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[Oprah Winfrey]
To be a best-seller for over two years...
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a story has to really
connect with people.
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And Tuesdays With Morrie
resonates with everybody.
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- [Director] Action.!
- I think we all relate to Mitch.
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His life is just, shhhk...
going by too quickly.
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And then he was blessed to stop
and find his old teacher Morrie.
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And even though Morrie was dying,
he taught us about living.
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All oflife is about
teaching and learning.
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When you learn, teach.
When you get, give.
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Life is filled with Morries.
We all just need to look around.
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Come on, you guys!
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[Cheering]
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- Excuse me, kids.
- ** Live, baby, live **
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- ** Now that the day is over **
- Hello, love.
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- Yeah.
- How're ya doin'?
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- ** I got a new sensation **
- See ya, man.
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Hey, Katie.
How are ya, dear?
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** In perfect moments **
[Continues, Indistinct]
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[Man Narrating]
Among other things, many other things...
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my old professor loved to eat.
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There he is!
What do you say?
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** Sleep, baby, sleep **
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[Narrating Continues]
He especially liked tongue.
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I'd say, "Morrie, that's disgusting. "
He'd say, "I'm sorry you think so.
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I also like cole slaw.
Can you handle cole slaw, Mitch?"
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**** [Continues, Indistinct]
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- Excuse me.
- Near the top of the list
of things he loved was dancing.
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- [Man Yelling]
- He had his own way of dancing.
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He'd do the lindy
toJimi Hendrix.
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He'djitterbug to ...
name a band ... Nine Inch Nails.
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- Pardon me. Here you go, boy.
- What you got, Professor?
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Hey, just put it on.
You're gonna love it.
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** I can't top the letter "M"
You're not a ... ****
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[Music Changes,
Crowd Murmuring]
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Hey!
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Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
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**** [Tango]
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[Crowd Murmuring,
Laughing]
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[Mitch Narrating]
One ofhis favorites was the tango.
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His own version, of course.
Wherever it came from...
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- Come on, join in!
- it wasn't Argentina.
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Moments like that...
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he could live in forever.
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In the summer of 1994,
he began to notice a few things:
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- Professor.
- shortness ofbreath...
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legs giving him
a little trouble.
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But what do you expect at 77?
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[Engine Starts]
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[Straining]
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[Mitch Narrating] The dancing stopped
forever in the summer of 1994.
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- [Students Chattering]
- Should we do something?
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That was when Morrie
got his death sentence.
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Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Man, when they fall apart...
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these guys really
fall apart, don't they?
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This ugly, or is this ugly?
I knew it.
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[Man] Everybody's on the floor.
The coaches are out there.
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Oh, my... Walter, it's Mitch.
I gotta change the column.
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I've got to change
the column, Walter!
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[Mitch Narrating] I knew nothing
about what happened to my old professor.
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I hadn't seen him since
graduation day 16 years ago.
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I promised I'd keep in touch,
but I got busy dancing my own dance.
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It's a zoo... Walter, it's a zoo here.
Just hold a space for me, okay?
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Give me a break!
Have I ever missed a deadline?
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- [All Yelling]
- Janine, hi. Did I wake you, honey?
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- Everything I did I did on deadline.
- It's crazy here.
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- Everything.
- I just wanna say
I love you and I'm sorry.
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Coach said no media
until he talks to the team.
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Should've talked to them
before the game.
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Yeah... No, we definitely have to talk,
I know. Hang on one second.
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- [All Yelling]
- Baby, I gotta go. I love you. Bye-bye.
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[Man]
No press.!
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Coach, Coach.
Coach, what did you say to the team?
Did the word "discipline"come up?
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- [Laughter]
- How about the word "maturity"?
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[Mitch Narrating] Sports are always
in season in this country...
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and I covered them all...
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living in planes and hotels
with a laptop and a cell phone.
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I might never have known
what happened to Morrie if I wasn't
always doing six things at once.
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Janine, come on. Because I've
been in love with you for seven years.
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Doesn't that... Yeah, but in my book,
that is a commitment.
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Yeah. Do we have to talk
about this now?
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This is the only thing
we ever fight about.
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Yeah, because look at what
marriage does to people.
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I'm not watching it.
It's just on.
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Look at what marriage does.
Look at our married friends.
Look at our divorced friends.
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Look, I'll be back in Detroit tomorrow.
We'll talk about this then, okay?
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Yeah, well, I'll make time.
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- [Laughing]
- [Ted Koppel On TV]
Just who is Morrie Schwartz?
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And why,
by the end of the night...
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are so many of you
going to care about him?
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Janine, hang on one second.
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[Announcer On TV]
This is ABC News Nightline.
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- One second.
- Reporting from Washington, Ted Koppel.
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[Ted Koppel]
Tonight, Morrie ... Lessons on Living.
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Morrie is going to die.
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He suffers from a disease
called ALS...
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better known
as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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Morrie Schwartz is
a retired sociology professor...
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from Brandeis University
who is dying of ALS.
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Morrie does not have
long to live.
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I'm on the last great journey here,
one we all gotta take.
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Maybe I can teach people
what to pack for the trip.
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- [Click, Dial Tone]
- Janine? Hello?
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Or maybe my dying
can be of value...
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something we can all learn from,
like a... a human textbook.
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I've been a teacher all my life.
You think I'm gonna quit now?
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[Morrie Laughing]
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[Woman On Phone] Detroit Free Press.
How may I direct your call?
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[Woman #2 On Phone] Thank you
for calling the Detroit Free Press.
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I'm just getting to work.
Let me call you back, okay?
Very good. How are you?
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- Mitch, tomorrow's page.
- Oh, excellent.
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- Congratulations.
- On what? The column? It was all right.
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A little rushed. Oh, it's official, huh?
Baseball strike is over.
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Yeah, which means I need you
in Florida for spring training.
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You thought it was rushed?
It read terrific.
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- I mean congratulations
on your sweet little TV deal.
- Thank you.
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- Walter, local TV, one show a week.
- Books and the radio show...
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- Take 20 words out.
- My column comes first, Walter.
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- How many hours you got in your day?
- What difference does it make?
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- You're spreading yourself
a little thin.
- As long as I deliver.
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You think you can find time
to write a piece for the strike
ending tomorrow?
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- [Answering Machine]
Hi, this is Janine.
- It's a personal call.
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- Say hello toJanine for me.
- Please leave a message.
[Machine Beeps]
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Hello. Hello, it's me.
Will you pick up, please?
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[Sighs] Janine? Janine, you have
to talk to me sometime.
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Will you pick up
the phone, please?
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[Sighs]
All right. Um...
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I'll, uh...
I'll come by work, I guess.
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I love you.
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**** [Women Harmonizing]
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Great column today, man. So,
we finally got baseball back, or what?
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I think the fans
should go on strike.
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- [Men Laughing]
- What's up, you guys?
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Oh, hold it for a second.
Something's not right here.
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Take a break for a second, ladies.
Mitch, make yourself useful.
Give me an F-sharp.
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- F-sharp.
- [Striking Note]
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- Hey.
- Hey.
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I've been trying to call. Are you,
uh, ever gonna talk to me again?
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I was talking to you last night...
you and the TV...
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and then I sort of got the idea
that you didn't want to talk.
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I got some bad news last night.
A guy I used to know...
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A teacher of mine back in college
is sick. He's gonna die.
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Oh, Mitch, I'm sorry.
Were you very close to him?
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I used to be, yeah.
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Uh, okay, y'all,
let's try this.
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[Sighs] We both gotta work
on our phone manners.
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[Chuckles]
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I love you.
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I love you too.
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[Man] Okay, let's just
pick this up, ladies.
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[TV Sportscaster, Indistinct]
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It's not just Morrie. I haven't kept
in touch with anybody from college.
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The reunions, the mail...
Who's got time for that stuff?
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Well, I wish I had
a teacher like that.
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No, he was more than just a teacher.
He was... what... like a force.
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[Crowd Cheering]
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At this basketball game once,
we were all chanting...
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"We're number one!
We're number one," right?
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So I see Morrie a couple rows down, he's
eyeing us, he's giving us all this look.
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All of a sudden
he stands up and says...
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"What's wrong
with being number two?"
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He actually wanted to discuss that
right in the middle of the game.
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- Thank you.
- Thank you.
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Made a really big difference in my life,
and I never even thanked him.
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Well, you talk about him
as if he were already dead.
You could still go see him.
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He's in Boston. When am I
gonna find time to go to Boston?
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Well, make time, if he
meant that much to you.
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You're on the road half your life.
Why can't you make time
for one trip to Boston?
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- Why are you getting upset?
- Why do you have such a problem
making time in your life...
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- Hey, you're that guy
Mitch Albom, right?
- Yeah. Hey...
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- Hey, man, I read
your column every day.
- Thank you.
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- I've got an idea for a column.
- Guys, I'm in the middle here.
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- Gotcha. Hey, we'll talk later?
- I get ideas all the time.
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Great. Sorry.
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- [TVSportscaster, Indistinct]
- [Sighs] Anyway...
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the truth is,
it's too late.
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All these years I haven't
sent the guy a postcard.
How am I gonna face him now?
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- [Crowd Cheering]
- Mitch, think...
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Hey, think of him. Think about
how much it would mean to him.
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At least call him.
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In hockey last night,
with the play-off berth at stake
and visions of the golden cup...
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[Mitch Narrating]
I lived on the phone,
made dozens of calls a day.
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Why couldn't I make one
to a dying man?
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The simple answer was guilt,
but it was more than that.
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I was afraid
of seeing him now.
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I had a thing about death.
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- Here's my buddy!
- Hey!
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Hey. You're one
of the special ones, Mitch.
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You're gonna keep in touch,
you gotta promise me.
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- I promise.
- [Mitch Narrating]
I failed that promise.
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- [Phone Ringing]
- I also had a thing about failure.
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- [Janine On Phone] Hello?
- Hey, it's me.
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- Hey.
- Well, you were right. I can't work.
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I can't even think here. I gotta
do something. About Morrie, I mean.
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- Are you gonna go see him?
- Yeah, it's one trip to Boston.
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- Quick little visit,
say I'm sorry and say good-bye.
- [Sportscaster, Indistinct]
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Well, roll back the tape.
Let me hear the playback again.
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- [Sportscaster Continues]
- Okay. Mm-hmm.
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- [Tires Skidding]
- Oh, damn it!
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- What?
- No, no, no. I just spilled some coffee.
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Go-Go ahead.
Let me hear the playback.
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Yeah, I'm listening. That sounds fine.
Just go with that.
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- What? Take three?
- Yes. Is there a lot more?
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- Seven takes.
- You know what? We're gonna
have to do this, uh, later.
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Sorry.
Dropped my keys.
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It's Mitch.
Mitch Albom?
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I called.
I-I spoke to your wife.
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I don't get a hug
after 16 years?
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[Laughing]
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My ol' buddy, you came
to see me at last.
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Let's eat.
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[Laughing, Sniffing]
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Well, I see you still like
to eat as much as ever.
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Oh, boy, dig in, huh?
Help yourself.
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Come on.
Make yourself comfortable.
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- Okay.
- Looks great.
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[Slurping]
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- [Clears Throat]
- [Phone Ringing]
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Well, you look great. Really.
219
00:13:16,396 --> 00:13:20,500
- Really. The same.
- Morrie? Excuse me. Can you talk?
220
00:13:20,567 --> 00:13:24,504
No. Get a name if you could, Connie,
'cause I'm with my buddy now, huh?
221
00:13:24,571 --> 00:13:26,906
I spend half the day
on the telephone.
222
00:13:26,973 --> 00:13:30,243
Now that I'm dying, people are taking
more of an interest in me.
223
00:13:30,310 --> 00:13:34,881
Ah, big celebrity now.
How's that feel being a big TV star?
224
00:13:34,948 --> 00:13:37,884
I mean, you know, you were
always interesting, but, uh...
225
00:13:37,951 --> 00:13:41,755
I thought so.
226
00:13:47,794 --> 00:13:50,30
This-This one class...
Do you remember this, Morrie?
227
00:13:50,96 --> 00:13:54,0
Um, you didn't say anything.
You remember that?
You just stared at us.
228
00:13:54,67 --> 00:13:56,936
- Hmm.
- We all trooped in
with our notebooks ready...
229
00:13:57,3 --> 00:14:00,774
waiting for you to start
casting pearls, and nothing.
230
00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,710
Five minutes go by.
Ten minutes.
231
00:14:03,777 --> 00:14:07,80
We started panicking.
"Why isn't the guy saying anything?"
232
00:14:07,147 --> 00:14:10,316
Finally, after like... I think
it was 20 minutes of that...
233
00:14:10,383 --> 00:14:14,254
and we really can't take it anymore,
you say, very quietly ...
234
00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:18,91
- "What's happening here?"
- Exactly right.
"What's happening here?"
235
00:14:18,158 --> 00:14:21,94
That's exactly what you said.
You were making a point about silence.
236
00:14:21,161 --> 00:14:25,465
What is it about silence
that makes people uneasy, huh?
237
00:14:25,532 --> 00:14:27,567
Right.
238
00:14:27,634 --> 00:14:31,471
Why do people only feel comfortable
when they're filling the air with words?
239
00:14:31,538 --> 00:14:34,307
Hmm?
240
00:14:34,374 --> 00:14:36,910
[Chuckles]
241
00:14:36,976 --> 00:14:40,980
Should I tell you
what it's like? Dying?
242
00:14:42,782 --> 00:14:45,652
That's another subject that
makes people uncomfortable.
243
00:14:45,719 --> 00:14:49,889
We'll get to it later. You know,
right now I gotta go to the commode.
244
00:14:49,956 --> 00:14:52,659
Are you up to, uh,
giving me a hand?
245
00:14:52,726 --> 00:14:55,161
Um... sure.
246
00:14:55,228 --> 00:14:58,231
Well, now wait a minute.
I better get Connie. It takes an expert.
247
00:14:58,298 --> 00:15:00,500
- [Bell Rings]
- [Morrie] Connie, uh ...
248
00:15:00,567 --> 00:15:02,669
[Clears Throat]
249
00:15:02,736 --> 00:15:06,272
You know, dying is just
one thing to be sad about.
250
00:15:06,339 --> 00:15:11,244
Living unhappily,
that's another matter.
251
00:15:12,379 --> 00:15:14,514
See ya in a minute.
252
00:15:14,581 --> 00:15:16,516
Okay.
253
00:15:21,755 --> 00:15:24,324
- [Sighs]
- Are you happy in Detroit?
254
00:15:25,759 --> 00:15:28,294
Yeah. Best town to be in
for a sportswriter.
255
00:15:28,361 --> 00:15:31,931
Football, basketball,
baseball, hockey, you name it.
256
00:15:31,998 --> 00:15:35,669
Are you giving
to your community?
257
00:15:37,537 --> 00:15:39,639
I-I... They're nuts for sports.
258
00:15:39,706 --> 00:15:42,142
You know, that's what I give 'em
every day in my column.
259
00:15:42,208 --> 00:15:44,344
Are you at peace
with yourself?
260
00:15:44,411 --> 00:15:48,481
[Chuckles]
I... I can't complain.
261
00:15:48,548 --> 00:15:51,117
Uh-huh. What
happened to the music?
262
00:15:51,184 --> 00:15:53,653
Wasn't that your passion,
to be a great pianist?
