- Carry.
- Yeah.
- Did (indistinct)?
You don't look well.
- Mama, myself is a horse.
- I tell, you lost weight.
Papa look at him, he's lost weight.
- I know.
- I may have a good look at you.
Ah, those bags.
Where have you been?
What have you been doing, Carry?
- Mama listen please.
- No, no, listen lets go
in come on, quickly Papa.
I'm gonna take care of you,
I'm gonna put the meat back on you,
get the roses back in those cheeks.
- Mama, please listen to me.
Let me have your attention
just for one second, okay?
- Oh, stop right there
but tell him, tell him.
- Your Mama was
(indistinct) we're in need.
- Can you see my Telegram?
- Telegram what?
- What?
Papa go close the door.
- No, no, no Papa leave it open.
You really didn't receive my Telegram.
- No I didn't.
- I'm not alone.
- What do you mean?
There's someone with you?
- In the hallway, just a second.
- Three whole months.
Three whole months how crazy you Carry.
- Mama there someone out in the hallway.
- Oh, kiss, (kisses) kiss your mommy.
- We can have all the time
in the world for that Mama,
but right now I-
- You left me, you know you
left me what it was like.
- Mama if there's some in the hallway,
we can't leave him out there, you know.
- What is he doing there?
- He said there's someone
in the hallway, honey.
- In the hallway.
Let me go and get her.
- He said her?
- Papa.
- Regina?
- Come on in, don't be shy now.
This is my house.
(ambient music)
Mama, Papa, this is Regina.
My friend from the training center.
Papa, meet Regina.
Here is Papa.
- Welcome Regina, welcome
pleased to meet you.
- Regina this is Mama.
Mama say hello to Regina.
- Madam.
- Madam, you must be joking Mama.
You can call her Ms, I mean, Regina.
You can call her Regina.
Mama can call you Regina, right Regina?
(ambient music)
(laughs)
- It's raining.
- Oh, yes we saw (indistinct).
- We took a cab Mama.
- For the drive, huh?
- It was good.
- Well, Mama has been cooking all day.
- I'm gonna take some
of Mama's home cooking,
different from this stuff
you've been eating at the cafeteria.
(laughs)
Papa, do you have anything to drink?
Something dry bourbon, whiskey, vermouth.
- Cherry bounds.
- Cherry bounds.
(Papa laughing)
This is Papa's secret recipe.
- Well, it's you remember that?
- Well, I put wild cherries,
90 proof alcohol sage and-
- Cashews, cashews.
- Cashews (laughs).
It's cashews, go Papa,
you can't have any alcohol, really?
The doctor's orders.
I mean, maybe just this
once you can break the law
to celebrate my return home Papa.
- Maybe a little drunk
to keep you come here,
if Mama agrees.
- Will you let him Mama?
- Your father does as he pleases,
his health is his own business.
(dramatic music)
- It's well then all right,
why don't you sit down, Regina.
- (indistinct) anybody(laughs).
May please view.
- (indistinct) for you Mama?
- No, no I have to get
back to the kitchen.
- Feels good to be home.
- Yeah.
- This was strange.
I feel like things have gotten spawn,
did you change things around here?
- [Papa] Oh, nothing's changed nothing.
- Nothing seems to be the same.
Everything was so huge at Baton Rouge.
- Oh, Baton Rouge, that's a big city.
- Big, gigantic Papa.
And the living quarters were
an old national guard barracks.
Papa, can you believe that?
It had its 24 dorm.
I tell you about 25.
Cheers.
- All right, all right, all right.
(group laughs)
- Oh, burns a little (laughs).
You're doing very good.
(Regina coughs)
Well, as you can see.
- What about mama?
- Well, you saw her.
- Still has Migraine headaches.
- Who is Migraine headaches
little has pain (mumbles) you know.
Oh please I'm sorry.
Please sit down.
Make yourself comfortable.
- Don't be shy Regina.
Thanks Papa (laughs).
- (sighs) As soon as
something doesn't go away.
She was very worried
about you (indistinct)
it's still 10-years-old.
Now she has a son in
the middle of the night,
sometimes when they get
up to go to the bathroom,
sorry I find it right
here, sitting in this chair
just staring off into the distance.
- On that chair?
- Her eyes wide open, the bathroom
airflow just lower inner thoughts.
- What did she think about Papa?
- Who not you I guess, who else
would she be thinking about?
- [Mama] Carry.
- Coming Mama.
So Papa tell me some more.
- Mama didn't want Carry to
go to the training center.
You know, after all he'd
never left home before.
I suppose you have to say
probably your parents.
- Her father's already dead.
- Oh, I didn't mean, please
accept my condolence.
- Okay Papa, he died over 30 years ago.
- [Mama] Carry?
- Coming.
You don't like that, you
don't like guns, a father.
You're still a father.
I mean, you only get one in life,
for terrible loss when the father dies.
I mean, something you never did over.
Even at my age, it's
still I haven't gotten
to know what they did to my father.
And I don't mean to say that
a mother is not important.
It's just, I don't know why,
it's different case with a mother.
I mean, I don't know.
It's just different, you know.
You Really, you don't write the deal.
I totally changed to get the drinking.
