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00:30We lost the soda fountain. We lost the horse.
00:32Good luck with your show and I, or whatever's left of it.
00:35Well, it's a moment of truth.
00:36I'm in.
00:37Me too.
00:38Still need a Mrs. Webb?
00:39I lost Miranda's college fund at a casino.
00:42It's our opening night.
00:44You and Richard...
00:44Okay, Kenny. Stop.
00:46You and Richard what?
00:47Do you mind telling me what is going on?
00:49God, you don't see. There's a very good chance you are Miranda's father.
01:04Maybe we cancel.
01:05I can't do that to the cast. I can't do that to me.
01:08What did we say to John?
01:09There's probably a way you can tell him.
01:12And say what?
01:13His wife got drunk and slept with his brother?
01:16No, I wouldn't say that. No, no, no.
01:17I'll tell him.
01:19How?
01:20Man to man.
01:21Men understand these things.
01:23No, they don't.
01:25No one understands these things.
01:27No one on the planet understands these things.
01:30Oh, maybe neither of us has to tell them.
01:33Maybe Miranda already has.
01:35Oh, God, do you think?
01:36Oh, there you are.
01:39We need to talk.
01:41Okay, okay.
01:42I don't know where to start.
01:45It would be better if Miranda were here.
01:47No, it might not be.
01:48Well, I just was hoping not to go through it twice.
01:51Well, that's understandable, yes.
01:52But these things can leave lasting scars.
01:56You think so?
01:58Oh, Jesus.
01:59I guess I was trying not to see it as, you know, such a betrayal.
02:03Oh, it's a massive betrayal.
02:05It is. It's big.
02:06I guess I was just trying not to look at it that way, you know?
02:09It's late.
02:10You've been drinking a lot.
02:12Drinking is no excuse.
02:14No, it's no excuse, and I accept that.
02:16But how many chances do you get in life to, you know, hit a home run?
02:21I just want to say that I never once thought of this as a home run.
02:25Oh, God, no.
02:26Just let me get this out.
02:27No, no, no. Let me go first.
02:28No, I'll go. I'll do it. I'll do it.
02:29No, he's my husband. Let me say it first.
02:31Wait, no. Say what?
02:32Did you tell her what happened?
02:34What? I didn't have to. She was there.
02:36Stop. You're confusing me.
02:37The night I spent with Boyle in Atlantic City, after I made the big meal, we went into the casino,
02:43we were playing craps, I was on a roll, I was up like $60,000.
02:48I thought I could solve all of our problems.
02:52And then it was gone. And then it was more than gone. I lost Miranda's college fund. You did what?
03:03Kristen, Kristen, we all make mistakes, don't we? I mean, we were just discussing that.
03:10Yes, yes. Richard is right. You're only human. And people make mistakes, and then people forgive them.
03:23It was a whole college fund. You heard that, right?
03:26Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. I got it. I got it. It's okay, really.
03:29Oh, my God. Honey, thank you. I started to think we weren't going to come back from this. You're amazing.
03:39She's amazing. How lucky am I?
03:43You are so lucky.
03:45Not a craps.
03:46Oh, hey, no. No, no, no.
03:52Now, I just, I need to talk to Miranda.
03:57How could they do that to my dad? It's just so selfish and disgusting and stupid.
04:02Yes, my dear. And I imagine they're feeling the same thing.
04:07What do you think I should do?
04:08It's not for me to say.
04:11But he's full of ideas.
04:14Should I ask him?
04:16Sure.
04:19William?
04:23What is that?
04:25Well, what did he say?
04:27He said, to thine own self be true, and then it must follow as the night the day, thou canst
04:36not then be false to any man.
04:42I just have to figure out how to do that.
04:51Hey, honey. Come here. I want you to see some.
04:55I've decided to add a little lemon zest to the pea and ham hock crustace.
05:01What do you think?
05:02It's gorgeous.
05:03Yeah?
05:04I mean, are you okay? This is a lot.
05:06Oh, no, no. This is all I got. We're doing potluck, you know, like the old days.
05:13Can I just say, I still cannot believe how amazing you were about everything that happened.
05:19I mean, I ain't been carrying around that shame for days. Days.
05:26We all make mistakes, right?
05:36I hope Miranda feels the same way.
05:39This is a big night for her.
05:40And, you know, you and Richard were right.
05:42This, she doesn't need any distractions.
05:44I can talk to her after this show.
05:46This might excite some of you.
05:49It doesn't excite me in the least.
05:54Uh, my agent just called me.
05:56The New York Times chief drama critic is coming.
05:59What?
