All language subtitles for The.Fabelmans.2022.1080p.BluRay.x264

Mommy and daddy will
be right next to you.

The lights will go down.

There may be some organ music as
the curtain opens. Don't be scared.

It'll be dark in
there, you said.

- I don't wanna go in.
- But it's fun.

All week you've been so
excited. Your first ever movie!

- And the people are gigantic.
- What people?

You said the people in
the movie are gigantic.

Oh, because of the big screen they're
on. But they're not real though, right?

- They're like dreams.
- Dreams are scary.

Some dreams are, but this
is gonna be a nice dream.

About a circus and clowns
and acrobats and...

You wanna know how it works?

There's a big machine called a projector.
Inside, there's a big bright light

and it projects photographs
of... Of clowns and acrobats.

- And elephants. Happy things.
- "Projecting" means it sends them out.

Happy things like light
from a huge flashlight.

But these photographs move
past the light really fast.

Twenty-four photos
in every second.

Now, in your brain, each photograph
stays for about a 15th of a second.

That's called
persistence of vision.

The photographs move past faster
than your brain can let go of them,

and that's how the movie
projector tricks us into believing

that motionless
pictures are moving.

A motion picture.

Movies are dreams, doll,
that you never forget.

You just wait and
see. When it's over,

you're gonna have the biggest,
sloppiest smile on your face.

They're letting us in.

Wait z'il/ the engines pass.

Unlock the door.

Pass it down.

- What's that?
- Second sect/on.

Angel. She's on that train.

So what? We got the dough.
Let's get out of here.

L/ghts. /must turn the
fights down the track.

You crazy /unkheao'.
Give me that wheel.

We are going to turn the lights!

Train! Stop the train!

Stop the train!

Stop! Can't you see
the //ghts? Stop!

First section! Hold it!

Angel!

Angel!

What was your favorite part?

Sammy, what do you
want for hanukkah?

I told you this wasn't a good idea,
what with all of his a-n-x-i-e-t-i-e-s.

Kids his age have big
i-m-a-g-i-n-a-t-i-o-n-s.

No fair spelling
out the long words.

The lights change how everything
looks. It's hard to find our house.

Ours is the dark
house with no lights.

That's what I want for hanukkah.

- What?
- Christmas lights!

Sorry, darling.

Jews don't get Christmas lights.

Eight nights of candlelight.

Who could ask for anything more?

J” who could ask
for anything more j”

can I sleep with
the oscilloscope?

Get going. We gotta burn rubber

- What's that?
- Second section.

Angel. She's on that train.

The lights. Lmust turn
the I/ghts down the track.

Stop the tram! Stop the train!

Angel!

Mommy! Mommy!

I know what I want for hanukkah!
I know what I want for hanukkah!

Hanukkah!

Thank you!

Sammy.

-[Gasps} -Oh, my god.
I want to try it on.

J“ down by the station
early /n the morning j“

j” see the little
puh'erbel/ies all in a row j“

j” see the stationmaster
pull the little handle j”

j” pufif put/5 toot,
toot off they go j”

j” down by the station
early /n the morning j”

j” see the shin y train
cars all in a row j”

j” waiting to get hitched up
and go on their adventure j”

j” pufif put/5 toot,
toot off they go j”

okay. So, the outside grounds,
the middle conducts the power,

and these two metal wheels under
the engine complete the circuit.

So, new, Mr. Engineer?

Rca gave you a raise?

That is one expensive
trolley car.

It's not a trolley car.
It's a Lionel train.

No raises for the computer guys
this year. Next year, maybe.

Your moonlighting son is paying for it
by filling up my house with broken tvs.

Repair work, that's how.

Oy, careful he doesn't
electrocute himself.

- Hold on.
- You're okay.

You're not taking that fancy
train to Florida without me.

Hey, look.

She's down on the floor.

Who's gonna help her up?

Who says I'm getting up?

I'm going to Miami
on the Sammy limited.

Go ahead.

They're precisely
engineered toys.

You can play with them when you've
learned to treat them with respect.

I do respect them. I love them.

I know you do, but you
can't just love something.

You also have to take
care of it, right?

Maybe we can play together
with them this weekend.

But I need to see them crash.

I don't understand. Why does
he need to see them crash?

It's late. You don't
want to shut your light?

Mmm. In a minute.
I'm still wide-awake.

You see these descending notes?
That's called a lament bass.

You should play it on the
radio on that arts program.

- They keep asking you to go back.
- Oh.

I don't have time for that.

Well, we can hire a sitter.

Who can afford that? Forget it.

That was another life.
That was two kids ago.

All right.

Do you know what I miss
most about the piano?

Surrendering to the score.

Knowing bach is
gonna tell you how...

First this note,
then this chord,

then you open your hand, you
stretch down an octave...

Making a little world you
can be safe and happy in.

Thank you.

That's why he needs
to watch them crash.

He's trying to get some
kind of control over it.

Sammy.

We're going to use
daddy's camera to film it.

Only crash the train once, okay?

Then after we get the film developed,
you can watch it crash over and over

till it's not so scary anymore.

And your real train
won't ever get broken.

One more thing, darling.

Let's not tell your father.

It'll be our secret movie,
just yours and mine.

Sorry I'm late. I picked
up Ms. Moynahan's motorola.

There's no room left in the
workshop. Where should I put it?

- The living room, I guess?
- Okay.

Hey. Uh, sorry I'm late.

I picked up Mrs. Fabelman.
Where should I put her?

Ow! Ow, ow, ow.

- Did the mail come?
- It's on the table.

Cossack.

This is brisket?

My movie!

Uh-uh. After supper.

The amount of
magnetism is increased

by how magnetically permeable
the core material is.

The tricky thing is how
permeable we can make it.

Am I supposed to be
following any of this?

You know what a magnetic
field is, right?

Well, sure. I mean, it...

Sammy, do you know what
a magnetic field is?

- Can I be excused?
- Nope.

But I need to,
just for a minute.

What's so urgent?

Honey. This tastes funny, Burt.

- It tastes funny on a plastic fork.
- Ma.

Is she saving the silven/vare
for when the eisenhowers drop by?

The problem is we're using
vacuum tubes, not transistors,

- and magnetic cores to try to access...
- 35,000 magnetic cores.

Hey, Sam. You know on your father's
camera when the film runs out?

When that happens,
what do you do?

Load more film.

The same with computers.

You have to load more tape,
and that slows everything down.

Mitz, the chopped liver was...

We figured out how to take
tapes, load it with data,

and instead of changing
tapes every ten seconds,

this new machine
he's engineering...

- The bizmac!
- The bizmac!

It can search for information
through all these tapes at once.

You never need to change any of
them. It'll be ten times faster.

I love Burt's brain.

Especially when you're around
to explain what's in it.

Mom, I have to go upstairs now.

- Not until you've finished eating.
- He cleaned his plate.

No, he didn't.

Sammy.

I think there's something
under your plate.

- Sammy!
- No, there isn't.

Lift it up and check!
I saw it moving.

Licorice.

If there's anything I'm a
sucker for, it's licorice.

Uncle bennie, that
was so disgusting!

Natalie, he is not your uncle.

Also, he is not that funny.

"Uncle" is a term of affection.

Natalie, he's not related.

He's only always here
because he works for my son.

He's only always here
because he's my best friend.

And deep down inside you, Mrs.
Fabelman, admit it, I'm your friend too.

Deep down inside of me
is none of your business.

Sid Caesar's on
tonight. Help me.

Any more left to eat?

- Natalie, get that corner.
- Get the corner. Get the corner.

Can I help you take it out?

Sammy.

I had to crash it a whole lot of
times, but the train never got hurt.

Golly.

I thought that was the
greatest show on earth!

More, more, more, more, more!

Head back. Open.

- Ah.
- Candy corn in.

Say, "ah." Head back.

Ketchup. Okay.

Scream like it hurts.

Pull it!

Sammy!

Take off the blindfolds.

Sammy?

Reggie, Natalie, come
downstairs pronto.

Your father has an announcement.

General electric wants to hire me
because of what I did on bizmac.

They want to use my electronic
library system to...

Well, I... I don't think they have
any notion of what I can do with it.

And I'll make more money.

Is uncle bennie coming too?

