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The Runaways Part 01
Julie turns to her boyfriend when she and her mother reach an impasse regarding education, employment and marriage.
Julie turns to her boyfriend when she and her mother reach an impasse regarding education, employment and marriage.
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00:01This is it. This is it. This is life. The one you get. So go and have a ball. This
00:10is it. This is it. Straight ahead and rest assured you can't be sure at all.
00:16So while you're here, enjoy the view. Keep on doing what you do. Hold on tight, we'll muddle through one
00:25day at a time. So up on your feet, somewhere there's music playing. Don't you worry not. Just take it
00:36like it's off one day at a time.
01:07One day at a time.
01:26Don't you ever come up for air? Don't you ever knock? I live here, remember? Hi, Chuck.
01:33Hi, Barbie.
01:34Just go ahead and do whatever you were doing. Don't mind me.
01:37Why don't you evaporate? Go in the bedroom. It's my house, too. You go in the bedroom.
01:42Okay, let's go.
01:45Bad idea. I'll go in the bedroom.
01:48Now, where were we, Sunshine?
01:51Where were you in school today?
01:53Studying my biology. Would you excuse me while I do my homework?
01:57I just wondered. I looked for you at lunch.
02:00Well, you didn't find me. Big deal. Now get out.
02:02Touchy-touchy.
02:05Oh, wouldn't it be nice if we could be alone?
02:07Mm-hmm.
02:08Just us in a mountain cabin.
02:10Mm-hmm.
02:11With snow falling.
02:12And a great big cozy fireplace.
02:14Yeah.
02:15Mm-hmm.
02:17Oh, I like that.
02:18Mm-hmm.
02:20Mm-hmm.
02:21Mm-hmm.
02:27Mm-hmm.
02:28Excuse me. I represent the Zero Population Program.
02:32Is there any privacy?
02:34Like, try a mountain cabin.
02:37We have a charge of mission.
02:38Hi, Chuck.
02:39Hi, Ms. Romano.
02:41Uh, Chuck's staying for dinner, okay?
02:43Uh, sure.
02:44If Chuck doesn't mind leftovers from what he had last night.
02:48Or the night before.
02:50Barbara.
02:51Julie.
02:51Mom.
02:52Julie.
02:53Barbara.
02:55Chuck, you're welcome to stay.
02:58Uh, how you doing in college?
03:00Oh, couldn't be better.
03:01I dropped out.
03:05Dropped out of college?
03:06Mom, it's his life.
03:08Well, sure.
03:09No lectures.
03:10Well, sure is a lecture.
03:12It just wasn't relative to my lifestyle, Ms. Romano.
03:17I mean, college isn't the answer to everything, you know?
03:21There's a whole great big world out there, right?
03:24Right.
03:24And I want to be able to live in it and experience it.
03:29Uh, what'd your folks say?
03:30Well, actually, I haven't told them yet.
03:33I kind of want to wait for my next allowance check.
03:37Does that make sense?
03:39Uh, Ms. Romano, are we going to eat pretty soon?
03:41See, I want to go downstairs and put a rear speaker in my van.
03:44You have a van?
03:45Yeah, yeah.
03:45I got it last week.
03:46Just think, I can live in it while I find myself.
03:50Oh, I'm starving.
03:51Listen, hollering when dinner's ready, okay?
03:55Chuck may not have found himself, but he certainly found a place to eat.
04:00Hey, uh, Julie, how come you didn't, uh, tell me Chuck dropped out and that he had a van?
04:06Well, I can't remember everything.
04:09Uh, Julie, look, uh, Chuck's nice, you know, but I think you're crazy to date just one boy.
04:14Mom, ah, your senior year in high school should be the greatest time in your life.
04:19Now, why tie yourself down?
04:20Why don't you just say you don't like Chuck?
04:23I do like him.
04:23No, you don't.
04:24Honey, I just don't want you to miss anything.
04:26When I was a senior in high school, I...
04:29Got married to Dad.
04:30And it was a mistake.
04:32And I just don't want you to make the same one.
04:34Mom, I'm my own person.
04:35Let me lead my own life.
04:37Honey, I want you to lead your own life.
04:40I'm glad that you can make your own decisions.
04:43And a very good decision would be to date a lot of boys.
04:47You know what you are?
