"Translation and subtitles by PEPPER  LALASPAIN *** SONG LIVES FOR EVER ***" "Who are you?" "Your mother was my friend." "What do you want from me?" "!" "I wanna help you." "I'll bring you the alien, the creature, the being, right on your table." "You really are my father." "Yes." "Do you think we'll ever find my mum?" "We'll find her." "Merry Christmas!" "Merry Christmas, Ma'am!" "(" "Oh, it's cold) (" " Yeah.)" "All done?" "Let's go get some lunch." "I have to get into another line." "Ha, ha, ha!" "Anything for me?" "Yeah, you take the bills." "Oh!" "What's wrong?" "I have to go home." "They sent you a letter?" "Not my home, Paul Forrester's home." "What?" "Listen," "Dear Paul," "It's very important that I see you." "You know I wouldn't ask if it weren't, so please try to make it home for Christmas." "I'm counting on you." "Thank you." "Love, mother." "This is typed up." "Anybody could have sent this." "It's got a name printed on the paper." "Stella Forrester." "Fox works for the Government, I mean, they print the money, they can sure share cash for stationary printing." "You don't know the first thing about Forrester's mother," "I mean, you'll never pull it off." "She needs her son." "Besides, there's not place like home for the holidays." "But you don't even know them!" "Wouldn't you come and see me if I needed your help?" "Of course!" "You're my father!" "Would you help me even if I weren't your father?" "You have a talent for unfair questions, you know?" "Right there, ten dollars even." "Great car." "I can get you a couple thousand for it." "Are you interested in selling it?" "No, thanks." "This is just what we need." "Can you tell me how to get to 211 Union Street?" "Yeah, go down two stop lights and take a left." "Thank you." "Everything OK, Ted?" "Hey, Dave!" "How is it going?" "Who is that?" "Looks familiar." "Not from around here." "He wanted to know how to get out to Stella Forrester's place." "Paul Forrester." "Gotta bring her something," "I mean, that much I know." "Can't show up empty-handed." "Especially this time of the year." "OK, I'm convinced." "Have you got any ideas?" "Antiques, old folks love antiques." "Can I see that?" "It's from the 1890's." "A face of a man on the moon, it was very popular then." "And it has that little star there." "It was an earring originally but since there's only one, I had it made into a keyring." "I know just who should have this." "How much?" "In the spirit of Christmas, I can let you have it for 50 dollars." "Out of my league, thanks." "Why is it that all the good stuff is always so expensive?" "That's a universal law." "Flowers!" "You can't miss with flowers, women love flowers" "I don't know why but they go nuts over them." "Oh, I can explain it to you but" "I think you're too young." "(Anyway, they're waiting outside)" " Howdy, boys!" " Hi!" "Is it ponsetta or poinsietta?" "Poinsettia." "It's your traditional Christmas plant." "And at 9,95 it's a real good deal." "That's nice!" "We'll take it." "Out of 20." "You want it delivered?" "We deliver." "No, we'll take it ourselves." "We're going to Stella Forrester's." "That's just up the street, isn't it?" "You boys are buying that for Stella Forrester?" "You know her?" "Not many people in this town don't." "It's on the house." "On the house?" "That woman has done more for Ironwood than the people can ever repay." "Just tell her Milt said Merry Christmas." "Oh!" "Thanks, Milt, Merry Christmas!" "Here, let me put a nice ribbon on that." "Ironwood." "That's a nice place to be from." "(" " Hold that!" ") (" "I don't know)" "Well, well, well..." "Paul Forrester." "Well..." "Officer Winfield." "I guess it doesn't surprise me but I always thought you were destined for bigger stuff." "Isn't this kind of slim pickings?" "These boys didn't have anything to do with it, Dave, and you know it as well as I do." "You know who's responsible!" "And if you don't stop it pretty quick, somebody's gonna get hurt!" "I'd like to take you apart right this minute." "But I'll tell you what," "In the spirit of the holiday season, I'm gonna give you til Christmas Day," "If you are not out of town on the 26th" "I'm gonna shove that smile down your commy pinko throat." "I get the feeling I know that guy." "Leave the flowers here." "We'll get them later." "You don't want your hands full when you say hello." "Besides, we may have to run for it." "Now, my approach would be to have as many distractions as possible so that she doesn't notice that you're not her son, like for example, if we brought a string elephants and tigers..." "I got this act down, trust me." "Dad, it's one thing to fool a cop you haven't seen in years but I mean, it's a lady, she's your..." "It's his mother, I don't understand how you can be so cool." "I'm not so cool." "I have blue birds in my stomach." "Yeah, you and me both." "We should hang in you and blow this bird." "We're not gonna "hang in you" and we're not gonna blow this bird." "til we meet Pauls' mother." "My mother." "Good luck!" "You certainly deserve it." "Yes?" "Mother?" "It's me!" "Paul!" "What the hell are you doing here?" "I got your letter." "What