Wild Prairie Rose (2016) - full transcript

(birds chirping)

(humming)

(upbeat rock and roll music)

(tractor engine whirring)

- Gee, is that you Miss Miller?

- Mr Mickelson hi.

- Need a ride?
- Oh yes.

- Yeah, come on over here.

- Thank you so much, oh great to see you.

- Put your bag right there.

- Right here that okay?



- That'll work.
- Thank you.

Okay.
- Come around, yeah.

Put your hand right up here yep,

put your feet right up there.

- I'm all good, ready to go
(laughs)

Let's go.

(door banging)

(smooth jazz music)

- Mom, mom.

Mom (knocking on door)

Mom, mom.
- Honey, I'm out back.

Oh, Rosie, oh honey.

- Mom are you alright?

- I'm fine, Rosie I'm fine.



- My, you are all dolled up.

- Well it isn't every day
I come home to see my mom.

- No it certainly isn't.

- Honey you could use a wash.

- Well it's a long walk from the station.

- Why didn't you call?

- I did call.

- Oh, you know, sometimes I take the phone

off the hook when I'm resting, sorry.

- Well I hitched a short bit
on Mr Mickelson's tractor.

(laughs)
- Boy I'm gonna hear about

that at the Ladies Aid.

- That gossip about me
hasn't killed you yet.

- No, but it's not for lack of trying.

- Make fun, but I have done a lot

of interesting things in my life.

- Well I think that a
husband is interesting,

and you don't have one of those.

- Let's get you lying down.

- I haven't heard that in a long while.

- (gasps) Mom!
(laughs)

- Oh don't you be so
scandalized little city girl.

- Well I'm not in the city now,

I'm home to help my mom,
so no more laundry for you.

- I'm gonna have to lie down naked

if I don't do the laundry.

(laughs)

Oh, and then there
really will be a scandal.

(humming)

(draw sliding)

(gentle jazz music)

- From Footlight Parade, we saw it twice

at The Old Fox Theater in the city.

- Three times.

- Hmm, what you working on?

- A little afghan.

(laughs)

- Chick, chick, chick, chick, chick

(imitates chicken noises)

- [Rosie] Mom, come on in,

mom come for breakfast, it's ready.

(chickens clucking)

Mom it's getting cold.

(imitates chickens clucking)

- I ordered over easy.

- Well they got scrambled on the way.

- Put that pan to soak,
I'll take care of it later.

You're still a wizard
in the kitchen I see.

- Fix the truck for you this afternoon.

- Mm mm fancy secretary timing pistons.

- You may recall during the war

I spent three years building B29's,

know my way around machines.

- Well at least that GD war
gave you something useful.

- Is there a pair of overalls
around here I can use?

- Don't go worryin' about that truck,

that's on my to do list.

- Mo...
- Don't you argue with me.

At least not on your first morning home.

- So tell me again what the doctor said?

- I told yah six times already,
you don't listen Rosie.

Just said my arthritis is gettin' worse,

I should come home, rest.

- I'll fix the truck for
yah, what else can I do?

- Slow down, kicking up a lot of dust.

- I'm here to get things done,

my company only hired
a temp for three weeks.

If I don't make it back
in time she keeps my job.

(door slamming)

- Thank you kindly, not a problem miss.

- Rose, Rose Miller

Now look at you Rosie, come on Gene.

Always an eyeful.

(laughs)

Gene you go along, tell the pastor

I'll be there in a few minutes.

Gene, no running, my grandson.

- The accordionist.

- Is he from around here?

- Chaplain.

- He's a priest?

- No they call him that
because he's silent.

- In my experience that's
not an excuse to be rude.

- He's deaf and dumb.
- Oh.

- Rosie, honestly the liquor store?

- We were out.

- But you send someone, that's not a place

for a nice young lady.

- Florence, when have you ever known me

to be a nice young lady.

(gentle guitar music)

- Rose Miller is that you?

What are you doin' back in town?

- Macy Comstock.

I'm impressed you held on to that factory,

- Several people came up
to me at Charlie's funeral,

scared asking if I was
gonna shut the place down.

- Why didn't you?

- I thought about it, no one
left in the family to run it.