263
00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:55,989
Yeah. Yeah, I gave it a shot,
then I grew up.
264
00:15:56,56 --> 00:15:59,125
You grew up, huh?
265
00:15:59,192 --> 00:16:01,394
Married with kids?
266
00:16:01,461 --> 00:16:05,165
- Uh, no.
- Haven't found anybody
to share your heart with, huh?
267
00:16:05,231 --> 00:16:07,801
No. Yes, I have.
Definitely.
268
00:16:07,867 --> 00:16:10,937
Oh. Not enough
to get married?
269
00:16:11,4 --> 00:16:13,173
Uh, no. Well, y-yes.
I mean, you know, someday.
270
00:16:13,239 --> 00:16:15,809
But, uh, just
when we're both ready.
271
00:16:15,875 --> 00:16:20,347
When you're both ready?
Has she got a name?
272
00:16:20,413 --> 00:16:24,117
- Janine.
- Janine? That's a very beautiful name.
273
00:16:24,184 --> 00:16:28,655
SoJanine shares this "when we're
both ready" thing with you?
274
00:16:28,722 --> 00:16:30,657
No.
[Chuckles]
275
00:16:30,724 --> 00:16:33,26
Uh-huh.
[Laughs]
276
00:16:33,93 --> 00:16:37,97
I can see, Mitch, that we're gonna have
a great deal to talk about.
277
00:16:37,163 --> 00:16:40,567
- What are you writing?
- One more question.
278
00:16:40,633 --> 00:16:44,270
- Yeah?
- You know anything about this
disease that I've got here?
279
00:16:44,337 --> 00:16:47,173
This Lou Gehrig's disease?
280
00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,542
It melts ya like a candle,
you know?
281
00:16:49,609 --> 00:16:51,778
In my case,
from the bottom up.
282
00:16:51,845 --> 00:16:56,282
[Straining]
My legs... went first.
283
00:16:56,349 --> 00:16:59,52
Hands will be next...
284
00:16:59,119 --> 00:17:03,56
and eventually
it'll get the whole body.
285
00:17:03,123 --> 00:17:06,26
But you know what I dread?
286
00:17:06,92 --> 00:17:10,463
Someday soon somebody's gonna
have to wipe my ass for me.
287
00:17:12,132 --> 00:17:14,868
But... I'm a lucky man.
288
00:17:14,934 --> 00:17:16,936
- You're lucky?
- Yeah.
289
00:17:17,3 --> 00:17:19,239
I've still got time to learn...
290
00:17:19,305 --> 00:17:22,442
time to say good-bye
to the people I love...
291
00:17:22,509 --> 00:17:25,812
and time to teach
my final course.
292
00:17:25,879 --> 00:17:29,983
- About dying?
- Not about dying! About living!
293
00:17:31,518 --> 00:17:34,587
When you know how to die...
294
00:17:34,654 --> 00:17:37,724
you know how to live.
295
00:17:37,791 --> 00:17:41,461
No, no, no, no, no.
Well, you can't do that, can you?
296
00:17:41,528 --> 00:17:43,963
- Let me hear it again.
- [Toilet Flushing]
297
00:17:44,30 --> 00:17:46,933
- [Morrie Grunting]
- [Connie] I got you.
298
00:17:47,0 --> 00:17:50,337
Dave, you know what? I-I can't do this
right now. I'm really sorry.
299
00:17:50,403 --> 00:17:55,241
Yeah, I'm leaving
for the airport in five minutes.
Can I call you from the car?
300
00:17:55,308 --> 00:17:58,278
Yeah, just give me five minutes, okay?
Thanks a lot, man.
301
00:17:58,345 --> 00:18:00,413
- [Phone Beeps Off]
- [Morrie] Those were my dancing days.
302
00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:02,916
- Did you ever see me dance?
- No.
303
00:18:02,982 --> 00:18:05,752
I saw you do a lot of things,
but, uh, never dance.
304
00:18:05,819 --> 00:18:08,922
That's too bad, because they tell me
it was something to see.
305
00:18:08,988 --> 00:18:11,324
- I'll bet.
- Why don't you keep it?
306
00:18:11,391 --> 00:18:14,594
- Oh, no. Are you sure?
- Yeah.
307
00:18:14,661 --> 00:18:17,197
You remember that nickname
you used to give me?
308
00:18:17,263 --> 00:18:20,533
- Okay, here we go.
- Coach. I called you Coach.
309
00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,36
- Yeah.
- [Connie] Easy. Easy. Okay.
310
00:18:23,103 --> 00:18:25,505
Somehow I could never call you
Professor Schwartz.
311
00:18:25,572 --> 00:18:27,974
Well, I liked being called Coach.
312
00:18:28,41 --> 00:18:31,144
Maybe I should've gotten a whistle.
[Chuckles]
313
00:18:31,211 --> 00:18:33,980
- What's the matter? You gotta go?
- Yeah.
314
00:18:34,47 --> 00:18:37,150
- Well, you'll be back.
- Well, I don't know, Coach.
315
00:18:37,217 --> 00:18:42,55
Uh, Detroit is 700 miles, you know?
It's a bit of a time problem.
316
00:18:42,122 --> 00:18:44,724
Well, uh, let me show you
something about time.
317
00:18:44,791 --> 00:18:47,927
[Takes Deep Breath]
318
00:18:47,994 --> 00:18:50,397
[Whispering]
One, two, three, four, five...
319
00:18:50,463 --> 00:18:53,733
six, seven, eight, nine,
ten, eleven, twelve.
320
00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,202
[Panting]
321
00:18:56,269 --> 00:18:59,673
Went to 16 last week.
322
00:18:59,739 --> 00:19:02,308
A kid like you...
I bet you go to 100.
323
00:19:02,375 --> 00:19:05,545
You know, it's a good thing
to count your breaths now and then.
324
00:19:05,612 --> 00:19:09,549
Keeps you from putting
things off. Come here.
325
00:19:09,616 --> 00:19:12,819
I'm still your coach.
You promise me...
326
00:19:12,886 --> 00:19:15,422
that you'll come back to see
your old coach, huh?
327
00:19:15,488 --> 00:19:17,424
[Mitch Narrating]
I promised.
328
00:19:17,490 --> 00:19:20,994
I tried not to think about
the last time I promised.
329
00:19:26,933 --> 00:19:29,436
[Engine Starts,
Phone Rings]
330
00:19:29,502 --> 00:19:32,372
- [Phone Beeps]
- Hello?
331
00:19:32,439 --> 00:19:35,342
- [Man On Phone, Indistinct]
- Yeah. No, I have time now.
Let's hear it.
332
00:19:37,377 --> 00:19:39,979
[Mitch] What are the truly
important questions in life...
333
00:19:40,46 --> 00:19:42,115
and where do we go
to find the answers?
334
00:19:42,182 --> 00:19:46,119
There are many paths
on which to seek the truth.
Me, I go to press conferences.
335
00:19:46,186 --> 00:19:48,455
Today in his humble
high school stadium...
336
00:19:48,521 --> 00:19:51,124
I will know the answer
to the question of questions:
337
00:19:51,191 --> 00:19:55,128
What college will two-time all-state
quarterback Shawn Daley...
338
00:19:55,195 --> 00:19:57,564
choose to pursue
his higher education?
339
00:19:57,630 --> 00:19:59,699
And maybe play
a little football.
340
00:19:59,766 --> 00:20:02,802
All you guys
been coverin' my career...
341
00:20:02,869 --> 00:20:06,106
know that I have a dream,
which is to play in the NFL.
342
00:20:06,172 --> 00:20:09,409
[All Cheering]
343
00:20:09,476 --> 00:20:13,413
I been real careful lookin' over
all my scholarship offers...
344
00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,49
to choose the best one
to make my dream come true.
345
00:20:16,116 --> 00:20:18,818
Shawn, what are you planning
on getting your degree in?
346
00:20:18,885 --> 00:20:22,355
Well, I'm only gonna be there
two years, then I'll go pro.
347
00:20:22,422 --> 00:20:24,357
- [Cheering]
- [Indistinct]
348
00:20:24,424 --> 00:20:28,61
I mean, I mean, of course
I'm gonna study hard...
349
00:20:28,128 --> 00:20:30,797
and improve my education,
see what happens.
350
00:20:30,864 --> 00:20:34,0
And the truth shall set you free,
or make you a first-round draft choice.
351
00:20:34,67 --> 00:20:36,469
The college I've chose
to go to is...
352
00:20:36,536 --> 00:20:40,507
The moment of truth is here, folks.
On every lip is one prayer:
353
00:20:40,573 --> 00:20:42,742
" Please, God, let it be us."
354
00:20:42,809 --> 00:20:46,846
[All Cheering]
355
00:20:46,913 --> 00:20:49,816
[Laughing]
356
00:20:49,883 --> 00:20:52,318
[Shawn On Tape]
I mean, I mean ... -
357
00:20:52,385 --> 00:20:55,255
- Sounds like another good one.
- Hmm? I'm hungry too.
358
00:20:55,321 --> 00:20:59,25
Two minutes to deadline.
We'll go to dinner. Two minutes.
359
00:21:01,94 --> 00:21:04,330
Can you believe a major press
conference for a high school jock?
360
00:21:04,397 --> 00:21:06,766
Wonder what Morrie
would think of that.
361
00:21:06,833 --> 00:21:09,436
I know what he'd think. What kind
of message does that send...
362
00:21:09,502 --> 00:21:13,940
to kids who actually crack a book, study
their butts off and get scholarships?
363
00:21:14,7 --> 00:21:16,209
And who's gonna hold
a press conference for them?
364
00:21:16,276 --> 00:21:19,446
- Mitch, I'm going to my place tonight.
- Wherever you wanna eat.
365
00:21:19,512 --> 00:21:21,648
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Where you goin'?
366
00:21:21,715 --> 00:21:24,50
It's okay. Keep working.
I'm just tired. I'm gonna go.
367
00:21:24,117 --> 00:21:27,53
What are you talkin' about?
We're goin' to dinner like we
always do. What's the matter?
368
00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:29,189
Nothing. I have a session tomorrow.
I just want to go home.
369
00:21:29,255 --> 00:21:31,725
If we lived together,
you'd be home, but...
370
00:21:31,791 --> 00:21:34,794
Two minutes to deadline, okay? You have
a career. You understand deadlines.
371
00:21:34,861 --> 00:21:37,63
I'm a backup singer.
That's not a career, it's a job.
372
00:21:37,130 --> 00:21:39,65
You could have a great career
if you really wanted it.
373
00:21:39,132 --> 00:21:41,968
- I don't know what I want.
- You're too good to be singing backup.
374
00:21:42,35 --> 00:21:45,71
Mitch, that's not
what I'm talking about.
375
00:21:45,138 --> 00:21:48,875
I can't just keep going on
like this, you know,
waiting for you to fit me in. I-I...
376
00:21:48,942 --> 00:21:52,245
I gotta just think about what I want.
And so do you.
377
00:21:52,312 --> 00:21:55,749
Sorry. I did not mean to get
into this now. I'm gonna call you later.
378
00:21:55,815 --> 00:21:59,386
- [Phone Ringing]
- Janine, please don't go. Janine, wait.
379
00:21:59,452 --> 00:22:02,322
- Can... Obviously, we need to talk.
- [Pager Beeping]
380
00:22:02,389 --> 00:22:05,725
Obviously, we will talk.
I just need one minute, okay?
381
00:22:05,792 --> 00:22:09,496
Please. I love you. It's coming
in one minute. One minute!
382
00:22:09,562 --> 00:22:12,966
God. Please, just give
me a second. Please.
383
00:22:13,33 --> 00:22:16,436
[Tapping Keyboard, Sighs]
384
00:22:16,503 --> 00:22:20,240
[Tape, Indistinct]
385
00:22:21,675 --> 00:22:24,10
- [Phones Ringing]
- It's just not a good time, Mitch.
386
00:22:24,77 --> 00:22:27,80
- Any other time, I'd say okay,
take a few days off, relax.
- No, you wouldn't.
387
00:22:27,147 --> 00:22:30,417
- We got play-offs,
we got tennis, spring training.
- I know.
388
00:22:30,483 --> 00:22:33,620
You wanna take some time, why don't you
cut back from one of your other jobs?
389
00:22:33,687 --> 00:22:36,690
- Walter...
- Do you people work here?
I want you on the road, Mitch.
390
00:22:36,756 --> 00:22:40,293
Walter, I need to be here.
It's personal, okay?
391
00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:42,462
Oh, Janine.
The marriage thing again.
392
00:22:42,529 --> 00:22:46,232
I could recommend
a hell of a counselor.
We got divorced anyway.
393
00:22:46,299 --> 00:22:49,336
- Walter, can I just...
- Look, Mitch, I need you.
Detroit needs you.
394
00:22:49,402 --> 00:22:53,740
I'm sorry about your problems,
but you know what?
The world doesn't stop.
395
00:22:55,108 --> 00:22:58,311
- Okay.
- No, no, no. Come on.
No ground rules.
396
00:22:58,378 --> 00:23:00,513
[Mitch Narrating]
I le ft Janine with promises.
397
00:23:00,580 --> 00:23:02,949
We'd talk. We'd get help
as soon as I got back.
398
00:23:03,16 --> 00:23:06,119
- Meanwhile, Walter was right.
The world didn't stop.
- I'll see you Friday.
399
00:23:06,186 --> 00:23:08,521
Guys, have you got time
for a couple questions?
400
00:23:08,588 --> 00:23:10,924
Guys... Sam, what happened
in the fourth quarter?
401
00:23:10,990 --> 00:23:13,393
Danny, was your knee
bothering you?
402
00:23:13,460 --> 00:23:15,428
[Mitch Narrating]
I remembered my promise to Morrie...
403
00:23:15,495 --> 00:23:17,897
but when would I find time
to keep it?
404
00:23:17,964 --> 00:23:20,734
The strike wasn't about money.
It was never about money.
405
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,436
Gee, how-
how did we miss that?
406
00:23:23,503 --> 00:23:25,605
It was about our worth
as human beings.
407
00:23:25,672 --> 00:23:27,841
Our self-worth
isn't being validated.
408
00:23:27,907 --> 00:23:31,111
But you're not a player.
You wouldn't understand.
409
00:23:31,177 --> 00:23:33,413
[Bat Hits Ball]
410
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,783
[Mitch Narrating] America
had become a bazaar of self-help.
411
00:23:36,850 --> 00:23:39,219
Books, TVshows,
hundred-dollar-an-hour experts...
412
00:23:39,285 --> 00:23:41,688
all of them with answers
to the big important questions.
413
00:23:41,755 --> 00:23:44,858
This is the final call for Boston,
Arista Air flight 211 now boarding,
Gate 103.
414
00:23:44,924 --> 00:23:47,27
[Mitch Narrating]
What did Morrie think of that?
415
00:23:47,93 --> 00:23:49,529
He wasn't in
the self-help business.
416
00:23:49,596 --> 00:23:53,633
He was standing on the tracks with
death's locomotive whistling toward him.
417
00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:56,469
His mind had become
a lightning rod for ideas.
418
00:23:56,536 --> 00:23:59,806
He saw things with incredible clarity.
I wanted that clarity.
419
00:23:59,873 --> 00:24:02,42
I thought I had it once.
420
00:24:02,108 --> 00:24:05,45
Who I was, what I wanted.
What had happened to me?