letter?" "What are you talking about?" "I came home because you asked me to." "You said you needed me." "I never asked you to come here." "But I got this." "Not from me!" "Then you don't want to see me?" "As long as you are here, why don't you come in and... take your things?" "Sure, that's a good idea." "That way, neither of us will have to worry about you coming back." "Your stuff's in the attic." "The attic?" "You didn't expect to come back and find everything where you left it, did you?" "I suppose not." "Where do you want this wood, Stella?" "It's me." "Paul." "Hal Walker." "I guess you're a little surprised to see me here." "No!" "Erm..." "No." "By the way you looked, I wasn't sure." "You may not approve but your mum and me..." "We mean a lot to each other." "You don't have to explain anything to him." "If he had anything to say, he should have said it 17 years ago." "17 years?" "Has it been that long?" "Why don't you just... go up and take what you want and get out?" "I wanna talk to you." "Dad, we don't need all this stuff." "Let's just hit the road, OK?" "What did he say?" "He said we don't need all this stuff." "Don't sass me, Paul Forrester." "What did he call you?" "Dad." "Scott called me Dad." "He's my son." "You must favor your mother." "It's..." "It's getting late." "You and your son might as well stay for dinner." "We'd love to." "Why is my mother acting like this?" "That's easy." "She's not your mother and you're not her son, she's probably figured all that out by now." "She's rejecting her son and me." "The question is why." "That was Milt Linden." "He's pretty upset about the window." "That makes three." "When folks are afraid of losing their jobs they get restless, Good." "I don't approve of it." "I'm gonna put a stop to it but I understand it." "What are you doing?" "Refreshing my memory about a bad penny that just turned up in town." "Paul Forrester?" " Stella Forrester's kid?" " Yeah." "The big magazine photographer." "Flag burning?" "I don't get it." "What's the big deal?" "Why don't they make you punks learn something about history?" "Run this guy through the computer, see if there's old warrants or speeding tickets." "I need an excuse to bust him." "(You all busy, buddy)" "Why couldn't you have the good sense to let the past stay buried?" "You know I was just trying to help you sweetheart, you know this... thing between you and your son" "What's between Paul and me has suited both of us." "Just fine for a long time." "We don't need no goat like you telling us what to do." "Correct?" "I'm not sure." "You haven't changed an iota, have you?" "If I said it was night, you would have put on sunglasses." "Excuse me." "No offense but that mother of yours could give stubborn lessons to a mule." "Now, if I put my put in it," "I apologize but it just didn't seem right." "that you two don't make up." "It's not as easy as you think." "Oh, too much pride, huh?" "Let me tell you something." "You got to be my age," "You're gonna look back and see what pride cost you." "Then you'll wonder maybe, was it worth it." "Just think about that." "I will." "Ah..." "We got these for you." "I was afraid they'd catch a cold in the car." "It needs water." "Thank you, Scott." "It's lovely." "The man at the flower shop said to wish you a Merry Christmas." "and he also said that you've done more for this town than anybody else." "Some people say I've done too much." "I'll just go back inside." "No, no wait a minute." "What grade are you in?" "Ninth." "How you doing?" "Not bad, erm... badly." "Do ninth-graders still read?" "Or does the whole class just sit in front of a big television set?" "I've finished reading the "The Catcher in the Rye"," "I liked it." "Oh, you enjoy books." "How novel." "That was a good one." "Novel books, good pun." "You enjoy music too?" "Yeah!" "Yeah, I..." "I love Mozart." "Well, I'm into the Stones myself." "You're kidding?" "Hey, check this out." "Why would she keep one mitten if the other one is lost?" "By the looks of this place, she saved everything Paul Forrester ever touched." "I guess you're right." "This sock doesn't have a mate either." "That's because it's a Christmas stocking." "She probably made it..." "To hang by the chimney with care." "I knew that." "Well, I'm never sure." "You had a Christmas stocking?" "I guess I had one, once." "But you kind of outgrow that stuff, you know?" "I guess the fat man is gonna have to give your presents to someone else then" "Well, it doesn't have to be all fancy like that, I mean... in an emergency, any sock will do." "You understand?" "Hmm." "Ha, ha, ha!" "Kind of a scrawny looking kid." "Not so scrawny." "Well, I guess for you it's like reading the history of your body." "You can read the history of a body in the body, if you know where to look." "I'm trying to find out what happened between Paul and his mother." "Bingo." "This doesn't make any sense." "These are probably peace protesters." "Erm, what happened was there were a lot of people who didn't think our country should be fighting a war." "And so they had rallies," "You know, the cops are coming, bobbed them on the