- Men don't give you trouble.

- Once I showed them I was
serious about learning,

they got serious about teaching me,

and here we are, five years down the road.

- That long.

- Well you haven't been back in what...

- Year and a half.

- That was the worst winter
we've had in 20 years.

- Almost didn't make it back to Chicago,

and nearly lost my job.

- You still happy there?

- Absolutely, I live in
an apartment on my own,

I shop at department
stores, museums, nightclubs.

- Do you still see movies?

I remember you and your
mother used to always see

Sunday matinees in the city?

(laughs)
- Still go

- With someone special?

- Oh, no, all the men I meet want me

to quit my job, keep house.

- Anna, you remember Rose,
come say hello, please?

She just loves her books.

- [Rose] You are so grown up.

- [Macy] Anna, say hello.

- Hello.

- I'm know I'm not around
much but I know all sorts

of secrets about your mother
from when she was young,

and I can be bribed with chocolate,

or the loan of your bicycle.

- [Macy] Now don't be telling
her about all the trouble

we used to get in to.
- Mom.

- [Macy] I didn't mean to
embarrass you darling, I just...

- You're embarrassing yourself.

(gentle music)

- What you got playin' down here?

- It's Flying down to Rio.

- Ginger and Fred, their foreheads

never stopped touching.
(laughing)

They had that dance floor
was all made of pianos.

- I wore my hair like hers for years.

- Rosie you're always trying to find

that special little somethin'

- (gasps) The Saturday photos.

- Mm, I found them in a box that was

next to the old mangle
down in the basement.

I'm just gonna get 'em all labeled.

What year is this?

- 1933, like the Gold Diggers.

♪ We're in the money, we're in the money ♪

- I ran into Florence, she didn't know

you were feeling poorly.

- Well I don't want her too,
she's gonna tell everybody,

and I'm gonna be up to my neck in pity

that I don't want, and a
whole bunch of hot dishes

I'm not even gonna eat.

- Suit yourself.

- Hmm mm.
- Oh.

- Oh boy, after every
matinee we'd take a picture

in front of the marquee.

What I wouldn't give to just see

one more movie musical.

- Why don't we?

- The nearest theaters 40 miles away.

- We have your truck.

(laughs)

- We'd be rattled to bits.

- I'll ask Macy, she'll loan us her car,

we'll drive to Desuit and
we'll catch a matinee.

- Rosie I can't even sit
still at the supper table.

- The pills from the doctor.

- I am not takin' those goofballs.

- They're perfectly safe.

- Yeah that's what they told
your father after the war,

and he wasn't ever the same.

- I'm tryin' to do
something special for you.

- Honey, I don't want
special, I just want normal.

Two hours in the car, and
three hours at the matinee.

I don't do that anymore.

- Fine

(humming)

(exhales in pain)
(laughing)

(humming)

- Oh boy, sure is nice
to have a partner again.

(humming)

( smooth dance music)

- Thank you so much for coming tonight,

I just wanted to welcome you all to

the annual Sue Steam community dance.

I know my husband
Charlie would be so happy

to know that we've kept
on the family tradition.

So please have some pie and punch,

and dance the night away, and
have a bunch of fun, alright.

(crowd applauds)

- Anna will you dance with me?
- No.

- Oh come on please, I love
to dance, you will too.

- No, please?
- Alright.

(gentle jazz music)

- I'm Rose Miller.
- Oh how do you do?

- And you are?
- Mrs Albert Clearing.

Lovely, and your name?
- Mrs Albert Clearing.

♪ I don't mean to be unkind ♪

♪ Is your whole life on your mind ♪

♪ Darling ♪

- [Macy] You remember Dave Jenkins,

his wife died a few years ago.

- [Rose] Oh so sorry to hear that.

(children shouting and arguing)

Well look at that, Anna has a crush,

I remember my first crush.

- [Macy] Me too but
that was a lifetime ago.

- Ever think about finding a man,

maybe getting married again.

- I think about finding someone,

just not getting married again.

And you, do you wanna belong to someone?

- Belong to someone, can't
believe you just said that?

