1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:10,000 23.976 English from Closed Caption DVD Subrip NTSC © 28.10.2019 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:18,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 3 00:00:51,484 --> 00:00:53,218 When I was ten, 4 00:00:53,286 --> 00:00:56,354 and my brother, Oz, was seven, 5 00:00:57,356 --> 00:00:59,224 our lives changed. 6 00:00:59,292 --> 00:01:02,461 Our lives changed in the blink of an eye. 7 00:01:04,230 --> 00:01:05,530 Forever. 8 00:01:06,330 --> 00:01:12,100 Wish You Well 9 00:01:37,563 --> 00:01:39,397 I assume you're our driver? 10 00:01:39,465 --> 00:01:41,266 We're here to take you to the farm. 11 00:01:41,334 --> 00:01:42,667 In this? 12 00:01:44,970 --> 00:01:47,005 This is unacceptable. 13 00:01:47,072 --> 00:01:49,774 We require a proper ambulance. 14 00:01:49,842 --> 00:01:51,876 After that, I'll need to inspect the accommodations 15 00:01:51,944 --> 00:01:55,947 to ensure that they're acceptable and uh-uh-- 16 00:01:57,216 --> 00:01:58,450 Hello children. 17 00:01:59,285 --> 00:02:01,686 I'm Louisa. 18 00:02:01,754 --> 00:02:06,024 - And I know you go by Lou and Oz. - This is filthy. 19 00:02:06,091 --> 00:02:08,425 Welcome to Virginia. 20 00:02:08,494 --> 00:02:10,562 This here's my friend, Eugene. 21 00:02:10,630 --> 00:02:12,364 - Excuse me, madam. - Hm-hmm. 22 00:02:12,431 --> 00:02:15,233 You can't expect us to ride back there. 23 00:02:15,301 --> 00:02:17,769 No, I checked the fare back. 24 00:02:17,836 --> 00:02:22,641 There's enough right here to get you on the first train out. 25 00:02:22,708 --> 00:02:25,410 Perhaps you don't speak English that well. 26 00:02:25,478 --> 00:02:26,645 I'm coming with you. 27 00:02:26,712 --> 00:02:28,446 Perhaps you don't understand 28 00:02:28,514 --> 00:02:32,217 how folks around here feel about trespassers. 29 00:02:32,285 --> 00:02:34,653 We take it very seriously. 30 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,889 And I've never fired a warning shot in my life. 31 00:02:44,630 --> 00:02:45,897 Come on now. 32 00:02:48,634 --> 00:02:50,735 Amanda, it's Louisa. 33 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:57,141 I'm so glad we finally get to meet. 34 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,101 Hmm. That's Hell no. 35 00:03:57,169 --> 00:03:58,637 What you looking at? 36 00:04:21,627 --> 00:04:22,894 Hop in, Diamond. 37 00:04:22,961 --> 00:04:25,297 Come on, Jeb. Come on. Come on. 38 00:04:25,364 --> 00:04:26,731 Who's that? 39 00:04:29,435 --> 00:04:30,669 Howdy y'all. 40 00:04:32,070 --> 00:04:34,472 I expect y'all being Ms. Louisa's people. 41 00:04:40,746 --> 00:04:42,781 Folks around here call me Diamond. 42 00:04:42,848 --> 00:04:44,683 My daddy say that's how hard my head be. 43 00:04:46,419 --> 00:04:48,486 I'm Lou. This is Oz. 44 00:04:50,889 --> 00:04:53,825 Sorry to hear about your momma being hurt. 45 00:04:53,892 --> 00:04:55,794 She's going to get better. 46 00:05:07,606 --> 00:05:08,840 Are we here? 47 00:05:08,907 --> 00:05:10,274 Oh no. 48 00:05:10,343 --> 00:05:13,478 Hell No's just dropping me off at the river to go fishing. 49 00:05:13,546 --> 00:05:15,179 His name's Eugene. 50 00:05:15,247 --> 00:05:17,982 Folks around here call him Hell No. 51 00:05:18,050 --> 00:05:19,384 Why? 52 00:05:19,452 --> 00:05:23,087 Well, when Hell No was a baby, his daddy left him. 53 00:05:23,155 --> 00:05:25,122 Folks asked, "You gonna come back and get him?" 54 00:05:25,190 --> 00:05:27,692 He said, "Hell, no!" 55 00:06:36,261 --> 00:06:39,230 John Jacob Cardinal. 56 00:06:42,034 --> 00:06:43,167 Dad. 57 00:07:11,564 --> 00:07:13,431 Not now, Amanda. 58 00:07:13,499 --> 00:07:15,467 We can't live off awards, Jack. 59 00:07:15,534 --> 00:07:17,101 I said, not now, Amanda! 60 00:07:59,277 --> 00:08:01,345 I wish you'd stop doing that. 61 00:08:01,413 --> 00:08:02,814 It's not going to help. 62 00:08:02,882 --> 00:08:05,817 Your problem is you don't believe in anything. 63 00:08:05,885 --> 00:08:08,419 And your problem is you believe in everything. 64 00:08:11,023 --> 00:08:12,323 Everything all right? 65 00:08:19,532 --> 00:08:21,298 What is that for, Oz? 66 00:08:21,366 --> 00:08:23,300 A way to help mom. 67 00:08:23,368 --> 00:08:24,802 Lou doesn't believe it. 68 00:08:26,371 --> 00:08:27,471 Well, 69 00:08:27,540 --> 00:08:30,008 believing in something is 70 00:08:30,075 --> 00:08:33,210 a lot better than having an empty heart. 71 00:09:27,566 --> 00:09:29,467 What smells? 72 00:09:29,534 --> 00:09:30,702 Well, that'd be manure. 73 00:09:30,769 --> 00:09:32,236 Oh you'll get to love that smell. 74 00:09:32,304 --> 00:09:34,338 Now come on over here. 75 00:09:34,406 --> 00:09:36,173 Whoa. - Eugene's gonna show you how to plow. 76 00:09:36,241 --> 00:09:37,575 There you go. 77 00:09:37,643 --> 00:09:39,243 - Easy. - Louisa: Now Mable here 78 00:09:39,311 --> 00:09:42,847 is about as strong as anything in the world. 79 00:09:42,915 --> 00:09:44,148 I read an animal book. 80 00:09:44,216 --> 00:09:46,684 They have to show them who's in charge. 81 00:09:46,752 --> 00:09:47,952 Whoa! 82 00:09:48,020 --> 00:09:49,854 - Uh. - Oh. 83 00:09:52,524 --> 00:09:55,793 I guess Mable didn't read that book. 84 00:10:05,537 --> 00:10:06,904 Louisa. 85 00:10:06,972 --> 00:10:11,208 Lou, Oz, I want you to meet Cotton Longfellow. 86 00:10:11,276 --> 00:10:13,177 He's one of the finest lawyers around here. 87 00:10:13,245 --> 00:10:14,578 Well, 88 00:10:14,647 --> 00:10:18,016 seeing as I'm also one of the only lawyers around here, 89 00:10:18,083 --> 00:10:20,018 that is a dubious distinction. 90 00:10:20,853 --> 00:10:22,120 Oz. 91 00:10:23,355 --> 00:10:24,321 Lou. 92 00:10:24,389 --> 00:10:25,890 Oh. 93 00:10:25,958 --> 00:10:28,726 Lou fell in manure. That's why she smells. 94 00:10:28,794 --> 00:10:30,261 Oz! 95 00:10:31,530 --> 00:10:33,197 I don't know a farmer worth his take 96 00:10:33,265 --> 00:10:35,432 who hasn't fallen in manure at least once. 97 00:10:37,302 --> 00:10:40,404 I want to say how sorry I am for your father's passing. 98 00:10:41,874 --> 00:10:43,141 He was one of the greatest writers 99 00:10:43,208 --> 00:10:45,242 this country has ever had. 100 00:10:45,310 --> 00:10:48,846 Lou, I think you might get along right well with 101 00:10:48,914 --> 00:10:51,215 Mr. Longfellow. 102 00:10:51,283 --> 00:10:54,752 Are you related to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? 103 00:10:54,820 --> 00:10:56,187 I am indeed. 104 00:10:56,254 --> 00:10:57,955 He was a great writer, too. 105 00:10:59,257 --> 00:11:01,325 I live in the shadow of greatness. 106 00:11:01,393 --> 00:11:04,361 Can be a little difficult for some family members. 107 00:11:04,429 --> 00:11:07,331 Well, Mr. Longfellow and I have things to talk over, 108 00:11:07,399 --> 00:11:09,767 so you-- you best go get cleaned up. 109 00:11:09,835 --> 00:11:11,535 You go help your sister. 110 00:11:11,603 --> 00:11:13,537 It's nice to meet you, Oz, Lou. 111 00:11:22,581 --> 00:11:24,415 So what'd you find out, Cotton? 112 00:11:29,621 --> 00:11:32,656 Well, there is no money... 113 00:11:34,026 --> 00:11:36,060 in Jack Cardinal's estate. 114 00:11:37,495 --> 00:11:38,830 And... 115 00:11:38,897 --> 00:11:43,267 there are a lot of unpaid hospital bills for Ms. Amanda. 116 00:11:43,335 --> 00:11:44,368 Hmm. 117 00:11:47,072 --> 00:11:49,473 Well, we'll, we'll get by, we always do. 118 00:11:51,210 --> 00:11:53,911 What exactly is wrong with Ms. Amanda? 119 00:11:55,981 --> 00:11:58,349 Mental trauma... 120 00:11:59,584 --> 00:12:02,386 is what the doctor in New York wrote me. 121 00:12:03,321 --> 00:12:05,456 Say she may not get better. 122 00:12:06,959 --> 00:12:08,325 It's up to her. 123 00:12:09,862 --> 00:12:12,529 Hmm. Maybe up to God. 124 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,068 Well, 125 00:12:17,136 --> 00:12:19,570 mental trauma can sometimes be overcome 126 00:12:19,638 --> 00:12:21,939 by mental stimulation. 127 00:12:22,007 --> 00:12:23,274 Ah. 128 00:12:25,577 --> 00:12:28,813 What better way to stimulate somebody than to read to them, 129 00:12:28,881 --> 00:12:32,016 particularly something that they are very familiar with. 130 00:12:33,418 --> 00:12:36,320 My eyes ain't what they used to be. 131 00:12:37,856 --> 00:12:39,090 But... 132 00:12:42,494 --> 00:12:43,527 Uh, 133 00:12:45,097 --> 00:12:47,198 I would be honored to read to her. 134 00:12:50,269 --> 00:12:52,069 - Hmm. - Good. 135 00:13:03,748 --> 00:13:05,716 Wake up, Lou. 136 00:13:05,784 --> 00:13:09,887 Lou. Wake up, Lou. Breakfast is ready. 137 00:13:09,955 --> 00:13:12,223 Eugene's gonna take you to school. 138 00:13:25,003 --> 00:13:27,371 It's all right. Go ahead. 139 00:13:40,452 --> 00:13:41,652 Lou. 140 00:13:46,691 --> 00:13:47,859 Can anybody tell me 141 00:13:47,926 --> 00:13:50,061 where the second and fourth grade classes are? 142 00:13:52,865 --> 00:13:55,166 Sure. Come on. 143 00:13:56,634 --> 00:13:58,035 Right over here. 144 00:14:00,438 --> 00:14:02,573 Of course, that's just for Yankees. 145 00:14:08,247 --> 00:14:11,148 Class, I'd like to introduce Louisa Mae 146 00:14:11,216 --> 00:14:12,616 and Oscar Cardinal. 147 00:14:12,684 --> 00:14:14,818 Louisa Mae and Oscar, will you stand up please? 148 00:14:16,054 --> 00:14:17,454 My name is Lou. 149 00:14:22,361 --> 00:14:25,062 Their father was Jack Cardinal, 150 00:14:25,130 --> 00:14:26,397 - a famous writer - Yeah... 151 00:14:26,464 --> 00:14:28,399 and my former student. 152 00:14:28,466 --> 00:14:31,468 Even met President Roosevelt. 153 00:14:31,536 --> 00:14:34,138 And I hear that Louisa Mae is also a writer. 154 00:14:37,709 --> 00:14:39,377 Well, 155 00:14:39,444 --> 00:14:42,413 we welcome you, Louisa Mae and Oscar. 