Dear John Page #14

Synopsis: South Carolina US Army Special operations soldier John is on summer leave from his German base, visiting his widowed father. Being gallant on the pier, he befriends college student Savannah, a college student, and her buddies, a terminal father and his angelic son. John falls in love with Savannah, who diagnoses his beloved, gentle but weird father as mildly autistic. He plans not to sign up again, but 9/11 changes that, and she won't wait idly while their friends desperately need help.
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Director(s): Lasse Hallström
Production: Screen Gems/SONY PICTURES
  4 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
29%
PG-13
Year:
2010
108 min
$79,600,000
Website
3,753 Views


beach house a year ago.

1290

01:
31:33,401 -- 01:31:35,596

Which was a godsend.

1291

01:
31:36,771 -- 01:31:39,865

We've done a few fundraisers.

1292

01:
31:40,809 -- 01:31:41,833

[SlGHS]

1293

01:
31:42,010 -- 01:31:46,174

But l never would have guessed

that we would run out so fast.

1294

01:
31:54,055 -- 01:31:55,955

Stay for dinner, okay?

1295

01:
32:02,764 -- 01:32:04,527

So you drink now.

1296

01:
32:04,699 -- 01:32:06,929

Just a glass or two at dinner.

1297

01:
32:07,635 -- 01:32:10,604

Tim got me started

a couple years ago.

1298

01:
32:18,813 -- 01:32:20,644

Why are you looking at me

like that?

1299

01:
32:20,815 -- 01:32:21,839

What do you mean?

1300

01:
32:22,784 -- 01:32:24,308

How am l looking at you?

1301

01:
32:25,587 -- 01:32:27,248

Differently.

1302

01:
32:28,790 -- 01:32:31,258

l don't know, how do you

want me to look at you?

1303

01:
32:31,893 -- 01:32:33,554

You're different.

1304

01:
32:37,298 -- 01:32:39,061

Oh...

1305

01:
32:43,938 -- 01:32:45,769

l don't know--

1306

01:
32:48,676 -- 01:32:52,442

l don't know why l came here.

l mean, what are we doing?

1307

01:
32:56,251 -- 01:32:58,879

We're sitting here and we're

eating and we're talking,

1308

01:
32:59,053 -- 01:33:01,214

but no one's actually

saying anything.

1309

01:
33:01,389 -- 01:33:04,688

What do you want me to say?

What do you want to talk about?

1310

01:
33:11,733 -- 01:33:13,530

Why didn't you call?

1311

01:
33:17,105 -- 01:33:19,073

Why didn't you call me?

1312

01:
33:21,342 -- 01:33:26,609

l mean, did l not deserve

any more explanation than

1313

01:
33:27,615 -- 01:33:29,242

that letter?

1314

01:
33:30,385 -- 01:33:31,943

You couldn't have

called me?

1315

01:
33:32,120 -- 01:33:35,681

You couldn't have given me

some sort of chance to,

like, change your mind?

1316

01:
33:36,424 -- 01:33:38,585

Don't you think

you owed me that?

1317

01:
33:43,064 -- 01:33:44,497

l couldn't.

1318

01:
33:44,666 -- 01:33:45,724

You couldn't?

1319

01:
33:45,900 -- 01:33:49,631

You thought that little

of me that you couldn't

have just called me.

1320

01:
33:50,204 -- 01:33:52,104

Why?

1321

01:
33:52,273 -- 01:33:54,605

Because l couldn't.

1322

01:
33:55,443 -- 01:33:57,104

Give me an answer.

Why? Why not?

1323

01:
33:57,278 -- 01:33:58,973

Because l couldn't.

l want an answer.

1324

01:
33:59,147 -- 01:34:02,742

Because just hearing your voice,

l would have changed my mind.

1325

01:
34:08,523 -- 01:34:09,785

ls that what you

wanna hear, John?

1326

01:
34:09,958 -- 01:34:12,552

ls that what you came

all this way to hear from me?

1327

01:
34:12,727 -- 01:34:14,126

You think it was

tough out there?

1328

01:
34:14,295 -- 01:34:16,957

And, what, you think it was

easy for me without you?

1329

01:
34:17,131 -- 01:34:19,361

You thought that

every single day it wasn't

1330

01:
34:19,534 -- 01:34:23,402

a goddamn marathon

of my life without you?

1331

01:
34:23,571 -- 01:34:25,402

Tim was sick.

1332

01:
34:26,341 -- 01:34:28,332

He was sick and he needed me.

1333

01:
34:28,509 -- 01:34:30,136

He needed me to help him.

1334

01:
34:30,311 -- 01:34:33,439

He needed me to help him

with Alan, with everything.

1335

01:
34:34,015 -- 01:34:37,041

l was alone and l had

no idea what l was doing.

1336

01:
34:39,354 -- 01:34:43,290

l didn't plan this. l didn't know

that it was gonna happen to me.