Madam factory boss,
modern independent woman

(tutting)

- Like I told you last night,

I'm happy loaning my car
but she's a grown woman

and it doesn't sound like she wants to go.

- I just wish she could see a movie

without leaving Beresford.

- The only way you're gonna
see a movie in this town

is if you make it yourself.

You want the last piece.

- Why not?
- It's all yours.

- Why not, making a movie can't be harder

than building a plane.

- What sort of trouble are
you hatching Rose Miller?

- What is a movie musical anyway,

a camera, some film, some
beautiful young people dancing.

We can do that right here.

- I'm not so sure we have any
of those things in this town.

- And it doesn't need be two hours long,

it's gonna be easy.

Moms gonna get her movie
without leaving Beresford.

- I am so glad you're back,
uh, things have gotten

boring around these parts.

(birds chirping)
(gentle music)

(gentle knocking)

- Hello, hello, hello?

Hello, hi, I'm Rose, Macy's friend.

I think she told you I was coming,

I'm making a film for my mother.

Chaplain, we need a movie camera.

Hmm mm.
Great.

Do you have one?

Oh no, no a camera, a camera.

We're looking for a camera but small,

like during the war, excuse me.

Well, I don't know how I'm supposed

to explain anything to you.

This is wonderful, does it work?

That is just beautiful.

No I'd like to take a look at it

before you go taking it apart.

I want to know how it works.

(sighs)

Alright then, I'll be back Monday.

Hi Anna, your mother
said I'd find you here,

what yah readin'?

Did your mother mention
the movie I'm making?

- Yeah.

- I'm gonna need a leading lady,

will you be my star?

- No thank you.
- Why not?

- I'm not exactly the actress type.

- Anna I think you'll make the audience

fall in love with you.

- That's impossible, I can't make faces

and cry in front of people.

- Many actors can make dramatic poses,

but very few can evoke true emotion.

- Do you really think that I can?

- I do.
- I'll have to ask my mom.

- I already did.
- Okay I'll do it.

- And let's ask that boy from the dance.

- Which one?

- The one who looks
like a young Cary Grant.

- Dale?
- Yes.

- No he's busy, he works
at the Soda Fountain,

and he plays basketball and he's...

- Let's let him decide that.

- Welcome to Duares, what
can I get you two today?

- Uh, oh dear, um...

- The deer they're impressive.

- Well that ones a ram.

- Right you are, from the
Black Hills near Rankin Ridge.

- I think so, are you from around here?

- Not anymore, I'm Rose, Rose Miller.

Dale truth be told, Anna
and I have dropped in

because we have something to ask you.

We'll be making a movie
in the next few days

and we're looking for
actors, what do you say?

- To what?
- To be in the film.

- Uh no, no thank you.
- Why not?

- [Dale] Actors memorize
lines, I can't do that.

- My movies a musical,
there's not any lines.

- I can't sing.
- It's a silent musical,

we don't even have a microphone.

- You don't even have to
sing, or, say anything really.

- No sound.
- No sound.

- I wouldn't know what to do.

- Do you play any sports?
- He plays basketball.

- Captain, two years.

- Who tells you what to do in the game?

- Coach Phillips.
- I will be your coach.

I'll tell you where to
stand, where to move,

and how to do everything,
doesn't that sound like fun?

- Yes ma'am.
- Call me Rose.

We will stop my tomorrow to
fit you for your costume,

and shooting begins as soon

as the film comes in from Chicago.

- Yes ma'am, I mean Rose.

- Oh holy cow, look at this,
it's your Theda Bara period,

tell me what you were thinking?

- Jeepers, look who's
talking, daddy gave you

endless grief for that hairdo.

- Now see you could do no wrong,

but let me step out of an apron
and he about blew a gasket.

- (laughs) That's putting it mildly.

Okay what do you think about 1937?

- No, it's '39.
- I already have it in ink.

- Well scratch it out.

- Well a few years
difference won't matter.

- It will matter, when you
look back, it's gonna matter.

- Oh, that's the one I was looking for.

- I look like Myrna Loy in...

- Thin Man 1934, that was my favorite.

- I thought you liked the musicals best?

Till you discovered boys
and then you'd be gone

from the intermission
to the closing credits.

- You're exaggerating.