156 00:14:47,485 --> 00:14:49,453 My name is Lou. 157 00:15:04,136 --> 00:15:06,770 Why, it's Miss Louisa Mae. 158 00:15:06,838 --> 00:15:09,173 You've been up to see the President, too? 159 00:15:10,242 --> 00:15:12,609 Are you always this scintillating? 160 00:15:14,746 --> 00:15:16,948 You call me a name? 161 00:15:17,015 --> 00:15:19,817 Didn't you call us Yankees? 162 00:15:19,884 --> 00:15:23,687 You're living with that old woman and that crippled colored. 163 00:15:23,755 --> 00:15:26,324 Pa said she ain't keeping that farm going. 164 00:15:27,559 --> 00:15:29,460 Not with three more mouths to feed. 165 00:15:30,362 --> 00:15:32,330 I don't care what your Pa says. 166 00:15:34,266 --> 00:15:36,633 He got a wad a cash as big as my fist. 167 00:15:39,537 --> 00:15:41,805 Then maybe he should spend it on his family. 168 00:15:43,342 --> 00:15:45,176 You best take that back. 169 00:15:46,578 --> 00:15:47,744 Make me. 170 00:15:49,747 --> 00:15:51,015 Shoot. 171 00:15:51,083 --> 00:15:52,984 I ain't hitting no girl. 172 00:15:53,051 --> 00:15:54,085 You're going to have to. 173 00:15:54,152 --> 00:15:55,786 Unless you can take that back. 174 00:15:59,958 --> 00:16:02,026 What have we got here? 175 00:16:04,596 --> 00:16:06,230 I guess you ain't much of a writer. 176 00:16:06,298 --> 00:16:08,199 She is too a writer. 177 00:16:08,266 --> 00:16:09,833 Dang you, 178 00:16:09,901 --> 00:16:11,502 you no good stinking blue blood. 179 00:16:12,604 --> 00:16:13,837 Stop it! 180 00:16:13,905 --> 00:16:16,307 Hey! You stop it, now! 181 00:16:16,375 --> 00:16:17,375 Get off of me. 182 00:16:17,442 --> 00:16:19,210 Now you apologize to each other! 183 00:16:19,277 --> 00:16:20,844 You can go straight to hell! 184 00:16:20,912 --> 00:16:22,613 Stop your nonsense, Billy. 185 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:24,915 Louisa Mae, come back here! 186 00:16:26,985 --> 00:16:28,819 Ma'am, her name is Lou. 187 00:16:35,394 --> 00:16:39,930 Glad to see you made such a nice first impression, Lou. 188 00:16:39,998 --> 00:16:41,365 They called us Yankees. 189 00:16:41,433 --> 00:16:44,868 Oh good Lord, ain't that evil. 190 00:16:44,936 --> 00:16:47,938 The boy said we were going to lose the farm. 191 00:16:49,141 --> 00:16:50,641 It'll be okay, Oz. 192 00:16:54,979 --> 00:16:57,348 I got this for my last birthday. 193 00:16:57,416 --> 00:16:58,749 I want you to have it. 194 00:17:01,286 --> 00:17:04,188 Birthday presents are special, Lou. 195 00:17:04,256 --> 00:17:05,756 But I want to help. 196 00:17:07,759 --> 00:17:12,195 This land has provided for me all my life. 197 00:17:12,263 --> 00:17:14,731 I think it'll provide for us now. 198 00:17:16,201 --> 00:17:19,303 I know it's a lot with three more mouths to feed, but... 199 00:17:21,373 --> 00:17:26,277 I wouldn't trade it for all the money in the world, honey. 200 00:17:27,445 --> 00:17:29,180 Hi, Cotton. 201 00:17:29,247 --> 00:17:31,048 Hey, Cotton. 202 00:17:31,116 --> 00:17:33,217 What are you doing here? 203 00:17:33,285 --> 00:17:34,818 Ah, well, 204 00:17:34,886 --> 00:17:37,555 I'm gonna read one of your father's books to your mother. 205 00:17:37,622 --> 00:17:40,591 Our dad already read all his books to her. 206 00:17:40,658 --> 00:17:43,694 Besides, she can't hear you anyway. 207 00:17:43,761 --> 00:17:46,597 Lou, go change your clothes and 208 00:17:46,664 --> 00:17:48,832 help Eugene with the chores. 209 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:50,000 Go on. 210 00:17:52,270 --> 00:17:54,572 Reading to mom is a good idea. 211 00:17:56,741 --> 00:17:58,109 Thank you Oz. 212 00:17:58,176 --> 00:17:59,776 I will do my best. 213 00:18:10,355 --> 00:18:12,389 Good afternoon, Ms. Amanda. 214 00:18:13,725 --> 00:18:15,993 My name is Cotton Longfellow. 215 00:18:17,562 --> 00:18:19,963 And it will be my pleasure to read to you. 216 00:18:29,241 --> 00:18:32,009 What you working on there, Ms. Lou? 217 00:18:32,076 --> 00:18:33,944 A story. 218 00:18:34,012 --> 00:18:35,346 What it be about? 219 00:18:37,015 --> 00:18:38,048 I don't know, Eugene. 220 00:18:40,385 --> 00:18:42,719 Anything else we can do, Eugene? 221 00:18:43,688 --> 00:18:46,857 Uh, firewood's got to go inside. 222 00:18:46,924 --> 00:18:47,958 I'll do it. 223 00:18:50,562 --> 00:18:53,030 What are you going to do now? 224 00:18:53,097 --> 00:18:55,766 Ah, more chores. 225 00:18:55,833 --> 00:18:56,867 Can I help? 226 00:18:56,934 --> 00:18:59,336 Come on. 227 00:18:59,404 --> 00:19:02,473 "The dirt lane nudged over to the north, 228 00:19:02,541 --> 00:19:04,642 "as it cleared a rise. 229 00:19:04,709 --> 00:19:09,280 "Here the land splayed out into a broad valley of simple beauty, 230 00:19:09,347 --> 00:19:11,948 "green meadows were bracketed by vast forests 231 00:19:12,016 --> 00:19:14,818 "of every wood the state boasted. 232 00:19:14,886 --> 00:19:18,055 "Next to the meadow were cleared patchwork fields 233 00:19:18,122 --> 00:19:19,756 "that yielded to-- 234 00:19:28,933 --> 00:19:31,235 "weathered gray, 235 00:19:31,303 --> 00:19:35,038 and wrapped with naked rambling rose vines..." 236 00:19:35,106 --> 00:19:37,374 Cotton was reading my father's words. 237 00:19:40,144 --> 00:19:41,812 Words about this place. 238 00:19:44,216 --> 00:19:45,849 The fields he used to play in. 239 00:19:48,886 --> 00:19:52,389 My only memories of my dad had been in New York. 240 00:19:54,326 --> 00:19:56,760 But now, 241 00:19:56,828 --> 00:20:00,497 now I was starting to feel him all around me here, 242 00:20:00,565 --> 00:20:02,065 in this place, too. 243 00:20:09,841 --> 00:20:14,144 - All right. Good boy. - Good boy, Jeb. 244 00:20:14,212 --> 00:20:15,412 Hell No, come here. Throw it. 245 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,848 Give it a whirl, huh. 246 00:20:17,915 --> 00:20:21,452 Diamond told me about Eugene's daddy leaving him. 247 00:20:21,519 --> 00:20:23,920 That is a darn lie. 248 00:20:23,988 --> 00:20:25,922 Eugene's daddy did not leave him, 249 00:20:25,990 --> 00:20:28,726 he was killed in a logging accident. 250 00:20:29,927 --> 00:20:33,264 And then after his Auntie passed on, 251 00:20:33,331 --> 00:20:35,499 I took him in. 252 00:20:35,567 --> 00:20:37,568 So why do people call him that awful name? 253 00:20:37,636 --> 00:20:39,836 Because they're ignorant, that's why. 254 00:20:41,873 --> 00:20:44,341 Memories are a funny thing. 255 00:20:44,409 --> 00:20:47,878 People like to change the past so they can remember 256 00:20:47,945 --> 00:20:49,980 what it is they want to remember. 257 00:20:51,149 --> 00:20:52,149 All right, good boy. 258 00:20:52,216 --> 00:20:53,484 Good boy, Jeb. 259 00:20:57,489 --> 00:20:59,189 How'd you learn how to toss like that? 260 00:21:09,934 --> 00:21:11,602 Your brother's got a really good arm. 261 00:21:12,804 --> 00:21:14,772 Yeah. 262 00:21:14,839 --> 00:21:16,674 What'd you do for fun in the city? 263 00:21:16,741 --> 00:21:19,576 Ever go skinny dippin' in a gravel pit? 264 00:21:19,644 --> 00:21:21,779 There aren't gravel pits in Brooklyn. 265 00:21:25,850 --> 00:21:29,019 I haven't met a boy like Diamond before. 266 00:21:29,086 --> 00:21:31,922 He lived all by himself on the mountain. 267 00:21:31,989 --> 00:21:34,658 His mom had died when he was born 268 00:21:34,726 --> 00:21:37,294 and his dad died during a mining accident. 269 00:21:37,362 --> 00:21:39,630 The whole mountain had fallen on him. 270 00:21:42,334 --> 00:21:46,203 Louisa said that Diamond and I were like family. 271 00:21:46,270 --> 00:21:47,705 We're distant cousins. 272 00:21:49,974 --> 00:21:53,143 I never knew I had so much family here. 273 00:21:57,482 --> 00:21:59,149 This here well, it's magic. 274 00:22:00,218 --> 00:22:01,585 What do you mean? 275 00:22:02,620 --> 00:22:04,254 There was a guy and a gal, 276 00:22:04,322 --> 00:22:05,589 they want to get hitched, 277 00:22:05,657 --> 00:22:06,957 but their families wouldn't let them. 278 00:22:07,024 --> 00:22:10,561 So, they made a plan to run off. 279 00:22:10,628 --> 00:22:12,563 Only something happened, 280 00:22:12,630 --> 00:22:13,731 and the fella, 281 00:22:13,798 --> 00:22:16,266 he thought the gal done got killed. 282 00:22:17,769 --> 00:22:18,736 So 283 00:22:18,803 --> 00:22:22,639 he come down here and he jump in. 284 00:22:22,707 --> 00:22:25,709 That gal, she found out, 285 00:22:25,777 --> 00:22:30,080 she come down here and she jump in, too. 286 00:22:30,147 --> 00:22:32,416 That sounds like Romeo and Juliet. 287 00:22:32,484 --> 00:22:33,684 Who? 288 00:22:33,752 --> 00:22:36,186 What makes it magic, Diamond? 289 00:22:36,254 --> 00:22:37,921 Ah. Well, 290 00:22:37,989 --> 00:22:40,791 them two people, dying for each other, 291 00:22:40,859 --> 00:22:42,459 that's what made the well magic. 292 00:22:42,527 --> 00:22:45,763 Anybody have a wish, they come down here, it'll happen. 293 00:22:45,830 --> 00:22:48,465 - There's just one little catch. - What? 294 00:22:48,533 --> 00:22:51,702 You got to give up the most important thing you got, 295 00:22:51,770 --> 00:22:53,236 just like they did. 296 00:22:54,372 --> 00:22:56,373 But how do you know if it works? 297 00:22:56,441 --> 00:23:00,778 Well, this here bucket, swing from left to right. 298 00:23:00,845 --> 00:23:02,579 - Lou, maybe we can-- - No, Oz. 299 00:23:02,647 --> 00:23:06,617 - But-- - It's just like your stupid necklace, it won't work. 300 00:23:06,684 --> 00:23:08,118 Mom's never coming back. 301 00:23:12,990 --> 00:23:16,059 This morning's lessons we will practice our letters. 302 00:23:16,127 --> 00:23:19,996 Please take out your books and write each letter five times. 303 00:23:25,002 --> 00:23:27,203 Lou, is something wrong? 304 00:23:32,944 --> 00:23:34,144 No. 305 00:23:55,333 --> 00:23:56,967 I'm gonna whoop you. 306 00:23:57,034 --> 00:23:58,869 Go get 'em Will, go get 'em! 307 00:23:58,937 --> 00:24:00,904 Fight! 