Married Alive (2026) Movie Script
1
- Hey!
Sorry.
- No, you're-- you're cool.
Uh, I'm cool.
- Are you okay?
- Why?
- Well, because you were
just sitting out there,
not moving.
Just sitting out there
on your board like a stone.
- Yeah well, I was
just waiting for just--
- Just the right wave.
I don't think so, Tony.
I know you.
Looked like you were
someplace else.
You still do.
Okay... busted.
But so were you.
Yeah, I could see you
all the way up there from...
...all the way out there.
With that whole
Emily Dickinson thing
you've always got going.
-
Poems don't come easy.
Neither do waves.
If I don't do this
right this second--
- Oh, my god.
- Lilly...
You took a little boy
with a lot of baggage,
and took his mind off
himself and his troubles
to focus every move
that he makes...
on you.
- All that, huh?
- Yeah.
-
I-- I thought it would
be impossible
for you to even
love me back.
So do you?
- Yeah.
- Really?
- Yes!
Are you shaking
because you're scared
or because you're cold?
Let's just elope on a glacier.
How about that?
Gus?
Gus!
Jesus, what are you
doing out here?
- Nothing.
- You think?
- Who am I hurting?
- Goddammit!
You've been doing great.
- Yeah.
But then there's
my unquenchable thirst.
- You could have killed someone.
- We're in the middle
of nowhere, man.
- Well, you could
have killed me.
- But I didn't.
When did that stop
counting for something?
Check.
- This set's made from
hand-carved camel bone.
- I know.
I gave it to you
when you turned 23.
Check.
And when you turned 25.
Same birthday.
So... look, since you
finally got down on one knee...
- That was kind of cool,
wasn't it?
- Yeah, it was. You were
doing it all official-like.
- Yeah.
What I'm trying
to tell you
with the timing
of the ring and
with my saying
"yes" to that,
to that and
with my loving you...
and also liking you
a whole lot--
- Liking each other
is very important.
- Sweetie, we're a
whole lot pregnant.
- What?
- Smack dab in the middle.
- No, what-- what?
- Yeah.
Checkmate.
- Baby!
Are you excited?
- Hey, Tony.
You're looking
pretty hot up there.
- Why thank you, babe.
- I met Celsius-ly.
- Oh, wow.
If that's not a word...
...it should be.
Look at him.
Looks like a spider
up there.
Lilly?
- Hmm?
- What's going on?
You guys kind of actually look
like a couple of miracles.
- Well, it's because
we kind of are.
- So what now?
- He'll shimmy down
and then we'll meet him.
You know, if you'd at least
try free climbing
get an idea of how cool it is...
- Mmmm...
how about I try free shopping
for bed sheets
and then be under them
when you get home?
- Well, as much as I want the
three of us to do
things together--
- I'm marrying the son,
not the father,
but then there's that
Holy Ghost we've got going.
- What?
- Jesus.
I get it.
- Yeah.
- Yeah... yeah.
I got it. I'm sorry.
- Just don't
bring her up, ever.
- Tony, how can either one of us
promise to do that?
- We can try
because my mom's
just got to be off-limits.
I know.
It sucks.
- Good morning, officer.
Would you like
to see my ID?
- I've seen it.
- Call in late.
- I can't.
- Can't means won't.
Uncle Sheriff
wouldn't take any of this.
- Yeah, well...
what he doesn't know.
- Up with the sun, huh?
- I'm not eleven anymore, sis.
Morning.
- Morning.
Morning.
- Morning.
Thank you.
- Thank you.
I can't believe I'm living
in a house like this.
Dead parents.
- Totally worth it.
- How long has
it been since?
- One month.
- Oh, excellent.
Hello?
Uh-huh.
Yes, Ben.
Sure.
Hank.
- Yes, sir.
Nope... uh, no sir.
I haven't seen him.
Not for a few days.
Oh, I'm listening.
Uh-huh.
Yes, sir. Well...
I'll help find him.
Yeah, sure.
I've been thinking--
- About?
- Fun.
Uh-huh.
- Well, it's going to be
the whole weekend--
- The whole weekend?
- Yeah, and
Sunday's Father's Day.
Besides, it'll give you a chance
to hang with the girls.
And with your folks.
- All of them?
Alas.
- Cute. You know
his ringtone.
- Helen Keller knows it.
- Hey, Dad.
- Yo.
Are we on schedule?
- Uh, yeah.
- Liar.
- All right.
Tell her I said thanks.
What for?
- For letting us go.
- She thanks you
for making me.
- I'll see you soon.
- You were
some queen, baby.
Unfair.
- Oh... okay.
- This is going to be fun.
- Yeah. I'll get your stuff.
Dad...
- No.
For protection.
- Get in.
- Are we good?
- Not yet.
The Lord
is my shepherd.
I shall not want.
He makes me lie down
in green pastures.
He leads me
beside still waters.
- Hold it together,
Gus, okay?
He was my dad.
And your brother.
I don't know how you can.
- I can...
...because I choose to.
We pick our foes.
You want to mix it up
at a funeral, go for it.
But you'll take
whatever comes
standing or flat
on your face.
- I don't know
the difference.
- What about sobriety?
- My sponsor offed himself.
He chose.
There's Lucas.
And he's going to be in my face.
So I choose.
If looks could kill.
- We'd get a family rate.
- Dad?
Dad?
- Are you ready?
- Uh, yeah.
Are you okay?
- I like that you
keep asking
as if half your life's
been me as a kid
and you as the dad.
- Remember when you
surprised me
on my sixteenth birthday?
- I got my work schedule
mixed up.
- Uh-huh.
- I walked in and
the two of you
were naked in
the living room.
- On grandma's
living room sofa.
- Made it worse.
- It wasn't that.
It was because Lilly and I
were the same age
as you and Mom just before--
- Jesus Christ.
Okay, let's not.
- I won't let Lilly
go there.
And you won't let me.
- Nobody gets to.
Stop the car.
Never carry one,
not ever.
And we got a hunting rifle
at the cabin.
- When have we
ever hunted?
- It's for protection,
like you said.