421
00:24:05,111 --> 00:24:07,881
[Woman] This is the last call
for Boston, Arista flight ...
422
00:24:07,947 --> 00:24:11,117
Excuse me. Excuse me.
I'm sorry. Excuse me.
423
00:24:21,61 --> 00:24:23,229
**** [Male Quartet Singing]
424
00:24:23,296 --> 00:24:27,133
** I love thejava jive
and it loves me **
425
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,137
** Coffee and tea
and thejivin'and me **
426
00:24:31,204 --> 00:24:34,240
** A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup **
427
00:24:34,307 --> 00:24:36,910
* It's hot, look out *
428
00:24:36,976 --> 00:24:39,546
** I lovejava sweet and ... **
429
00:24:39,612 --> 00:24:42,482
You almost missed the funeral.
No, it was Morrie's idea.
430
00:24:42,549 --> 00:24:45,852
A living funeral. He said he didn't
want to wait till he was dead...
431
00:24:45,919 --> 00:24:48,54
for people to say
nice things about him.
432
00:24:48,121 --> 00:24:50,690
- Go on in.
- ** A cup, a cup, a cup **
433
00:24:50,757 --> 00:24:52,692
**** [Man Scatting]
434
00:24:52,759 --> 00:24:56,696
* I love coffee and tea *
435
00:24:56,763 --> 00:25:00,633
** I love thejava jive
and it loves me **
436
00:25:00,700 --> 00:25:04,604
** Coffee and tea
and thejivin'and me **
437
00:25:04,671 --> 00:25:07,440
** A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup **
438
00:25:07,507 --> 00:25:10,777
** Boarrrrrrr ****
439
00:25:10,844 --> 00:25:14,514
That's terrific.
440
00:25:14,581 --> 00:25:17,550
Now listen, you've all said
such beautiful things.
441
00:25:17,617 --> 00:25:20,186
Believe it or not,
now I want to talk.
442
00:25:20,253 --> 00:25:23,790
- Oh. [Laughs]
- All I have is a voice.
443
00:25:23,857 --> 00:25:26,459
- We know, Dad. We know.
- That's-That's not me.
444
00:25:26,526 --> 00:25:28,695
That's from W.H. Auden,
my favorite poet.
445
00:25:28,762 --> 00:25:32,298
- We know that too, Dad.
- Oh, okay.
446
00:25:32,365 --> 00:25:36,136
"All I have is a voice...
447
00:25:36,202 --> 00:25:40,6
"to undo the folded lie...
448
00:25:41,441 --> 00:25:43,510
"the lie of authority...
449
00:25:43,576 --> 00:25:47,347
"whose buildings grope the sky.
450
00:25:47,414 --> 00:25:50,383
" No one exists alone.
451
00:25:50,450 --> 00:25:55,221
" Hunger allows no choice
to the citizen or police.
452
00:25:55,288 --> 00:25:58,992
"We must love one another...
453
00:25:59,59 --> 00:26:01,194
or die."
454
00:26:01,261 --> 00:26:04,297
We must...
455
00:26:04,364 --> 00:26:06,666
Iove one another...
456
00:26:06,733 --> 00:26:09,336
or die.
457
00:26:15,775 --> 00:26:19,913
- Thank you.
- [All Sobbing]
458
00:26:19,979 --> 00:26:23,183
[Quiet Chattering]
459
00:26:23,249 --> 00:26:25,518
Thank you.
I'll see you soon.
460
00:26:25,585 --> 00:26:28,455
- It was lovely, Morrie.
- Good-bye. Be well.
461
00:26:28,521 --> 00:26:31,91
- [Woman] Thank you.
- I know I should've called.
462
00:26:31,157 --> 00:26:33,126
I'm stealin' time
from my boss here.
463
00:26:33,193 --> 00:26:36,796
You missed my funeral. Never mind.
You'll catch the next one.
464
00:26:39,733 --> 00:26:42,969
** Another day **
465
00:26:43,36 --> 00:26:47,707
- ** A ft er I've called on you to speak **
- Thank you.
466
00:26:47,774 --> 00:26:50,377
** And you would say **
[Continues, Indistinct]
467
00:26:50,443 --> 00:26:54,47
- You're not sayin' much today.
- What's wrong with silence?
468
00:26:54,114 --> 00:26:57,283
- [Laughing]
- [Bike Bell Rings]
469
00:26:57,350 --> 00:27:00,653
You know what I miss?
Springtime on campus, huh?
470
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,157
- That was always the best time.
- Yeah, for you professors, maybe.
471
00:27:04,224 --> 00:27:07,994
To us lowly students, spring meant
one thing ... cramming for finals.
472
00:27:08,61 --> 00:27:11,31
Oh, yeah.
Beautiful day like this...
473
00:27:11,97 --> 00:27:14,334
and we made you spend it
buried in a book.
474
00:27:14,401 --> 00:27:18,338
Throw down your books! You have
nothing to lose but your grades.
475
00:27:18,405 --> 00:27:21,174
[Laughter, Murmuring]
476
00:27:21,241 --> 00:27:23,743
- Coach, you ever wish
you were young again?
- Nah.
477
00:27:23,810 --> 00:27:27,247
I've been young. I know how miserable
it can be, being young.
478
00:27:27,313 --> 00:27:29,149
Oh, push me
down there, huh?
479
00:27:29,215 --> 00:27:32,585
Aging isn't just decay,
you know? It's growth.
480
00:27:32,652 --> 00:27:35,488
So how come nobody ever says,
"Gee, I wish I were old"?
481
00:27:35,555 --> 00:27:40,160
Because this culture worships youth.
Me, I do not buy it.
482
00:27:40,226 --> 00:27:45,598
I've had my time to be 22.
This is my time to be 78.
483
00:27:45,665 --> 00:27:48,101
So, you were never
afraid of getting old?
484
00:27:48,168 --> 00:27:51,237
Oh, the fear of aging...
You know what that reflects, Mitch?
485
00:27:51,304 --> 00:27:54,574
- Lives that haven't found meaning.
- [Students Chattering]
486
00:27:54,641 --> 00:27:57,711
- The light changed.
- Oh.
487
00:27:59,145 --> 00:28:01,915
[Morrie]
Mitch, stop here.
488
00:28:01,981 --> 00:28:05,885
- This is where I used to dance.
- " Dance Free"?
489
00:28:05,952 --> 00:28:09,289
- Yeah.
- No wonder they went out ofbusiness.
490
00:28:09,356 --> 00:28:12,25
Not that kind of free, Mitch.
491
00:28:12,92 --> 00:28:15,929
I used to think if I couldn't dance,
I couldn't live.
492
00:28:15,995 --> 00:28:18,932
**** [Tango]
493
00:28:22,235 --> 00:28:26,72
[Morrie] Sometimes I see myself
dancing, and I think...
494
00:28:26,139 --> 00:28:30,410
"Wow.! Oh, boy.!
I don't have ALS a ft er all.
495
00:28:30,477 --> 00:28:32,979
"It's-It's a big mistake.
496
00:28:33,46 --> 00:28:36,116
It's all part of a lovely fantasy. "
497
00:28:36,182 --> 00:28:39,719
Butjust for a minute.
498
00:28:39,786 --> 00:28:42,222
Fantasy is useful.
You can learn from it.
499
00:28:42,288 --> 00:28:45,825
But, uh... this...
500
00:28:45,892 --> 00:28:50,563
this is what's real,
and I accept it.
501
00:28:50,630 --> 00:28:55,502
But is it really that easy? I mean,
don't you ever feel sorry for yourself?
502
00:28:55,568 --> 00:28:58,638
Oh, good...
Oh, you bet. God, I...
503
00:28:58,705 --> 00:29:02,409
Usually, in the morning... you know,
before everybody gets up...
504
00:29:02,475 --> 00:29:05,445
I get so... angry...
505
00:29:05,512 --> 00:29:07,714
and so bitter.
506
00:29:07,781 --> 00:29:11,718
I just... What the hell
did I ever do to deserve this?
507
00:29:11,785 --> 00:29:14,721
Where's the fairness?
What...
508
00:29:14,788 --> 00:29:18,825
[Sighs]
And I cry and I...
509
00:29:20,860 --> 00:29:22,796
rage.
510
00:29:24,664 --> 00:29:26,766
I mourn.
511
00:29:28,368 --> 00:29:31,438
And then I detach.
512
00:29:33,340 --> 00:29:35,342
It's over. That's it.
513
00:29:35,408 --> 00:29:38,44
All over. No more.
514
00:29:38,111 --> 00:29:40,714
I just look back on how
I've been feeling, and I say...
515
00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:44,184
"Well, that's self-pity, and that's
enough of that for today."
516
00:29:44,250 --> 00:29:46,319
- Just like that you stop?
- Yeah.
517
00:29:46,386 --> 00:29:50,824
That's all the time I give it.
Start thinking about
the day ahead, you know?
518
00:29:50,890 --> 00:29:53,526
The people that
are gonna come to see me...
519
00:29:53,593 --> 00:29:57,530
the stories that I'm gonna hear
and all the stuff I'm gonna learn.
520
00:29:57,597 --> 00:30:01,568
- Like from you, Mitch.
- From me?
521
00:30:01,634 --> 00:30:04,804
There's a place that
I've got to go now, Mitch.
522
00:30:04,871 --> 00:30:08,208
I hope you can handle it.
523
00:30:10,910 --> 00:30:13,713
[Laughs]
524
00:30:13,780 --> 00:30:17,751
Yeah, I think the chocolate
almond was the best of all,
but they don't carry it.
525
00:30:17,817 --> 00:30:22,55
How you doin', Morrie?
You ready for a good beatin'?
526
00:30:22,122 --> 00:30:24,891
- Hey.
- Hi.
527
00:30:24,958 --> 00:30:26,893
Hi there.
You ready for a beatin'?
528
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,829
**** [Tape: Woman Singing Opera]
529
00:30:29,896 --> 00:30:31,931
- You oughta get a zipper.
- [Connie] I know.
530
00:30:31,998 --> 00:30:34,234
If I ever learn how to sew.
531
00:30:36,836 --> 00:30:41,508
**** [Opera Continues]
532
00:30:45,578 --> 00:30:49,549
- Oh, hey, Mrs. Schwartz.
- Oh, please.
533
00:30:49,616 --> 00:30:52,585
Call me Charlotte, Mitch.
Did he ever stop talking?
534
00:30:52,652 --> 00:30:56,89
[Chuckles] No. I was afraid
I was gonna tire him out.
535
00:30:56,156 --> 00:30:59,159
Oh, he never gets tired
if he's got friends to talk to.
536
00:30:59,225 --> 00:31:02,429
I'm so glad you came back.
You were one of his favorites.
537
00:31:02,495 --> 00:31:05,565
- You going back to work?
- Just for a couple of hours.
538
00:31:07,467 --> 00:31:09,869
[Sighs]
I hope you'll come again.
539
00:31:09,936 --> 00:31:13,406
[Morrie] Charlotte, wasn't that
a great funeral today, huh?
540
00:31:13,473 --> 00:31:15,408
- What a turnout.!
- [Laughing]
541
00:31:15,475 --> 00:31:18,745
How does he do it? How does he
stay so cheerful all the time?
542
00:31:18,812 --> 00:31:21,848
Well, sometimes the nights are
difficult for him. They really are.
543
00:31:21,915 --> 00:31:24,284
- [Morrie] Charlotte.
- Coming, dear.
544
00:31:24,351 --> 00:31:27,454
**** [Opera Continues]
545
00:31:41,835 --> 00:31:44,537
[Morrie]
Every time Aldo works me over...
546
00:31:44,604 --> 00:31:48,41
I feel like he's given me
an extra couple of days.
547
00:31:48,108 --> 00:31:50,543
[Laughs]
You like massage?
548
00:31:50,610 --> 00:31:53,313
- Uh, not really, no.
- No?
549
00:31:53,380 --> 00:31:56,750
Oh, boy, I revel in it.
550
00:31:56,816 --> 00:32:01,588
You know what's funny? Some people
just don't like to be touched.
551
00:32:01,654 --> 00:32:05,458
I always found that
rather odd.
552
00:32:05,525 --> 00:32:08,995
When we're babies,
we live to be touched...
553
00:32:10,530 --> 00:32:14,67
to be held,
cuddled by your mother...
554
00:32:14,134 --> 00:32:16,169
comforted.
555
00:32:17,504 --> 00:32:20,206
We never seem
to get enough of that.
556
00:32:20,273 --> 00:32:24,144
We need it so badly. I...
[Crying]
557
00:32:24,210 --> 00:32:27,180
- Have a, uh...
- Yeah. You okay?
558
00:32:27,247 --> 00:32:30,684
Yeah. I cry a lot.
Maybe you noticed.
559
00:32:30,750 --> 00:32:33,887
- Do you cry, Mitch?
- Uh...
560
00:32:33,953 --> 00:32:38,124
All this makes you uncomfortable,
doesn't it? I... The crying and touching.
561
00:32:38,191 --> 00:32:40,727
I see you look away.
[Sniffs]
562
00:32:40,794 --> 00:32:43,863
I guess I'm just not really
a touchy-feely guy.
563
00:32:43,930 --> 00:32:46,166
- Yeah, it scares you.
- Doesn't scare me.
564
00:32:46,232 --> 00:32:48,368
Yes, it scares you.
All this does.
565
00:32:48,435 --> 00:32:52,906
Everything we're talking about...
death, dying.
566
00:32:52,972 --> 00:32:56,242
There is a reason why people
don't talk about these things.
567
00:32:56,309 --> 00:32:58,211
- Hmm?
- To spare people's feelings.
568
00:32:58,278 --> 00:33:01,281
To spare people's feel...
I never have understood that.
569
00:33:01,348 --> 00:33:05,185
How can you spare someone's
feelings by denying them?
570
00:33:08,888 --> 00:33:11,491
- [Grunts]
- What, you got a plane?
571
00:33:11,558 --> 00:33:15,762
No. You're not the only one
who has to use the commode
sometimes, you know?
572
00:33:15,829 --> 00:33:18,732
Oh.
573
00:33:18,798 --> 00:33:21,668
[Birds Chirping]
574
00:33:24,537 --> 00:33:28,575
Mmm. Days like this,
you used to hold classes outside.
575
00:33:28,641 --> 00:33:32,979
Uh, today is Tuesday. Tuesdays
I used to hold office hours.
576
00:33:33,46 --> 00:33:36,583
Oh, right, tutorials,
when you'd rip apart my papers.
577
00:33:36,649 --> 00:33:40,520
- [Chuckles] And we'd talk.
- And we'd talk.
578
00:33:40,587 --> 00:33:44,190
You were the first grown-up who ever
talked to me who wasn't a relative.
579
00:33:44,257 --> 00:33:46,226
And we're still talking.
580
00:33:46,292 --> 00:33:50,463
Only maybe you think what I'm talking
about doesn't apply to you now.
581
00:33:50,530 --> 00:33:53,166
You know who I forgot
to ask you about?
582
00:33:53,233 --> 00:33:57,470
- Your girlfriend with the beautiful
name. Uh, Janine, yeah.
- Janine.
583
00:33:57,537 --> 00:34:00,206
- Now, am I ever gonna meet her?
- Oh, I don't know, Coach.
584
00:34:00,273 --> 00:34:02,409
- Uh...
- "I don't know, Coach."
