All language subtitles for Square Dance 1987

Pop?

Pop?
Oh.

Friends, the hardest thing we face
today is simply to be somebody.

Pop!

To stand up and be counted
as something.

To be known, by friend
and foe alike,

As a man, woman or child,

with the courage to hold our head
high in the name of what we believe in.

Brothers and sisters in Christ,

Every day I see the power of
Almighty God...

manifest in the strength of my strong
army of soldiers for Jesus.

Pop!

These men and women join me
and my great crusade...

across this great state...

doing battle with Satan,

who each and every day claims
more souls.

Come join our army of courageous
soldiers.

Give the strength of your
good hearts...

to the cause of glory
here and ever after.

In the name of him, who no army
can defeat,

no power can topple,

Jesus Christ, our Lord
and savior.

oh, Pop.

We'll be visiting your town
and you can help us get there.

Ahh. I thought I told you
to water them chickens.

I did.

Well, then how come their trough
is as dry as a desert?

Your own Christian love...

Lose them chickens, I don't see how
you expect to put food on the table.

Send your contributions
to campaign for Christ,

post office box 796...

Do I gotta listen to that thing
while I'm trying to eat?

In whom the go...

Well, as of this minute,
you people are eighth graders.

What are you waiting for?
class dismissed.

- Bye.
- Bye, Miss Lawson.

Bye. Bye.

Gemma?

I made you a little something.

It's nothing really...Just for
doing so good in your studies.

For always raising your hand when
I needed help with something.

- Needle point?
- Crocheting.

- A bookmark.
- Thank you.

Bye, Gemma.
I'll see you next year.

Bye, Gemma.
Bye, Gemma.

Hey, come on, girl! I've been
waiting here half the afternoon.

Bye, Miss Cole.
Thank you. mm-hmm.

Yoo-hoo.
Howdy, Homer.

I hope you wasn't trying
anything dumb.

Like what?
Like I don't know.

But I saw you putting
your big ol' foot in that door.

If she didn't need 'em,
she wouldn't have ordered 'em.

Yes, she would.
It's called railroadin'.

Miss Cole's gonna be taking
two dozen next week.

Coles ain't had more than a dozen in
all the years I've been bringing them eggs.

I think Miss Cole's been wantin'a little
old man to carry her to the ball this year.

Listen. I've known Miss Cole
too long, too many years...

to start thinking of her
thataway, I can tell ya.

Why, she's the fattest
ol' girl in town.

Yeah, well, she'd call you up
If you had a phone.

When nothing else
could help

I was thinking you was
my neighbor woman.

You don't know who I am.

'Course you don't.

I know you.

You don't look like
any of them pictures we got.

But I know you.

Where is he?
Out back.

My god.

I hope I don't look like
them pictures anymore.

I hope I've been doing
somethin' right.

Pop told me you had brown
hair like mine.

Shoot.

Shoot, maybe it was.

I can't remember.

He be, uh, coming to the
house soon?

Maybe.

Gemma...

Gemma.

I'm your mama.

Baby, I can't stay long.

I've got to be getting back
to Fort Worth.

That's where I'm living now,
baby. In Fort Worth.

Pop says they got different water
fountains there for the colored people.

Did he now?

Well, it figures that's what
he'd be saying.

He don't know nothing. He must have
heard something about that 30 years ago.

That's all he remembers.

Do they?

He don't know what they got.

Anyway,

I reckon I best be gettin'
over there,

tell him I'm here.

Sooner we get that over with
and put your things together,

sooner we'll get going, huh?

Hey!

Hey, where do you think
you're going?

See there.

That isn't any way for a young
lady to be standing.

- You look like a farmhand.
- Well, that's what I am.

Oh, no, you're not.

You're Juanelle King's daughter. And you
ain't gonna start off your life as some hick.

I done started my life, and I
ain't goin' nowhere.

Gemma...

Gemma, I haven't been able
to come for you yet because I...

I had to have...

I needed more than just some
room somewhere.

I had to have...
have me a home.

Well, I got me a home.
I had me one for 13 years. Right here.

I know you got a home.

I was the one that brought
you to it.

You still have all them chickens?

He wants somebody to do his
dirty work.

Believe you me, I know.

Did the same thing with my mama,
till she had sense enough to leave.

And she just got out.

Baby, when I was 15,

I hurt so bad.

I thought I was sure to die
in my sleep.

- I don't want that happening to you.
- Well, it ain't.

You don't know yet.
You just don't know.

Hell with it. now I just want you to
go inside and get your things together...

Hey, Gemma.

I ain't leavin'.

I got all I need here.

You're just as hardheaded as he is.

I don't want him finding you here.

No skin off my nose.

Whoo!

Just like him.
You know it?

You're just like him.

Here.

Send me a Christmas card.

Pop,

how come I go by Dillard
if my daddy's name was Monroe?

do I have
the Monroe forehead?

-Pop, we have to get going.
- hey, hush.
you're scaring my fish.

Bob and Doreen are probably
wondering what happened to me.

hey, Gemma.
I got 'Im, Gemma.

do it yourself.

yeah. ho-ho.
yeah.

Lookee here.
Lookee here.

oh.

hey! come on.
h-help me get another
grasshopper on this hook.

come on.
and just how
you expect to get home?

you see that lightning?

all right.
all right, all right.

you gotta get
those headlights fixed.

you're gonna have to
ride up front on the hood.

all right.
Let me have the flashlight.

see, we'd have been stuck
by lightning if we'd stayed.

you just watch yourself.

I'm late for church, pop.
I'm driving there first.

oh, no, you're not.
you're gonna
take me straight home.

you can sit
through the service.
It wouldn't hurt.

I'm tellin' you, girl.
you get in there
and drive me to the farm.

but, pop.
just take it slow
so you don't bounce me off.

come on.
drive.

hey, take it easy!
you'll tuck me over.

you fathers must not goad
your children to resent me.

but must give 'em instruction
and the correction which belongs
to a Christian upbringing.

hey! hey!

take it easy!

I'm going to church.

stop this car!

hey! watch it!
ahh-haw!

whoa! oh!
oh!

you're gonna
get it, girl.

you're gonna get it!