- But now I don't know
what that means.
Protect us from what?
Dad...
I know you
don't like them.
But it's a different world
than when
you were a kid.
Maybe if you'd
had protection,
then things--
- They had assault weapons!
- I'm almost 30,
and I don't know
how to have a
conversation about this yet.
- Then let's not.
- Okay.
- Okay.
Yeah.
- No, let's.
We were seventeen.
- Here we go.
- It doesn't go away.
- Shit, I can't talk
about this with you.
I can't talk
about it with her.
- Oh, poor you.
- Hell yeah, poor me.
Because until I became
a firefighter myself,
every time you
went to work,
I got sick.
- Jesus.
- No, I'm okay.
But I've watched
other people do it,
raising a kid alone.
And I would
say to myself,
that's my life.
And then there
was that fire
down our own street
back when I was twelve.
- Tony, come on.
- I got on my bike,
and I got there
just in time
to watch you
carrying these two
big-ass Huskies,
one under each arm.
One was almost dead,
so you gave it CPR.
Mouth to mouth.
Who does that?
- Me. I do.
But you never let me
explain why,
exactly why.
- Dad...
- Tony...
you're getting married.
Your mom and me,
we wanted to.
But we couldn't.
- Okay.
- There it is.
Shit, you don't listen.
We didn't bring our lunch
because it was meatloaf day.
Your mom and me were
crouched in the cafeteria,
next to my quarterback
and your mom's yell leader.
I could see their eyes.
And then...
crack, crack, crack!
And I could feel
blood under us.
It was warm--
nice, really, because
there was snow outside.
We didn't know
what was happening.
Not at first.
Then our school nurse,
Yvonne, landed.
Next, the cafeteria chef, Bodhi.
He was coming out of
the kitchen because
meatloaf was
his signature dish.
And then...
like bowling pins...
they scattered and splattered
on the hardwood floor.
That's what went down.
That's what
they don't tell you
on the nightly news.
- Oh, yeah.
- Anton!
My man, my man.
- Oh, cool.
Look at you.
Been going to the
gym a little bit?
A little bit? Yeah.
- Easy, pup.
- Sorry. Still
act like a rescue.
- Oh yeah, you kicked parvo.
- You guys going
camping, or what?
We got the cabin, but
more off-road this trip.
- Yeah, last one for a while.
I'm getting married.
- All right, Tony!
Hey, for the honeymoon.
- How's it going?
- Not sure.
Not for nothing, guys,
but we had some goddammit
weather last night.
- Too much, or just enough?
- Enough to add texture.
Alvin, my man,
that's just what
we're counting on.
- Nope, it's on the house.
- Sure?
- Oh, yeah, most definitely.
You guys...
you're celebrating.
- It's good to see you.
- You too. Safe drive
out there, guys.
Dad...
What'd the hurricane say
to the coconut tree?
- What?
Hold on to your nuts.
This ain't no ordinary blowjob.
- Hey, you know it
says no trespassing, right?
- Yeah!
- Let's go.
- This is it!
Woooooo!
- Alvin was right.
We're going to get
some weather.
Awesome.
Hold on.
- Dude, stop playing
games, all right?
- Dad, I'm not playing.
- Are you serious?
- Uh, yeah, just
give me a minute.
- Are we going
to have to ditch it?
- No, let's shift
our weight.
- Now you're into this.
- Yeah, parents get to waffle.
Shit.
- Do you know
where the chain is?
- Yeah.
- If you can grab it
and maybe
tie it off on that rock.
- Okay, okay.
- Careful, be careful.
Yeah, okay.
You good?
- Yeah!
Dad?
- You all right?
Yeah.
Hurry, Dad.
- Tony, how you doing?
- I'll jump
if I have to, okay?
- Tony, just-- hey, shift!
Shift it, now punch it!
- I'm trying. I'm trying!
Tony! Tony!
- Dad, it's sliding!
- Jump!
- Dad!
We're sliding!
- Tony!
- Dad! Dad, I'm--
- I can't hold it!
Jump! Tony!
- Dad!
- Tony!
- Here.
- Where?
- Come on, Dad.
- Come here.
Come here.
- Are you okay?
- Am I okay?
I'm here.
- That hurts.
- I know, I know.
Give me a hand.
Give me a hand.
Tony!
Hey, hey, look at me.
Breathe. Breathe.
Breathe.... Breathe.
Hey, hey, hey.
We got this.
We got this.
Okay? Okay. Okay.
- Excuse me.
Can I get another whiskey?
- Yeah.
- Um, yeah. Yes.
You can just leave the bottle.
- You sure?
- Yeah.
- What are you doing, Frank?
- He just said that I could--
- You're training. Not pouring.
Want me to lose my license?
- I guess I got to learn
to read the room.
- How are you doing, Lucas?
- Been better.
Been worse.
Same difference.
- Hmm.
She's a good one.
- Yeah.
Yeah, she's the best part.
Mine's pint-sized.
- Hey, Mom.
- Hi, honey.
- Can I, Missy?
- I've had your back
most of your life,
but is hanging around
such a good idea?
- Rarely.
But...
It's the only home I know.
Better get going.
Good boy.
What's with you?
- You're nice to him.
- Sweetie, it's not that hard.
Come here.
Hey, lift your head up.
I don't know, kid.
We gotta go for help.
Come on!
- Is there time?
You got to be shitting me.
Dad...
Dad...
Dad, Dad, that won't help.
There's no reception.
Come on. Come on.
You're making it worse.
I'm here, I'm here.
I'm here.
- You're making it--
- All right, all
right. All right.
I'm going to figure this out.
Don't you worry.
I got you, okay?
Let me see.
All right, listen.
There's some gaps
under there. I'm going
to go find something
and we'll use it as leverage
and get this Jeep off you, okay?
I'll be right back.
- No, no, no, don't go.
- I'll be right back.
I'll be right back.
I won't leave you.
I won't leave you.
Nothing's going to happen, okay?
I'll be right back. All right?
- Dad, hu-- hurry.
Tony!
- Right here.
- You doing okay?
- Yeah.
- All right, here we go.
Ow!