(Papa whispers)
(laughs)
- Carry tells me that his
friend from the training center
wants to stay for diner.
- (indistinct) There was no problem.
It's totally natural.
- Got a surprise for you, Mama.
Just wait a second, I'll get it for you.
(piano music)
Come on Mama, today you gonna like this.
- They won't be enough food fall.
(piano music)
(laughs)
- Mama is in incorrigible.
She doesn't mean that
there won't be enough.
Of course we have plenty of food
and we're delighted to have
you here as a guest for dinner.
Would you please help me set the table?
There really is no fear of
Mama cares from the depression.
That's why she always piles food.
We're loaded down with cans
of everything from flour to rice.
How many plates (indistinct),
is this late, you wait.
Here would you please (indistinct).
Sometimes they have so much food
that I have, I could throw
it away behind his back
and put the glasses.
She can't help.
She's always afraid of running up.
I tell you, it goes there.
Are they look so-
(door bangs)
- You look so beautiful.
Papa, Regina look at
Mama, isn't she beautiful?
She's stunning.
Gorgeous.
- Mama, look at Mama (claps).
- (indistinct) about me.
- Mama, shall we dance lovely lady?
- Getting crazy.
Papa make him stop (laughs).
- Excuse me sir may I cut in please.
- Papa Regina is with you, you
can dance with Papa, come on.
- I don't think if I can remember.
- He can not dance.
Dr. Otera specifically
told you not to dance.
- Mama I feel fine, Mama.
- With your heart condition,
do you want to get sick?
- Mama what heart condition, come on.
♪ Ra ra ri ♪
Come on Mama.
♪ Ra ra ri ra ra ♪
- Papa come on.
- Mama, Papa, should we eat something?
Where do you want us to sit, Mama?
- Oh, you over there.
Sit down.
- Okay.
- Carry?
- Yes Mama.
- Just a minute get up please.
- Sure Mama.
(gentle music)
- Papa there's a draft
on my neck right here.
Come over and see for yourself.
- Oh my darling, I just put...
What is could be when I
made it just be a draft.
- Papa, just sit there please.
- Mama.
- Don't get involved.
- So, well, you take your father place.
- Frankly now Mama.
- Don't argue.
You stay where you are.
There's no sense that
you catching your death.
That where she stopped.
Where did you where'd you put your scuff?
- I don't need a scuff.
- Papa where do you put your scuff?
- Mama, don't.
- I put her right here, right here.
Mama I don't need it.
- Papa.
- Please will you pass your plate.
- This is your favorite.
(indistinct).
Go ahead Scot.
I got to get a little more than usual.
(indistinct)
(laughs)
- It's full of great
ideas, congrats, really.
Why don't you taste it
doing good, doing good.
- Please son, please.
Don't wait for us, don't be fooled.
- Would you pass the bread please?
Regina do you like it, is it good?
- Don't answer Regina, his
trick he does this all the time.
He's gonna say, now I want
this potato unusual taste.
(laughs)
I'm gonna say it.
- You see all the cashews in it.
(laughs) With nothing.
- Yeah so that's what gives it this-
- Naive flavor.
- Yes naive flavor, yes.
- By the way Mama, our uncle is a butcher
and is the husband of her mother's sister.
He it's in Baton Rouge in there,
right in the center of town there
prepares his own deli food.
Right, Regina about your uncle? (laughs)
Spices already is gonna look
like one of his bright rib. (laughs)
- Papa, don't eat so first
you're gobbling your food,
(indistinct) sort of context.
I mean, are you in a hurry?
Chew it well.
Of course with your teeth.
Carry, a little bit more.
Well, I bought it just for you.
- Mama (indistinct).
- All right, you didn't like it?
- I like it Mama.
- Doesn't want any more.
Why do you always have to insist.
- When will you know the results?
- Theoretically, end of the week.
- Making complaints like it's a shame.
- Don't worry about it, Mama.
- Yeah, but asked you a father and I,
we sacrificed everything
to send you over there.
Tell me about that, what's your shot back.
It it big?
- It's huge Mama.
It's gigantic, it's got six
employees, two apprentices
two cashiers, turnover is what?
Three times a day?
- [Papa] Three times.
- Oh, Papa.
They got show him.
Show the plank, Rolled
Shane, Porter House, T-bone.
I mean, Papa, Mama,
they have a special display
for the color of the day.
I mean, it's the best place in town, Mama.
- I have always wanted to run a shop.
- Our uncle gets up 4:00 AM
every morning, right Regina?
About your uncle.
- But I'm not arguing, Carry.
I know it's hard work,
but it's a lively job
running a butcher shop.
And you're in the mainstream of things,
seeing people talking to people.
- Mama, hard work is very hard.
- Mama is hard work is very hard work.
Your mama doesn't realize
that a man when he gets up to go to work-
- And what did you think
about this about halfway.
Do you think that's easy?
- No sweetheart am not saying that's easy.
- And what do we get paid for it.
- (indistinct) excavators
(indistinct) big problem.
I really can't say I help
my matters, big problem.
I really don't know what to do.
I want some lunch, she gives me water.
I fix the windows she
says, it's the driver.
I mean, did I?