585
00:34:02,475 --> 00:34:05,912
- [Laughing]
- Uh... maybe.
586
00:34:05,979 --> 00:34:10,517
Maybe. You still don't know how
to say good-bye, do you, still?
587
00:34:10,583 --> 00:34:13,53
Come here.
I'll show you.
588
00:34:13,119 --> 00:34:15,789
[Laughs]
Oh, Mitch.
589
00:34:15,855 --> 00:34:19,759
I'm gonna get to you
one of these days, boy.
590
00:34:19,826 --> 00:34:23,63
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
591
00:34:24,664 --> 00:34:27,467
[Mitch]
Bye-bye.
592
00:34:32,572 --> 00:34:34,808
What, did you
forget something?
593
00:34:34,874 --> 00:34:36,976
When can I come back?
594
00:34:38,411 --> 00:34:42,449
Office hours are Tuesdays.
We're Tuesday people, Mitch.
595
00:34:46,86 --> 00:34:48,421
[Door Closes, Engine Starts]
596
00:35:01,267 --> 00:35:04,4
[Announcer]
That's a nice first serve by Sergio ...
597
00:35:04,70 --> 00:35:06,840
[Mitch, Reading]
"Love. What is love, anyway?
598
00:35:06,906 --> 00:35:10,10
"Can anybody tell me
what that word really means?
599
00:35:10,76 --> 00:35:14,948
"The temperamental U.S. Open
champ waxed philosophical as he
denied he was having an affair.
600
00:35:15,15 --> 00:35:17,50
"'We're not in love.
We're just friends.
601
00:35:17,117 --> 00:35:20,687
Love is what I feel
for my god and my wife. "'
602
00:35:20,754 --> 00:35:23,23
- [All Laughing]
- You didn't see the ball!
603
00:35:23,89 --> 00:35:25,859
[Mitch] There he goes again.
This guy's not having a good week.
604
00:35:25,925 --> 00:35:28,328
Oh-ho, yes!
605
00:35:28,395 --> 00:35:31,297
[Sergio Shouting In Italian]
606
00:35:31,364 --> 00:35:34,634
[Indistinct Shouting]
607
00:35:41,641 --> 00:35:44,310
How do you guys
sleep at night, eh?
608
00:35:44,377 --> 00:35:47,147
- Some of them sleep with their wives.
- [All Laughing]
609
00:35:47,213 --> 00:35:51,184
That's it. Media out!
Out, all of you! Out! Out!
610
00:35:51,251 --> 00:35:54,688
Get out of my life.!
Out.! Out, out.!
611
00:36:00,493 --> 00:36:02,829
- [Laughter]
- [Reporter] Oh, my God!
612
00:36:02,896 --> 00:36:06,166
Hey, Mitch! Hey, why don't you clock out
already and come over and join us?
613
00:36:06,232 --> 00:36:08,168
- Come on.
- I'll be there in a minute.
614
00:36:08,234 --> 00:36:12,205
- [Dialing Cell Phone]
- Very mature.
615
00:36:12,272 --> 00:36:15,608
- [Laughing Continues]
- [Phone Ringing]
616
00:36:23,316 --> 00:36:25,452
[Sighs]
Hello?
617
00:36:25,518 --> 00:36:28,521
Hey, I didn't wake you, did I?
I just wanted to hear your voice.
618
00:36:28,588 --> 00:36:32,125
No, I was gonna call you. I, uh,
I've been doing a lot of thinking.
619
00:36:32,192 --> 00:36:34,260
Yeah, so have I.
620
00:36:34,327 --> 00:36:37,530
Mitch, I don't think we should
see each other anymore.
621
00:36:37,597 --> 00:36:39,966
- [Raucous Laughter]
- What?
622
00:36:40,33 --> 00:36:42,969
- Whoa, wait a minute.
Wait... Let me just...
- No, no, just let me say this.
623
00:36:43,36 --> 00:36:45,872
I can't keep pretending that we're
ever going to be a real couple...
624
00:36:45,939 --> 00:36:48,308
because I know in my heart
that we are never going to be.
625
00:36:48,375 --> 00:36:50,310
- Please don't say that, Janine.
- Mitch.
626
00:36:50,377 --> 00:36:54,147
This is so hard,
but I can't wait anymore.
627
00:36:54,214 --> 00:36:56,149
We just don't want
the same things.
628
00:36:56,216 --> 00:36:58,785
That's not true.
I love you. I...
629
00:36:58,852 --> 00:37:01,988
I know you love me.
And I love you.
630
00:37:02,55 --> 00:37:04,891
[Crying]
But I need more than that.
631
00:37:04,958 --> 00:37:06,926
- Okay.
- [Reporter] Oh, my God.!
632
00:37:06,993 --> 00:37:08,995
Can we please just not
do this on the phone?
633
00:37:09,62 --> 00:37:11,131
I-I will get a plane.
I will come home tonight.
634
00:37:11,197 --> 00:37:13,566
No, Mitch, don't.
I won't be here. It's too late.
635
00:37:13,633 --> 00:37:16,336
- Janine.
- I can't be with you anymore.
636
00:37:16,403 --> 00:37:18,338
I'm sorry.
637
00:37:20,473 --> 00:37:22,909
Hello? Janine? Hello?
638
00:37:22,976 --> 00:37:25,945
Hey, mystery woman.!
He's sneaking her out.!
639
00:37:26,12 --> 00:37:29,849
[All Shouting]
640
00:37:29,916 --> 00:37:32,352
Mitch, come on, let's go.
641
00:37:32,419 --> 00:37:35,855
- Mitch, get the lead out!
- I'm coming. I'm coming.
642
00:37:35,922 --> 00:37:40,160
- Hey, Sergio!
- [Shouting Continues]
643
00:37:42,62 --> 00:37:44,97
[Mitch Grunting]
644
00:37:46,332 --> 00:37:50,603
- [Tires Screeching]
- What the hell am I doing?
645
00:37:52,872 --> 00:37:56,443
[Dispatcher On Radio, Indistinct]
646
00:37:56,509 --> 00:37:59,713
[Chattering]
647
00:38:02,182 --> 00:38:05,719
[Gasping, Wheezing]
648
00:38:07,887 --> 00:38:11,858
[Groaning]
649
00:38:11,925 --> 00:38:15,495
It's all right, sweetheart.
I'm here. I'm right here.
650
00:38:18,798 --> 00:38:21,735
God bless you, sweetheart.
651
00:38:24,37 --> 00:38:27,474
- Ta-da! Food man. Hey, Connie.
- Hey.
652
00:38:27,540 --> 00:38:29,743
Is that Mitch?
Must be Tuesday.
653
00:38:29,809 --> 00:38:32,12
It's Mitch.
How ya doin', Coach?
654
00:38:32,78 --> 00:38:34,614
I hope you haven't eaten already,
'cause I got some very good stuff here.
655
00:38:34,681 --> 00:38:37,384
- Ah, what do you got?
- I got...
656
00:38:37,450 --> 00:38:39,753
some hummus.
657
00:38:39,819 --> 00:38:43,89
- Ahhh.
- I got pita bread, nice and warm.
658
00:38:43,156 --> 00:38:46,760
- Yeah, good.
- I got apple cobbler.
659
00:38:46,826 --> 00:38:52,32
And I got... I got that.
660
00:38:52,98 --> 00:38:56,202
Huh. Tongue!
661
00:38:56,269 --> 00:38:59,205
- Ugh.
- You remembered.
662
00:38:59,272 --> 00:39:02,442
Oh, you don't forget somebody
eating tongue. No, no.
663
00:39:02,509 --> 00:39:06,212
It's like repressed memory. It actually
attacks me in the middle of the night.
664
00:39:06,279 --> 00:39:08,615
- What is that?
- Well, if you're gonna keep giving me...
665
00:39:08,682 --> 00:39:11,418
this meaning of life stuff,
I want to remember it.
666
00:39:11,484 --> 00:39:13,920
- I'd like your voice.
- When I'm dead?
667
00:39:13,987 --> 00:39:17,424
- No, don't say that.
- Mitch, I'm dying.
668
00:39:17,490 --> 00:39:20,927
- It's been established.
- Yeah, yeah.
669
00:39:20,994 --> 00:39:23,797
[Sighs]
That's a pretty big machine, huh.
670
00:39:23,863 --> 00:39:25,965
Must've cost you a fortune.
671
00:39:26,32 --> 00:39:30,303
You know what? This is a stupid
intrusion. I'm gonna put it away.
672
00:39:30,370 --> 00:39:33,473
Hey, you still don't understand.
I want you to remember...
673
00:39:33,540 --> 00:39:36,209
and I want people
to know my story.
674
00:39:36,276 --> 00:39:39,479
That's a very nice machine.
Now, put it back. Go on.
675
00:39:39,546 --> 00:39:42,415
- Okay.
- All right.
676
00:39:43,683 --> 00:39:46,486
Now do you want to hear
a real tragedy?
677
00:39:46,553 --> 00:39:48,521
I can't eat tongue anymore.
678
00:39:50,290 --> 00:39:53,26
But I'm gonna save it.
679
00:39:53,93 --> 00:39:57,130
Maybe I should have it mounted
and hang it in my study, huh?
680
00:40:01,735 --> 00:40:06,439
Okay. So I made a list
of subjects for you to talk about.
681
00:40:06,506 --> 00:40:10,443
All the heavy stuff... death,
love, marriage, family.
682
00:40:10,510 --> 00:40:13,580
Oh, all of the stuff
that you're scared of. Huh.
683
00:40:13,646 --> 00:40:16,783
- Things I want to hear you talk about.
- And you're scared of.
684
00:40:16,850 --> 00:40:20,320
Why be ashamed? Everybody's
afraid of those things.
685
00:40:20,387 --> 00:40:22,489
Add fear to the list.
686
00:40:22,555 --> 00:40:24,491
You don't seem to be scared.
687
00:40:24,557 --> 00:40:27,494
I told you, I have
my early morning moments.
688
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:31,297
Did you ever know anybody
who was dying?
689
00:40:31,364 --> 00:40:34,267
Yeah, I had an uncle.
Mike. He was young.
690
00:40:34,334 --> 00:40:36,670
He was more
of a brother, really.
691
00:40:36,736 --> 00:40:40,6
Testing, testing.
[Clears Throat]
692
00:40:40,73 --> 00:40:43,843
Mike taught me football, taught me
music, taught me how to drive.
693
00:40:43,910 --> 00:40:47,781
[Chuckles] We used to drive around
this empty lot for hours.
694
00:40:47,847 --> 00:40:50,650
Yeah, he was 42
when he died. Cancer.
695
00:40:50,717 --> 00:40:52,786
And you never
talked about it?
696
00:40:52,852 --> 00:40:56,122
We did what people do, you know?
We pretended nothing was wrong.
697
00:40:56,189 --> 00:40:59,659
- Hmm.
- That's actually when I gave up
music, when Mike died.
698
00:40:59,726 --> 00:41:02,796
- Oh, yeah, when you grew up, huh?
- When I woke up, Coach.
699
00:41:02,862 --> 00:41:06,232
Saw I better get moving if I'm
gonna make anything out of my life.
700
00:41:06,299 --> 00:41:10,503
Well, you made a big success.
I always knew you would. But you ran.
701
00:41:10,570 --> 00:41:14,140
Did you ever stop to think
about what you're running from?
702
00:41:14,207 --> 00:41:17,77
[Turns On Recorder,
Clears Throat]
703
00:41:17,143 --> 00:41:20,146
Okay, what do you want
to tackle first here?
704
00:41:20,213 --> 00:41:22,916
Death? Love? What about
marriage? That's a good one.
705
00:41:22,982 --> 00:41:26,52
- Stickball.
- Stickball?
706
00:41:26,119 --> 00:41:28,822
- Yeah. Did you ever play stickball?
- Uh, no.
707
00:41:28,888 --> 00:41:31,691
Kids don't play stickball anymore,
really. I played Little League.
708
00:41:31,758 --> 00:41:34,60
They don't play anymore?
Oh, that's too bad.
709
00:41:34,127 --> 00:41:36,996
Stickball was what
all the slum kids played.
710
00:41:37,63 --> 00:41:39,666
You know, where I grew up.
Manhattan, the Lower East Side.
711
00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:44,471
- [Children Chattering]
- A broom handle and a rubber ball
was all you needed.
712
00:41:44,537 --> 00:41:47,173
You could play anywhere.
713
00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:51,511
Best place to play was
right outside the candy store
my mother ran for the landlord.
714
00:41:51,578 --> 00:41:54,748
[Woman Shouting In Russian]
715
00:41:54,814 --> 00:41:57,350
- My mother was only 25.
- Moyshe!
716
00:41:57,417 --> 00:42:00,787
- But she was sick
as long as I could remember.
- Moyshe! Moyshe!
717
00:42:00,854 --> 00:42:05,792
I felt if I ignored it, maybe
the sickness would go away.
718
00:42:05,859 --> 00:42:08,94
What happened to her?
719
00:42:08,161 --> 00:42:14,67
She went to the hospital,
and she died there.
720
00:42:14,134 --> 00:42:16,736
[Sobbing]
721
00:42:17,871 --> 00:42:20,640
They sent us a telegram.
722
00:42:22,142 --> 00:42:27,380
My father couldn't read English,
so I had to read it.
723
00:42:29,649 --> 00:42:32,252
[Reading In Yiddish]
724
00:42:46,466 --> 00:42:51,171
[Morrie] That's how I learned
that my mother had died.
725
00:42:51,237 --> 00:42:53,840
I've still got the telegram.
726
00:42:55,475 --> 00:43:00,80
It's all that's left
of my mother, except memories.
727
00:43:00,146 --> 00:43:03,750
So you grew up
with your father?
728
00:43:03,817 --> 00:43:08,755
My father... He was an immigrant
from Russia, a very silent man.
729
00:43:08,822 --> 00:43:12,92
He never showed
what he really felt.
730
00:43:12,158 --> 00:43:16,196
After my mother died, he...
he'd come home from work...
731
00:43:16,262 --> 00:43:18,198
when he could get work...
732
00:43:18,264 --> 00:43:21,34
and he'd never
come in the house.
733
00:43:21,101 --> 00:43:25,472
He'd stay outside,
read the newspaper...
734
00:43:25,538 --> 00:43:27,941
until he knew I was asleep.
735
00:43:28,8 --> 00:43:31,511
What was he feeling?
See, I never knew.
736
00:43:31,578 --> 00:43:35,215
What... Was he in pain?
Was he suffering? I...
737
00:43:35,281 --> 00:43:39,52
All I knew was that...
that I needed his love.
738
00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:43,356
I needed him to hold me
so I wouldn't be so afraid.
739
00:43:43,423 --> 00:43:45,358
[Sighs]
740
00:43:45,425 --> 00:43:48,161
Never got it, though, did you?
741
00:43:48,228 --> 00:43:50,663
No. Not from him.
742
00:43:51,865 --> 00:43:54,167
He remarried
about a year later.
743
00:43:56,136 --> 00:43:58,538
[Speaking Russian]
744
00:43:58,605 --> 00:44:01,808
[Morrie] 'Course I resented her
at first. I pushed her away.
745
00:44:01,875 --> 00:44:03,977
[Yiddish]
746
00:44:04,44 --> 00:44:07,514
But she was
a wonderful woman.