05:59Are you here tonight?
06:00Oh, my God.
06:01Are you crazy?
06:02Sorry, I'm late, guys.
06:03I was just, I just, a lot of party prep.
06:09Where's Miranda?
06:10She's, uh, she needs some space.
06:13Space?
06:14Is she upset about something?
06:16That's it.
06:17Yes, I think that's it.
06:18Uh, that's, that's possibly correct.
06:20Yes, she's upset about something.
06:22Something which nobody, uh, in this company, uh, has any idea about.
06:27Uh, she'll be here sooner or later.
06:30And, um, on the off chance that she's not, uh, Jesus.
06:37Um.
06:38Hi.
06:39Oh, I'm sorry I'm late.
06:43Hey, sweetie.
06:44I was worried.
06:49What'd I miss?
06:50You okay?
06:52Oh, my God.
06:54Oh, my God.
06:57Oh, my God.
06:59Are you all right?
07:01You please talk to me.
07:02You know what, Mom?
07:04You know what, I'm gonna forget about what happened.
07:05I'm gonna forget it for the show so I can give Emily what she deserves.
07:08And the second it is over, I'll remember it all again.
07:12And I'll tell Dad the truth.
07:14I'll never speak to you, or Uncle Richard, again.
07:21Break a leg.
07:27Race for the wedding.
07:30Race for the wedding.
07:31Oh, my God.
07:33That's amazing.
07:34MFD, it's glory days.
07:36Yeah, sure is.
07:40Kristen?
07:41Huh?
07:42Kristen?
07:42mm-hmm you're in your old spot right here opening night having a meltdown
07:53miranda's gonna tell john everything after the show and she's never gonna talk to either of us
07:58ever again i have made such a shit show no no i i i did my bit it's not gonna
08:06get any better if
08:07the show's not good so let's uh cling to the work cling to the work places please oh all right
08:16you're gonna be great trust that oh my do you remember this
08:28our old hideaway i just want to take a look
08:34oh yeah i already had a walk out they hate me richard
08:40they're on your side you've always said that
08:48before we go can i just say what a pleasure it's been what a joy to be on stage with
08:57you again
08:57no just just watching you you were always the best of us
09:06not better than you best of us all
09:17here we go
09:36how's she doing dad well a little skittish she'll settle down
09:42how about you oh uh about the same
09:49happy to be here me too i'm happy to be anywhere
09:55richard your a piece should we do a quick check what a piece
10:09go along son
10:26this play
10:29is called our town it was written by thornton wilder
10:35the name of the town is grover's corners new hampshire just across the massachusetts line
10:43the date is may 7th 1901
10:47the time is just before dawn
10:51the sky is beginning to show some streaks of light
10:54over in the east behind our mountain
10:58the morning star gets wonderful bright
11:02just before it has to go doesn't it
11:06morning doc gives
11:08morning joe
11:10some people been sick
11:12no just some twins born over in polish town
11:15yeah right
11:15yeah
11:18here's howie newsome delivering the milk
11:21what's the matter with you today
11:25you know how it is you're 21 or 22 and you make some decisions and then whoosh you're 70
11:36you've been a lawyer for 50 years and that white haired lady at your side has had over 50
11:42thousand meals with you how do such things begin george and emily are going to show you now the conversation
11:51they had when they first knew that that as the saying goes they were meant for one another
12:00i want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young and particularly the days
12:08when you were first in love
12:13when you were like a person sleepwalking and you didn't quite see the street you were in and didn't quite
12:19hear everything that was said to you
12:24just a little bit crazy
12:28will you remember that please
12:31i always expected a man to be perfect and i think he should be
12:34well i don't think it's possible for anyone to be perfect emily
12:37well my father is and as far as i can see your father is there's no reason on earth why
12:42you shouldn't be two
12:43i think it's the other way around that men aren't naturally good but girls are
12:46well you should know right now that i'm not perfect
12:49it's not as easy for a girl to be perfect as a man because girls are more
12:54more nervous
12:57emily
12:57would you
13:01um
13:04like to get an ice cream soda or something before you go home
13:16richard
13:18christine
13:20it's your cue
13:28hello george
13:31hello emily
13:33what do you have
13:38why emily where
13:40what have you been crying about
13:51i don't know why on earth i should be crying
13:53but i suppose there's nothing to cry about
13:57it came over me this morning at breakfast there was emily eating her breakfast as she has for
14:0317 years and now she's going off to eat in someone else's house
14:08i suppose that's it and emily
14:12she suddenly said i can't eat another mouthful and she put her head down on the table and she cried
14:22oh i've got to say it you know there's something downright cruel about sending our girls into marriage like this
14:30i hope some of her girlfriends have told her a thing or two
14:32it's cruel i know but i couldn't bring myself to say anything
