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Circle of Violence: A Family Drama (1986) is a CBS television movie starring Tuesday Weld and Geraldine Fitzgerald that explores elder abuse within a stressed family. It follows a divorced, financially struggling woman who moves her cantankerous mother in, but high-stress conditions lead her to physically abuse her mother, replicating a cycle of abuse from her childhood
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00:00:14Happy birthday, dear Charlotte, happy birthday to you.
00:00:27All right, try to find out.
00:00:30Come on.
00:00:31Gotta make a wish.
00:00:32Make a wish.
00:00:34Okay, blow out the candles.
00:00:36I don't know if I have enough wind.
00:00:38You help me, Addie.
00:00:38Come on, Addie.
00:00:39Come on, Addie.
00:00:39Come on, Addie.
00:00:42All right.
00:00:44Happy birthday, Mom.
00:00:46Happy birthday, Grandma.
00:00:48Happy birthday, Grandma.
00:00:50Now you've got to cut the cake.
00:00:52Oh, no, Georgie, now you do that.
00:00:53No, it's good luck.
00:00:54Addie, you do it.
00:00:55You cut the first piece, and then I'll do the rest.
00:00:58Why don't you sing that song, Grandma?
00:01:00Oh, I don't know.
00:01:02Yeah, we want to hear it.
00:01:03Come on, Grandma.
00:01:03Come on.
00:01:04Well, perhaps when you've all got your cake.
00:01:07We love it.
00:01:08You know, for not being a punk rock song, it's pretty happening.
00:01:11How did all that get started?
00:01:13Anyway, I love that song.
00:01:15Well, it was just Lou's favorite song.
00:01:18He used to say, as long as you remember that song, you're not older, you're just mellower.
00:01:24Mellower?
00:01:25Mellower.
00:01:26Oh, Lou always had such a way of putting things.
00:01:29Well, all right, I'll sing the song if my voice hasn't left me.
00:01:32Oh, it hasn't left you.
00:01:33I hear you singing over here all the time.
00:01:36What's that?
00:01:37Jim says he hears you singing over here when we're over there.
00:01:41Oh, my goodness.
00:01:42I hope not.
00:01:43Am I that loud?
00:01:44No.
00:01:51After the ball is over, after the break of dawn, after the dancers leaving, after the stars are gone,
00:02:11many a heart is aching, if you could read them all, many the hopes that have vanished after the ball.
00:02:34That was beautiful.
00:02:36All right, Carolyn.
00:02:41Mom?
00:02:43Mom, are you all right?
00:02:46What's the matter?
00:02:48It's just that I can still see Lou sitting there, smiling, proud as punch, mouthing the words.
00:02:59He couldn't sing a note to her.
00:03:02We all miss him, Mom.
00:03:03I'll get it.
00:03:08I'm all right now.
00:03:09I'm all right.
00:03:10Did everybody get some cake?
00:03:12Yes, everybody except you.
00:03:14Hi, Pete.
00:03:15It's your father.
00:03:19Mom?
00:03:20It's Dad.
00:03:23Who?
00:03:24Who is it?
00:03:26It's Pete, Mom.
00:03:27He wants to talk to you.
00:03:29Oh, well, I don't think I should talk to him, do you?
00:03:33He loves you, Mom.
00:03:35He just wants to wish you a happy birthday.
00:03:47Pete.
00:03:49Yes, well, that's very nice, Pete.
00:03:52But I'm sure I don't know what's going on.
00:03:55I don't know why you're not here with your wife and children where you belong.
00:04:01They're all here.
00:04:02I'm sure I don't know what you're doing.
00:04:05A new life.
00:04:06Yes, I've heard about this new life.
00:04:09A girl.
00:04:11Young enough to be your daughter.
00:04:12I'm sure I don't see the sense in that.
00:04:16What's that?
00:04:18Yes, you said that before.
00:04:20Well, Pete, I've got a lot of people here who are giving me a happy birthday.
00:04:24Do you have anything else to say?
00:04:27No.
00:04:28I should think not.
00:04:39Bye.
00:04:40Bye.
00:04:41Bye.
00:04:41Bye.
00:04:42Come again.
00:04:46I know.
00:04:47Bye.
00:04:48Bye.
00:04:49Bye.
00:04:50Bye.
00:04:50Good night.
00:04:54Georgia, talk to you a minute.
00:04:56Sure.
00:05:00I don't want to alarm you, and I don't think it's an emergency, but your mother hasn't stopped smoking.
00:05:06Oh, dear.
00:05:08There's her health to think about, of course, the effect on her lungs, but there's also the actual fire danger.
00:05:15She is getting a little confused and forgetful.
00:05:18Jim has already put out one small fire.
00:05:20In the house here?
00:05:21Well, he came over last Wednesday evening to fix her TV set, and he smelled something.
00:05:26Mm-hmm.
00:05:26And then he noticed a small fire smoldering in the carpet right in front of the sofa.
00:05:31I noticed a day she'd moved the sofa to cover it over.
00:05:33Oh.
00:05:34And I don't know if you've noticed any other cigarette burns around and about.
00:05:38That pink caftan that she wears has a couple right in the front.
00:05:42I'm glad you told me.
00:05:44Well, she sits in front of the TV and falls asleep, you know, or else she lights a cigarette and
00:05:50puts it down and forgets about it.
00:05:54Well, I'm gonna have to speak to her, but I'm gonna have to really read the right act to her,
00:05:58and I dread doing it because she doesn't take too kindly to, uh, criticism, you know?
00:06:04And please don't let her know that I told you.
00:06:07No, no, no.
00:06:08No, I won't do that.
00:06:10Thanks for keeping an eye on her, huh?
00:06:11Well, she's a dear, you know, and we're just so fond of her.
00:06:16Yeah.
00:06:17I always hoped somehow that she'd remarry.
00:06:22Well, she's never gotten over lose-going.
00:06:25Well, she has altered a good deal since he died.
00:06:29I know.
00:06:30Thanks for telling me.
00:06:31Bye.
00:06:43Oh, excuse me.
00:07:06Mary Ann, can I talk to you about some more money?
00:07:09A raise?
00:07:10A raise?
00:07:11You want a raise?
00:07:11Well, I know it's premature.
00:07:13I know I've only been here a month, but I've got to look ahead.
00:07:17How far you want to look ahead?
00:07:18Five years?
00:07:20Are you serious?
00:07:20So long it took me to broaden it as tight as a tick.
00:07:25Now you hurting?
00:07:26No.
00:07:27No.
00:07:28Not bad, but I can see it coming.
00:07:31How long since your husband's been gone?
00:07:34Uh, six weeks.
00:07:38Heaven knows he's not about to come across.
00:07:40She's getting it all.
00:07:43No.
00:07:44No.
00:07:45No.
00:07:45You know, he made a special point of calling me, and he told me he's going to continue
00:07:48to support me and the kids.
00:07:50And you haven't seen a nickel?
00:07:53No.
00:07:53I don't mind working.
00:07:55I, uh, I worked when Pete had a long bout with hepatitis.
00:08:02I just, uh, I can't begin to make what he earns.
00:08:05Divorce him.
00:08:07Oh, no, no.
00:08:09It's just too soon.
00:08:10I can't think about divorce.
00:08:12Divorce him.
00:08:13Go to court, get a settlement.
00:08:15It's the only way you're going to get it away from her.
00:08:17What you don't understand is you're not fighting him.
00:08:20You're fighting her.
00:08:21She's got him thinking he's 25 again.
00:08:24You think you can fight that?
00:08:27Hello?
00:08:29Go to court, get a divorce.
00:08:31I would.
00:08:33Yes.
00:08:34Uh-huh.
00:08:37Okay.
00:08:39Oh, darling.
00:08:41I didn't know who it could be.
00:08:43There have been several robberies in the neighborhood lately.
00:08:46In broad daylight.
00:08:48Surprise.
00:08:49Are you resting?
00:08:50No, I was just sitting there, but I suppose I dozed off.
00:08:53What a lovely party yesterday.
00:08:55Yes, it was lovely.