04:48You're a compulsive mother.
04:51Hmm.
04:52You're right.
04:53Hmm.
04:54Okay, how's school today?
04:56Oh, fine.
04:56Uh, I'm gonna go down and help Chuck.
05:05See ya.
05:08I think Julie just taught me the hustle.
05:14Hello, my sweet.
05:15This is a very pleasant surprise.
05:17Well, I just stopped on my way up to my lonely room
05:21to fix my lonely dinner and eat by my lonely self.
05:26Oh, you poor man.
05:29We can't have you eating all by yourself.
05:35Chuck's here.
05:35He'll come up and eat with you.
05:46Go for it!
05:59This place is gonna get an ill repute.
06:03You mean the mother's neckin' upstairs?
06:04The daughter's neckin' downstairs?
06:06I thought Chuck was installing a speaker.
06:08He is, but he's ambidextrous.
06:12His tweeter is whooping while his woofer is tweeting.
06:18Snyder, you know, you're gonna wear out your passkey.
06:20Why don't we install one of those doggy doors for you?
06:24Well, at least I could get through it.
06:29Uh, Snyder, what are you doing here?
06:31I'm helping Chuck install a speaker.
06:33He left a coil of wire in his jacket.
06:35This is his jacket, isn't it?
06:36Yeah.
06:37All right.
06:38Hey, he has got some van, that guy.
06:40I just helped him, you know, rotate his tires and turn the mattress.
06:44Mattress?
06:51Mattress?
06:52Well, you know, the kids with their status symbols.
06:55I mean, in my day, my day was the old plastic necker knobs.
06:59Remember?
07:00You could steer with one hand and go for the brass ring with the other.
07:06I want to tell you, he's really proud of that van.
07:09I mean, I seen him and Julie cruising down the main drag this morning like they own a town.
07:14This morning?
07:14Yeah, around 10 o'clock.
07:16Today's a school day.
07:18Well, uh, maybe, maybe it wasn't 10, you know, it could have been noon.
07:22I'm not even sure it was Julie.
07:23I mean, I just got a glimpse before she ducked.
07:25I mean, I, I, I, I couldn't see a lot because of the sun.
07:30The mid, mid-noon, mid-noon sun.
07:33You told me she was in school today.
07:35Miss Romano, I'm not even sure it was the same van.
07:38I mean, there must be hundreds of vans driving around with leopard spots.
07:44Blowing it.
07:45Barbara!
07:47Honey, would you go down and tell Julie to come up here?
07:49Sure.
07:49It, it wasn't a van.
07:51It wasn't a van.
07:52It was a school bus.
07:58Leopard spots.
08:00Private school.
08:04Man's a lawyer.
08:06Listen, uh, Mr. Romano, don't, don't pay any attention to anything I've said.
08:09I've been, I've been really bothered by my eyes lately.
08:11I had to go see, look at that.
08:12I, I, I had to go see the doctor.
08:15He put them drops in, you know, uh, to delete my pupils.
08:18And I haven't been able to see anything, so I'll, I'll.
08:25David, she lied to me.
08:27Oh, Ann, come on.
08:29She just cut a class.
08:30Even John Boy does that.
08:35Why'd you have to lie?
08:37I mean, she could have told me she was with Chuck.
08:40Ah, we're not communicating anymore.
08:42She's becoming secretive.
08:44Huh.
08:45She's growing away from me.
08:47Ann, she is 17.
08:49It has to happen.
08:50Oh, but why can't she come and talk to me about it?
08:52I mean, why doesn't she listen to her mother instead of some kid?
08:55Hey, that's perfectly natural.
08:56I mean, advice from a boyfriend always takes precedence over mother, God, and country.
09:02Uh, I'll fix us a drink.
09:04That way we'll either find the answer or forget the problem.
09:08Uh, what, what do you want, Mom?
09:11Uh, Julie.
09:14How was school today?
09:16She called me up here to ask me that.
09:18Chuck's woofer's almost working.
09:22Let me put it, uh, another way, Julie.
09:24Um, how was school today?
09:26I already told you.
09:28I, I said fine.
09:29Barbara, did you see your sister in school today?
09:32Uh, Mom, who wants to see their sister in school?
09:38Okay.
09:39I confess.
09:40I, uh, skipped a couple of classes.