Well, daddy and me
haven't had a chance to...

Bennie, no. He... he lives here.

Burt.

I'll miss your uncle bennie too,
but Phoenix is a real neat city.

It's on the rise.

They've only just hired me.
I've got no pull there yet.

I can't ask general electric to
hire somebody else on my say-so.

That's not how it works.

Don't ask them. Do it yourself.

They're hiring you to manage.
Managers hire. Hire bennie.

Who's watching... Sammy!

He's gotta make a name for
himself at rca. That's what I did.

He'll stay in New Jersey, get out
from under my shadow and then...

- He needs you, Burt.
- There's a tornado outside!

Yeah, well, there's
a bigger one in here.

Honestly. Honestly, Burt,
sometimes I wanna shake you.

You're gonna leave him
behind with just a shrug?

- Mommy! Mommy!
- "We'll see ya later."

And once we're gone, who will
he have left in New Jersey?

You have an opportunity
to help your best friend.

- Honestly, wake up.
- Mommy, look!

- What?
- There's a tornado outside. I'm scared.

Just go. I'm...

Wow!

Oh!

You weren't kidding!

How close is it?

Why does the sky look orange?

Come on! Come on!

Let's go see.

Mitz!

Where are you going?

Mitz, where are...

Where are you going?

Mitz!

Mitzi!

Where is it? I can't
see it anymore.

Up ahead somewhere.
We'll find it.

Mom, it's there. It's there!

Is this safe?

Of course it's safe.
I'm your mother.

- Stop!
- Mom, stop!

Everything happens for a reason.

Everything happens for a reason.

Everything happens for a reason.

Say it with me.

Everything happens for a reason.

Everything happens for a reason.

Everything happens for a reason.

Everything happens for a reason.

J” take me back
to dream again j”

j” by a campfire on the trail j”

j” by a campfire on the
trail when day is done... j”

I think there's something
dead in the road.

J” let me join my saddle pals j”

j” by a campfire on the
trail when day is done... j”

Reggie, wave in the camera.

J” let me smell
that chaparral j”

j” let me join my saddle pals j”

j” by a campfire on the
trail when day is done j”

j” ill make my bed and rest j”

j” beneath the western sky... j”

Ooh, look.

- There it is!
- There it is.

Let me out. I wanna take
a shot of him pulling in.

- No, I have to pee!
- Me too! Now! No!

J” he and/ will always be by
a campfire on the trail... j”

No! I have to pee!

- Keep coming.
- No!

Keep coming, dad.
You're doing great.

And...

Stop.

Freeze.

- Where's the lunch box?
- Wow.

- Where's the lunch box? Hurry!
- Guys, look at the monster Sammy caught.

I got some babies.

- Sal found babies.
- Look at that.

Sammy, Dean, come on. There's
a huge nest right there.

- Come on, guys.
- A big one, Sammy.

Oh, god.

- It's a whole herd of 'em.
- Scorpions come in nests.

- It's a bed of scorpions.
- No, it's a nest.

Baby scorpions are called "scorplings."
They're twice as venomous.

- That's why the lab pays more.
- There's gotta be, like, 50 of 'em.

- How much is the laboratory gonna pay?
- Fifty cents per baby.

- That's 25 bucks!
- We're rich.

Well, what are we gonna buy?

Twelve dollars even.

Well, it's the merit badge
for photography, not movies.

The manual says you gotta tell
a story with still pictures.

But all a movie is
is still pictures.

You just put a bunch of
'em together and they move.

Okay, but what kind of
movie are we making?

Ooh, Sammy, look.
It's Janet Benedict.

- Go on and talk to her. I dare you.
- He already talked to her.

- No way!
- Like hell.

He actually spoke to her?

He did. He did. He
walked right up to her.

You went up to Janet Benedict?

- What did you say to her?
- Nothing.

Oh, come on. Tell 'em
what happened, Sammy.

Nothing happened.

Something happened. Come on.

Could be the same one.

Overland... Say, I think
it is the same one.

Well, ldeclare.

So, uh...

Sammy kinda sidewinds
his way in her direction.

And he's trying to, um...

He... he's trying to work up the nerve
to say something slick and smooth

- like, "hey, jan, baby."
- Hey, no, I wasn't. You're making this up.

But... but he sees that Janet's
got something on her nose.

So now he's thinking, "cool. Here's
my excuse to go up and talk to her."

So he goes and he says,
"hey, uh, sorry, Janet.

It... it looks like you have
a little smudge on your nose."

- Shut up, hark.
- But it wasn't a smudge.

- It looked like a smudge.
- And it wasn't little.

Hark, shut up!

It was a booger!

A big, fat, Janet
Benedict booger.

Hey, Sammy.

Stand and deliver

what kind of movie
are we gonna make?

Stand and deliver.

No, keep screaming.
Keep screaming.

I need more dust. Dad, can
you grab the sandwich board?

No, god, no more dust. No.

- Reggie, stop coughing!
- I'm coughing because there's dust.

- More dust, fellas.
- Natalie, say, "please don't kill me."

Reggie, stop coughing.
You're being dramatic.

Mr. Fabelman, you're getting
dirt inside my stagecoach.

- Don't you want me to be dramatic?
- Well, we'll clean it out.

Guys, stop looking into the
camera. I can't use any of this.

Fake.

Totally fake.

You hear it?

She has gotta cut those
goddamn fingernails

before she goes on
live television.

I have to perform this tomorrow.

It's a difficult piece.
It's a very big deal for me.

All I asked was for you to
keep your big traps shut

and listen to my
dress rehearsal.

Sorry, mitz. It's wonderful.

You hear how the rising
arpeggios lift up the sad notes?

It's in f minor, but your
mom makes it sound so alive.

She makes it sound like
she's playing a typewriter.

Oh, no. Not this again.

J” bada Dee, bada
Dee, bada... j”

tick, tick, tick. Ping!

Do you hear it? Am I clicking?

I concentrate on
your playing, but...

Oh, great. But what?

- People can hear it in Tucson.
- Maybe I've gotten used to it.

Maybe ge should make rubber
tips for fingernails.

All right, mitzi fabelman.
Time to face the music.

Oh, boy.

You stay away from me with those
things. No, no, no! Stop it!

It's Beethoven, damn it. It
is not morse code. Come on!

He has a point though,

especially with the polydirectional
ribbon microphones they have...

Come on. You married her.

Dad, don't.

Do it. Do it. Do it!

I will scratch you.
Don't think I won't!

Do you think artur
rubinstein had fingernails?

- Horowitz? Schnabel? Kempff?
- Think about it. No, no, no!

- Liberace!
- No, no, no, no!

Come on, fabelman.

Show her who's general electric's
product design manager.

I paid a buck 50 at the
beauty parlor for these.

Oh, no!

One,

two,

three.

Get off of me, Delilah.

Delilah?

Okay, the fun's over.
I'll do the rest myself.

Oh, great. Just great.

Well, that decides it. I'm gonna play
the program from memory tomorrow.

No sheet music, short nails,
like a real performing artist.

Did you drop your gun?

That's me.

Real scary, sheriff.

How'd you do that?

Go, Sammy!

It's kinda like what I do, isn't
it, what a movie director does?

It is?

I figure out what my
division needs to accomplish,

then I work out how my
guys are gonna get it done.

Yeah, it is. Yeah, sort of.

How'd you make it look like
the guns were really firing?

I did it with pins.

Pins.

Yeah, I poked holes
in the film with pins.

- Sammy.
- Yeah.

- Thinking like an engineer.
- Watch the road, dad.

Sammy, watch the road.

I can't edit without
an editing machine.

I have to be able to
cut and splice, and I...

Let's revisit it after
the camping trip.

It's three hours to
the national forest.

If you get your license, you
can help with the driving.

Okay.

"You are approaching
a railroad crossing

with no warning devices
and limited visibility.

The speed limit is"...

See, the thing is, though, about
my new movie, is that it's just...

It's about world
war ii, your war.

It's gonna be out of this world.
I'm shooting on a bolex h8.

Finally, I can use
double run film.

That's six minutes without
having to change the reel.

How much did you spend
to rent this camera?

Twenty bucks.

But I used my own money.
You don't have to...

