Dr. Peters' office.
No, he's left for the summer.
I can give you his assistant, Professor Gaines.
Yeah?
Is this Dr. Peters' assistant, Professor Gaines?
This is the registrar's office.
William B. Johnson, registered into Semantics 1,
has a medical report to the fact that he's suffered
a nervous breakdown,
but not early enough to withdraw from the course.
Dr. Peters must give him a grade.
Just one second.
Give him an A. An A? But...
He's the best damn student in the department.
Just give him an A.
Hi. Can you get the trunk?
Shit.
Well, what's on for tonight, smiley?
New balance here
in my psychedelic Day-Glo jumpsuit,
reminding you ladies to get over to Jeans West,
open 24 hours a day,
at 360 North La Cienega Boulevard near Beverly, dominated by...
KGBS in "Love" Angeles.
And now it's Paul Revere & the Raiders
featuring Mark Lindsay, and "Just Like Me."
That's all there is.
Is this Bouquet Boutique?
May I speak to Maurice?
This is Mrs. Gaines.
Hello, Maurice.
No, no, the flowers for the dinner party arrived this morning.
I need something in a funeral wreath.
I just got one of those telegrams today.
Ten dollars to what?
Fifty dollars? Twenty dollars.
Well, how about something sweet for $20?
Yes.
With tiny roses and a bow that says,
"From your loved ones."
Emily Sanderson funeral. Memorial Church.
Cameron, Missouri.
Yes, she's a relative.
Just a great-aunt.
It's delicious.
Here. How are you doing?
Thank you. Would you like some wine?
Yes, thank you.
How are you doing, Adam? Fine, Dad.
All right, good. Don't go away. Be right back.
...together, right? You have every right.
She has all... Your wife must be talented.
My wife, yeah. Well, if you'll excuse me,
she has some talent. What does she do?
Sings, dances. She does everything.
Everything, she does? Yeah. It's amazing.
She is going to be my next star.
Oh, boy.
Believe me, I know talent when I see it.
My baby has it.
Fran, you should hear her sing sometime.
"Dear Adam,
happy 12th birthday.
I hope your mother, Gladys,
will let you come and visit me this summer.
I hear you're a fine, smart boy,
and I'd like to meet you.
"With love, your great-aunt, Emily Sanderson."
Emily, old girl, I never made it.
Who's Emily?
Look...
Why don't you go downstairs. You're missing all the fun.
That's adorable.
Could I have it?
I collect little animals.
It's my hobby.
How's it going?
Good.
Here you go.
Do you think that smoking pot all those...?
Come on, Roger.
You've been sitting around too long.
You've got to play... Oh, yeah.
Sweetheart, sweetheart, you having a good time?
Having fun, Daddy.Good.
My father.
Armor. Son of a farmer.
Never had a pot.
Always had high hopes for me.
"This is a great and beautiful country," he said.
Pioneer stock.
Do something good, Roger.
You could do something good.
Something worthwhile.
Do it while you can.
Something worthwhile.
What do you suggest?
Would you like me to build houses with you?
You aren't exactly the sort of a person
you pretend to be, are you?
Why, I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean.
A schoolgirl manner.
You know, blushing, stammering and all that.
I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad.
Worse than you could know.
Well, that's good,
because if you actually were as innocent
as you pretend to be, we'd never get any...
Hi, friends. Ralph Williams,
owner of the world's largest Ford dealership.
Well, here it is, that time of year once again.
Our big year-end cleanup sale at...
Excuse me, sir. I'm an usher. Are you family or friend?
Family. Adam Gaines.
One moment, please.
Excuse me, there's a young man back there
who said his name is Adam Gaines.
So you're Adam.
Gladys and Roger's boy.
Glad you could come, Adam.
I'll bet you don't remember...
but I saw you when you were just a teeny little bugger.
I used to help your mother bathe you
when we visited her for a week back in 1943,
when your daddy had that marvelous radio program.
You were cute as the devil,
and smart as a whip even then.
I hear you're going to be a doctor.
PhD.
Semantics.
Well, the specialists are always in demand.