308 00:24:09,413 --> 00:24:11,114 What the hell is going on here? 309 00:24:12,216 --> 00:24:14,250 Billy got in another fight, George. 310 00:24:17,655 --> 00:24:18,922 Sorry pa. 311 00:24:21,158 --> 00:24:23,527 I was working in the damn fields, boy. 312 00:24:23,595 --> 00:24:25,629 Now get up. 313 00:24:25,697 --> 00:24:27,097 Did that damn girl do that to you? 314 00:24:27,164 --> 00:24:29,132 I ain't through with you, boy. 315 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,134 - George, you leave him be. - Get off of me. 316 00:24:34,005 --> 00:24:36,874 Next year, no more damn school for you. 317 00:24:36,941 --> 00:24:38,675 - You hear me? Huh? - Yes, sir. 318 00:24:38,743 --> 00:24:40,777 Why don't you let Billy decide that? 319 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,516 He a boy, he do what I say. 320 00:24:45,583 --> 00:24:47,584 Well, I see me a fine young man. 321 00:24:47,652 --> 00:24:49,119 He ain't a grown man. 322 00:24:49,186 --> 00:24:51,989 Yeah, but you are, so you keep your hands off of him! 323 00:24:55,326 --> 00:24:58,461 You got that big colored living in your house, 324 00:24:58,530 --> 00:24:59,830 don't ya? 325 00:24:59,898 --> 00:25:01,264 God gonna strike you dead. 326 00:25:01,332 --> 00:25:04,300 God gonna strike you down for that. 327 00:25:04,368 --> 00:25:07,671 Got that Injun blood in ya. 328 00:25:07,739 --> 00:25:09,072 You don't belong here, old woman. 329 00:25:10,408 --> 00:25:13,276 If you ever lay a hand on him again, 330 00:25:13,344 --> 00:25:17,748 you'd better pray to whatever God it is you counsel with, 331 00:25:17,815 --> 00:25:20,450 that I don't find you, George Davis. 332 00:25:20,518 --> 00:25:22,318 Hey? 333 00:25:22,386 --> 00:25:23,987 Do you know who you're messing with, old woman? 334 00:25:24,055 --> 00:25:26,356 Yeah, I know who I'm messing with. 335 00:25:26,424 --> 00:25:27,724 Your daddy beat you bad 336 00:25:27,792 --> 00:25:30,126 and he starved you and your sisters. 337 00:25:30,194 --> 00:25:32,963 Many a time I tried to come between ya's. 338 00:25:33,031 --> 00:25:35,732 And now you've grown up to be just like him. 339 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,868 Well, Billy's not gonna be like that. 340 00:25:39,571 --> 00:25:42,539 Billy. Wake up, come on. 341 00:25:42,607 --> 00:25:43,874 Come on. 342 00:25:46,044 --> 00:25:47,477 You're gonna hear from me, woman. 343 00:25:48,780 --> 00:25:49,846 Don't you worry, Ms. Louisa, 344 00:25:49,914 --> 00:25:51,014 that man ain't gonna touch you 345 00:25:51,082 --> 00:25:52,849 or the children while I'm around. 346 00:25:53,818 --> 00:25:55,285 Come on, children. 347 00:26:02,526 --> 00:26:06,029 Why did George Davis say you don't belong here? 348 00:26:06,097 --> 00:26:08,131 Well, my daddy was part Cherokee 349 00:26:08,199 --> 00:26:10,734 and some folks around here don't like that. 350 00:26:10,802 --> 00:26:12,936 Me, I'm proud of it. 351 00:26:13,004 --> 00:26:16,139 So you got Native blood in you, too. 352 00:26:16,207 --> 00:26:17,741 I think that's pretty special. 353 00:26:17,809 --> 00:26:20,877 You should've seen Billy's face when he opened that lunch pail. 354 00:26:20,945 --> 00:26:22,846 It was so funny. 355 00:26:25,149 --> 00:26:26,850 Oh look. 356 00:26:26,918 --> 00:26:28,952 Wild grapes. 357 00:26:29,020 --> 00:26:31,955 They're all around here if you know where to look. 358 00:26:33,057 --> 00:26:35,092 Chestnuts on the ground, 359 00:26:35,159 --> 00:26:37,794 wild onions underneath. 360 00:26:37,862 --> 00:26:40,330 We can get a whole meal out of this land 361 00:26:41,599 --> 00:26:43,967 'out even lifting a finger. 362 00:26:44,035 --> 00:26:45,268 They're amazing. 363 00:26:46,570 --> 00:26:48,705 Tell me, Lou, 364 00:26:48,773 --> 00:26:51,574 did you see any food in Billy's pail? 365 00:26:54,712 --> 00:26:55,846 No. 366 00:26:55,913 --> 00:26:57,480 You see, what I find funny is that 367 00:26:57,548 --> 00:27:01,184 some children feel they ought to be ashamed 368 00:27:01,252 --> 00:27:04,454 when their daddy doesn't see fit to give them anything. 369 00:27:06,524 --> 00:27:09,259 So ashamed that they had to haul a pail to school 370 00:27:09,326 --> 00:27:13,897 and pretend to eat, so nobody would catch on 371 00:27:13,965 --> 00:27:15,932 that their daddy gives them nothin'. 372 00:27:16,868 --> 00:27:19,502 Do you find that funny, Lou? 373 00:27:19,570 --> 00:27:21,271 - No. - No. 374 00:27:23,407 --> 00:27:24,908 You see, 375 00:27:24,976 --> 00:27:28,211 you had a fine daddy who loved you very much. 376 00:27:28,279 --> 00:27:30,647 And I know that makes it harder 377 00:27:30,715 --> 00:27:33,216 now that he's gone, but... 378 00:27:34,618 --> 00:27:37,120 the thing is, 379 00:27:37,188 --> 00:27:41,158 Billy Davis has to live with his daddy every day. 380 00:27:42,293 --> 00:27:45,195 And I pray with all my heart 381 00:27:46,397 --> 00:27:48,298 that he survives it. 382 00:27:53,204 --> 00:27:55,305 Why didn't my dad ever come back here? 383 00:27:57,675 --> 00:28:00,911 You never know what's in someone else's heart, Lou. 384 00:28:02,013 --> 00:28:04,280 No matter how hard you try. 385 00:28:57,034 --> 00:28:59,369 I wish that my mom would wake up. 386 00:29:25,963 --> 00:29:27,030 Hey, come on! 387 00:29:27,098 --> 00:29:28,098 I gotta show you something. 388 00:29:28,166 --> 00:29:29,266 Get your brother. 389 00:29:29,333 --> 00:29:30,500 - Where are we going? - Come on. 390 00:29:30,567 --> 00:29:31,968 We're gonna go see God! 391 00:29:37,675 --> 00:29:40,010 Diamond said every time he came here 392 00:29:40,077 --> 00:29:41,711 God will send him an angel. 393 00:29:43,815 --> 00:29:47,150 He thought he had a right good regime of 'em. 394 00:29:47,218 --> 00:29:49,452 This is where God touched the earth. 395 00:29:52,656 --> 00:29:54,858 Maybe someday they'll name it after me. 396 00:30:03,334 --> 00:30:04,868 Put 'er there. Come on, boy. 397 00:30:04,936 --> 00:30:06,303 What are they doing? 398 00:30:06,370 --> 00:30:08,771 George Davis, he has a still up here. 399 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,041 So the sheriff won't catch him making moonshine. 400 00:30:12,276 --> 00:30:13,409 Jeb! 401 00:30:13,477 --> 00:30:15,145 - Jeb! - What's that? 402 00:30:15,213 --> 00:30:16,412 You come back here! 403 00:30:19,016 --> 00:30:20,750 Diamond, look out! 404 00:30:20,818 --> 00:30:23,686 - Diamond! - Billy, go see what that is. 405 00:30:23,754 --> 00:30:24,888 Run, Oz! 406 00:30:24,956 --> 00:30:26,223 Hey, you! Get over here! 407 00:30:26,290 --> 00:30:27,790 - Lou! - I'm gonna get ya! 408 00:30:27,859 --> 00:30:29,625 Oz! 409 00:30:31,062 --> 00:30:32,662 Where you runnin', boy? 410 00:30:32,730 --> 00:30:33,730 Help, Lou! 411 00:30:35,166 --> 00:30:37,433 Hey, who told you you could come here? 412 00:30:37,501 --> 00:30:39,836 Let him go! 413 00:30:39,904 --> 00:30:40,904 - Stop! - What are you doing? 414 00:30:40,972 --> 00:30:42,305 Daddy, no! 415 00:30:42,373 --> 00:30:45,508 Ew, aw! Ow! 416 00:30:45,576 --> 00:30:48,345 Come on. Get up! Run, y'all! 417 00:30:52,049 --> 00:30:53,483 What the hell, Billy? 418 00:30:53,550 --> 00:30:55,352 What's wrong with you? Get up! 419 00:30:55,419 --> 00:30:57,888 Don't you ever touch my gun again, you understand? 420 00:30:57,955 --> 00:30:59,256 Never, boy! 421 00:31:12,136 --> 00:31:14,504 You busted up my still! 422 00:31:14,571 --> 00:31:15,705 Don't you dare! 423 00:31:15,773 --> 00:31:17,240 Them little devils tore up my property. 424 00:31:17,308 --> 00:31:18,508 And I'm here to get paid. 425 00:31:18,575 --> 00:31:20,110 Well, why don't you show the sheriff 426 00:31:20,177 --> 00:31:23,246 what they done to your still and he can tell me what's fair. 427 00:31:23,314 --> 00:31:24,847 You know I can't do that, woman. 428 00:31:24,916 --> 00:31:28,785 Well, then you can find your way off my property. 429 00:31:28,852 --> 00:31:32,389 Now get off before I lose patience and you lose blood. 430 00:31:32,456 --> 00:31:34,925 I'll pay you George Davis. 431 00:31:34,992 --> 00:31:36,259 You little vermin. 432 00:31:36,327 --> 00:31:37,560 My head still burns from where you clocked me 433 00:31:37,628 --> 00:31:39,229 and I don't appreciate it at all. 434 00:31:39,297 --> 00:31:41,464 You lucky then, 'cause I could've hit you harder. 435 00:31:41,532 --> 00:31:43,833 You close that trap, you don't smart mouth me, you boy. 436 00:31:43,901 --> 00:31:45,601 You want your money or not? 437 00:31:45,669 --> 00:31:46,469 Money? 438 00:31:46,537 --> 00:31:49,339 You ain't got no money. 439 00:31:49,407 --> 00:31:51,374 Got a silver dollar right here. 440 00:31:51,442 --> 00:31:53,076 It's a 100 years old. 441 00:31:53,144 --> 00:31:55,111 Man in Tramont, he told me 442 00:31:55,179 --> 00:31:56,913 he'd pay me 20 dollar for it. 443 00:31:56,981 --> 00:31:59,849 Diamond, don't. 444 00:31:59,917 --> 00:32:01,384 What a man do? 445 00:32:01,452 --> 00:32:02,852 You got to have consequences. 446 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,354 Now look, 447 00:32:04,422 --> 00:32:05,822 - if I give you this - Huh. 448 00:32:05,889 --> 00:32:08,058 You ain't coming back to Ms. Louisa for nothing. 449 00:32:08,125 --> 00:32:09,426 You got to swear. 450 00:32:09,493 --> 00:32:11,561 Sure. Sure, I swear. 451 00:32:11,628 --> 00:32:13,196 Come on, give it to me, I swear. 452 00:32:15,866 --> 00:32:17,733 Now get you gone, George. 453 00:32:18,869 --> 00:32:20,370 All right, Louisa. 