00:08:59Oh, I remember this picture.
00:09:01This is when we all went to Yosemite.
00:09:03Yes, your brother David was just getting over the flu.
00:09:06It was about a year after Lou and I were married.
00:09:08What is that, Mother?
00:09:10Looks like a cigarette butt to me.
00:09:11How did it get there?
00:09:13I suppose Jim McLean used the ashtray yesterday.
00:09:15Jim has stopped smoking, Mother.
00:09:17You're supposed to have stopped smoking.
00:09:19You know what Dr. Hellman said.
00:09:20David never called yesterday.
00:09:22Oh, Mom!
00:09:24David!
00:09:24David!
00:09:24The telephone did ring was that by the time I got to it, they'd hung up.
00:09:27My brother David hasn't called anyone in over ten years.
00:09:30We don't know whether he's alive or dead.
00:09:33Well, you'd think on my 67th birthday.
00:09:35Mom, he's gone.
00:09:36David is gone.
00:09:37It doesn't matter whether he's alive or dead.
00:09:39We've lost him.
00:09:41Now, where are they?
00:09:42Where are what?
00:09:44The cigarettes!
00:09:46I don't have any cigarettes.
00:09:48Mother, where have you been keeping them?
00:09:51I tell you that I don't have any cigarettes.
00:09:53I tell you I haven't got any.
00:09:55That is plain not true.
00:09:56You were smoking when I rang the bell.
00:09:59Oh, wait just a minute.
00:10:01You probably have them right.
00:10:02Why are you holding it like that?
00:10:05Mother!
00:10:06Mother!
00:10:07I knew it.
00:10:08I knew it.
00:10:08All right.
00:10:09Tell me where the rest of them are.
00:10:10I haven't got any cigarettes.
00:10:12I am going to tear this whole house apart.
00:10:14I haven't got any cigarettes.
00:10:16All right.
00:10:18What are you doing?
00:10:20How dare are they?
00:10:22What?
00:10:23How dare you do that?
00:10:25Well, there.
00:10:28What are you?
00:10:34All right, Mother.
00:10:35Who's bringing them to you?
00:10:37Where do you get them?
00:10:39Horst and Wiley, hmm?
00:10:41They're for my guests as well, you know.
00:10:43There are people who don't have a Dr. Hellman to boss them around.
00:10:47I am going to call Horst and Wiley and tell them never ever to bring you another cigarette.
00:10:52You can't afford a fancy custom grocer anyway.
00:10:55How am I supposed to get my food?
00:10:56Or am I supposed to stop eating too?
00:10:59I don't care what you do, just as long as you don't smoke.
00:11:07I don't care what you do.
00:11:29Go on.
00:11:32Hey, hey, hey, hey, chill out, it's a favorite group.
00:11:37No it isn't.
00:11:38Hey, let me see that.
00:11:39Give it back to me.
00:11:40What?
00:11:41Where's this?
00:11:42Hey, Chris, oh yeah, come on, come on.
00:11:43Hey, hey, hey, come on.
00:11:44Hey.
00:11:46Oh, your guitar.
00:11:48Oh, my God.
00:11:55Oh, my God.
00:11:56Oh, my God.
00:11:57Oh, my God.
00:12:00Oh, my God.
00:12:01Hi, Mom.
00:12:07What is going on here?
00:12:09What is this?
00:12:10Chris, is that marijuana I smell?
00:12:11What marijuana?
00:12:12All right.
00:12:13All right.
00:12:14All of you out.
00:12:15Any of you kids who don't live here, go along.
00:12:17I don't want to do anything.
00:12:18You boys want to come back after school.
00:12:21You have to talk to me first.
00:12:23Oh, you out.
00:12:24I can't believe you're doing this, Mom.
00:12:26You have no right.
00:12:27Oh, no right.
00:12:28No, you don't.
00:12:28You got no right.
00:12:29You boys go to your room.
00:12:51Mom, there's a scratch right on the front of my guitar.
00:12:54It's ruling.
00:12:55It's not ruling.
00:12:56We'll be able to cover it somehow.
00:12:57Just don't make more of it than it really is.
00:13:02What's the matter?
00:13:04Everybody, uh, seems to be asserting their rights today.
00:13:07And I...
00:13:08I wonder if I have any rights, that's all.
00:13:13Did you finish your practicing today?
00:13:15No, they were playing the music too loud.
00:13:18Well, could you do it now?
00:13:23Look, I just need to be alone for a few minutes, okay?
00:13:47Okay.
00:13:48I'll put some dark furniture polish on the guitar scratch ad.
00:13:52Nobody will notice it.
00:13:54Okay.
00:13:56Look, I know it's been rough on you guys since Dad left, but...
00:14:00It's been rough on me too, you know?
00:14:04I think maybe if we just tried to take it a little easier on each other for right now, it'd
00:14:08be better, okay?
00:14:10Okay.
00:14:10Okay.
00:14:13When is he coming home, Mom?
00:14:16I don't know.
00:14:21I know he loves you.
00:14:24You're gonna see him, aren't you?
00:14:26I guess so.
00:14:28We'll be okay, Mom.
00:14:30I know.
00:14:31I know it'll be all right.
00:14:32It'll be all right.
00:14:35Eat your food, please.
00:14:40Buy a box!
00:14:41I'm gonna do that in my putting all his food, girls and girls.
00:15:00Well, I'm not sure you guys need sex people is going to be better.
00:15:02Meanwhile, I'm actually thinking, I'll make thisiar Ryuan.
00:15:03I yell I don't need an ass.
00:15:27Who are you?
00:15:28Who are you?
00:15:29I'm John Duncan.
00:15:30You're Bill Parrish, right?
00:15:31Well, sir, now if you'll excuse me, Mr. John Dalton.
00:15:34Yes, sir.
00:15:35I'll try and remember now for me.
00:15:37I see some of you down there.
00:15:38Over there.
00:15:43Yes, John.
00:15:44I love you so much.
00:15:47I love you so much.
00:15:52Can I ask you something, John?
00:15:54Yes.
00:15:55Go ahead.
00:16:00Do I really what?
00:16:02Really.
00:16:07The Kulimadre father takes his young son into the jungle.
00:16:10On the passing of his 14th year, the boy is left deep in the jungle with only a small rifle
00:16:16to stop and kill the wild fish.
00:16:19If he is responsible, he returns over there.
00:16:45Hello, folks.
00:16:47and we're having our fabulous super sale.
00:16:50No money down, we do the financing.
00:16:52And today and tomorrow on it, we're having a super sale.
00:16:55Every car on the lot must go, every truck,
00:16:58and we're making incredible deals.
00:16:59Do cars, use cars, you want it, we got it,
00:17:01and we got it on sale at Bynast.
00:17:16Oh, oh, oh.
00:17:21Oh, oh, oh.
00:17:31Oh, oh.
00:17:34Oh, oh, oh.
00:17:48Oh, oh, oh.
00:17:53Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:18:23Well, here we are.
00:18:26Hi.
00:18:36Hi, Mom.
00:18:38Come on in.
00:18:39I want to show you your room.
00:18:40No, I want to see the room.
00:18:43Oh, going up to see the royal suite, huh?
00:18:47Chris, you and Addie start unloading the trail, will you?
00:18:49All right.
00:19:10Well, oh, how lovely.
00:19:13This is real nice.
00:19:15Look, you got your TV jack here.
00:19:17Nice view.
00:19:19It used to be Pete's study, wasn't it?
00:19:21Yeah, you know, once you get all your own things in here, you know, and maybe put up some pictures
00:19:26on the wall.
00:19:26Hey, hey, hey, this is real nice, it seems to me.
00:19:28Look, she's got her own baths.
00:19:30It's great.
00:19:30Flo, take a look at this.
00:19:31Oh, look at that.
00:19:33Lovely tiled shower.
00:19:37Well, what do you think, Mom?
00:19:42Well, it's lovely.
00:19:45It'll be just fine.
00:19:49The things I want.
00:19:51The things I want.
00:19:52Hey, Grandma.
00:19:53Where do you want this?
00:19:54Oh, no, Chris.