Nope.
- I made it worse.
Does anything feel broken?
- Oh! Oh!
- Okay then.
Your vitals are strong.
That's good.
Two lousy days.
Why'd you pack so much?
- Dad.
Look straight ahead.
- Oh! Oh!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
gimme your wrists!
- This is way past
being fun.
- Yeah.
We can do this.
- What?
- This... this!
We got a jack.
- Really?
On mud?
- We gotta try.
How old is
this piece of shit?
- It came with the Jeep.
- Yeah, well, you're supposed
to upgrade
our equipment, man.
Sorry, Dad.
- Here we go.
- Dad...?
Ah!
Dad, you got to stop.
- Okay, okay, okay, okay.
- Look, look, look.
The Jeep's too heavy
and the mud is too soft.
Just-- just go, man.
- I'll get you out.
Dad, you said jump.
I'm sorry.
- I was guessing.
- No, no, no.
Firemen don't guess.
- Yes we do.
That's bullshit.
- You're the one who says it.
Here we go.
There's a landline
at the cabin.
Listen, you may go into shock.
I got to leave you alone.
You're going to want
to rest your eyes.
You're going to want
to go to sleep.
You can't.
You got to do
whatever you got to do
to stay awake.
You hear me? I'll be back.
- Okay.
- Chugga-lugging, huh, dummy?
- Just taking off the edge.
- How about just taking off?
- I wonder if
any of us ever wonder
why there's so much dirt
next to an open grave.
Casket takes up a lot of space.
- That is
an astute observation
from a sorry ass.
- Oh, yeah. I'm a loser.
But of course then there's you.
- So, later, brother.
- No, stay, bro,
so you and me can talk.
You know why?
- Why?
- Because
I can't do anything alone.
I'm scared to be alone.
That's a good one, right?
- No.
And you're blowing
a sad day.
So, how about you don't?
Screw it.
- You took a lot from us.
- Don't black out.
- Oh, I'm not there yet.
- Yet?
Hey, guys, guys.
Hi. This is my bar.
If you can't kiss
and make up,
especially on a day
like today,
then I'm gonna have
to call the law.
- He was in my face.
- How smart is that?
- Not very.
Lucas...
How many times
do I have to say it?
- Lots.
- You took away today.
You're so damn bad, bro.
We couldn't stand you,
Ben and me and Dad.
So, yeah, you came back
to show your respects.
Dumb. So go.
Just--
- Go?
- Let's.
Hey, what did I say?
- He's just baiting you.
- Hey, accidental families
kinda suck.
Our father wanted
to make you a better man.
You may be right.
But how'd the
rest of you turn out?
- You didn't want
to pick up the shovel.
I would have had to look
across the grave at you!
- If you had never been born...
Gus, knock it off!
- She was your first victim.
- I came back
for the funeral
for some sick nostalgia
before I permanently get lost.
- Then let's do that.
- Lucas! Lucas!
Get off of him! Stop!
Jesus, Jesus...
I'm sorry.
- Lucas.
No... no!
- Oh, God, no!
God, no!
I'm sorry, man.
I'm sorry.
- Shut up...
Oh, God!
Do something.
Stay with me.
Lucas, get out of here.
Get out of here!
No!
Let's get you out...
No! No!
Run!
Just hold on.
Hold on, okay?
Yep.
- It's gonna be okay.
- Listen up, Dad.
Every road company
that came through town,
that you dragged me to.
Community theaters
or Richard Harris.
I finally figured
it wasn't them.
It was to see who
was playing the Queen.
Guinevere.
Jenny.
"If I could choose
from every woman
who breathes on the earth,
the ace I would most love.
The voice.
The touch.
The very soul itself.
They would all be you."
"Proposition.
If I could choose
from every man
who breathes on the earth.
A man for my father.
A man for my friend.
They would all be..."
Lord, listen.
Dad can't go through
losing anyone else again.
Please.
- Shit.
- Lilly...
I can't move anything
down below.
Just saying I'm glad
we went for it.
A lot.
And a few times
with shoes on.
"I shan't be wounded
and not return it in kind."
"I'm through
with feeble hoping."
- Goddammit.
- Shit.
Gus got in his face
over and over.
The worst was
bound to happen.
Yeah... the worst.
- Hey, honey.
- It all happened so fast,
but Gus made
Lucas angry and--
Missy?!
You let your kid see this?
Yeah, Ben, because
I wanted it
to be in his head
for the rest of his life.
Meet me in the other room.
- Okay.
- So how'd that
sponsoring shit work out?
Hey!
Where the hell do you
think you're going?
- Hey, Ben.
- And you...
I'm thinking Gus
was over-poured.
You tell the EMTs
to treat him like he
was theirs, okay?
Where did he go?
- I have no idea.
And even if I did,
I wouldn't tell you.
- Mother, father...
and now my--
my brother's kid.
- Don't kill me.
- No way.
- No way what?
- You'll see.
What the hell
does that mean?
Let me see your hands.
- Goddammit!
- My son is screwed.
And you're gonna help him.
Get up on your feet!
- How?
- You'll see.
If we're all lucky.
- I'm on the run.
- Not anymore.
- I shouldn't be.
- I don't care.
- Okay!
If I'd have got
ahold of that rifle...
I'd have used it.
My kid doesn't have time
for any shit.
- Why me?
- You had a father,
didn't you?
- Yeah.
- He's nothing like me.
- What happened?
- Our Jeep spun out,
then flipped.
My kid's pinned under it...
in a riverbed.
- Well then call for help.
- There's no signal.
- I've-- I've seen you.
- Yeah, you're the prick
from Alvin's.
- What's your name?
- Lucas.
- You give bad
first impressions.
- My mother always told me...
you're either the snake
or the mouse.
Sometimes I got
mistook as the rat.
I still don't think
you got it in you
to kill me.
- That would've
been true yesterday.
- All that music.
All that pain.
Coming from the same place.
But I liked the king, Dad.
Because he
reminded me of you.
"This is
the time of King Arthur.
And we shall reach
for the stars.
By God, Excalibur.
I shall be a king.
This is the time
of King Arthur.