747
00:44:07,580 --> 00:44:11,718
And from her, a ft er I stopped being
such a little smart-ass...
748
00:44:11,785 --> 00:44:16,723
- ** [Singing In Yiddish]
- I finally began to get
the love that I'd been missing.
749
00:44:16,790 --> 00:44:19,726
** [Singing Continues]
750
00:44:21,394 --> 00:44:25,198
[Mitch] What about your father?
Did things get better?
751
00:44:25,265 --> 00:44:27,767
[Morrie]
He did something...
752
00:44:27,834 --> 00:44:31,237
God, I found
very, very hard to forgive.
753
00:44:31,304 --> 00:44:34,507
He said I had a new mother...
754
00:44:35,108 --> 00:44:36,843
and that I should forget.
755
00:44:37,610 --> 00:44:41,481
He wouldn't even let me talk
about my mother.
756
00:44:41,481 --> 00:44:45,452
It was like she'd never existed.
[Sobbing]
757
00:44:48,888 --> 00:44:51,624
- Need help here.
- I think we should stop.
758
00:44:51,725 --> 00:44:54,327
No. I want you to hear this.
759
00:44:54,461 --> 00:44:56,763
My father was afraid of love.
760
00:44:57,464 --> 00:45:00,767
He couldn't give it, and
he couldn't receive it either.
761
00:45:00,867 --> 00:45:03,737
- Maybe that's worse.
- Morrie, we should stop.
762
00:45:03,737 --> 00:45:05,438
Not letting
ourselves be loved...
763
00:45:06,172 --> 00:45:10,643
because we're too afraid of giving
ourselves to someone we might lose.
764
00:45:11,444 --> 00:45:13,780
[Gasping]
765
00:45:14,447 --> 00:45:16,583
[Gasping Continues]
766
00:45:17,217 --> 00:45:20,220
- Um... Connie! Connie!
- [Hissing]
767
00:45:21,354 --> 00:45:24,90
Ahh. Connie! Connie!
768
00:45:24,90 --> 00:45:25,759
[Bell Ringing]
769
00:45:26,926 --> 00:45:28,294
You're okay. Okay.
770
00:45:28,461 --> 00:45:32,766
- [Groaning]
- That's it. Okay, breathe.
771
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,503
Good. Good.
Okay. You're okay.
772
00:45:36,770 --> 00:45:39,39
[Morrie Sighing]
773
00:45:43,276 --> 00:45:46,46
[Pager Beeping]
774
00:45:53,553 --> 00:45:55,221
[Sighs]
775
00:45:55,755 --> 00:45:57,490
[Phone Rings]
776
00:45:57,490 --> 00:46:00,160
Where the hell are you?
You're supposed to be
in New York for the play-offs.
777
00:46:00,226 --> 00:46:01,828
Yeah, I'll be there
tonight, Walter.
778
00:46:01,828 --> 00:46:07,200
Oh, it's only the play-offs. Hey, what is this number?
Have you got another TV thing going?
How many jobs have you got?
779
00:46:07,367 --> 00:46:09,502
It's got nothing
to do with work. I just...
780
00:46:09,569 --> 00:46:12,872
- I thought that the column came first.
- This is personal, okay?
781
00:46:12,972 --> 00:46:14,240
I just need
a little bit of time...
782
00:46:14,374 --> 00:46:15,975
You have time
for everybody but me.
783
00:46:16,209 --> 00:46:20,46
- I got plenty of guys here
dyin' to write a column.
- What is that supposed to mean?
784
00:46:20,146 --> 00:46:23,183
- You think Detroit
can't live without you?
- Why don't you find out.
785
00:46:23,350 --> 00:46:26,920
You know that comp time you've got
built up? I strongly suggest that you take it.
786
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:30,290
- You do whatever the hell you want to.
- Well, fine, I will.
787
00:46:30,557 --> 00:46:31,324
Fine!
788
00:46:34,761 --> 00:46:38,565
[Toilet Flushing]
789
00:46:39,199 --> 00:46:40,533
[Connie]
Here we go.
790
00:46:42,969 --> 00:46:44,404
We'll have you back in your chair soon.
791
00:46:45,5 --> 00:46:47,273
Okay, I'm just gonna
get your feet clear.
792
00:46:49,309 --> 00:46:51,778
One. Okay, you're all set.
793
00:46:52,178 --> 00:46:55,515
show me how to do that?
794
00:46:55,849 --> 00:47:00,120
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay. Come on over here.
795
00:47:01,654 --> 00:47:03,156
Okay, bend down.
796
00:47:03,490 --> 00:47:06,526
- Slide your arms under his
like you're lifting a log.
- Okay.
797
00:47:06,726 --> 00:47:08,561
- Okay, now he can't
help you at all, honey.
- Like this?
798
00:47:08,561 --> 00:47:10,930
- Yeah, it has to be all you.
- All right.
799
00:47:11,531 --> 00:47:14,701
- Now lift. Okay.
- [Morrie Groaning]
800
00:47:14,768 --> 00:47:17,337
- Sorry. I'll get it.
- Okay, let him move.
801
00:47:17,337 --> 00:47:19,606
Okay, okay, good.
All right, I got ya.
802
00:47:19,806 --> 00:47:23,76
- I got ya. Okay.
- [Groaning Continues]
803
00:47:23,410 --> 00:47:26,713
- Okay.
- You got him.
804
00:47:26,713 --> 00:47:28,448
[Groans, Sighs]
805
00:47:29,983 --> 00:47:32,252
- Sorry. You all right?
- Oh, yeah.
806
00:47:33,820 --> 00:47:35,855
Sorry. I'll get better at it.
807
00:47:36,89 --> 00:47:37,624
[Morrie Mutters]
808
00:47:42,28 --> 00:47:44,831
Don't look so sad
because I'm gonna die, Mitch.
809
00:47:45,532 --> 00:47:48,301
Everybody's gonna die.
Even you.
810
00:47:48,635 --> 00:47:50,670
But most people don't believe it.
811
00:47:50,904 --> 00:47:52,572
They should have a bird
on their shoulder.
812
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:55,208
That's what the Buddhists do.
813
00:47:56,9 --> 00:47:58,578
Just imagine a little bird
on your shoulder...
814
00:47:58,778 --> 00:48:02,415
and every day you say, "Is this the day
I'm gonna die, little bird?
815
00:48:02,982 --> 00:48:08,321
" Huh? Am I ready? Am I leading
the life I want to lead?
816
00:48:09,222 --> 00:48:12,759
Am I the person that I want to be?"
817
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:17,831
If we accept the fact
that we can die at any time,
we'd lead our lives differently.
818
00:48:19,65 --> 00:48:22,769
So every day you say,
"Is this the day?"
819
00:48:23,203 --> 00:48:25,672
- Hmm?
- One sec. One sec.
820
00:48:26,873 --> 00:48:27,841
Okay, go ahead.
821
00:48:28,208 --> 00:48:30,377
[Morrie On Tape] If you did
have a bird on your shoulder...
822
00:48:30,377 --> 00:48:32,812
you wouldn't put off the things
closest to your heart.
823
00:48:34,347 --> 00:48:37,117
[Mitch Narrating] I didn't need
the recorder to hear his voice anymore.
824
00:48:37,117 --> 00:48:38,852
It was always in my mind now.
825
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,323
I thought ofhis helpless weight
in my arms as I lifted him... -
826
00:48:43,656 --> 00:48:45,625
that frail, failing body...
827
00:48:45,959 --> 00:48:47,827
and the voice, the spirit inside...
828
00:48:48,28 --> 00:48:49,496
at its ruthless mercy.
829
00:48:59,139 --> 00:49:09,149
- [Muttering]
- And time whooshing past...
830
00:49:09,516 --> 00:49:11,851
like thejet stream
outside my window.
831
00:49:13,153 --> 00:49:15,288
And notjust for Morrie.
832
00:49:17,590 --> 00:49:21,561
I'd taken Morrie's advice.
I'd put a bird on my shoulder.
833
00:49:35,342 --> 00:49:40,280
O-Oh, yeah. Come on in, baby.
Let's hear it back.
834
00:49:41,748 --> 00:49:43,817
- Oh, hey, Mitch Man, I didn't see you.
- Hey.
835
00:49:44,184 --> 00:49:47,754
- So, what do you think?
- Oh, I couldn't hear it. I was outside.
836
00:49:47,887 --> 00:49:50,223
No, no, no. I mean, about her
going solo. No more backup.
837
00:49:50,590 --> 00:49:53,193
- She didn't tell you we're
gonna lay down some tracks?
- Get outta here.
838
00:49:53,193 --> 00:49:56,663
Oh, yeah, man. She's got the voice.
I mean, all she needs is the "want to. "
839
00:49:57,197 --> 00:49:59,833
Very nice, baby.
Let's hear playback.
840
00:50:01,368 --> 00:50:04,371
- Hi.
- Hi.
841
00:50:06,639 --> 00:50:11,745
** Where is that worn-out wish **
842
00:50:12,212 --> 00:50:17,784
** That I threw aside **
843
00:50:18,184 --> 00:50:20,520
**After **
844
00:50:20,887 --> 00:50:22,255
- This sounds great.
- ** What **
845
00:50:22,522 --> 00:50:27,60
**My lover needs ****
846
00:50:28,294 --> 00:50:31,231
Can we go someplace after this?
I really need to talk to you.
847
00:50:31,464 --> 00:50:35,668
Mitch, we broke up.
Don't do this, please.
848
00:50:36,670 --> 00:50:40,40
- Good night, guys.
- I think it's great,
you goin' out on your own. Really.
849
00:50:40,140 --> 00:50:41,975
Well, I'm singing.
That's enough for me.
850
00:50:42,375 --> 00:50:45,979
- Uh, so I've been
seeing a lot of Morrie.
- How's he doin'?
851
00:50:46,279 --> 00:50:48,782
He's amazing. When I'm with him,
I don't want to be anywhere else.
852
00:50:48,882 --> 00:50:50,750
I don't even take my cell phone
with me anymore.
853
00:50:50,917 --> 00:50:55,55
- That is amazing.
- Uh, he's made me think
about a lot of things.
854
00:50:55,121 --> 00:50:56,856
- [People Laughing]
- And, uh...
855
00:50:57,390 --> 00:51:00,193
Well, he always asks about you.
He really wants to meet you.
856
00:51:00,193 --> 00:51:01,895
Will-Will you come with me
to see him next Tuesday?
857
00:51:02,128 --> 00:51:04,130
- Mitch, how can you do this?
- I want you to get
to know him the way I do.
858
00:51:04,130 --> 00:51:07,834
How can you just... blow in and
expect me to come back into your life...
859
00:51:07,901 --> 00:51:10,70
- as though nothing's happened?
- Something has happened.
860
00:51:10,70 --> 00:51:14,74
Look, Janine, I have
something to say to you...
861
00:51:14,140 --> 00:51:16,9
and I really can't do it here.
862
00:51:16,76 --> 00:51:18,378
W-Will you come home
with me? Please?
863
00:51:20,46 --> 00:51:22,115
I can't. I'm sorry.
864
00:51:22,949 --> 00:51:26,720
- Janine, come on. Please.
- Morrie sounds wonderful.
865
00:51:26,886 --> 00:51:29,155
He's done something for you.
I can see that.
866
00:51:29,556 --> 00:51:32,125
And I wish I could've met him.
But it's just too late.
867
00:51:32,392 --> 00:51:36,629
- Janine? Janine, please.
Can we just talk for once?
- [Engine Starts]
868
00:51:53,346 --> 00:51:58,284
A few months ago, Shawn Daley,
18, a hot college prospect,
had a brilliant future.
869
00:51:58,518 --> 00:52:02,122
Cut to last night: Sports car,
drinking, drugs, tree.
870
00:52:02,122 --> 00:52:07,460
- Well, you know the story.
- If they cancel my scholarship,
it's like my life is over.
871
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:11,531
- I'm dead.
- Yeah, right, Shawn.
You're 18, in perfect health.
872
00:52:11,698 --> 00:52:14,34
You maybe blow a scholarship,
and you think you're dead?
873
00:52:14,300 --> 00:52:17,604
You got your whole life left
to screw up in, you stupid idiot.
874
00:52:17,604 --> 00:52:21,374
On his way home from yet another night
of toasting his success...
875
00:52:21,574 --> 00:52:26,212
Shawn crashed his new GTO "jockmobile"
into an innocent tree.
876
00:52:26,212 --> 00:52:29,149
Shawn, who managed
to squeak past his SATs...
877
00:52:29,649 --> 00:52:32,786
had no such luck
with his drug and alcohol tests.
878
00:52:33,953 --> 00:52:39,159
With no daily deadlines, noJanine,
I had lots of time on my hands.
879
00:52:39,159 --> 00:52:43,29
I thought of Morrie counting his
breaths, what time meant to him.
880
00:52:43,396 --> 00:52:48,68
[Morrie] Work, money, ambition.
We bury ourselves in these things.
881
00:52:49,69 --> 00:52:51,905
But we never stand back and say,
"Is this what I want?"
882
00:52:52,505 --> 00:52:54,374
[Mitch]
Unless somebody teaches us to.
883
00:52:54,674 --> 00:52:57,77
[Morrie]
We all need teachers, Mitch.
884
00:52:59,579 --> 00:53:03,49
- Why'd you become a teacher?
- I needed a job.
885
00:53:03,49 --> 00:53:06,820
Lots of jobs pay better than teacher.
You could've been a doctor or a lawyer.
886
00:53:07,20 --> 00:53:09,689
I hate the sight of blood.
And I hate lawyers.
887
00:53:09,823 --> 00:53:12,192
[Laughs] So what made you
become a teacher?
888
00:53:12,459 --> 00:53:15,495
[Coughs] Well, you think there's only
one reason why we do things?
889
00:53:15,495 --> 00:53:18,231
[Coughs]
In a way, because of my father.
890
00:53:19,65 --> 00:53:20,367
- Your father?
- Yeah. It's...
891
00:53:21,801 --> 00:53:23,536
- Is this him?
- Yeah. Yeah.
892
00:53:23,903 --> 00:53:26,172
Well, he doesn't seem like the kind
of guy who would encourage you.
893
00:53:26,172 --> 00:53:29,976
He didn't. He tried
to get me started in his trade.
894
00:53:29,976 --> 00:53:35,81
- What did he do?
- Sewed fur coats together,
when he could find work.
895
00:53:35,81 --> 00:53:38,818
There was this... factory.
It was a sweatshop.
896
00:53:39,652 --> 00:53:41,988
Third Street and Avenue B.
897
00:53:42,288 --> 00:53:46,593
- Still remember the address?
- I will never forget that place.
898
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,729
It was the only work he knew,
and he hated it.
899
00:53:50,296 --> 00:53:53,433
- But he wanted you to work in it?
- What could he do?
900
00:53:53,733 --> 00:53:55,869
Hunger allows no choice.
901
00:53:56,903 --> 00:53:59,539
[Workers Shouting
In Foreign Language]
902
00:54:01,174 --> 00:54:06,112
I'd hear him complain to my stepmother.
How he was cursed at, belittled.
903
00:54:07,47 --> 00:54:10,450
Always pushed to do more, and
denied the money he had coming.
904
00:54:11,17 --> 00:54:12,886
That was my father's world.
905
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:15,321
It was going to be my world too...
906
00:54:15,321 --> 00:54:17,424
- except I found out something that day.