00:19:55No, no.
00:19:56Look at the way this boy is holding it.
00:19:57He already got in here, anyway.
00:19:58Waste of time.
00:19:59It's my crystal.
00:20:00It's my Waterford crystal.
00:20:01Well, I'm going to set it down someplace before I break my bow.
00:20:04It's your crystal.
00:20:04I couldn't see the sense of putting my beautiful crystal in storage with no one ever to see it or
00:20:08use it.
00:20:08I'm going to put it in the kitchen.
00:20:10Oh, please, won't somebody take the box from this boy before he breaks something?
00:20:14Calm down.
00:20:14Grandma, I'm just trying to help.
00:20:15Please put it in the kitchen for now and be careful, for goodness sake.
00:20:21I'd like to sit down for a minute.
00:20:23You all right?
00:20:25Here, honey.
00:20:25Here's a chair.
00:20:26Right here.
00:20:27Come on.
00:20:27Sit down.
00:20:29Come on.
00:20:30That's it.
00:20:31Okay.
00:20:32Now, here we go.
00:20:33Look, you tell us where to put your things as we bring them in, okay?
00:20:37All right.
00:20:37It's fine.
00:20:38I'd just like to sit here for a minute.
00:20:43I'll just sit here for a minute.
00:21:03Grandma?
00:21:05Grandma?
00:21:07Hi.
00:21:09I didn't hear you come in.
00:21:14Grandma?
00:21:17Do you hate Chris?
00:21:20Hmm?
00:21:22Sweet girl.
00:21:23What did you say?
00:21:25I feel bad that you don't like Chris.
00:21:29Oh, well, don't feel bad because I do like Chris.
00:21:35It's just that, well, I always used to say about my own David that if he'd been born a girl,
00:21:43there wouldn't have been any problems.
00:21:46It's just that boys are harder.
00:21:50Was Uncle David a lot like Chris?
00:21:53Yes.
00:21:54Yes.
00:21:55Oh, yes.
00:21:56Mind of his own.
00:22:00Someday, we'll hear from him, and then we'll find out that he's a huge success.
00:22:07I know it.
00:22:09I'm sure.
00:22:12Why don't you pay me something?
00:22:14What have you learned lately?
00:22:16Well, Bach, but that's too hard.
00:22:19Let me see.
00:22:27How about...
00:22:29Oh, shine on, shine on, harvest moon.
00:22:36Up in the sky.
00:22:37Up in the sky.
00:22:39I ain't had no lovin' since you...
00:22:44January, February, June or July.
00:22:48Snow time.
00:22:50Ain't no time to stay.
00:22:53Outdoors and Spoon.
00:22:55Outdoors and Spoon.
00:22:56So shine on, shine on, harvest moon.
00:23:01For me and my cow.
00:23:14Our child has a strong man.
00:23:14You've got a strong man.
00:23:14We don't get a strong man!
00:23:22Our child has a strong man.
00:23:22And we've got to get a strong man.
00:23:33나오나 and a strong man!
00:23:34In the future.
00:23:34We've got to be on fire.
00:23:36Outdoors and the next day.
00:23:36And we got to get a strong man.
00:23:39Like there.
00:23:43To be at a strong man!
00:23:45what time is it it's after 12 are you all right what are we doing downstairs
00:23:50I must have dozed off come on I'll take you back to bed
00:24:10do you have to go to the bathroom thank you I don't remember coming downstairs at all
00:24:22but this isn't my bathroom oh oh oh of course I turned the wrong way didn't I yes are you
00:24:32okay
00:24:33yes I'm fine fine I'm sorry I'm sorry for waking you up go to your room dear now good night
00:25:12morning good morning want some coffee that's all I know the house is yours you can watch TV you can
00:25:18play the stereo you can even you go outside in the yard no do anything you want don't worry I'll
00:25:24be
00:25:24fine okay the kids will be home between 3 and 3 30. Chris is usually late but you know you
00:25:32don't
00:25:32have to watch them just kind of be aware of them now Chris brings home any friends and you don't
00:25:38want them here you just tell them to go home because this is not a hangout but one thing is
00:25:42absolutely sure don't let him go outside unless he's finished his homework and he's usually pretty
00:25:47good at but don't worry about my uncle eyes the phone like someone else I used to know I gotta
00:25:52go I'm gonna
00:25:52be late don't worry about dinner I'll do it when I get home
00:26:36more than any bad you know
00:26:39Gloria you're only 18 how many boys have you know how can you make that kind of judgment you have
00:26:47to say boys don't you
00:27:16so
00:27:20so
00:27:28Let's go.
00:27:55Hello.
00:27:57Hello.
00:27:59I'm Charlotte Castery.
00:28:01I'm Georgia Banfield's mother.
00:28:03I'm afraid we've only lived here a month.
00:28:05I don't know anybody in the neighborhood yet.
00:28:08I'm sorry.
00:28:09I can't hear you.
00:28:10Yes, it's been nice meeting you.
00:28:18That awful noise.
00:28:19Why are they coming so low?
00:28:31Let's go.
00:28:44It's just the police, Mom.
00:28:46They have helicopters out here too, you know.
00:28:48I know it's the police, but what on earth were they doing?
00:28:51Are they supposed to scare everybody to death?
00:28:54Well, I don't know.
00:28:55It's probably the silent alarm in the house across the street goes off every now and then.
00:29:00Silent alarm?
00:29:00What's that?
00:29:02What are you doing?
00:29:04What are you doing?
00:29:05You're not going to salt the water now, are you?
00:29:07Yes, of course I am.
00:29:08Oh, no.
00:29:09You don't salt the water till it boils.
00:29:11Otherwise, otherwise it won't dissolve.
00:29:13Okay.
00:29:14I didn't know that.
00:29:16Other than the helicopter, how was your day?
00:29:19Well, your next door neighbor isn't very friendly.
00:29:23Oh.
00:29:24Oh, you mean the one on the garage side.
00:29:26They just moved in.
00:29:27I don't know them at all.
00:29:29I guess neighbors just don't get to know each other the way they used to.
00:29:33Here, you don't have to do that.
00:29:35It's all right, Mom.
00:29:36Well, but there's no point in washing them if you're just going to peel them anyway.
00:29:40I'm not going to peel them.
00:29:42All the nutrients are right here in the skin.
00:29:46Is that funny?
00:29:48No.
00:29:48No.
00:29:49No, I suppose not.
00:29:50It's just that I never cooked a carrot with its skin on in my life.
00:29:54And I don't believe that you or David ever lacked nutrition.
00:29:58How do you know?
00:30:00Well, you look perfectly healthy to me.
00:30:02Kids didn't eat the processed foods they do now.
00:30:05We weren't as starved for decent nutrition.
00:30:08I see.
00:30:09And for your information, neither Chris nor Addie has had as much as a cold in over a year now.
00:30:15Well, I'm not going to argue it with you.
00:30:17But I'd like mine peeled if you'd be so kind.
00:30:22This is your carrot.
00:30:24If you'll notice, I peeled it.
00:30:25The water is boiling.
00:30:26Can I put the salt in now?
00:30:32Aren't you going to slice them?
00:30:33They're small carrots, Mother.
00:30:35They'll be at least 40 minutes unsliced.
00:30:37If you want to cook this dinner, then do it.
00:30:39But stop telling me what to do.
00:30:41My, how too touchy.
00:30:45Come on, Addie.
00:30:46Tell me about your day.
00:30:48No, not Addie.
00:30:50Addie helps me.
00:30:53I see.
00:30:54Well, the inference is clear enough.
00:31:01I don't see how you can possibly get any work done with the television made so loud.
00:31:14Is she kidding?
00:31:15Have you heard how loud she plays for a television?
00:31:17She has a problem hearing.
00:31:18A lot of other problems, too, if you ask me.
00:31:20I said, go and drop it!
00:31:24What did I do?
00:31:32I said, go and drop it!
00:31:32Georgia, Georgia!
00:31:34Georgia!
00:31:37Georgia, don't worry about dinner tonight.
00:31:39I'll take care of everything.
