Dear John Page #7

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


Don't lose it, all right?

Yeah, l gotcha.

607

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37:11,776 -- 00:37:15,678

iUnfortunately, l'm not allowed/i

ito say exactly where here is./i

608

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37:16,347 -- 00:37:18,577

iSo all l can tell you is that/i

ithe place that we've been sent/i

609

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37:18,750 -- 00:37:20,911

imakes me miss America/i

ivery much./i

610

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37:21,719 -- 00:37:26,053

iAnd the lack of anything/i

iresembling an ocean/i

imakes me miss Charleston./i

611

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37:55,253 -- 00:37:58,620

iAnd everything around me/i

imakes me miss you./i

612

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38:00,625 -- 00:38:04,959

iWe move around a lot. So letters/i

itend to come late and out of order./i

613

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38:05,129 -- 00:38:07,063

iWe may want to number our/i

iletters from here on out, though,/i

614

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38:07,231 -- 00:38:09,722

ijust so we know which order/i

iwe wrote them in./i

615

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38:10,835 -- 00:38:13,133

iBut when they do finally get here,/i

616

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38:13,304 -- 00:38:14,828

iit's a good day./i

617

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38:16,474 -- 00:38:17,634

iWhenever they don't.../i

618

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38:17,809 -- 00:38:19,834

NOODLES:

All right, let's see here.

619

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38:20,545 -- 00:38:23,571

Not for me. Not for me.

620

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38:23,748 -- 00:38:27,582

Not for me.

And not for me.

621

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38:27,752 -- 00:38:29,652

Figures.

iit's not./i

622

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38:29,821 -- 00:38:30,947

Sorry, dude.

Nothing for you either.

623

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38:31,122 -- 00:38:35,422

iBut l know they'll still come./i

il know it./i

624

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38:43,201 -- 00:38:44,769

That's right.

625

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38:48,606 -- 00:38:50,335

SAVANNAH:

iLetter Number 8./i

626

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38:50,508 -- 00:38:54,638

iDear John, l'm back/i

iat my parents' farm/i

ifor the weekend./i

627

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38:54,812 -- 00:38:57,372

iAnd they have some/i

ihouse guests you may know./i

628

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39:00,551 -- 00:39:02,542

ALAN:

Savannah!

629

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39:04,322 -- 00:39:06,187

Savannah!

630

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39:07,258 -- 00:39:09,522

l think that horse

suits you just fine.

631

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39:09,694 -- 00:39:14,597

il took Alan out riding with me today./i

ilt was his first time on a horse./i

632

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39:15,833 -- 00:39:17,425

You're looking good

on that horse, Alan.

633

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39:17,602 -- 00:39:21,231

iYou've heard of horse sense,/i

ihow horses are somehow/i

iable to sense danger?/i

634

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39:21,406 -- 00:39:23,499

iSense out evil?/i

635

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39:23,675 -- 00:39:27,133

iWell, l think autistic kids/i

ihave that too,/i

636

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39:27,578 -- 00:39:29,409

iso l had this idea./i

637

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39:29,580 -- 00:39:31,309

iThis dream./i

638

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39:32,483 -- 00:39:35,247

il wanna open up/i

ia summer camp for autistic kids./i

639

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39:35,420 -- 00:39:37,354

l've never seen him

act like this before.

640

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39:38,356 -- 00:39:40,347

ALAN:

Are you hungry?

641

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39:41,159 -- 00:39:43,593

iA place where they can ride horses/i

ias much as they want./i

642

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39:43,761 -- 00:39:45,820

Are you hungry?

643

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39:46,664 -- 00:39:50,691

iFor at least once in their life,/i

ia place where they won't/i

ihave to worry about a thing./i

644

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39:51,769 -- 00:39:54,397

iWhat do you think?/i

iPipe dream, huh?/i

645

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39:54,572 -- 00:39:56,506

JOHN:

iNo, it's not a pipe dream./i

646

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39:56,674 -- 00:39:58,835

ilt's a perfect dream./i

647

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40:01,079 -- 00:40:04,207

Erget. Merry Christmas.

648

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40:04,382 -- 00:40:07,510

John, to a Mr. John Tyree.

649

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40:07,685 -- 00:40:08,777

Shut up, man.

Seven?

650

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40:08,953 -- 00:40:11,556

Stop moving around.

Can l keep this one?

