Dear John Page #2

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
3,728 Views


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Mm-hm.

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06:28,334 -- 00:06:29,392

What?

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Come on, l just think you're

probably everybody's type.

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[BO Y lMlTATES EXPLOSlON]

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Whoa!

See what l mean?

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ls this who l think it is?

Alan, Alan.

105

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Whoa! Hey, buddy,

l want you to meet

my friend John.

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John, this is Alan.

Alan, nice to meet you.

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Say hi.

108

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He's a little bit shy,

isn't he?

109

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Hey, where's your dad?

110

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Over there.

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MAN:

Two steps behind, as usual.

112

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Sorry, he's like

a heat-seeking missile

every time he sees you.

113

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06:59,299 -- 00:07:00,891

Oh, hey, l'm Tim.

JOHN:
John.

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SAVANNAH:

Sorry.

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JOHN:

Nice to meet you.

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TlM:
Oh, you

Special Forces, huh?

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07:05,805 -- 00:07:06,897

JOHN:

Uh, yes, sir.

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ALAN:

Vroom! Vroom!

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You, uh, stationed

out at Fort Bragg?

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No, uh, Germany,

actually.

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Oh, you're on leave.

Yes, sir.

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Oh. Well, l hope you're

enjoying yourself.

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Yeah, uh, l think l am.

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l'm sorry, l didn't mean to interrupt.

lt's nice to meet you though.

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Nice to meet you too.

Come on, son. Let's go.

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Let's go.

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Hello. Hello, John.

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Hello, Alan.

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[ALAN SPEAKlNG lNDlSTlNCTLY]

130

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Wow, that was

really amazing.

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Yeah?

He never talks to anybody.

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Only his family.

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He talked to you.

134

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Yeah, but l'm practically

his family. l've known him

since he was born.

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Yeah?

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[ROSl GOLAN'S ''THlNK OF ME''

PLAYlNG OVER SPEAKERS]

137

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[PEOPLE LAUGHlNG

AND CHATTERlNG]

138

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When do you go back?

139

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Two weeks.

140

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lt must be scary

what you do.

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Boring mostly. You know,

long stretches of boring.

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Occasional flashes

of scary.

143

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Full moon tonight.

144

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Do you ever notice

how big the moon is

when it's rising?

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And how little it gets

when it's up in the sky.

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08:33,459 -- 00:08:35,950

JOHN:

You know, that's just

your perspective.

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lt actually doesn't matter

where it is in the sky or

where you are in the world

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if you hold your hand up

and close one of your eyes.

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lt's never bigger

than your thumb.

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[CHUCKLES]

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SAVANNAH:

Where'd you learn that?

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JOHN:

l don't know.

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Somewhere.

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JOHN:

Yeah.

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SAVANNAH:

Wow.

156

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09:04,657 -- 00:09:07,524

You just-- You just

made your own fire.

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That's very impressive.

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09:11,564 -- 00:09:12,690

Very primal.

159

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But you're still not

gonna be able to cook

that hotdog, l fear.

160

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l fear that as well.

161

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09:22,308 -- 00:09:24,572

l should probably

be getting going anyways.

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l'm sorry. l hope you

don't get into, um,

too much trouble.

163

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l think it's probably

too late for that.

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Yeah.

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Thank you.

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Yeah. No, you're welcome.

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[i/i]

168

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09:44,163 -- 00:09:47,257

Would you wanna maybe

do this again tomorrow night?

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Tomorrow night

is chicken.

170

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l don't think you're

gonna wanna try it.

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Yeah, l was kind of hoping

maybe we'd let somebody

else do the cooking.

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Type of thing.

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Okay.

Yeah?

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So maybe l'll come by around,

uh, 6 or something?

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Okay.

All right.

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Ah!

Whoa.

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[GRUNTS]

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So l'll see you soon, then?

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l'll see you soon, then.

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Yeah. Soon.

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[VEHlCLE APPROACHlNG]

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[GRUNTlNG]

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TlM:
Hey.

Hey, man.

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We're headed into town

for some ice cream.

You want a ride?

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No, no, no, it's fine.

l don't mind walking

at all. lt's fine. Heh.

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Sure?

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ALAN:

Vroom, vroom!

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All right. l appreciate it.

Yeah.

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Hey, Alan,

move on over here.

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Here, l'll undo your belt.

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10:50,330 -- 00:10:54,266

ALAN:

Five, six, seven, eight,

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So how long y'all in town for?

nine.

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Oh, we live here

year-round now.

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Yeah, we were driving down

every weekend anyways,

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so l finally just convinced my wife

this just made the most sense.

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JOHN:

Mm.

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She didn't want ice cream?

TlM:
Who? Oh, my wife?

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JOHN:
Mm-hm.

Uh, no.

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No, actually

she's on vacation herself.

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White sheep, white sheep,

white sheep.

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lt's kind of difficult

to take trips together.

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