Where violence is not strength.
And compassion is not weakness."
Can we stop?
- What are you, high?
As a matter of fact...
Yeah, I am.
- Medicinal, I'll bet.
- When's it ever not been?
- Right.
- Hey, will you lighten up?
Where am I going?
- Did you get anything good
from your dad?
- Fake ID.
- Maybe we can change that.
- Then let me go.
- What if he's dead?
- Who?
- Tony.
- Who's Tony?
- My boy.
- He's not dead.
He's not.
- Come on, gotta move.
Move your ass.
- Got it.
- Merlin...
Make me a bird.
"We are civilized.
Resolved.
We shall go
through this together.
They...
...you...
...and I.
And may God
have mercy on us all."
He got a head start,
and it's dark.
- I can track him
in my sleep.
- Don't you think
he knows that?
- Yeah, that's why
we're off the beaten path.
Gus was alive this morning.
So what went down?
- Well, they're all
pretty sure
that my brother died
because of me.
- Were there witnesses?
- A slew, but...
that doesn't matter,
because our uncle,
the sheriff, he's a badass,
and he hates me
just like my father did.
- Hey...
fathers don't hate sons.
- If they catch me,
I go to prison. For life.
That's what they do
to people like me,
from where I'm from,
and people like you....
they just look the other way.
- Fuck you.
Jesus.
You're gonna fall.
- Shit happens.
- You know how much
I hate that expression?
Let me see your hands.
- Hands.
- I promise I won't run.
- I promise I know.
- Hey... you don't
need a gun.
- I wish I didn't.
Come on, Dad.
We're losing.
Hi, Lilly... it's me again.
I'm still here.
Please don't blame
my dad on this,
because he wants
you and me to be...
well, you and me.
And Dad...
don't mess with yourself
like you always do.
And have fun being a grandpa.
- You know, if this thing
works out for Tony,
it'll be the first good thing
that'll happen for me
in a real long time.
I just...
I just can't do it.
- I promise, if we get
to him in time, I--
- What?!
What'll you do?
- Cold...
Be over!
- Come on, we gotta go.
Oh, shit!
It's just up ahead.
There it is!
Oh my God, Tony! Tony!
- What-- what took you?
- Him!
Lucas!
Lucas, I'm begging you! Lucas!
- Who was that guy?
- It doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
- Dad, I'm sorry, I tried.
- No, no, you did good!
- No, every move I made,
I made things worse.
- Come on!
Come on!
- Stop, you're killing me!
- Tony, shit!
I'm gonna get you out!
- Dad, Dad, listen!
If nobody comes--
- Stop! Stop!
- If nobody comes--
- Stop!
How many times
did you say goodbye?
- Not once.
-That's right.
I thought he wasn't all bad.
- That's what you do.
It's how you got through
what we went through.
- Yeah, I believe
strangers can be...
in the blink of
an eye, they can--
- Fix anything.
- Right. That's
your mom and you.
But I can't just sit here
and watch you sink, okay?
- I mean, that's kinda
what you're doing.
You know what I'm saying?
- Lucas, goddammit!
- Mack!
Come on, push!
- Let me take these tires off!
Take the tires off!
Hey, hang in there, Tony!
Hang in there!
Tony, hang in there!
Just breathe, breathe!
- Gotta be lighter!
Get some rocks!
- No, we tried that!
No traction!
Let's try it anyway!
We gotta build
a base for the jack!
Come on, get some rocks!
Hang in there!
- Lucas?
Yeah?
- Thank you.
- Don't thank me yet!
Stay with us!
All right, buddy?
Almost ready.
That should hold, right?
It better!
-I'm gonna need you
to use your arms
when we lift the Jeep!
- How did you pull off
getting this dude?
- He needed
a little convincing.
- You got him?
Yeah!
Is it holding?
- You tell me!
Dad, Dad!
- Mack! Mack, it's
gonna take more than
you and me!
Hey, get that chain!
Shit.
- Hey, stay with me.
Come on!
- All right, Tony,
I'm gonna put this chain
around your torso.
- Okay!
- Doing okay, kid?
- Yes, sir.
- All right, all right, attaboy.
Good? .
One second. Okay.
- Can you pull
or should I?
I got it!
- I'm younger!
- Yeah but I got you here!
- You had a gun!
- Well, shit, if we're
gonna split hairs--
Hey! Goddammit!
Pull!
Jack can't take much more!
- Lift!
Pull!
- Come on, Arthur!
Pull that sword
out of the stone!
Lift!
I got you, I got you.
Come on, you got it!
- Help him!
- God damn it!
Tony, I'm gonna need you
to push as hard
as you can.
On three.
One... two...
Three!
Come on!
God!
- So let's go find Kelly!
How come I
still love you when
I haven't seen you
in a long time
Then you come by
and I can't pretend
I'm wondering how I
can keep you mine.
No matter what you do
I'm still in love with you
eternally.
Look into my eyes,
make me realize
there's hope for me
and hopefully
Another chance to say
I love you.
Tell me, I've got to know
Another chance to say
I want you
Don't ever let me go.
You still mean
so much to me
It's not
that I was lonely
In a crowd
you're all I see
I'm thinking
of you only
Just look my way
and maybe say
say that we've both been
Born again.
Look into my eyes
and realize
I made it through,
came back to you.
Another chance
for you to love me
I would do anything.
Another chance
for you to want me
I would give everything.
My heart finally realized
Another chance
to lay beside you
Your belief in me
made me live again
Another chance to make it back
from that broken-hearted past
Back now you understand
that we have another chance.
Another chance
for me to love you
Tell me I've got to know.
Another chance
for me to want you
Don't ever let it go.
Another chance
if you still love me
I would do anything
Another chance
for you to want me
I would give everything.
My heart finally realized
another chance
to lay beside you
oYour belief in me
made me live again
Another chance to make it back
from that broken-hearted past
back now you understand
that we have another chance
Another chance
for me to love you.
Tell me I've got to know.
Another chance
for me to want you.
Don't ever let it go.
Another chance
if you still love me
I would do anything.