Gemma!
Gemma, come here.

I told you
to take me home!

stop! damn it!

come on!
come on.
I'll tan your hide.

that was
real pretty, Beecham.

how do, Homer?

don't put that thing
in your mouth!

seen you a couple nights ago
over there at the church.

but I reckon
you didn't see me.

have a good day, Beecham.
nice settin' with you, Gemma.

all right.
see you sunday,
and bring your harmonica.

sure enough.

Homer, 'member them songs you
and me used to play together?

we sure was good.

now, let's go.
I got ice cream melting.

I didn't know
you had a harmonica.

- still got it?
- I don't want you
messing with him.

what would people think
If they saw you sitting
In a parked car like that?

he plays dominoes with me.

what?

down at the church,
sunday nights.

he's one of god's children
Like you.

besides, you and him
was friends when you was little.

hmm.
youwas.

h-he told me y'all
used to go fishing...

and hoed cotton.

how come you
didn't stay friends?

times change.

'cause he was--
now listen.

you could pick the ones
you're gonna go through
this life with.

It's plain common sense
to see that some are better
than others.

I didn't pick you.

well, girlie,
I didn't pick you neither.

well, go on.

aw, you ain't never gonna
learn to play that thing...

If you're scared of it.

here, give it to me.

sit down.

now that there
was "billy boy."

you know, sometimes
they'd ask me to play
at their square dances.

Is that where you
and Beecham used to play?

they, uh, had dances
every month back then.

yeah, all leadin' up to
the twilight harvest ball.

oh, your grandma sure did
love to go to that one.

made, uh, her and me
king and queen
of the whole shebang one year.

you?

Beecham don't know nothing
about square dancing.
them people was never allowed.

I--

I got an idea.

I'm gonna show you
how we did it.

Let's go out here
where we got some room.
what?

now you stand right over here.
see, uh, here we are.

now this place--
you start right there.

where you're startin' from,
they call that "home."

all right.
yeah, now,

first thing you do,
"honor your partner."

ah, I bow to you,
you curtsy to me.

you know how to curtsy?
put your left foot back
and bend your knee.

that's it.
and I bow to you.

now, when they
call "do-si-do,"

you put your right shoulder
to right shoulder, all right,
back to back.

circle around.
that's it.
and come back home.

now when they say "promenade,"
give me your right hand,

Left hand under,
that's right,

and we do a little walk
right around here.

promenade, promenade,

promenade till we get...

home.

when they say,
"swing your partner,"

put your left hand
on my shoulder, that's it.

all right--
one, two, three, four.

one, two, three, four--

home.

now, that's good.

gonna put
some music on here.

ah, square your sets
with a smile on your face.

everybody dance
right in your place.

honor your partner.

and the lady to your left.

all join hands
and you circle left.

circle left,
all the way around,
tom and billy.

then you come home.

and you swing yours
and leave mine alone.
everybody swing.

tom and billy--

one, two, three, four.
and then we promenade.

promenade.
promenade.

you come home.

swing that lady.

and cannot leave her mother

yeah. well,
ain't that somethin', huh?

well, comin' back.

ain't nothin' hard about it.
boy, it's been a long time,
but it's comin' back.

now that, that
what we just did,

that was called square dancing.

whew.
and don't forget,
It was me who taught you.

charming billy

for she's a young thing
and cannot leave her mother

I called everybody
down there at the church.

I think I hear him down here!

bubba, get off there
before you break your neck.

there must be ten
feet of garbage. how do you
expect to hear through that?

what happened?

ol' Beecham never could
do nothing right.

what happened?
Beecham, where is he?

- maybe I ought
to go fetch my tractor.
- no, we got to do this by hand.

a tractor'd crush the daylights
out of him, if they ain't
crushed out already.

Gemma, now let's--
let's wait!
Let's get organized.

watch where you step.
y'all found him yet?
Is he dead?

I didn't see him
standing there. he might have.
he's always out here.

but I didn't see him
till it was too late.

we pushed the switch
before we saw him!

he was standing down here
with all that junk around him,

reading the back
of a dumb ol' cereal box.

Beecham can't read.
next thing I know,
right out of nowhere,

a ton of trash
comes right down on him.

what do you mean,
"out of nowhere?" It came right
out the back end of your truck.

Doreen, it's Beecham!

I know, honey. we was just
settin' out the cover-dish
supper when Bob called.

Jordan, come help.
they covered Beecham!

oh, bad luck, go away.

I didn't know anybody
was in here.

we sure do enjoy
having Gemma at the church.

yeah? well, why don't
you keep her?

Gemma Dillard, your granddaddy's
gonna have a fit when he sees
how black your hands are.

It's Beecham down here.

when I come here, I'd never
been to a church that had
a colored person singing.

I got to get
my boys home.

besides, everybody's
finished with my food.

mercy, I don't believe
he's down there at all.

ah, maybe he ain't.

we dug 12 foot
If we dug one.
he ain't nowhere in sight.

you calling me a liar, Hadley?
I ain't calling
anybody a liar.

but where is he?
where is he?

I'm headin' home.
Beecham or no Beecham,
I got cows to milk.

I think we all best
be gettin' back.
what do you say?

well, that ain't
no Christian way
to be acting.

It was a mistake, that's all.
we'd have found Beecham
if he was down there.

none of us looked hard enough.
half the town
was down here.

he just
ain't down there.

Gemma, it's gettin' late.
they ate up the pie.

you're gonna have
to help me.

aw, you smell.

you smell like
I don't know what.
now look, I--

I'm startin' this car,
and I'm goin' home
and eatin' my suppers.

If you want to come
with me, fine.
If not, to hell with you.

Pop.
nobody else but you believes
that Beecham got himself buried.

did you think of that?

ah, you're acting
Like a fool!

reverend Dixon!
I found him.
I found his hat!

I found Beecham's hat!

Miss Jackson,

y'all get everybody
rounded up and in the cars.

we be going now.

y'all can't just
leave him down here.

well, where you
be putting him?

maybe he sang
In y'all's church,

but he won't
be buried over there
In the white folks' cemetery.

no, ma'am.
Beecham be home.

oh, Beecham.