And this movie
editor gizmo costs?

- It's a Mansfield 8 mm movie editor.
- How much?

- Eighty bucks.
- Doggone it, Sammy!

A hundred dollars for a hobby?

It's not a hobby, dad.

If you spent half the time on algebra
that you spend on these movies...

I hate algebra. Why are you...

It's completely pointless.

Not if you want to make
something, it's not pointless.

Gee, Sammy. When I was a boy,

I always used to think, "somebody
figured out how to make this."

This car, that rearview mirror,
that directional signal.

I wanna make movies though.

I mean something real,

not imaginary.

Something someone
can actually use,

like a driver's license.

I'm gonna vomit,
Sammy! I'm gonna vomit!

Sammy, please pull over.
She's gonna puke all over me.

Go slower. You are the worst
driver. You're gonna break the car.

We're on a back road going
three miles per hour. Calm down.

You're doing great, doll.
You're doing very well.

Okay, watch out.
Puddle up ahead.

So we've got three that are strong and
still green inside so they don't burn.

Bright green means that
they're still alive

and that they carry moisture.

And the reason that we use
the shape of the triangle

is that when these
three points connect,

if we find the center
of gravitational force,

it creates almost
perfect balance.

Because I'm tutti, and you're frutti.
So who else are you gonna listen to?

J” a wop bop b-luma
b-lop bam bom j”

okay.

The pyramids, right?

- I mean, the history behind this shape...
- Guys, come on!

Is pretty in...

Is pretty incredible.

Oh, hello!

One more time. One more time.

Wait. Let me try it like this.

Okay, one more time.
After one more time.

- Ready?
- Girls, I'm gonna start the fire.

- Three, two, one.
- Okay. Really big, really big!

Go! Whoa!

- I thought it was gonna break.
- It's happening!

- You almost broke the ash.
- Whoo!

J” kleenex-ica, windex-ica,
she's sexy-ca oh, boyj”

j” pneumonia,
dyslexia, leukemia j”

j” oy, oy, oy, oyj”

j” Leningrad, then petrograd j”

j” I'm sorry, dad I lied j”

j” lsnatched the keys and stole
the car and took it for a ride j”

j” you take it back, paskudn
yak you're giving me a... j”

heart attack!

-J” we 7! Take a sch vitz
and have a... j” -shmitz.

- And eat some...
- Schn/tzelpitz.

- And drink slivovitz.
- And we'll lose our wits.

And we'll get the shits!

J” we live in arizon-ia where
noth/ng can be gro wn-ia j”

j” the land is
dry and stony-a j”

j” and we can eat bologn-ia j”

Exactly!

J” hyen-ica, h yen-ica,
h yen-ica, h/ya j”

j” hyena, eat some
pita eat some pita j”

j” hyenas j”

j” eat some pizza,
eat some pita j”

they're gonna know that kind of fpu
is not for industrial process control,

and it will raise every red
flag there is. How many bits?

Float64.

64 bits? Sixty... you are nuts.

And time-sharing
for 11 operators?

They're gonna know this is a
business machine we're building,

and we're all gonna get fired.

-[Laughi ”9 -yes! I no.

Ge doesn't build business computers.
We do heavy industry processing.

You got that straight from the ceo.
Ralph cordiner is gonna skin you alive.

Once bank of america buys
in, this will be profitable,

and that's Mr. Cordiner's
job, making money.

My job is getting raytheon to
deliver 10,000 germanium transistors

that meet our
tolerance standards.

And your job is to get the
cabling diagrams to pitney bowes

so when the time comes, we have a
sorter to hook up to the mainframe.

Maybe pitney bowes will hire me
after you get us both canned from ge.

Isn't it worth getting canned

for the chance to build a
machine that can do all that?

It's worth it to you, maybe!

Sure as the lord made little green
apples, California, here you come.

IBM is waiting.

- Are we moving to California?
- You are, any day now.

- No, no.
- What?

IBM's asking, and
that's flattering.

Flattering? Flattering?

Every guy in computer would give
his matzo balls to get an offer.

You'll be in California building
double-precision auxiliary units

with an fp64.

I'm gonna be left schvitzing in
Arizona making 40-watt light bulbs.

Hold your horses.

I told your mom
it'll be up to her.

I'm not uprooting us
again unless she says yes.

Why would ll/lama/eh ever leave
all of this for California?

We have the Grand Canyon.

They have the San Andreas fault.

Il/lama/eh says,

I will never leave Arizona, and
Arizona will never leave me.

Kids, avert your eyes.

- Hey, man.
- Mmm?

Shouldn't you be filming this?

Not enough light.

Ge, living better electrically.

Mom?

Mom, everyone can see
through your dress. Um...

Reggie, get out of the way.

Dad, can you please stop this?

- Come. Sit.
- No.

Bennie, don't look!

Oh! You're all nuts!

My mama's such a good mama.

I love you so much.

I'm right here.

I'm right here with you.

I'm holding your hand.

Can you feel that, mama?
I just gave you a squeeze.

I love you, mama.

Mommy?

She opened her eyes.

Nurse.

Mommy, I'm here.
Here. I'm right here.

I'm right here, mama.

Mommy, look at me.

Mommy, can you hear?

It's a Mansfield 8 mm movie editor.
That's what you wanted, right?

Oh, my god.

Uh, now I need a
favor in return.

Okay, okay, okay.
Here's the favor.

Yeah.

Uh, I want you to make
a camping trip movie.

You can learn how the editing
machine works while you do this.

It'll make your mom feel better.

Yeah.

That last night when she danced in
the headlights, that'd be great.

Get to it tomorrow, okay?

Um, tomorrow's when
we start shooting.

Escape to nowhere. We're shooting
all weekend, dad. I can't.

Shoot it next weekend.

We've got, like, 40 guys
coming to be in the movie.

I'll... I'll work on all the
camping trip stuff on Monday.

I'm asking you to do this
now for your mom. She's...

Yeah, and I said that I will.
Just not tomorrow, please.

Don't be selfish. She
just lost her mother.

That's more important
than your hobby.

Dad, can you stop
calling it a hobby?

It'll cheer her up, watching this.
It's something we can do to...

Her mom just died. It's... How
is that gonna cheer her up?

Because you made it for her.

Uh, something's not right.

I don't know what else to do.

Can you help me?

Hello.

Mitzi

mitzi

mama?

Somebody's coming.

Mama?

Wha... uh...

M-Mama. What...

- You mustn't let him in.
- Mama.

- You mustn't let him in.
- Mama, I... I... I can't hear you.

I am scared.

You mustn't let
him in the house.

Mama, please. I...

Do not let him in.

- Do not let him in the house.
- What? No, I can't... who... who's coming?

Don't open the door.

Mama.

Mommy, don't go. Don't go yet.

You're having a bad dream.

This is a lot of food, mom.

Well, I'm upset.

Oh, that crazy dream, I
can't get it out of my head.

Last night, I dreamed I
got a call from my mama.

And she wanted to warn me.

- That's silly. Grandma died.
- About what?

Well, something's coming. She wants
me to batten down the hatches.

We're never going to be
able to eat all of this.

Who is that?

- It's uncle Boris.
- Hmm?

Uncle who?

Mom?

That's who she meant!

My... that's my...
my mama's brother!

Oh, he scared the crap out
of her when they were kids!

Don't let him in!

You were in the circus?

Mama said you were
the lion tamer.

No, not at first. At first it was,
"podgorny, pound in the tent pegs."

"Podgorny, muck out
the pachyderms."

And then one night,

the big cat act, he comes
down with the flu bug.

So it was, uh, "Boris
podgorny, in with the lions."

He's lying, right?

No, he's telling you a story.

Know what it's like, huh?

Pain in the ass, sisters.

That's rude.

- He said "ass."
- Shh. I know.

But when did you start
working in the movies?

1927.

1927, that was the jazz singer
that's the year that talkies started.

Yeah, sure, talkies. But me, no. I
started with, um, uncle Tom's cabin.

Nmawme

it was Harry pollard.

He acted for selig polyscope.

- He, uh, married Maggie what's-her-name.
- Mm-hmm.

He directed uncle Tom.

Lift up your plate.

So, pollard needed help
with the bloodhounds.