- Oh momma, the line at
the concession stand,

it was just so long.

- I didn't know you even missed me,

eyes were glued to the screen.

- That was our time together.

- I'm gonna hang a sheet in that corner,

pretty soon we will have
our own little matinee.

♪ Can broadcast a bed from Simmons ♪

♪ 'Cause Franklin knows ♪

♪ Anything goes ♪

- Hi there, jeepers, I'm Rose
Miller, nice to meet you.

- Ah Pearls daughter, Macy
said you'd be comin' around.

- Yeah I'm back in town,
temporarily, from Chicago,

and trying to make a film, a movie.

- Huh.
- I think

your land here is perfect.

I'd be hugely grateful
to you if you'd consider

letting me use it as a location,

that's where you make a film.

Using a location is a
very modern idea actually,

and the script, I'll
be writing the script.

That's the films, the movie's story.

- Will it be narrative or expressionist?

- Excuse me?

- Sure you can use whatever you want,

I'll actually be around to help out.

(heavy thud)

- It arrived this morning.

No, I need to test it, to see if it works.

How are we supposed to work together

if we can't communicate.

You think of everything,

great idea Chaplain.

(keys clacking)

Your name is James, sorry I didn't know.

Rose.

(keys clacking)

What do you know about machines?

I built bombers during the war.

(keys clacking)

An executive secretary.

Do you like it?
Very important job.

(keys clacking)

I feel like an idiot, I've spent years

trying to impress people
who think I'm inferior

and they just want me
to be quiet and go away.

(keys clacking)

People think your skills
are less for no good reason.

That's why I work for myself.

(gentle guitar music)

(camera whirring)

(ball thudding)

The book says that the
film needs a director

and also a camera specialist.

Will you be my cameraman?

Yes.

You have eyes don't you,
you can see just fine?

- Okay but I wanna see
the edge of the flat,

the edge of the flat.

What, what?
Just.

Okay this is for my
mother, she loves fantasy.

Just, just do what I say,
this is going to work,

just do this.

Okay you too, get to the edge,

and then come in when I tell you.

Florence?

- I brought a rhubarb cake
for you to take to Pearl.

Are you expecting Pearl
to come watch soon?

- Oh, I don't believe so.

Macy, so much to do at the house.

- Her arthritis problem improving then.

- Oh, you know Pearl no complaints.

- Hmm mm, well if that's the
way she wants to play it.

- Well this was wonderful of
you, Pearl will be pleased

thank you.
(impatient tapping)

- What's that on her head?

- [Rose] It's a headdress,
we're channeling a dance

from the Zigfield Girls.

- [Florence] Under here,
tighten it there, alright.

Try to shake your head.

Get me some chicken wire and pliers.

- [Anna] I'll go get some.

- Gene, I'm gonna need an assistant,

would you be willing to take good notes

and do what I say?

- Yes ma'am.

- We'll get along just fine.

Alright everybody, let's rehearse.

Places.
- Places.

- Much louder.
- Places.

- Good come with me.

Macy, and go.
Left, good, right, left

and right, and turn and swoop.

Before I go to Macy's
I'm gonna go fix dinner.

- [Pearl] I'm not hungry yet.

- I won't burn it this time I promise.

- [Pearl] Did you hear back from your job?

What are you gonna do
if they don't give yah

any more time off?

(door slams)
Rosie!

Rose, honey come on,
sit down for a minute.

You know I worry about
you every single day.

- I'm fine.
- Which part's fine?

Living in that box of an apartment

that you call home all by yourself.

- Being a part of
something bigger than this.

- Bigger than this, this
is ours, this is all ours.

- There's not enough here for me.

Mom, be honest, wouldn't you have lived

in the city if you could have?

The museums, the stores, the excitement.

- All that concrete, all that noise.

- The quiet here is too loud for me.

- Are you gonna tell me what's goin' on?

Well, that's your right.

- I just don't want anybody
feeling sorry for me.

- What you don't want is to admit

you're just like the rest of us.

Pearl you have helped
me throughout the years,

you've been there for me,

and if you don't let me help you now

you're keeping me in your
debt, and that's just mean.