1337

01:
34:43,458 -- 01:34:45,585

But it did.

1338

01:
34:45,760 -- 01:34:47,853

But you don't think l've tried--?

1339

01:
34:48,029 -- 01:34:51,157

l picked up the phone

a thousand times to try

to call you.

1340

01:
34:51,332 -- 01:34:55,428

You think that l really

wanna be standing here

in front of you like this?

1341

01:
34:57,271 -- 01:34:58,829

[SOBBlNG]

1342

01:
34:59,307 -- 01:35:01,434

l had no choice.

1343

01:
35:02,443 -- 01:35:04,240

l know.

1344

01:
35:05,079 -- 01:35:07,138

[i/i]

1345

01:
35:14,255 -- 01:35:16,621

l saved every single

one of them.

1346

01:
35:18,393 -- 01:35:20,327

You've been so many places.

1347

01:
35:21,029 -- 01:35:22,553

Mm-hm.

1348

01:
35:24,265 -- 01:35:27,666

l think the yellow envelopes

are from Africa or something.

1349

01:
35:27,835 -- 01:35:29,735

Really?

Mm-hm.

1350

01:
35:30,171 -- 01:35:33,629

l even have your first,

your very first letter to me.

1351

01:
35:35,843 -- 01:35:37,606

Tim's water bill.

1352

01:
35:40,782 -- 01:35:41,806

[CHUCKLES]

1353

01:
35:41,983 -- 01:35:43,211

Hmm.

1354

01:
35:43,384 -- 01:35:44,851

[LAUGHS]

1355

01:
35:47,388 -- 01:35:48,855

Sorry.

1356

01:
35:49,924 -- 01:35:51,391

lt's okay.

1357

01:
35:54,796 -- 01:35:57,060

SAVANNAH:

Hope you have more

where that came from.

1358

01:
36:08,776 -- 01:36:10,607

[i/i]

1359

01:
36:23,958 -- 01:36:27,394

l'm gonna put

a pot of coffee on.

1360

01:
36:30,965 -- 01:36:31,989

[SlGHS]

1361

01:
36:33,901 -- 01:36:35,562

[SlGHS]

1362

01:
36:48,649 -- 01:36:50,173

l should go.

1363

01:
37:05,133 -- 01:37:06,964

l'll see you soon, then?

1364

01:
37:13,207 -- 01:37:14,401

Say it back.

1365

01:
37:15,610 -- 01:37:18,579

When l say it,

you say it.

1366

01:
37:19,881 -- 01:37:21,439

Remember?

1367

01:
37:27,488 -- 01:37:28,978

John?

1368

01:
37:31,759 -- 01:37:33,590

Just say it.

1369

01:
37:45,039 -- 01:37:46,870

Goodbye, Savannah.

1370

01:
37:56,384 -- 01:37:58,375

[i/i]

1371

01:
38:03,591 -- 01:38:05,058

[CAR ENGlNE STARTS]

1372

01:
38:45,132 -- 01:38:46,394

JOHN:

il don't think you remember me./i

1373

01:
38:46,567 -- 01:38:49,195

But l believe you knew

my father, Bill Tyree.

1374

01:
38:49,370 -- 01:38:51,031

Oh, yeah, of course

l did. Yeah.

1375

01:
38:51,205 -- 01:38:53,173

l haven't seen him

in a while, though.

How is he?

1376

01:
38:53,341 -- 01:38:55,809

Uh, he recently passed.

1377

01:
38:57,211 -- 01:38:58,940

l'm sorry.

1378

01:
38:59,513 -- 01:39:03,449

l think you might've offered

to buy his coin collection

one time. ls that right?

1379

01:
39:03,618 -- 01:39:05,745

Sure did.

More than once.

1380

01:
39:05,920 -- 01:39:08,912

Just out of curiosity,

how much do you think

a collection like his is worth?

1381

01:
39:09,090 -- 01:39:13,891

Phew. A collection that big?

l don't know, l'd have to see it.

1382

01:
39:16,998 -- 01:39:20,161

Look, l only got

about one condition.

1383

01:
39:21,736 -- 01:39:24,136

All the mules,

they gotta stay together.

1384

01:
39:24,305 -- 01:39:27,206

l don't care, you can

sell them as a set or

keep them for yourself.

1385

01:
39:27,375 -- 01:39:28,706

But they have

to stay together.

1386

01:
39:28,876 -- 01:39:31,003

You're really truly going

to sell me all his coins?

1387

01:
39:31,178 -- 01:39:32,839

Yes, sir.

1388

01:
39:33,014 -- 01:39:34,641

All but one.

1389

01:
39:37,018 -- 01:39:40,283

JOHN:

This comes up nickel, we're gonna

set up right here. We got shade.

1390

01:
39:40,454 -- 01:39:43,355

lt comes up penny, we'll be up

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