So my pal fleischaker was
a big name in dog acts.

Poodles, mainly.

But, "sure," fleischaker
says to pollard.

"Yeah. Bloodhounds, poodles,
what's the difference?"

So, he went.

But, uh, by this time, uh,

fleischaker, he had it up
to here with the Jew-haters.

There was a lot of that
kind in the circuses.

Not many Jews,
lots of Jew-haters.

- Right.
- But the movies...

Fleischaker writes to me, "Boris,"
he writes. "Boris," he writes,

"Hollywood is heimish, imagine.

I'm in a minyan with Douglas
Fairbanks and Ricardo Cortez.

Come to Hollywood." So, I went.

Your wife, she don't
like doing the dishes?

Uh, piano hands.

So, you like the movies,
huh, Mr. Pitse/shas?

Okay, so the sergeant, he
comes over the hill here,

and I'm gonna go below him,
so we see him and the sky.

And so we don't see what he sees,
but we do see that he's really...

Okay, so he's almost
losing his mind, right?

'Cause what he is seeing
is totally terrible.

And then, I'm gonna turn the
camera so that we see it.

It's just in another
notebook. Hang on.

If that's the movie,

you could show me instead
of describing me to death.

No, that's just our stupid
camping trip. My dad's...

He wants me to put this camping
film together so it'll cheer up mom.

Because her heart is broken.

Because her mama iz toyt.

But you, Mr. Director,
you don't wanna do this,

what your daddy tells you,

because you want to make
your war picture, huh?

Yeah, yeah.

Believe me, Sammy boy, I get it.

Family, art.

It'll tear you in two.

You hear that?

Oh, yeah. My mom's
practicing. She's always...

Sha. You talk too much. Listen.

When she was a kid, already
she played like that.

She should have been a
concert piano player.

Little rubinstein, she was.

She could have played...

You name it, she could
have played there.

And she...

Once, I visited her and Tina
and menashe in Cincinnati,

and she says to me she wants
to be a great piano artist.

But she didn't do it.

Yeah, she's really good.

- You know, she played on TV.
- TV? Feh!

She could have played at
musikverein in Vienna.

You see, what she got in her
heart is what you got, what I got.

Like me. Like you, I think.

We're junkies, and
art is our drug.

Family, we love.

But art, we're meshuga for art.

You think I wanted to leave my
sisters, my mama and my papa,

and go stick my stupid
head in the mouth of lions?

Putting... putting your head
in a lion's mouth is art?

No. Sticking your head in the
mouths of lions was balls.

Making sure the lion don't
eat my head, that is art.

You see, Tina, she
didn't say to mitzi,

"go do what you gotta."

I mean, she was a good person,
my sister, but she was scared.

Scared for your mother. She
should have safety in the family.

So mitzi, she gave it all up.

I want you should
remember how that hurt.

Because when they say all this,

when they say, "what you do?
Oh, that's cute. It's a hobby.

It's like stamps or
butterfly collecting,"

you feel your face,
how it feels now.

Yeah, you almost pulled it off.

So you remember your uncle
Boris and what he's telling you.

Because you're going to
join the circus, I can tell.

You can't hardly wait.

You want to be in the big top.

You'll shovel elephant
shit until they say,

"okay, Sammy, now ride
the goddamn elephant."

Oh, you love those people, huh?

Your sisters, your mama,
your papa. Except...

Except this.

This, I think you
love a little more.

- No, I don't.
- Yeah.

Run all you want, boychik, but you
know I ain't whistling Dixie here.

You will make your movies,
and you will do your art.

And you'll remember how it hurt.

So you know what I'm saying?

Art will give you crowns in
heaven and laurels on earth.

But,

it'll tear your heart
out and leave you lonely.

You'll be a shanda
for your loved ones.

An exile in the desert. A gypsy.

Art is no game.

Art is dangerous as a lion's
mouth. It'll bite your head off.

Look at me.

Look at me.

Is it a wonder that Tina, she
wanted nothing to do with me?

With...

Oh, Tina. Oh, Tina!

Oh, Tina.

Stop, stop! Stop it!

What, you never saw
nobody grieving before?

Let's go to sleep, bubba/a.

You can sleep in the bed.
I have my sleeping bag.

I'm sitting Shiva for my
sister. I sleep on the floor.

You... you want to
sleep on the floor too?

She was your grandma. Tear your
clothes. Sleep on the floor.

Good night.

Say bye-bye.

- Bye-bye.
- Bye-bye.

I don't know what mama
was so worried about.

It was a nice visit.

Yuck.

Whoa.

Aw.

This is the life.

Only you can prevent
forest fires.

Mmm.

Oh.

It's so beautiful,
what you made, darling.

You really see me.

Hey, man. How about that, huh?

Hey, Sammy. That was real neat.

Die, amerikanei!

Move! Move! Fall backwards!

Attacke!

Cover!

Krauts, they're everywhere!

There's too many of them.

Turn.

Cut.

Great. Now, um...

Okay, come here.

Um, you're standing here a minute,
looking down at what just happened.

A whole minute?

I'll give you a signal when
I want you to start to move.

You mean I should count to 60? Like,
one Mississippi, two Mississippi...

No, no, no. No, don't. Don't
count to 60. You just gotta...

So... so you're all
like... Like, "oh, my god."

Like, "all my men,
they're all...

They're all dead. All my men."

So you want me to,
like, act and stuff.

Yeah.

Like I'm... I'm sort of sad or
something? Because my whole platoon...

Right, right, right.
Your platoon. Your...

Your men! They've
been wiped out.

These guys, they're your family.

Yourfamily's being,
like, murdered,

and it's your fault.

- You did this to them and...
- I thought it was the Nazis that...

Yeah, but it was you who gave the order
to go down into the valley of death. Okay?

You decided. Nobody else.

- You could've...
- Mm-hmm.

You could've
protected them. Okay?

'Cause they trusted you,

- and they loved you.
- Mm-hmm.

Now you're just
looking at this...

At this thing that
you've done and...

You can't save them anymore.

Because they're all dead.

- Wow, that's, uh...
- Yeah.

Real gung ho.

Okay.

Okay.

You good?

Lock and load. Yeah.
Lock and load. All right.

Good.

Uh, Sammy?

How far are you
gonna let him walk?

Cut!

Hey, that's a cut, Angelo.

- Angelo! Angelo!
- Angelo!

Come back! He said, "cut!"

Angelo, hey! Angelo!

- How about that kid?
- Bravo!

Bravo!

Sammy!

Darling!

You're not a civilian anymore.

That movie, my god! It was...

Hi, Mrs. Fabelman.

Mr. Demille! Come here.

- Hey, there he is.
- Hey.

Young man, congratulations.

I guess you based it on
your dad's war stories, huh?

Sort of. You know, but he doesn't
like to talk about it so...

- No, I understand.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dad, mom's getting a ride with
bennie. She'll see us at home.

- Hey, that last scene...
- Why do you like blood so much?

And are you ever gonna make a
movie with parts for girls again?

- What?
- With girls, you know.

'Cause all the men stare off
into the distance all the time,

maybe a girl could save the day.

Okay, what are the five steps
to save a drowning person?

One is you swim behind the
person so they don't grab you.

Two, you throw your
arm across his chest.

- Or her chest.
- Three.

Not Sammy. He's too
scared of girls' boobies.

Three, you swim on your back
with the victim on your chest,

using your free arm
to paddle yourself.

And speaking of boobies, if you
ever get any, we'll have a party.

And at the party, we'll
give her the booby prize.

Ha-ha. What's four?

- Crap.
- Bring the victim to land, dummy.

- Mmm.
- Then five?

Call the undertaker.

This is serious business.

I gotta know all of this to
get the lifesaving merit badge.

More kids die in swimming accidents
than in any other kind of accident.

Sorry. I'm sorry.

Not everything is a big joke.

Okay, okay. So what's
step number five?

You laugh at everything,
even when nothing's funny.

You always have to be
the center of attention.

Eat.

And don't talk with
your mouth full.

I'm not eating this crud
before a swimming test.

You can get cramps in the
water if you eat before,

and you can drown
from getting cramps!

Stop shouting at her!

Sammy fabelman, goddamn it!

For weeks now, it has been
nothing but disrespect from you!