Our boy's planning on being a chiropodist.
Awfully glad you could come here to see...
...Grandma Sanderson.
It's... it's a shame you couldn't have...
made the trip
when she could have enjoyed you.
Who can find a virtuous woman,
for her price is far above rubies?
Strength and honor are her clothing,
and she shall rejoice in time to come.
She openeth her mouth with wisdom,
and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
She looketh well to the ways of her household,
and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Her children arise up and call her blessed.
Her husband also, and he prays with her.
Many daughters have done virtuously,
but thou excelest them all.
Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain.
But a woman that feareth the Lord,
she shall be praised.
Give her of the fruit of her hands,
and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Why, I told her years ago
to put some picture windows in this house of hers.
Improve the resale value.
But Emily Sanderson, she was close with a penny.
Well, come on in. Everybody's waiting to meet you.
This is... This is Adam Gaines.
It's Gladys's boy, from California.
Hello. How are you?
Lillian.
He looks like Gladys.
Why don't you go out to the kitchen with the menfolk.
Well, now...
Here.
Oh, thank you.
Here's your soda pop.
Inez tells me you're Gladys' boy, from California.
That's right.
Hear you're studying up on semantics.
Well, just what is that now?
What, semantics? Study of meanings.
Meanings of what?
The meanings of words.
How the meanings change.
Well, what for? Words are what they are.
At least this man always means what he says.
Well, what means one thing to one person
may not mean the same thing to the person he's talking to.
And then they really can't communicate.
Meanings?
Well, maybe you can just set this man's mind right then,
and tell me what in the hell is the meaning of those depressing
and pervert-type movies that you people make out in California?
I mean, why? You call that entertainment?
Well, some people have different tastes.
Well, there's not just New York and Los Angeles, you know.
Tell them that for me, will you?
Okay. There's a whole country here
full of people looking for just a good Sunday afternoon movie.
Not all that arty psychological crap
they keep putting out for New York and Los Angeles.
And I suppose you think that kind of movie
is hot stuff, don't you?
Well, they got people who just believe
anything they tell them.
I like all kinds of films.
Well, we're crying for good musings here.
I mean, I got troubles of my own.
Why do I want to see people out there suffering?
I'll tell you who I like, is Julie Andrews.
I see.
Let me hear what side
of this fence you're on, anyway.
Why don't you just name me a couple of movies that you like.
Well...
I like Blow-Up.
Oh, my God!
Well, now you just hit on it.
That damn movie.
And that was the name of it.
Two years ago, me and the missus went into KC
just to, you know, blow off a little steam,
see the lights.
Well, now how in the hell
was a I supposed to tell from that title
that that wasn't an action war movie?
Inez loves those. Well, I'll tell you,
I got myself up out of that theater
and walked right on out of there.
And believe me, I got every cent of my money back too.
Naked women and all.
And suppose you just tell me what in the hell
that movie was about anyway.
Well, come on. You said you liked the movie.
You tell me what it was about.
Just wait a minute. Wait one minute.
Now, what the hell you getting mad at me for?
Look, I'm not responsible for that film.
You like the films you like, I like the films I like.
No, you are not responsible, but it's your kind that is.
Oh, come on! Deny that!
Deny what? You know, as a matter of fact,
I got a question I'd like to ask you.
All right. If you're not afraid to answer.
Anything you want. Well, why doesn't a young man
like yourself,
present company excepted, of course,
why doesn't he get up off his behind and make a buck
and be willing to defend his country, just like I had to?
What right's he got to live off his family
until he's damn near 30?
Who's got a cigarette?
Hello there, Adam.
I'm Mrs. Hopper. We saw you at the church.
And I just said to Jerri...
This is my daughter, Jerri Jo.
Hi, Adam.Hello.
I said, "Now there's someone your own age
for you to talk with on this dreadful afternoon."
We'll see you later.
You know, I was valedictorian. A straight-A average.
Only we used another system. ESMI.
I'll probably be an art major
out of state next year.
Become a teacher.
I'm crazy about children.
What I really love to do is cook.
Cooking is just a hobby, of course.
I wouldn't want to be a home-ec major.