Did I step out of line or something?
- No, no Papa.
You're right.
- Now she even insult other people says
some item about my teeth.
I mean, what's the matter of my teeth?
These are my own teeth.
- Am with you Papa.
But no headaches and everything
and gentlemen can celebrate
the 40th wedding anniversary.
- 40 years.
(ambient music)
Have to be 40 years of pleasure.
Don't have a few (laughs) squabbles.
- Papa, you like her?
Regina, do you like her?
- Oh, quite an embarrassing
thing to ask me.
Well, I think she is...
Why I don't know.
Yeah, nothing to say.
- Okay.
I'm gonna get married to her.
- Carry, hurry one thing.
- Oh my God (indistinct).
- Don't worry about it Mama it's empty,
don't worry about it.
- We've already dropped one bottle.
Oh Lord, we're crazy.
- How come give me a bottle.
- Okay Papa.
Papa, don't forget the
cool skirt right there.
- For Papa, Papa.
- He's never get lonely.
Find it more and more
difficult walking (indistinct).
Before you.
(dramatic upbeat music)
(Papa coughs)
- Well, it's okay, Mama.
We are here now,
the four of us together, (laughs) right?
- I'm sure this needed
not as good is your uncle.
That's all it tell me potluck dinner.
- It's a white rose
potluck dinner (laughs).
- This is tasty.
It's really delicious, okay Carry?
- Hmm, Mama perfect. (laughs)
- It's all right, I told
her, I told her, I told her.
- I'm glad you like it Mama is delicious.
- Yeah.
(indistinct) She thought
it was burned (laughs).
- Yes Mama.
- Of course not.
- Now.
- What's the matter?
Are you ashamed because of this company?
- No.
(kisses)
- Carry do (indistinct).
Do you ever drink?
- Practically except for
the part of pork once
it was rotten.
- How could a pot of pork?
- What?
- Yeah, it was running at a
post strike and got rotten.
- Part of pork with a brandy!
Oh my God.
- Well Papa.
Food to cafeteria was quite good.
I'm gonna sit down to just after the game.
- What game?
- Games Mama.
No matter of speaking
they were games actually.
They would test.
I mean, it really has to be on your toes.
Right Regina, about the test?
When we show them I say what
I'm talking about, right?
Well you come out.
(ambient music)
Ready, and one, two,
three, four, five, six.
One, two, three, four, five, come on Papa.
Come on Papa, come on, right?
- That's right.
- One, two, three, four, five, six.
You nail it Papa on you're toes.
- Stop it, stop it.
You want to be sick?
All of you jumping like that
right in the middle of dinner.
- We may love jumping.
- (sighs) First thing tomorrow morning,
I'm gonna call Lugen Mandini.
- Mandini, what for?
- To get the results.
All this waiting is worrying me sick.
- What does Mandini have
to do with these kids?
- He knows a lot of people.
- Mama, he's a clerk at City Hall.
- He knows a lot of very
influential people Papa,
are you afraid of him?
Using your contacts Mandini
will be more than pleased
to do the favor for me.
- Mama, Papa forget about
Mr. Mandini (laughs).
Got some good news for you.
We both passed (laughs).
We got it well (mumbles).
Bailey.
- Bailey what?
- Albert Bailey,
- The Albert Bailey?
- Very same one.
- Lady you mean, Albert
Bailey is your grandfather?
- Papa, stop it.
You always can't help it.
What please?
- (indistinct) Mama.
He contacted the board of
directors of the training center
and use this facility would
do anything to make him happy.
They practically gave us
our diplomas, right Regina?
I mean, it's officially passed.
- (laughs) Mama.
- (indistinct) from me, oh.
- No, Mama, our grandfather made me swear
not to tell anybody,
you would have found out
the day after tomorrow.
- Three months of
tortured sleepless nights
he talks about that after tomorrow,
I would have been dead
by day after tomorrow.
- Mama wanted to be a surprise.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, some
surprise look at Mama.
She's all pale and-
- Don't say that.
No, I'm just so happy.
Do you mind me just all
shaking, sit down, yeah.
- Sit down Papa.
(Papa laughs)
(Mama and carry kissing)
Oh, you're back.
- Yeah, Yeah (indistinct) and guess Mama.
Guess what?
I've had some level three,
which means I'm guaranteed 50%
of my salary based upon retirement.
- Oh, 50%.
- Oh, that's okay, let's celebrate.
Drink to your success.
- Both you are all right.
- Yeah, Regina.
- We need it all.
Your godfather, the Albert Bailey senator.
What's he doing exactly?
- Mama, he's a Senator.
- Bobby, that's not a job.
- To pay the steel mills, Mama.
- Oh, that's him.
Oh I knew it.
The minute you came in,
I knew your face was familiar.
It's Bailey Papa, she's
just sitting in a Bailey.
- But they're not related by blood.
Bailey is her godfather that-
- Well you know like Moses
did they count the same thing
if I give Regina some whine.
Oh I hope you like (indistinct).
- You know once I found you
balancing yourself on the store,
just Nick McCann email
and I need (indistinct).
(laughs)
Oh, no come here and
help me with the dishes.
- Yes Mama.
- You must have been about
(indistinct) to be there.