00:31:41Oh, thanks.
00:31:42That'd be, uh, that'd be great.
00:31:44Nothing too fancy, though.
00:31:45The kids aren't too far out of the hot dog and hamburger stage.
00:31:49Have a nice day!
00:31:58Horst and Wiley, this is Charlotte Kessling.
00:32:03Well, I-I used to be a customer for many years at your Hancock store.
00:32:09Yes, yes.
00:32:10Well, I'm out in Woodland Hills now.
00:32:13Do you-do you deliver out here?
00:32:14Oh, that's good.
00:32:17The address is 84841 Laplante Street.
00:32:23Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:32:55Oh, man, you gotta see this new poster.
00:32:58Oh, no.
00:32:59What is this?
00:33:00Ow!
00:33:01Buddy!
00:33:02It's okay, it's okay, you can't.
00:33:35How you doing?
00:33:36I'm a friend of Chris.
00:33:47Okay, so, maybe I'll see you Friday night.
00:33:50Chris!
00:33:52Oh, right.
00:33:53All right, later.
00:33:55Hey, Grandma.
00:33:56I didn't know you were home.
00:33:57I was taking a nap before starting dinner.
00:34:00Christopher, who's that boy in there?
00:34:02Oh, that's smart.
00:34:04I don't like that boy, Christopher.
00:34:06Oh, it's okay.
00:34:06What'd you say?
00:34:08I can't hear.
00:34:09Why don't you turn that dreadful music down?
00:34:14We're going out any minute.
00:34:16Well, I don't like the way he looked at me.
00:34:18And heaven knows what he's got on his mind.
00:34:20Do they let him go to school looking like that?
00:34:23Sure.
00:34:23He gets all A's in peace.
00:34:25Grandma, what are you making for dinner?
00:34:26Are you going out?
00:34:27Have you done all your homework?
00:34:28Yeah, I did it in the study hall.
00:34:32It's okay, Grandma.
00:34:34He's gone.
00:34:34Bye.
00:34:36Hey, let's go.
00:34:38All right, now let's hit the road.
00:34:40Hey, what are we waiting for?
00:34:42Stand, stand, stand.
00:34:47All right.
00:34:51Yeah.
00:34:57Sure smells good.
00:34:59What are we having?
00:35:00Grandma made some chocolate cake and I had a piece.
00:35:02Yeah, I bet you did.
00:35:04Duck with orange sauce, potato and chestnut puree with truffle gravy, candied carrots, green salad and double chocolate cake for
00:35:12dessert.
00:35:13Duck, truffle gravy, where did you get this stuff?
00:35:17Horst and Wiley.
00:35:18Horst and Wiley.
00:35:19Horst and Wiley delivered all the way out here?
00:35:20Yes.
00:35:21Fortunately, they have a store out this way.
00:35:23Oh, I can't afford Horst and Wiley.
00:35:25Why didn't you just send Chris to the market on his bicycle?
00:35:27Now, you don't have to worry, because I paid for it.
00:35:30Well, you can't afford it either, even less so.
00:35:33Now, let me, let me be the judge of that.
00:35:35I wanted to make a nice dinner.
00:35:37A nice dinner.
00:35:38Meatloaf would have been fine.
00:35:40How much was this anyway?
00:35:42Meatloaf?
00:35:43Ugh.
00:35:43Will you just keep your tongue in your head for a minute, Grandma?
00:35:46And I are talking.
00:35:48Could we just eat?
00:35:50Um, it looks good to me, Grandma.
00:35:53Well, I tried to fix something that everybody would like.
00:35:56How much was this?
00:35:57I want to know.
00:35:57Um, Georgia, I don't know why you're concerned with what things cost,
00:36:02because it's not as if you were...
00:36:03But obviously you are not concerned.
00:36:07Well, help yourselves, Georgia, now.
00:36:10I, I, I think you'll like the candied carrots.
00:36:18Hungarian paprika,
00:36:21niçoise olives,
00:36:23balsamic vinegar, what is this for?
00:36:25There are things I'll need if I'm going to be preparing the meals.
00:36:28And where is the pâté de foie gras?
00:36:31In the refrigerator.
00:36:33Oh, Mother!
00:36:35How much was this?
00:36:44$283.
00:36:45Mother, are you crazy?
00:36:47It's my money.
00:36:48I guess I can spend it on the pleasure and comfort of my own family.
00:36:52What money?
00:36:53You don't have any money.
00:36:54I do.
00:36:55The insurance from the house.
00:36:56$6,000.
00:36:57That is all you had left after borrowing so much against it.
00:37:01$6,000.
00:37:02Do you know how long that's going to last?
00:37:04You're healthy, you're robust, you're going to live a long time.
00:37:07Oh, well, I'm sorry about that.
00:37:09Maybe I can arrange to die at $5,999.
00:37:14All right, all right, forget it, forget it.
00:37:16I will take care of the meals myself from now on.
00:37:19Fine, fine.
00:37:20Send the things back, return them.
00:37:22I won't try to help anymore.
00:37:27Mom, why were you yelling at her?
00:37:28I mean, Grandma and I had such a good time fixing this for everybody.
00:37:32I'm glad you had such a good time for $300.
00:37:36I should hope so.
00:37:37She was just trying to help.
00:37:39She was doing what she always does, making a big production
00:37:42so she could be the center of attention,
00:37:44spending a pot full of money she can't afford,
00:37:47and then leaving the mess for me to clean up.
00:37:50Why are you being so mean to her?
00:37:51You are talking about something you don't know anything about.
00:37:54She has always been irresponsible.
00:37:57People have made allowances for her all her life
00:38:00because she was pretty, because she was killed,
00:38:03because she could sing a little bit.
00:38:05Well, her life is different now.
00:38:07Lou is not here to baby her anymore.
00:38:09Mom, Mom, Mom, would you call it?
00:38:10She can hear you.
00:38:12You don't know what your grandmother is like.
00:38:14You think she's an angel.
00:38:16Well, she's not.
00:38:17She is a manipulative, demanding, terrible lady.
00:38:23Why do you suppose your Uncle David
00:38:26has cut himself off completely, huh?
00:38:30Mother?
00:38:32Chris, will you just go see what she's doing?
00:38:46Well, now that she's made this big banquet,
00:38:52I suppose we ought to eat it.
00:38:54Mom!
00:38:55Mom, she's running away.
00:38:57Grandma's leaving in the rain.
00:38:59Where is she?
00:39:00She went out the back door with the bag.
00:39:02Which way did she go?
00:39:03Uh, towards Woodman.
00:39:04Oh.
00:39:05Mom, should we go with you?
00:39:07No, you stay here.
00:39:53Mom!
00:39:55Mom!
00:39:57Stop!
00:39:59Don't be silly.
00:40:01Listen, I'm sorry I blew up with you. It's dangerous out here.
00:40:05Come on, let's go back to the house.
00:40:07I wanted to talk to you about it. This is silly.
00:40:10I may be silly, but I'm not silly enough to say what I'm not wanting.
00:40:14Come on, let's go back to the house. I don't want to.
00:40:17I don't want to. Let's go. Let's go.
00:40:21Stop it.
00:40:24All right.
00:40:27No, no. Come on. Come on. Come on.
00:40:34No, let's go. No. No, I don't want to. No.
00:40:41No, no. No. No. No. No.
00:40:47No. No.
00:40:54No, I don't want to. Come on. No, no. No, no.
00:41:01You all right?
00:41:04Are you all right?
00:41:05All right.
00:41:06All right.
00:41:07All right.
00:41:08All right.
00:41:09All right.
00:41:12All right.оне
00:41:23Dad!
00:41:25Hey, sports news!
00:41:27Father fakes out on the driveway and scores!
00:41:29Oh, how are you? You're getting big.
00:41:32Now, where's your sister?
00:41:33I'm here. I'll be right now.
00:41:36Where's your mom?
00:41:36She took grandma to the senior center.
00:41:38Oh, I thought maybe I'd get a chance to see her.
00:41:41Hi, Dad! Hey, hi, sweetheart.
00:41:43Oh, you look good. You smell good.