Beecham.

hah, all right.
had a few left over.
them don't look like no account.

we better catch us
another batch before we head
down yonder tomorrow, huh?

what the heck's that?

you know,
the wages of sin is death.

I'm gonna
blister you good.

durned old stupid--

he's one of god's children.

well, he ain't
nothin' now,
so shut up!

my mama was here--
just the other day.

she come for me
all the way from Fort Worth.

you're lyin'. you're
standin' there lyin' to me.

no, I ain't.

I ain't livin'
with you anymore.

well, where do you think
you're gonna go?

I took you in,
gave you that room and
kept you here all these years.

I'll give you the money
to pay you back.

I ain't lookin'
for no reward.

besides, you can't
pay me back...

all that time.

you don't know
anything about time yet.

- you ain't old enough.
- I decided.

- I'm goin' to my mama's.
- no.

I decided.

and that's right.

you are.

and get that thing
off my table!

oh, they tell me of a home

far beyond the skies

oh, they tell me of a home

far away

oh, they tell me of a place

where no storm clouds rise

oh, they tell me

of an uncloudy day

oh, they tell me of a place

where my friends have gone

oh, they tell me
of that land

far away

where the tree of life

In eternal bloom

sheds its fragrance

on an uncloudy day

oh, the land

of a cloudless day

oh, the land

of an uncloudy sky

oh, they tell me of a place

where no storm clouds rise

oh, they tell me

of an uncloudy day

oh, they tell me
that he smiles

on his children there

and his smile
drives their sorrows away

and they tell me
that no tears

ever come again

In that lovely land

of uncloudy day

oh, the land

of cloudless day

oh, the land

of an uncloudy sky

oh, they tell me of a place

where no storm clouds rise

excuse me, sir?

um, I was give this address
for Miss Frank king.

Is Miss Frank king here?

yeah, she's here.

she lives
In a gas station?

Juanelle lives upstairs.
we got us a place upstairs.

I'm Frank king.

oh, I'm Gemma Dillard.

my mama told me
her name was
mrs. Frank king.

Juanelle expecting you?
oh, I reckon she ain't.

how'd you get here?

I took the bus
and hitched me a ride.

don't you know you ought not be
catching rides with strangers?

I won't do it no more.

go on up them steps there
and surprise your mama.

okay, where'd you hide 'em?

Frankie, where'd you
put my cigarettes?

thought you was Frank.

well, what brings you
to cowtown?

ah, where are my cigarettes?
Frankie's always
doin' this to me.

aha!

bingo.

hey, I got to be
shakin' a leg.

boy, this place
Is like an oven, I swear.

I got that thing
flipped up to frigid
and I'm still about to fry.

so, you had enough of him?

oh, I don't know.

I just decided that I wanted
to come live with you now.

I know, kiddo.

I bailed out of there
In the middle of the night too.

I got to go to the shop.

there's a stack of wigs
piled yea high
that don't have any idea...

that it's my day off.

there's some enchiladas
in the fridge if you're hungry.

no, I ain't.

okay.

you wouldn't mind washin' up
them dishes, would you?

no, I-I'll do it.

and eat those enchiladas
if you want.

okay.

hey, you thought you could
hide them from me, huh, Frankie?

I knew I couldn't fool ya.

hey, how about that?
were you surprised?

surprised, my god. yeah.
surprised the tar out of me.

she's cute.
yep.

It's 12:20 on k.b.l.b.,

the heart
of the great southwest.

would y'all look here
at this girl?

boy, I mean--

that looks real good
on you, Gemma.

suits your face.

oh, I sure do wish
I had me a picture.

a before picture.

there she is, one more desirous
creature about to hit
the jacksboro highway.

shoot.

come soak ms. week's
fingers for me.

finished.
my hair
just grows so fast.

I read in a magazine last week
that the more you cut your hair
the more it grows.

I think it's got something
to do with the time of year too.

could be.

Juanelle, hair grow faster
in the summer?

shoot, I don't know.
mine hasn't grown
a quarter inch all year.

that's 'cause of that
color you use.

now, cut that out.
you're gonna have these women
afraid to tint their hair.

I reckon I don't mind
if it doesn't grow--

better than gray hair showing
through before it should.

amen.

what is it, kiddo?

now you want a new pair
of glasses like Aggie's?

oh, a spider.

- oh.
- why'd you do that?

I don't want no spiders
running loose in here.

- heavens no.
- ooh-wee.

Long-legged spiders
mean bad luck.

I ain't livin' nowhere
where there's any spiders.

once Frank's deal
starts payin' off,

I don't care
where I got to go--
I'll leave texas.

mercy.
- you ain't leavin', Juanelle.

oh, yeah?
why would I stay in this hole
If I didn't have to?

well--
ooh! no offense, Aggie.

you got to be plumb nuts
to think I'd stay livin'
over a gas station.

one thing to pump it, hon.
It's another to take it
out of the ground.

well, I know how to pump it.

but I sure
don't know nothin'
about no oil.

If you left, Juanelle,
I'd never find
another hairdresser like you.

you'll find one.

okay.
go get a towel, baby.

well, you are mighty lucky.

you were always lucky though.

you ought to see them
over at the stagecoach,
falling over themselves...

to sit next to Juanelle.

start with the cuticle.
dry her hand first.

there. you look
much better without 'em.

oh, what a pretty face.

- everything's blurry.
- that's just 'cause your eyes
ain't focused yet.

Look like
a million dollars, baby.

have you workin' here
In no time.

soon as we can persuade
some man to take
Gwen off our hands.

I'll say.

hi, Rory.

what on earth's he doing?
don't you be pestering
my customers, honey.

you sure fiddle
some pretty tunes
on that thing.

don't you be
bothering that boy.

I about got
your mama's hair done.

come on. we're gonna
Look at some pretty pictures.
right here.

there you go.

poor thing.
probably can't even read.

what's it say, Rory?

It say how to make
a chicken casserole.

oh, yeah?

how does it say
you make a chicken casserole?

