Heart of the Country Page #6

Synopsis: With her husband jailed for Wall Street fraud, Faith leaves her life of luxury behind to return to rural North Carolina and the father and sister she'd left behind. A love between a father and his daughter, it parallels the famous parable, "The Prodigal Son".
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Director(s): John Ward
Production: Bay Ridge Films
 
IMDB:
5.8
PG
Year:
2013
87 min
Website
77 Views


And you're never gonna be able

to make a family of your own

if you keep running away

from the ones you've already got.

Look, I'm sorry I never

came down to Carolina to meet you.

I'm not your family, you don't

owe me anything. But Faith is.

Just tell me where she is.

That time will come.

But before it does, there's something

you need to figure out for yourself.

You need to figure out...

...why the music stopped.

I'm not sure what that means.

I know you're not.

When you are, you get back to me.

You understand this is immunity,

but it's also an admission of guilt.

I'm taking responsibility

for what I did.

Time to tell them what I know.

Well, I want to be

very clear about this point.

Immunity keeps you out of prison,

but you will be a felon.

Are you absolutely sure this is what

you want? There's no turning back.

- Yes.

- But are you sure?

I stand by Luke.

Very well then.

Sign here.

Well, now that that's done.

Thank you for everything.

- Austin.

- Yates.

I'm sorry for everything.

- I'm sorry, Dad.

- No.

No place to go but forward, right?

Dad...

Did you get Faith's dad that

appointment?

No. No, that was Jake.

We're family, remember?

Good day.

It is, Daddy. It's a good day.

Hmm...

You ready? You gonna help?

One, two, three, go!

Thank you, everybody.

# If it wasn't for your loving

# I swear I'd fall apart

# If it wasn't for your loving

# I'd have a cold, black heart

# I was holding on to this life

# With a broken hand

# If it wasn't for your loving

# I'd be a lesser man #

One, two, three, four.

- You remember this?

- My first show.

Right here.

That was a lifetime ago.

- Dance with me?

- Of course.

- You did this, didn't you?

- Well...

I think maybe what I missed most

about not going to your wedding

was that father-daughter dance.

You know?

I hear the music, Daddy.

Do you?

Never stopped, baby.

Never did.

Thank you for coming home.

I missed you.

I missed you so.

But I think maybe I better quit hogging

the dance floor with you like this.

- Are you tired?

- No, no, no. I'm fine. I'm fine.

But your husband's liable to get jealous

if I don't let you dance with him.

Thank you.

You take care of her.

Yes, sir.

# I'm a little lamb

# Who's lost in the woods

# I know that I

# Would always be good

# To someone who'll watch

Dance with me.

You hate to dance in public.

Not anymore.

Why are you here?

Because you're my wife

and I want you to come home.

I can't leave here

and go back to New York.

I never said New York.

I said "come home. "

Wherever you are, Faith,

that's my home.

I wanna come home.

I love you.

# Won't you tell her please

# To put on some speed?

# Follow my lead

# Oh, how I need

# Someone...

- Do you hear that?

- What's that?

Music.

What about it?

It's ours.

It never stopped.

# Turns out to be

# Someone who'll watch

# Over me

# Over me

# Someone to watch over me #

# In the sweet by and by

# We shall meet

on that beautiful shore

# In the sweet by and by

# We shall meet

on that beautiful shore #

Calvin was a man of few words,

but he made them count.

He was just one of those guys

who got it right, wasn't he?

Whenever you were with him,

you knew exactly where you stood.

And he always made you feel

like he liked you.

But more than anything...

...Calvin loved.

Especially his girls.

Give me a minute, OK?

Hey.

Silver's here.

He... He wanted to see you.

He hasn't really...

quite been the same since you left.

He's been pretty lonely,

so I've been thinking

we should get him

someone to play with.

I'm really glad

you two are together again.

I... I wish that you could meet him.

He's coming soon,

you know, and...

...we're gonna stay at the farm,

so I'm excited.

We're gonna name him Calvin.

Bye, Daddy.

# He said

"I know I'm not the man

# That he imagined for his daughter

# I'm not what he had in mind"

# He said

"Her daddy probably dreamed

# About some lawyer or a doctor

# But I never was that kind

# We were in love

and that's all that mattered

# You know her heart was all

that I was after"

# He said, "I'm a dandelion

# She's a buttercup

# I'm a clover

She's the luck

# She's a painted daisy

# I'm the blue grass underneath

# She's all faith

and I'm the doubter

# She's the sweet and I'm the sour

# We're like weeds and wildflowers

# He said

"I asked her back in '62

# If she'd be my forever

# Let's run away and go to Vegas"

# She said

"I wanna be your wife

# But there has got to be a preacher

# I want all of God's angels

to see us

# We rolled the dice on life

and made it

# If there's a storm inside

we faced it"

# And he said,

"I'm a dandelion

# She's a buttercup

# I'm the clover

she's the luck

# She's a painted daisy

# I'm the blue grass underneath

# She's all faith

and I'm the doubter

# She's the sweet and I'm the sour

# We're like weeds

and wildflowers"

# He said

"Just last fall

# Heaven called

and the preacher asked

# If I would stand before the crowd

# And say a few last words

# And on the mountainside

# Misty-eyed I couldn't

help but notice

# All the daisies

as they laid her in the earth"

# He said

"I'm a dandelion

# She was my buttercup

# I'm a clover

She will always be my luck

# Now I'm going crazy

# As she was my everything

# She had faith

Now I'm without her

# Oh, our love goes on forever

# How I long to be beside her

# Just like weeds

and wildflowers" #

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