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Film Transcript - Act 2 TRAILER - LIVING ROOM |
| BECKY: Good morning — I got some good sleep — I think. Very few people really care about an inmate’s family — 'cos they basically figure you’re just as bad as the inmate is. You know if you can accept his crime and stick with him than you’re just as bad. Both of my kids are challenged. Joshua is like handling 5 kids at different stages of development. Donnie is in a tough time in his life. He’s going through puberty; dad should be home showing this kid how to shave. He should be explaining the things that boys need to know. And its’ — Donnie doesn’t want it coming from a mom. BECKY: You need a shower Donnie you are really nasty. DONNIE: I’ll take it later. BECKY: No you’re gonna take it now. DONNIE: We don’t have any towels. BECKY: Find something that will absorb water and take a shower. TRAILER - BATHROOM TRAILER - LIVING ROOM BECKY: Get up Bud. Gram’s coming and you have to get up and get dressed. JOSH: I’ll get dressed when she comes. BECKY: She’s not gonna like that. Josh get up now! JOSH: Can I have a yogurt? BECKY: Don’t have a yogurt. JOSH: What? BECKY: I don’t have a yogurt. JOSH: Yes you do. BECKY: No I have pudding. JOSH: Can I have a small piece of pie? BECKY: No you guys have been eating up everything up in there. JOSH: Not pie. BECKY: You’re a brat. JOSH: Can I? BECKY: Very tiny piece. That stupid pie cost me six dollars! JOSH: That is stupid. BECKY: Yes it is. TRAILER PARK — DRIVE WAY Packing up for my annual pilgrimage up north. I’m visiting my husband — he doesn’t get any visitors through the year so this is a big thing for him is once a year his family comes up and you know he gets to see any changes made in that visiting room. Joe: Alright let me see. Brake fluid looks good. Power steering fluid that looks pretty good. My years run a bit differently — I tend to try and avoid holidays. So I don’t like to go x-mas to x-mas or birthday to birthday to birthday — it’s basically school year to school year. Because they look forward to — at the end of the school year always means they’re gonna go see dad. They get out in June so I usually start planning — you know July of august — these are the only months I get to work in — July or august is when we’re gonna make the trip up. BECKY: Tent. Got cooler, will get suitcases, got med cases got, you got your bathroom articles? JOYCE: Yes mother. This year I’m staying in a campground, ‘cos I’ve got nowhere else to stay. So I got a tent and a cook out grill — and we’re just going to make it a vacation slash visit. So it’s actually going to be a little bit of fun this year. I don’t travel anywhere alone — it’s just impossible for me to do — so I need a traveling companion. And I told Joyce Hey I have money, going to New Hampshire - you heard me talking about it all this time — you want to go? She wasn’t hard to convince she was ready to go. Malcolm wanted to go — never been out of the state of Georgia so they — they were all set for this. So uh, we started making plans for the trip up. BECKY: Where there’s a will there’s a way ON THE ROAD B & JOSH: We’re on the road! BECKY: South Carolina — we’ve put one down! It’s a long hard trip and to make the kids do anymore than once a year would be totally impossible — not even counting money — they just could handle it. You’re talking kids cramped into a box — going up there and my kids you can’t really cramp. BECKY: Joshua I cannot hear you — I can’t see in my mirror no more. It’s worthless for you guys to talk to me — I can’t see you in the mirror and I can’t hear you. REST AREA — NEXT MORNING BECKY: Get up — c’mon go to the bathroom everybody got to get up. JOYCE: Ten to eight. BECKY: Oh god! C’mon boy. Hey over here! Over here! It’s morning. C’mon grin and bare it we ain’t even in the north yet. We still — we in Virginia. This is still south. MALCOLM: It’s kind of up north. BECKY: Ain’t nowhere near New Hampshire yet. C’mon boy! DONNIE: None of the bathrooms have a lock on it. BECKY: None of the bathrooms have a lock. Malcolm go in there with Donnie, none of the bathrooms have a lock — go on follow him up. ON THE ROAD JOYCE: You want to take 81. BECKY: 81 North. JOSH: What state are we in? BECKY: Virginia. JOYCE: The longest damn state to get through. BECKY: No Pennsylvania is. JOYCE: Is it? JOSH: Whoa Malcolm get that! BECKY: Joshua! JOYCE: Calm your nerves boy! JOSH: Want me to drive? JOYCE: No I want you to shut up ‘cos you’re already driving me nuts. BECKY: And it’s early. JOSH: Mom tell Donnie to let me play with his handcuffs. BECKY: Donnie can’t you just let him play with them for a minute? JOSH: Now I can’t undo myself. BECKY: What did you do lock yourself up with no key? That could be an advantage for me. Donald uncuff your brotha. JOSH: Hey Mom. Are we gonna be there today? BECKY: yes we are definitely gonna be there today. We have to get all the tents set up and we’ll spend the night there, we’ll get initiated into the campground life and then we’ll go visit. JOSH: Well I don’t care about that I want to go see my dad. REST AREA - COOK OUT DONNIE: Mommy why do these smell like sausages? JOYCE: ‘cos they’re Frankfurters. In Georgia families are kind of a big thing. A single mother is never viewed on positively. But it’s worse when they find out that you’re a single mother because your husband’s in prison. I felt it very important for my kids to learn that being in jail is not cool. It’s not a good thing. Josh is, Josh is also afraid of being arrested. He’s afraid of that because he knows — daddy’s in jail and he never sees mama — once in a while he sees mama — so if Josh goes to jail — josh ain’t going to see mama no more either. So that part scares him. I bet you my kids aren’t gonna go to jail. ON THE ROAD CAMPGROUND - SETTING UP THE TENT AT NIGHT
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