Dear John Page #8

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


Yeah?

699

00:
43:06,931 -- 00:43:08,398

No, it's a mule.

700

00:
43:09,800 -- 00:43:13,167

lt's a what?

A mule. An error coin.

701

00:
43:13,337 -- 00:43:15,168

Every now and then

they make a mistake,

702

00:
43:15,339 -- 00:43:18,035

batch accidentally

slips through, this thing,

703

00:
43:18,209 -- 00:43:19,801

head's a nickel,

tail's a penny.

Thing's a mule.

704

00:
43:19,977 -- 00:43:23,003

Really more of a novelty

than anything.

705

00:
43:23,180 -- 00:43:25,671

iRemember the horse sense/i

iyou were talking about?/i

706

00:
43:25,850 -- 00:43:27,875

--the kid found it

l will buy it anyway.

707

00:
43:28,052 -- 00:43:30,486

Twenty bucks. Huh?

708

00:
43:32,123 -- 00:43:33,147

No, thank you.

709

00:
43:33,324 -- 00:43:34,882

iWell, my dad has it too./i

710

00:
43:35,059 -- 00:43:37,220

Now, wait a minute.

Hang on.

711

00:
43:37,395 -- 00:43:39,590

Hey, sir. Sir, let me take

another look at that real quick.

712

00:
43:43,067 -- 00:43:44,557

John, let's go.

713

00:
43:44,735 -- 00:43:46,327

l'll be damned.

714

00:
43:47,104 -- 00:43:49,664

Do you know what this is?

No.

715

00:
43:58,316 -- 00:43:59,977

Look at that.

716

00:
44:00,151 -- 00:44:01,516

That's your coin.

717

00:
44:01,686 -- 00:44:03,176

You want my advice?

718

00:
44:03,354 -- 00:44:05,015

Dad to Dad?

719

00:
44:05,189 -- 00:44:06,520

Keep it.

720

00:
44:06,691 -- 00:44:09,421

Hold on to it.

Pass it down to your son.

721

00:
44:09,593 -- 00:44:12,494

Let him pass it to his son

and on and on and on,

and l'll tell you what,

722

00:
44:12,663 -- 00:44:16,565

30, 40, a hundred

years from now...

723

00:
44:17,234 -- 00:44:20,362

you're gonna have

something worth a whole

lot more than $4000.

724

00:
44:20,538 -- 00:44:22,267

l promise you.

725

00:
44:23,908 -- 00:44:25,375

Hey.

726

00:
44:25,543 -- 00:44:27,101

Do you want to keep it?

727

00:
44:28,546 -- 00:44:29,672

[CHUCKLES]

728

00:
44:29,847 -- 00:44:32,111

Good for you.

Thank you. Thank you.

729

00:
44:33,451 -- 00:44:36,181

iAt first l loved chasing after/i

ithose mules with my father./i

730

00:
44:36,354 -- 00:44:38,686

iWe finally had something/i

ito talk about./i

731

00:
44:38,856 -- 00:44:41,290

iYou know, something/i

iwe could do together./i

732

00:
44:42,126 -- 00:44:45,493

iBut he became obsessed with them./i

iYou know how he is./i

733

00:
44:46,130 -- 00:44:49,566

iAnd then l became a teenager/i

iand you know how l am./i

734

00:
44:49,734 -- 00:44:52,794

All the way up to Wooster

for another coin show.

l'm just--

735

00:
44:52,970 -- 00:44:54,995

No, l'm not doing that.

736

00:
44:55,172 -- 00:44:57,640

You're going to one

every weekend now.

737

00:
44:58,909 -- 00:45:02,470

Oh, that's good.

l love warm milk.

That's nice.

738

00:
45:02,646 -- 00:45:04,580

You spend all of our

money on coins.

739

00:
45:04,749 -- 00:45:06,649

Get a fricking fridge

that works.

740

00:
45:14,492 -- 00:45:18,155

iEventually he stopped talking/i

iabout coins with me altogether./i

741

00:
45:19,530 -- 00:45:24,331

iAnd then when that happened,/i

iwe found there wasn't all that/i

imuch left to talk about./i

742

00:
45:24,935 -- 00:45:27,768

[ROCK MUSlC

PLAYlNG ON STEREO]

743

00:
45:30,207 -- 00:45:32,641

iSo that's the story./i

744

00:
45:34,378 -- 00:45:36,313

il miss you so much it hurts./i

745

00:
45:38,382 -- 00:45:39,872

Sorry, sorry.

746

00:
45:40,051 -- 00:45:41,143

[CELL PHONES RlNGlNG]

747

00:
45:41,318 -- 00:45:43,878

GlRL:
Oh, my God.

