The Cokeville Miracle Page #2

Synopsis: On May 16, 1986, in the small, ranching community of Cokeville, Wy, David and Doris Young took an elementary school hostage for several hours before detonating a bomb inside a single classroom that held every teacher and student in the school. In the wake of the madness, Ron Hartley, whose children were inside the classroom, must fight his skepticism and unbelief as he hears eye witness accounts from the students of miraculous, heavenly intervention during the crisis. When tragedy strikes... what do you see?
Genre: Drama, Family, History
Director(s): T.C. Christensen
Production: Excel Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.1
PG-13
Year:
2015
94 min
Website
169 Views


- Daddy, what am you gonna do'!

- You just do as y0u'rc told.

You ready'!

[Elm c*cks]

- David, docs this have anything to do

whh when you

were the town marshal here?

- The air will burn.

- I'll hc back in about an hour.

[guns clam]

- One mole mess-up,

and F11 shoot you.

- Hello.

- Miss Cook, we're holding

the school hostage.

Don't push any alarms.

Don't call for help.

We have guns, and this is a bomb.

I nccd just pull this trigger,

and this building,

xvith everybody inside of it,

will be blown sky high.

Try and hit me over the head

or anything like that,

and I will pull this trigger

when I go down'

Do I make myself clear, Miss Cook'?

Slug'.!

Got over hcrc.

Gm over km'.!

- Are you crazy?

I can't believe you would do this

to little kids!

I am not going to do this.

F Keys.

Get out of here!

[keys clatter]

You're no daughter of mine,

no daughter of mine!

[clatter]

- It was so tempting

ma! Goldilocks

set about helping herself.

First she tried a spoonful

from Papa Bear's great, big bowl.

"Ow! " she yelled.

"Too hot!

[all exhaling sharply]

Next, she tried a spoonful from

Mama Beafs medium-sized bowl.

"Bu, we cold."

Finally, Goldilocks tried a spoonful

from Baby Bear's tiny, linle~

What exactly are you doing hcrc'!

- Quiet, lady.

- You've got to be joking.

This is my room.

- No, this is my room.

Now sit down and shut up.

- Follow me.

I have a surprise for you.

- What kind of a surprise'?

- Como and sec.

- Is it a birthday?

- Yeah.

Come I0 room 4

for a special surprise in mum 4.

Come on.

- Carson, wait for Mommy!

Sweetie, Mommy will be

light back, okay'?

- Good. Come right on in.

Thank you.

- Hi, Ashton.

- Sit down.

Hello, hello, hello.

Thank you.

Come right in.

Come in.

- What is this'!

- Sit down, please.

Hello, thank you.

Wclcom c.

Go to the back.

Sit down. Be quiet.

- Hi, Ben.

- Hi, Gracie.

- Do you know where

Carson's class is?

- Um,

they might be in room 4.

- Okay, let's go to mom 4.

- How you doing, pal'!

- [chuckles]

[indistinct chatter]

There's your friends.

- Come in.

- Oh, no, I've got w go.

- No. Come in.

- You may want t0 stay.

We have a problem here.

- What's going on'!

[tires squealing,

horn hunks]

- Help me! Help!

Help, please, somebody!

Somebody, I nccd some help!

Phase, phase, some'

Please, I need to talk

to a police officer!

This is very important.

- There's no officers here right now,

but I can help you,

- Please, you nccd to listen to mo!

Something very bad is gonna happen

if we don't talk to the police!

No, listen w me.

I need to talk to the police.

What is wrong with you?

Why won't you get me

a police officer'?

- Miss, what's the trouble?

- Liston m mo.

My dad has a bomb,

and he's gonna blow up the school.

If you don't believe me,

come om to my van!

- Hey, we didn't know

Whfll he was gonna do!

- He's guns crazy!

He used to be real smart,

- Tina'!

[indistinct chatter]

- Thcsc arc all mine.

Missiles ahoy.

- Herc I come.

- Beep, beep, beep.

[boy imitates explosion]

[chatter continues]

- What's going on here?

- Arc you the principal'!

- Yes, I'm the principal.

What's going on here'?

- This is what's going on here.

- David Young'!

- Just your old town marshal

here for a friendly visit.