Another chance
if you still want me
I would give everything.
- Hey!
Sorry.
- No, you're-- you're cool.
Uh, I'm cool.
- Are you okay?
- Why?
- Well, because you were
just sitting out there,
not moving.
Just sitting out there
on your board like a stone.
- Yeah well, I was
just waiting for just--
- Just the right wave.
I don't think so, Tony.
I know you.
Looked like you were
someplace else.
You still do.
Okay... busted.
But so were you.
Yeah, I could see you
all the way up there from...
...all the way out there.
With that whole
Emily Dickinson thing
you've always got going.
-
Poems don't come easy.
Neither do waves.
If I don't do this
right this second--
- Oh, my god.
- Lilly...
You took a little boy
with a lot of baggage,
and took his mind off
himself and his troubles
to focus every move
that he makes...
on you.
- All that, huh?
- Yeah.
-
I-- I thought it would
be impossible
for you to even
love me back.
So do you?
- Yeah.
- Really?
- Yes!
Are you shaking
because you're scared
or because you're cold?
Let's just elope on a glacier.
How about that?
Gus?
Gus!
Jesus, what are you
doing out here?
- Nothing.
- You think?
- Who am I hurting?
- Goddammit!
You've been doing great.
- Yeah.
But then there's
my unquenchable thirst.
- You could have killed someone.
- We're in the middle
of nowhere, man.
- Well, you could
have killed me.
- But I didn't.
When did that stop
counting for something?
Check.
- This set's made from
hand-carved camel bone.
- I know.
I gave it to you
when you turned 23.
Check.
And when you turned 25.
Same birthday.
So... look, since you
finally got down on one knee...
- That was kind of cool,
wasn't it?
- Yeah, it was. You were
doing it all official-like.
- Yeah.
What I'm trying
to tell you
with the timing
of the ring and
with my saying
"yes" to that,
to that and
with my loving you...
and also liking you
a whole lot--
- Liking each other
is very important.
- Sweetie, we're a
whole lot pregnant.
- What?
- Smack dab in the middle.
- No, what-- what?
- Yeah.
Checkmate.
- Baby!
Are you excited?
- Hey, Tony.
You're looking
pretty hot up there.
- Why thank you, babe.
- I met Celsius-ly.
- Oh, wow.
If that's not a word...
...it should be.
Look at him.
Looks like a spider
up there.
Lilly?
- Hmm?
- What's going on?
You guys kind of actually look
like a couple of miracles.
- Well, it's because
we kind of are.
- So what now?
- He'll shimmy down
and then we'll meet him.
You know, if you'd at least
try free climbing
get an idea of how cool it is...
- Mmmm...
how about I try free shopping
for bed sheets
and then be under them
when you get home?
- Well, as much as I want the
three of us to do
things together--
- I'm marrying the son,
not the father,
but then there's that
Holy Ghost we've got going.
- What?
- Jesus.
I get it.
- Yeah.
- Yeah... yeah.
I got it. I'm sorry.
- Just don't
bring her up, ever.
- Tony, how can either one of us
promise to do that?
- We can try
because my mom's
just got to be off-limits.
I know.
It sucks.
- Good morning, officer.
Would you like
to see my ID?
- I've seen it.
- Call in late.
- I can't.
- Can't means won't.
Uncle Sheriff
wouldn't take any of this.
- Yeah, well...
what he doesn't know.
- Up with the sun, huh?
- I'm not eleven anymore, sis.
Morning.
- Morning.
Morning.
- Morning.
Thank you.
- Thank you.
I can't believe I'm living
in a house like this.
Dead parents.
- Totally worth it.
- How long has
it been since?
- One month.
- Oh, excellent.
Hello?
Uh-huh.
Yes, Ben.
Sure.
Hank.
- Yes, sir.
Nope... uh, no sir.
I haven't seen him.
Not for a few days.
Oh, I'm listening.
Uh-huh.
Yes, sir. Well...
I'll help find him.
Yeah, sure.
I've been thinking--
- About?
- Fun.
Uh-huh.
- Well, it's going to be
the whole weekend--
- The whole weekend?
- Yeah, and
Sunday's Father's Day.
Besides, it'll give you a chance
to hang with the girls.
And with your folks.
- All of them?
Alas.
- Cute. You know
his ringtone.
- Helen Keller knows it.
- Hey, Dad.
- Yo.
Are we on schedule?
- Uh, yeah.
- Liar.
- All right.
Tell her I said thanks.
What for?
- For letting us go.
- She thanks you
for making me.
- I'll see you soon.
- You were
some queen, baby.
Unfair.
- Oh... okay.
- This is going to be fun.
- Yeah. I'll get your stuff.
Dad...
- No.
For protection.
- Get in.
- Are we good?
- Not yet.
The Lord
is my shepherd.
I shall not want.
He makes me lie down
in green pastures.
He leads me
beside still waters.
- Hold it together,
Gus, okay?
He was my dad.
And your brother.
I don't know how you can.
- I can...
...because I choose to.
We pick our foes.
You want to mix it up
at a funeral, go for it.
But you'll take
whatever comes
standing or flat
on your face.
- I don't know
the difference.
- What about sobriety?
- My sponsor offed himself.
He chose.
There's Lucas.
And he's going to be in my face.
So I choose.
If looks could kill.
- We'd get a family rate.
- Dad?
Dad?
- Are you ready?
- Uh, yeah.
Are you okay?
- I like that you
keep asking
as if half your life's
been me as a kid
and you as the dad.
- Remember when you
surprised me
on my sixteenth birthday?
- I got my work schedule
mixed up.
- Uh-huh.
- I walked in and
the two of you
were naked in
the living room.
- On grandma's
living room sofa.
- Made it worse.
- It wasn't that.
It was because Lilly and I
were the same age
as you and Mom just before--
- Jesus Christ.
Okay, let's not.
- I won't let Lilly
go there.
And you won't let me.
- Nobody gets to.
Stop the car.
Never carry one,
not ever.
And we got a hunting rifle
at the cabin.
- When have we
ever hunted?
- It's for protection,
like you said.
- But now I don't know
what that means.
