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Dad Page #7
- PG
- Year:
- 1989
- 117 min
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Mr. Tremont?
How are you,
Mr. Tremont?
Let's get a few
more studies.
Please order an EEG and let's look
for any metabolic abnormalities.
Order calcium-magnesium
I'm not sure exactly
what caused it,
but right now,
I'm inclined to go along
with the diagnosis
of a seizure.
The question is,
what caused it?
And why is he
still comatose?
If you want to have
another consultation on this,
please do so.
No, that won't
be necessary.
Well, having said that
don't get the impression
that we're going to
sit by and do nothing.
We won't.
We've just done a series
of tests and we'll do more.
It's just that right now,
we're really shooting in the dark.
We really appreciate
your honesty, Doctor.
It's strange.
You know, the LP we did
showed up an elevated
protein in the spinal fluid,
but the CAT scan showed
no evidence of
a stroke or tumor.
Those tests should
have been done
a long time ago,
shouldn't they?
We'll keep him in ICU,
that way he'll be
monitored at all times.
And I'll check in and
see him twice a day.
I'm going to move in here
with him, then, if it's okay.
I'm afraid, that's entirely
against hospital regulations.
Well, if it makes you
feel more comfortable,
I think it's a good idea.
How long do you think
you can keep this up?
I don't know.
I'm just goin'
one day at a time.
I sit.
I talk to him.
I talk to myself.
I have this idea
if I'm sitting there
and I'm talking,
he won't die.
What are you going
to do when he does?
Annie, I don't...
You're the only one who
hasn't accepted it, John.
Why can't you let him go?
I can't explain it.
Maybe I want to be
there to mark the end.
I don't know.
To prove he was here.
To prove I was his son.
What more could you
possibly have done?
Annie, that man got up
every day of his life
and went to
a job he didn't like.
We didn't ask him to.
He just did it because
he was the father
and that was
the deal he made.
He didn't ask himself if he
was satisfied or happy.
He didn't even know
he had the right.
Somehow part of
that deal was that
we'd care for him
and watch over him
when he got older.
I screwed that up.
John.
I got embarrassed by him,
by the way Mom
dominated him.
By the way he got old.
Embarrassed that I had
a marriage that failed,
a job that didn't
make sense,
a son I'd barely recognize
if I passed him
on the street.
Maybe this is more
for me than for him,
but I'm gonna be
there when he dies.
And I'm gonna kiss him,
and I'm gonna
mark the moment.
I owe him that.
When did you
get back in town?
I never left.
I'm staying with some friends.
I didn't want to
leave Grandpa.
You've been coming
here every day?
Whenever you leave,
I usually stay
a half-an-hour or so.
Sorry.
Where am I, Johnny?
You're in a hospital, Dad.
guessed that one.
Why are you here?
Was there an earthquake
or a car crash or something?
He speaks?
Yes, he does.
It's something he
learned as a child.
Go, uh, go page
Dr. Chad right away.
Please, please.
Why was she
looking at me funny?
Uh, she's-she's part
of the hospital, Dad.
She's, uh, a nurse.
She's, uh... As a matter of
fact, these are all nurses.
This is Molly, this is J.J.,
uh, this is Annie.
This is my dad.
Well, Mr. Tremont.
What can we do to
make you comfortable?
Well, to start with, you could
take out these pipes and wires.
Then maybe I could
have something to eat.
I feel like you've
been starving me here.
Okay, but we'll have to
start you off very slowly.
Don't forget you really
haven't eaten anything
in quite a long time.
Maybe that was what
was wrong with me.
Have you thought of that?
All the tests are positive,
This is the profile
of a healthy man.
What happened?
What's goin' on?
I've seen people recover
from comas before.
Very often we
never find out why.
I have some theories
in this case.
Nothing that I'd
want to see published.
Like what?
It is entirely possible
that he was so fearful
of the cancer
stopped producing
a vital chemical
or enzyme that he needed.
Somehow with that last
variation of the IV mixture
we got lucky and he
replaced that enzyme.
I see.
You know,
if we were back home,
we'd say that it was
not that at all.
But rather,
it was your love and caring
from where he'd gone.
I think that I like
that one better.
Me, too.
Here they are.
What's goin' on, Dad?
What are you looking for?
Your mother and I
are starting a new
life together, Johnny.
We need some new clothes.
Hey, nice day.
How you doing?
I don't know, Dad.
What do you suppose
Mom will say about all this?
She'll probably laugh and call
me crazy, but she'll laugh.
We haven't had enough
laughter in our house
for the past 10 years.
What do you think of that?
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
Ladies, ladies,
the show is about to begin.
No matter how
stimulated you become
during the performance,
please remain in your
seats at all times.
the star of our show,
the late sick man and
almost corpus delicti,
back from a successful
tour of the Caribbean,
Gorgeous Jake.
Give him a big hand.
Come on, give
him a big hand.
Here we go.
Also his faithful companion, Billy!
Ladies and gentlemen, Billy!
What is this?
What's it for?
This is my outfit for
bicycling in Venice
down on the beach.
And this? This is my
baseball-watching outfit.
See?
I think I'll wear it mostly
only in the house.
Actually, I'm going to go
see a few of the games,
but not in my outfit.
That's good to hear, Jake.
Wait.
There's more.
Let me see that again.
Oh, I'll piss my pants!
Tell them to stop.
I'm dying!
dying from laughing, Bette.
But wouldn't that be nice?
I tell you, Johnny,
he's not the same.
Maybe his hormones got
mixed up with someone else's.
You know what goes
on in these hospitals.
Nobody would believe
he's a 78-year-old man
who almost died
a few weeks ago.
You've got to talk with
somebody, I'm serious.
Mom,
he's just having fun.
Not bad.
I shot a 94.
It's a one-hole course,
but still...
It's a wonderful day.
How about I take us for
Ah, it's a good idea.
Maybe Mom will
come along with us.
I'm not going to
drive with him.
He drove too fast before.
I hate to think what
he'd be like now.
Don't you worry your
pretty little head, Bette.
With old Jake Tremont
behind that wheel,
you're as safe as if you
were in your own bed.
And it's almost as much fun.
What on Earth are
you looking for?
Nothing. I want to see
if I can still do a pushup.
I'll call these
"old man pushups. "
What about it, Bette?
You want to hit the beach?
I'll go, but only
in a taxicab.
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