Iamfioaxxufoaxxmvbamjaam,

'oamfoamfoamhamhamlaara.

- Yes, sir.

What is it you want'?

- Bam, ham,

'cam, 'mm, 'om, ham, bamjsam.

[chatter continues]

. 5mm up!

I am sick and tired of all this noise!

This is the most important day

of my life,

of our lives!

So shut up and let me focus.

Md gm mo same spam'.!

[indistinct whispering]

1 xvant you to go back to your office.

Call the authorities.

Tell them I want S2 million

for each child.

Tell them I'm prepared to stay here

for L611 days,

if necessary.

It might take Congress mat long

to raise all than money.

And ifyowrc not back in I5 minutes...

[Elm c*cks]

Fm gonna start shooting.

- [whispering]

Shooting,

- Ono by one.

Anybody runs ma,' sham avid.

- [sobbing]

- Listen, kids, do as yowrc told.

Keep quiet.

Everything will bc all right.

- Max.

ifs gonna be

a brave new world.

- [whispering]

Max, the brave new world

is basically the idea

of reincarnation'

- Hey!

- Let the authorities know...

- Kids, this is an experience

you'll all tell your children

and your grandchildren all about.

So let's get out

some paper and crayons,

and it'll all be nicc in hcrc.

- Nadene, there's a mad man

here at the elementary school.

He's gut a-

- We know.

- We've been notified.

- How could you know"?

- Teachers, we need

each of you to count up

how many children you each have

from each of your classrooms,

Yrs?

- You're not supposed

to say the same word so many times

in a sentence.

"Each"

You said "each" three times

in the same sentence.

[birds chirping]

- I have 1S.

- H).

- 14.

-ls.

- That's 98.

- That's right.

- Base to 12-4.

Base to 12-4'?

Ron, we have a situation

down at the elementary school.

Base to 12-4.

- Hey, mister,

I was looking at your guns.

Pretty cool guns,

but why didn't you got an AK-477

- AK-477

That would be illegal.

- How long do you plan

on being hm for'?

- I don't know.

Two days, three, ten'?

- Excuse me, mahm.

Um, I lcfi my baby in the car,

am m m go om am gm 'nu.

- You left your baby in the car'?

- I know; I know. I thought

I was gonna bejust a second.

- Lc:
mo roll you something.

You ncvcr lcavc a child like that.

- Please,just let me g0 get her,

and I'1l bring her fightback in here.

I prOmiSC.

- You're not going anywhere.

- Arc you a mother'?

Because if you were, you would unders-

- Sit down,

- Please, jus1 can we jus1 talk and-

- Sit down!

- Like a brave new world-

- Okay, all right

- He told us we were gonna start

a fireworks business.

- Nadene, you better start

calling some parents-

[overlapping shaming]

[phone rings]

- QM!

[gaSp s]

[phone rings]

- QM!

- Glenna, the kids are in trouble.

- What kind oftroublc'!

[groans]

- She has no one

10 take care of her,

- I don't even think

she has a kid in the car.

- Excuse me again.

I, uh...

Twas just thinking,

maybe you could send

somebody else to go get her'?

- No.

- Okay, well, then could you

just go get her?

Please'?

She's my baby.

[sighs]

Thank you.

It's a gold sedan,

and ifs parked in the drop-off,

and she's in a car scat.

- Hey!

- Shh.

- I want you to stack

some tables and chairs

and make a barricade

so nobody can g0 through there.

- Why sank wcjust shut the door'!

- 'Cause the bathrooms right thcrc.

Kids.

Bathroom.

- Nadene, I've got to get

a truck over there right now.

You bane:
let the clergy know too.

[phones ringing, panicked charter]

[phone rings]

- QM!

At our school'?

. [whimpvfi]

- Oh, it's all right.

It's okay, it's okay.

Come here.

Go:
that off.

You cum with m'?!

Bigjump. Come on.

[groans]

Your mommy was bad.

- Vcrlcnc.

Pvc read about this kind of' thing.

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T.C. Christensen

T.C. Christensen is an American cinematographer, film director, and writer best known for his work on Latter-day Saint church history films including Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration to Gordon B. Hinckley: A Giant Among Men, 17 Miracles, and Ephraim's Rescue. more…

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