- That's the year you want a thing Mama.
- What thing are you talking about?
- After night will you
handle (indistinct).
- Never born anything.
- No Mama.
- What I do have a pig?
- Where the ads of memes?
- The year the Caddy
Melon on top of the engine
with all left town long before,
it was a guy who proposed to take.
- No, no, no Mama.
- Yeah, yeah, they probably sold.
They were Cuban.
And so many not a kid never did find out.
Oh no and how many of them,
one of the girls did you like.
- Stop earing them.
- Yeah I never spoke to them again.
- Just because of the way?
- Mama (mumbles) they died.
I mean, they often forgot
to send their kids to school
but boy, they would sing Spanish song,
they would play the guitar
and they would laugh (laughs).
Oh my God.
They laugh all day long,
they were nice people
and I liked them.
- Papa, if your kids are filled with Pat.
Thank you keep them at home.
- Oh Mama, come on.
- Oh Lord, I had to comb
your hair with a week
with a fine tooth comb.
What job it was!
It was such a long beautiful hair Danby.
Soft and Kenny, I saved him a rock.
I had to hide and drive a day
at your (indistinct) camp.
- Another minute too soon.
You were already seven-years-old.
Do you know what the kids
called you at school?
Carry you're a girly.
- What?
- Your mother she didn't mind.
- I wanted a girl.
- Always you dressed him like a girl
when he was five, didn't you?
- (laughs) Can you imagine
me as a girl, Regina.
- [Mama] Why not?
- Oh, Mama what would you call me?
- Oh, the name will speak out.
Carry, yeah Carry, are you Carry?
Carry, Carry, Carry.
- I'm gonna get the cake.
- Mama, Mama wait.
We already bought the cake, Mama.
- But I wasted three hours
baking you this round cake.
- And Mama 12 night cake is traditional
and January 16th and tomorrow
just won't be the same.
- What about Mama's rum cake?
Oh, what when we throw it out?
- He's right.
Today isn't sick.
I go and get your cake baby.
Don't bother us anymore
with your rump cake.
Papa, would you stop.
Papa, go and get plates.
- Yes Mama.
- Go on.
You'd be surprised that all the garbage
they put into everything today.
Just awful.
I won't allow any food in my house
unless I know exactly where it comes from.
Everything from the outside
is suspicious to me.
Can't be too careful.
I mean danger is everywhere.
- Your plates Mama.
(plates shuttering)
- Papa this knife.
- (clears throat) Here's the cake.
Here it is Mama.
Hmm, Regina would you build the crown?
- Thank you.
- Well, doesn't look too spoiled.
- [Papa] Has to put grade, Mama.
- Mama, do you mind if
I tell you about us?
It's really incredible.
We unbelievable Mama.
Such a coincidence.
Do you remember that game we were playing,
the game I showed you before,
the one that we were playing-
- Done the thing that I didn't understand.
But what does that have to do-
- Papa, stop interrupting let him talk.
- Thank you Mama.
Frankly Papa between us.
I never found out, I didn't
understand anything about us.
Anyway, Mama,
well, it was the first
night right before jumping
and line this up in two rows Mama,
boys on one side and
girls on the other side.
And strangely enough,
I know that I think about it,
nobody had chosen it.
- Papa, Papa, you got
your elbow right the cake.
- Mama it's really healthful.
- Didn't get on it?
- Papa, Papa, let me clean please.
Mama there is nothing on.
- [Papa] I didn't get anything on it.
- (indistinct) all over his pants, here.
- There you go.
- Come on they're saying
they're basically face
and they were wired.
- Yeah, face to face.
And believe it or not Mama,
you know who my partner was?
Regina.
- This Cake is awful.
(Regina coughs)
- Drink the water.
(Regina coughs)
What do you think about that Papa?
- Oh, incredible, incredible.
- One chance in a million Papa.
I mean Mama hip was a
miracle really a miracle.
And here I am in Baton Rouge,
and I don't know anyone
and I'm jumping with Regina
on a very first night.
I mean, that was credible.
I knew right there Mama
that something was going on.
There was something happening again.
Yeah, an attraction Mama.
I got the bean.
I got the bean.
(Papa laughs)
- You didn't hurt your self.
- Mama, I didn't hurt myself.
Ready to be the king.
I'm just the king.
- Well, long live the king.
- Now you can kiss your queen.
- Long live the queen.
(gentle music)
- There, long live the queen.
Long live Regina.
You're not drinking, Mama.
- I'm not thirsty.
- Come on Mama, come on
finish your drink Mama please,
come on baby.
- I'm not hungry.
- Mama, cake, the party is in.
- Long live Mama.
Long live Mama.
Long live the queen.
- I have no use for a cardboard crown
that wasn't even meant for me.
- Mama.
- Mama, Mama, Mama, now come on,
I'm giving it to you.
- No.
- Mama, I'm begging you, come on now.
- Not up to someone else.
- No problem, Mama, Mama please,
please listen to me for a second, okay?
You have to understand something, Mama,
for now on you and Regina are same thing.
You and me Mama.
We're gonna get Married, Mama.
- Oh, I know we forgot the rum cake Papa.