It say you...

take a can
of mushroom soup...

and you take your chicken
and you wash 'im.

-ain't he somethin'?
- oh, he's somethin', all right.

- now y'all don't be
eggin' him on.
- me?

Rory, am I eggin' you on?

I think you do.

I think you do
In the casserole.

I ain't read down
that far yet.

I'll make it
for my mama's supper tonight.

well, that's a good boy.

your Dolores
will love that.

Rory, this here's
my daughter, Gemma.

- I'm makin' a casserole.
- here's your mama's hair.

now take it straight home
and don't stop anywhere
along the way.

good-lookin' boy.

such a shame.

Looks mighty fit to me.

fit as a fiddle.

Is my last name Monroe?

why are you askin' that?

well, that's what
pop told me.

he said my daddy's name
was Monroe.

he don't know nothin'.

I don't know why he'd go
and tell you a thing like that.

well, that's what he said.

but I go by Dillard.

he's an old fool.

he still eat
with his face
down to the plate?

he used to
burn me up doing that.

well, I expect he does.
you do yourself sometimes.

you got any pictures
of my daddy?

no, no I don't.

well, I know he was
in the war.

I used to
cut out pictures--

when I was little
I used to cut out pictures
In the magazines...

of all the soldiers,
'cause I thought
they might be him.

I-I dreamt about him
for a real long time--

even after pop told me
he'd been killed over there.

that old buzzard
tell you that?

he said he died
fighting for our country.

he said if my daddy hadn't
have been over there,

we'd be speakin' russian
right now.

Alice Farley says they got
a different alphabet than us.

her daddy was in Vietnam too,
but... he come back.

how long was it after
grandma left pop that she died?

that old man still
track chicken shit
through the house?

oh, that used to
Irk me to no end.

well, uh,

she was down there...

stayin' at aunt lottie's, uh,

just a couple of months.

she just, uh,
took sick and died.

got a lot
of egg customers now--

every tuesday and friday.

big businessman, huh?

were you and my daddy
together a long spell...

before he got
called away to the war?

I don't remember.

It's, uh,
been a long time.

well,

pop says that
I got the Monroe forehead.

do I?

I reckon you do.
sure.

whew!

sure don't intend
to sit home tonight and fry.

hold it, janet.

you forgot your change.

I sure do like Frank.

yeah, he's a sweetheart,
all right.

mmm. mmm.

did you ever?

about 450,000 times.

what is she
fixin' to do?

I don't know,
but it looks like
he's fixing to let her.

Look!
mama, look!

I cut these out.
take a look.

Look. this one here
for ten cent off.

and this one is 50--
get on home now!

But it for Campbell soup.
What? Get on home.

they give you a mug--
If you send it in,
they give you a mug.

you better be asleep
by the time i get there.
you hear?

oh, I feel like dancin'.
you gonna ask him?

no, ma'am.
he's gonna ask me.

I'm so alone

you and I--
hey, cowboy, you got
somethin' to wet my whistle?

It feels like
a lifetime to me

...my heart again

oh, I've been
standing underneath

this dark old cloud

just waiting for
the sun to shine

waiting for
the sun to shine

my heart again

oh, I've been throwing
a lot of good love away

just waiting
for the sun to shine

waiting for the sun
to shine

my heart again

oh, I've been
throwing a lot

of good love away

just waiting
for the sun to shine

waiting for the sun to shine

my heart again

oh, I'm just waiting
for the sun to shine
waiting for the sun to shine

I'm just waiting
for the sun to shine

I know it will be some time

I'm just waiting
for the sun to shine

I've been
standing underneath

this dark old cloud

just waiting
for the sun to shine

waiting for
the sun to shine

I got me a sticker patch...

on the other side
of mine and Dolores's
trailer house.

and the other day,
I forgot.

about 18 go in my feet.

I have to...

sit down
and pull 'em out,

'cause my Dolores,

she be at work.

they still
be itchin' me.

you should rub
a little cornmeal
and lemon juice on it.

It'll take out the itch.

read me a story.

the one about them bears
eatin' their cereal.

I don't know that one.

It ain't in my bible
or I'd know it.

yeah, it is.

Aggie read me
that one every time.

what are you chewin' on?

that's a good way
for you to choke.

I know.

did you know
that Jesus Christ was
your Lord and savior?

didn't your mother
ever take you to church?

Is th-- is that where
they say them stories?

yeah, sometimes.

yeah, Aggie took me there
one time.

but I don't like it.

they make me draw pictures,

sit by myself.

you hear my fiddle?

yeah.

you play real good,
Rory.

do you remember my name?

Gemma.

can I have my button back?

all right.

don't go puttin' that thing
In your mouth. you might
swallow it or somethin'.

who taught you
to play that fiddle?

nobody teach me.

my Dolores,
she say I got me a ear.

'cause I play songs
right off the radio.

you mean you can just listen
to a song and then
just play it?

yep.

boy, I mean--

Rory, I thought
I told you not to put
that nasty thing in your mouth.

give it to me.
give it to me.

I'm gettin' rid
of this thing
once and for all.

- you're a bad boy.
- I know.

give it back to me!

come back!

now this here's the note.

I hired these boys
from odessa to run a survey.

now this is my note
for my second mortgage.

yep, it will be. the cash will
pay for the survey, and keep 'em
from foreclosin' on me.

now, right here is
the deed of trust.

well, here it is.

here it is.

that about taps me out, Aggie.

well, hon, you're gonna be
tappin' a whole lot more
before this is done.

come over here, button.

see these two lines right here?

you take the third parallel
of lot r-2...

over to the fourth boundary
of lot r-7 here.

draw a straight line
right between 'em.

whoo!

you ever been out
to west texas?
mm-mmm.

there ain't nothin'
as far as you can see,

but oil wells just pumpin'.

and we got us 18 at least.

at least.
sign that note
and you're on board, buddy.

shake my hand, Gemma.
shake the hand
of a rich man.

well, let's get
this show on the road.

I intend to have myself
out on a yacht
at this time next year.

hey, get on in there
and get your bath.

Frank and Aggie
are discussing business.