Art is so much more creative.
Art and public speaking.
My father says either one is good for self-development.
Your clothes are really unusual, but very attractive.
I noticed them right away.
And your hair.
It really is very masculine.
It goes so well with your face.
I'd really love to go to university.
I've thought of becoming an actress.
But Mother says it's too hard out there
for a good girl, if you know what I mean.
She's a hick hooker.
And that old bat in the corset's
a lady pimp working funerals.
You know, you seem to be thinking all the time.
I never met anyone who looked so deep
and intelligent.
You must read a great deal.
I do.
You can't miss the Cameron drive-in movie.
Jerri Jo, you show him where to turn off at Route 10.
Adam, it is so sweet of you to invite Jerri Jo.
You know she just loves movies.
Jerri Jo, now you remember, no chocolate anything.
Don't they look cute together in that car?
Put your hands on the roof of the car,
take two steps back, spread your legs,
keep your toes out.
Come on, spread your legs, keep your toes out.
Okay, let's have your driver's license.
Registration?
This car is registered
to Roger Construction, Incorporated.
Step aside, please.
Anything else? No.
Two coffees, two hot dogs.
I've got to get home.
That's the longest goddamn double feature
I ever sat through.
Good night, Adam.
Good morning.
I saw your car and I thought I'd wait for you.
I have to pick Mom up at the beauty parlor.
Will you walk with me?
Are you going back to California today?
You're staying here?
Why do you want to know?
Because I think you'd like it here.
Because I think if you stay, you'd ask me out again.
You do?
What was in that bag?
Two pair of heavy-duty trousers.
A pair of Big Mac work shirts.
And one pair of Mr. Rough boots.
With the genuine neoprene soles.
Got a job for the summer.
Power and light summer crew.
You won't like it.
That's for men who never went to school.
Suits me fine.
...is that yours?
Yeah.
That's my daddy inside.
We've got the Mogas Butane franchise down there too.
Beauty parlor's just around the corner.
Come on.
Well, Adam.
Come on.
Joanna, this is Jerri Jo's date last night.
This is Dr. Gaines from California,
and this is Joanna.
How do you do? Pleased to meet you, doctor.
Thank you.
It's really a PhD.
You don't use the "doctor."
Adam, we are so proud of you for getting your doctor,
we're just going to show it.
That's right.
Well, did you have a good time at the drive-in last night?
Was it a good movie?
I'm not too high on drive-in movies.
Well, good for you. I am so glad to hear it.
Sitting in an uncomfortable car
with all those rowdy people.
Adam, the next time
that you take Jerri Jo out, Mr. Hopper and I
will just take you to a nice theater in Kansas City,
and we'll just make an evening of it.
That sounds wonderful, Mrs. Hopper.
Boy, did I get drunk last night.
The old lady's so mad,
I'm glad I'm going to be gone for three months,
because she is mad.
And I know I ain't gonna get nowhere.
I looked at a '63 Chevy.
It sure is...
Fantastic family you ever saw in your life.
I think I'm going to make enough money off this trip
that I can go ahead and pay for it.
Harvey Gavin.
Adam Gaines.
Oh, yeah, I can see I'd like to be around
when them hands of yours start giving you hell.
Don't worry about them, though.
Yeah, I can see you ain't used to hard work.
Boy, you got yourself one hell of a good job now.
We gonna bust us a path 50 feet wide and 20 miles long.
Kaboom!
Don't you go cutting off nothing but them limbs.
Harvey, you're drawing every skeeter in the county.
Skeeters come in on the smell of sweat.
They ain't coming in to read my manual.
TV repair?
Hell, take you a hundred years to read that thing.
Orville, technical stuff's got to be absorbed.
This is a wonderful profession. I've made up my mind.
Better money than this?
Shoot, boy.
When I drive by my Dodge panel truck
with "Harvey's TV Repair" written on the side of it,
I'm just going to say, "Honk, honk.
You get out of my way, you half-assed ditchdigger."
You bastard!
Stop it!
Dig up that, you son of a bitch.
Hey, Adam! Adam!