09:42Honey, why did you have to lie?
09:44Mom, I didn't lie.
09:45You said how was school, and I said fine.
09:47It's always fine.
09:48Come on, Julie.
09:49Those are word games.
09:50Oh, honey, look, uh, see, I don't know what's happening here.
09:54I mean, I don't care about skipping a couple of classes.
09:57You don't?
09:58Barbara.
10:01I know who told you.
10:03Schneider.
10:04Why doesn't that man grow up?
10:05Do you know he challenged us to a drag race with his camper?
10:12That's another thing, Julie.
10:14How come you didn't tell me about Chuck's van?
10:16Why do I have to tell you?
10:18Can't I have something private in my life?
10:20What's private about a van?
10:23Except the mattress in the back.
10:25That's why I didn't tell you, because you wouldn't like it.
10:28You don't like anything we do.
10:30Here you go.
10:30See, it's okay for your boyfriend to come over and mooch a meal, but not mine.
10:34Julie.
10:34Oh, hell, that's okay.
10:36And Chuck doesn't swear or drink alcohol.
10:39Come on, Julie.
10:40You're becoming impossible.
10:41Me?
10:42Mom, you still think I'm a child that has to be restricted and told what to do every minute.
10:45Well, if I think it's okay to skip a class, it's because I know what I'm doing.
10:49I do have the right to do anything I want with the man I'm engaged to.
10:56Engaged?
10:57Julie.
10:59Uh, all right.
11:00We've, um, been engaged about a month.
11:05Honey.
11:06Why didn't you tell us?
11:08Because, Mom, I can't even tell you I cut a class without you having an attack.
11:12Oh, Chuck was right.
11:13He told me you wouldn't understand.
11:14And parents never do.
11:18Julie!
11:30David.
11:31She's been engaged for a month and didn't say a word about it.
11:34I mean, how could she think I wouldn't understand?
11:35I'm a mother.
11:37Well, that's one good reason.
11:39We love each other.
11:41Why wouldn't I understand?
11:45Of course I would understand.
11:48She's engaged to some hot-pantsed idiot with a four-wheeled leopard-spotted bedroom.
11:53This is going to be the shortest engagement in history.
11:55Anne, count to ten.
11:56One, she's still in high school.
11:57Not that way.
11:57Two, he's broke.
11:58Three, they're both crazy.
11:59Four, if you go in there in this mood, you're going to lose a daughter and gain a martyr.
12:07Come on, tell me about it.
12:10Well, how did it happen?
12:12What did Chuck say?
12:14Was it gunky?
12:19It was beautiful.
12:21We were...
12:23We were walking home from the movie.
12:25And, um...
12:27Then it started to rain.
12:29And we went into the entrance of this department store.
12:32And there was...
12:33There was a revolving door.
12:34And Chuck started spinning me around and around.
12:37Oh, I got so dizzy.
12:38These people were looking at us like we were crazy.
12:42And then...
12:44And then he stopped.
12:45And he took me in his arms and he said,
12:49I want to spend the rest of my life going around with you.
12:59Are you pregnant?
13:07A revolving door?
13:10I just asked.
13:12Everybody's going to wonder, you know.
13:16Julie, honey.
13:17Mom, I'm not pregnant.
13:22Well, I wasn't going to ask that.
13:24It was my next question.
13:28Look, honey...
13:29Mom?
13:30You're not going to make me change my mind.
13:33No.
13:33Look, I'm in here with an open mind.
13:36Can we discuss it?
13:38Yeah, we can discuss it.
13:40Let's not debate it.
13:42No debates.
13:43Come on, sit down.
13:47Um...
13:48This is discussion, okay?
13:49Purely, um...
13:51When you say you're engaged,
13:52I mean, are you really engaged?
13:54I mean, you got a ring?
13:55Mom, a ring is a symbol.
13:56A sign of bondage.
13:58Chuck and I don't need that.
13:59He didn't give her a ring.
14:04He put the money into a tape deck.
14:10Well, uh, other than that,
14:14do you have any plans?
14:16First, we'll travel in the van
14:18and see some of the country
14:19before we're too old to enjoy it.
14:21And, um...
14:23Then we thought we might move in
14:24with Chuck's parents.
14:25Maybe live here.
14:27Here?
14:27In this room?
