Music From Another Room
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1998
- 104 min
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What do you say we get
ourselves some turkey, partner?
They're here!
Now remember, I want you kids
to be especially nice to Danny.
- Why should we?
- Because I say so, that's why.
- Don't touch that pie.
- I'm hungry!
Hungry?
You don't know what hunger is.
You want to know about hunger,
talk to the Russians.
- They'll tell you about hunger.
- Grace has Russia on the brain.
But they're so grand!
Now, Grace was your mom's
best friend back in England...
...and she's a little nuts,
but she's nice.
Her husband is a
professor of something.
There will be a lot of kids in
there for you to play with, too.
And I don't want you kids teasing Danny.
Do you understand me?
- What's the matter with him?
- Liz's boy.
She died last year.
- He found her body.
- That is just so awful.
He's very shy.
See?
He is a retard.
What did I say about using that
word in this house, William Swan?
What did I say?
- You going to be okay, partner?
- Yeah, I'm okay.
You want a blindfold or
a cigarette or something?
- No.
- You sure?
Okay.
Ring the doorbell.
Hey, sweetheart.
Danny, welcome!
- Look at how big you are!
- Yeah.
And don't you look
like your mother!
When's the flag on that
butterball gonna pop?
- Professor.
- Doctor.
- How you doing?
- Can't complain.
Why don't you and the kids watch
some football with Danny?
Give her the cake.
There you go.
Thank you, Danny!
- Happy Thanksgiving.
- Welcome.
Let's get you a drink.
You moved.
Keep your arms still!
I miss Liz so much.
I'll see something on the TV,
and I'll want to call her and tell her.
Yeah,
I know what you mean.
Hank, would you mind?
No, not at all.
I can't imagine how
Danny must miss her.
How can he understand
a thing like that?
The shrink on the base says
eventually he'll come around.
Yeah, if nothing else,
he's resilient.
Did you know that the domestic turkey
is unable to procreate naturally?
I thought only Konrad
used that excuse.
We've genetically bred these poor birds
to have such large white-meat breasts...
...that it's impossible
for them to copulate.
- How do turkeys do it?
Test tubes. The way we'd do it,
if we were smart.
Richard is such a romantic.
Hank, I'm so happy that you and
Danny are going to be close by.
We're not. I signed on to a
NATO hospital outside of London.
- You did?
- You know, Liz's family's back there.
I figured that'd be
good for Danny.
- When do you leave?
- A couple weeks.
We'll expect you next year.
Hold on. Let's put her
on the couch over there.
- Okay.
- Don't push.
- You kids go outside and play!
- It's dark outside.
Take a flashlight!
- Can you hold on until the doctor
gets here? - Hank's a doctor.
- Thanks for the vote of confidence.
Have you ever
done this before?
We don't deliver many
babies at the base.
We can hang on till that
ambulance gets here.
- I don't think so.
- What do you mean, "I don't think so"?
What she means, Richard,
is that this baby is hot to be born.
Nothing we do is gonna change that.
Hold her knee up here.
- I'm sorry, I've got to push!
- Where the hell is the ambulance?
If you gotta push, push.
Push.
Okay.
Breathe, Gracie.
Okay, hold on.
Gracie, listen to me.
You have done this before.
We gotta give this baby
a little bit of help.
Push again.
Ready?
All right. Ready.
One, two, three. Push.
- Push, Grace.
- A little bit more. That a girl.
All right. Okay. Breathe.
- Son of a b*tch.
- What?
What do you mean,
"a little problem"?
- Nothing I can't handle, all right?
- What?
The umbilical cord
might be wrapped...
What do you mean,
it might be wrapped?
It might be wrapped
around the baby's neck.
Isn't there anything
you can do about it?
I don't know, Richard.
What do turkeys do?
Of course we can do something.
It's a common problem.
You!
Get out of here!
Do what he says, son.
Breathe, Gracie, breathe.
- The retard's in there.
- Let me see!
No, wait.
Come here a second.
Let me see your hands.
Are they clean?
All right. Listen to me.
Listen good, okay?
I want you to help me out.
I want you to reach in there...
Inside my wife?
Look, my hands are too big.
I'm too damn drunk. His hands are smaller.
- He can tell me what the problem is.
- Let him do it!
- Can you do this for me?
- What are they doing in there?
Can you do this for me?
Okay. Now, there's a baby in there.
I'll explain later.
I want you to reach inside really slowly,
very gently, with one hand, okay?
Go on. Put your hand in there.
Slowly, slowly. There you go.
Okay. Can you feel the baby?
Can you feel the baby's head?
- I don't believe this!
- Shut up, Richard!
Can you feel its neck?
All right. I want you to
find the umbilical cord.
It's like a wet rope,
like the time we made that trailer hitch...
...and it's wrapped around
the baby's neck.
I want you to uncurl it
so the baby can be born.
- Can you feel it?
- He doesn't know what he's doing!
Keep trying, son.
Come on.
- Keep trying.
- This is insane.
Think.
You got it yet?
You do? You got it?
You got it. Okay, good.
Now I want you to
put your fingers...
...between the umbilical cord
and the baby's neck...
...so that when you uncurl it,
the baby can be born, okay?
All right. Can you do that for me?
Do it for me now, son. Come on.
- Just do what he says, son.
- Okay. You got it? You got hold of it?
Okay.
Uncurl it.
Gentle.
Slow.
Okay.
You think you got it done?
You do?
- It's away from the baby's neck?
- Yeah.
Okay, now take
your hand out gently.
Okay, Gracie,
get ready to push, okay?
One, two, three, push.
- Push.
- Push, Grace.
Okay, Gracie, it's crowning.
Take a breath.
One more. A big one.
- One, two, three, push!
- Push, Grace!
- Push!
- Okay!
It's a girl.
Look at her!
A beautiful girl.
Not so bad!
A beautiful girl.
Let's give her
to her mama, son.
Careful.
There you go.
Good job, son.
Anna.
Her name is Anna.
I thought you and me were
gonna live together!
What made you think that?
Probably when you said,
"When you get here, we'll live together. "
Here. Come on.
Hurry up.
- These guys charge by the hour.
- I'm not crazy, am I?
That was the plan, wasn't it?
I come here. I get a job.
- We share a place. Right?
- I wrote you not to come.
I was on the road, wasn't I,
coming here?
What did you say?
- I'm moving to New York.
- What's in New York?
- William.
- William?
William of New York?
Who's that? Like Joan of Arc?
Would you please be careful?
- Really? What made you think that?
Probably when you said,
"I love you. "
That's really sweet, Danny,
but you're so damn literal.
It's a wonderful quality, okay?
Don't lose it.
Thank you.
What am I going to do now?
Where am I going to live, Sarah?
I'll tell you what.
I'll sublet this apartment to you.
- How much?
- $1,600.
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