Come in here and get your buddy off this blanket
before I kick ass.
Adam! Why you...
This man's got himself a bodyguard.
Let me out of here!
Here. No, thanks.
Oh, now, come on.
A man's got to keep his belly full.
Let me see, let me see.
Come on.
Just keep spitting on them.
I'm a college man myself.
Missouri agriculture college.
Good school?
The best.
I just do this work to stay in shape for football.
Coach doesn't want us to get too flabby or soft.
I'm not a jock, though.
Animal husbandry.
That's a good field.
Oh, yeah.
It's a pretty good-sized school.
Over 500 students.
Only 40 of us qualify in animal husbandry.
What kind of work you aiming for?
Well, most go into farming.
But I always had my plans set for bigger things.
As a matter of fact,
I got this job all lined up.
Position at Sunny Days Cherries.
They supply most of the Midwest.
Yeah, that's great, man. I really envy you.
You know what you want.Yeah.
My folks are just tickled pink.
And there's this real sweet little girl
who's going to be the wife come next fall.
You got yourself a girl here?
Yeah.
Yeah, I met one.
Hey, don't scratch that poison oak, man.
Pester you to death, boy.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
Mix that up.
A dash of poultice.
It's better than any doctor could prescribe up.
That's mud.
God's own mud.
Try this.
I remember we had this kid, Adam.
It was my first year on the gang.
He was working this high-voltage line out in Chillicothe.
Well, I had to go to the can,
and this bastard straw boss says, "Sure."
Well, they'd been laying for me, all old millers on that gang.
So I came out of bushes hitching up my drawers.
You know, they was all just laughing
till I thought they'd crap.
Was it poison oak?
Poison ivy.
You know, and it was worse than yours.
Got me all everywhere. You know, I squatted down.
Oh, no.
Yeah, that wasn't the worst part either.
See, I just got married.
And I still was in the habit of popping
back over to Raytown every now and then,
see my little bride when the old thought hit me.
Well, you should have seen her face.
I told her all the time she was pregnant,
"That kid is gonna be born with a case of poison ivy."
You got a kid?
Oh, hell. Four.
Yeah, and a good little woman.
Alma.
Got a good little house too.
Me and brother built it.
He and his kids live downstairs.
Yeah, we got a good little setup.
See, Alma works in a diner,
and sister-in-law looks after all the kids.
And what I send home, we do real fine.
Hey, take a gander at this.
This might be a profession that'd interest you too.
Takes a bright man.
See, I got this one other thing to do, too,
before I go into business meeting the public.
Got this place picked out to make my teeth pretty.
How's the poison oak?
It's fine. Just fine.
Yeah.
It ain't the mud.
It's the talk.
Talking's the cure for itching.
It's called psychology.
Yup.
You sleep tight, Adam.
My deal. Five-card draw.
Hey, how long does it take to get into town again?
You stick close to old Harvey.
I knows where the chili's hot and the women are clean.
Now you save this. You'll need it.
And you use this for having a good time.
A man's got to kick up his heels,
but there ain't no sense in him going broke.
Hey, boys! Yeah?
We gonna bust us some little fillies, right?
Right!
Right.
We're gonna get ourselves a handful
of something other than a pick and shovel tonight, boy.
How do I look?
You look just great.
Well, if this man don't set on twitching
right before it feels good,
then they just ain't got what I want.
Let's go to Cleo's.
Pussy!
Pussy! Pussy! Pussy!
Harvey, what the hell's the matter with you?
What you mean? I lost my damn cat.
Hey, Adam? What the hell are you?
Some kind of preacher?
Ain't them old juices balling up yet?
Come on, boy. Let 'er rip.
Come on. Give a rip. Let her go. Come on.
Harv Gavin.
Come on, give me a kiss.
You sexy old bat...
Ain't Harv ever gonna get enough of that?
Not till he drops dead, sweet thing.
Well, you get yourself on in there and tank up,
and maybe you'll leave us grown women in peace.
There's one I wouldn't mind coming to shake my hand.
God, boy.
You got a grip like iron.
You got a hand just like my first husband had.