head." "I've only read about this stuff, I'm probably not explaining it very well." "You're explaining it very well." "It just doesn't make any sense." "What happened doesn't make any sense." "Well, when Forrester got involved with this, his parents must have freaked." "They probably kicked him out and told him never to come back." "17 years is a long time not to come back." "It took you 14." "Hal's picking me up in a few minutes." "I don't suppose it matters to either of you but," "Sunday still means something to some people." "Yeah, Sundays!" "Big dinners," "Color newspapers, the sports on television..." "And Church." "Oh yeah, that too." "Don't tell you're going to Church now." " Sure!" " All the time!" "Well!" "Don't be late." "Your hair is sticking out the back, Scott." "As the tiny hand of the infant reached out from the manger nearly 2000 years ago." "It touched the world with a spirit of peace and forgiveness." "We celebrate that same spirit here today, and the lesson is the same, love thy neighbor as thyself." "Oh, Lord, in the spirit of this Holy Season, let forgiveness be our Christmas gift to each other." "♪ O Come All Ye Faithful, ♪" "♪ Joyful and triumphant, ♪" "♪ O come ye, ♪" "♪ O come ye to Bethlehem. ♪" " Nice sermon, Reverend." " Thank you." "Very" " Hi, Sam, Vera?" "This sermon was very moving, Reverend but what's happened in this town, ain't no fairy-tale." "And it ain't gonna have no fairy-tale ending." "Sam, it's Christmas." "Sam, let's go home." "Not til I say what's on my mind." "If that referendum passes, the mill is just gonna shut the doors." "and we're gonna have trouble in this town like you've never seen." "Sam, for Heaven's Sakes!" "That referendum only says you got to stop using Sutter Creek like a sewer" "It does not make sense to go on poisoning your own drinking water!" "Linden, I've heard about enough out of you..." "Sam Iverson, stop it!" "It's Christmas, for Heaven's Sake." "You two boys have known each other since you were in diapers." "We've had hard times before but we've always pulled together, found a way out of our troubles." "Merry Christmas." "Come on." "How can this town come apart like this?" "He didn't mean anything he said against you personally, Stella." "Oh, I don't blame Sam, he's afraid of losing his job." "But if we don't stop pulling in different directions, we're gonna pull this town apart." "That is incredible." "There's nothing to it, just flour and eggs." "I can make you a good fresh-baked pancake cooker in about ten minutes." "Are you serious?" "I mean, I can do this by myself?" "I expect you could, you know, I got a busy day today" "Wanna come?" "No, I gotta do something." "What are you doing?" "I'm gonna round up a few old souls, who remember this town the way it was." "Back when we used to care for each other and we'd all pitch in and tried to make things better." "And then what?" "Well, there's a town meeting tonight." "and I'm gonna see if an old woman can breathe some life into this town." "Before it dries up and blows away." "I gotta go." "You sure change gears in a hurry." "Thanks for the breakfast." "Anytime!" "Good morning!" "What happened to Scott?" "Gone with the wind." "He didn't get that from any stranger, did he?" "Like son, like father." "You have anything to put in under this?" "Pancakes." "He's a nice boy." "Don't know how it happened exactly but, he is, nonetheless." "Scott said that someone was here looking for me." "A fellow from Washington about three months ago." "I told him the last place on Earth that he could expect to find you was here." "You're in trouble, aren't you?" "Yes." "Same old charge from 1969?" "I thought so." "Well, you father never forgave you, I know that." "Seems like the Government would have dropped it after all these years." "What about you, Stella?" "Why can't you forgive me?" "I never gave a damn about those charges, you know it." "I stood up for you through the whole business." "It's not what sticks in my craw." "Sit down and drink some juice." "You waste a lot that way, Scott." "That's just what your father used to do." "I did?" "Ha, ha, ha!" "Hark the herald angels sing." "I thought you'd gotten lost in the attic." "It wasn't in the attic, it was in the basement like I told you in the first place." "What, come on, come on, I haven't got all night." "Don't blow a casket." " There!" " Ta-da!" "Well, I'll got and get the dinner started." "Yeah, I grated the carrots and I bought those raisins you told me to get." "Oh, good." "Scott." "Let's go for a walk." "But it's almost dinner." "Then we'll make it a short one." "You like Stella a lot, don't you?" "Yeah, I know it sounds crazy but it's almost like she's really my grandmother." "I like her too." "I'm glad we had a chance to meet her." "I can't change" "Paul Forrester." "What he did." "I can only try to understand it before it's too late." "Too late for what?" "Paul Forrester died before the wound between them healed." "But if I hurry," "I can make peace between them before Stella dies." "What are you saying?" "She's not even sick." "Yes, she is." "No mistake?" "Why are you crying?" "Someone I care