I figure we can get
something goin' on it
about the first of september.

maybe by then this mess
will be straightened out
with them camel jockeys.

who?
arabs, sugar.

oh, shoot.

I'm about to bust.

show me them maps
again, Aggie.

Juanelle, you just want
to buy midland?

whoo!

one more. beer-- a tall one.

you and me'll sit
in bubble baths all morning
if we want to.

- we will?
- yep.

and then we'll go shoppin'.

hey, you want to go
to Robert Powers?

Robert Powers modeling school.

I wish I had that chance.

I'd be in neiman's catalog
right now I'll bet.

don't tell me
you take a bath
with that thing too.

you tickle me to death
the way you read that thing.

I wanna go hear brother Mosley.
I hear he's preachin'
somewheres around here.

you take that stuff
pretty serious, don't you?

that's all right.

show me them maps here.

Aggie--

I never studied the bible
or nothin',

but I did go to sunday school
when I was little--

with mama.

and I started goin' again
after she died.

I went
for almost a year.

and I was saved and everything--
the whole shootin' match.

then this guy,

he started comin' to church.

I liked him a lot.

and, pretty soon,
we was sittin' together,
him and me,

and sometimes, during
the wednesday prayer meetings,

he'd bend toward me
and he'd give me a kiss.

nobody never noticed.

we was always in the back
over to one side.

my girlfriends, they'd all
sit in front, so nobody'd see
what was goin' on.

he put one arm around me...
In the dark,

and he'd slide his other hand
up my leg during the prayer.

and that just about
made me fall to pieces.

huh-uh. huh-uh.

shoot, I wasn't much
older than you.

I didn't know
what was going on.

was he my father?

hey, what are y'all
talkin' about in there?

nothin'.
girl talk.

here you go.

I know you told me
It ain't happened yet,

but you're gonna be
a woman soon.

you already
got the knockers.

you know, sometimes when
a man and a woman get together,

they make a baby
In the woman.

I know about that stuff.

how do you
know that stuff?

- Doreen Hadley told me.

that old busybody.

who does she think she is?

she just explained it to me
in case I was wondering
about any of it.

and were you...
wonderin'?

yes.

well, that's all right.

though Doreen
probably mixed in...

some church stuff
about marryin'--

It doesn't always
work out like that.

It's one thing to know
how to have babies.

and it's another
to know hownot to have 'em.

do you wish
you hadn't a done that
with my father?

not had me?

I ain't sorry for nothin'.

I was just wonderin'
If you was glad I came...

here.

get back
In this truck right now!

you just get on.
I'm not goin' anywhere with you!

-bitch. you're a whorin' bitch!

that sounds like Gwen.
don't you be gettin'
tangled up with that trash.

how'd you like me
to clang your bells
with my boot heel, boy?

you are one hard case, Juanelle.

that's your
Last observation.

honey, come on.

I told you not to be
teasing them boys.

what?
what?

what?

are you gonna tell me?
what?

you'd have died!
you'd have died!
I knew I should have been there.

I knew I should have
gone over there tonight.

just get on home.

talkin' to me, sayin',
you're fixin' to meet
the eighth wonder of the world.

good Lord.
good Lord.

Juanelle, you know
I don't like you spending
your evenings down there.

well, It's more than
you offer here.
we gotta unwind.

I done told you
how I feel about that.
Gwen and me do what we want.

-right, Gwen?
- right.

so anyway,
he gets me out there
In his truck,

and he says,
"hey, let's drive around."

then he starts tellin' me
what he wants me to do.

I mean, that's dangerous.

Juanelle, we're gonna make
a killing on this thing.

we're gonna be rich.
and I said, "well, honey,
if that's the eighth wonder,

then I'm dolly parton."

almost, honey,
except your hair ain't yellow.

and you must think constantly
on these commandments...

I am giving you today.

you must teach them
to your children.

talk about them
when you're at home
or out for a walk.

and at bedtime.
and first thing in the morning.

tie them on your finger.
wear them on your forehead.

paint them on the doorposts
of your house.

and then there were brought
unto him little children...

that he may lay his hands
on them and pray.
shh.

and the disciples rebuked them,

but Jesus said,

"suffer little children.

"forbid them not
to come unto me.

for such is
the kingdom of heaven."

I must tell you,

I did not sleep
last night for thinking...

of suffering little children.

how can they ever forgive us?

we, who stand by while
their innocence is plundered!

the holiness of children--

their hearts have not
been touched by evil.

and in their innocence,

they can turn the other cheek.

they will forgive you.

Jesus, keep me
near the cross

there a precious fountain

free to all,
a healing stream

flows from
calvary's mountain

In the cross
In the cross

be my glory ever

till my raptured soul
shall find

rest beyond the river

I'm gettin' me
a swimmin' pool,

and i'm fillin' it
with ice cubes.

I'm goin' to dallas,
and I'm gettin' me...

a charge-a-plate
at neiman's.

and then,
I'm goin' somewhere.

then we're
goin' somewhere, sugar.
all right, where we goin'?

- wherever you want to go.
- Hollywood?

H-hollywood?
You're cute.

They'd end up puttin' you
in the movies.

hey, probably.

burt reynolds or one
of them damn guys
would put me in the movies.

oh, heck.

why the heck not?

I make this cake real good.

I know.

I sure liked
the one you made
the other day.

well, that one was chocolate.
this one's applesauce.

I know.

- where are the kids?
- shh.

taking their nap.
I was up half the night
with them.

oh.

where'd you say we was today?

Mexico.

oops,
I just seen me mexican.

I saw Gwennie.
Rory, where does your mama
keep the flour?

- oops, seen me 'nother.
- another what?

another mexican.

he's just walking
around out there...

Like he don't know
where he's headed.

well, I told you.
we're in Mexico today.

gonna be seein' a lot
of mexicans over here.

now, shh. the kids.

I forgot.

I told my Dolores
that you and me...

be gettin' married
sometime.

I told her...

you know how to do
everything.

no, I don't.

yes, you do, Gemma.

well,
what your mama say to that?

she say it's fine by her.

she say I need me...

someone good like that.