Rough to the touch,
but gentle to a woman.
Go on, get yourself in there. Blow off some steam.
Didn't I tell you this man's been
a short-haired pointer any day?
Look at that.
Hi, Cleo. Hi, Pearlie.
What'll you have? I'll have pink ladies.
Oh, pink ladies. Right.
Come on, man.
What are you gonna have?
I'm gonna have a Manhattan.
No, you're not.
What have you got?
Well, what do you want?
Couple of Schlitz, how's that?
Hey, fellas, they blew away, bam!
Heads up!
Well, here goes nothing, boys.
You're just... You're just a card!
He's just crazy.
Here. Here.
How did I get...
with pictures like that?
What do you got over there? Give it to me.
Yeah!
This is better than the other one.
I can't believe it.
I cannot believe...
Another dead soldier.
Another round.
Oh, Harvey, if we weren't drinking,
you're not going to be able to get up.
But I had a few today.
Harvey, these girls have got
dishonorable intentions toward us.
And I ain't holding them down.
Yeah, everybody chill out.
It's that way, old buddy.
Foam.
He wanted to talk to me.
Why don't you look at the pictures, Mavis.
No!
Good night, boys. See you tomorrow.
Out time. Time to go home.
Everybody ready?
Good night, Cleo!
Good night.
Hello, Mrs. Hopper?
Hi.
Listen, I'm sorry I'm calling so late.
Yeah, this is Adam Gaines.
Yeah, hi.
Is Jerri Jo there, please?
She's not.
No, if you could just tell her I called,
and I'll call her back again. Yeah.
Yes, it's good to talk to you,
and I'm sorry I'm calling so late.
Good night.
You lucky son of a bitch. You got all five fingers?
They're all right now!
See if it makes the round a bit.
Yeah, the bastards swell up?
Boy, she's purpling like hell. You got yourself a humdinger.
Crap, that ain't nothing...
You got a hell of an out.
Well, they'll be putting you on something easy for a while.
I don't want to lose my job, man.
Don't worry. A man like you,
he work himself back up in no time.
Yeah, you better pass good now, boy.
Hang on, I'll lower you down.
Come on.
Adam!
I'm so happy to see you, Adam.
Well, may I come in?
Oh, yes, sure. Please.
Mom and Daddy have gone to Kansas City today.
They'll be sorry they weren't here to say hello.
Come in the kitchen.
I'm just baking an apple pie.
We heard about your accident.
You did?
Yes. The doctor, Katzburg,
was your cousin Inez's brother-in-law.
It was really something the way you took that pain.
That must be awful hard work.
It's not bad...
if you don't mind poison ivy, heat prostration,
rattlesnake bites.
I'm... I'm just so happy to see you.
I've never in my whole life been so happy to see anyone.
If I would have had one wish this morning,
it'd be you be standing at my front door.
Thank you.
Thank you very, very much.
Would you like to see my high school album.
It's got my valedictorian speech in it.
It's in my bookcase, up in my bedroom.
I'd love to read your...
your valedic...
Your valedictorian speech.
This was Cameron High School annual's
over at Emily Sanderson's house.
They were all on thick black paper.
Haven't changed much, though.
The people look different.
Do you think I'll look that funny in 40 years?
You look funny now.
And you don't?
All those mosquito bites and...
that old peely sunburn.
I got poison ivy on my legs.
Is it catching?
No.
No, it's almost all gone.
I've never been happier in my whole life.
That's very beautiful.
You make me so proud.
Well, you make me so happy.
Sweetie, we're home.
There's Mom and Dad.
Wait'll they see what I've got here.
Look who's here.
Adam.
What a wonderful surprise.
My, don't we look all outdoorsy and handsome.
So you're Adam?
How do you do?
Hear you got banged up, son.
Yeah. Glad it wasn't serious.
Well, now just sit down. Sit down.
Oh, listen, Adam, something you got to try.
Hope you don't mind sitting in a lady's model.
That's something?
I grabbed this big piece of the wedding cake.
Thank you, honey.
No, thank you. I'm stuffed.
I've been eating all day.
A person who turns down wedding cake
will never marry their true love.