Now are you gonna be a bathrobe hypocrite

or can I sign you up for a visit

from the Aid Society tomorrow?

- Everyone gather round.

- Ladies and gentlemen, film
is very, very expensive,

and the rain might be
coming so we can't afford

to make any mistakes, do you
all feel ready to do this?

- Yes.

- James, James, is the camera ready?

Great.
No just do this.

Okay let's do this.
- Let's do this.

Scene one, take one.
(clapper board claps)

And the orchestra music comes in, and

♪ duh de duh de duh duh duh duh ♪

Cut.
- Cut.

(camera whirring)

Scene one, take two.
Scene one, take three.

Take four.

Scene one, take seventeen.

- Hold on.
- Hold on.

- What are you doing?
Just do what I say.

James, James.

Sorry, I'm sorry.

I should ask you and not tell you.

We're never going to
understand each other,

so I should get somebody else.

I don't want anybody else, I want you.

Now how do you want to communicate.

What?

- He seems so angry.

- What do those hand signals mean?

- I don't know.

- Do you think Rose needs help?

So what are you gonna
do after you graduate?

I plan on going to Indiana or Iowa.

- What would you study?

- Ag probably, my dad says that no one

knows this land better then he does,

but I know I could raise production,

learn the new fertilizers and machines.

- Like robots?
- Farm robots.

- Wonder how long this is gonna take,

I don't want to walk home in the dark.

- I could walk you.
- Really.

- Yeah my dad would
have my hide if he knew

I let you walk home alone in the dark.

- Okay.

- James whatever it is I'll Lear...

James, James!

(bouncy music)

- Need a lift Miss DeMill?

- Sister do I ever.

- I had fun today.

- There's your mum,
guess you don't need me.

- Do you want a ride?

- Uh no, I'll just run home.

- [Macy] Hop in.

- Never ever speak to me again.

- Turn and then a swoop,
a turn and a swoop, hmm.

- Well maybe it'll look like
it's supposed to be a comedy.

- It's a silent musical.

(laughing)

Am I crazy?

I'm running out of time.

- Your job wants you back?
- Hmm.

- And James.
- And James?

- I tried to tell him
what to do and he quit.

- What?
- He quit.

- Well you have to get him back.

- How?
It feels like whatever

I write down is half of what I mean.

- Well I've always believed
Chaplain, I mean James

to be smart, obviously
he's smarter then he shows.

- He says there's a sign language,

have you heard of this?

- No, but he did go to
a school for the deaf

up near Sioux falls, that
where he was when we were kids.

- Huh.

- It's not a language, it's
more like a slang or pitchwa.

We forbid it in the classroom.

- Why?
- It's a crutch,

they need to learn to read
lips, or they'll never

be able to integrate into society.

- I never thought of that.

- Well imagine you were different,
ostracized, an outsider.

Never allowed to participate
in the grand pageant of life

what you'd want most is a way to fit in,

to find a job, get married,
to be like everyone else.

That's what we can give them.

- But when deaf people
talk, I mean not talk,

but to each other, they sign.

- Why do you want to learn it?

- Well, I've become friends with

a former student here, James Hanson.

- I remember James, he could
really take it to the hoop.

He never learned to audiate
well, or to read lips,

but the Pheasants kicked the stuffing

out of the Flander Indians
the year he led the team.

Has he found his place in the world?

- I think he has.
- Good.

I worry about them, so reliant
on the kindness of others.

- Couldn't you teach me, just a few signs.

Hello, goodbye and thank you.

- Your desire to communicate
with James is admirable

but I can't teach you any
signs because I don't know any.

- Go get some ice,
here's the cafeteria key.

- Hello, excuse me.

- She went to the school nurse.

- Are you using sign
language, can you teach me?

- I'm not supposed to use sign
language on school grounds.

- But you use it somewhere else.

I would like to communicate with

a deaf friend of mine, respectfully.

No one else in the town is
deaf, and he doesn't read lips.

- He should learn.

- Is that what you really think?

- I can't afford to get fired.

- Are you finished with work,

because I borrowed a
friends car to get here,

and we could go to a diner,
and we'll get a meal,

and you can teach me whatever I can learn

in a couple of hours, deal?