454 00:32:24,208 --> 00:32:25,976 But next time, 455 00:32:26,043 --> 00:32:28,445 my gun don't miss. 456 00:32:29,613 --> 00:32:30,713 Ever. 457 00:32:34,352 --> 00:32:35,551 Thanks for the coin. 458 00:32:47,064 --> 00:32:48,798 Oz, why don't you go in and get cleaned up. 459 00:32:48,866 --> 00:32:51,167 And Diamond, you go in the barn and milk the cow. 460 00:32:51,235 --> 00:32:53,503 Take that dang dog with you. 461 00:32:53,570 --> 00:32:56,239 Now if you run off like that, 462 00:32:56,307 --> 00:32:59,009 and you take your little brother with you, 463 00:32:59,076 --> 00:33:01,978 he'd cross through fire for ya. 464 00:33:02,046 --> 00:33:03,480 I'm ashamed of you. 465 00:33:05,749 --> 00:33:06,916 I'm really sorry. 466 00:33:06,984 --> 00:33:08,951 If you ever pull another thing like that, 467 00:33:09,020 --> 00:33:11,821 you're gonna feel my hand across your skin. 468 00:33:11,889 --> 00:33:14,824 And believe me, it's something you ain't ever gonna forget. 469 00:33:40,617 --> 00:33:42,085 Hey Billy. 470 00:33:42,153 --> 00:33:44,054 What's the matter, child? 471 00:33:44,121 --> 00:33:45,455 Ma's baby coming. 472 00:33:45,523 --> 00:33:46,856 She sent me to get you. 473 00:33:47,925 --> 00:33:50,026 She don't feel right. 474 00:33:50,094 --> 00:33:51,361 I'm gonna drive you. 475 00:33:51,429 --> 00:33:53,229 Well, you can drive me, but I'll walk home. 476 00:33:53,297 --> 00:33:55,398 I don't want you staying around George Davis. 477 00:33:55,466 --> 00:33:56,832 I'm coming with you. 478 00:33:56,900 --> 00:33:59,802 - No, this is no place for you. - I want to help. 479 00:33:59,870 --> 00:34:02,338 Billy, is your pa there? 480 00:34:02,406 --> 00:34:03,839 Mare gonna drop its foal. 481 00:34:04,908 --> 00:34:06,676 He's staying in the barn 'til it come. 482 00:34:08,145 --> 00:34:09,478 I'll get my things. 483 00:34:24,261 --> 00:34:25,962 Hi! 484 00:34:26,029 --> 00:34:28,764 I brought you a present. 485 00:34:34,438 --> 00:34:35,871 And here's one for you. 486 00:34:37,241 --> 00:34:39,275 And one for you. 487 00:34:39,342 --> 00:34:40,676 Hey. 488 00:34:42,246 --> 00:34:43,580 Hey. 489 00:34:49,786 --> 00:34:51,286 We still have some time here, 490 00:34:51,355 --> 00:34:53,556 you can go on outside, I'll call you. 491 00:34:53,623 --> 00:34:55,558 How many have you delivered? 492 00:34:55,626 --> 00:34:58,894 Huh. Forty two in 47 years. 493 00:34:58,962 --> 00:35:00,830 I remember 'em all. 494 00:35:00,897 --> 00:35:01,964 And they all lived? 495 00:35:04,602 --> 00:35:07,036 You go on outside now. 496 00:35:07,104 --> 00:35:08,138 I'll let you know when. 497 00:35:08,205 --> 00:35:10,039 Breathe, Sally. 498 00:35:10,107 --> 00:35:11,474 Just deep breaths. 499 00:35:11,542 --> 00:35:14,210 That's good. That's good. 500 00:35:30,894 --> 00:35:33,095 I'm sorry about putting that snake in your pail. 501 00:35:34,665 --> 00:35:36,499 I did it to you first. 502 00:35:37,668 --> 00:35:39,669 My pa kill a man that done it to him. 503 00:35:44,508 --> 00:35:46,108 You're not your dad, Billy. 504 00:35:54,117 --> 00:35:56,553 If I tell him I'm fetching Ms. Louisa... 505 00:35:59,490 --> 00:36:00,690 he'd be mad. 506 00:36:02,326 --> 00:36:03,793 We're here to help your mother. 507 00:36:06,363 --> 00:36:07,897 He can't have a problem with that. 508 00:36:09,533 --> 00:36:10,800 Is that right? 509 00:36:13,170 --> 00:36:14,870 How's your foal, pa? 510 00:36:14,938 --> 00:36:16,706 Dead. 511 00:36:16,773 --> 00:36:18,007 What's she doing here? 512 00:36:20,110 --> 00:36:21,143 Huh? 513 00:36:22,713 --> 00:36:24,146 I got them to help ma. 514 00:36:25,349 --> 00:36:27,517 Ms. Louisa's inside right now. 515 00:36:28,552 --> 00:36:31,053 That woman's inside my house? 516 00:36:31,121 --> 00:36:32,555 It's time. 517 00:36:32,623 --> 00:36:34,657 Come on. The baby's comin'. 518 00:36:34,725 --> 00:36:36,826 Listen, you got no business being here, old woman. 519 00:36:36,893 --> 00:36:39,729 Sally needs help. Are you gonna do it? 520 00:36:39,796 --> 00:36:40,830 Come on. 521 00:36:40,897 --> 00:36:43,766 If it's a girl, you let her die, you hear? 522 00:36:43,834 --> 00:36:46,102 Don't need me no more damn girls. 523 00:36:59,950 --> 00:37:01,951 He looks like you. 524 00:37:02,018 --> 00:37:04,887 What will you be naming your new baby boy? 525 00:37:06,156 --> 00:37:07,457 They call you Lou. 526 00:37:08,459 --> 00:37:10,360 That be your name, girl? 527 00:37:10,427 --> 00:37:12,495 Well, sort of. 528 00:37:13,864 --> 00:37:15,765 Then it be Lou. 529 00:37:15,832 --> 00:37:17,433 I have a brother, Lou. 530 00:37:23,474 --> 00:37:24,907 Billy, 531 00:37:26,977 --> 00:37:30,446 when the crops are in, you come see me, all right? 532 00:37:30,514 --> 00:37:32,248 Okay, Ms. Louisa. 533 00:37:39,623 --> 00:37:43,025 Why did Billy's mother marry a man like George Davis? 534 00:37:43,093 --> 00:37:46,696 Well, 'cause he owned his own land and livestock. 535 00:37:46,764 --> 00:37:49,198 She could've left the mountain. 536 00:37:49,266 --> 00:37:52,402 Well, this mountain is all she's ever known. 537 00:37:52,469 --> 00:37:53,903 It's hard to leave that. 538 00:37:55,105 --> 00:37:57,206 Have you ever thought about leaving? 539 00:37:58,609 --> 00:38:00,677 No, I never have. 540 00:38:02,112 --> 00:38:05,080 Me and this land get along right well. 541 00:38:05,148 --> 00:38:07,116 Like family. 542 00:38:07,184 --> 00:38:10,252 I think we'd both be lost without the other. 543 00:38:10,321 --> 00:38:11,754 And when I'm gone, 544 00:38:12,589 --> 00:38:14,624 it'll belong to you and Oz. 545 00:38:16,193 --> 00:38:17,893 I've never owned anything. 546 00:38:17,961 --> 00:38:23,065 Well, you don't exactly own land, Lou. 547 00:38:23,133 --> 00:38:27,036 You and the high rock just kinda take care of each other. 548 00:38:31,107 --> 00:38:34,510 Did you have any other children besides my grandfather? 549 00:38:38,081 --> 00:38:40,115 I, uh, 550 00:38:40,183 --> 00:38:41,684 had me a little girl... 551 00:38:43,387 --> 00:38:45,722 named Annie. 552 00:38:45,789 --> 00:38:48,290 She was so pretty when she was born. 553 00:38:50,794 --> 00:38:54,330 I knitted her a pink cap. 554 00:38:54,398 --> 00:38:56,265 It fit her head real good. 555 00:38:57,701 --> 00:38:58,934 What happened? 556 00:39:04,007 --> 00:39:09,011 Her little chest rose and fell and rose and fell. 557 00:39:12,249 --> 00:39:14,316 Then it forgot to rise again. 558 00:39:18,121 --> 00:39:22,759 Doesn't seem fair, a momma don't get to see her baby's eyes 559 00:39:22,826 --> 00:39:24,694 at least once. Hmm. 560 00:39:50,987 --> 00:39:53,088 My dad died in that accident, 561 00:39:54,925 --> 00:39:56,859 'cause he and my mom were arguing. 562 00:39:59,329 --> 00:40:00,530 Well, Lou, 563 00:40:00,597 --> 00:40:02,965 people pass when it's their time. 564 00:40:04,835 --> 00:40:06,135 We can't forget 'em, 565 00:40:07,971 --> 00:40:10,105 but we got to go on living. 566 00:40:12,743 --> 00:40:15,878 And the folks we still have with us, 567 00:40:15,946 --> 00:40:18,848 they deserve all the help we can give 'em. 568 00:40:22,453 --> 00:40:25,020 I think it's time I showed you something. Come on. 569 00:40:38,268 --> 00:40:41,070 These are the letters your mother wrote to me. 570 00:40:42,606 --> 00:40:44,974 I didn't know she did that. 571 00:40:45,041 --> 00:40:47,844 There might be a lot you don't know about her. 572 00:40:48,912 --> 00:40:50,813 It's time you learned. 573 00:41:28,351 --> 00:41:30,620 Lou/Oz: Cotton! Hey, Cotton, Cotton! Cotton! 574 00:41:30,687 --> 00:41:33,956 Ah, well, look who's in town. 575 00:41:34,024 --> 00:41:35,825 What are you doing here? 576 00:41:35,893 --> 00:41:38,460 My office is in the courthouse here. 577 00:41:38,529 --> 00:41:40,129 What are you doing here? 578 00:41:40,196 --> 00:41:42,164 Louisa gave us the day off. 579 00:41:42,232 --> 00:41:43,933 Oh, nice. 580 00:41:44,001 --> 00:41:45,768 Well hey, what's say you give me a couple of hours 581 00:41:45,836 --> 00:41:48,037 and I'll take you all to lunch? 582 00:41:48,104 --> 00:41:50,706 We don't have a watch. 583 00:41:50,774 --> 00:41:52,174 Well, 584 00:41:53,544 --> 00:41:57,947 my father, he gave me this when I first moved here. 585 00:41:58,015 --> 00:42:00,917 He told me I would have a lot of time on my hands. 586 00:42:00,984 --> 00:42:04,620 I guess he wanted me to keep track of it, huh? 587 00:42:04,688 --> 00:42:06,188 How about you keep track of it. 588 00:42:07,024 --> 00:42:09,058 Two hours. All right? 589 00:42:11,127 --> 00:42:12,327 Have fun. 590 00:42:12,395 --> 00:42:14,229 And Diamond, you keep out of trouble, you hear? 591 00:42:20,003 --> 00:42:22,171 How much for a slice of pie? 592 00:42:22,238 --> 00:42:23,405 A nickel. 593 00:42:25,408 --> 00:42:28,444 Hey you get them dirty fingers away from my pie. 594 00:42:29,947 --> 00:42:32,748 Where you from boy? The mountain? 595 00:42:32,816 --> 00:42:34,349 No, I'm from the moon. 596 00:42:34,417 --> 00:42:36,385 You just march yourself on away from here. 597 00:42:36,453 --> 00:42:38,988 Get back up the mountain where you belong. 598 00:42:39,056 --> 00:42:41,256 Hey, get! You little... 599 00:42:41,324 --> 00:42:43,859 Atta boy, Jeb. 600 00:42:43,927 --> 00:42:45,861 Come on Oz, let's go. 601 00:42:45,929 --> 00:42:47,463 Hey, uh, why you leaving? 602 00:42:47,530 --> 00:42:48,631 Because, 603 00:42:48,699 --> 00:42:50,099 we're from the mountain, too. 604 00:43:00,176 --> 00:43:02,778 That's some mighty fine eatin', Cotton. 605 00:43:02,846 --> 00:43:05,414 Yeah, I agree Diamond. It's good food. 606 00:43:05,482 --> 00:43:06,882 Thanks, Cotton. 607 00:43:06,950 --> 00:43:08,651 John! 608 00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:09,986 Hello, Mr. Cotton. 609 00:43:11,855 --> 00:43:12,989 What's going on? 610 00:43:13,056 --> 00:43:14,857 The coal business is gone. 611 00:43:14,925 --> 00:43:16,792 I lost my job at the mine. 612 00:43:16,860 --> 00:43:19,495 You didn't sell to Southern Valley, did you? 613 00:43:19,562 --> 00:43:21,097 Yes sir, I did. 614 00:43:21,164 --> 00:43:23,899 Me and most of the people on this side of the mountain. 