I sure do like you, Gemma.

cut that out, Rory.

that ain't no way
for you to be talkin'.

have to be goin'
to work now.

okay. have a good day.

and I'll have
the applesauce cake ready
for you when you get back.

get off early?

new hours.

what's for supper?

uh, pork chops,
baked beans,
mashed potatoes...

and applesauce cake
for dessert.

all my favorites.

ain't the kids eatin'?

well, they're takin'
a siesta.

that's what they call
a nap in Mexico.

oh, I don't like naps.

well, everyone does it
In Mexico.

oh.

you sure are smart, Gemma.

oh, It ain't nothin'.

just what
I learnt in school.

I wish they told me that...

when I was at
that school place.

why do you think
they didn't tell me
about that?

siesta.

I bet I know that word...

next time you and me read.

I sure do like you,
Gemma.

I think we ought
to get married.

Rory--
oh, I know what
you're gonna say,

but I mean it.

I-- I want us...

to get married.

all right, Rory.
I'll take care of you.
I will.

you and me'll get married,
and I'll take care of you.

you let me get this cake
in the oven or we'll never
get done with this night.

I know.

well, it isn't the worst thing
that could happen.

couple of years down the line,
she'd get herself tangled up...

with one of them
good-for-nothin's
you hang out with.

I'd just as soon
have one of them than be
stuck with a dummy.

funny, to look at him,

you'd never guess there was
nothing goin' on upstairs.

well, they're just kids
for chrissake.

Let 'em alone.
It'll pass.

'sides, if they want
to play house, let 'em.
ain't nothin' wrong with that.

nothin' wrong with it?

there's nothin' wrong with it
except that he is a grown man,

and she is 13 years old.

don't you go gettin'
moral on me, honey.

you been at it ever since
the snakes crawled out
from under the tires.

ow. ow.

we about give you up.

-we was about to start.
- you like chicken-fried steak?

'course she does.
gimme a quarter.
I don't got one.

how is it, Gemma?

you know better'n to yell
across the restaurant like that.

Dolores, you can bring
Gemma's plate now.

she wants to hear a song.
what do you want to hear?

I don't care.

see, kiddo?

you cuddle up to 'em--
you bat your eyes,

you put on a little dab
of perfume and they'll
give you anything.

now, Juanelle--
well, you gimme
a quarter, didn't you?

yeah, but--
see?

sorry, dear.

how you doin', sugar?

- how is it, Gemma?
-get back in the kitchen, Rory!

scoot!
right now!

sure is one eager boy
you got yourself there.

pretty soon, he's gonna wanna
do more than just play house.

now, stop, Juanelle.
stop what?

stop talkin' that way.
that ain't no way be be talkin'.

she knows.

she knows all about it.

he must do something

that I didn't do--

oh, I feel like dancin'.
thank god, it's friday.

'course, I can't get Frankie
to go with me anymore.

you know I got to go back
to work, and I got to get up
at 5:30 in the mornin'.

never stopped
you when we met.

things is gonna
start movin' now...

as soon as Aggie
gets back from midland.

yeah, we just got
to be patient.

oh, I'd love to be there
in the flesh and see it.

i'd just take off
my clothes
and wallow in it.

when it comes
gushin' out of the ground,
get black as a field hand.

aw, shh--

huh, sugar, huh?
wouldn't you take off
your clothes with me...

and get naked
and wallow in it?

gimme another quarter.

I don't got another one.

I got to get out
of here then,

- go find Gwennie.
- um, are you gonna
be home?

well, long enough
to sponge off and change
my duds. why?

nothing.

see y'all.

you got somethin'
on your mind?

no.

I guess things'll
be hoppin' by Christmas.

I'll buy you
anything you want.

you were in the army,
weren't you?

yeah.

well, my daddy was too.
were you in Vietnam?

yeah.

when I first come here,

I figured you was my daddy.

you think that?

I wish I was,
but I ain't.

yeah.
did you know him?

no.

that boy's got
to change shirts twice a night,
the way he slings water.

oh, get that off.

oh, look at you.
oh!

and he knows

he always will

he came down
from the city

try and find
some peace of mind

what he found
was consternation

nestled
In between the pines

take me to
my piece of heaven

away from all
those city streets

where I can live
my life without you

livin' right here
near the creek

In the night time
he lights a fire

mixes himself up
his wild turkey

Rory, I don't think I feel
Like doing anything tonight.

come on.
come on, Gemma.

we'll go down to stagecoach.
watch 'em dancin'.

oh, all right.

Whee-hee!
Hyaahh!

whoo!

meet ya there over
at the stagecoach inn.

whoa!

we can pay
or go around back and watch.
okay.

Aggie's back!

she ain't here.

she's probably
over with Frank.

ring. ring.

hello?

Aggie's beauty shop.
can I help you?

shampoo and set?
wednesday at 5:00
will be fine.

Juanelle'll
take care of you.
thank you. bye-bye.

Here. Let me show you
how to do that.

well, I did have a good time.

It looked like it.

why don't you let me
give you a haircut?

they usually give me
some dubble bubble...

or a tootsie roll pop
when I'm done.

well, I will too then.

can I get my gum now?

you're my first haircut.

I didn't think
I could do it,
but I did.

I'd rather have
a tootsie roll pop...

If y'all got those,
but I don't care.

now, it ain't perfect,
but I think it'll be okay.

I know.

hear the music?

hey, I got an idea.
I'm gonna teach you how
to square dance.

I know how.

I did it last year.

yeah?
where is it you start from?
what do they call it?

home.
It's called "home."
home?

yeah. and you do this thing
called "honor your partner."
honor your partner.

you go like this.
go like this.

okay.
now, what position
are we in?

- Aggie's beauty shop.
- home. we're in home.

home.
okay. now, the main step
Is somethin' called a do-si-do.

and you go around
back to back... like this.

good!

okay. now--
Rory. Rory.

okay. the other thing
I want to teach you
Is somethin' called a--

It's somethin'
like a marmalade.
and you go--

got a lot to remember.
oh, It's easy. you'll see.