651

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40:11,622 -- 00:40:13,852

JOHN:

iLetter Number 33./i

652

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40:14,025 -- 00:40:18,291

iDear Savannah, the good news is/i

iwe've been sent somewhere new./i

653

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40:18,463 -- 00:40:21,193

iAlthough l can't tell you/i

iwhere that is either./i

654

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40:21,365 -- 00:40:25,825

iThe bad news is, this place actually/i

imakes me miss the old place./i

655

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40:26,003 -- 00:40:28,904

iBut it's a full moon here tonight,/i

iwhich makes me think of you./i

656

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40:29,073 -- 00:40:33,271

iBecause l know that no matter what/i

il'm doing, no matter where l am,/i

657

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40:33,444 -- 00:40:36,538

ithis moon will always be/i

ithe same size as yours./i

658

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40:36,714 -- 00:40:38,272

iHalf a world away./i

659

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40:38,883 -- 00:40:40,908

SAVANNAH:

iDear John,/i

660

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40:41,085 -- 00:40:44,213

imost nights l fall asleep/i

iworrying about you./i

661

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40:44,388 -- 00:40:46,686

iWondering where/i

iyou may be out there./i

662

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40:48,693 -- 00:40:50,786

iNot tonight./i

663

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40:50,962 -- 00:40:53,021

iTonight you're here with me./i

664

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40:57,201 -- 00:40:59,601

il visited your dad yesterday./i

665

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41:00,705 -- 00:41:04,801

iSummer's almost over/i

iand l wanted to see him/i

ibefore l went back to school./i

666

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41:04,976 -- 00:41:06,068

il hope that's okay./i

667

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41:06,244 -- 00:41:07,438

Hey.

668

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41:07,612 -- 00:41:08,943

l made you a pie.

669

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41:09,413 -- 00:41:13,179

iHe made me dinner./i

ilt was Sunday so we had lasagna./i

670

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41:13,351 -- 00:41:17,913

iAnd l got him talking about his coins./i

iSo we had plenty of conversation./i

671

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41:18,089 -- 00:41:22,219

This one is kind of a cull,

a coin that's in really bad shape.

672

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41:22,393 -- 00:41:23,826

Worthless to most collectors.

673

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41:23,995 -- 00:41:25,587

But not to you.

674

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41:26,063 -- 00:41:27,724

No, not to me.

675

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41:27,899 -- 00:41:29,662

What is your

favorite coin?

676

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41:30,568 -- 00:41:35,130

Out of all the coins that

you have, what is your

absolute favorite coin?

677

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41:35,573 -- 00:41:37,097

Do you have one?

678

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41:47,185 -- 00:41:49,585

MR. TYREE:

'Seventy-eight Jefferson mule.

679

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41:50,188 -- 00:41:52,486

SAVANNAH:
Wow.

MR. TYREE:
That'd be my favorite.

680

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41:53,024 -- 00:41:54,889

Definitely.

681

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41:55,359 -- 00:41:58,624

Why? ls it worth

the most?

682

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41:59,130 -- 00:42:01,758

Well, it's worth a lot,

not the most.

683

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42:01,933 -- 00:42:03,833

But, you know...

684

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42:04,502 -- 00:42:06,163

What's the story behind it?

685

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42:08,239 -- 00:42:09,866

Um...

686

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42:12,376 -- 00:42:13,400

Here's one...

687

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iSo l'll ask you instead, John,/i

iwherever you may be./i

688

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[i/i]

689

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42:22,920 -- 00:42:27,857

JOHN:

iDear Savannah, only because/i

il promised to tell you everything./i

690

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42:29,260 -- 00:42:30,921

Thank you.

691

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42:31,095 -- 00:42:34,587

iWhen l was 7 years old,/i

il bought an ice cream cone./i

692

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42:36,167 -- 00:42:40,331

iOn the way home, l noticed one of/i

ithe pennies wasn't actually a penny./i

693

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42:53,618 -- 00:42:54,642

l don't know.

694

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42:54,819 -- 00:42:56,081

[CHUCKLES]

695

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42:57,088 -- 00:42:58,180

l don't know.

696

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42:58,356 -- 00:43:00,620

Never seen anything like it.

697

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43:01,626 -- 00:43:04,117

Did you find this, son? Huh?

698

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43:04,829 -- 00:43:05,921

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