school.
If I were you, Id have
a talk with his teacher.
I will when I get time.
Whats the matter?
Has Joe been sick?
No.
We gave the stand up.
-Too much work.
-Oh.
The boys
panic should have told me...
it was more than school
he was afraid of...
and that littered,
closed-up vegetable stand...
should have
told me something, too.
When I last saw it,
less than a month ago...
it was the cleanest
and
about that?
Looks like I dont know what it takes
to satisfy you these days, doesnt it?
It just doesnt sit well
with me any more, George.
I mean, youve got your wife,
got your two kids in high school.
Theres a lot of gossip. I got my two kids...
I dont know...
It just doesnt make me feel good.
Youre here to make me feel good.
Im not trottin down here any more.
Why, you hick!
You got dirt under yo
close.
You had it won!
You diagrammed the perfect play!
Sure, Harrison didnt set the low pick,
but why didnt Tracy pass the ball?
Son... that is one for the ages.
Hey, wait a minute.
Its : . Its a school night.
Do your parents know youre out this late?
Im an orphan.
And Im out here selling candy
so that I can raise money for the group home.
Oh. Well...
listen, how bout this, uh...
will that get m
close the family business...
...to sell our furniture,
to clear everything from our home.
We gave our dog to the neighbors.
I smashed my records
and left them there.
We were only allowed to bring
what we could carry with us.
First we were held
at the Santa Anita racetrack...
...living in a horse stall.
Then we were taken further away.
Everything we had known was gone.
ROOSEVELT [ON RADIO]:
--dete
did not ask to become a widow before the age of forty.
I know that.
Give me a hug.
- I will not cut again. - Let me hear the "P" word.
I promise.
Jesus! I am late. I have to get to work.
Lock the top lock the minute I close the door.
And do not open for anyone. Bye. I love you.
Are you alone? Okay. Move it!
Do yourself to the drain.
Tough guy.
Do it. I will make it easier for you.
Go ahead.
closest to death.
Wagners by no means unhealthy.
Hes merely expressing
most exactly the state of things.
Help yourselves to potatoes, Hall.
Dont stand on ceremony.
I cant stand music.
Or concert halls.
I dont go in for being superior.
- Dont you? I do.
- Come along, Chapman. Youre in need of food.
I expect Lord Risley isnt.
Ive put him off with my low talk.
I simply cant think of a reply to that.
Line after line of ants is working on the tunnel,
digging, passing clumps of dirt from ant to ant, everyone
synchronized.
CLOSE on a clump of DIRT being passed from hand to hand.
PULL OUT TO REVEAL
AZTECA, a feisty, cynical, female worker ant, who stands
there, waiting to pass the dirt on. Z is daydreaming behind
her, with clumps of dirt starting to pile up in front of him.
AZTECA
Hello?! E
school, didnt he? Congratulations!
- Actually, I didnt finish. - Thats great!
What?
I, Brian Gulden...
son of Mr. American Literature and the romantics, failed American Literature.
Youre serious?
- Yeah. - Well, way to go.
- How did you do that? - I blew the test, Ellen.
Brian.
Did you tell Dad?
No.
Just cause Im failing doesnt make me a moron.
Yoo-hoo! Hi!
- There she is. - Hi, Mom.
Your dads no
closely because he was a
kid our age. Three days before he had gone out to pick blueberries
and nobody had seen him since.
Charley: I think, we should tell the cops.
Billy: You dont go squawking to the cops after you boosted a car, you idiot.
They gonna wanna know how the hell we got way on the Back Harlow road.
Now they know, we dont got no car! Its best we just keep our mouths
shut, then they
Life As A House Script
Alyssa.
This is ridiculous.
I want you to go give your dad a hug.
Why?
Because hell be gone for his birthday.
Can we have a party for him while hes gone?
I hope youre showered and ready for school.
Sam broke his closet.
Beat it! Get outta there! No, wait.
Stay there. Good boy. Right there.
Come to daddy.
Come here, Guster!
Have a nice day.
-Stay. -This has got to stop.
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