(hammer banging)

- I went to school.

Your school, go Pheasants.

Deaf woman nice.

Nice.

I'm not good.

Yes, please, I'd like that.

Frog.

Oh, B-O-Y, boy, boy.

Oh dog, dog.

Rooster, rooster, okay.

(gentle violin music)

(metal banging)

- Here we are.

- Lord we thank you for the...

- [Rose] He needs his hands to say Grace.

- Oh.

- Lord thank you for the
food before us, may the...

I don't understand.

- I understand, I
understand just fine, Amen.

- [Rose] Amen.

- Don't keep those potatoes to yourself.

(crickets chirping)

- It's beautiful.

What, then what's the sign?

You don't know?

Well what does one do when
one doesn't know the sign?

You and me think a sign.

Cigarette, match, you're
throwing the matches

that's ugly.

Okay, you're slow.

That's, that's good, I had a good day.

I had good day.

Driving.

I don't understand.

I had a good day too.

Good.

(gentle violin music)

- Mom (gentle knocking)

- [Pearl] I'm takin' a bath.

- The film is back on track.

I convinced James to
continue being my cameraman,

and that's so good
because he turns the most

ordinary things into something unique.

He has the Iris touch,
it's permanent you know

(hisses in pain)

And mum everyone is
enjoying themselves so much.

You should see Anna, she's blossoming,

and you are going to love Dale's costume.

- Rosie?
- Hmm mm, yes.

- Could you come here?

I...

[Rose] Okay, I got yah.

(groans in pain)

Mum.
- Yeah.

- What is that?

- It's a tumor, I have
cancer in my breast.

- But your arthritis?

- It's the same as it ever was,

I just didn't wanna tell you.

- Well they have treatments, surgery.

- They can cut it out but
it takes half the chest.

Most women don't survive that surgery,

and the rest can hardly stand up.

- But we have to do something.

- Honey, I think that for
the first time in my life,

I've earned the right to
do absolutely nothing.

(somber violin music)

(birds chirping)

- [Female] I'm sorry to hear
about your mother Miss Miller,

but we agreed that if you
didn't return after three weeks

Miss Jefferson would keep your position.

You may have to return
to the general pool,

but that will be up to the office manager.

- Did you take those boxes of pictures

back down to the basement?

- Soon as I'm back.

- Set my clock to that.

- [Rose] Mom, you said you want
me to finish the film, yes?

- [Pearl] I do, I do.

- Farmer's Almanac says
we run out of light

at 8:02 tonight, I will be home then.

- Farmers Almanac. (laughs)

- Marlon Brando lived
in a veterans hospital

for weeks to play a paraplegic.

- Why?
- Method acting.

You really live the
truth of it all the time.

We should try it, all the
big movie stars are doing it.

- Oh, I'm game.

- So we act as if we're
in love all the time.

- [Dale] How do we do that?

(birds chirping)

- [Rose] Rise, yes and

♪ Dah de dah, de dah dah ♪

Good, no, no, cut.
- Cut.

♪ Dah de dah, dah ♪

- No, no cut, cut.
- Cut.

♪ Dah de dah ♪

- Stop

- [Dale] Cut

- Let's take a break.
- 15 minute break.

- Thank you Gene.
- Shall I follow you?

- No you take a break too.

- Sure, yes, whatever you want, you just.

(gentle guitar music)

(camera whirring)

- Gene!
Vern!

What, what are you doing?

Please everyone get back to set.

We have so much work
to do, please come on,

come on, we are running out of time.

I am running out of time,

please, please we have so much work to do.

We have to figure out what
the next dance is gonna...

It's beautiful.

Tell the story of this place.

Story of this place.

Alright everyone, give James some space,

James, action.

- Yeah.

- Well this should hold
you for another week.

Rose dear, will you help
me with where to put these.

- Just leave that there
and I'll get to them later.

- I just need you for a minute, in here.

- I noticed you've been spending

a lot of time with the Chaplain.

- James is wonderful company.

- Be that as it may he is deaf.

- I hadn't noticed.

- It's a serious defect Rose.

In my day we did what was necessary

to make sure that wasn't passed on.

- Like a gelding.