00:41:46Kiss good. Let's go see basketball, huh?
00:41:48Hey, Dad, you know that I heard that Kareem might not be able to play.
00:41:50Well, that's a good thing I brought my uniform, huh?
00:41:52All right, go, Lakers, go!
00:41:54All right, go! Lakers, go!
00:41:59When the saints go marching in
00:42:07And when the saints go marching in
00:42:14And when the saints go marching in
00:42:22Lord, I want to be in that number
00:42:30When the saints go marching in
00:42:39Oh, goodbye. Hope to see you soon.
00:42:45I thought you would have enjoyed it
00:42:47If she sang with Tommy Dorsey.
00:42:49Enjoy it?
00:42:50Well, that woman has no voice left at all.
00:42:53Why, let's just stay home where she belongs.
00:42:55If ever I start to sound like this
00:42:57I hope you'll take my mouth shut.
00:42:59Everybody else seemed to enjoy it.
00:43:01Oh, why wouldn't they? They're senile, most of them.
00:43:03They'd enjoy just about anything.
00:43:04You could put a dog in a wig up there.
00:43:07You know, they have movies on Tuesday night.
00:43:10Georgia, I'm not going back to that place.
00:43:12Most of those people are just poor old souls
00:43:14Who've got nobody and nothing to do.
00:43:16They don't have a family to occupy their time.
00:43:18That's not true. That's not true.
00:43:19I talked to a gentleman who lives with his family and his son.
00:43:22Well, I'd like to have some of my friends over.
00:43:24That's what I'd like.
00:43:25I'd like to see Jim and Florence McLean.
00:43:27It sounds good to me.
00:43:29Just tell me when you want to do it.
00:44:05Mom, guess what?
00:44:06What, did you have a good time?
00:44:08Yeah, the Lakers won.
00:44:09Mom, Dad wants to come home again.
00:44:11He wants to come home again?
00:44:12To stay?
00:44:12What about his girlfriend?
00:44:13He didn't say anything about her.
00:44:16Come off with me.
00:44:18If he wants to come home, he can talk to me.
00:44:20He has a tongue in his head.
00:44:21Do you want me to tell him to call you?
00:44:23I don't care what you do.
00:44:24Howdy, telephone.
00:44:26It's Jennifer.
00:44:28Don't stay on the phone all day.
00:44:30There are other people living in this house, you know, Addie.
00:44:32Okay, Mom.
00:44:37Mom, what's the matter with you?
00:44:38Ever since Grandma came, you've been really grouchy.
00:44:40Just who in the hell do you think you're talking to?
00:44:42I'm talking to you.
00:44:43Just who the hell does it look like I'm talking to?
00:44:45How would you like to slap across your face, young man?
00:44:49Give me a break.
00:45:04I love you.
00:45:05Stop it.
00:45:06Stop it.
00:45:06Stop it.
00:45:07Stop.
00:45:08Stop.
00:45:11Stop.
00:45:15Be quiet.
00:45:17Quiet.
00:45:18Ah, you can't be quiet.
00:45:30It's all right, honey. Go back to bed.
00:45:33What's wrong?
00:45:34Grandma fell in the bathroom, but she's okay.
00:45:37Was that her crying?
00:45:39Yes, she just, you know, she bumped her head.
00:45:42Maybe I should go to bed.
00:45:43No, I said go back to bed.
00:46:03My compliments to one and all.
00:46:20Charlotte, let's go take a look at your room.
00:46:22I haven't seen it since you moved in.
00:46:24That's a good idea.
00:46:25You know, I'm going to help the kids with the dishes.
00:46:27I'll help.
00:46:28No, no, that's not a lot.
00:46:29I'm going to bring some more coffee in a while.
00:46:40Oh.
00:46:42All right.
00:46:43Well, this is more like it.
00:46:47You got all your own things around, honey.
00:46:50It's just like home now.
00:46:54Well, it's pleasant enough in a way, I suppose.
00:46:58Oh, I think it's just lovely the way you fixed it up.
00:47:01I know they try to do for me, but it's not the same as having your own home.
00:47:06Oh, of course it is.
00:47:08There's no sense dwelling on that, is there?
00:47:21I want you to take me home with you tonight.
00:47:24What?
00:47:25You've got to get me out of here.
00:47:26I can't stay here.
00:47:27Honey, what's the matter?
00:47:29I'm not treated well here.
00:47:30Look, Charlotte, it seems to me that you're right where you should be.
00:47:33They beat me.
00:47:34Charlotte, what are you saying?
00:47:36They beat me here.
00:47:37Who beats you?
00:47:39What?
00:47:39You said someone's beating you.
00:47:41Who is it, honey?
00:47:42They're beating me.
00:47:43Someone's beating you.
00:47:44Who's beating you?
00:47:46You mustn't say a word.
00:47:48You mustn't tell anyone.
00:47:49No.
00:47:49Is it Chris?
00:47:50Look, he may be rough when he handles you, but he's just a strong kid.
00:47:57It's Georgia.
00:47:58She's turned against me.
00:48:01Georgia.
00:48:03She's not the little girl I raised.
00:48:06She hates me.
00:48:08Oh, Charlotte, honey, I'm sure you're mistaken.
00:48:10Look, look, I know it was a wrench being taken from your own home like that.
00:48:14I know it's got to be a tough adjustment, but if there's one thing in the world I know, it's
00:48:18that your daughter loves you.
00:48:20No.
00:48:21She hates me.
00:48:23Look.
00:48:24Look.
00:48:24Look.
00:48:26Look.
00:48:41Good night.
00:48:42Thank you very much.
00:48:44Good night.
00:48:44Good to see you.
00:48:46Good night.
00:48:52Well, um, I...
00:49:17Good night.
00:49:20Good night.
00:49:22Good night.
00:49:43It's all right.
00:49:45Mother, I'm going to bed. I just turned on the TV.
00:49:48You can turn it off if you want. I'm just going to put out the light.
00:49:51Mother.
00:49:54Jim McLean called.
00:49:58Yes.
00:49:59They had a nice time, I think.
00:50:01You told Jim in Florence I've been abusing you.
00:50:05Beating you.
00:50:07Why would I say a thing like that?
00:50:09Are you saying you didn't tell him that?
00:50:13Well, um...
00:50:15I had to tell someone.
00:50:17I'm alone here.
00:50:18Mother, for goodness sake.
00:50:20Why? Why did you tell him that? It's not true.
00:50:23They know it's true.
00:50:24I showed them the bruises.
00:50:26You mean the bruises from when you fell in the bathroom?
00:50:29From when you pushed me in the bathroom, you mean?
00:50:31You were wandering again.
00:50:33You resisted me.
00:50:35Don't touch me.
00:50:36It's a lie, Mother.
00:50:37It's a lie, Mother. An evil, deliberate lie.
00:50:41How could you say such a thing about me?
00:50:44Your own daughter. How could you?
00:51:03Hi, Georgia.
00:51:05You want a hot dog?
00:51:07No, thanks.
00:51:09Looking good.
00:51:13You, uh...
00:51:15You all right?
00:51:18I'm kind of tired.
00:51:21How's it going with Charlotte?
00:51:25Well, it's part of the problem.
00:51:28I'm sorry you hear that.
00:51:34The kids tell me you want to come home.
00:51:36Well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about.
00:51:39I really miss you guys.
00:51:45What's happening with your girlfriend?
00:51:47Well, that's not really working out.
00:51:50I'm seeing this therapist now.
00:51:52A woman.
00:51:54And I'm starting to discover things.
00:51:56You know, about things.
00:51:58Are you with your girlfriend or you're not with your girlfriend?
00:52:01More or less.
00:52:02What does that mean, more or less?
00:52:05Well, she's seeing this guy.
00:52:07You know, that she has been all along.
00:52:09An old boyfriend.
00:52:10She says it's a very neurotic relationship,
00:52:12but that she still loves me.
00:52:15And this is why you want to come home?
00:52:20More or less.
00:52:23That was just some sort of craziness that came over.
00:52:26That's all right.
00:52:29Now, what's the problem?