My brother was in the towers.

748

00:
45:44,055 -- 00:45:45,215

BO Y 1 :

l love you too, babe.

749

00:
45:45,389 -- 00:45:47,584

BO Y 2:

Please call me as soon as you can.

750

00:
45:47,758 -- 00:45:50,852

[STUDENTS CHATTERlNG

AND SOBBlNG]

751

00:
45:52,730 -- 00:45:54,595

BO Y 3:

Susan. Susan, is my dad there?

752

00:
45:54,765 -- 00:45:56,528

BO Y 4:

Just calm down.

753

00:
45:56,734 -- 00:45:59,726

[i/i]

754

00:
46:05,176 -- 00:46:08,168

[MAN SPEAKlNG

lN FORElGN LANGUAGE ON TV]

755

00:
46:32,870 -- 00:46:34,667

All right, fellas, here's the deal.

756

00:
46:34,839 -- 00:46:37,103

Requesting permission

to extend my tour, sir.

757

00:
46:37,274 -- 00:46:39,139

Requesting permission

to extend as well, sir.

758

00:
46:39,310 -- 00:46:41,574

Requesting permission

to extend as well, sir.

759

00:
46:41,745 -- 00:46:43,440

Requesting permission

to extend as well, sir.

760

00:
46:43,614 -- 00:46:45,912

Requesting permission

to extend as well, sir.

761

00:
46:46,083 -- 00:46:47,175

STONE:

Okay, guys, listen.

762

00:
46:47,351 -- 00:46:49,979

We're gonna get our orders

from Operations on Monday.

763

00:
46:50,154 -- 00:46:53,988

So before we do anything rash,

let's take the weekend to mull

this all over, all right?

764

00:
46:54,158 -- 00:46:55,989

l got a wife and kids

to think about here.

765

00:
46:56,393 -- 00:46:59,055

DANlELS:

Nobody's asking you

to stay on too, captain.

766

00:
46:59,230 -- 00:47:01,289

STONE:

Yeah, you are. This is my team.

767

00:
47:01,465 -- 00:47:02,932

Where you go, l go.

768

00:
47:03,100 -- 00:47:05,466

Where we go, we all go.

769

00:
47:05,636 -- 00:47:08,366

lf everyone still wants to extend

on Monday, then we'll do it.

770

00:
47:09,173 -- 00:47:10,538

Together.

771

00:
47:14,445 -- 00:47:15,878

Y'all don't get into

trouble over there.

772

00:
47:16,046 -- 00:47:17,070

Take care of yourself.

773

00:
47:17,248 -- 00:47:18,272

Always.

774

00:
47:18,449 -- 00:47:20,940

Yo, let's go, man.

The plane to Paris

leaves in an hour.

775

00:
47:21,118 -- 00:47:22,676

You ready? Are you ready?

776

00:
47:22,853 -- 00:47:24,514

lt's gonna be amazing.

l can't go.

777

00:
47:24,688 -- 00:47:26,121

What are you talking about?

Of course you're going.

778

00:
47:26,290 -- 00:47:27,951

l can't go to Paris.

l gotta go to Charleston.

779

00:
47:28,125 -- 00:47:29,490

You're going to Charleston?

Yup.

780

00:
47:29,660 -- 00:47:31,855

Dude, what are you, nuts?

We got two days off, man.

781

00:
47:32,029 -- 00:47:35,192

By the time you fly there and back,

you're gonna have like 1 8 hours

on the ground, tops.

782

00:
47:35,366 -- 00:47:37,630

lt's 1 8 more than

l had this morning.

783

00:
47:38,569 -- 00:47:41,663

l don't know when

l'll get that again,

so l gotta go.

784

00:
47:42,606 -- 00:47:44,335

All right, man.

Nothing l can say

to change your mind?

785

00:
47:44,508 -- 00:47:45,776

Nope.

786

00:
47:46,777 -- 00:47:49,769

[JOSHUA RADlN & SCHUYLER

FlSK'S ''PAPERWElGHT'' PLAYlNG]

787

00:
47:54,952 -- 00:47:56,476

SAVANNAH:

John!

788

00:
47:58,522 -- 00:48:01,082

John. John.

789

00:
48:37,361 -- 00:48:40,956

You sure he--?

He actually said that?

He wants to come?

790

00:
48:41,232 -- 00:48:42,392

[CHUCKLES]

791

00:
48:42,600 -- 00:48:44,261

l think he will.

792

00:
48:44,435 -- 00:48:47,802

He wasn't so sure about it, but...

Yeah, l'll bet he wasn't.

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