- [Gasping]
907
00:54:18,391 --> 00:54:21,261
- [Mitch] That you'd
do anything but that.
- Something else.
908
00:54:22,395 --> 00:54:24,664
It's when I learned
I had asthma.
909
00:54:24,898 --> 00:54:28,868
- [Laughing]
- 'Course, they thought
I was just a crybaby...
910
00:54:28,868 --> 00:54:30,904
- that I was scared.
- [Gasping Continues]
911
00:54:31,237 --> 00:54:34,307
They were right about my being scared,
but there was something else.
912
00:54:35,41 --> 00:54:39,412
I made a vow that I would
never do work that used people...
913
00:54:39,713 --> 00:54:42,716
that hurt them
and degraded them.
914
00:54:43,49 --> 00:54:46,86
I was never gonna make money
off the sweat and pain of others.
915
00:54:47,287 --> 00:54:51,24
- Tsk. So, in a way,
you owe your father.
- Yeah.
916
00:54:51,891 --> 00:54:54,294
My-My-My stepmother, Eva...
917
00:54:54,294 --> 00:54:56,663
- uh, she was just the opposite.
- Loz der moyekh trakhtn.
918
00:54:57,163 --> 00:55:00,300
Everything I love about
education I learned from her.
919
00:55:00,834 --> 00:55:03,903
The father of our country is?
920
00:55:03,903 --> 00:55:05,739
- [Slurping]
- [Young Morrie] Washington?
921
00:55:06,306 --> 00:55:09,275
It's what I call
the tension of opposites.
922
00:55:09,275 --> 00:55:11,845
- [Mitch] The tension of...
- [Morrie] Opposites.
923
00:55:12,45 --> 00:55:14,981
Life pulling you back
and forth like a rubber band.
924
00:55:16,282 --> 00:55:18,651
Pull you one way, you think
that's what you want to do.
925
00:55:19,119 --> 00:55:21,521
Pull you another way, you think
that's what you have to do.
926
00:55:22,756 --> 00:55:26,893
- Sounds like a wrestling match.
- You could describe life that way.
927
00:55:27,627 --> 00:55:33,767
- So, who wins?
- Love. Love always wins.
928
00:55:34,334 --> 00:55:35,535
You don't believe that?
929
00:55:35,668 --> 00:55:39,973
I don't know. Maybe I don't. I mean,
have you looked at the news lately?
930
00:55:39,973 --> 00:55:42,809
Love's not exactly racking up
the gold medals out there.
931
00:55:44,77 --> 00:55:46,880
Maybe the game isn't over yet.
932
00:55:49,582 --> 00:55:54,320
- What are we... We're through?
- Coach, can I talk to you
for a second as a friend?
933
00:55:54,587 --> 00:55:58,792
That's the way we always talk.
Now, why did you stop the tape?
934
00:56:00,260 --> 00:56:04,964
Uh, I need a little help here, Um, I bought a ring forJanine...
an engagement ring.
935
00:56:05,165 --> 00:56:08,668
Congratulations! Does this mean
I finally get to meet her? [Coughs]
936
00:56:08,668 --> 00:56:12,772
Well, um... Look, I'm ready
to make the plunge.
937
00:56:12,772 --> 00:56:15,875
I really am. I'm talkin' marriage,
family, the whole nine...
938
00:56:15,875 --> 00:56:18,778
Everything I've been putting off
up to this point, basically. But, um...
939
00:56:18,778 --> 00:56:21,948
Okay, I take her way too much
for granted. I always have. I know that.
940
00:56:21,948 --> 00:56:25,885
And, believe me, I know what a selfish
jerk I can be, especially with my time.
941
00:56:25,885 --> 00:56:28,355
But, um... You know,
it's just what you said.
942
00:56:28,355 --> 00:56:31,658
It's about this fear that I have about
not just giving love but receiving it.
943
00:56:31,758 --> 00:56:35,462
And, uh... And of being part of something
that isn't just all about me. And, uh...
944
00:56:35,895 --> 00:56:38,665
You know, uh, living
for somebody else and, uh...
945
00:56:39,399 --> 00:56:44,371
- uh, learning to give and, uh...
- She didn't like the ring?
946
00:56:45,171 --> 00:56:47,507
Oh, I never even
got to give it to her.
947
00:56:47,574 --> 00:56:51,611
- But you love each other?
- Yes, we do, a lot.
948
00:56:51,811 --> 00:56:52,812
Uh-huh.
949
00:56:55,15 --> 00:56:59,252
So, if love always wins, what the heck
is the matter with us? [Chuckles]
950
00:57:02,88 --> 00:57:04,457
I could use a little...
little wisdom here.
951
00:57:05,759 --> 00:57:08,61
Maybe my wisdom
isn't what you need.
952
00:57:10,196 --> 00:57:11,965
Start that thing again.
953
00:57:13,166 --> 00:57:16,703
This is our last thesis together.
We got to get it right.
954
00:57:17,804 --> 00:57:19,739
We don't have a lot of time.
955
00:57:21,74 --> 00:57:22,208
[Coughs]
956
00:57:24,144 --> 00:57:25,812
[Morrie On Tape]
We think we don't deserve love.
957
00:57:25,812 --> 00:57:28,381
That if we let it come in,
we'll become soft.
958
00:57:28,715 --> 00:57:30,917
[Mitch] He had answers
for all the big, important things.
959
00:57:32,218 --> 00:57:34,421
- [Morrie Continues On Tape]
- Why not me?
960
00:57:34,421 --> 00:57:37,157
Love is the only rational act.
961
00:57:41,761 --> 00:57:46,399
Said it right.
Love is the only rational act.
962
00:57:46,499 --> 00:57:48,535
Let it come in.
963
00:57:48,935 --> 00:57:52,439
- [Tape Recorder Clicks Off]
- [Sighs]
964
00:57:58,44 --> 00:57:59,379
[Beeps]
965
00:58:08,588 --> 00:58:10,23
Okay, I'll be right down.
966
00:58:11,925 --> 00:58:14,227
Thanks, Lloyd. I'll just
be a couple of minutes.
967
00:58:14,627 --> 00:58:16,896
[Mitch] I hate sports metaphors.
I never use 'em.
968
00:58:16,896 --> 00:58:21,868
But this was a real Hail Mary.
A last-second desperation play.
969
00:58:25,472 --> 00:58:29,9
I wrote a letter to Janine.
Everything I'd never said to her.
970
00:58:30,577 --> 00:58:33,513
Including the part
where I begged her to marry me.
971
00:58:47,60 --> 00:58:49,262
****[Mitch Playing Jazz On Piano]
972
00:58:49,596 --> 00:58:51,231
My Hail Mary hadn't worked.
973
00:58:51,798 --> 00:58:55,702
As Tuesday neared, I had plenty of time
to think what a stupid idea it was.
974
00:58:55,702 --> 00:58:57,437
[Phone Ringing]
975
00:58:57,437 --> 00:59:01,274
[Answering Machine Clicking]
976
00:59:02,42 --> 00:59:07,247
- [Beeps]
- Mitch. Walter. Call me, please.
977
00:59:08,81 --> 00:59:11,117
I've got a temper, so do you.
It goes with the job. Just...
978
00:59:11,251 --> 00:59:13,153
I'm tryin' to tell you that I'm...
979
00:59:14,454 --> 00:59:18,224
****[Resumes]
980
00:59:19,225 --> 00:59:22,228
I asked for an "aisle. "
You're gonna find me an "aisle. "
981
00:59:22,228 --> 00:59:24,497
- Is that too much to ask?
- What the hell happened
to the air conditioning?
982
00:59:24,497 --> 00:59:26,299
It's not the airline's fault, sir.
Just wait your turn.
983
00:59:26,299 --> 00:59:29,302
Hey, back off, pal! Huh?
I got a big, big problem here.
984
00:59:29,602 --> 00:59:32,105
[Woman On P.A.]
Please consult a ticket representative...
985
00:59:32,105 --> 00:59:34,474
What are you going to do?
986
00:59:35,508 --> 00:59:38,812
[Clicks Heels]
987
00:59:41,815 --> 00:59:43,883
If this is a no,
why didn't you just call me?
988
00:59:43,917 --> 00:59:45,785
Because I don't know
what the answer is.
989
00:59:46,286 --> 00:59:48,288
Whatever Morrie did that
made you write that letter...
990
00:59:48,788 --> 00:59:50,256
I want to see for myself.
991
00:59:52,192 --> 00:59:53,893
Food man's back!
992
00:59:54,794 --> 00:59:56,896
- Hey, how's he doing today?
- Not so good.
993
00:59:56,896 --> 00:59:59,599
- You can put the food
in the kitchen and...
- I'll see you later.
994
00:59:59,599 --> 01:00:02,102
- I'll go get 'em.
- Uh, Connie? Connie?
995
01:00:02,469 --> 01:00:06,339
- I'd like you to meet Janine.
- Oh, hi. I'm sorry honey.
996
01:00:06,339 --> 01:00:08,842
So many people come through that door,
sometimes I forget my manners.
997
01:00:09,142 --> 01:00:10,443
- Very nice to meet you.
- Hi.
998
01:00:10,610 --> 01:00:13,546
All right. Let's see. Can you take
some of this off this table, please?
999
01:00:13,546 --> 01:00:14,948
- Uh-huh.
- You can just put it right up there.
1000
01:00:21,755 --> 01:00:23,456
- You all right?
- Yeah.
1001
01:00:24,257 --> 01:00:26,393
It's gonna be fine.
The two people I love the most...
1002
01:00:26,426 --> 01:00:28,294
are finally
gonna meet each other.
1003
01:00:30,764 --> 01:00:33,366
[Connie]
All right. Here we go.
1004
01:00:42,42 --> 01:00:47,947
- Oh, there's my buddy.
- Hey, Coach. How ya doin' today?
1005
01:00:47,947 --> 01:00:50,350
All right
[Laughs]
1006
01:00:53,86 --> 01:00:55,221
- [Kissing]
- What'd ya bring today?
1007
01:00:55,655 --> 01:01:00,393
- I have some grape leaves.
I got some pasta salad.
- Oh, boy. Uh-huh.
1008
01:01:00,894 --> 01:01:03,997
- Nice warm pita bread.
- Oh, you always bring the right things.
1009
01:01:04,731 --> 01:01:08,902
- Oh!
- Oh, uh, I brought something
else with me today, Coach.
1010
01:01:09,436 --> 01:01:10,236
Morrie..
1011
01:01:11,171 --> 01:01:13,773
- this is Janine.
- Yeah, Janine.
1012
01:01:14,507 --> 01:01:18,511
Can I tell ya somethin'?
You're as lovely as your name.
1013
01:01:19,913 --> 01:01:21,748
Thank you.
1014
01:01:23,16 --> 01:01:26,453
[Both Laughing]
1015
01:01:27,654 --> 01:01:30,457
[Slurping]
1016
01:01:31,358 --> 01:01:34,594
[Slurping]
1017
01:01:35,962 --> 01:01:38,431
- [Slurping]
- [Clears Throat] Morrie...
1018
01:01:38,431 --> 01:01:42,302
- Huh?
- Tell Janine the story you
told me... about the ocean?
1019
01:01:42,669 --> 01:01:45,772
- The ocean? Oh, the little wave?
- Yeah.
1020
01:01:45,772 --> 01:01:47,874
Yeah, it's a sweet little story.
1021
01:01:48,708 --> 01:01:51,311
See, there's this little wave.
1022
01:01:51,711 --> 01:01:55,982
And he's out there bobbing up and down
and havin'a grand old time.
1023
01:01:56,282 --> 01:01:58,985
You know, just enjoying
the sunshine and the wind...
1024
01:01:58,985 --> 01:02:00,153
Right. Until he see...
Until he sees the other waves.
1025
01:02:00,153 --> 01:02:05,725
Yeah. He sees the other waves crashing
into the shore, so he gets scared.
1026
01:02:05,725 --> 01:02:08,962
- And another wave sees him and...
- He's like, "Oh, my God."
1027
01:02:08,962 --> 01:02:11,664
- Look at what's gonna happen to me.
- Does he do this to you?
1028
01:02:11,664 --> 01:02:13,700
- I'm tryin' to tell a story here.
- Sorry.
1029
01:02:13,867 --> 01:02:17,671
And another wave says to him,
"Why do you look so sad?"
1030
01:02:18,104 --> 01:02:21,841
And the little waves says,
" Because we're gonna crash.
1031
01:02:21,841 --> 01:02:24,878
All us waves are gonna be nothin:
Don't ya understand?"
1032
01:02:25,612 --> 01:02:28,448
And the other wave says,
"You don't understand.
1033
01:02:28,948 --> 01:02:33,53
You're not a wave.
You're part of the ocean."
1034
01:02:36,122 --> 01:02:39,693
Part... of the ocean.
[Coughs]
1035
01:02:39,893 --> 01:02:43,563
- Oh, that's a beautiful story
- [Gasps] Thank you.
1036
01:02:45,899 --> 01:02:48,568
Okay.
No. I got ya.
1037
01:02:48,568 --> 01:02:51,571
- [Morrie Gasping]
- [Oxygen Tank Hissing]
1038
01:02:52,605 --> 01:02:54,774
Okay. There you go.
1039
01:02:55,942 --> 01:02:58,211
[Steady Breathing]
1040
01:02:58,211 --> 01:03:00,480
- Okay.
- Okay?
1041
01:03:01,481 --> 01:03:02,649
Thank you.
1042
01:03:02,649 --> 01:03:04,50
My helper, that one.
1043
01:03:09,389 --> 01:03:12,359
Mitch tells me you're a wonderful
singer, a professional, huh?
1044
01:03:12,359 --> 01:03:14,160
Well, I mostly sing backup.
1045
01:03:14,494 --> 01:03:15,362
- Backup?
- Uh-huh.
1046
01:03:15,395 --> 01:03:18,898
Yeah, background, you know?
The humming and the oohing that
makes the singer sound good.
1047
01:03:18,898 --> 01:03:20,200
But she's not really gonna
do that anymore.
1048
01:03:20,533 --> 01:03:23,636
- Oh, you don't like
the humming and oohing?
- No, it's just that she's gonna be...
1049
01:03:23,636 --> 01:03:27,207
- the one out front now.
- I like singing, any kind.
1050
01:03:27,207 --> 01:03:29,142
Yeah, but let somebody else
back her up.
1051
01:03:29,776 --> 01:03:31,578
I don't feel like
I have to be number one.
1052
01:03:31,945 --> 01:03:34,114
- What's wrong with being number two?
- [Laughs]
1053
01:03:35,281 --> 01:03:37,150
Would you sing for me?
1054
01:03:37,784 --> 01:03:39,652
You know what, Coach?
Everybody asks her that.
1055
01:03:39,652 --> 01:03:42,55
I'll tell ya what, she's recording now.
I'll bring ya a tape next time.
1056
01:03:42,55 --> 01:03:45,91
Wouldn't that be nice?
Would you excuse us for a few minutes?
1057
01:03:46,426 --> 01:03:47,494
Exc... Me?
1058
01:03:47,494 --> 01:03:50,330
Yeah, just go make some phone calls
or something like that, would ya?
1059
01:03:52,732 --> 01:03:55,301
- Sure.
- Bye.
1060
01:04:16,890 --> 01:04:20,560
- Hey.
- Oh, hi.