- Mama, Mama, Mama, do you understand
I just said, I'm gonna marry Regina.
- Papa, get me the rum cake.
- He was telling you he's
going to marry Regina.
- Yes Mama.
- In other words Mama,
Carry is announcing his marriage.
- Go and get that rum cake.
- Okay Mama.
- Mama I don't get a damn about the cake.
Mama, I'm talking about my life here Mama.
Go get the cake.
Mama, that's too much.
Mama, please when you...
I mean, do I need you
permission to get married?
Are you gonna stop me?
Who's gonna stop me from
getting married, Mama?
I'm 36 years old Regina, 36 years old.
I need your permission to do everything?
Mama, I mean, enough is
enough, what's the matter
you don't like my fiance.
You don't like Regina tell me.
Papa, you don't like my fiance?
Tell me.
- I didn't say anything.
- I beg make himself talking, please Papa.
- Carry please come on, let's
sit down have some rum cake.
- No, forget got a rum cake.
God damn cake.
I'll stop when I want to stop
because I'm a man now Mama,
I'm free, free Mama.
I don't care, I'm a man.
No, no Carry no more (indistinct)
and all of that stuff.
- What have I done? (crying)
I sacrifice my whole life
and my job, everything.
And now (indistinct)
Somebody who's not even related to you.
- (indistinct) Mama, is you who
are no longer related to me.
- Were you Papa?
I'm leaving to come on Regina.
- Get out, get out, the door is wide open.
- Papa stop it no.
- Mama, please, please,
please do apologize poor Mama
right this minute.
- No, no, I hate that cake.
Will you two apologize to me.
- Yes I'm apologizing.
I Apologize yes.
Oh, Carry, Carry.
No, no listen, I apologize to you baby.
What you took for hostility with joy.
Come on, we're going to sit down
we'll settle this peacefully, come on.
Everybody, let's sit down, come on.
- Mama.
- Carry, pour me a drink.
- (clears throat) Yes, Mama.
- You see three red candles.
One for each month you were away.
Carry?
Yeah, to your return.
Look at me.
Now really look at me.
We don't want any more
misunderstanding too.
- No mother.
- You're not upset tonight?
- No.
- You're sure?
- I'm sure.
- You swear it?
- I swear.
- And if you're still mad
at me I couldn't survive.
Carry?
- Hmm.
- Kiss me.
You never left me before, did you?
- Mama? (laughs)
- We've always lived together
just the three of us.
We devoted an entire
life to his education.
We wanted him to do better than we did.
We sacrificed everything for it.
- I didn't ask for anything, Mama.
- Oh, I didn't mean that.
Honey, I have no regrets.
It's that I don't understand.
With your father's education,
you could have done far better.
My husband never mentioned it
but he's got a stack of diploma.
And it's quite a responsibility.
He's in charge of all those parking lots.
- Mama one lousy parking
Ilana crumby (laughs).
I'm just one of the attendants.
- Are you drunk?
- In a four-by-four booth
and I see a bunch of tickets.
A bunch tickets with this
all day long (laughs).
Oh, yes, sometimes I make changes.
- He doesn't drink very much.
No drink (indistinct)
I suppose you're not gonna tell us
that you didn't finish high school.
- Well, like everybody else.
- Too petty.
Back then you had so many
chances, so many contexts.
(indistinct)
What makes you money?
What about Leo Graham?
- I didn't know him.
What?
But he is a girl with your child
that you played together Little Mitchelle.
- Oh my God, you're right
I was four-years-old.
I had a fight with a little
girl on this public park
and about a pain and a shovel
and the news broke it up and she told
the nurse told my mother that the child
was related to Leo Graham.
I never saw a little girl again.
- It would make a liar of me.
You think we were half cast.
We know nobody, we've
never had any friends.
- Mama we didn't have any friends.
- Well, what about the bikini,
the bone gay, the Bradley's.
I mean, they were all our
friends, rich, brilliant.
They invited us
everywhere, do you remember
all the lovely parties? (laughs)
- Sure mama, all because I did
him a favor at the City Hall.
You're right, you're right.
There is the bikini didn't
write as one and only once.
And that was to a funeral of the niece.
I don't think we went, did we?
- No, problem, but we couldn't.
Baby you had chickenpox and
they couldn't leave him.
You dispatch yourself like a
dog would have been. (laughs)
Do you know I didn't want
you to have birth marks.
So I tied my hands to yours
so I could suffer with you.
You were such a difficult child.
No approach though (sighs).
And I think that the
patience I had with myself
just to teach you the first word
mama, mama, mama.
- That's why he didn't say
Papa until he was 2 1/2.
- Three.
Your lungs was so delicate.
I had to put you into my bed every night,
I hold you close me just to keep you warm.
- I wasn't allowed to come
into your room for months,
for months I slept on
that damn coach all along.
- [Mama] Papa had to bail all alone.
- I was asking for my
sister come between you
once in a while.
Was I asking too much.
- Would you take my body from him.
- I know how to sleep with my wife.
I mean, men get married
to sleep with their wives.
- Why didn't you tell my father
when you are (indistinct)
- Because you were pregnant.
- I guess that's when
I was on the way, huh?
(dramatic music)
- No, the other one.
