Ironweed Page #4

Synopsis: Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits his wife and children and meets a grandson. He could stay, but decides it's not for him. Helen gets their things out of storage and finds a hotel. Amidst their mistakes and dereliction, the film explores their code of fairness and loyalty.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Hector Babenco
Production: Vestron Video
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
R
Year:
1987
143 min
473 Views


-Sure.

It's good bread,

but I can not eat anything.

A friend offered me a ostesmrbrd

last night, but I was unable to do so.

Get your avgrde.

-What do you think of that?

-Do what?

Sex. That there with a girl.

I think not so much on it anymore.

I am frankly speaking finished with it.

Done? How old are you? 62?

-Not so old.

-I am 71. I am not finished.

Kona get the 4-5 times each night.

During the day, when I run

from house to house, I get an offer.

-I've never run from house to house.

-There have I done half-life.

It will be offered.

You may think you have been offered.

Trash, trash!

You can be here if you read.

But you can not sleep here.

I slept not. I just

expected that the fire was put out.

Helen?

-Helen Archer?

-Yes.

It's Nora.

Nora Lawlor.

I have not seen you for 20 years.

Nora? Of course.

How are you doing?

I heard you in the radio, but then

you disappeared. What have you been?

I went on

tour as a pianist.

So, I was abroad.

I spent some years in Paris and Vienna.

For an exciting life.

I misunner you really.

I will never anywhere.

-Do you live with your brother?

-Yes. We have a close relationship.

-I saw him in the church in the previous week.

-In the church?

It must, I say.

-I go by his house every day.

-Hykler! What he does in the church?

He and mother stole all the money

as far left to me.

In the 15 years they have hidden Testament.

I must ask you to leave now.

I would be happy to be free,

and I have paid the price for.

I went my way.

There were no thieves.

Tyver, they were. Tyver.

Tyver.

There were thieves.

When I took Testament,

lo she only by me.

After that I traveled,

Building your dear son care of you.

You were a Pavo. Where is the feathers

will now, the mother? Your old cripple.

Where did the feathers will? How?

Trash, trash!

Sppelmann!

Around behind the house. Newspapers,

a jerngryte and some old clothes.

I do not want to enter there.

I know her.

And what then?

I was born here in the street.

People will not see me as a boom.

-You is / i the more a boom.

-Yes, but they do not know.

I bear everything

when we stop the next time.

A touchy boom ...

I have employed a touchy boom.

-Mrs Dougherty, is there anything wrong?

-I'm going to the city.

-If you do not have on clothes?

-Clothing?

-Do you think I'm insane, Francis?

-Definitely not, madam.

-Have you told about the attacks?

-No, not to anyone.

Not to someone?

Do I need to ask why?

People with no clothes on, is not something

you go and talk about, lady.

Keep up with to call me madam.

You sounds like a servant.

-Call me Katrina.

-I can not.

-That I will never be able to say.

-I called it. Say Katrina.

-Katrina.

-Yes, so did you said it.

A great poet once told me --

-That the love

enter through your eyes.

One has to look up

to see too much.

-Have you seen any faint?

-No.

Well, I swoon for you,

Francis loved ones.

It is good to you.

Just go up now.

Boms, came here!

I'm sorry.

I would like to buy the shirt.

Shall we say 25 cents?

What would a boom

with a clean shirt?

-Clothing create people, does not it?

-A pertentlig boom ...

A touchy, pertentlig boom

I'm getting in my car.

The music is the largest

that exist in life.

-One should be able to die for the music.

-What she believes that, but the mother?

She believes that it's good to be able to

slagerne play, as you do.

Stop.

When we are running.

Trash, trash!

I jump of soon. I have to talk to

with someone I have not seen in a long time.

-I would like to have the money now.

-Ends you before it is dark?

I have been working for 7 hours.

There were no lunsjpause.

Subtract a dollar for it.

It is reasonable.

A half-day means half the wages.

Yes, you are the commander.

You are also strong.

But I know what fraud is.

This hand has seen it all.

Held!

Intimidation? That I do not care about.

One has to be reasonable in life.

A boom is a boom.

-I love you not.

-I liked you.

I'm not that bad

when you first get to know me.

Hypp!

I'm sorry, madam.

How do I get hold of a turkey?

-What you asked my wife about?

-I will only buy a turkey.

-Why?

-Anden min is dead.

-Forsvinn with you.

-Absolutely.

-There is a long time ago.

-Francis has been given a job.

We have to soon acquire us

an apartment.

It's good for you.

Will Francis tonight?

Maybe. It's all in

how busy she has it on the job.

I understand.

Add them in bed, Donovan.

and 1 dollar for a room.

-The same room and same bed.

-I pay for two days.

Hopefully I do not die in the evening.

-I are about to make coffee.

-No, no coffee. Thank you, Donovan.

Yes?

Hi.

I come with a turkey.

A turkey?

It weighs 6 kilograms.

Billy said that I would see through

on Sunday. It is not Sunday, --

-But I came anyway.

Is it you, Fran?

-Yes, I'm not from Mars.

-No ...

Eh no, no.

How is it, Annie?

-You look great.

-For a surprise.

Take krabaten. It's icy.

Why do not you, while I steker it?

Join us in it.

Sit down,

so I put it in the oven.

Danny can get hold of some cranberry.

-Who is Danny?

-Gutten to Peg.

He is in 4. class;

and is a jaunty boy.

Gerald had been 22 today.

I visited his grave yesterday, --

-And I talked with him.

I told him a whole lot of.

-Was he glad to hear from you?

-May.

How is it with Bill?

He plays.

But he is not especially good to do so.

He said --

-That you've never said to anyone

how I lost Gerald.

Not until enticed today.

What's there to talk about it?

It was not your or my sake.

It must, I thank you for.

The kind of one should not talk about.

Forget it.

Why have you come to visit?

That's because ...

Billy invited me.

I never thought it would happen.

-Billy said you had a wife.

-Not a wife.

-I've only had one wife.

-And I have only had one man.

-I had only one guy.

-It is because of religion.

Not only religion.

I could not marry me again.

But I have lived together with Helen

in 9 years, with some breaks.

She was suited to me when I was sick.

She is a wonderful woman.

-Where is she now?

-Inside the city. She is like a child.

She falls dead on the street one day,

when she runs around like she does.

She needs you.

-What is it you need?

-A shoe-lace, I think.

I am very sorry about it, Annie.

It is something I have to say.

It is fle matters.

I have been fond of you and your children.

It gives me no right to anything.

I ask not about anything either.

But my life

I have remembered things here.

Albuene on the table. I will not

have something, but a cup of tea --

-And a sandwich.

Do you irish breakfast tea yet?

Yes.

Danny ...

This is morfaren. He is

come on a visit. He is to dinner.

-Hello.

-Hello.

Do you come from the school now?

-Het you Phelan or Quinn?

-Phelan. Francis Aloysius Phelan.

It is you who have played

at Washington Senator.

Billy says you taught him

to turn a ball.

-Remember him?

-Will you teach me that?

Of course. Get a baseball,

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