14:29Julie, it's gonna be hard
14:30for me to concentrate on my homework.
14:32Barber.
14:35Julie, look.
14:38I know those dreams.
14:39And I know you're...
14:40you're very sincere about them.
14:43But, honey, how can you be so sure?
14:45I mean, my God, I thought I was sure.
14:47Please.
14:48How can you compare your life
14:49with Dad to Chuck and me?
14:50It's not easy.
14:51Your father finished college
14:52and had a job.
14:54Mom, we're not in your generation.
14:56You're the ones who were hung up
14:57on that education-money-security syndrome.
15:00We want to live.
15:02On what?
15:03Let's make a deal?
15:06Uh, sorry.
15:08Uh, look, Julie, I just...
15:10don't want you to be hurt.
15:12I want you to be happy.
15:13I'll be all right.
15:16Sure you will.
15:17Okay, have you set a date?
15:19No way.
15:20What's that mean?
15:21Mom, a date implies time and space,
15:23a beginning and an ending.
15:24We're not into that.
15:26We're not engaged to be married.
15:28Just what are you engaged to do?
15:33Engaged is one of your words.
15:35I only use it so you'd understand.
15:37We're two free persons
15:39whose paths have crossed.
15:41Chuck says we've joined hands
15:43to walk together.
15:45Sounds like a square dance.
15:54Julie, look, let me get this straight, okay?
15:57Are you planning to get married or aren't you?
15:59Mom, you're not listening to me.
16:01I'm listening, Julie.
16:01No, wait, wait.
16:03Marriage is an artificial bond.
16:05Love is the bond.
16:06And when love passes,
16:07there is no bond.
16:09Your paths separate.
16:11Chuck says that.
16:14I'll just bet he does.
16:16Mom, it is to protect my freedom
16:18as much as Chuck's.
16:19Would you like for me to be stuck
16:20for 17 years like you were?
16:22Come on, Julie.
16:23It's not the same thing.
16:24I mean, you and Chuck want it all
16:25without any of the responsibilities.
16:27Well, then just what are you and David doing?
16:29That's entirely different.
16:30Is it?
16:36Mom?
16:37Mom.
16:38Um, I'm sorry.
16:41But you're not gonna make me change my mind.
16:45Why don't we talk about this
16:47when you're more rational?
16:53Right.
16:54When I'm more rational.
17:07Hey, I suppose if you and Chuck did move in,
17:11we could alternate nights sleeping out on the sofa.
17:15Well, first me, then Chuck, then you.
17:25What happened?
17:28David, those two are not engaged.
17:32They are going to walk the path together.
17:36Well, uh, which particular path?
17:41To the shack up on the hill.
17:47Ann, you know, a lot of people
17:49are living together these days.
17:53David, what happened to tradition?
17:55What happened to romance?
17:56What happened to flowers?
17:58Hey, do I have time to use the can?
18:01That's what happened.
18:04Uh, Chuck?
18:06Yeah?
18:07Julie told me the big news.
18:09Oh, about the tape deck?
18:11Bigger than that.
18:13Bigger than a tape deck?
18:18She, uh, told me that you two were engaged.
18:20Engaged?
18:21Sorry, no, wrong one.
18:22No, that your paths have crossed
18:25and that you've joined hands to walk together.
18:28Oh, wow.
18:29You understand.
18:30Miss Romano, that's terrific.
18:32My parents don't understand it at all.
18:35Neither do I.
18:36Memorize the words.
18:37Mom, just because you don't understand,
18:39don't make fun of us.
18:41You could be wrong, you know.
18:42It wouldn't be the first time.
18:43Uh, honey, if you're ready to throw a tantrum now,
18:45I mean, you know, we'll wait.
18:46Oh, come on.
18:47That's not fair.
18:48Julie never throws tantrums.
18:50Not only is love blind,
18:52it's deaf and dumb, too.
19:00Mom, come on, come on, come on.
19:02Hey, hey, hey, what is everybody so uptight about?
19:06Let's talk it over, huh?
19:09Okay.
19:10Okay.
19:10Talk it over.
19:11Talk it over.
19:13Calmly.
19:21Chuck, I think I'm entitled to a little clarification.
19:26The last I heard, Julie intended to go to college.
19:29That's up to her, Miss Romano.
19:31Well, you see...