How's your hand?
It's fine.
But how's your hand?
It's fine. Doctor put a soft bandage on.
It's feeling much better. You'll be here Saturday?
Sure. Yeah, I miss you.
Me too. Yeah.
Hey, look, I got to go. Harvey's waiting.
Don't go. I'll just be a while...
Can you talk a little longer? No, they're waiting for me.
You want to make me an apple pie?
Yes, I'll make you an apple pie.
I'll see you Saturday.
All right.
Bye.
And when you called, Mrs. Hopper,
well, I was more than glad to drop everything at the lab
and come down here for lunch.
Here you go. Well, isn't this fun?
Our own little picnic.
Now, Ed, why don't you sit over there by Jerri Jo.
Excuse me, pal.Sorry.
Jerri Jo, excuse me.
This looks pretty good, too.
You're not from Kansas City, I take it.
California.
Pharmacy's my field.
Semantics and ditch digging.
That's an interesting combination.
Ed, your mother tells me
that you have just a wonderful surprise for her.
Oh, yes, ma'am.
I just got the Rexall franchise
out at the new Green Ridge Shopping Center
at Lee's Summit.
Isn't that wonderful?
Some girl's gonna get herself a lucky prize.
I got my eye on that new housing project south of Kansas City.
I think I'll be able to swing
one of those nice French provincial houses next year.
Jerri Jo,
those are those houses that you admired so
in the real estate section of the Kansas City Star?
It was last Sunday. Yes, ma'am. The same.
I cut out the article and saved it.
Are you going to eat all day?
I might.
Tell me about all the other girls you've been in love with.
No.No, really.
No, really.
But why me?
What do you love about me?
Well, you know, you know what's really the most important?
What? Because you're here right now.
You might get poison ivy, you know?
And you know what I really love? I really love...
I really love your apple pie.
Am I a lot different from all those other girls?
I mean, sometimes I worry that I don't know a lot
about a lot of things.
I don't think you should worry about anything.
You're doing just fine.
I wouldn't trade you for all the girls I ever knew.
Well, why won't you tell me about it?
Because I have given up my evil ways.
I'm a...
I'm just a little country boy, working his tail off all week,
coming into town to see his woman on the weekends.
That's it.
That's all there is.
Hey, come get a cigar from the new pappy!
You mean you? Yeah!
Alma's getting a little boy!
Eight pounds, and just as pretty as his daddy!
That's great!
Hey, Harvey,
how'd you come to get married?
Well...
you get a little too drunk one night,
and they start talking about how much they love you
and how they want to take care of you,
you talk like you got to protect them.
Well, next day, they got you hooked, boy.
And they're knocked up to boot. That's all it is.
Did you love her?
Well...
I guess I proved I like to be around her.
I got five kids.
You know, pretty soon...
I'm gonna win me a bigger bottle in the game,
and I'm gonna find me an empty store
I can pick up real cheap.
And it's gonna happen, boy.
Harvey's TV Repair.
Well, you ought to keep Missouri in mind.
Wonderful opportunities for a young man.
Good life.
You have to meet the arts and sciences dean
up at North Central Missouri State Teachers College.
It's just 20 miles from here.
My brother-in-law is a friend of his.
Well, that really sounds very interesting.
Well...
big fish in a little pond.
Adam, come look at this wonderful little house.
Well, this house sells for 17,500.
Might be a good investment,
so I thought I'd come over and take a look.
Yeah, it's a nice little house.
Nothing around here for miles.
Well, that's nothing against it.
No, sir, I don't invest in pigs in a poke.
You see, I happen to know the county supervisor,
and there's a branch of Route 69
that's coming right through here.
So I thought I might just buy up the whole acreage,
put in 10 or 15 of these to start with,
sell them for 17,500.
Make a nice little bundle.
My father builds houses.
Say, that's wonderful.
I just might write him.
You know, this community is developing,
and it's catching up.
Housing development out here would be just the ticket.
You put a shopping center down there,
a couple gas stations up here,
a bunch of billboards running along up there.
Hey, hold on, son.
That's progress.