615 00:43:25,235 --> 00:43:27,870 Well, take care. 616 00:43:27,938 --> 00:43:29,538 - Good luck. - Thank you. 617 00:44:52,823 --> 00:44:54,256 Your parents were nice looking. 618 00:44:56,893 --> 00:44:58,260 Yeah, they was. 619 00:45:01,865 --> 00:45:04,466 Why didn't you tell me about them? 620 00:45:04,534 --> 00:45:06,335 Why should I? 621 00:45:08,571 --> 00:45:09,905 Because we're friends. 622 00:45:15,145 --> 00:45:18,580 I never knowed my mom, but... 623 00:45:18,648 --> 00:45:21,083 I try to think of what her voice would be like. 624 00:45:28,691 --> 00:45:30,793 It's hard not having parents. 625 00:45:30,861 --> 00:45:32,228 You still got a momma. 626 00:45:34,030 --> 00:45:35,330 No, I don't. 627 00:45:37,100 --> 00:45:39,568 Don't you ever give up on a breathing body, Lou. 628 00:45:40,837 --> 00:45:42,104 Ever. 629 00:45:47,710 --> 00:45:49,278 You're good at telling stories. 630 00:45:50,647 --> 00:45:52,547 Maybe you should try writing. 631 00:45:52,615 --> 00:45:53,983 Shoot. 632 00:45:54,050 --> 00:45:56,585 I don't know no big words except for Hallelujah. 633 00:46:00,791 --> 00:46:02,124 Thanks. 634 00:46:05,262 --> 00:46:09,665 You're a good friend. You're like family. 635 00:46:09,732 --> 00:46:13,769 My daddy say that there are two things in life you die for, 636 00:46:13,837 --> 00:46:16,071 friends and family. 637 00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:19,608 Sometimes they're one in the same. 638 00:46:24,714 --> 00:46:25,714 Maybe they are. 639 00:46:52,642 --> 00:46:53,775 What's that, Lou? 640 00:46:58,548 --> 00:46:59,614 Nothing important. 641 00:47:01,751 --> 00:47:03,319 "The wind ride on tree limbs, 642 00:47:03,386 --> 00:47:06,655 "the underbrush was thick with sounds of stealthy movement 643 00:47:06,723 --> 00:47:09,325 "and the tall grass seemed to clutch 644 00:47:09,392 --> 00:47:11,760 "at the boy's pant legs. 645 00:47:11,828 --> 00:47:14,463 "The little boy was certain that regiments of hobgoblins 646 00:47:14,530 --> 00:47:17,799 "were roaming nearby in full terrifying splendor. 647 00:47:17,868 --> 00:47:19,235 "Yet something inside him 648 00:47:19,302 --> 00:47:21,470 "had clearly risen superior to these horrors. 649 00:47:21,537 --> 00:47:25,074 "For he did not once think of turning back. 650 00:47:25,141 --> 00:47:26,575 "Well, 651 00:47:26,642 --> 00:47:30,679 "maybe once, he admitted to himself. 652 00:47:30,747 --> 00:47:32,915 "Or perhaps twice. 653 00:47:32,983 --> 00:47:36,018 "He ran hard for a while, making his way over the knolls, 654 00:47:36,086 --> 00:47:37,786 "navigating crisscross gullies 655 00:47:37,854 --> 00:47:40,122 "and stumbling through the jungle of dense woods. 656 00:47:40,190 --> 00:47:43,125 He cleared one last grove of trees, stopped, stooped low..." 657 00:47:46,930 --> 00:47:48,230 There's a diamond in here. 658 00:47:49,799 --> 00:47:51,833 A diamond? 659 00:47:51,902 --> 00:47:53,168 Yep. 660 00:47:53,236 --> 00:47:55,604 Chip a little piece off it every day, 661 00:47:57,740 --> 00:47:59,074 and before you know it, 662 00:48:00,877 --> 00:48:04,246 it'll be the purtiest diamond anyone ever saw. 663 00:48:04,314 --> 00:48:06,282 Maybe you could sell that for a lot of money. 664 00:48:07,717 --> 00:48:08,951 I ain't need no money. 665 00:48:09,019 --> 00:48:11,553 Got everything I need, right here on this mountain. 666 00:48:20,897 --> 00:48:22,264 What's going on over there? 667 00:48:24,401 --> 00:48:26,635 Well, coal company's got all the money, 668 00:48:27,837 --> 00:48:29,204 now they want all the land. 669 00:48:31,374 --> 00:48:33,909 You want to sell your property, that's my price. 670 00:48:33,977 --> 00:48:35,577 Come on down... 671 00:48:35,645 --> 00:48:37,980 It seemed everywhere I looked, 672 00:48:38,048 --> 00:48:39,881 there were signs going up. 673 00:48:39,950 --> 00:48:42,751 Sold to Southern Valley Coal. 674 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:46,755 Diamond never forgave the coal company 675 00:48:46,823 --> 00:48:49,458 for what they did to his father. 676 00:48:49,525 --> 00:48:51,593 Or for what they were doing to the mountain. 677 00:48:54,764 --> 00:48:57,566 Don't you even think about it, Diamond Skinner. 678 00:49:01,938 --> 00:49:03,905 I be seeing you! 679 00:49:03,974 --> 00:49:05,407 What was that all about? 680 00:49:05,475 --> 00:49:07,042 Nothing you have to worry about. 681 00:49:07,110 --> 00:49:08,444 Who was that? 682 00:49:08,511 --> 00:49:09,811 Judd Wheeler. 683 00:49:09,879 --> 00:49:12,414 He owns a coal company that killed my dad. 684 00:49:17,454 --> 00:49:19,788 Y'all know about the stars? 685 00:49:19,856 --> 00:49:21,156 Yeah. 686 00:49:21,224 --> 00:49:23,925 That's Big Dipper and Pegasus. 687 00:49:25,595 --> 00:49:27,229 Ain't heard of those, but... 688 00:49:28,398 --> 00:49:30,599 there's the Bear that's missing one leg. 689 00:49:33,569 --> 00:49:34,536 And over there, 690 00:49:34,604 --> 00:49:35,937 that's the stone chimney. 691 00:49:37,874 --> 00:49:41,210 You sure do know a lot about stars, Diamond. 692 00:49:41,277 --> 00:49:45,981 Well, when you're up here in the mountains, you're closer to 'em. 693 00:49:46,049 --> 00:49:48,217 You get to see 'em better than other folks. 694 00:50:01,297 --> 00:50:03,432 There's coal in that there rock. 695 00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:04,966 Pickaxe can't do job. 696 00:50:06,202 --> 00:50:07,869 You gotta use dynamite. 697 00:50:09,205 --> 00:50:10,772 Is it dangerous? 698 00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:12,974 No. Done it myself. 699 00:50:13,043 --> 00:50:15,511 If you ain't careful, you can blow yourself up good. 700 00:50:15,578 --> 00:50:17,446 You know, after it blows, 701 00:50:17,514 --> 00:50:19,714 maybe I could take you in, show you around. 702 00:50:21,817 --> 00:50:24,086 You should think about coming to live with us. 703 00:50:24,154 --> 00:50:25,787 You could be my big brother. 704 00:50:27,857 --> 00:50:28,890 Maybe I will. 705 00:50:32,462 --> 00:50:34,996 Jeb! Jeb, stop! Come back here! 706 00:50:35,065 --> 00:50:37,232 - Jeb! Diamond! - Jeb, come here! 707 00:50:37,300 --> 00:50:38,833 Come back here, Jeb! 708 00:50:38,901 --> 00:50:40,335 - Diamond, wait now. Stop! - Diamond. 709 00:50:40,403 --> 00:50:42,204 - Diamond. Don't! - No. Lou, no! 710 00:50:42,272 --> 00:50:43,905 - Hey. Wait here, Ms. Lou. - Come back! - Diamond! 711 00:50:43,973 --> 00:50:45,907 - Come here, boy! - I'll get him. 712 00:50:45,975 --> 00:50:48,610 - Jeb, come back! - Come out of there! 713 00:50:48,678 --> 00:50:50,712 Come on now! Come on! 714 00:50:50,780 --> 00:50:51,880 Diamond! 715 00:51:08,098 --> 00:51:09,431 Eugene! 716 00:51:10,833 --> 00:51:13,469 Eugene, where is he? Where is he? Where's Diamond! 717 00:51:13,536 --> 00:51:15,170 Eugene, where is he? 718 00:51:15,238 --> 00:51:16,638 Sorry, Ms. Lou. 719 00:51:20,676 --> 00:51:22,377 Diamond! 720 00:51:22,445 --> 00:51:24,613 Diamond! 721 00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:26,215 Ms. Lou. 722 00:51:26,282 --> 00:51:27,583 Okay. 723 00:51:28,651 --> 00:51:29,818 It's okay. 724 00:51:39,162 --> 00:51:41,363 People pass and it's natural, 725 00:51:42,465 --> 00:51:44,566 the old making way for the new, 726 00:51:48,471 --> 00:51:50,606 but when a child dies, 727 00:51:53,843 --> 00:51:56,512 it just turns everything upside down. 728 00:52:00,983 --> 00:52:02,083 I don't know much, 729 00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,020 but I do know that 730 00:52:06,956 --> 00:52:09,057 Diamond's up there 731 00:52:09,125 --> 00:52:11,360 right now, telling God a story. 732 00:52:13,963 --> 00:52:15,764 And God is laughing. 733 00:52:19,135 --> 00:52:23,238 And that's all any of us need to carry in our hearts 734 00:52:23,306 --> 00:52:24,939 about this young man. 735 00:52:51,301 --> 00:52:57,105 ¶ Your hand ¶ 736 00:52:57,173 --> 00:52:58,907 ¶ In mine 737 00:53:05,114 --> 00:53:09,050 ¶ I 738 00:53:11,087 --> 00:53:17,759 ¶ I'll leave 739 00:53:34,577 --> 00:53:36,712 I can close my eyes and wish 740 00:53:38,414 --> 00:53:40,482 and wish, 741 00:53:40,550 --> 00:53:44,586 but you are never coming back. 742 00:55:46,576 --> 00:55:48,142 Where you going? 743 00:55:48,210 --> 00:55:49,244 Going to send a letter. 744 00:55:50,279 --> 00:55:51,680 In your nightgown? 745 00:56:13,803 --> 00:56:15,303 A lot to take to market. 746 00:56:17,473 --> 00:56:18,973 What do you want? 747 00:56:23,646 --> 00:56:25,046 Hey, Billy. 748 00:56:25,114 --> 00:56:26,882 Hey, you know you're just in time. 749 00:56:26,949 --> 00:56:29,885 I was just saying what are we gonna do with all this food? 750 00:56:29,952 --> 00:56:32,186 Come on over here and take this home. 751 00:56:32,254 --> 00:56:35,123 Uh, Lou, put this one on Billy's cart. 752 00:56:37,393 --> 00:56:39,528 And if your daddy say anything about this 753 00:56:39,595 --> 00:56:42,196 you tell him to come talk to me. 754 00:56:42,264 --> 00:56:46,601 Before long, Ms. Louisa, I won't care what my pa says. 755 00:56:56,178 --> 00:56:57,378 It's not fair. 756 00:56:57,447 --> 00:57:00,749 George Davis sells his crops and we feed his family? 757 00:57:02,819 --> 00:57:05,153 I'll tell you what's fair, 758 00:57:05,220 --> 00:57:08,423 a momma and her babies having food to eat. 759 00:57:08,491 --> 00:57:10,425 That's what's fair. 760 00:57:10,493 --> 00:57:11,793 You remember that. 761 00:57:33,449 --> 00:57:34,783 What are those? 762 00:57:35,918 --> 00:57:37,652 Just some old letters from mom. 763 00:57:47,597 --> 00:57:49,163 Would you read them to me? 764 00:57:54,203 --> 00:57:56,170 All right. Just one. 765 00:58:08,818 --> 00:58:12,053 "Dear Louisa, I hope you are doing well. 766 00:58:13,623 --> 00:58:15,123 "Oz is over the whooping cough 767 00:58:15,190 --> 00:58:17,158 and is finally sleeping through the night." 