Protect us from what?
Dad...
I know you
don't like them.
But it's a different world
than when
you were a kid.
Maybe if you'd
had protection,
then things--
- They had assault weapons!
- I'm almost 30,
and I don't know
how to have a
conversation about this yet.
- Then let's not.
- Okay.
- Okay.
Yeah.
- No, let's.
We were seventeen.
- Here we go.
- It doesn't go away.
- Shit, I can't talk
about this with you.
I can't talk
about it with her.
- Oh, poor you.
- Hell yeah, poor me.
Because until I became
a firefighter myself,
every time you
went to work,
I got sick.
- Jesus.
- No, I'm okay.
But I've watched
other people do it,
raising a kid alone.
And I would
say to myself,
that's my life.
And then there
was that fire
down our own street
back when I was twelve.
- Tony, come on.
- I got on my bike,
and I got there
just in time
to watch you
carrying these two
big-ass Huskies,
one under each arm.
One was almost dead,
so you gave it CPR.
Mouth to mouth.
Who does that?
- Me. I do.
But you never let me
explain why,
exactly why.
- Dad...
- Tony...
you're getting married.
Your mom and me,
we wanted to.
But we couldn't.
- Okay.
- There it is.
Shit, you don't listen.
We didn't bring our lunch
because it was meatloaf day.
Your mom and me were
crouched in the cafeteria,
next to my quarterback
and your mom's yell leader.
I could see their eyes.
And then...
crack, crack, crack!
And I could feel
blood under us.
It was warm--
nice, really, because
there was snow outside.
We didn't know
what was happening.
Not at first.
Then our school nurse,
Yvonne, landed.
Next, the cafeteria chef, Bodhi.
He was coming out of
the kitchen because
meatloaf was
his signature dish.
And then...
like bowling pins...
they scattered and splattered
on the hardwood floor.
That's what went down.
That's what
they don't tell you
on the nightly news.
- Oh, yeah.
- Anton!
My man, my man.
- Oh, cool.
Look at you.
Been going to the
gym a little bit?
A little bit? Yeah.
- Easy, pup.
- Sorry. Still
act like a rescue.
- Oh yeah, you kicked parvo.
- You guys going
camping, or what?
We got the cabin, but
more off-road this trip.
- Yeah, last one for a while.
I'm getting married.
- All right, Tony!
Hey, for the honeymoon.
- How's it going?
- Not sure.
Not for nothing, guys,
but we had some goddammit
weather last night.
- Too much, or just enough?
- Enough to add texture.
Alvin, my man,
that's just what
we're counting on.
- Nope, it's on the house.
- Sure?
- Oh, yeah, most definitely.
You guys...
you're celebrating.
- It's good to see you.
- You too. Safe drive
out there, guys.
Dad...
What'd the hurricane say
to the coconut tree?
- What?
Hold on to your nuts.
This ain't no ordinary blowjob.
- Hey, you know it
says no trespassing, right?
- Yeah!
- Let's go.
- This is it!
Woooooo!
- Alvin was right.
We're going to get
some weather.
Awesome.
Hold on.
- Dude, stop playing
games, all right?
- Dad, I'm not playing.
- Are you serious?
- Uh, yeah, just
give me a minute.
- Are we going
to have to ditch it?
- No, let's shift
our weight.
- Now you're into this.
- Yeah, parents get to waffle.
Shit.
- Do you know
where the chain is?
- Yeah.
- If you can grab it
and maybe
tie it off on that rock.
- Okay, okay.
- Careful, be careful.
Yeah, okay.
You good?
- Yeah!
Dad?
- You all right?
Yeah.
Hurry, Dad.
- Tony, how you doing?
- I'll jump
if I have to, okay?
- Tony, just-- hey, shift!
Shift it, now punch it!
- I'm trying. I'm trying!
Tony! Tony!
- Dad, it's sliding!
- Jump!
- Dad!
We're sliding!
- Tony!
- Dad! Dad, I'm--
- I can't hold it!
Jump! Tony!
- Dad!
- Tony!
- Here.
- Where?
- Come on, Dad.
- Come here.
Come here.
- Are you okay?
- Am I okay?
I'm here.
- That hurts.
- I know, I know.
Give me a hand.
Give me a hand.
Tony!
Hey, hey, look at me.
Breathe. Breathe.
Breathe.... Breathe.
Hey, hey, hey.
We got this.
We got this.
Okay? Okay. Okay.
- Excuse me.
Can I get another whiskey?
- Yeah.
- Um, yeah. Yes.
You can just leave the bottle.
- You sure?
- Yeah.
- What are you doing, Frank?
- He just said that I could--
- You're training. Not pouring.
Want me to lose my license?
- I guess I got to learn
to read the room.
- How are you doing, Lucas?
- Been better.
Been worse.
Same difference.
- Hmm.
She's a good one.
- Yeah.
Yeah, she's the best part.
Mine's pint-sized.
- Hey, Mom.
- Hi, honey.
- Can I, Missy?
- I've had your back
most of your life,
but is hanging around
such a good idea?
- Rarely.
But...
It's the only home I know.
Better get going.
Good boy.
What's with you?
- You're nice to him.
- Sweetie, it's not that hard.
Come here.
Hey, lift your head up.
I don't know, kid.
We gotta go for help.
Come on!
- Is there time?
You got to be shitting me.
Dad...
Dad...
Dad, Dad, that won't help.
There's no reception.
Come on. Come on.
You're making it worse.
I'm here, I'm here.
I'm here.
- You're making it--
- All right, all
right. All right.
I'm going to figure this out.
Don't you worry.
I got you, okay?
Let me see.
All right, listen.
There's some gaps
under there. I'm going
to go find something
and we'll use it as leverage
and get this Jeep off you, okay?
I'll be right back.
- No, no, no, don't go.
- I'll be right back.
I'll be right back.
I won't leave you.
I won't leave you.
Nothing's going to happen, okay?
I'll be right back. All right?
- Dad, hu-- hurry.
Tony!
- Right here.
- You doing okay?
- Yeah.
- All right, here we go.
Ow!
Nope.