14:37i went into it blind as a bat myself
14:43the whole world's wrong
14:46that's what's the matter
14:47i've never felt so alone in my whole life why can't i stay for a while just as i am
14:52let's go away
14:52no no emily now stop and think a minute
14:57don't you remember you used to say to me all the time you used to say
15:01all the time that i was your girl
15:03there are lots of places we could go to i'll work for you i could keep house
15:08you mustn't think of such things
15:13do you george take this woman emily
15:17emily as your wedded wife i do do you emily take this man george to be your wedded husband i
15:26do
15:43i've married over 200 couples in my day do i believe in it i don't know
15:51em marries n millions of them the cottage the go-cart sunday afternoon drives in the ford
16:02the first rheumatism the grandchildren the second rheumatism the deathbed the reading of the will
16:13once in a thousand times it's interesting
16:30aren't they a lovely couple i'm sure they'll be very happy
16:35i always say happiness that's the great thing the important thing is to be happy
16:54why are you here i just wanted to say i thought the love scene was great thank you
17:00you know especially the part about no one being perfect
17:04because you're right you know people are flawed all of us i need you to leave
17:10i want you to leave promise we'll discuss this before you talk to your father which one
17:41this here is the new part of the cemetery
17:46here's your friend mrs gibbs and uh oh mr stimpson the organist at the congregational church
17:58hanged himself in his attic
18:02over there's mr crowell and mrs soames who enjoyed the wedding so you remember
18:10you know as well as i do that the dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long
18:16gradually gradually they get weaned away from earth that's the way i put it weaned away
18:24and they stay here while the earth part of them burns away burns out
18:32aren't they waiting for the eternal part in them to come out clear
18:41oh it's just started our undertaker come to supervise a new-made grave
18:49let me see now do i know you i'm sam craig great sakes alive
18:57i was in the east when i got news of my cousin's death very sad our journey today samuel
19:04i always say i hate to supervise when a young person is taken
19:09joe what did she die of oh didn't you know had trouble bringing a baby into the world
19:15it was her second though there's a little boy about four years old
19:20when we
19:21if you'll excuse me i see they're coming
19:25it gives us
19:28inward pain
19:32but we shall still be joined in heart and hope to meet the end
20:02hello hello emily hello mother gibbs emily
20:11it's raining
20:16mother gibbs one can go back one can go back there again into living
20:22i feel it i know it why just then for a moment i was thinking about
20:28about the farm and then for a minute i was there and my baby was on my lap as plain
20:33as day
20:33yes of course you can i can go back there and live those days over again why not some have
20:39tried but
20:40they soon come back here i won't live over a sad day i'll choose a happy one why should that
20:46be painful
20:47you not only live it
20:50you watch yourself living it
20:53and as you watch it you
20:56see the thing that they down there never know you see the future
21:02you know what's going to happen afterwards but it's something i must see for myself
21:09i'll choose a happy day i choose my 12th birthday
21:15oh good morning mother how'd it go charles oh fine i guess i uh told him a few things
21:25oh charles don't forget today is emily's birthday did you remember to get her something
21:30oh yes i've got something uh here where's my girl where's my birthday girl i can't bear it they're so
21:42young and beautiful why did they ever have to get old
21:49mama
21:52i'm here
21:55good morning mama
21:58well now dear a very happy birthday to you my girl and many happy returns there are some surprises
22:07waiting for you on the kitchen table mommy you shouldn't have
22:15i can't i can't now birthday or no birthday i want you to eat your breakfast good and slow i
22:22want you
22:22to grow up to be a good strong girl so you chew that bacon good and slow it'll keep you
22:28warm on a cold day
22:31mama just look at me for one minute as though you really saw me
22:37mama 14 years have gone by i'm dead
22:43you're a grandmother mama i married george gibbs
22:47well he's dead too we felt just terrible about it don't you remember but just for one moment now
22:53we're together
22:56mama just for one moment we're happy let's look at one another your father has a surprise for you too
23:02but i don't know what it is myself here he comes where's my girl where is my birthday girl
23:11i can't
23:15i can't go on it goes too fast
23:19we don't have time to look at one another
23:25i didn't realize
23:29so all that was going on and we never noticed
23:37take me back up the hill to my grave
23:43but first wait
23:46one more look
23:52goodbye world
23:55goodbye grover's corners and mama and papa