1061
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:23,296
No, no. Please don't get up.
You look exhausted.
1062
01:04:23,296 --> 01:04:26,32
[Sighs]
1063
01:04:26,32 --> 01:04:28,101
So, is it...
It's really bad?
1064
01:04:29,569 --> 01:04:33,239
Yeah, it's getting to his lungs.
Couple of times there, I thought
we were really gonna lose him.
1065
01:04:33,740 --> 01:04:37,877
It's a damned shame.
He's such a sweet man.
1066
01:04:40,980 --> 01:04:43,249
****[Janine Singing]
1067
01:04:43,249 --> 01:04:46,152
** That's everything **
1068
01:04:46,152 --> 01:04:51,24
** The very thought of you **
1069
01:04:51,691 --> 01:04:57,197
**And I forget to do **
1070
01:04:57,630 --> 01:05:02,469
* The little ordinary things *
1071
01:05:02,802 --> 01:05:08,408
** That everyone ought to do **
1072
01:05:09,309 --> 01:05:14,948
**I see your face in every flower **
1073
01:05:15,582 --> 01:05:21,388
** Your eyes in stars above **
1074
01:05:21,388 --> 01:05:25,91
**It's just the thought of you **
1075
01:05:25,91 --> 01:05:28,828
* The very thought of you *
1076
01:05:28,828 --> 01:05:31,564
- **My love ****
- [Laughs]
1077
01:05:31,798 --> 01:05:35,201
[Chuckles]
1078
01:05:43,576 --> 01:05:45,311
I told you there'd be tears.
[Chuckles]
1079
01:05:45,311 --> 01:05:50,684
Mitch doesn't believe in tears.
I'll get to him someday.
1080
01:05:50,984 --> 01:05:55,655
[Chuckles]
1081
01:05:57,357 --> 01:06:01,561
[Mitch] You ever gonna tell me
what you talked about?
1082
01:06:02,429 --> 01:06:06,633
He told me how much
he loved dancing.
1083
01:06:09,202 --> 01:06:11,237
That's all?
1084
01:06:12,38 --> 01:06:13,406
No.
1085
01:06:14,407 --> 01:06:19,579
Hmm, mostly he let me talk.
1086
01:06:25,952 --> 01:06:29,322
So many times
I've heard you sing.
1087
01:06:30,390 --> 01:06:33,59
Never like that.
1088
01:06:36,29 --> 01:06:38,665
Um...
1089
01:06:39,666 --> 01:06:44,838
The letter I wrote, I guess
it wasn't the best way...
1090
01:06:44,838 --> 01:06:46,940
The ring that you
gave me was beautiful.
1091
01:06:47,340 --> 01:06:51,611
[Scoffs]
But you gave it back to me.
1092
01:06:52,479 --> 01:06:55,882
Well, when you
give it to me again...
1093
01:06:55,882 --> 01:06:59,486
I'd like for you
to do it in person.
1094
01:07:07,27 --> 01:07:10,530
- Okay.
- Mmm.
1095
01:07:23,9 --> 01:07:33,19
[Sobbing]
1096
01:07:34,821 --> 01:07:36,956
[Mitch] I talk to Charlotte
almost daily now.
1097
01:07:37,557 --> 01:07:41,695
She told me about the bad times that
I rarely saw on our Tuesdays together.
1098
01:07:41,695 --> 01:07:42,996
[Sighs]
1099
01:07:43,229 --> 01:07:47,534
Now I was afraid that
each Tuesday would be our last.
1100
01:07:57,577 --> 01:08:02,182
[Thunderclap]
1101
01:08:21,67 --> 01:08:24,971
He hasn't been able to eat solid food
for some time now, Mitch.
1102
01:08:25,238 --> 01:08:27,574
I'm sorry, Charlotte.
1103
01:08:28,108 --> 01:08:30,343
I just want to bring
him something, you know?
1104
01:08:31,211 --> 01:08:33,980
- [Coughing]
- Boy, maybe I shouldn't
stay today, huh?
1105
01:08:34,447 --> 01:08:36,983
Oh, don't be silly. He's been
asking for you all morning.
1106
01:08:37,250 --> 01:08:39,52
"Where's Mitch?
It's Tuesday. "
1107
01:08:39,386 --> 01:08:43,289
You bring him a great deal, Mitch.
You bring him so much.
1108
01:08:43,757 --> 01:09:00,306
****[Soprano Singing Opera]
1109
01:09:01,675 --> 01:09:11,685
****[Continues]
1110
01:09:23,396 --> 01:09:26,332
- Hiya, Coach.
- Hiya, buddy.
1111
01:09:26,933 --> 01:09:28,535
[Chuckles]
How ya doin'?
1112
01:09:28,802 --> 01:09:30,804
Ever see such rain?
1113
01:09:30,904 --> 01:09:35,508
Oh! I was thinking
about the kids...
1114
01:09:35,508 --> 01:09:38,745
trying to move their stuff
into the dorms out of the cars.
1115
01:09:38,812 --> 01:09:41,448
- It must be gettin' all wet.
- Nah.
1116
01:09:41,848 --> 01:09:44,651
These days some people hire
people to do that for 'em.
1117
01:09:44,651 --> 01:09:47,87
- Oh?
- They go off and have
a latte somewhere.
1118
01:09:47,587 --> 01:09:49,756
- So, how ya feelin', Coach?
- Oh...
1119
01:09:50,457 --> 01:09:52,258
I passed a landmark.
1120
01:09:53,93 --> 01:09:56,796
Remember what I said about someday
somebody havin' to wipe my ass?
1121
01:09:57,364 --> 01:10:00,934
- I'm there.
- You're not gonna expect
me to do that, are you?
1122
01:10:00,934 --> 01:10:02,936
Why not?
You might be good at it.
1123
01:10:03,203 --> 01:10:08,8
You know, the culture teaches us
to be ashamed of that. See, I don't...
1124
01:10:08,8 --> 01:10:10,176
- W-W-W-W-Wait. You always...
- [Indistinct]
1125
01:10:10,176 --> 01:10:12,445
- Wait. You always
start before I'm ready.
- Huh?
1126
01:10:12,445 --> 01:10:15,181
- You always start before
I'm ready. Wait. Okay.
- Oh.
1127
01:10:15,782 --> 01:10:21,688
- Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You okay?
- [Groans]
1128
01:10:21,821 --> 01:10:23,923
Coach, maybe we shouldn't
work today, huh?
1129
01:10:24,257 --> 01:10:25,892
You look like you
should be in bed to me.
1130
01:10:25,892 --> 01:10:30,96
If you're in bed, you're dead.
That's my latest aphorism.
1131
01:10:30,764 --> 01:10:34,267
We're gonna work, and
the subject is dependency.
1132
01:10:34,267 --> 01:10:38,204
- Go.
- I'm dependent on others...
1133
01:10:38,505 --> 01:10:40,240
for just about
everything, you know...
1134
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:43,510
eating, urinating,
blowing my nose.
1135
01:10:44,411 --> 01:10:54,421
The culture says
I should be ashamed of that.
1136
01:10:54,421 --> 01:10:56,790
There is nothing innately
shameful about being dependent.
1137
01:10:56,856 --> 01:11:00,60
- [Groans]
- What's the matter?
1138
01:11:00,126 --> 01:11:04,364
My feet. There's some
salve over there.
1139
01:11:04,431 --> 01:11:10,303
They're... They're useless,
you know, but they hurt. I-I...
1140
01:11:12,972 --> 01:11:18,345
When we're infants,
we need others to survive.
1141
01:11:19,646 --> 01:11:23,717
When we're dying,
we need others to survive.
1142
01:11:23,783 --> 01:11:29,255
But here's the secret. In between,
we need others even more.
1143
01:11:31,124 --> 01:11:33,326
We must love
one another or die.
1144
01:11:33,393 --> 01:11:36,162
- Oh, quoting Auden, huh?
- No. I'm quoting you.
1145
01:11:36,229 --> 01:11:39,766
- Oh.
- I do that a lot these days.
1146
01:11:39,833 --> 01:11:42,402
Once you learn how to die,
you learn how to live.
1147
01:11:42,469 --> 01:11:46,306
Yeah, but do you believe that?
Does it apply to you?
1148
01:11:48,274 --> 01:11:50,844
I don't know.
1149
01:11:56,349 --> 01:11:59,652
If you listen to that little bird
on your shoulder, you'll believe.
1150
01:11:59,719 --> 01:12:03,156
It's not that easy, Coach.
Out in the world it's kind of hard...
1151
01:12:03,223 --> 01:12:05,892
- it's kind of hard to get
in touch with your inner bird.
- [Chuckles]
1152
01:12:05,959 --> 01:12:09,329
Ever tried being spiritual
in a locker room full of naked jocks?
1153
01:12:09,396 --> 01:12:12,499
You hate that word,
don't you? "Spiritual."
1154
01:12:12,565 --> 01:12:15,935
You think it's just
touchy-feely stuff, huh?
1155
01:12:16,2 --> 01:12:19,5
Well, I guess
I just don't understand it.
1156
01:12:19,72 --> 01:12:23,643
We must love
one another or die!
1157
01:12:23,710 --> 01:12:26,713
It's a very simple
lesson, Mitch.
1158
01:12:26,780 --> 01:12:30,617
Good student like you shouldn't
have any trouble with it.
1159
01:12:47,834 --> 01:12:52,639
What are you thinking about?
1160
01:12:52,706 --> 01:12:55,542
I was thinking about regrets.
1161
01:12:55,608 --> 01:13:00,313
- What do you have to regret?
- [Laughs] So much.
1162
01:13:01,848 --> 01:13:07,87
Pride, vanity,
hardness of heart.
1163
01:13:07,153 --> 01:13:09,723
When were you
ever hard-hearted?
1164
01:13:09,789 --> 01:13:14,260
I had a strange dream.
1165
01:13:14,327 --> 01:13:16,629
I saw my father...
1166
01:13:16,696 --> 01:13:19,366
under a tree...
1167
01:13:20,667 --> 01:13:22,936
He was reading
his paper, as usual.
1168
01:13:25,305 --> 01:13:27,307
You know how my father died?
1169
01:13:28,675 --> 01:13:33,913
- I think he was scared to death.
- How?
1170
01:13:33,980 --> 01:13:37,517
Well, it was after
I was grown up.
1171
01:13:37,584 --> 01:13:43,189
One night he was walking and reading
his paper, like he always did.
1172
01:13:43,256 --> 01:13:46,893
Some muggers
pulled a gun on him.
1173
01:13:46,960 --> 01:13:49,162
He threw his wallet down and ran.
1174
01:13:49,229 --> 01:13:51,631
Now, he had seen
terrible things in his life.
1175
01:13:51,698 --> 01:13:54,834
Why was he
so scared that night?
1176
01:13:57,303 --> 01:14:00,40
He ran until his heart gave out.
1177
01:14:05,178 --> 01:14:07,347
I got a call from the police.
1178
01:14:07,414 --> 01:14:10,216
Come down to the morgue...
1179
01:14:10,283 --> 01:14:13,286
and identify him.
1180
01:14:15,722 --> 01:14:19,793
I looked at my father.
I didn't even cry.
1181
01:14:19,859 --> 01:14:23,29
I've got tears
for everything nowadays.
1182
01:14:23,96 --> 01:14:26,166
But I couldn't cry for him.
1183
01:14:26,232 --> 01:14:29,736
I couldn't forgive him.
Not then.
1184
01:14:29,803 --> 01:14:34,207
- But you did.
- Yes, too late.
1185
01:14:34,274 --> 01:14:37,477
First, I had to understand
and forgive myself.
1186
01:14:37,544 --> 01:14:40,347
All those years that
I shut my heart to him.
1187
01:14:40,413 --> 01:14:43,416
Why couldn't I stop
and see what was in his?
1188
01:14:43,483 --> 01:14:47,487
[Sighs]
God, that poor man...
1189
01:14:47,554 --> 01:14:49,889
was scared most of his life.
1190
01:14:49,956 --> 01:14:54,694
I was selfish. I thought of nothing
but how I needed him.
1191
01:14:54,761 --> 01:14:57,197
Oh, God, the waste of it all!
1192
01:14:57,263 --> 01:15:02,68
I... Forgive everybody everything!
1193
01:15:02,135 --> 01:15:05,205
Now! Don't wait!
1194
01:15:05,271 --> 01:15:08,8
Not everybody has
the time that I'm getting.
1195
01:15:08,74 --> 01:15:11,144
[Labored Breathing]
1196
01:15:12,846 --> 01:15:17,751
I won't die like he did.
[Laughs]
1197
01:15:17,817 --> 01:15:20,854
I'll be surrounded by love...
1198
01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:23,790
of my family, my friends.
1199
01:15:23,857 --> 01:15:25,792
At peace.
1200
01:15:27,660 --> 01:15:31,431
Yes, the tension of opposites.
1201
01:15:31,498 --> 01:15:33,700
We learn from what hurts us...
1202
01:15:33,767 --> 01:15:38,104
as much as what
loves us, you know?
1203
01:15:40,940 --> 01:15:45,812
****[Opera]
1204
01:15:52,652 --> 01:15:56,256
****[Continues]
1205
01:16:12,505 --> 01:16:16,576
- [Grunts]
- Okay.
1206
01:16:18,345 --> 01:16:21,648
- You all right. Okay?
- Yeah.
1207
01:16:21,715 --> 01:16:25,852
****[Continues]
1208
01:16:25,919 --> 01:16:29,923
- I've never seen your bedroom before.
- I hope you never see it again.
1209
01:16:29,989 --> 01:16:32,992
- When you're in bed, you're dead.
- Yeah, well...
1210
01:16:33,59 --> 01:16:36,296
sometimes a bed's
just for sleepin', okay?
1211
01:16:36,363 --> 01:16:39,499
- [Aldo] Let's roll over, Morrie.
- There ya go.
1212
01:16:39,566 --> 01:16:41,768
- How's the congestion today, huh?
- [Groans]
1213
01:16:41,835 --> 01:16:43,803
Let's see what
we can knock loose, huh?
1214
01:16:43,870 --> 01:16:46,439
Ooh.! Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh.!
What are you doin'? What are you doin'?
1215
01:16:46,506 --> 01:16:48,541
[Groans]
1216
01:16:48,608 --> 01:16:51,144
Well, he's got all this
poison in his lungs.
1217
01:16:51,211 --> 01:16:53,980
And this keeps it
from solidifyin'.
1218
01:16:54,47 --> 01:16:56,750
Feel it in there, Morrie, huh?
Do ya feel it loosenin'?
1219
01:16:56,816 --> 01:16:58,985
- Feel something loosening.
- [Pounding Continues]
1220
01:16:59,52 --> 01:17:01,488
Maybe it's my ribs.
[Groans]
1221
01:17:01,554 --> 01:17:06,226
- [Connie] Mitch, telephone.
- Saved by the bell, huh?
1222
01:17:06,292 --> 01:17:08,28
[Groaning]
1223
01:17:12,932 --> 01:17:17,3
- Hello.
- Hey, buddy. It's Walter.
Finally got ya on the phone.
1224
01:17:17,70 --> 01:17:20,173
- Yeah. Sorry. I should've called.
- Yeah. Look, uh...
1225
01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:23,910
Janine told me about, you know,
your friend back there, uh...
1226
01:17:23,977 --> 01:17:26,546
Should've said something.