- I made it worse.
Does anything feel broken?
- Oh! Oh!
- Okay then.
Your vitals are strong.
That's good.
Two lousy days.
Why'd you pack so much?
- Dad.
Look straight ahead.
- Oh! Oh!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
gimme your wrists!
- This is way past
being fun.
- Yeah.
We can do this.
- What?
- This... this!
We got a jack.
- Really?
On mud?
- We gotta try.
How old is
this piece of shit?
- It came with the Jeep.
- Yeah, well, you're supposed
to upgrade
our equipment, man.
Sorry, Dad.
- Here we go.
- Dad...?
Ah!
Dad, you got to stop.
- Okay, okay, okay, okay.
- Look, look, look.
The Jeep's too heavy
and the mud is too soft.
Just-- just go, man.
- I'll get you out.
Dad, you said jump.
I'm sorry.
- I was guessing.
- No, no, no.
Firemen don't guess.
- Yes we do.
That's bullshit.
- You're the one who says it.
Here we go.
There's a landline
at the cabin.
Listen, you may go into shock.
I got to leave you alone.
You're going to want
to rest your eyes.
You're going to want
to go to sleep.
You can't.
You got to do
whatever you got to do
to stay awake.
You hear me? I'll be back.
- Okay.
- Chugga-lugging, huh, dummy?
- Just taking off the edge.
- How about just taking off?
- I wonder if
any of us ever wonder
why there's so much dirt
next to an open grave.
Casket takes up a lot of space.
- That is
an astute observation
from a sorry ass.
- Oh, yeah. I'm a loser.
But of course then there's you.
- So, later, brother.
- No, stay, bro,
so you and me can talk.
You know why?
- Why?
- Because
I can't do anything alone.
I'm scared to be alone.
That's a good one, right?
- No.
And you're blowing
a sad day.
So, how about you don't?
Screw it.
- You took a lot from us.
- Don't black out.
- Oh, I'm not there yet.
- Yet?
Hey, guys, guys.
Hi. This is my bar.
If you can't kiss
and make up,
especially on a day
like today,
then I'm gonna have
to call the law.
- He was in my face.
- How smart is that?
- Not very.
Lucas...
How many times
do I have to say it?
- Lots.
- You took away today.
You're so damn bad, bro.
We couldn't stand you,
Ben and me and Dad.
So, yeah, you came back
to show your respects.
Dumb. So go.
Just--
- Go?
- Let's.
Hey, what did I say?
- He's just baiting you.
- Hey, accidental families
kinda suck.
Our father wanted
to make you a better man.
You may be right.
But how'd the
rest of you turn out?
- You didn't want
to pick up the shovel.
I would have had to look
across the grave at you!
- If you had never been born...
Gus, knock it off!
- She was your first victim.
- I came back
for the funeral
for some sick nostalgia
before I permanently get lost.
- Then let's do that.
- Lucas! Lucas!
Get off of him! Stop!
Jesus, Jesus...
I'm sorry.
- Lucas.
No... no!
- Oh, God, no!
God, no!
I'm sorry, man.
I'm sorry.
- Shut up...
Oh, God!
Do something.
Stay with me.
Lucas, get out of here.
Get out of here!
No!
Let's get you out...
No! No!
Run!
Just hold on.
Hold on, okay?
Yep.
- It's gonna be okay.
- Listen up, Dad.
Every road company
that came through town,
that you dragged me to.
Community theaters
or Richard Harris.
I finally figured
it wasn't them.
It was to see who
was playing the Queen.
Guinevere.
Jenny.
"If I could choose
from every woman
who breathes on the earth,
the ace I would most love.
The voice.
The touch.
The very soul itself.
They would all be you."
"Proposition.
If I could choose
from every man
who breathes on the earth.
A man for my father.
A man for my friend.
They would all be..."
Lord, listen.
Dad can't go through
losing anyone else again.
Please.
- Shit.
- Lilly...
I can't move anything
down below.
Just saying I'm glad
we went for it.
A lot.
And a few times
with shoes on.
"I shan't be wounded
and not return it in kind."
"I'm through
with feeble hoping."
- Goddammit.
- Shit.
Gus got in his face
over and over.
The worst was
bound to happen.
Yeah... the worst.
- Hey, honey.
- It all happened so fast,
but Gus made
Lucas angry and--
Missy?!
You let your kid see this?
Yeah, Ben, because
I wanted it
to be in his head
for the rest of his life.
Meet me in the other room.
- Okay.
- So how'd that
sponsoring shit work out?
Hey!
Where the hell do you
think you're going?
- Hey, Ben.
- And you...
I'm thinking Gus
was over-poured.
You tell the EMTs
to treat him like he
was theirs, okay?
Where did he go?
- I have no idea.
And even if I did,
I wouldn't tell you.
- Mother, father...
and now my--
my brother's kid.
- Don't kill me.
- No way.
- No way what?
- You'll see.
What the hell
does that mean?
Let me see your hands.
- Goddammit!
- My son is screwed.
And you're gonna help him.
Get up on your feet!
- How?
- You'll see.
If we're all lucky.
- I'm on the run.
- Not anymore.
- I shouldn't be.
- I don't care.
- Okay!
If I'd have got
ahold of that rifle...
I'd have used it.
My kid doesn't have time
for any shit.
- Why me?
- You had a father,
didn't you?
- Yeah.
- He's nothing like me.
- What happened?
- Our Jeep spun out,
then flipped.
My kid's pinned under it...
in a riverbed.
- Well then call for help.
- There's no signal.
- I've-- I've seen you.
- Yeah, you're the prick
from Alvin's.
- What's your name?
- Lucas.
- You give bad
first impressions.
- My mother always told me...
you're either the snake
or the mouse.
Sometimes I got
mistook as the rat.
I still don't think
you got it in you
to kill me.
- That would've
been true yesterday.
- All that music.
All that pain.
Coming from the same place.
But I liked the king, Dad.
Because he
reminded me of you.
"This is
the time of King Arthur.
And we shall reach
for the stars.
By God, Excalibur.
I shall be a king.
This is the time
of King Arthur.