00:52:32I've got enough problems in my life
00:52:34without worrying when some kind of craziness
00:52:36is going to come over you again
00:52:38and you leave your family to rot
00:52:40while you go off with some other bimbo half your age.
00:52:46No, thank you.
00:52:49Come on, Georgia.
00:52:50No!
00:53:21Is he coming home?
00:53:22Is he coming home?
00:53:24No.
00:53:27Why not?
00:53:44Addie and I figured it out.
00:53:46If Dad came back, we wouldn't have the money problems
00:53:49and you could quit your job and stay home with Grandma.
00:53:53Is he still together with her?
00:53:58More or less.
00:54:06Mom, Grandma is really getting on my nerves.
00:54:11She's always complaining about my music.
00:54:13She's always yelling at me about my friends.
00:54:14She thinks that Mark wants to attack her.
00:54:22She's been acting really strange lately.
00:54:24I mean, she locks herself in a room.
00:54:26She calls the police because of the helicopters.
00:54:29She thinks they're spying on her.
00:54:30I know, I know.
00:54:32It'd be really better if you were here with her full time.
00:54:35Addie, maybe I don't want to be here full time with Grandma.
00:54:40Why not?
00:54:40Don't you love her?
00:54:42Yes.
00:54:43Yes, I love her.
00:54:44I love your grandmother, but we have some problems and they go back a long way.
00:54:52Mom, Grandma says you hit her.
00:54:56She told you that?
00:54:58She showed us the bruises.
00:55:01And you think the bruises are from my hitting your grandmother?
00:55:05No.
00:55:07That takes the cake.
00:55:17Mom, she's asleep.
00:55:19She went in to take a nap after lunch.
00:55:21Don't be mad at her.
00:55:23Why?
00:55:24You afraid I'm going to beat her?
00:55:25No, she's just a little mixed up these days.
00:55:28I'm glad to know my children have such confidence in you.
00:55:31Come on, Mom.
00:55:32Don't be like this.
00:55:36I told you we shouldn't have told her.
00:56:12What are you doing here?
00:56:13I locked my door.
00:56:14I told you, you can't do that.
00:56:17You get sick and we have to get you out in a hurry.
00:56:20I'm going to turn this down, Mother.
00:56:22It woke me up.
00:56:26Don't lock it again.
00:56:28What difference does it make?
00:56:30You seem to be able to get in no matter what I do.
00:56:34Good night, Mother.
00:56:37I'm going to be able to get in no matter what I do.
00:56:37I'm going to be able to get in no matter what I do.
00:56:39I'm going to be able to get in no matter what I do.
00:56:48I'm going to be able to get in no matter what I do.
00:56:50I'm going to be able to get in no matter what I do.
00:56:53I'm going to be able to get in no matter what I do.
00:56:54I'm going to be able to get in no matter what I do.
00:56:55I'm going to be able to get in no matter what I do.
00:56:56I'm going to be able to get in no matter what I do.
00:56:56I'm going to be able to get in no matter what I do.
00:56:59I'm going to be able to get in no matter what I do.
00:57:42I cannot sleep when you play it so loud.
00:57:45I can't hear it.
00:57:47Then get a hearing aid.
00:57:49There's nothing wrong with my hearing.
00:57:51You're just punishing me because I told the children.
00:57:54I have to get up at 6.30 in the morning.
00:57:56I need my sleep.
00:57:57I cannot sleep when you play it so loud.
00:58:00You're just punishing me because I told Triss and Addie the truth about their mother.
00:58:04I told them what you've been doing to me.
00:58:06Do you want to go to a nursing home?
00:58:07Are you that unhappy here?
00:58:09Because if you do, I can arrange it.
00:58:11Oh, yes, yes.
00:58:12Well, that's what you're up to, isn't it?
00:58:13Get rid of me.
00:58:14Shunt me off into some home and then somehow it will have been my fault.
00:58:18I need my sleep.
00:58:20You see, I'm a prisoner here.
00:58:21I might as well be in handcuffs.
00:58:23Fine, leave.
00:58:24I will.
00:58:36What are you doing?
00:58:38I'm taking the set, Mother.
00:58:39You are behaving like a child.
00:58:42Oh, stop it.
00:58:43You're not taking the set.
00:58:44Yes, I...
00:58:46Oh, now see what you've done.
00:58:48I've had that set for 16 years.
00:58:50Lou gave it to me for our 14th wedding anniversary.
00:58:55No more.
00:58:56Don't you touch me.
00:58:58No more.
00:59:00I'll call the police this time.
00:59:01I swear I will.
00:59:04Ah!
00:59:06Ah!
00:59:10Ah!
00:59:12Ah!
00:59:13Ah!
00:59:15Ah!
00:59:15Ah!
00:59:15Ah!
00:59:17Ah!
00:59:21Ah!
01:00:02Hi.
01:00:03Hi.
01:00:07Look, I was on my way to see my therapist.
01:00:12Why don't you come along?
01:00:20Oh, hi, Dr. Calmar, this is my wife, Georgia.
01:00:22Nice to meet you, Georgia.
01:00:24Hi.
01:00:24Why don't you come and see her?
01:00:48Well, my mother, um, my mother was an only child.
01:00:57She was the apple of her father's eye.
01:01:00And he pampered her and he spoiled her unbelievably.
01:01:03You'd think he was very rich, but he wasn't.
01:01:10You know, she had, when she was 10 years old,
01:01:14she had 26 pairs of shoes.
01:01:23She was, um, she had everything.
01:01:26She, she had singing lessons, piano lessons.
01:01:36And her father died when she was very young.
01:01:40And she married my father almost immediately.
01:01:44He was a Latin teacher.
01:01:47And they didn't have a dime.
01:01:51She was very miserable.
01:01:54She was even more miserable when me and David came along.
01:01:59Because she just didn't know what to do.
01:02:01She was used to being the child.
01:02:06She tried.
01:02:08You know, she played with us.
01:02:11But not like a mother.
01:02:14It was more like a child.
01:02:21And, uh, then, then, uh, my father left her.
01:02:37And she fell apart.
01:02:39Because here she was.
01:02:41She was left with two kids.
01:02:44No money.
01:02:45No skills.
01:02:47She just, she, you know, she fell apart.
01:02:56And we lived in, in one-room apartment houses, you know,
01:03:00with, uh, one, we lived in one-room apartments.
01:03:05With no bathrooms and no water, no heat.
01:03:10And sometimes no food.
01:03:14So we'd, we'd boil some water and put a pepper and salt in it.
01:03:19And that'd be our dinner.
01:03:30And, uh, David, my brother, was wild.
01:03:41He was very wild.
01:03:49So, she just, she fell apart.
01:03:54It was awful.
01:03:58She beat you.
01:04:07She beat you.
01:04:08Frequently.
01:04:14She hit David a lot.
01:04:19Me, not so much.
01:04:23Yeah, he left home when he was 16.
01:04:29The last I heard, he was selling pretzels on a corner somewhere.
01:04:36But you were a good girl.
01:04:41I, I suppose so.
01:04:43You still are, Georgia.
01:04:46You took her in.
01:04:47You made room for her in your house, in your life.
01:04:51Taking care of her.
01:04:53Waiting on her in the manner to which she's accustomed.
01:04:56When did you start beating her?
01:05:05Beating, it isn't beating.
01:05:07I can't call it beating.
01:05:11I've had to discipline her.
01:05:13Like a child.
01:05:18She wonders at night.
01:05:20She gets disoriented.
01:05:22You know, and if, if I even intimate that one little thing is wrong.
01:05:27She abuses me.
01:05:29She'll go and she'll turn her TV to, to, to an ear splitting volume.
01:05:34And I can't sleep.
01:05:35I can't think.
01:05:36And then, then she poisons the kids against me.
01:05:39And I can't.
01:05:40What can I do?
01:05:41I've got to do's.
01:05:42I've got to do something.
01:05:43No, you hit her.
01:05:44She's so exasperating.
01:05:48Sometimes you hit her more than once.
01:05:52Sometimes a few times.
