Elizabethtown
Welcome back, boys.
As somebody once said...
there's a difference between a failure...
and a fiasco.
Watch your head.
I'm fine.
A failure is simply the non-presence
of success.
Any fool can accomplish failure.
I'm fine.
I'm fine.
What the hell's he doing here?
But a fiasco...
A fiasco is a disaster
of mythic proportions.
A fiasco is a folktale told to others...
feel more alive...
because it didn't happen to them.
I'm fine.
I'm fine.
I'll take you to Phil so you don't get lost.
Mercury Worldwide Shoes,
which is actually Phil...
contains some of America's
finest artists' masterworks...
seen only by people
heading for very important meetings...
a promotion...
or otherwise.
"We are not just employees,"
as Phil once said.
"We are denizens of greatness."
Phil says, "The world is full of those
who achieve through negativity...
"or theft.
"We succeed through original thought."
A shoe is not just a shoe.
It connects us to the Earth.
The right shoe can transport us...
make us believe
we are capable of more.
But there are sacrifices
for a goal like pure greatness.
Like birthdays
or last Christmas with my family.
...through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Dig in.
And no making fun of my cooking.
- This must be homemade.
- Oh, Dad.
Though we sometimes celebrate
odd things at Mercury...
like the day the Italians invented rubber.
Which they didn't, of course.
But that's beside the point.
Where exactly is Drew, anyway?
We've contained magic in a shoe!
It was meant to approximate
walking on a cloud.
Hey, if you ever need anything
around here...
I'm your girl.
Any true student
of functional shoe design...
is also a student of Phil himself.
He is a master.
And Phil's innate wisdom
of what people want and need...
I'm fine.
He's also obsessed
with the number two.
These are Phil's prized
two Norman Rockwells.
The pair of paintings that once hung
outside the White House office...
of John F. Kennedy.
And yes, the two treasured doors...
Phil once purchased from a church
on vacation in Tunisia...
and had sent back home for a total cost
too enormous to mention.
$762,000.
Each.
Just two more minutes
and I can send you in.
Because we have a moment here...
let me tell you that I have
recently become a secret connoisseur...
of last looks.
You know the way people look at you
when they believe it's for the last time?
I've started collecting these looks and...
Okay, he's ready for you.
There's one right now.
How are you, Drew?
I wanted to jump out of the window
of that helicopter...
and just splatter on the trees,
to tell you the truth.
Don't do that.
It's only money.
The American psyche is in turmoil,
Drew, and we have miscalculated.
I'm sorry.
I have no rulebook for this situation.
They tell me
that we are about to lose 972...
million dollars.
I am...
ill-equipped
in the philosophies of failure.
Walk with me, Drew.
My basketball team.
They don't even know yet.
My Global Environmental Watchdog
project will have to go.
Sweet people.
We could have saved the planet...
but...
How do I make the concept
of $972,000,000...
more real to you?
It's the operating budget
of a midsize country...
a small civilization.
It's big!
It's so big...
you could round it off to a billion dollars.
I cry a lot lately.
The promise of a global future...
pinned to a groundbreaking shoe,
your design...
with a new form of material,
launched this week to great fanfare.
And now, meeting a growing
international roar of laughter...
and rejection.
Enough to cause this memo...
from Jeffrey Barlow, CEO of DCS.
"This once highly-anticipated product...
generation to return to bare feet."
We are about to enter...
a free-fall plunge.
And the sound you hear
is the sound of sh*t hitting the fan.
Globally.
You hear it?
I wish there was something I could do.
Actually, there is.
In a room downstairs is a reporter
We need to make him understand...
we hired you
from our National Scholarship Program.
We supported,
invested in your brilliance.
This was a very creative endeavor...
and I think you should stand up...
for your incredible work.
You okay?
I'm...
It's a little bit like knowing the plane's
going down before anyone else, isn't it?
- When does this run, a week?
- A week.
Come Sunday evening,
it'll be on the stands.
Any last words?
And in that moment, I knew.
I know we hired you
at the last minute but...
Success...
Success, not greatness...
was the only god
Home sweet home.
Eight years. Night and day.
Can you imagine?
An entire life wrapped up in a shoe.
Yello?
Drew? It's your sister.
I have some really bad news.
Could you call me tomorrow?
No.
- Could you call me a little later?
- No, honey.
Dad died!
He had a heart attack back in Kentucky.
He was still visiting Uncle Dale.
Mom is in total shock.
You have to handle this.
You're the oldest.
You're the responsible one.
I don't know why he went to Kentucky.
I don't know what the attraction was.
He was born there.
They never have.
Drew will take care of everything.
Honey, you understand I can't go
because of the baby.
- I'll be back in two days.
- I'll man the phones.
I'll always be the one
that snatched him away from them.
The two sides of this family
have never integrated well...
so don't expect to make a lot of friends
when you go there.
- Drew doesn't make friends, Mom.
- I have friends.
- Do you have the blue suit?
- I have the blue suit.
He loved that silly blue suit.
God only knows
if I made him truly happy.
I'll call from Kentucky.
I'll be there in the morning.
- We have a plan!
- We have a plan...
and you hold your head up high...
because don't you forget, you go back
there as the most successful man...
in the history of this family.
Don't let them try anything.
Oh, my God. I have to call people.
I have to clean out the office,
I'm a widow!
We'll figure this out, we'll figure this out.
Just get Dad home. Hurry.
I was still waiting for everything to start,
and now it's over.
I'll bring him home.
Wait, wait! Stay close.
Come, come, come.
Now, what was it that Dad always said?
- If it wasn't this...
Now, you go.
You go and you make him proud.
And you call and tell me
what's going on, okay? All right.
I would go to Kentucky...
put my father in the blue suit,
bring him home...
and then get back on that bike.
Nothing would stop the plan.
Sir.
Sir.
By flying this flight,
you've helped save all our jobs.
Definitely mine.
Maybe even the entire airline.
with a free seat in first class.
I'm fine.
Okay, let me try it like this.
I'm really tired.
Please don't make me keep walking...
all the way back down here
all night long.
Louisville, Kentucky, huh?
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