1227
01:17:26,613 --> 01:17:29,749
Um, anyway,
I'll make this short.
1228
01:17:29,816 --> 01:17:31,951
I was wrong, and I'm sorry.
1229
01:17:32,18 --> 01:17:35,221
Just, uh, tell me
how far I have to crawl.
1230
01:17:35,288 --> 01:17:37,390
- Oh, no, no, no. We were both wrong.
- [Flesh Smacking, Groaning]
1231
01:17:37,457 --> 01:17:41,561
- I'm sorry too.
- So, uh, will I see you in the office?
1232
01:17:41,628 --> 01:17:46,833
- [Woman] I got that paper.
- I just can't stop things
here, Mitch. I-I gotta know.
1233
01:17:46,900 --> 01:17:49,469
[Flesh Smacking, Morrie Groaning]
1234
01:17:49,536 --> 01:17:52,772
Yeah. I'll see ya
in the office, Walter.
1235
01:17:57,844 --> 01:18:00,513
- Good.
- [Groans]
1236
01:18:00,580 --> 01:18:02,682
[Groans]
1237
01:18:02,749 --> 01:18:05,118
[Groaning, Slapping Continue]
1238
01:18:05,185 --> 01:18:07,954
Show me how to do this?
1239
01:18:08,21 --> 01:18:11,958
- Okay with you, Morrie?
- Yeah.
1240
01:18:12,25 --> 01:18:14,227
[Aldo]
Okay, it has to be hard.
1241
01:18:14,294 --> 01:18:17,731
It's the only way to break up
all that wicked congestion
so his body can eliminate it.
1242
01:18:17,797 --> 01:18:20,100
- Okay. [Clears Throat]
- All right.
1243
01:18:23,603 --> 01:18:26,172
- No. A little harder than that.
- Harder than that?
1244
01:18:26,239 --> 01:18:29,42
- Yeah. There. Under the shoulder
- Okay.
1245
01:18:30,710 --> 01:18:32,979
- [Morrie Grunting]
- That's it. Little bit harder.
1246
01:18:34,781 --> 01:18:39,452
Good. Knock the poison loose.
Knock it loose.
1247
01:18:39,519 --> 01:18:44,557
Oh, you... You wanted to hit me.
[Groans]
1248
01:18:44,624 --> 01:18:47,994
- This is for that " B" you gave
me sophomore year, Morrie.
- [Laughing]
1249
01:18:48,61 --> 01:18:49,996
When did I ever...
1250
01:18:50,63 --> 01:18:52,999
give you... a " B"?
1251
01:18:59,539 --> 01:19:03,209
[Together]
Six, seven, eight, nine...
1252
01:19:03,309 --> 01:19:05,645
[Mitch] The large lessons
oflife... We're sometimes...
1253
01:19:05,712 --> 01:19:07,881
given the opportunity
to learn them.
1254
01:19:07,947 --> 01:19:11,184
But how do we know we're
gonna be able to keep them?
1255
01:19:11,251 --> 01:19:13,687
I know I will, Mr. Albom.
1256
01:19:13,753 --> 01:19:17,190
I've had real excellent counseling,
and I've learned from my mistakes.
1257
01:19:17,257 --> 01:19:19,159
It's like I had
my whole life given back to me.
1258
01:19:19,225 --> 01:19:22,595
- When they dropped the drug charges?
- Yes, sir.
1259
01:19:22,662 --> 01:19:24,864
- And let me keep my scholarship...
- [Man Whistles]
1260
01:19:24,931 --> 01:19:27,600
[Coach Shouting] Hey, Daley!
We need you down here!
1261
01:19:27,667 --> 01:19:30,3
How can we ever be sure
we've learned anything, though?
1262
01:19:30,70 --> 01:19:34,507
Well, like I said, I learned my lesson.
I'm never gonna forget.
1263
01:19:34,574 --> 01:19:37,344
- [Coach] Hey, Shawn,
we need you down here now.!
- I gotta go, sir.
1264
01:19:37,410 --> 01:19:39,346
Thanks for your time.
1265
01:19:39,412 --> 01:19:42,282
Hey, Shawn.
Hope you're right, man.
1266
01:19:42,349 --> 01:19:47,654
[Players]... nine, ten, eleven,
twelve, thirteen...
1267
01:19:53,793 --> 01:19:56,563
- [Mitch]
I was glad to be writing again...
- [Chuckling]
1268
01:19:56,629 --> 01:20:00,100
Even if it meant Walter
screaming about deadlines.
1269
01:20:00,166 --> 01:20:04,671
He screamed louder when I asked
for two weeks off to go to the islands.
1270
01:20:06,72 --> 01:20:08,875
I got one.
We made the best of it.
1271
01:20:20,854 --> 01:20:24,257
We called Morrie.
He cried, of course...
1272
01:20:24,324 --> 01:20:27,127
which I took as a sign
that things were still normal.
1273
01:20:30,964 --> 01:20:35,535
When we got home, I got
another day off from Walter, Tuesday.
1274
01:20:35,602 --> 01:20:38,705
I told him I was gonna need
all my Tuesdays for awhile.
1275
01:20:38,772 --> 01:20:43,543
[Clears Throat]
So, I'm typing up the thesis.
1276
01:20:43,610 --> 01:20:45,545
What there is of it, anyway.
1277
01:20:45,612 --> 01:20:49,82
- Thought you might want
to read it over.
- Okay.
1278
01:20:49,149 --> 01:20:51,785
- 'Course we're not finished yet.
- No.
1279
01:20:55,755 --> 01:20:57,757
So I had a thought.
It was kind of weird.
1280
01:20:57,824 --> 01:21:02,28
- Wait-Wait, I don't think
the tape is rolling.
- Oh.
1281
01:21:03,296 --> 01:21:05,465
Okay, so, weird thought.
1282
01:21:05,532 --> 01:21:09,936
- Uh-huh.
- Uh, if somebody could
wave a magic wand...
1283
01:21:10,3 --> 01:21:15,775
and give you one day...
24 hours of perfect health...
1284
01:21:15,842 --> 01:21:19,913
- how would you spend it?
- That's a weird thought?
1285
01:21:19,979 --> 01:21:23,216
That's a good thought.
[Laughs] Oh... [Inhales]
1286
01:21:23,283 --> 01:21:26,186
Twenty-four hours?
1287
01:21:31,424 --> 01:21:35,161
- Care to share it with the world?
- Well...
1288
01:21:35,228 --> 01:21:37,997
I'd have a lovely breakfast:
1289
01:21:38,64 --> 01:21:41,101
Sweet rolls and tea.
1290
01:21:41,167 --> 01:21:44,971
Then a good swim.
1291
01:21:45,38 --> 01:21:48,875
I'd ask my friends for lunch,
a great lunch. You know, but...
1292
01:21:48,942 --> 01:21:52,746
A salad or something simple.
1293
01:21:52,812 --> 01:21:54,981
And then we'd take
a walk in a park...
1294
01:21:55,48 --> 01:21:59,252
with trees,
so we could watch the birds.
1295
01:21:59,319 --> 01:22:04,457
And we'd talk about how much
we meant to each other.
1296
01:22:05,925 --> 01:22:10,363
And for dinner, I'd take 'em
to a place that had great pasta.
1297
01:22:10,430 --> 01:22:12,899
Oh, boy.
1298
01:22:12,966 --> 01:22:16,36
And a little duck. Yeah, I love duck.
Do you like duck?
1299
01:22:16,102 --> 01:22:19,406
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
1300
01:22:19,472 --> 01:22:21,908
And then I would dance.
1301
01:22:21,975 --> 01:22:27,80
Oh, I'd dance
with my lovely partners...
1302
01:22:27,147 --> 01:22:30,83
till I was exhausted.
1303
01:22:31,217 --> 01:22:35,188
Then go home,
and I'd have a great sleep.
1304
01:22:37,257 --> 01:22:39,893
That's it?
That's your perfect day, huh?
1305
01:22:39,959 --> 01:22:42,362
- Uh...
- Sounds pretty simple.
1306
01:22:42,429 --> 01:22:44,364
Oh, yeah.
1307
01:22:45,965 --> 01:22:48,735
What about Charlotte and your sons?
You didn't mention them.
1308
01:22:48,802 --> 01:22:51,271
Well, I don't
have to mention them.
1309
01:22:51,337 --> 01:22:55,875
I mean, if they weren't there, how
could it be a perfect day? [Chuckles]
1310
01:22:55,942 --> 01:22:59,679
Oh, I-I picked
the spot to be buried.
1311
01:22:59,746 --> 01:23:02,549
It's on a hill under a tree.
1312
01:23:02,615 --> 01:23:05,952
It's got a pond.
Great place to think.
1313
01:23:07,587 --> 01:23:10,590
[Chuckles] You plannin' on doin'
a lot of thinkin' there?
1314
01:23:10,657 --> 01:23:13,193
I plan on being dead there.
1315
01:23:14,794 --> 01:23:17,897
Will you come and visit,
tell me your problems?
1316
01:23:19,999 --> 01:23:23,2
Won't be quite the same,
not hearing you talk.
1317
01:23:23,69 --> 01:23:25,839
Well, I'll tell you what...
1318
01:23:25,905 --> 01:23:29,909
when I'm dead,
you talk, I'll listen.
1319
01:23:29,976 --> 01:23:34,914
What if, uh, you know,
after you're, uh...
1320
01:23:38,251 --> 01:23:40,587
What if all this was just...
What if...
1321
01:23:40,653 --> 01:23:42,589
What if all this was
just wasted on me?
1322
01:23:42,655 --> 01:23:44,958
Well, you think
that could happen?
1323
01:23:45,25 --> 01:23:50,163
Well, out in the world...
you know, outside this room...
things aren't so clear.
1324
01:23:50,230 --> 01:23:53,266
Your wisdom and your aphorisms...
1325
01:23:53,333 --> 01:23:55,902
"Once you learn how to die,
you learn how to live."
1326
01:23:55,969 --> 01:23:58,371
What if you can't learn that?
1327
01:23:58,438 --> 01:24:02,142
What if you just want to run like hell
when you see death coming?
1328
01:24:02,208 --> 01:24:05,311
What if, uh, we're like
your father, you know?
1329
01:24:05,378 --> 01:24:09,382
What if we can't learn it
because we're not really like you?
1330
01:24:09,449 --> 01:24:14,721
- Yeah, but you are like me.
Everybody is.
- Nobody's like you.
1331
01:24:14,788 --> 01:24:20,93
And if it took your death
to teach me these things,
then I'd rather not learn 'em.
1332
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:23,730
All the things you said, I'd give
'em back in one minute. [Sniffles]
1333
01:24:25,565 --> 01:24:28,968
- If this wasn't happening to you...
- It's happening.
1334
01:24:29,35 --> 01:24:32,639
- It's-It's going to happen.
- Yeah, well, I don't want it to happen.
1335
01:24:32,706 --> 01:24:34,641
I don't want you to die.
1336
01:24:34,708 --> 01:24:38,945
That poem you're always quoting,
"We have to love one another or die"?
1337
01:24:39,12 --> 01:24:41,214
We die anyway, don't we?
1338
01:24:41,281 --> 01:24:44,984
We learn to love somebody
and they die, or-or we die or it dies.
1339
01:24:45,51 --> 01:24:49,489
What's the point? Wha... What do we
learn really from all that suffering?
1340
01:24:50,990 --> 01:24:53,193
Hold.
1341
01:24:56,563 --> 01:24:59,899
[Sniffles]
I'm sorry.
1342
01:25:01,167 --> 01:25:04,3
I just can't accept it.
I don't want you to die.
1343
01:25:06,573 --> 01:25:08,675
I guess I flunked
the course, huh?
1344
01:25:08,742 --> 01:25:14,47
Death ends a life,
not a relationship.
1345
01:25:16,850 --> 01:25:21,855
Poor Mitch, you still don't know
how to say good-bye, do you?
1346
01:25:21,921 --> 01:25:25,458
Look at me.
1347
01:25:25,525 --> 01:25:27,494
[Sighs]
1348
01:25:27,560 --> 01:25:32,499
Don't you understand?
You touched me.
1349
01:25:34,367 --> 01:25:38,271
What if you hadn't
come back to see me? Huh?
1350
01:25:41,374 --> 01:25:44,511
This is the way
we say good-bye.
1351
01:25:52,552 --> 01:25:57,657
- Love you.
- [Shudders] I love you too, Coach.
1352
01:25:57,724 --> 01:26:02,95
I know. You wanna
know something else?
1353
01:26:02,162 --> 01:26:04,931
You always will.
1354
01:26:04,998 --> 01:26:09,436
[Sniffling]
1355
01:26:09,502 --> 01:26:11,738
I'm gonna come back
next Tuesday, okay?
1356
01:26:11,805 --> 01:26:16,343
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna bring, Janine
with me, okay, next Tuesday.
1357
01:26:16,409 --> 01:26:21,748
- Yeah.
- [Weeping]
1358
01:26:27,187 --> 01:26:32,826
Of course, next Tuesday.
We're Tuesday people.
1359
01:26:32,892 --> 01:26:35,495
[Mitch Weeping]
1360
01:26:37,831 --> 01:26:39,933
[Mitch] Morrie died
on a Saturday morning.
1361
01:26:41,468 --> 01:26:43,937
- [Phone Ringing]
- We got the call that afternoon.
1362
01:26:44,3 --> 01:26:48,675
Hello? Oh.
1363
01:26:48,742 --> 01:26:51,811
He had died peacefully and simply,
with all his family around him.
1364
01:26:51,878 --> 01:26:54,414
****[Continues]
1365
01:26:54,481 --> 01:26:57,217
Just the way he wanted it.
1366
01:27:02,489 --> 01:27:04,457
Charlotte kept it small,
just family and friends...
1367
01:27:04,524 --> 01:27:08,428
- [Rabbi Reading In Hebrew]
- all the ones he would've taken
dancing on his perfect day.
1368
01:27:08,495 --> 01:27:10,730
[Rabbi Continues]
1369
01:27:13,33 --> 01:27:15,502
- [Rabbi] Amen.
- Of course, there was poetry.
1370
01:27:15,568 --> 01:27:20,907
"When he shall die take him
and cut him out in little stars.
1371
01:27:20,974 --> 01:27:24,911
"And he will make
the face ofheaven so fine...
1372
01:27:24,978 --> 01:27:28,848
"that all the world will be
in love with night...
1373
01:27:28,915 --> 01:27:31,351
and worship not the garish sun. "
1374
01:27:31,418 --> 01:27:35,321
[Mitch]
When I'm dead, you talk. I'll listen.
1375
01:27:35,388 --> 01:27:37,824
It wasn't that hard
to hear his voice.
1376
01:27:37,891 --> 01:27:41,327
It was Tuesday.
1377
01:27:43,163 --> 01:27:45,699
Have you ever had
a special teacher?
1378
01:27:45,765 --> 01:27:49,536
One who taught you things you may not
understand, but who never gives up?
1379
01:27:49,602 --> 01:27:54,240
Who knows the really tough
lessons take a lifetime to learn?
1380
01:27:54,307 --> 01:27:58,111
The last class of my old professor's
life took place once a week on Tuesdays.
1381
01:27:58,178 --> 01:28:01,14
The subject was
the meaning oflife.
1382
01:28:04,684 --> 01:28:07,620
The teaching goes on.
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