01:05:57You were a good girl for so long, Georgia.
01:05:59Now it's your turn.
01:06:04Oh, God.
01:06:12How do you feel about your mother now?
01:06:15I hate her.
01:06:21I hate myself even more.
01:06:30Well, if it's any consolation to you, you're not at all unique.
01:06:34The last estimate that I saw indicated that some form of abuse occurred in over a million cases last year
01:06:40in situations just like yours.
01:06:48And usually it happened because the child was abused by the parent when he was young.
01:06:58It's a wonder that you haven't abused your own children.
01:07:01Well, I have felt like it.
01:07:07Sometimes.
01:07:12I have felt like it sometimes lately.
01:07:18Especially Chris.
01:07:20I know you don't want that to happen, but it will, Georgia.
01:07:25Unless we break the pattern.
01:07:29How?
01:07:30Oh, we will.
01:07:32We'll stop it.
01:07:33How?
01:07:34We can't change your mother.
01:07:38She is what she is.
01:07:39But if we can get you to a point where you can forgive her.
01:07:45Really forgive her, Georgia.
01:07:50I don't know.
01:07:54I don't know.
01:08:00I don't know.
01:08:02I don't know.
01:08:03I don't know if I can afford it, first of all.
01:08:07I mean, how many times would I have to come?
01:08:11A week? I mean, how many?
01:08:13Don't worry about that.
01:08:14Your husband, he's offered to pay for our time together.
01:08:18But I would say three times a week for now.
01:08:23And Pete said he'd take care of that.
01:08:25Well, he knows it would be a hardship for you right now.
01:08:32Well, that's...
01:08:33Can I go now?
01:08:43Hi, Grandma.
01:08:46How you doing?
01:08:47What's happening?
01:08:51Oh, what?
01:08:52Ow!
01:08:57All right, look here.
01:08:58Baldy's in here.
01:08:59Here we go.
01:09:00Is that a great tape?
01:09:01Oh, it's out of control.
01:09:03It's out of control.
01:09:04Hey, did you see...
01:09:05Oh, what?
01:09:07Oh, my God.
01:09:08Hey, give me that back.
01:09:09Did you see the look?
01:09:13Oh, he's...
01:09:13Oh, come on, man.
01:09:14Did you see how short it was?
01:09:16It was incredible.
01:09:17Oh, my God.
01:09:18Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:09:19And we have guys to build a party.
01:09:22Oh, right here, man.
01:09:23We have a rager.
01:09:24Hey, what do you think we're doing?
01:09:27All right!
01:09:54All right.
01:09:54I'll see you later.
01:09:55All right, man.
01:09:56All right, so long.
01:10:02Come on, Chris. I gotta go. Come on, man. Stop playin' around.
01:10:23Dad!
01:10:26Hi, Dad. Hi, Mom.
01:10:30How's everybody?
01:10:32Is Grandma in the room?
01:10:33Yeah.
01:10:34Hey, Dad, what's this?
01:10:35You'll see. Hold your shirt.
01:10:38What is it?
01:10:39What is it?
01:10:41That's a surprise.
01:10:42That's right.
01:10:43Dad, you need me help?
01:10:44No.
01:10:45Dad, Dad, let me help you with that.
01:10:47Who is it?
01:10:50Me, Pete.
01:10:51Pete!
01:10:52Come in.
01:10:54Hi, Charlotte.
01:10:55Oh, hello.
01:10:56How you doing?
01:10:57Got your new TV here.
01:10:59Oh, I thought I had my birthday.
01:11:01Oh, this is great.
01:11:03This is a state-of-the-art television set, Grandma.
01:11:05Wait till you see the picture.
01:11:06Sharp, clear, beautiful.
01:11:08This is a remote control.
01:11:09Without leaving the comfort of your bed,
01:11:11you can change your channel,
01:11:12make it louder, softer, whatever you want.
01:11:14And if you want to know what time it is,
01:11:15you press this little button that says time there,
01:11:17and the correct time shows right up on the screen.
01:11:18Mom?
01:11:19Mom, look.
01:11:20Earphones with a special extension cord.
01:11:23Yeah, see, that way you can play it as loud as you want,
01:11:25and nobody can hear it but you.
01:11:26I didn't know they made those for TV.
01:11:28Well, isn't that something?
01:11:30Oh, thank you so much.
01:11:33You're welcome.
01:11:35Mom, can Dad stay for dinner?
01:11:39Well, I don't know.
01:11:40Do you want to stay?
01:11:43Yeah, I'd like to.
01:11:51Good night, kids.
01:11:51Good night, Charlotte.
01:12:16Good night.
01:12:17Good night.
01:12:23Thanks for dinner.
01:12:45Good night.
01:13:17Good night.
01:13:18Well, what happened?
01:13:20Is he coming home?
01:13:21Is he?
01:13:22Well, is he?
01:13:23I don't know.
01:13:23I don't know.
01:13:23Maybe.
01:13:24The past couple of weeks,
01:13:25he's been a great help, I must say.
01:13:29All right.
01:13:30All right.
01:13:33I've got all the secrets,
01:13:34I'm supposed to cut down on sugar.
01:13:36Just one lump, please.
01:13:38Isn't this nice?
01:13:39A private tea party,
01:13:40with my dear good girl.
01:13:45I'm afraid I haven't
01:13:48always been your dear,
01:13:49good girl lately.
01:13:52Well,
01:13:53we won't talk about it.
01:13:55I want to.
01:13:58I'm so ashamed.
01:14:00I'm so sorry.
01:14:04I understand.
01:14:07In a way, I suppose it was to be expected.
01:14:12It was?
01:14:13Oh, yes.
01:14:14I know what it is to be abandoned.
01:14:17You feel so, so alone, so frustrated.
01:14:23Then you remember?
01:14:26Remember what?
01:14:27Well, when you and Daddy got divorced, you remember how it was?
01:14:31Yes, yes, that's what I'm referring to.
01:14:35Well, I understand that, too.
01:14:39Understand what?
01:14:41I understand why you took it out on David and me in the same way.
01:14:47In the same way?
01:14:49I don't know what you're talking about.
01:14:54Well, the pressure's built up and it got too much for you,
01:15:00and, well, you just lost control.
01:15:04Lost control?
01:15:07Well, what do you mean?
01:15:10I'm trying to tell you that I do understand.
01:15:15And I don't blame you.
01:15:17Blame?
01:15:21You know, I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about.
01:15:27I understand why you took it out on David and me.
01:15:32I took it out.
01:15:33What did I take out?
01:15:36Your, your, your frustrations and your anger and your fears.
01:15:43Oh.
01:15:43Oh, I, I, I would hope.
01:15:45I, I never, I never took anything out on my children.
01:15:49Don't you remember the time David broke your purple vase?
01:15:53He was, uh, having a pillow fight with a buddy and you just laid into him.
01:15:59Laid into him?
01:16:02Well, I, I was certainly very angry, but I, I never laid into him.
01:16:09Mother, mother, you did.
01:16:11You hit him and you just kept hitting him.
01:16:14You know, I was afraid you weren't going to stop.
01:16:17Are you saying that I struck David?
01:16:21I am saying that you struck both of us.
01:16:25That's a lie.
01:16:28I never struck my children.
01:16:30In all those years, I never laid a hand on you.
01:16:33How dare you say such a thing?
01:16:35How despicable to come in here and accuse me of abusing my children
01:16:40so that you can justify your brutality toward me.
01:16:44You're right.
01:16:45You're, you're right.
01:16:46I shouldn't have brought it up.
01:16:50Whatever may have happened,
01:16:53I had no right to do what I did to you.
01:16:59I just wanted to tell you
01:17:03that I'm very sorry.
01:17:06I'm so terribly sorry.
01:17:14Well, I would hope so.
01:17:18We had some difficult times, but we were always a family.
01:17:22We always stuck together.
01:17:24You and I and David.
01:17:28We had some good times.
01:17:33I used to walk you both to school every morning.
01:17:36Do you remember?
01:17:38Yes, I don't, I don't remember.
01:17:42I've, I've got to get to bed now.