Where violence is not strength.
And compassion is not weakness."
Can we stop?
- What are you, high?
As a matter of fact...
Yeah, I am.
- Medicinal, I'll bet.
- When's it ever not been?
- Right.
- Hey, will you lighten up?
Where am I going?
- Did you get anything good
from your dad?
- Fake ID.
- Maybe we can change that.
- Then let me go.
- What if he's dead?
- Who?
- Tony.
- Who's Tony?
- My boy.
- He's not dead.
He's not.
- Come on, gotta move.
Move your ass.
- Got it.
- Merlin...
Make me a bird.
"We are civilized.
Resolved.
We shall go
through this together.
They...
...you...
...and I.
And may God
have mercy on us all."
He got a head start,
and it's dark.
- I can track him
in my sleep.
- Don't you think
he knows that?
- Yeah, that's why
we're off the beaten path.
Gus was alive this morning.
So what went down?
- Well, they're all
pretty sure
that my brother died
because of me.
- Were there witnesses?
- A slew, but...
that doesn't matter,
because our uncle,
the sheriff, he's a badass,
and he hates me
just like my father did.
- Hey...
fathers don't hate sons.
- If they catch me,
I go to prison. For life.
That's what they do
to people like me,
from where I'm from,
and people like you....
they just look the other way.
- Fuck you.
Jesus.
You're gonna fall.
- Shit happens.
- You know how much
I hate that expression?
Let me see your hands.
- Hands.
- I promise I won't run.
- I promise I know.
- Hey... you don't
need a gun.
- I wish I didn't.
Come on, Dad.
We're losing.
Hi, Lilly... it's me again.
I'm still here.
Please don't blame
my dad on this,
because he wants
you and me to be...
well, you and me.
And Dad...
don't mess with yourself
like you always do.
And have fun being a grandpa.
- You know, if this thing
works out for Tony,
it'll be the first good thing
that'll happen for me
in a real long time.
I just...
I just can't do it.
- I promise, if we get
to him in time, I--
- What?!
What'll you do?
- Cold...
Be over!
- Come on, we gotta go.
Oh, shit!
It's just up ahead.
There it is!
Oh my God, Tony! Tony!
- What-- what took you?
- Him!
Lucas!
Lucas, I'm begging you! Lucas!
- Who was that guy?
- It doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
- Dad, I'm sorry, I tried.
- No, no, you did good!
- No, every move I made,
I made things worse.
- Come on!
Come on!
- Stop, you're killing me!
- Tony, shit!
I'm gonna get you out!
- Dad, Dad, listen!
If nobody comes--
- Stop! Stop!
- If nobody comes--
- Stop!
How many times
did you say goodbye?
- Not once.
-That's right.
I thought he wasn't all bad.
- That's what you do.
It's how you got through
what we went through.
- Yeah, I believe
strangers can be...
in the blink of
an eye, they can--
- Fix anything.
- Right. That's
your mom and you.
But I can't just sit here
and watch you sink, okay?
- I mean, that's kinda
what you're doing.
You know what I'm saying?
- Lucas, goddammit!
- Mack!
Come on, push!
- Let me take these tires off!
Take the tires off!
Hey, hang in there, Tony!
Hang in there!
Tony, hang in there!
Just breathe, breathe!
- Gotta be lighter!
Get some rocks!
- No, we tried that!
No traction!
Let's try it anyway!
We gotta build
a base for the jack!
Come on, get some rocks!
Hang in there!
- Lucas?
Yeah?
- Thank you.
- Don't thank me yet!
Stay with us!
All right, buddy?
Almost ready.
That should hold, right?
It better!
-I'm gonna need you
to use your arms
when we lift the Jeep!
- How did you pull off
getting this dude?
- He needed
a little convincing.
- You got him?
Yeah!
Is it holding?
- You tell me!
Dad, Dad!
- Mack! Mack, it's
gonna take more than
you and me!
Hey, get that chain!
Shit.
- Hey, stay with me.
Come on!
- All right, Tony,
I'm gonna put this chain
around your torso.
- Okay!
- Doing okay, kid?
- Yes, sir.
- All right, all right, attaboy.
Good? .
One second. Okay.
- Can you pull
or should I?
I got it!
- I'm younger!
- Yeah but I got you here!
- You had a gun!
- Well, shit, if we're
gonna split hairs--
Hey! Goddammit!
Pull!
Jack can't take much more!
- Lift!
Pull!
- Come on, Arthur!
Pull that sword
out of the stone!
Lift!
I got you, I got you.
Come on, you got it!
- Help him!
- God damn it!
Tony, I'm gonna need you
to push as hard
as you can.
On three.
One... two...
Three!
Come on!
God!
- So let's go find Kelly!
How come I
still love you when
I haven't seen you
in a long time
Then you come by
and I can't pretend
I'm wondering how I
can keep you mine.
No matter what you do
I'm still in love with you
eternally.
Look into my eyes,
make me realize
there's hope for me
and hopefully
Another chance to say
I love you.
Tell me, I've got to know
Another chance to say
I want you
Don't ever let me go.
You still mean
so much to me
It's not
that I was lonely
In a crowd
you're all I see
I'm thinking
of you only
Just look my way
and maybe say
say that we've both been
Born again.
Look into my eyes
and realize
I made it through,
came back to you.
Another chance
for you to love me
I would do anything.
Another chance
for you to want me
I would give everything.
My heart finally realized
Another chance
to lay beside you
Your belief in me
made me live again
Another chance to make it back
from that broken-hearted past
Back now you understand
that we have another chance.
Another chance
for me to love you
Tell me I've got to know.
Another chance
for me to want you
Don't ever let it go.
Another chance
if you still love me
I would do anything
Another chance
for you to want me
I would give everything.
My heart finally realized
another chance
to lay beside you
oYour belief in me
made me live again
Another chance to make it back
from that broken-hearted past
back now you understand
that we have another chance
Another chance
for me to love you.
Tell me I've got to know.
Another chance
for me to want you.
Don't ever let it go.
Another chance
if you still love me
I would do anything.
Another chance
if you still want me
I would give everything.