- Dear, Chaplain has a decent
place in this community,

with his business, but you
should never be alone with him.

- Do you honestly think he'd attack me?

- Of course not, but you don't wanna

give the wrong impression
to the real men in town

you might actually want to marry.

Now there are casseroles in the ice box,

I want you to make sure Pearl eats.

- [Customer] I hope you're understanding,

I need this by Monday.

Alright, thank you.

Miss, please make sure he understands

how important it is for Monday, thank you.

- I have an idea, you
should put up a sign.

Yeah, useful requests, phrases.

Requests, and people
come in and just point.

Yeah, maybe like a
list, A this, B that, C.

What?

I just want to make easier.

I didn't mean...

Not what I...

No, I just want to make it easier.

James, James.
(metal clanking)

James.
(boxes rattling)

Rental, repair, camera,
projector, paid, cash!

(grunts in pain)

- How's the afghan coming?

- The spirits willing
but the flesh is weak.

What's the matter?

- Having some trouble with my cameraman.

It's all over now.

I'll get that laundry done.

- Hey, honey, I've got
30 women in this town

who can do my laundry
and make hot casseroles,

and clean my kitchen, I
only got one daughter.

- I'm sorry mom, I always try
to do what I think is right,

and it's just not enough.

- Honey if you're with me that's enough.

So you put the hook in the middle.

- Here.
- Where the hole is, good.

(laughs weakly)

- I like this.

- Crocheting's very relaxing.
- No, I'm giving up.

- Do you want some advice?
- Of course.

- You didn't always.

- Well you didn't usually
ask me before delivering it.

- Fair enough.

- I'd love to know.

- Alright close your
eyes, close your eyes.

(sighing)

Imagine your picture of happiness,

anybody there or are you alone?

- No.
- Who's there?

- You are.

- That's nice but not forever.

Any body that you pick
to stand next to you

should have that same picture of happiness

because if they don't they're
gonna be in the business

of changin' you, and you're
gonna be in the business

of changing them, and that is just not

a profitable business.

- When did you get so smart?

- Uh, same time that you
stopped knowing everything.

Probably last week.

Try it again.

(birds chirping)
(trees rustling)

(somber string music)

(needle scrapping vinyl)

(birds chirping)

(somber string music)

(laughing)

- You need to accept that I'm bossy.

You want a deaf woman?

You want to move to the city,

there's deaf people,
different, different jobs.

Maybe easier for us.

Okay, imagine, envision
happiness, what do you see?

Close your eyes.

(leaves crunching)

- [Anna] Hi Rose.

- Give me your hand, your mother and I

first bought this color
at Montgomery Wards

when we were your age.

- Nice.
Yours.

- Come to the barn tomorrow night.

- What's going on?

- You'll have to see.
Bring a blanket.

(upbeat accordion music)

I hope you don't mind, we finished it.

- The movie?
- Uh huh.

Everybody came.

Good evening, almost everyone here tonight

gave us something so that
we could make this movie.

So grateful to all of
you, but I'm most grateful

to the woman who imagined
it all, Rose Miller.

(crowd applauds)
(crowd murmuring)

- Can I get some light please?

Oh it's for my hands, thank you.

My mother loved the movies.

I think she loved sitting
in the dark with emotions

she wouldn't dare express in the light.

I used to think she imagined
herself as a character

in a movie, that she wanted to exist

in different lands,
have amazing adventures,

but you know what, I was wrong.

She loved watching the
magic, but not as much

as she loved being in
the light of this place.

This is where she belonged.

Let's watch the movie.

(camera whirring)
(audience applauding)

(gentle accordion music)
(crowd murmuring and laughing)

(intense orchestral music)

♪ I can see it, I can hear it too ♪

♪ No words will ever catch up with you ♪

♪ I can see it, I can hear it too ♪

♪ Nothing will challenge
the sight of you ♪

(melancholy singing)

♪ I can see it, I can hear it too ♪

♪ No words will ever catch up with you ♪

♪ I can see it, I can hear it too ♪

♪ Nothing will challenge
the sight of you ♪

♪ I can see it, I can hear it too ♪

♪ Nothing will challenge
the sight of you ♪