24:04goodbye to clocks ticking and mama's sunflowers and food and coffee and new iron dresses and hot baths
24:17and sleeping and waking up
24:23oh earth you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you
24:31do any human beings ever realize life while they live it
24:36every every minute
24:41the saints and poets maybe they do some
24:49i'm ready to go back
24:54i'm losing her it's okay she's okay
24:58it's the play were you happy
25:03mother gibbs i should have listened to you
25:08that's all human beings are just blind people
25:17mr stinson i should have listened to them
25:20yes now you know
25:23now you know that's what it was to be alive to move about in the cloud of ignorance
25:31to go up and down
25:33trampling on the feelings of those about you
25:37to spend and waste time as though you had a million years
25:44to be always at the mercy of one's self-centered passion or another
25:50now you know that's the happy existence you wanted to return to
25:56ignorance
25:57ignorance
25:59and blindness
26:00she's a little scary she's freaking amazing that's what she is
26:14mother gibbs
26:16yes emily
26:20they don't understand do they
26:25no dear
26:27they don't understand
26:39most everybody's asleep groves corners
26:42there are a few lights on
26:45shorty hawkins down at the depot has just watched the albany train go by
26:52over at the livery stable somebody's setting up late and talking
26:57yes
26:59it's clearing up
27:02and there are the stars
27:05doing their old old crisscross journeys in the sky
27:10scholars haven't settled the matter yet but they seem to think that
27:14there are no living beings up there just chalk or fire
27:24only this one
27:25is straining away straining away all the time to make something of itself
27:32strain so bad that every 16 hours everybody has to lie down and get a rest
27:44hmm
27:4511 o'clock
27:47in groves corners
27:50you all
27:52get a good rest too
27:55good night
28:35i'm gonna get a head start
28:36i know these people when they stop clapping they're gonna want a drink
29:00where's my dad
29:01where's my dad
29:03oh my boys
29:10thank you thank you
29:20my son my star
29:23have you seen miranda no
29:28tell your wife she stole the show i will i will
29:33did you find her no did you find him no
29:35can you get me a beer oh good show good show oh richard richard richard uh can you convince this
29:43young
29:43genius to sign with me think of it the two of you in my stable the three of us would
29:48be unstoppable the
29:49talented one of us are
29:50well apparently it's so nice to have you
29:55you're
29:55you're
30:01you're
30:06you're
30:07you're
30:08you're
30:09you're
30:09you're
30:10you're
30:11you're
30:11run don't walk to millisburg pennsylvania i have seen the resurrection of richard bean
30:16cheers cheers indeed well you're alive again what do you think of that that's fine i i i'm really
30:23looking for my uh niece dad sweetie oh my god oh my god you you were fabulous
30:38no you broke my heart i have never been so proud
30:48i'm proud too
30:51i'm proud to be your daughter
30:55dad listen listen to me sweetie i i need to tell you something and you you can be angry at
31:01me it's
31:01okay i just i need you to listen
31:13oh chris i think i think john must be in the kitchen did you find miranda
31:17i i had her in my clutches and then we got a rave in the new york times
31:22what yes there they are i've got the good stuff
31:25oh this is the times is raving
31:27yeah yeah yeah and he said that we should expect to sell a whole lot of tickets hey you may
31:33have
31:33just saved this town after all and i did not see that coming
31:36no because you're philistine
31:38nadia but i forgive you because you came tonight
31:41and i'm also mad enough to say it was fucking brilliant
31:45come on everybody read your notes
31:49for he's a jolly good fellow
31:52for he's a jolly good fellow
31:54for he's a jolly good fellow
31:59which nobody can't deny
32:03yeah what if she's already found him and told him
32:05it doesn't matter but we have to explain what happened
32:07we have to beg for forgiveness and just say it was a stupid mistake
32:10ah but something beautiful came out of it
32:15yes but let's not say that come on
32:19oh
32:22you are not going to say a fucking word to dad
32:25well we were just no no no no no because i tried and i couldn't
32:28it will break his heart and that wonderful sweet caring man
32:33should not have to pay for your stupidity
32:35so from now on we are one happy family
32:38understand okay how how how how how we're gonna act
32:42because we're all fucking actors here so act happy
32:47there they are my favorite people
32:53let's take a family photo all of us together
32:55hey dad dad come join us family photo
32:58i can take it
32:59this is a big day for the beans
33:02it certainly is
33:04i've been aware of it all along
33:07it's so fucking obvious
33:09what's that
33:10okay everybody get close
33:13miranda is richard's daughter
33:15what
33:16i'll see you in case
33:21oh
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