I'll do the callin'.
you just follow
what I do, okay?

go like this.
you go around.

okay. now.

okay. everybody stand
and dance right where you are.

and honor your partner
and the lady to your left.

okay.
everybody hold hands...

and keep goin'
till you get home.

okay.
now everybody do-si-do.

Rory?

Rory?

you play that thing
prettier than anything
I ever heard.

you and me could be
king and queen
of the harvest ball.

what?

what?

oh, honey.
oh, Juanelle.

yeah, you just shut up.
just shut up your mouth.

I'm sick and tired
of listenin' to you!

you let her bamboozle you
into payin' all that money.

you don't understand.
It's business.
oh, yeah?

what do you know
about business?

I'd quit her damn place,
but I can't now. I can't.

I mean,
where am I gonna go?

I-I'm gonna be there ti--

shit,
I ain't never gettin' out.
come on, baby.

It's just somethin'
you don't understand.

oh, where could it
have gone-- all that oil?

oh, god.

you stupid son of a bitch.

you said we was
gettin' out of here.

Juanelle, honey,
come on lay down.

you said
we was gettin' that big place
and that pool and convertible.

now we ain't
gettin' nothin'.

I don't know why I stayed
in this hole so long.

you ain't worth it--

any man I'd find
in the street would be
better than you!

- That right? Well, find him then!
- Don't think I haven't.

you think I haven't, Frankie?

"If anyone defiles and spoils
god's home, god will destroy them.

for god's home is holy and clean,
and you are that home."

now ain't this just what we need?

"a man who loves pleasure
becomes poor;

wine and luxury are not
the ways to riches."

brother, I reckon that says
it all.

no wonder I'm poor,
and I'm gonna be poor
till they bury me.

shoot, the way you tell it,
I can't never expect nothin'
out of life.

I love pleasure!

I love wine!

and I love draggin' me some
big ol' oily-smellin' guy...

Into the can down
at the stagecoach!

damn you!
stop it!
hold it! stop!

I ain't never
gonna be rich.

"woe to you who get up
early in the morning...

to go on long drinking bouts
that last till late at night."

I don't believe this.

I ain't never gonna
look any better than this.

five years from now...
"why then should we,

"mere humans as we are,
murmur and complain
when punished for our sins?

"let us examine
ourselves instead...

"and repent and turn
again to the Lord.

For--" stop! I ain't
takin' this!

you understand?
It's the Lord's word!

oh!
It's nothin'.

It's nothin'!

when are you gonna stop
this crap?

stop this tryin'
to lead people around!
oh, I ain't leadin'!

the hell you ain't!
you're just like him!

- you're just like the old man!
- I ain't leadin'.

-you ain't nothin' special.
-Juanelle, come on to bed, baby.

you ain't one to be tellin' me--
me how to live!

after death,
the judgment.

I'm sendin' you back.

Juanelle, come on, baby.
come on, now.

I should've sent you back
the mornin' you come here.

- you ain't been nothin'
but a pain.
- I ain't goin' back there!

you ain't stayin' here with me.
I can't afford you now.

I can't afford nothin'.
I want you outta here.

If my daddy was here,
you wouldn't be talkin'
like that.

Listen. you ain't
ever had a daddy.

alive or dead--
you understand
what I'm sayin'?

your daddy
could've been any one
of a half a dozen.

I don't remember much.
just that you come along...

right in the great big
middle of it,

and I was havin' a good time,
and I had to quit.

you are goin' back.

I ain't goin' back there.
I don't belong there.

you don't belong
anywhere, kiddo.

you're just like me.
you don't belong anywhere.

Gemma!

Gemma!

hey! watch where you're goin'!

mm.

I ain't playin'
with you, kiddo.

what time is it?

doesn't matter what time it is.
you're in big trouble.

It was them that was
doin' somethin', not me.

yeah, well, I expect
they wasn't readin' bible
verses to each other.

I killed her.

It was me that done it.

you didn't kill nobody.

Gwen might have a headache
for the next five years,
but she ain't dead.

but she starts talkin',
the cops'll be in here.

I don't care.
of course, you care.

of course, you care!

I got to get you out of here,
and I got to take
you somewheres.

I don't care.
I'll tell 'em what happened.

oh, you will, will ya?
you'll tell 'em you tried
to cut off his thing?

Aggie take me in there,
and I just about got sick.

her hangin' there
like shoddy plumbin',
and him layin' there bleedin'.

bleeding?
and my haircuttin' scissors
on the floor next to your bible.

baby, you're in big trouble.

Gemma! Gemma.
I got to hide you somewhere.

he tried to hurt himself
because he loves me.

Gemma. Gemma!

don't tell 'em nothin'!

was that him?

when you come home,
I'm gonna take care of you.

he's stabilized.
we're ready to roll.

people sometimes, they--

they think I don't
know somethin'...

and I really do.

what are you talking about?
Like now.

I know.

I know, Gemma.

what do you know, Rory?

people, sometimes,

they don't listen to me.

I know things.

I know things.

excuse me, miss.
we have to get goin'.

you get it done?

yeah.

you won't ever
even be able to tell
there was a hole there...

the way they got it patched.

and Aggie said
she's gonna hang...

a picture of some mountains
or somethin' over it, so--

then I can stand
at my chair all day...

and look over and see
some pretty scenery--

snow-capped mountains,
places--

Aggie's gonna carry me over
to see Rory...

Later on this weekend.

she's gonna tell 'em
I'm already 16.

they ain't never
lettin' him out of there.

well, Aggie says
they have to keep him in there
for a little while...

In case of infection
or somethin'.

It's time you faced up
to somethin', kiddo.

he ain't gettin' out.

and not 'cause he nicked
himself with some
dull ol' scissors either.

truth is,

he ought to have been
put somewhere a long time ago.

what do you mean,
like a hospital?

no, I mean,
someplace special.

If he stays
like he is now, he won't
be no account to anybody.

he would be to me.

yeah. sure.

till you passed him up in age,
and that wouldn't take too long.

I know, kiddo.

I'm sendin' you back
first thing in the mornin'.