- Papa.
- What other one?
Mama what are you two talking about?
Was there another child or what?
- That child as I know would
be four years older than him.
It was stillborn.
- Mama this is true?
- The birth is recorded to the County.
- Papa, that's enough.
- Baby was baptized in the name of Carry.
(somber music)
She was a girl.
Mama we promised ourselves
the story we would tell him
and I think the time has come.
I'm gonna get some coffee.
- Papa.
- Your father is sick.
Carry he is really sick.
- What are you talking about Mama?
- Carry I've been trying
to get him to doctor.
- Mama tell me the truth.
What was he talking about, Mama?
Was he telling the truth?
Yes or no Mama?
Tell me.
Mama, was there anybody
in this house named Carry besides me?
Tell me Mama.
- She didn't live.
- So Papa told the truth?
- Being named Carry just long enough
to come out of the womb
and go into a casket.
Does that really count?
- Mama listen to me,
was her name Carry, yes or no, Mama?
- Yeah.
- Tell me.
- Carry yes.
Yes, that was her name.
Thank you Mama.
Come on Regina.
- What have I done to you?
- Mama, Regina and I gonna
get married in a month
on the 15th in Baton Rouge
and I don't want you to come.
- You're judging us
without knowing the facts.
- I know it Mama.
- You'll listen to me anyhow.
- Why?
- Because your father is
jealous of his own son.
- What the hell are you
telling the boy for jealous.
- Yes, jealous, jealous.
Jealous fro that moment he
was born you've been jealous,
and you forced yourself on me,
I didn't know anything I was innocent.
You lie, you bragged enough
about not being a virgin.
- Don't make me feel
guilty about that murder.
- What do you mean murder?
- Who are you to decide what's a murder?
I was alone, alone.
Fighting, desperate, shame.
Yeah I took some pills.
I did everything I could do,
anything to get rid of
that illegitimate thing
that was inside me.
- You succeeded my Carry, my Carry died.
- If I have the same need to do again,
I would do it exactly the same.
- Oh God, oh God.
- What about me?
Where do I fit to all these?
I'm like the feeling that I'm
taking somebody else's place.
- Oh no my baby, no, no.
I wanted you with all my strength,
with every fiber of my body
with my eyes, with my blood.
- Can you do that?
Carry, Carry I wanted you,
I wanted you long before
I knew you could exist.
I loved you long before
you were conceived.
I used to pray for you night after night.
Night I wake up with eyes
wide open in the dark
and imagine the warm of your flesh.
Is your cry, your smile.
Oh, I used to talk to Carry.
And I waited and waited
for you months after months
and when the moment you came
and I hold you in my arms.
Nothing is started, but you nothing.
(dramatic music)
- Excuse me.
Excuse me I'm going to bed.
- Tell me before you go anywhere,
in front of your son,
have you anything at all against me?
- No.
- And you and the presence of your father?
- No.
- Nothing.
- Nothing.
- Have I been a perfect mother to you?
- Yes.
- Hey, well then, good night Papa.
- Good night.
- Papa, aren't you sleeping in your room?
- (mumbles) Today comfortable.
- It's a nice place to sleep.
You can share my room with me.
- No, thank you, Mama.
- It's your father just
giving you his place?
- No.
- Carry, be nice.
(gentle music)
- Papa I play, you have
to get up with it anymore.
Don't forget to put out the lights.
Don't make any noise in the morning,
you might wake the child.
Papa, aren't you going
to say good night to me?
- Oh, goodnight.
- Goodnight who?
- Goodnight Mama.
- Goodnight Papa.
- Papa?
- Yes.
- Sleep well.
- You too.
- Papa?
- Yes.
- Nothing.
Good night Papa.
(gentle music)
(door bangs)
You're ready?
- Well, where are you going?
- I can't sleep here I have
to go somewhere else Mama.
- There's no need I'll make room for you.
- No Mama, that's-
- Oh, no.
If anything I cannot bear (mumbles).
- Mama.
(upbeat music)
Mama.
Mama we got enough
problem for one evening.
- Go tell your father.
- Mama.
- You don't know me.
- Mama, would you just
listen to me for a second?
- You don't know me.
I know, I'm a nuisance.
I'm in the way, but I'm getting
out you'll be (indistinct).
Maybe won't take me long
to park, I have nothing.
- Mama.
- Oh, nothing, no.
Everything I carry, always I carry.
Before anything in your first communion,
I have nothing, I owe nothing.
I owe you my house,
and I'm living it to you.
Take your hands off me,
I'm ashamed of you, I've paid
your mortgage, all paid off
and (indistinct) humiliation.
And to you, I'm leaving everything
in perfect working order, the pasta bands,
the dishes, the whole ball of wax.
You'll find the cleanses under the sink
and the canned goods, the
beverages in the pantry
and if you look for a barbecue
because there isn't one.
- Why are you doing all these?
Why are you packing and it's stupid Mama?
I mean nobody's asking
you to go any place,
this is ridiculous, please.
- Somebody's going to replace me.
- Nobody is going-
- No, I'm living.
- Mama, nobody's going to
replace you stop putting-
- Take your hands off me.
My little treasure, stop it.
