Dear John Page #4

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
3,750 Views


then the silver dollars

would be that big. Yeah.

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That's amazing.

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Can you imagine

No.

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walking around with that

in your pocket?

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SAVANNAH:
That's really funny.

MR. TYREE:
That's humorous.

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Now, these--

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Pop, we can't do

this right now. l gotta--

We can't be here all night.

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l have-- l have some

to show you.

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This is fascinating.

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MR. TYREE:

These are all matched in color.

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[i/i]

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l had fun tonight.

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l like your dad.

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You shouldn't be

too hard on him.

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He loves you.

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l can tell

even if you can't.

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Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.

Wait, Savannah. l mean...

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So l guess l'll see

you soon, then?

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l'll see you soon, then.

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Where you

been all day?

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l've been busy.

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You're on

spring break.

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You're supposed

to be lounging on

the beach all day.

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You're not supposed

to be busy doing things.

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l want to show you

something.

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SAVANNAH:

The family that lived here,

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their home was severely

damaged by the hurricane.

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JOHN:

What, so now you're rebuilding it?

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SAVANNAH:

Yup. Well, not just me.

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You're starting to

make me a little nervous.

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Why am l starting

to make you nervous?

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Because l'm starting to

think you might be too

good of a person for me.

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Oh. No, l'm not

that good of a person.

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You're sneaking off every

day to do manual labor

on a house for charity.

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On your spring break.

Yeah, you're right.

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lt's selfish, really,

me being this generous.

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But no, seriously.

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You don't drink, you don't smoke.

Nope. Nope.

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You probably don't sleep around.

Absolutely not.

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Mm.

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Okay, look, you

gotta have a fault.

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l do.

Okay, care to enlighten me?

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l curse.

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No.

l do.

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No, you don't.

Yes, l do.

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l haven't heard you.

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Well, that's because

it's in my mind.

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There's a never-ending

stream of curse words

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that l'm thinking at all times.

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Okay, fine, just say one then.

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No, l can't tell you

because it's filthy.

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Right.

Yeah.

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Okay, all right. Fair enough.

357

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No, l have faults, John.

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Trust me, l have plenty

of them. You'll see.

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l hope so.

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SAVANNAH:

We have to be finished with

this entire house in three weeks.

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Hope that

actually happens.

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Um, these are gonna

be the bedrooms,

the parents' room,

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the boys' rooms,

two boys, 7 and 9.

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Uh, living room

and the bathroom.

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And then this

is the kitchen.

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[THUNDER RUMBLlNG]

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This is the best room because

the mom's a really good cook.

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We're gonna make

it really beautiful

with white tile floors

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and tiles on

the countertops,

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and there's gonna be a roof.

Ah!

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[LAUGHS]

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Here, John, come here.

A roof would definitely be good.

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lt's gonna be like this,

but it's gonna be everywhere.

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lt's the only cover

we have.

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Nice, we're gonna

be here for a while.

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Where'd you get

your scar?

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Hm?

That one?

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Oh. Um...

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A knife fight.

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lt was five years ago,

we were really drunk

and the guy went for my eye.

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That's terrible.

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Why? He missed.

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[CHUCKLES]

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The way people

act around you,

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the way they treated you

at that restaurant...

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lt's like they're scared of you.

They're not scared of me.

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They might be scared

of who l used to be.

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And who is that?

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Somebody different?

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So when did you change?

When you went into the Army?

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Yeah. Yeah,

l mean, partly yeah.

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And the other part?

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l don't know,

l'm still working on that.

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So you used to be tough.

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And maybe you

still are a little bit.

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Mm-hm.

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You don't scare me, John.

No?

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Mm-mm.

Mm-mm?

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Well, you scare me.

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[JOSHUA RADlN & SCHUYLER

FlSK'S ''PAPERWElGHT'' PLAYlNG]

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[SPEAKlNG lNDlSTlNCTLY]

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[PEOPLE CHATTERlNG]

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[SlGHS]

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[LAUGHlNG]

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