01:17:45Can you finish your tea?
01:17:48Good night, Mother.
01:17:49Good night, dear.
01:17:49Good morning.
01:18:14The first run 않은 design in a permanent collection of the museum of modern art.
01:19:11Addie?
01:19:14Oh, I thought it was so loud.
01:19:16I thought it was so loud.
01:19:17Everything's fine, Mom!
01:19:19Mom!
01:19:20Mom!
01:19:20Don't worry.
01:19:21Everything's okay.
01:19:22Nobody's hurt.
01:19:23Nobody's hurt.
01:19:23It's out.
01:19:24It's out.
01:19:24Yeah, we got it out.
01:19:32Pete?
01:19:35No.
01:19:36No, I haven't decided anything.
01:19:38That's why I'm calling.
01:19:40That's why I'm calling.
01:19:41Yes, she's still here.
01:19:44You know, Chris offered her his room.
01:19:46He's gone to stay with Mark until we can figure out what to do with her.
01:19:50No, no, no.
01:19:51No question.
01:19:52No question.
01:19:53No question.
01:19:53It's impossible.
01:19:53I can't keep her here.
01:19:55No, she's got to go someplace.
01:19:58Pete, please help me.
01:20:01No, it's a horror show out there.
01:20:03She's too healthy for Medicare and she's not poor enough for Medicaid.
01:20:08You know, the only decent places are just, well, they're horrendously expensive.
01:20:17Well, we're talking about a lot of money.
01:20:21Probably $1,500 a month.
01:20:25Well, would you?
01:20:29Of course that would help.
01:20:32Yes.
01:20:33Thanks, Pete.
01:20:36Thank you so much.
01:20:46Can I come in?
01:20:47It's Grandma.
01:20:48Come in, Graham.
01:20:53You're doing your homework?
01:20:54Uh-huh.
01:20:55What?
01:20:56Yes, Grandma.
01:20:56I'm doing my homework.
01:21:05We haven't done any singing for a long time.
01:21:10No.
01:21:11You've inherited my musical gift.
01:21:13That's for sure.
01:21:18Addie, your mother's going to put me in a nursing home.
01:21:23I'm sorry, Grandma.
01:21:26We won't be able to have any more of our little duets.
01:21:32Addie, we've always been so close.
01:21:35Your mother listens to you.
01:21:37Well, you're such a mature young lady.
01:21:40You could talk to her.
01:21:41I've given up smoking.
01:21:43I haven't had a cigarette for a week.
01:21:45You're Grandma's sweetheart, aren't you?
01:21:47Aren't you Grandma's sweetheart?
01:21:49You'd do that for Grandma, wouldn't you?
01:21:52Wouldn't you do that for Grandma?
01:21:54I can't.
01:21:55What?
01:21:56I can't, Grandma.
01:21:58I can't.
01:21:59Can't what?
01:22:00I can't talk to Mom.
01:22:02She listened to you.
01:22:03I can't.
01:22:04I just can't.
01:22:05Why?
01:22:06Are you afraid of her, too?
01:22:08Yes.
01:22:09I mean, no.
01:22:13Well, she's changed.
01:22:15She's not the daughter that I once knew.
01:22:18Yes, I'm afraid of her.
01:22:19That's not the reason why I can't talk to her.
01:22:22Then why?
01:22:25You want me here, don't you?
01:22:28We always have good times together, don't we?
01:22:31No.
01:22:33Well, lately I know that everything's been topsy-turvy.
01:22:36I can't, Grandma.
01:22:38I don't want you here.
01:22:42What are you saying, child?
01:22:44I thought that you...
01:22:48I...
01:22:49I thought we were such good friends.
01:22:52I thought you loved me.
01:22:54I certainly love you.
01:22:56I do love you, Grandma.
01:22:59I just don't want you here.
01:23:01It's not your fault.
01:23:03It's just the way you are.
01:23:05You're driving my mother crazy.
01:23:08I don't know her anymore.
01:23:11Yes, I'm afraid of her.
01:23:14I'm afraid of her when she's around you.
01:23:44Who is it?
01:23:46Georgia?
01:23:47Mother, I'm turning out the light.
01:23:49I'll see you tomorrow.
01:23:50Georgia!
01:23:51Mother, I'm going to sleep now.
01:23:54Georgia!
01:23:54I have to see David.
01:23:57Oh, Mother, not now.
01:23:58I'll speak to you tomorrow.
01:23:59Go to bed.
01:24:00Where was he when he wrote you that Christmas card?
01:24:02In New Jersey?
01:24:03That was ten years ago.
01:24:05He had a terrible drinking problem even then.
01:24:08He could easily be dead now.
01:24:16I've lost him.
01:24:19And sooner I'll be losing you too.
01:24:22Oh, my God, my God.
01:24:24What have I done to my children?
01:24:26You and David.
01:24:27I've hurt you.
01:24:28I've hurt you terribly.
01:24:32Mother, but what did I know?
01:24:35I was so young.
01:24:38I didn't know anything except that my whole world was broken up.
01:24:42My father and my mother were gone.
01:24:45When my husband left me, I had nothing.
01:24:48Nothing.
01:24:48No husband.
01:24:49Nothing.
01:24:50I played and sang in a hotel lounge in downtown Los Angeles,
01:24:54because that was the only thing I knew how to do.
01:24:56Yes.
01:24:57I remember.
01:24:58It was the Romani.
01:25:01Oh, do you remember that?
01:25:04Who'd have thought you were so little?
01:25:08It was a horrid place.
01:25:10They made me wear a low-cut dress and hustle drinks at the bar.
01:25:14I was so ashamed.
01:25:15I was so degraded.
01:25:17I was so full of anger and bafflement.
01:25:21that I...
01:25:24that I...
01:25:28that I...
01:25:29that I...
01:25:29I took it all out...
01:25:32on you and on your brother.
01:25:36Because I had nothing left for you.
01:25:41So now, of course, it's come full circle.
01:25:46And if you want me to leave, I'll understand.
01:25:50But I want to say I'm sorry.
01:25:52I'm so sorry.
01:25:54And I'm so proud.
01:25:56I'm so proud of you and all you've done for yourself and your children.
01:25:59You're a hundred times the mother I ever was.
01:26:02Please.
01:26:05Forgive me.
01:26:10If you knew...
01:26:12If you knew how long I waited.
01:26:15Georgia.
01:26:18Georgia.
01:26:19Please.
01:26:20Say it.
01:26:22I need to hear you say it.
01:26:27I'll forgive you...
01:26:29if you forgive me.
01:26:41I want you, my dear child.
01:26:44My dear child.
01:26:55I think one of the things that we all learn
01:26:58once we make a commitment to the program here at the center
01:27:02and the most important thing maybe
01:27:04is that we are not alone.
01:27:07We are not peculiar.
01:27:11And we are not isolated.
01:27:14We discover that there's a whole world out there
01:27:17where we can be useful, active, involved people.
01:27:23Even though a lot of people spend a lot of time telling us that we're old.
01:27:29Sometimes it takes time for us to find that out.
01:27:35Almost always it takes some hard work.
01:27:39But then, that's what we're here for.
01:27:44And now, on to our entertainment.
01:27:48This afternoon, our first performer will be a newcomer to the center.
01:27:55But already, one of our most popular people.
01:27:59Charlotte Kessling.
01:28:16The Beatles never sang this first song, as far as I know.
01:28:20But it is one of my granddaughter's favorites.
01:28:24And I hope it's one of yours, too.
01:28:27I want to dedicate it to my family, who are here with us this afternoon.
01:28:35Oh, shine on, shine on, harvest moon up in the sky.
01:28:44I ain't had no lovin' since January, February, June or July.
01:28:52Snow time, ain't no time to stay outdoors in school.
01:28:59So shine on, shine on, harvest moon.
01:29:05For me and my guy.
01:29:13Stay tuned now on True Movies 1, Christmas Choir.
01:29:18Alternatively, on True Movies 2, Jonathan Stone, Threat of Innocence.
01:29:25And on True Drama.
01:29:27Eight Days to Live.
01:29:30. . .
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