768 00:58:18,127 --> 00:58:21,396 Me! She wrote about me! 769 00:58:24,233 --> 00:58:26,735 "Your great granddaughter is amazing." 770 00:58:26,802 --> 00:58:30,505 Your great granddaughter is amazing, Louisa. 771 00:58:30,573 --> 00:58:32,440 Her mind is so quick. 772 00:58:32,508 --> 00:58:35,243 And I'm afraid she finds me a little boring. 773 00:58:36,913 --> 00:58:39,147 I know she wants more than anything 774 00:58:39,214 --> 00:58:41,382 to be a writer like her father, 775 00:58:41,450 --> 00:58:43,451 but she needs to understand that 776 00:58:43,519 --> 00:58:46,087 every writer has to find their own voice. 777 00:58:47,857 --> 00:58:50,959 But when Lou opens up her heart 778 00:58:51,027 --> 00:58:54,896 and lets the words pour from her 779 00:58:54,964 --> 00:58:56,631 I know the world will have another 780 00:58:56,699 --> 00:58:58,099 - mighty fine writer... - "Mighty fine writer 781 00:58:58,167 --> 00:58:59,500 named Cardinal." 782 00:59:07,577 --> 00:59:09,077 That was a good letter. 783 00:59:15,718 --> 00:59:17,619 Good night, Oz. 784 00:59:17,687 --> 00:59:19,020 Night, Lou. 785 01:00:02,364 --> 01:00:04,298 I guarantee you it's going to be a Jim dandy 786 01:00:04,366 --> 01:00:06,567 of a Christmas now, I'm telling you. 787 01:00:06,636 --> 01:00:08,036 With the gas we're gonna get out of this, 788 01:00:08,104 --> 01:00:09,838 this hole in the ground here 789 01:00:09,905 --> 01:00:12,040 everybody's gonna have money to spend. - Hey! 790 01:00:12,108 --> 01:00:13,541 Let me go! 791 01:00:13,609 --> 01:00:16,077 - George! - Please! Please! 792 01:00:16,145 --> 01:00:17,512 What is going on up there? 793 01:00:18,714 --> 01:00:20,548 What-- What is going on here? 794 01:00:23,019 --> 01:00:24,252 Louisa's kin. 795 01:00:25,855 --> 01:00:27,756 Think she heard? 796 01:00:27,823 --> 01:00:29,057 Don't know. 797 01:00:39,669 --> 01:00:41,069 Ms. Cardinal. 798 01:00:41,137 --> 01:00:43,938 I'm Judd Wheeler, President of Southern Valley. 799 01:00:44,006 --> 01:00:46,440 He pays you to steal other people's land. 800 01:00:46,508 --> 01:00:48,476 You're a little bit of a problem now, aren't you? 801 01:00:48,544 --> 01:00:50,278 - If you were my daughter-- - Well, she's not! 802 01:00:50,345 --> 01:00:52,047 Now let's calm damn, folks. 803 01:00:52,114 --> 01:00:53,648 It's just business. 804 01:00:53,716 --> 01:00:57,152 Well, then it's good I've got my lawyer here, isn't it? 805 01:00:57,219 --> 01:00:59,420 Ms. Cardinal, I'm happy to offer you 806 01:00:59,488 --> 01:01:02,057 fifty thousand dollars for your property. 807 01:01:05,260 --> 01:01:07,028 Well, that offer is for the underlying 808 01:01:07,096 --> 01:01:08,997 mineral rights only, of course. 809 01:01:09,065 --> 01:01:12,300 No. I've got bigger plans for her property. 810 01:01:12,367 --> 01:01:15,303 It's the perfect location. I don't see one negative. 811 01:01:15,370 --> 01:01:18,506 Well, except I ain't sellin' it to you. 812 01:01:18,574 --> 01:01:22,944 My company is looking to make a substantial investment here. 813 01:01:23,012 --> 01:01:25,479 Now how can you stand in the way of that? 814 01:01:25,547 --> 01:01:26,647 On my own two feet. 815 01:01:28,150 --> 01:01:30,719 Louisa, you'd be rich. 816 01:01:30,786 --> 01:01:32,220 No, I wouldn't. 817 01:01:32,287 --> 01:01:34,655 I'd just have a whole bunch of money I don't need. 818 01:01:36,058 --> 01:01:37,391 Louisa, you's crazy. 819 01:01:37,459 --> 01:01:39,828 Well, then you sell him your land. 820 01:01:39,895 --> 01:01:42,997 They can't get to my land without crossing your property! 821 01:01:43,065 --> 01:01:45,333 Well, that's not my problem, is it? 822 01:01:46,635 --> 01:01:47,702 Fool woman! 823 01:01:47,770 --> 01:01:49,204 You get goin' now. 824 01:01:50,439 --> 01:01:51,539 That was a lot of money. 825 01:01:53,408 --> 01:01:54,709 Well, 826 01:01:54,777 --> 01:01:58,412 one thing you got to remember about these coal people, 827 01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:00,982 and I told this to your daddy, too, 828 01:02:01,884 --> 01:02:04,219 they got one job on this earth 829 01:02:05,121 --> 01:02:07,222 and that's stealing the sun. 830 01:02:08,523 --> 01:02:12,060 Because once they get through destroying our land, 831 01:02:12,128 --> 01:02:15,630 there gonna be no need for no more sun. 832 01:02:22,972 --> 01:02:24,538 Well, thank you, Myrtle. 833 01:02:27,810 --> 01:02:31,980 Oh. Land doesn't look nearly as free on paper, does it? 834 01:02:32,047 --> 01:02:35,250 Huh. No, Ms. Louisa, it don't. 835 01:02:36,752 --> 01:02:38,052 But George Davis was right, 836 01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:39,687 he's land locked. 837 01:02:39,755 --> 01:02:43,224 They gotta cross your land or he ain't gonna get nothin'. 838 01:02:43,292 --> 01:02:48,362 That damn coal company is not gonna get my farm 839 01:02:48,430 --> 01:02:51,732 and destroy the mountain and ruin the land. 840 01:02:51,801 --> 01:02:54,969 Not while I'm-- 841 01:02:56,405 --> 01:02:57,405 You all right? 842 01:02:58,707 --> 01:03:00,074 Is there a chair? 843 01:03:04,113 --> 01:03:05,180 There you go. 844 01:03:05,247 --> 01:03:06,981 - Thank you. - Mm-hmm. 845 01:03:10,585 --> 01:03:12,553 Those children are gonna need you. 846 01:03:14,389 --> 01:03:17,758 I-I ain't know how to take care of Lou and Oz. 847 01:03:17,827 --> 01:03:19,227 Oh sure you do. 848 01:03:19,295 --> 01:03:21,229 You've been taking care of me for years. 849 01:03:21,297 --> 01:03:23,097 They need their momma. 850 01:03:23,165 --> 01:03:26,000 No, no, no, they just need someone to love 'em 851 01:03:26,068 --> 01:03:28,102 and take care of 'em. 852 01:03:28,170 --> 01:03:30,071 Even if I could take care of 'em, 853 01:03:30,139 --> 01:03:32,073 ain't nobody gonna let me do it. 854 01:03:33,976 --> 01:03:39,113 Eugene, when I took you in, you were just a little boy. 855 01:03:39,181 --> 01:03:42,283 Scared of his own shadow. 856 01:03:43,152 --> 01:03:44,618 Look at you now. 857 01:03:46,088 --> 01:03:49,657 What a fine human being you are. 858 01:03:51,227 --> 01:03:53,261 You're gonna show 'em the way. 859 01:04:20,422 --> 01:04:21,822 What are you doing here? 860 01:04:24,593 --> 01:04:26,127 You tell that old woman 861 01:04:27,263 --> 01:04:29,764 she better sell this place. 862 01:04:29,831 --> 01:04:32,233 Get off our land! Now! 863 01:04:35,137 --> 01:04:36,170 Oh. Ah. 864 01:04:36,238 --> 01:04:38,239 You leave my sister alone! 865 01:04:39,074 --> 01:04:41,209 You damn bastard. Come here! 866 01:04:41,277 --> 01:04:42,777 Come here you little bastards! 867 01:04:46,415 --> 01:04:50,451 Hell No. You touch a white man, boy? 868 01:04:55,590 --> 01:04:58,126 You know that ain't never been my name. 869 01:04:58,193 --> 01:05:00,694 It be Eugene Randall. 870 01:05:01,730 --> 01:05:04,299 Don't you never call me nothin' else. 871 01:05:09,771 --> 01:05:11,139 Thank you, Eugene. 872 01:05:14,509 --> 01:05:15,576 Go on now. 873 01:05:32,261 --> 01:05:34,395 I want to read you one of my stories. 874 01:05:37,499 --> 01:05:39,500 "It was a pretty fall day 875 01:05:39,568 --> 01:05:41,735 "and the leaves were yellow and red. 876 01:05:43,138 --> 01:05:45,406 "A little girl was running. 877 01:05:45,474 --> 01:05:48,242 "At last, she could see the big house on the hill. 878 01:05:50,980 --> 01:05:54,615 She didn't live there, but she always wanted to." 879 01:05:54,683 --> 01:05:57,285 Lou! This came for you from the magazine! 880 01:06:00,755 --> 01:06:02,823 Okay, Oz. 881 01:06:10,332 --> 01:06:11,532 Louisa! 882 01:06:12,834 --> 01:06:13,868 Louisa! 883 01:06:15,004 --> 01:06:16,270 Louisa, look! 884 01:06:19,241 --> 01:06:21,809 A hundred dollars? 885 01:06:21,877 --> 01:06:23,978 Oh, I am so proud of you. 886 01:06:24,046 --> 01:06:27,281 - Congratulations, honey. - Thank you. 887 01:06:27,349 --> 01:06:29,550 Woo! A hundred dollars is a lot of money. 888 01:06:29,618 --> 01:06:31,886 It sure is. 889 01:06:35,590 --> 01:06:36,690 Here you go. 890 01:06:43,832 --> 01:06:46,734 That is a mighty fine story, Lou. 891 01:06:49,171 --> 01:06:50,871 Diamond would have been real proud. 892 01:06:50,939 --> 01:06:53,741 Plus, you get to pay a few bills, huh? 893 01:06:53,808 --> 01:06:56,411 So how does it feel to sell your first story? 894 01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:01,049 I was wondering how my dad felt. 895 01:07:01,116 --> 01:07:03,884 Well, I'm sure he felt exactly like you feel right now. 896 01:07:06,221 --> 01:07:08,089 How about I treat you to lunch? 897 01:07:08,157 --> 01:07:10,891 Well, I'd be honored. 898 01:07:40,355 --> 01:07:41,755 You finish your homework? 899 01:07:43,092 --> 01:07:44,292 Yeah. 900 01:07:48,163 --> 01:07:49,464 What? 901 01:07:52,067 --> 01:07:55,002 I need to know why my dad never came back here. 902 01:08:24,933 --> 01:08:27,568 This is your daddy's father and mother, 903 01:08:28,737 --> 01:08:30,304 my son, Jacob, 904 01:08:31,473 --> 01:08:33,941 and his wife, Susan. 905 01:08:36,478 --> 01:08:38,879 Susan run off and left Jacob. 906 01:08:38,947 --> 01:08:40,913 And when your daddy was just a... 907 01:08:42,117 --> 01:08:44,484 a young'un 908 01:08:44,553 --> 01:08:46,720 I guess the mountain didn't agree with her. 909 01:08:50,658 --> 01:08:54,028 I can still hear your daddy's voice calling her 910 01:08:54,095 --> 01:08:55,563 over and over. 911 01:08:56,430 --> 01:08:59,966 "I want my mother!" 912 01:09:05,140 --> 01:09:07,006 And Jacob, 913 01:09:08,676 --> 01:09:11,379 he just never got over her leaving. 