Disrespect!

Why are you being such
a little shit to me?

Damn it to hell,
I am your mother!

I wish you weren't!

[Gasps}

Let me see.

Oh, my god.

Oh, what have I done?

Talk to me.

Sammy, please talk to me.
Tell me what's happening.

Do you have any idea
how much I love you?

Don't go.

Mom.

Mom.

I won't tell.

I won't tell. I won't.

I won't tell.

I won't.

Sure about this?

Mm-hmm.

There you go.
Bought and paid for.

Oh, just a second.
It's in the back.

Stocking up on Kodak
before the big move?

No, I'm...

Smart. Film's cheaper
here than in California.

I bet everything's
more expensive there.

You're losing your
steadiest customer.

Him and his whole family,
they're moving west.

He just sold me his camera.

Oh, yeah? How come?

Says he's finished.

Sorry about the wait, Mr. Loewy.

We had to order it special.

You bought a camera?

It's for you!

I know how much you loved
using it for your war picture,

so I figured you ought
to have one of your own.

It's, um, a "bon voyage,"
"see you later, alligator,"

"I believe in you" present
from your uncle bennie.

Because it's from me?

This move? Huh?

This is your dad's
glory-hallelujah moment.

And oi va voi, Sammy, does
that guy ever deserve it.

All the way back
when, back at rca,

he knew what computing was gonna be about
before practically anybody else knew it.

And IBM?

That's where guys like Burt

are figuring out how to
use what he's made to...

They're gonna change
the whole goddamn world,

so this was the right decision.

For all sorts of reasons.

Yeah, so, I'm happy for you.

You know I am.

But I'm gonna miss you.

All of you, a lot.

You think whatever bad things
you want about me, kiddo.

But you stop making movies,
it'll break your mother's heart.

You will break her
heart. I mean it.

She doesn't deserve that. Not from
anybody, least of all from you.

I'll give you 35 bucks for it.

You drive a hard bargain, kid.

I'm still done making
movies, though.

Everybody makes
movies in California.

- Hey!
- Keep the change.

J” da doo Ron Ron
Ron da doo Ron Ron j”

j” somebody told me that
his name was bill j”

j” da doo Ron Ron Ron
da doo Ron Ron... j”

When will the new
house be finished?

A few months, in the spring.

Can I have my own room?

Everybody gets their own room.

- Yay!
- Yes.

I just remembered last
night, I had a funny dream.

What was it?

I... I can't believe
I dreamed this.

Uh... uh, bennie and me
were having an argument

and I hauled off and socked
him right in the nose!

J” yes, my oh myj”

j” and when he walked me home j”

j” da doo Ron Ron Ron j”

- What's wrong?
- Is mommy carsick?

Let's just give
her a little time.

Bennie and me, we never...

We never...

We never let it get as far
as I imagine you think.

Oh, I never imagined
any of that.

You think dad knows?

I don't... I don't mean...

I don't mean, "did you tell
him?" I know you didn't.

But...

But you think he has an inkling?

I've almost told
him so many times.

I'll say, "Burt, there's
something I've got to tell you."

Then he looks at me like he can't conceive
that anything could be wrong between us.

So instead I say,
"Burt, we got ants."

Or, "Burt, could you climb on
the roof and turn the antenna

so I can watch channel 5?"
Which, of course, he does.

I can't fight with your father.

He kills with such kindness.

I'm mean to him,
he buys me a dress.

From saks.

Mom, when I showed you what I filmed, I
never meant for any of this to happen.

Oh... mmm.

Guilt is a wasted emotion.

What's gonna happen now?

I'm gonna be your mom.

I'm gonna be the girls' mom.

Despite my countless faults, I'm
not ruining everything for everyone.

I'm gonna not be selfish.

Burt fabelman is the
kindest, smartest, wisest,

most patient, most decent, most
understanding man there is,

and I'm gonna stay
married to him.

It's only a rental.

The new house will be ready faster
than you can say, "Jack Robinson."

Jack Robinson.

And we're still here.

Tell me if you're gonna mope
for the rest of your life,

or if it's something
you'll outgrow.

Bug off.

You're going for the misery merit
badge, you and mom with your long faces.

She can't even get out of
bed to make breakfast...

Okay, new rule, guys.

Um, when we walk to
school in the morning,

let's just leave all the
fabelman mishegoss behind us

in the fabelmans'
moldy old rental house.

So for eight hours a day,

let's be normal kids in an
ordinary, normal school, okay?

It's like we got parachuted into the
land of the giant sequoia people.

All right.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

Up over! Nice dig. Atta Johnson.

Way to get up!

Nice.

Nice. Attababy, Logan.

Do it again. Go again.

Good work, guys.

Keep the intensity. Keep moving.

Rotate. Nice, Jake.
Good job, Chris.

Fabelman, it won't hurt you.

It's a volleyball,
not a cannonball.

Let's go. Serve.

Go! Attababy!

That's good reactions.
Let's move. Let's...

Oh, my god. I'm so sorry.

I didn't... oh, my...

- Come on.
- I'm gonna murder you, you piece of shit.

Hey, Chad.

Cool it.

I... I did not mean to
do that. Are you okay?

That really hurt, asshole.

Watch your mouth, Logan.

Go fetch the ball.

Sure, yeah.

Let's go.

Hey, new kid.

What's your name?

Sam.

"Sam" what?

Fabelman.

Told you he's a kike.

He doesn't like Jews.

Nobody likes Jews.

Except other Jews, right?

Bagelman.

No, that's not my name.
Don't call me that.

So, you gave my best friend
a concussion, bagelman.

No, I didn't. Leave me alone.

Hey.

Don't argue with me.

A serious concussion.

So, how do we make you pay?

How about this?

You're drinking
from the fountain.

You never hear me come up
from behind you, and bam!

I shatter your front
teeth all over the spigot.

Hey, look at me.

He's demented, like, medically.

So watch out for yourself.

Close the door!

Mom got a monkey.

- Why'd you get a monkey?
- 'Cause I needed to laugh.

Oh, help me with this. The
directions don't make any sense.

- Careful! Careful!
- Get down!

I'll get a banana.

Save the curtains.
They're rented.

Oh!

Uh, hello.

- Who are you?
- He's mine.

What are we gonna call him?

Bennie. His name's bennie.

I don't want to see
a psychiatrist, Burt.

You're scaring the kids.
You're sleeping all day.

Oh, I miss the desert.
I miss dry heat.

You haven't even
unwrapped the piano.

You aren't cooking or
shopping or unpacking.

Psychiatrists help you know
why you're feeling something.

They can't help you feel
something different.

You're behaving like when your
mother died, like you're in mourning,

but nobody's died.

Okay.

So I'll call the
monkey some other name.

IBM's out of his league, mitz.

Bennie was... he...

Is my best friend.

But they don't need him.

This is what I know.

I don't need him either.

Bennie wasn't your friend.

But you knew he was mine.

What does that mean?

Logan, I'm really,
really missing you.

Hey! Who's there?

Who's there?

I heard that he had
such a crush on her.

Bagelman, yo!

I left you a little snack in
your locker. Did you like it?

Guess he wasn't hungry.

He... he said it was...

What'd you call it, Chad?

Kosher!

Knock it off, moron!

We talked about this.

Come on. We'll be
late for practice.

So, what is this? You're Jewish?

Well...

Holy crap. He's got the hots so
bad, he can't even talk to her.

No, I don't.

Apologize to her.

For what?

For making goo-goo eyes at
her, for drooling at her.

I wasn't drooling at her.

Then apologize to her
for killing Christ.

Why are you encouraging him?

Go on.

Apologize to her for
killing our lord.

Don't go.

- Come watch me run.
- No, thanks. I'm not in the mood now.

Please. I run better
when you're there.

Apologize to her, you
Christ-killing son of a bitch!

I'm going home.

Go on and say sorry.

You're getting me in
trouble with my girl.

You know, obviously,

since I'm not 2,000 years old
and have never been to Rome,

I'm not apologizing.

But hey, you know,

maybe, uh, your boyfriend
should apologize to you

for making out in the stainnell
half an hour ago with some redhead.

He's lying. He's... I
didn't do that. I swear.

You told me you were
finished with her.