Now, I'm not the one that's building this highway.
People need it, so it comes.
People are begging for housing.
They can't live in a pasture, no matter how pretty it is.
Adam, aren't you coming in?
Your father's going to build 15 houses out here
right in a row.
And that's just for start.
That's good.
I wouldn't wanna live out here in the middle of nowhere.
Everybody needs neighbors.
Jerri Jo...
What's going on?
You know, sometimes people, they got to work things out.
Everything's just fine.
Right. Today it's fine.
What about tomorrow?
Maybe next year.
Jerri Jo, are you irritated with me?
I love you.
No.
No, no, it's not that simple.
I don't understand it. Is something wrong?
Look...
I don't want to be stopped in one place
by somebody's half-assed idea of what's proper.
I'm not even sure I want to teach.
Maybe I wouldn't be a good teacher, I don't know.
I feel... I feel like I'm crammed for 20 years with school,
and I'm not prepared to do a goddamn thing.
I want to...
Well, there's...
Like, I see you and me...
traveling all across the country.
Europe, maybe. A couple years.
Just go.
I thought you liked it here.
I like it here. I love it here.
But it's you.
That's what's important. You and me.
Okay.
Hey...
we're two new people, all right?
Let's try everything.
Let's not be satisfied.
And then, if you still want that house,
we'll buy it and we'll go to the supermarket.
We'll get that station wagon.
We'll see.
We'll talk about it later. Please?
Nobody ought to eat alone.
Sorry the women ain't in tonight.
Hey, that oldest Peavine brother in the back with Harv
is that Mavis's husband.
Cleo, you make the best chili in the world.
Well, you sure eat enough of it.
Adam.
Adam, they got me by the short hairs.
Damn it, I always told you to save money.
I'm in for 100 bucks, Adam.
They got my whole bankroll.
Adam?
Don't let them skunk me.
I'm hot, Adam.
I'm rolling.
That's your whole sum of pay?
Well, why are you carrying it around for?
Does this mean nothing to you?
You go bust their asses here.
Son of a bitch.
These are loaded dice!
Hey, now, you cool your butt, hillbilly.
You hear?
This money's mine.
Come this time, we can't cause trouble.
That's my TV repair money.
You got no right to take a man's life away.
Now you stubborn trash.
Get the hell out of this saloon.
Yeah, well, give me that.
In a pig's ass! Oh, yeah?
Well, let me tell you something, big shot.
I made your old lady, Mavis. I did her every which way!
You son of a bitch!
Stop!
Get out of here, hillbilly!
Come on!
Get off him now.
Get off!
Oh, my.
My, oh my, oh my.
Come on, let's get out.
No, no, no, no! Let's go.
Adam...
Shut up! Shut up!
Let go of me, or I'll kill you too!
Shut up!
I'll kill him!
Let's go! Where'd they go?
Let's get in the car and go find them!
Come on.
Come on! Let's go!
There they are! There they are!
Come on, back up!
I'm gonna kill you, son of a bitch!
Do you see them? We've lost them. We lost them.
I'm gonna kill them son of a bitches.
Come on, Harvey. Come on.
Let go...
Hey, shut up! Shut up!
You let me go! Shut up!
Adam...
Oh, my God.
They took all my money, Adam. It's okay, Harv.
They treat me like white trash dirt!
It's okay, Harv.
That's two years savings, Adam. I'm broke!
It's your money too. I can't do that...
It's okay, Harvey.
Hey, I want to thank you, Adam.
Kept me from killing a man tonight.
That's the honest God's truth.
Yeah, I know when it's on me.
Oh, yeah, would have been the end to old Harv.
Don't want no more truck with the police.
You know I've been in jail?
I laid open a man's head with a beer bottle.
Frankly, got my own room in Jackson County.
Drunk tank.
Yeah, but this one would have done me in.
Well... I don't think...
Well, I ain't ever gonna be able to pay you back your money.
Your sum of money.
Come on, forget it, will you?
You know what you got over everybody else?
I mean, you know I studied out about you?
What's that?
Well...
you're different from us.
You got brains.
And now you got yourself the balls to go along with it.