They're mine,
they are my park.
They're my park, and I'm leaving now.
Give me back my suitcase.
- You're going to listen
to me for one second now.
- I'll tell your father.
- Well I'll tell him too I'm warning you.
- Shut up now get out.
Get out of my way.
- Mama get the hat off
nobody was hurt anymore.
- I wanna go, I wanna live.
- Where do you wanna go.
- Oh, I don't know, somewhere,
somewhere I can die.
- Just like when I was a kid.
Just like with my with my
father you blackmail us
if we don't please you die.
- I died the day I gave you birth.
- Well, then you shouldn't
have given me birth.
- Right I mean no.
- Would you have done, you
would have taken some pills
and got rid of me just
like the other one, got it.
- I wanna live, I wanna
die, wanna get it over with.
- Mama what's the killing
us with your death threats.
I've seen you die at least 100 times,
Mama you can cut to the
dozen agonies for us
and for what Mama?
For nothing, for nothing mama.
Always your migraines,
your mood, your tears.
Mama I wanna live, I'm
alive, I wanna live Mama.
- I know you're alive
but I'm dying (cries).
This sleepless nights, the agonies,
the angry, the danger.
Oh God the fear the fear of
not doing enough the fear.
Not having enough. (sobbing)
You always feel (indistinct),
Oh, God I feel faint.
- Mama, Mama why are
you getting sick Mama?
And all I said was that I would want
to marry Regina, that's all.
- She got that I have got.
- [Regina] Carry?
- What, what?
- There's a train in one hour Baton Rouge.
- [Carry] What are you saying Regina, huh?
- [Regina] I want to go home.
- [Carry] Regina, you
can't leave me like this
with Mamamy's condition.
Look at her she sick.
Now come on.
- [Regina] It will be better.
- [Carry] Regina we sleep here.
- Where?
- We'll sleep in my room.
Regina can sleep in my room,
I'll sleeping on the couch.
- [Mama] What's wrong (indistinct).
- Papa did it 1000 times, I can do it.
- [Mama] Carry please.
- Regina, It's settled.
We'll manage if we don't, we find a hotel.
- Oh, there you can take my room.
- Quick test Mama.
(indistinct)
- Mama will you do me a favor, please?
Will you take off that hat?
Looks like you're visiting us.
It's my girl.
Come here that's good, that's better.
You look pretty, okay.
Everything's gonna be nice, will be fine.
- All right.
You know miss.
we haven't really talked, have we?
- Well that's because
you're scaring her, Mama.
- Tell me about yourself.
Have you any brothers and sisters?
- She's an only child.
- And your parents?
Her father died before she was born, Mama.
You see, her mother is a
companion to Mr. Bailey's mother,
he live in New York.
The lady is very, very old.
- I keep forgetting this Mr. Bailey.
Is he your uncle, godfather or-
- He is her godfather, Mama.
You see, they become
very, very good friends.
In fact, some years ago, Mr.
Bailey had gone to the spa
for his health he was already very sick
and became such good friends
at Mr. Bailey hired Regina's mother
is part of his household staff.
- Oh gosh, that's nice.
- Soon as Regina was born, Mr.
Bailey became her godfather.
- Maybe and then we have
the spa we met her mother.
Are there any other children,
legitimate children?
- Legitimate?
Let's see five children,
three boys, two girls.
Of course, they've all grown
up and are at home by now.
You see, the more or
less on speaking terms
with Virginia's mother.
- Is there Mr. Bailey?
- Mr. Bailey is a widower.
In fact Mama you know,
he's promised to be the
best man in our wedding.
You'll come, won't you?
Will come to our the wedding you and Papa?
I'll buy you a nice beautiful dress
to walk down the aisle together.
- It's all so quick.
- Oh Mama I'm 36-years-old.
- Which means you're a very young man.
How old is your chick?
- 39.
- Oh, 39.
- Come on Mama things are changing now.
You come down to Baton Rouge
and visit us weekends and vacation.
To babysit the grandchildren.
- You won't have any children.
- Mama we wanna have three?
- She's too old.
Her womb already dried out.
- What are you talking about Mama?
- Oh look at her white tickling, a looser,
she has nothing, she is nothing.
But she'll be a burden to you.
- How can you say that Mama?
- She'll crush you by her
dullness, her emptiness.
- Mama, I want to marry her.
- Did she ever tell you about
her life before you met her?
- What difference does it make?
- She's the daughter of a (indistinct)
and if your of sexual betrayal deathbed
with a colleague politician,
doesn't like her mother.
- You are lying.
- No, I'm protecting my son.
Your mother lived as a
man who takes pity of her,
because she gave him an illegitimate child
conceived in a moment of bored and you.
- That's not true.
- Oh yes you're bastard.
- Okay, please.
- Mama, take back what you just said.
- If you follow her you'll
live a life of poverty,
the dreams that four people dream
without even having children
This is not exactly what
I dream for you, Carry.
- [Carry] Are you making
all these up, Mama?
- Oh no, you drawn away all of it,
just wondering how this
would have ended all
is very simple.
Regina is going to the door,
she is going back to the train,
tonight you'll spend all alone.
- Regina aren't you gonna say something.