Logan, you lied to me!

Claudia.

Om

You made a mistake.

Listen to me. You made a
mistake. You're gonna fix it.

- Bash his head in!
- Shut up, Chad, goddamn it!

Tomorrow, you're gonna
find her first thing,

and you're gonna tell
her you were lying.

Say you were scared. Say
whatever you gotta say.

But you tell her it wasn't true,
and you did not see me doing that.

Or I swear, I will hurt you
worse than you've ever been hurt.

You get me?

Nod to show you dig
what I'm saying.

He won't tell me who did this.

Ask him who did this.

Tell your father who did this,

and he will drive to
that little shit's house

and he will beat
the crap out of him.

Is your nose broken?

Of course not. You think I'd be
sitting here if his nose was broken?

- Who hit you?
- What do you care who it was?

It's not like you'll
do anything about it.

Tell me what happened first.

What happened is I hate it here,

and what happened is you
brought us here because...

Because I got a
betterjob, so we moved.

You don't even
care where you are.

You get to go to work, and
that could be in Iceland.

You're working with
your goddamn machines.

So you get to be happy while
the rest of us are miser...

Ma, don't!

- You're bleeding on the carpet.
- It's a rental house!

Do you even notice how
much we hate it here,

where we're practically the
only Jewish people for miles

and everything is awful?

Do you even care that
this is your fault?

Everything that's happening now,

just because you ran away from
home and took all of us with you!

I came here so I could work ten times
harder with ten times the responsibility,

which seems to have
escaped everybody.

Could everyone settle?
I wanna say something.

So I could build us a nice home.

You didn't come here to build
houses or to work. You ran away!

I think you have something
to say to me, Sammy!

And if I'm right about that,

then get it off your chest
and say it to my face!

I started therapy!

Anyways,

what I really wanted to say is that,
about yesterday, what I told you, is...

It wasn't true, and I lied,

and I'm sorry.

But why?

What did I ever do to you?

Oh, no, no. It wasn't about you.

Because that, like,
really, really wasn't cool.

- I didn't mean to hurt you.
- Because I really love Logan.

Yeah, she cried herself to sleep
thinking he cheated on her.

You ought to be more considerate
of other people's feelings.

Okay, but Logan told me
to say I killed Christ.

- That wasn't Logan. That was Chad.
- Why would he do that?

Loganlaughed. He thought
it was hilarious.

He's Jewish.

You don't say.

Yeah, I mean, since the
day I was circumcised.

So, how'd you know
she was a redhead?

- Oh, my god.
- Hmm?

He was making out
with Renee Reynolds?

If you were lying, how'd
you know her hair color?

Does it hurt?

So, you don't believe in Jesus?

Monica's, like,
totally hot on Jesus.

I can't imagine my
life without him.

Well, we've managed
for, like, 5,000 years,

so I guess it's possible.

Maybe we could...

I don't know, get
together and pray on it.

What, like, you and me?

We can ask him to come
into your heart and...

You know, see what happens.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Sure. I mean...

That would be when? Like, today?

It's a lot, huh?

It's sort of a shrine, almost.

A shrine to guys.

Lots of guys.

They're sexy.

I guess.

I mean, not Jesus.

Jesus is sexy.

Isn't that, like,
a sin or something?

I don't know.

He came to us as a man,

a handsome, young man.

He could have come as
a girl, or an old man,

or someone with leprosy, but...

Nobody knows what he
really looked like.

Probably, he looked like you.

Oh, because... because he was...

Jewish. A handsome Jewish boy.

Just like you.

Let's pray.

Close your eyes.

- Lord, I'm here with my friend Sammy...
- Sam.

I'm here with my good
friend Sam, who's Jewish,

and he's a nice boy.

Lord Jesus, he's good and brave,

and he's funny, lord,

and... and... I like him.

Relax.

Ask.

Ask him to come into you.

Ask him to enter you.

Hi there, Jesus.

It's me, Sam fabelman.

If you're real,

show me a sign or
something, and...

No, you can't ask Jesus to
do tricks to impress you.

You have to be humble.

You have to beg
him to. I'll do it.

I'm gonna beg the holy
spirit to come into me.

I'm gonna draw the
spirit in with my breath.

Spirit, come into me!

Please, holy spirit!

I'm begging you, sweet holy father,
for the sake of my friend Sammy.

Sam.

Come into us, Jesus!

Hear our prayer!

Open your mouth.

Open your mouth and take the
spirit of Christ into you.

Monica, Sammy, I
made you snacks.

We're coming.

Tomorrow after school, wanna meet
out back behind the bleachers?

- Yeah.
- Cool.

We can pray some more.

When I was a girl
and I felt sad,

I'd go to the zoo and
I'd watch the monkeys.

They made you laugh?

Yeah, yeah, the monkeyshines.

But there was more to
it than that. It was...

They understand what
we've done to them,

with the cages and
the people pointing.

We share that with them, the
truth of how cruel people are.

But if you watch
them for long enough,

you can tell they know stuff
we can't begin to imagine.

Important stuff.

And they're not gonna let us in
on it because it belongs to them.

It's their own monkey business.
Theirs, it's not ours. It's...

Oh, I don't know.

Self-possession.

Right.

They belong to themselves.

If it belongs to itself,

let it go back to
where it came from.

Anyway, that's how
come I got a monkey.

And a therapist.

He throws his poop.

The therapist?

No, the monkey.

That's why I'm
staying in a hotel.

You don't have to. We
have plenty of room.

My rabbi in New Jersey says a
monkey in the house isn't kosher.

That's why we're not
going to eat him.

Did you schedule him
for his polio vaccine?

- They can get polio?
- Pass the peas.

They're susceptible to
everything humans are, so yes.

He hates going to the vet.

You see, Monica, in this family, it's
the scientists versus the artists.

Sammy's on my team. Takes after
me, except he's got real talent.

Mom.

- And he's completely terrible at science.
- Mmm. And algebra.

And sports.

- Will you please stop?
- He showed me his camera.

- Is he good at kissing?
- I'll tell you later.

Shut up.

- He sleeps with a camera under his pillow.
- No, I don't.

But he refuses to
actually shoot anything.

He should shoot ditch day!

They still don't have a
photographer. You could volunteer.

- What's ditch day?
- I'm not going.

Something seniors do
at the end of the year.

They let us pretend like
we're ditching school,

and we all take buses to
Santa Cruz main beach.

You have to go! Everyone goes.

My dad will lend you his camera.

It's super fancy. Costs,
like, a thousand dollars.

It's called like a... An
"air" something. I forget.

- Wait. Not an arriflex?
- Right!

Your dad owns a 16 mm arriflex?

Wow. Wow, okay. So,
16 mm on stock...

Usually it's a teacher who shoots the
ditch day movie, and it's a big joke.

At ten bucks a roll
for a whole day...

- I owe you a graduation check.
- That'd be insanely expensive.

My dad'll get the
school to pay for it.

I have no idea how much renting
a 16 mm editing machine costs.

- It's not gonna work.
- My dad will rent one for you.

We can rent it whatever
it costs, right?

Bun?

Uh, what's wrong
with your bolex?

Oh, you could afford to
be a little encouraging.

About what?

About him making movies again.

I didn't say that.
I'm just talking...

- Maybe he's moved on.
- On from what?

He hasn't picked up his
camera once since we got here.

He'll be going to college this September.
Maybe his feelings about it have changed.

He's growing up. I'm
enthusiastic about that.

Filming is what he loves.

- Oh, Jesus Christ. Sorry.
- He shouldn't abandon what he loves.

Can we please just
stop talking about me?

I'd think you more than anyone
should have some understanding...

Let's go to your
place or something.

Of what a vocation,
a calling is.

All right. We'll rent
him the equipment.

He hates the beach. That's why he
doesn't want to go to ditch day.

But it's not your calling. Is that
why you can't, uh, respect it?

I have respect for everything
he works hard doing.

He's afraid.

He's scared those guys
will beat him up again.

No, I'm not. I never said
that I was scared of them.

You got beat up?

You always dismiss what
he does, what anyone does,

that's playful or imaginative

as a pastime or a hobby.

You already won, mitz.

I surrendered. I'm
not taking the bait.