I told you.
I can't live there anymore.

well, you can't
live here either.

well,
then I'll just leave.

I'll just get on a bus
and go somewhere.

you don't
have to worry about me.

you're gettin' on a bus, kiddo,
and you're goin' back
to twilight.

he'll take you.
I know he will.

no, he won't!
sure, he will.

I know
the two of you got on.

you had to.
I see his--

I see his expressions...
on your face.

his voice comes out
of your mouth.

shoot, he ain't so bad.

yeah? then why'd you leave?

oh, that was different.

that was different.

- he'll love you.
- and you won't?

that's not true. I--

you're my baby.

I can't keep ya here.
don't you understand that?

I tried,
and I couldn't pull it off.

now, I'm gettin'
you a bus ticket
in the mornin'.

I don't want
any bus ticket from you.

I got my own money.
I can get my own
bus ticket.

Gemma. baby.

don't be sayin' that to me!

you know,
I don't need you!

I never needed you!

makes me feel bad.
It makes me feel real bad now.

why don't you go in
and lie down now?

I just want to sit here.

I may just sit here forever.

say, you're up
mighty early this morning.

I, uh--

I was gonna
drop you a line.

I'm headin' out
to west Texas, I guess.

midland?
yeah.

yeah. I'm gonna see
what I can do about
sellin' that property.

and then
you're coming back?

yeah. I'm gonna go out visit
my pop for a couple of weeks.

and then, I guess
I'll be comin' back too.

well.

Gemma! wait!

wait, please!

Pop?

what you, uh,

gettin' for them eggs
nowadays?

same as store bought.

only yours are farm fresh.

well.

I guess I better be
gettin' back.

you ain't fixin'
to drive that thing
after dark, are ya?

It's all right.
I do it all the time.

worst time of the day
to be on them roads--
twilight.

make sure you turn on
your lights.

I will.

you take good care
of yourself, kiddo.

you take care
of yourself, mama.

what in tarnation
happened to your hair?

I curled it.
had it done every week.

oh!
well, I don't like it.

well, I do. It suits
the shape of my face.

I ought to tan your hide.
that's what I ought to do--

takin' all my money
like that.

I didn't take nothin'!
Liar. mm.

well, It was mine too!

besides, I still got
most of it.

goin' off,
having a high old time,

and come back here
expectin' me
to take you in.

you ain't changed a bit!

oh.

Pop?

how you doin', Gemma?
I brought Homer some tomatoes.

he likes them tomatoes
preacher Dixon made
in her garden this year.

ain't you gonna say,
"how do?"

Beecham!
I thought you were dead.

Yes, ma'am. I reckon I was.
You were dead.

I mean to tell you. I was savin'
my breath talking to the good Lord.

all that garbage--

but nobody told me.

Look.

It says here,

"twilight man in satisfactory
condition...

after being buried
for 15 hours."

that's me.

and somewhere in there,
it says something about
the search being called off.

or would've been
if it hadn't been
for the persistence of Homer.

got his name
in there somewhere.
you mean?

yes, ma'am.
I thought I was in heaven.

I looked up thinkin'
it was a angel.
It was Homer...

standin' right there--
right there in the big middle
of everything.

next thing I know,

I'm in an ambulance
goin' to the hospital.

I've been bringin' him stuff
out of preacher Dixon's garden
every couple of days.

I was gonna set a spell
with Homer.

Miss Dixon'll be stoppin'
round for me in a bit.

she's back over yonder
doin' some visitin'.

I found your hat.
thank you, Gemma.

Pop, Beecham brought
you over some tomatoes.

ugh.

well, I don't reckon
Homer's feelin' so good today.

I'll just wait
down by the road.
no!

you come on in.
I'm gonna fix you some coffee.
oh, well--

come on.

Pop, why don't you let me
fix you some coffee too?

that was real good.

you a fine cook.
thank you, Beecham.

you're welcome, Gemma.
think I'll go set a spell.

okay.

mama told me it was bad luck
if you cut corn bread
with a knife.

yes, ma'am. you got to break it.

I was thinking of taking
guitar lessons in the fall.

Miss Lawson is teaching
at her house after school.

well, what do you want
to do that for?

well, I'd just like to learn it.

besides, we have recitals
every spring, and you could
come see me.

did I tell you I didn't wear
these glasses when I was
in Fort Worth?

well,
how'd you see anything?

sometimes
I didn't.

one time when me
and mama and Frank...

went to the drive-in,

I sat through the whole picture,
and I didn't even know
Jamie Lee Curtis was in it.

who's that?
movie star.

oh.

did I tell you
about the traffic
they got down there?

every time
I look out the window
there's cars passin' by,

even after midnight.
no!

It's true!
all times of the night.

hmph.

this was grandma Cora's dress,
wasn't it?

she, uh,

wore it to the harvest ball,
didn't she?

how'd you know that?

mama had a picture of y'all.

Pop, do I look like grandma?

yes, ma'am. you do.

ain't nothin' missin' but a
one-way ticket to Dallas.

I can read to you
awhile if you want.

no, you can go ahead
and read your bible.

I reckon I don't care.

now you square yourself
with a smile on your face.

Everybody dance, right
in your place.

honor your partner
and the lady to your left.

All join hands.
Circle left.

circle left around the room.

and you swing yours
and leave mine alone.

everybody swing.
swing, two, three, four.

do-si-do and do-si-do.

there's a place
where my dreams

want to take me

don't mind my going alone

just as long
as you'll be there

to wake me

wake me and tell me
I'm home

It's a place where the heart

Is forgiving

no one there
casts the first stone

It's the place I imagine us

living

soon as I find
my way home

though the words
that you use

aren't the ones
I would choose

I can still understand

what you're trying to say

just to hear I been locked

In your own way

sounds like I'm

finally home

for a time we can stay here

together

Least till I'm out
on my own

yes, I know that it won't last

forever

still it'll always be home

though the words that you use

aren't the ones I would choose

I can still understand

what you're trying to say

just to hear I've been locked in

your own way

sounds like I'm finally home

for a time we can stay here

together

Least till I'm out on my own

yes, I know that it won't last

forever

still it will always

be home