19:32Chuck, let's be practical just for a moment, okay?
19:35Uh, let's assume, for the sake of argument,
19:38that your paths have indeed crossed.
19:41Uh, someday, somebody's gonna have to earn a living,
19:43and, frankly, a little education wouldn't hurt.
19:46Education can be a trap unless you know where you're going.
19:48Just where the hell are you going?
19:50Mom, come on, we've got plans, big plans.
19:53Chuck's gonna own a ski lodge.
20:02Well, yes, someday, sort of, kind of, I...
20:07Look, you can't start at the top, right?
20:08But I have this friend who can get me a job in Aspen as a waiter.
20:15Skipped right past busboy.
20:21Chuck is a very good skier.
20:23He'll be an instructor before you know it.
20:25Barbara, will you stop flitting?
20:27I can't decide whose side I'm on yet.
20:31Why don't you go to a neutral corner?
20:36Chuck, look, uh, I am gonna grant you here
20:38that your life is your own.
20:40But now you are involving my daughter.
20:42And you are dreaming.
20:44I am not, Miss Romano.
20:46A man has a right to do whatever he wants to do,
20:49and that doesn't necessarily mean working nine to five.
20:51My daddy's worked 22 years on a job he hates.
20:54Chuck, look, uh, I don't hate my job.
20:57I do have an education.
20:58The two things are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
21:02Are you really happy being a lawyer, David?
21:04Sending people to jail?
21:05Feeding on human misfortune?
21:07Well, uh...
21:10No, I'm not a prosecutor.
21:12I get people off.
21:13Putting guilty people back on the street
21:15so they can kill again?
21:17You know, uh, you talk pretty big
21:19for a kid who doesn't know
21:20where his next meal is coming from, fella.
21:22Sure he does, David.
21:23Here.
21:24What are you gonna feed your kids on?
21:26Snow?
21:26Hmm?
21:34Kids...
21:34Kids are a trap.
21:36What?
21:36Children are an unnecessary commitment, Miss Romano.
21:41Hey!
21:42Commitment over there.
21:43You agree with that?
21:44Mom, would you try and understand?
21:46Chuck and I want to be free
21:47to have time to realize ourselves.
21:50Cop-out is a better word.
21:51Wake up, Julie.
21:53The most positive thing Chuck has done
21:54is to drop out of school.
21:55Please, Miss Romano.
21:56I know what I'm doing.
21:57I do, too.
21:59Nothing.
22:00No plans, no efforts,
22:01no responsibilities,
22:02no commitments,
22:03just vague dreams
22:04to keep you happy
22:05about doing nothing.
22:06Mom!
22:07Julie, stay out of this.
22:08No!
22:08Chuck, it's your life,
22:09and you can do with it
22:10what you want,
22:11but not with my daughter.
22:14All right!
22:15All right, I get the message.
22:17Chuck!
22:20Julie,
22:21I really feel sorry for you.
22:27Julie, look.
22:28Thank you, Mother.
22:29Thank you for your trust.
22:30You know,
22:31there are other ways
22:31of thinking besides yours,
22:33but did you give Chuck
22:34a chance to explain?
22:35Of course I...
22:35No, you didn't!
22:36Maybe I would go on to college.
22:39Maybe we would get married.
22:40Maybe nothing would happen.
22:42But you don't care.
22:44You don't listen.
22:45Oh, Julie,
22:46you're not being fair.
22:50Oh, I feel awful.
22:54Hey, hey, Barbara,
22:56come on,
22:56it'll work out.
22:58Mom's hurt,
23:00Julie's crying,
23:01Chuck's gone,
23:02and I'm a rotten person.
23:05Why?
23:07Why?
23:08I'm starving.
23:20Oh, Julie,
23:21could you turn that off?
23:25Julie!
23:31Julie.
23:36Mom!
23:37Whoa, whoa, whoa, Mom!
23:39Mom, Mom, come in here!
23:42Mom, come in here, quick!
23:44What is it?
23:45Just come here!
23:46What's the matter?
23:49Julie's run away.
23:55Dear Mom,
23:56I've gone away with Chuck.
23:57We have to lead our own lives
23:58and find out where it is for us.
24:00Please don't worry.
24:02I love you, Julie.
24:09To be continued next week.
24:13applause
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