Can you guys please cut it
out? You're embarrassing me.

I said I'd take him for his polio
shot the first five times you asked.

You say you will, but I
guess you don't mean it.

- So I ask again and again.
- He's scared of shots!

He's scared of the doctor.

I am taking the goddamn
monkey to the vet, okay?

Probably needs a tranquilizer
with all this yelling.

Can you ask your dad about
borrowing the camera?

He'll say yes.

Thank you.

Filming ditch day.

I think it's a great idea.

J” goodbye, cruel worldj”

j” goodbye, cruel worldj”

j” oh, goodbye, cruel worldj”

j” I'm off to join the circus j”

J” gonna be a
brokenhean'ed clown j”

j” paint my face with a
good-for-nothin ' smile j”

j” 'cause a mean,
fickle woman j”

j” turned my whole
world upside-do wn j”

j” goodbye, cruel worldj”

Yes! Come on! Go, go, go!

J” gotta find a way
to hide my tears j”

j” then ill have them
rollin'in the aisle j”

j” and I'i/ forget that woman j”

j” if it takes a
hundred years j”

j” goodbye, cruel worldj”

j” oh, step right up j”

j” and take a look at a fool j”

j” he has got a heart
as stubborn as a mule j”

j” come on, everybody he
is good for a laugh j”

j” and no one could tell his
heart is broken in half j”

j” well, the joke's on me j”

j” I'm off to join the circus j”

j” oh, ll/lr barnum,
save a place for me j”

j” shoot me out of a
Cannon I don't care j”

j” let the people point
at me and stare j”

j” ill tell the
world that woman j”

j” wherever she may be j”

j” that mean, fickle woman made
a cryin' clown out of me j”

j” goodbye, cruel worldj”

j” goodbye, cruel worldj”

j” goodbye, cruel worldj”

Don't be scared.

Your mom misses
Phoenix too much.

Tell them the truth.

And I can't leave. This
is where my work is.

I have to...

That's crazy. You don't...

You can't ruin everything

because you miss one place and
you're stuck some place else.

I miss bennie too much.

So?

We all miss him.

This is a different
kind of missing.

Because what?

You love bennie?

Don't you love daddy?

Sure she does.

- Of course I love dad.
- And I love mom.

Then why is this all
of a sudden happening?

Stay together!

You love each other,
and you love us.

And we don't want this.

We don't want to have
to move back and forth

and not live with both of you.

We can't! Dad, we can't!

You're always so mean to him!

That's why you're
getting divorced!

It's because of you!

Don't blame your mom. This
wasn't her idea. It was mine.

Don't say that.

No, it wasn't.

She just said it was because
of bennie, so stop lying!

Both of you stop lying!

I'm giving your mom a chance

to go back to Phoenix to live...

I don't understand how you can go back
to your beach blanket movie after that.

We're different, I guess.

Is she gonna marry bennie?

If she wants to, she will.

God, she's the most selfish
person in the world.

It must've been hard for her,

married to a... a genius.

Dad worships mom.

Okay.

But maybe it's hard,

being worshipped by someone you
know you'll never be as good as,

or ever do anything
as good as. She...

She laughs at bennie's jokes...

But dad's always been
her best audience.

Come on.

She'll be fine.

She'll tell herself everything
happens for a reason.

She'll make excuses
like she always does.

You're way more
selfish than her.

That's why you're angry at her.

It's because she's scared,

just like you, Sammy.

Out of everyone in
this out of control,

falling-apart family,

the one who's most
like mitzi is you.

Wait.

Before I show this to the whole school,
could you please watch it with me?

J” also seems kinda shy j”

j” makes me wonder if I j”

j” should even give
him a try... j”

J” he can't shy away forever!”

J” and I'm gonna
make him mine... j”

Hold your breath!

Here.

Oh, wow!

Did you find Jesus?

In a jewelry store.

J” if you see me walking
down the street j”

j” and / start to ciy
each time we meetj”

j” walk on byj”

j” walk on byj”

j” make believe that you
don't see the tears j”

j” just let me grieve in private
'cause each time lsee you j”

so in September
when I move to la,

I'm gonna try and get
work in a movie studio.

Thought you were
going to college.

Could you...

Would you ever consider
coming with me?

I'm going to Texas
a&m. You know that.

Yes, I do.

But I thought...

Maybe you should change
your mind, because“.

Because what?

Because I love you.

- Ow, Sammy!
- Sorry!

Sorry, sorry, sorry!

That's not possible.

What? No, it is.
Monica, I love you.

That's impossible. Sammy...

Sam.

We only started dating, like...

Everything was so normal
before. Why are you acting so...

No, because
nothing's normal now.

They're getting a divorce.

What are you talking about?

My mom and dad,
they're splitting up.

Jesus Christ! This is prom!

You can't just blurt something
out like that at prom!

Wait.

J” don't stop j”

Monica!

Look, that's... that's got
nothing to do with us, okay?

That's not why I said that I
love you. I don't know why I...

I'm not gonna change my whole
life and move to Hollywood

because your parents are
having marital difficulties.

You can get a refund. I
hardly wore it at all.

Are you breaking up with me?

Not at prom, but of
course, eventually.

I'm gonna pray on it.

And I'm gonna pray really,
really hard for you

because you're such a
fun boy to kiss, but...

Thank you. Thank you.

Wonderful. Wonderful.

Let's thank our band
for that great music.

Sometimes we just
can't fix things, Sam,

and all we can do is suffer.

Now we're gonna take a
little break from the dancing

for a very special moment
for the class of 1964.

Mr. Samuel fabelman,
where are you?

Where is he?

Okay.

Bagelman!

Bagelman! Bagelman!

Okay, face this
way. Grab a chair.

Let's all get close
to the screen.

Right up front.

Very good.

Mr. Fabelman, this
is your big moment.

We're ready to watch your
technicolor masterpiece.

Ditch day 1964.

And as they say way down
south in hollywoodland,

"lights...

Lights, camera, action!"

J” if you wanna be happy
for the rest of your life j”

j” never make a pretty
woman your wife j”

j” so for my personal
point of view j”

j” get an ugly girl
to marry you j”

j” if you wanna be happy
for the rest of your life j”

j” never make a pretty
woman your wife... j”

J” get an ugly girl
to marry you j”

j” a pretty woman makes
her husband look small j”

j” and very often
causes his downfall j”

j” as soon as he marries
her then she starts j”

j” to do the things that
will break his heart j”

j” but if you make an
ugly woman your wife j”

j” you 7! Be happy for
the rest of your life j”

j” an ugly woman
cooks meals on time j”

j” she 7! Always give
you peace of mind j”

j” if you wanna be happy
for the rest of your life j”

j” never make a pretty
woman your wife j”

j” so for my personal
point of view j”

j” get an ugly girl
to marry you j”

J” don't let your friends
say you have no taste j”

j” go ahead and marry anyway j”

j” though her face is ugly
her eyes don't match j”

j” take it from me she's
a better catch... j”

Oh, yeah!

J” if you wanna be happy
for the rest of your life j”

j” never make a pretty
woman your wife j”

j” so for my personal
point of view j”

j” get an ugly girl
to many you... j”

Oh, no!

J” all around the limbo world j”

j” gonna do the limbo rock j”

j” all around the limbo clock j”

j” Jack be nimble,
Jack be quick j”

j” Jack go under limbo stick j”

j” all around the
limbo clock... j”

J” limbo lower now j”

j” limbo lower now j”

j” how low can you go? J”

j” first you spread
your limbo feet j”

j” then you move to limbo beatj”

j” limbo ankle, limbo knee j”

j” bend back like
a limbo tree j”

j” Jack be nimble,
Jack be quick j”

j” Jack go under
limbo stick... j”

J” hey, let's do
the limbo rock j”

j” la, la, la, la, la, la j”

Let's go! Come on!

No, no. No, no. No.

Logan, you were so
incredible up there.

It was amazing...

Why'd you do that?

What?

Why'd you make me
look like that?

- In the film?
- Yes, in the film!

Oh, shit! Shit.

What's the matter with you?

I've been a... a total asshole
to you. I broke your nose.

You didn't break my nose.

Then you go and make me look
like that. What's wrong with you?

Logan, all I did was hold the
camera, and it saw what it saw.