Defend yourself at least.
- I want to go home.
- I'm gonna go with you.
- No Carry.
- [Carry] I have to go with her Mama.
- Damn, it's raining, you can't go.
But you'll understand, won't you Regina?
- Goodbye Carry.
- Regina, Regina don't.
Regina don't live me like
this, please, Regina.
- Goodnight Regina.
(door bangs)
(suspense music)
(indistinct)
At the moment, you
can't see beyond things,
you can't hear beyond words.
Do the condemn man.
Believe me honey, I'm not
against you getting married.
But not just anywhere,
anytime with anyone.
And also, it's not very nice
to show up without an invitation.
It's really bad manners.
(thunder rumbling)
- Should blame me for
that Mama was my fault.
- Oh you will miss that.
You're handsome boy.
You sentimental, honest,
gullible, the ideal prey.
Mama hasn't got a chance to
get the cleverness of a woman.
Nowadays I'll go to any
lengths to get your man.
(thunder roaring)
- What do you do all these clothes, Mama?
- I'm going to put them back in that box.
- You keep everything?
- Everything, I never throw anything away,
might come in handy.
Tomorrow we'll call Mandini.
I'm going to arrange for you
to be transferred back home.
Paint your room, change your mattress.
- And my springs too?
- Mm-hmm, the whole bed.
- You'll be very comfortable.
Do you like some tea?
You're (indistinct).
- No, Mama.
- Papa?
- I had a nightmare.
(dramatic music)
Just woke up.
Oh, I'm thirsty.
(dramatic music)
I must be late.
- Very late.
- I didn't think it's gonna be up.
What's all this?
- I was just (indistinct).
- Is your friend on to bed?
- Papa, it's late.
You have to get up in the morning.
(Papa sighs)
- What are you dong?
- Sitting in my own chair.
- In the middle of the night.
- I slept, didn't I?
- No, you have, now come on Papa.
Go on, go back to bed.
- Where is Regina?
- Do you mind if I have
just a few moments alone
with my own son.
- Is she gone?
- Oh God, Carry.
You let her go through you?
- What do you expecting to do, chain her?
- No, I'd follower her?
His live you might have
dared to say no to you.
- Have you ever said no to me?
- Mama.
- Don't you get involved in this.
- She must still be there on the platform,
under the rain.
- Let her stay there.
- You're idiot.
Son this is your chance.
Come on.
- You're crazy Papa.
- Carry.
- You let him go.
- No, no.
- Carry, what are you waiting for?
Believe me, you're gonna miss her.
Go on, go on.
What?
- Carry, Carry, Carry, Carry.
- No, please let him go, please Mama.
Please let him.
(Mama crying)
- He's gone Papa.
- Mama, Mama he's 36 years old.
He has a right to his own life, dear.
Mama, come on.
I swear I'll make it up to you honey.
Mama I'll make it up to you.
Just you and me, sweetheart,
I'll make it up to you.
Oh honey, oh Mama, Mama, Mama. (kissing)
- You make me sick.
- What the hell did you say?
Don't you to treatment me like that,
don't you ever talk to me like that again.
(indistinct)
Life hurts.
I could have put 16 of
then, everyday of my life.
Do you know that?
You know I've never
looked at another woman?
I never even got caught.
Look at me, I'm getting old.
I'm not used to anybody
and I regret, oh God.
Oh God I regret.
Tell me where was my life gone?
Look at me, look at me,
what have I done with my life?
What the hell have you done with my life?
- I'll tell you.
- I'll tell you what?
All your nudging, you're personality,
you're God damn scuff, you take your pill.
And I love to live you like...
I gave him to your lovely
women you know why?
Hey you wanna know why?
Just to get a smile out of you.
No come on, you made me pushed
that baby cage every Sunday afternoon
on empty street sniping with heat.
You wearing a tie with
prattle leather shoes.
Just so you could show
off your blue ribbon baby
in your model husband.
I'd come at home, having every
(indistinct) with that dummy
to whom was the pharmacist but the baker,
the grocer, the Cuban.
You could have cared less.
My god I was 30-years-old.
People behind my back were snickering.
Do you know what they were calling me?
Do you know what they said about me?
(laughs)
There goes the same.
- Papa, it's the worst thing.
- I'm a jackass, so as my son.
You wanna know something I don't?
I don't even think he is my son.
- I got you.
- Come on, come on.
I know what I'm saying.
I know what I'm saying.
Well, what about that Cuban?
Yeah, what about that?
You thought I was blind?
Did you really think I was blind
that every time you went into a shop,
I mean, that Winx behind my back
the snickering and oh, boy.
Oh, boy, did you love it?
Tell me, tell me, just tell me.
What went on in the afternoons
when I was stuck away in my office?
- Oh god you've been living
with this life of worrying.
Nobody's ever touched me but you, nobody.
I love you.
- You were right.
You swear?
- Oh, I swear, I swear on me.
- Come on, don't touch me.
You swear on your son's head.
- I swear on all that.
Your son (indistinct).
- Stop it.
Okay.
All right.
Good night.
You wake me at six
on some bacon eggs and strong coffee.
(door bangs)
(dramatic upbeat music)
(soft music)