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Isn't this where we're supposed to

talk about our problems?

It's been three damn years,

so why don't we start talking?!

I have been so lost.

I've been losing my mind.

And you don't even see it!

You don't even care.

Of course I care.

Of course we care.

We don't expect you

to understand everything we do

that's intended to keep you safe.

Stop it! I hate it when you

treat me like I'm a child.

Well, whether you like it or not,

you are my child!

I'm not even a virgin!

Please...

Please don't talk like that in here.

What are you going to do?

Pass another law?

'Cause that sure as hell

didn't keep him out of my panties!

Shaw!

Well, let's go get that guy

that blackened my eye,

'cause we don't hit girls in Bomont,

do we Daddy?

Ariel, please.

- Please, I didn't mean to!

- No, you stay here.

You've done enough.

- Where is she?

- She's staying at Rusty's.

I don't know what came over me.

I've never hit anybody in my life...

That's where you two are alike.

You deal with your pain in extremes.

I understand what you were trying to do.

You were trying to hold this town

together and protect our children.

But these laws, they were

too much, too soon.

There were other kids

who lost their lives.

- I felt like I had an obligation to...

- Your obligation was to our daughter.

I have been a minister's wife

for 21 years now.

I have been supportive.

I've been silent.

I still think you are

a wonderful preacher

But it is the one-on-one

where you could use a little work.

Your old man's wrong about a lot, but

tossing Chuck in jail sounds good to me.

I just want this whole thing behind me.

I got you something.

A Bible?

It's not just any Bible. It's mine.

I've had it since I was seven.

I marked a few pages. Thought it might

help going up against the city council.

This is great.

Really.

You said that

you might kiss me someday.

I did.

You think that someday could be today?

Hey. What's your secret plan?

Get up there and boogie?

Yeah, I wish it were that easy.

This meeting will now come to order.

But, before we begin,

I would like to remind all you kids that

we are conducting an official meeting.

Official town business. That means

no disturbances will be tolerated.

The floor is now open.

My name is Ren MacCormack.

And I want to move, on behalf of most

of the senior class of Bomont High,

that the law against public dancing

within the town limits of Bomont

- be abolished.

- Yeah!

You will not be warned again.

Roger, if I may address

Mr. MacCormack on this matter.

Please do.

Ren, besides the liquor, and the drugs

and the lewd behavior that

seems to always accompany

these types of unsupervised events,

the thing that really

distresses me the most,

more than any of that,

is the spiritual corruption.

These dances, this music,

it does distort

young people's attitudes.

You might find it funny,

but I firmly believe that

dancing can be destructive.

And celebrating certain types of music

can be destructive.

And I think you're going to find that

most of the people in this community

are going to agree with me.

I believe a vote

is in order on this motion.

- All those opposed, please...

- Excuse me.

I still got something to say

on this issue...

- I thought Ren had the floor here.

- This meeting will come to order.

- That's not right!

- Mr. MacCormack.

I have been more than patient

with your intrusions.

I would like to remind you that we speak

for this town because we are from here.

Excuse me, Mr. Dunbar.

For you to come into this council

chamber and question our motives...

Roger! Stop it!

I think Mr. MacCormack

has a right to be heard.

I wasn't here three years ago,

when tragedy struck this town.

And I know it's not my place to mourn

the lives that were lost

because I didn't know them.

But it doesn't mean that

I don't think about them every day.

Like a lot of students at Bomont,

I see those pictures

every day at school.

And each time I see their faces,

I think of how precious life is

and how quickly it can be taken from us.

I know this firsthand...

in my own way.

And three years ago,

nearly a dozen laws were introduced

to this council in order to

protect the children of Bomont.

And most of these laws, I can see, as

a parent, how they make sense to you.

But my right to dance...

when I want, where I want,

and how I want is a right

that you cannot take away.

It is mine.

See, we don't have that much time left.

All us teenagers, pretty soon

we're gonna be just like you.

We're gonna have jobs

and bills and families.

And we're gonna have to worry

about our own children

To worry. I get that.

But ours, as teenagers, is to live.

To play our music way too loud

and to act like idiots.

And to make mistakes.

Aren't we told in Psalm 149...

"Praise the Lord.

Sing unto the Lord a new song.

And let them praise

His name in the dance."

Now if anybody else brought

their Bible, like I did,

will you please turn it to the

Book of Samuel, 6:14.

"David... David danced before the Lord

with all his might, leaping

and dancing before the Lord."

Celebrating his love of God

and celebrating his love of life.

With what? With dancing!

That's all we're doing here.

Ecclesiastes assures us, "There is a

time for each purpose under heaven.

There's a time to weep.

There's a time to mourn.

And there is a time to dance."

And this is our time.

There was once a time for that law,

but not any more.

Thank you.

Thanks, Chris.

You know you was railroaded.

Shaw Moore walked into that meeting

with those votes already in his pocket.

You didn't have a prayer.

- So what happens now?

- Nothing. It's over.

What if it's not?

What if you had your dance in Bayson?

The point was to have it in Bomont.

What's Bayson, like 30 miles away?

No. You're standing in it. Come here.

You see that water tower? That's in

Bomont. Everything east is in Bayson.

That means the cotton gin.

Now, I figure that if the

Bomont fire trucks can't come

What about the long arm

of Reverend Moore?

Well, try to convince him

it won't be a spiritual corruption.

Maybe he'll think about it.

And the disciples

came to Jesus and said,

"Master, why is it that

we can't do such things?"

And Jesus said,

"it's because you have little faith.

If you even had the faith

of a tiny mustard seed,

you can say to the tallest mountain,

'Move from here to there'

and it will move.

For with faith, anything..."

Who's there?

It's me. It's Ren MacCormack.

Ren.

I thought you were someone else.

My son used to sit there

when I would practice my sermons,

- and I...

- Yeah, with me it's grocery stores.

Excuse me?

There's always so many mothers

at grocery stores.

You get enough of them calling

after their kids and pretty soon,

you know, one of them starts

to sound like your own mom.

Sometimes I think I can really hear her.

Sit down.

My boy, Bobby, was taken from us

so suddenly, and...

I can't remember

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