Oh, bullshit!

Fabelman, you made
me look like...

- Like this golden kind of thing.
- Yeah.

And Claudia just kissed me
in front of the whole school.

Mazel tov.

- I treat her shittier than I treat you.
- You're welcome, man.

No, no. Don't go. Don't go.

I wanna know why you did that.

I don't know. I ought to
have my head examined.

Am I supposed to feel bad now
about all that shit we did to you?

- Do you feel bad about all that...
- That's none of your business!

- Because you should feel bad...
- That's why you did it!

I wanted you to be nice
to me for five minutes!

Or I did it to make my movie
better. I don't know why.

You are the biggestjerk I've
ever met in my entire life!

I have a monkey at home
that's smarter than you!

You dumb, anti-semitic asshole!

I made you look
like you could fly.

But I can't fly.

I can outrun any guy
in Santa Clara county,

and I worked real
hard to do that.

But you... you make me feel like I'm
some kind of failure or a phony, or...

Or like I'm supposed to be
some guy I'm never gonna be,

not even in my dreams.

You took that guy, whoever he
is, wherever you got him from,

and you put him up there on
that screen and told everyone...

Everyone that that's me. And
that's not me. That's... it's...

Goddamn it!

Goddamn it!

Jesus. It wasn't supposed
to make you upset.

I didn't mean to freak you out.

Who cares what you meant?

Fabelman!

Oh, shit.

You liar! You backstabbing liar!

I'm gonna beat your... god...

You totally bought it, his whole
snow job. You ate it up. You moron.

Logan, you are so
conceited and dumb.

Is something about to happen?

You like living
dangerously, fabelman.

No, I really, really don't.

Yes, you do.

But you tell anybody
about me getting, um,

upset

that would be a mistake.

Our secret. Okay?

Definitely.

Unless I make a movie about it.

Which I'm never ever gonna do.

You never...

What's it like?

It kinda shows you how out
of control everything is,

and how you're... You're
not in charge of anything.

And... and how it
doesn't matter.

I better not.

In my head, everything's
already out of control.

You're full of shit.

I gotta split. Claudia's
waiting for me.

Life's nothing like
the movies, fabelman.

Maybe not. But hey, in the end,

you got the girl.

Must have been some night.

Did Monica like the corsage?

- Yeah.
- Well, I told you she would.

That time when I hit you...

In... in Phoenix, when I...

Oh, god. You remember.

Not really.

Oh, for the love of god. It's not like
I spent my whole life hitting you.

Once. I hit you once.

It should have been memorable.

Before the swimming test.

Yes, before the swimming
test. Yes. I... I...

I s... slapped you
on your back...

As hard as I could. I
screwed up your tryouts.

And you couldn't get your merit badge,
and then you couldn't make eagle scout.

Ma, I made eagle scout.
It wasn't a big deal.

And I left a goddamn Mark on your
skin in the sh-sh-shape of my hand.

And I need you to say you
forgive me for doing that.

- Well, okay. I forgive you.
- Because... because...

Because you're my kid.

Mom, I forgive you.

And... and my kids mean more to me
than anything else on the earth.

Mom, I forgive
you. I forgive you.

Please, because how am I ever
gonna forgive myself? I can't.

Mom, I... I...

I forgive you.

The eggs are burning.

Oh, god.

I'm doing this thing.

And I... I don't know
if it's the right thing,

but it's a life-and-death
thing for me, and I'm sorry,

but everybody else is gonna
have to hang on for dear life.

And somehow, we will
survive this, all of us.

Even your father, who I
adore with all my heart.

He deserves so much better
than what I'm doing, but...

But bennie needs me, Dolly.

And I need him.

So much so that without him, I'm
turning into someone I don't know,

and none of you will
know me anymore.

I'll just be that hateful person who
did that terrible thing to your back.

And yes, this is the most
selfish thing I have ever done.

But I've gotta do this
now because, Sammy,

you do what your heart
says you have to,

because you don't
owe anyone your life.

Not even me.

Oh. Are they ruined? I...
I can make some more.

Oh, no, no. I like 'em burnt.

So Monica dumped me.

She did?

Yeah, after I told
her about the divorce.

Huh?

Probably shouldn't have
asked her to marry me.

- You did not.
- All but...

You did?

- In so many words.
- Poor girl.

Dad?

Hey, dad, I'm home.

Sammy?

I think I'm having
a heart attack.

Come here.

It's a panic attack.
Your mother gets them.

- What did you do when she'd get them?
- I made her tea.

Okay.

Plus, you're exhausted.

You don't sleep.

I hear you walking around all
night or typing those letters,

and the three hours' drive to
the college every day and back.

No, no, no. I can't
go back to that dorm.

Maybe your roommate
settled down.

He voted for goldwater.
I can't go back.

Dad...

I don't know...

What to do anymore.

I don't want to disappoint you,

and I promised that
I'd stick it out.

But two years is like
forever, and I hate school.

Like, a lot.

And I wanna get work on
a movie or a TV show,

so I send out all those letters,
but nobody ever writes back.

And my life is just going by so
fast, but it's not getting anywhere.

Concentrate on sipping.
It'll calm you down.

Here. Uh...

You can go through the mail
while I get the soup on.

It's from mom.

It's just a bunch of goofy photos
from some kind of block party.

Dad?

Dad, what's...

Dad, I didn't mean to...

If you hate school
so much, don't go.

But...

Dad, you...

I would like you to because
this film thing, I don't know...

Maybe I should have put my foot
down about it years ago, but...

I know you're gonna work like the
dickens on whatever you wind up doing

because you're a chip
off the old block.

We're never not going to
know each other, Sammy.

How do you know that?

You and mom don't anymore.

Yes, we do.

We always will.

I know it because...

We've gone too far in our story
to actually say, "the end."

Uh, you missed
something in the mail.

Good news?

The y 've ordered 32 half hours,

Fridays at 8:30 pm. On CBS
starting September 17th.

We already have six
shows in the can.

It's like stalag 77 or the great
escape, except it's funnier.

And it's for television.

- And it's funny.
- Yeah.

Or at least, I pray to
god that it's funny.

Hogan's heroes, that's the
title. What do you think?

- Pretty catchy, right?
- Catchy, yeah.

And if all goes well,

I might be able to offer
you something next season.

Maybe assisting an
assistant to an assistant.

You don't wanna be in TV anyway.

Um, your letter said as much.

By the way, I love this letter.

I used to write a whole bunch of
these letters when I was your age.

You wanna make
movies. Am I right?

Well, yeah. Yes, I do.

But look, I'm just happy to start
anywhere, and... and that doesn't...

You know who you need to meet?

I mean, not for a job,
because he doesn't do that.

How would you like to meet the
greatest film director who ever lived?

And he's right across the hall.

Come on.

Wait here a minute.

Uh, this is nona. Nona's
gonna look after you.

Uh, he's not here. He's...

- He's at lunch.
- Right.

- You wanna wait?
- Yeah, he'll wait.

Sit.

Good luck.

Could be hours.

All right, kid. You
got five minutes.

Probably one. Stand up.

Uh, lose the tie. You'll
stand a better chance.

They tell me you wanna
be a picturemaker.

Um, yes, sir. I do.

Why?

This business,
it'll rip you apart.

Well...

Mr. Ford, I...

So, what do you
know about art, kid?

I love your movies so much.

No, art.

See that painting over there?

Uh, yeah. I mean, yes.

Yes, I do see it.

Walk over to it.

Well, what's in it? Describe it.

Oh, okay. Um...

So there are two guys,

and they're on horseback,

and they're looking for
something, so maybe they're...

No. No.

Where's the horizon?

The... the horizon?

Where is it?

Uh, it's at the bottom.

That's right. Walk
over to this painting.

Well?

Right, okay. So there are
five cowboys. You know...

No, no, no, no, no!

Where's the goddamn horizon?

Um, it's... it's there.

- Where?
- At the top of the painting.

All right, get over here.

Now, remember this.

When the horizon's at the
bottom, it's interesting.

When the horizon's at the
top, it's interesting.

When the horizon's in the
middle, it's boring as shit.

Now, good luck to you.

And get the fuck
out of my office!

Okay.

Thank you.

My pleasure.