914 01:09:13,448 --> 01:09:16,350 Your daddy and I watched a man we both love 915 01:09:18,220 --> 01:09:21,522 die... a little bit every day 916 01:09:24,193 --> 01:09:25,626 until there was just... 917 01:09:28,129 --> 01:09:29,564 nothing left of him. 918 01:09:32,501 --> 01:09:33,867 It was hard... 919 01:09:35,237 --> 01:09:36,537 watching my, 920 01:09:38,106 --> 01:09:39,573 my son die. 921 01:09:41,943 --> 01:09:46,080 But it was harder on- on your daddy, 922 01:09:47,582 --> 01:09:49,550 losing first his mother 923 01:09:50,984 --> 01:09:52,420 and then his father. 924 01:09:59,094 --> 01:10:00,294 You know, I loved your daddy 925 01:10:00,362 --> 01:10:04,098 as much as I loved anything in this whole world, 926 01:10:06,635 --> 01:10:09,937 but I understand why he didn't wanna come back here, 927 01:10:11,106 --> 01:10:12,139 the place where... 928 01:10:14,376 --> 01:10:17,044 all that sorrow got a hold of him. 929 01:10:22,484 --> 01:10:24,084 I tried to help him, 930 01:10:25,587 --> 01:10:26,887 I really did, 931 01:10:28,323 --> 01:10:29,590 but... 932 01:10:32,494 --> 01:10:33,894 I failed. 933 01:10:35,464 --> 01:10:39,367 I just-- I just failed him. 934 01:10:43,838 --> 01:10:45,506 No. 935 01:10:45,574 --> 01:10:47,941 He, he named me after you. 936 01:10:51,413 --> 01:10:52,647 And this. 937 01:10:58,086 --> 01:10:59,587 My dad's last book. 938 01:11:04,393 --> 01:11:06,126 Open it to the first page. 939 01:11:12,701 --> 01:11:15,035 "To Louisa Mae Cardinal, 940 01:11:16,237 --> 01:11:17,838 "the one who showed me 941 01:11:21,075 --> 01:11:22,810 light from the dark." 942 01:11:35,290 --> 01:11:36,557 Oh. 943 01:11:41,129 --> 01:11:42,229 Thank you. 944 01:11:47,402 --> 01:11:48,669 Thank you. 945 01:12:10,992 --> 01:12:12,025 Hey, Billy! 946 01:12:12,093 --> 01:12:13,160 Ah! 947 01:12:24,406 --> 01:12:25,573 - Ah! - Come here! 948 01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:27,207 Come here, you! Get. 949 01:12:31,212 --> 01:12:32,713 Come on! 950 01:12:38,653 --> 01:12:40,153 Oh! 951 01:12:40,221 --> 01:12:42,857 The next one that touches Eugene is dead. 952 01:12:43,825 --> 01:12:45,626 Hang on a second. 953 01:12:45,694 --> 01:12:47,094 Crazy woman. 954 01:12:54,603 --> 01:12:56,103 Thank you for coming to tell us. 955 01:12:57,305 --> 01:12:58,606 What? 956 01:12:58,673 --> 01:12:59,907 Louisa, what's wrong? 957 01:13:01,242 --> 01:13:03,143 - Louisa! - Ms. Louisa! 958 01:13:04,813 --> 01:13:06,179 Ms. Louisa! 959 01:13:10,184 --> 01:13:14,221 She's resting now, but she's had a stroke. 960 01:13:18,794 --> 01:13:20,093 It'll be fine. 961 01:13:21,630 --> 01:13:23,030 She'll be fine. 962 01:13:52,561 --> 01:13:54,294 Afternoon, Wheeler. 963 01:13:54,362 --> 01:13:55,463 What can I do for ya? 964 01:13:55,530 --> 01:13:57,264 Oh coal's run out. 965 01:14:01,770 --> 01:14:03,537 Town's going to hell. 966 01:14:03,605 --> 01:14:05,639 Well, 967 01:14:05,707 --> 01:14:10,043 every lick of coal and gas could disappear from this earth 968 01:14:10,111 --> 01:14:12,145 and Louisa will be just fine. 969 01:14:13,448 --> 01:14:16,249 I'm, uh, raisin' my offer. 970 01:14:16,317 --> 01:14:18,719 I assume you have power of attorney. 971 01:14:20,188 --> 01:14:21,388 No, I don't. 972 01:14:23,091 --> 01:14:24,291 Anything else? 973 01:14:26,995 --> 01:14:28,696 Consider yourself served. 974 01:14:55,524 --> 01:14:59,026 The coal company was trying to declare Louisa incompetent 975 01:15:00,361 --> 01:15:02,229 so that they could take her land. 976 01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,268 But her mind was still with us. 977 01:15:09,671 --> 01:15:12,406 Even if she couldn't speak, 978 01:15:12,473 --> 01:15:13,941 her eyes were telling me 979 01:15:14,876 --> 01:15:16,343 not to be afraid. 980 01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:48,175 - Good luck. - Well, thank you, Lou. 981 01:15:48,242 --> 01:15:50,210 You ready to have a go at this? 982 01:15:50,278 --> 01:15:52,012 As ready as you are. 983 01:15:52,080 --> 01:15:55,282 I seriously doubt that. 984 01:15:59,688 --> 01:16:00,988 Judge. 985 01:16:01,056 --> 01:16:02,957 Judge, George Davis has a vested interest 986 01:16:03,024 --> 01:16:05,358 in the outcome of this case. 987 01:16:05,426 --> 01:16:06,460 Oh, uh, 988 01:16:07,562 --> 01:16:09,229 - George? - Yes? 989 01:16:09,297 --> 01:16:12,365 Can you keep a fair and open mind about this case? 990 01:16:12,433 --> 01:16:13,867 Sure, Henry. 991 01:16:13,935 --> 01:16:16,236 Sure I can. 992 01:16:16,304 --> 01:16:18,872 Me and Louisa, we're like good friends. 993 01:16:18,940 --> 01:16:19,907 We get along good. 994 01:16:19,975 --> 01:16:21,374 He's lying! 995 01:16:21,442 --> 01:16:24,712 - Oz, sit down. - Oz. 996 01:16:24,779 --> 01:16:26,279 Oh, he's a sweet boy. 997 01:16:27,849 --> 01:16:31,485 Doctor Ross, can you state your 998 01:16:31,552 --> 01:16:33,220 fine credentials for the jury? 999 01:16:33,287 --> 01:16:35,455 I'm chief of the psychiatric department 1000 01:16:35,523 --> 01:16:37,290 at the county hospital. 1001 01:16:37,358 --> 01:16:41,629 And I've handled more than 500 cases like this one. 1002 01:16:41,696 --> 01:16:46,700 And what, in your expert opinion, 1003 01:16:46,768 --> 01:16:48,568 is Ms. Cardinal's condition? 1004 01:16:48,637 --> 01:16:50,638 She should be institutionalized. 1005 01:16:52,273 --> 01:16:54,908 No further questions. 1006 01:16:54,976 --> 01:16:56,677 Mr. Longfellow. 1007 01:16:56,745 --> 01:16:58,145 Doctor, 1008 01:16:58,212 --> 01:17:00,447 how many of the people that you have examined 1009 01:17:00,515 --> 01:17:02,850 have you found to be incompetent? 1010 01:17:02,917 --> 01:17:04,317 A hundred percent? 1011 01:17:04,385 --> 01:17:05,719 Ninety five? 1012 01:17:05,787 --> 01:17:08,221 Ninety five sounds about right. 1013 01:17:08,289 --> 01:17:11,091 That is a lot of crazy people. 1014 01:17:13,895 --> 01:17:16,063 I just call 'em like I see 'em, lawyer. 1015 01:17:17,065 --> 01:17:18,899 Yeah, I'm sure that you do. 1016 01:17:23,638 --> 01:17:27,174 How many stroke victims 1017 01:17:27,241 --> 01:17:29,076 that you have examined 1018 01:17:29,144 --> 01:17:33,113 have you found to be mentally incompetent? 1019 01:17:33,181 --> 01:17:35,215 None that I can recall. 1020 01:17:36,417 --> 01:17:37,851 So even though one 1021 01:17:37,919 --> 01:17:41,121 may not be able to talk or move, 1022 01:17:41,189 --> 01:17:43,190 she may fully understand what is going on. 1023 01:17:43,257 --> 01:17:46,827 In fact, over time, Ms. Cardinal may have a complete recovery. 1024 01:17:46,895 --> 01:17:49,229 I doubt that. 1025 01:17:49,297 --> 01:17:50,630 Since you yourself admitted 1026 01:17:50,699 --> 01:17:53,366 that you are not an expert in stroke victims, 1027 01:17:53,434 --> 01:17:56,536 I would like that last statement removed from the record. 1028 01:17:58,073 --> 01:18:01,075 You are hereby instructed to 1029 01:18:01,142 --> 01:18:04,578 disregard that last statement of Dr. Ross. 1030 01:18:06,147 --> 01:18:07,380 No more questions. 1031 01:18:12,386 --> 01:18:14,588 Uh, Judge, uh, 1032 01:18:15,890 --> 01:18:17,424 Ms. Cardinal, 1033 01:18:17,491 --> 01:18:20,761 when she gets better, can take care of her own affairs. 1034 01:18:20,829 --> 01:18:23,263 She won't have any land left. 1035 01:18:23,331 --> 01:18:25,232 Well, I think she can take 1036 01:18:25,299 --> 01:18:28,969 comfort in the hundred thousand dollars 1037 01:18:29,037 --> 01:18:31,972 that Southern Valley has offered her. 1038 01:18:33,775 --> 01:18:34,742 Judge, 1039 01:18:34,809 --> 01:18:36,276 Judge, he has just-- 1040 01:18:36,344 --> 01:18:40,080 just as good as bribed this jury and the whole town. 1041 01:18:40,148 --> 01:18:42,315 I withdraw the statement. 1042 01:18:49,057 --> 01:18:53,560 "Three cows lay in the grass in one protected space 1043 01:18:53,628 --> 01:18:55,829 "while a Rhone horse grazed alone 1044 01:18:55,897 --> 01:18:58,331 "in a small snake rail corral. 1045 01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:01,701 "And rising high above all this 1046 01:19:03,638 --> 01:19:05,038 were the Appalachians." 1047 01:19:18,386 --> 01:19:21,054 Ms. Amanda, you need to come back to us. 1048 01:19:23,258 --> 01:19:25,058 For more reasons than you know. 1049 01:19:33,734 --> 01:19:36,303 Memories are a funny thing. 1050 01:19:37,939 --> 01:19:39,807 People like to change the past 1051 01:19:39,874 --> 01:19:43,510 so they can remember what it is they want to remember. 1052 01:19:58,693 --> 01:20:00,760 Not now, Amanda! 1053 01:20:00,829 --> 01:20:02,329 We can't live off awards, Jack, 1054 01:20:02,396 --> 01:20:04,664 unless we move to Virginia. 1055 01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:07,467 Leaving New York? 1056 01:20:07,535 --> 01:20:09,169 - Not now, Lou! - I don't want to move! 1057 01:20:09,237 --> 01:20:10,570 I said not now! 1058 01:20:39,033 --> 01:20:41,468 It wasn't your fault that dad died. 1059 01:20:47,008 --> 01:20:48,375 It was mine. 1060 01:20:55,750 --> 01:20:57,050 I love you. 1061 01:21:27,681 --> 01:21:29,682 She's gonna lose the farm, isn't she? 1062 01:21:32,921 --> 01:21:35,488 Well, 1063 01:21:35,556 --> 01:21:39,359 sometimes you can't get justice even in a court of law, Lou. 1064 01:21:51,472 --> 01:21:53,307 I think I just got my miracle. 1065 01:21:54,675 --> 01:21:58,045 Your Honor, I call Eugene Randall. 1066 01:22:06,087 --> 01:22:08,755 Cotton found his miracle. 1067 01:22:08,823 --> 01:22:12,159 He put Southern Valley on trial for Diamond's death. 1068 01:22:18,632 --> 01:22:22,402 How many times do you reckon you used dynamite in that mine? 1069 01:22:25,006 --> 01:22:26,506 Fifty times or more. 1070 01:22:27,741 --> 01:22:29,809 Well, I'd say that makes you an expert. 1071 01:22:33,081 --> 01:22:35,148 And after you set the dynamite 1072 01:22:36,217 --> 01:22:37,951 what did you do? 1073 01:22:38,019 --> 01:22:41,855 Uh, well the, the shaft curves in a couple of different places 1074 01:22:41,922 --> 01:22:45,192 so I-I usually just wait around the curve 1075 01:22:45,259 --> 01:22:47,327 or go outside. 