Yeah.
You got a leg up in this world.
And I'm thanking you.
Here, you take it.
You got the means to do something with it.
I think I'm gonna be traveling this line the rest of my life.
Busting brush.
Harvey, Harvey, you got it made.
Don't stop driving. You can make the whole world.
God, boy.
I'm tired of running.
Running around circles.
It's running.
Man says to me, "You're born alone.
You die alone."
But nobody ever told me
I'd live all this time in between alone too.
God, I love my old Alma.
Love the beautiful kids.
That's all it really is, Adam.
Here I am, stuck...
running around the countryside, nailing hookers, and...
...getting puke drunk.
You promise me you'll look into that TV repair.
I promise.
Summer crew gets laid off next week.
Orville, Leroy and Elwood and me be going on up to Nebraska.
God, it's over.
Marry me.
Yeah.
Yeah, if you want a ring we can get it today.
Adam.
You take care. Take care of yourself.
Elwood, I'll see you. Adam, the best to you.
And you take good care of yourself.
We're gonna be thinking about you.
It's been a good summer.
Yeah, for you especially.
You know, it ain't every day
a man finds himself a good woman.
Our boy's engaged.
Told you all along he weren't no queer.
Oh, Orville.
Here.
It's from the boys.
I don't know how to thank you all.
I'm very touched.
Use them in good health.
The manual.
You got that TV manual? Oh, yeah.
Get moving!
I love you!
Adam.
Errands.
See you later.
Excuse me.
Hi, Mr. Bruin. How are you? Hello.
Oh, Adam, how I do so hope you'll be happy.
Thank you very much. Adam, congratulations.
Thank you. Oh, Adam.
Excuse me.
Good luck to you. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Isn't this a lovely engagement party?
Congratulations, son. Thank you very much, sir.
Oh, listen, Adam,
I got you that appointment with the dean
over at North Central Missouri State.
And my brother-in-law fixed it up,
so you got nothing to worry about.
Thank you.
Anything for you, son.
And oh, by the way, I've got a charge account
over at Mr. Swank's men's store.
So if you want to, you can just go over there
and pick yourself up a nice suit and shirt
and tie, the works. Charge it to me.
Thank you very much.
Hello, stranger.
You having a good time?
Good time.
So, what I mean by...
You two.
You have got to talk to Miss Odin.
Come on.
But you don't have a honeymoon.
Oh, yes, yeah.
That's fun.
...you would never have known...
Oh, Jerri Jo, it's so romantic.
But I suppose this means that you won't be going
through sorority rush week at college.
I really don't need a sorority now.
But you are going to college, aren't you?
Oh, of course.
I'll be going wherever Adam teaches.
You a schoolteacher too?
I'll be coaching basketball and teaching math and hygiene
here at the high school this fall.
Have you picked out your dish pattern yet?
Carl and I chose aux moss rose
with the matching silver pattern.
We haven't looked yet.
You always get
the best of everything, Jerri Jo.
...visit Adam's parents.
You're going to be living here with your folks?
We were thinking of traveling.
Oh, Adam, not that stuff again.
We haven't quite decided yet,
but it'll probably be at that new development.
Franklin and I would love to buy out there!
Let's go, Jerri Jo.
Right now.
The one outside of Kansas City, you know,
with the two-car garage and the French provincial...
We are out of vanilla ice cream.
Will you go to A&P and get some?
Well, I see you're bossing your future son-in-law already.
No. I love him to pieces.
And, Adam, take your little red car.
I'd be delighted.
Excuse me.
Vanilla. Get a lot of vanilla.
Where are you going?
I've been sent for vanilla.
What's the matter?
You made your world so damn small, Jerri Jo.
So neat...
and clean...
and pretty.
Isn't that what everyone wants?
It's not what I want.
Not for me.
What about me?
I love you.
I really do.
But I don't love what comes with the package.
Wait.
After they've gone,
we'll go to Emily Sanderson's house.
Will you come to the A&P with me?
I can't leave the party.
I understand.
I'll talk to you later.
We'll work everything out.Sure.
I know we will.
Three dollars.