The Sum of Us
- R
- Year:
- 1994
- 100 min
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- Let's go!
Ah, here we go.
- Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff.
Oli! Oli!
- First time Dad
took me to Gran and Aunt Mary's
for my holiday, I was, I
don't know, eight or nine.
And I remember playing footy with Gran
and my cousins, in the front yard.
You know those days when
everything's perfect?
One of the greatest afternoons of my life.
You see, Gran would form
us all into one team,
and she'd be the other.
It amazes me to think of the hours
and hours she'd spend playing with us.
Later in the afternoon, she'd play Ludo,
or Snakes & Ladders, or Tiddlywinks.
I used to love those games with Gran.
She used to keep an old Monopoly set
hidden under the stairs,
because Mary wouldn't let her play.
You see, real strict
Salvation Army, Mary was.
I mean, Gran, too, but just
not as bad as Mary, you know.
This one time, Mary went out for a while.
And the minute she's out the door,
Gran whips out the old Monopoly board.
Not a word to Mary, she says.
That was the best game of
Monopoly I've ever played.
Like me and Gran were doing
something really naughty.
Really wrong.
Fire and brimstone stuff, you know.
those days with Gran and Mary
had a bad influence on me.
Could be right.
After all, I still play footy.
- Stick your friggin' shoulder in his ass!
- Watch it.
- Only doing what he wants.
- Easy!
Now you're heading down to get someone
- Jesus, you blokes!
What do you think you're doing?
Come on.
Oh, go on, get out of here.
Go on.
All the people that you're standing on
All the people that you're standing on
Now you're heading down to be someone
Someone that you've seen in a magazine
Your preminition is coming true
Oh baby you're not so green
No baby you're not so green
No baby not so systematically
waking up the dead
Systematically stepping on my head
You're systematically waking up the dead
Systematically stepping on my head
Now you're heading
down to find something
Something that you
buried in your backyard
Position is coming through all the dirt
That you're diggin' on
All the dirt that you're diggin' on
Now you're heading down to be someone
- G'day, mate.
- You're a woman of the world, Gert.
What do you reckon?
- Are you thinking of
getting hitched again, Harry?
- Just looking.
Systematic waking up the dead.
Systematically stepping on my head
Systematically waking up the dead.
Systematically stepping on my head
Now you're heading down to get someone
Someone that you
should have had years ago
Possession is coming
through all the people
That you're standing on
All the people that you're standing on
All the people that you're standing on
Are hard to get a hand on
Systematically waking up the dead
Systematically stepping on my head
Systematically waking up the dead
You're systematically
stepping on my head
- I'm f***ed.
- What was that?
- I said I'm rooted.
- Stopped off for a quickie
on the way home, did you?
- God, you're off
sometimes, you know that?
Put a dirty meaning on everything.
Not lasagna again?
Are you going senile or something?
- Mashed potatoes and veggies.
- We've had it three
times this week, already.
Why can't we have a nice leg of lamb?
We haven't had a roast for yonks.
- Things aren't so wonderful when
you're cooking, you know.
Sausages and chips are a real treat,
when you're in the kitchen.
- I did that nice chicken curry last week.
- So hot it blew the roof of my mouth off.
- Oh, I'm sorry if you
can't stand a little
imagination in my cooking.
I'll stick to frozen lasagna, from now on.
How long is it gonna be, anyway?
- Nearly ready.
- I'll just grab a quick shower.
- Why do you always
decide to take a shower,
just as I'm about to dish up?
Just as I'm about to put
the food on the table--
- You don't expect to sit down all sweaty,
and smelly like this...
- Why not?
unless you're going out.
Are you going out?
- Well, as a matter of fact, I am.
I thought I'd just pop down to the pub,
for a couple of beers.
All right?
- Got a date?
- Can't a bloke go out for
without you making a
lifetime romance out of it?
You dish up.
I won't be two ticks, all right?
- He'll be back in a minute.
- You had a shower then, did you, Dad?
- Yes, yes I did.
- You didn't turn the
taps right off, again.
- Is that right, son?
- Every time I go for a
shower, the taps are dripping.
Now, I know you don't turn them
right off because you think,
you're saving the washers.
But mate, I've told ya,
that's what they're for.
And I'm a plumber.
I can change 'em.
And a few flamin' washers
are a damn sight cheaper,
than the water rates.
It drives me mental, Dad.
You know, it does.
If I've asked you once, I've
asked you thousand times.
Turn the f***ing taps off!
- Yes.
- Thanks.
- Sorry.
- Very much.
- I will try.
He's very wrought up.
He only ever mentions
that when he's wrought up.
He must think he's meeting
Mr. Right, tonight.
He won't be eating any Sara Lee.
You're probably wondering about that.
About him meeting Mr. Right.
Well, might as well get
it out into the open,
as the actress said to the bishop.
He won't be meeting any girl tonight.
He's what you might call cheerful.
Can't bear that other word.
Some of you will be going,
tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, probably.
Can't see why, though.
He's a good, honest lad, with a heart
as big as Western Australia.
And he's as much a friend as he is a son.
He's a good mate.
Mind you, he can be a
nightmare to live with.
Come on, your dinner's on the table.
- You didn't do the laundry.
- Sorry, I forgot.
- Well I need a pair of socks.
I can't go bloody barefoot.
- Well, whiz down to the shop and buy
yourself a pair of pantyhose.
- Ha, ha, ha.
Very funny.
Suppose I could wash a pair of
mine and dry 'em in the oven.
- Oh yeah, and the house
will reek of burnt nylon,
like it did last time.
Come and eat your dinner.
- Yeah, yeah, two ticks.
- I wouldn't want you getting
the wrong idea, though.
Two blokes living alone together.
It's only him.
I'm not that way inclined.
Regular lady's man, me.
Always have been.
When I was his age, I was
Rabbit, they called me.
'Till I met his mum, that is.
No more fooling around, after that.
I was faithful to her
from the day I met her.
Because I knew I was
one of the lucky ones.
I knew it was love.
should I wear the white ones?
- How many pairs of my
socks did you borrow?
I can almost see your religion.
- Yeah, well, if you've got it, show it.
- Haven't got that much to skite about.
- Well, Harry, size isn't everything!
It's what you do with it that counts.
- His mum always said that to me.
What's that for?
That's not spaghetti, you know.
- Don't wanna get my new shirt dirty.
- Have you actually met this young man?
wandering around Sydney,
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