1076 01:22:47,395 --> 01:22:49,329 When the dynamite exploded, 1077 01:22:50,798 --> 01:22:52,232 where were you? 1078 01:22:52,300 --> 01:22:53,933 Forty feet in. 1079 01:22:54,002 --> 01:22:55,469 Not even to the first curve. 1080 01:22:55,536 --> 01:22:57,670 Throwed me ten feet. 1081 01:22:57,738 --> 01:22:59,506 And where did you set the dynamite? 1082 01:23:00,574 --> 01:23:02,476 Well, past the second curve. 1083 01:23:02,543 --> 01:23:05,379 Two hundred twenty feet in. 1084 01:23:05,446 --> 01:23:07,481 And where did you find Diamond's body? 1085 01:23:08,916 --> 01:23:10,183 Uh, 1086 01:23:10,985 --> 01:23:12,519 another 40 feet in. 1087 01:23:15,056 --> 01:23:17,190 And in your expert opinion, 1088 01:23:17,258 --> 01:23:19,692 do you think that there is any way 1089 01:23:19,760 --> 01:23:23,630 that that dynamite could have thrown Diamond's body that far? 1090 01:23:24,932 --> 01:23:26,266 No, sir. 1091 01:23:31,105 --> 01:23:32,439 Thank you, Eugene. 1092 01:23:34,708 --> 01:23:35,742 Nothing further. 1093 01:23:45,986 --> 01:23:47,587 You ever been to school, boy? 1094 01:23:49,424 --> 01:23:51,658 There ain't no school for colored here. 1095 01:23:51,725 --> 01:23:52,859 Mm-hmm. 1096 01:23:52,927 --> 01:23:56,229 And yet you're up here testifying under oath 1097 01:23:56,297 --> 01:23:59,132 to all these precise distances. 1098 01:23:59,200 --> 01:24:00,434 Yes, sir. 1099 01:24:01,835 --> 01:24:04,337 Now how can that be for an uneducated colored man 1100 01:24:04,405 --> 01:24:07,107 who has never even added one plus one 1101 01:24:07,175 --> 01:24:08,908 under the eyes of a teacher? 1102 01:24:10,978 --> 01:24:12,512 Ms. Louisa taught me. 1103 01:24:13,647 --> 01:24:16,283 And I handy with saw and hammer. 1104 01:24:16,350 --> 01:24:20,253 Now you cut a three foot board to fill a four foot space 1105 01:24:20,321 --> 01:24:22,622 what exactly have you done? 1106 01:24:22,690 --> 01:24:26,293 But in a dark mine how can you be 1107 01:24:26,360 --> 01:24:28,562 so sure of the distances, boy? 1108 01:24:28,629 --> 01:24:30,797 I painted the walls in that mine 1109 01:24:30,864 --> 01:24:34,568 in ten foot parcels over 400 feet in. 1110 01:24:34,635 --> 01:24:36,903 You can see 'em as clear as day. 1111 01:24:36,971 --> 01:24:39,872 And you can put down what I done said here 1112 01:24:39,940 --> 01:24:42,275 as the word of the Lord. 1113 01:24:45,679 --> 01:24:48,181 Are you done with the witness? 1114 01:24:48,249 --> 01:24:51,050 I have no further questions, your Honor. 1115 01:24:54,222 --> 01:24:56,689 You're excused, Mr. Randall. 1116 01:24:56,757 --> 01:25:00,527 The court thanks you for your expert testimony. 1117 01:25:02,029 --> 01:25:03,930 You heard Eugene testify. 1118 01:25:05,633 --> 01:25:08,034 Now under those circumstances, 1119 01:25:08,102 --> 01:25:11,904 is there any way that that dynamite charge 1120 01:25:11,972 --> 01:25:15,208 could have caused those injuries to Diamond? 1121 01:25:15,276 --> 01:25:16,643 That would have been impossible. 1122 01:25:16,710 --> 01:25:19,045 Have you ever seen injuries like that before? 1123 01:25:20,481 --> 01:25:23,850 There was an explosion at a manufacturing company, 1124 01:25:23,917 --> 01:25:26,153 12 men were killed. 1125 01:25:26,220 --> 01:25:27,820 And what caused that explosion? 1126 01:25:29,023 --> 01:25:30,390 Natural gas leak. 1127 01:25:31,825 --> 01:25:33,527 Natural gas leak. 1128 01:25:36,531 --> 01:25:37,930 Nothing further, your Honor. 1129 01:25:42,570 --> 01:25:45,805 You found natural gas 1130 01:25:45,873 --> 01:25:48,508 on Ms. Cardinal's property, didn't you? 1131 01:25:49,544 --> 01:25:50,810 Yeah, that's right. 1132 01:25:52,547 --> 01:25:56,516 And why didn't you post signs saying that there was gas in there? 1133 01:25:57,785 --> 01:25:59,686 We, we didn't want people to know 1134 01:25:59,753 --> 01:26:01,721 what we were doing up there. 1135 01:26:01,789 --> 01:26:03,956 Because you wanted to buy her land 1136 01:26:04,024 --> 01:26:07,026 for a lot less than it was worth. 1137 01:26:07,094 --> 01:26:08,228 Why didn't you come forward 1138 01:26:08,296 --> 01:26:10,029 when Diamond Skinner was killed, sir? 1139 01:26:13,634 --> 01:26:14,801 Answer the question. 1140 01:26:14,868 --> 01:26:16,469 Why didn't you come forward 1141 01:26:16,537 --> 01:26:18,605 after Diamond Skinner was killed? 1142 01:26:21,809 --> 01:26:23,610 Why didn't you come forward-- 1143 01:26:23,678 --> 01:26:26,413 I didn't want the boy to die like that! 1144 01:26:27,381 --> 01:26:28,648 It was-- 1145 01:26:29,517 --> 01:26:31,150 It was just business. 1146 01:26:33,421 --> 01:26:34,688 Well, he did die. 1147 01:26:37,225 --> 01:26:38,592 Just like that. 1148 01:27:27,941 --> 01:27:30,710 Let me give you good folks the... 1149 01:27:30,778 --> 01:27:34,314 legal side of this case and it's not complicated. 1150 01:27:34,382 --> 01:27:38,885 Like a good birddog, it points in one direction 1151 01:27:40,087 --> 01:27:41,621 and one direction only. 1152 01:27:43,924 --> 01:27:47,694 Southern Valley killed Diamond Skinner. 1153 01:27:47,762 --> 01:27:51,197 And now they seek to use the tragedy of Louisa Mae 1154 01:27:51,265 --> 01:27:52,832 to take her land. 1155 01:27:55,135 --> 01:27:56,603 The law clearly states 1156 01:27:56,671 --> 01:28:01,775 that one cannot profit from one's misdeeds. 1157 01:28:01,842 --> 01:28:05,779 Now if what Southern Valley did does not qualify as a misdeed 1158 01:28:05,846 --> 01:28:08,515 then there is nothing on this earth that does. 1159 01:28:10,584 --> 01:28:14,086 You can pull the gas out of the mountain, 1160 01:28:14,154 --> 01:28:15,922 but in time, 1161 01:28:15,989 --> 01:28:18,024 just like the coal, it will be gone. 1162 01:28:18,926 --> 01:28:20,660 And so will Southern Valley. 1163 01:28:23,263 --> 01:28:24,564 You want a savior? 1164 01:28:27,401 --> 01:28:29,268 Then look to yourselves, 1165 01:28:29,337 --> 01:28:30,770 rely on each other, 1166 01:28:30,838 --> 01:28:34,541 just as Louisa Mae has been doing her whole life. 1167 01:28:36,344 --> 01:28:38,845 For her, the resources of the land are never exhausted 1168 01:28:38,912 --> 01:28:41,848 because she never tried to tear its soul out. 1169 01:28:45,619 --> 01:28:46,953 And her reward 1170 01:28:48,255 --> 01:28:51,891 is to live a decent, honest life 1171 01:28:54,462 --> 01:28:56,162 for as long as she desires. 1172 01:28:58,666 --> 01:29:00,066 I want to say something. 1173 01:29:07,842 --> 01:29:11,177 You know she would never sell her land 1174 01:29:11,245 --> 01:29:13,847 'cause that land is like her family. 1175 01:29:16,550 --> 01:29:20,319 It may not seem like much to those who want to destroy it, 1176 01:29:22,289 --> 01:29:24,824 but it means everything 1177 01:29:24,892 --> 01:29:27,193 to the people who call the mountain home. 1178 01:29:50,651 --> 01:29:53,252 The reason I came here was because of my dad, 1179 01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:01,360 but I want to stay here now 1180 01:30:03,163 --> 01:30:04,196 because of you. 1181 01:30:21,014 --> 01:30:23,015 I found this in your closet. 1182 01:30:26,620 --> 01:30:28,154 I thought you'd like to have it. 1183 01:31:04,024 --> 01:31:05,157 All rise. 1184 01:31:10,931 --> 01:31:12,298 Be seated. 1185 01:31:18,438 --> 01:31:19,772 What say you? 1186 01:31:25,345 --> 01:31:27,413 We find for Southern Valley. 1187 01:31:27,481 --> 01:31:29,181 Hallelujah! 1188 01:31:30,117 --> 01:31:31,918 Well done, counselor. 1189 01:31:45,365 --> 01:31:46,365 We will appeal. 1190 01:31:46,433 --> 01:31:47,667 Don't worry. 1191 01:31:47,735 --> 01:31:49,969 That was, that was really good. Real good. 1192 01:31:50,037 --> 01:31:51,638 Well, thank you for your vote of confidence. 1193 01:31:51,705 --> 01:31:55,775 Thank you. 1194 01:34:31,765 --> 01:34:34,466 I will always believe that Louisa gave her life 1195 01:34:34,534 --> 01:34:36,535 so our mother could come back to us. 1196 01:34:45,913 --> 01:34:47,613 And maybe it didn't hurt 1197 01:34:47,681 --> 01:34:50,649 that a little girl told her mom she loved her. 1198 01:34:56,890 --> 01:35:00,559 With our mother back, we didn't have to sell the farm. 1199 01:35:00,627 --> 01:35:04,831 And Cotton sued Southern Valley for Diamond's death. 1200 01:35:04,898 --> 01:35:09,335 Since we were the only family he had, the money went to us 1201 01:35:11,271 --> 01:35:14,107 and Diamond still lives here, 1202 01:35:14,174 --> 01:35:17,143 in a place I know he loved. 1203 01:35:19,312 --> 01:35:23,315 My mother and Cotton were married a year later. 1204 01:35:23,383 --> 01:35:26,786 They spent four wonderful decades together 1205 01:35:26,854 --> 01:35:29,655 and died within a week of each other. 1206 01:35:34,027 --> 01:35:37,196 Like my father, I left the mountain, 1207 01:35:37,264 --> 01:35:39,031 but I came back. 1208 01:35:39,099 --> 01:35:41,634 I married and raised a family here 1209 01:35:41,701 --> 01:35:46,405 and I started writing novels just as my father had. 1210 01:35:46,473 --> 01:35:49,375 And though I never won the sorts of awards he did, 1211 01:35:49,442 --> 01:35:53,946 my books tended to sell a little better. 1212 01:35:58,118 --> 01:35:59,752 It's a true comfort to know 1213 01:35:59,820 --> 01:36:02,655 that I will die here on the high rock 1214 01:36:07,460 --> 01:36:11,497 and I will fear my passing not at all, 1215 01:36:14,268 --> 01:36:16,302 for the view from here 1216 01:36:17,905 --> 01:36:21,174 is so very fine. 1217 01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:30,000 Sync © 28.10.2019 1218 01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:39,000 In memory of Joyce Rose Baldacci 1219 01:36:40,305 --> 01:36:46,689 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org