about is gonna die!" "Don't they cry where you come from when somebody dies?" "No, they don't." "Why not?" "Where I come from it's... it's just simpler." "Take your favourite book," ""The Catcher in the Rye"" "Yes, so?" "When you're reading the book, you enjoyed it, but you're finished you weren't happy and you weren't sad." "You were just finished with that book." "You understand?" "No, when I like a book, I want it to go on for ever," "I don't want it to end." "But what you like about that book does go on for ever." "because it became a part of you." "I know I couldn't explain it." "Well, it's kind of hard to think about what to get somebody if you haven't seen them for a long time." "Yeah but Stella won't care." "It isn't the gift, it's the idea behind it." "My Goodness!" "She's happy that you're back." "I'm not so sure about that." "Believe me, if she wasn't so stubborn, she'd admit it." "Look." "You sure turned out different than I expected." "In fact, it's hard to match up what I see with what I heard." "Wow!" "Look at all this interesting stuff." "Maybe there's something in here." "You can buy her a nice diamond ring." "I know that with the inflation it might rent 800 to 900 dollars but..." "It would certainly be appropriate, wouldn't it?" "I thought that diamonds were for weddings." "You really don't know what I'm talking about, do you?" "17 years is a long time." "But it's hard to believe that you could forget how you got your first camera." "How Stella hocked her engagement ring to get it for you." "Oh yeah, yes, of course." "That's how I got started, I mean" "Stella had to sell her ring." "I'd be a lawyer or something stupid like that." "Look at that." "It's the size of a credit card." "How can they make a radio that small?" "Well, actually..." "Ahmm..." " Elves." " Huh?" "Tiny little elves." "Elves?" "What is it, Paul?" "Oh, it's about Stella not being well." "I thought you knew!" "Isn't that why you wrote?" "I wanted you to make peace, that's why I wrote." "Now, it's obvious" "Dave can't handle the job." "Just a damn minute, Cecil." "You won't do anything, Dave because you side with them yourself" "You wanna blame me and" "Art Luanne for something that people of the mill are bringing on themselves." "Hold on a minute!" "The people of the mill didn't do anything like that at Al!" "Could we cut?" "Merry Christmas, everyone!" "Merry Christmas!" "Merry Christmas, everyone!" "Alright, hold it down, please." "Stella, you've got the floor." "I'm old enough to remember most of you when you were throwing things at each other in a sandbox." "And I don't see a whole lot of progress for all your years of experience." "Well, there used to be a time when we could get together once in a while and set aside our squabbles and... well, lend each other a hand." "Christmas used to mean something in Ironwood." "Is this about that damned tree?" "Yes, Sam, it's about that damned tree." "We don't throw away old things and old ways for free." "There's always a loss." "And if the City Council can't come up with a few hundred dollars to light up that tree, well..." "Things are starting to go one by one." "(No, we ain't got to call it a day)" "Ah!" "Stella?" "Stay with her, I'm gonna get Doctor Courtley" "Don't leave me, Hal." "You hang in there, darn it!" "You are gonna see that Christmas tree lit if I have to set it on fire." "(What a shame)" "What was it like when you were a little girl, Stella?" "Well, they'd come in from all over the County," "On some buggy, you know?" "And everybody'd pitch in." "You'd see folks that you hadn't seen since Easter." "It took a whole day to decorate that tree and it was a lot smaller then." "We used to snatch those candy canes off the lower branches of the tree faster than old folks could hang them up." "I remember it so well." "Where does all that time go?" "If only folks had some idea how quick time goes." "Maybe they're waiting for you to set the example." "What do you mean?" "How can you expect them to forgive each other if you can't even forgive your own son?" "This doesn't seem fair, does it?" "I know what you mean." "We've known her for such a short time." "I know she's a tough old lady, maybe she'll pull through." "You don't believe that, do you?" "No." "Get ready, a few more strokes!" "Maybe this would wake up some of the jack-asses around here." "We ain't gonna have no Christmas?" "They ain't either!" "We should just be glad that we got a chance to meet her at all." "I know." "Thank you for twisting my arm." "You sure have taken me to some interesting places." "That's what life's for!" "How could they?" "Hey Dave!" "A couple of nuts just cut down the big tree out front!" " What are you talking about?" " Come on!" "Take a look!" "Looks like you got Christmas mixed up with April's Fools, Lonnie." "I could have sworn..." "Special delivery for Stella Forrester." "Goodness!" "What's all this?" "This is just the first load," "I gotta go down to the flower shop and get more!" "I've been working for Mister Linden for a couple of days." "A hard worker, just like his grandma." "Fetch my purse." "Now." "Scott, come here." "Oh!" "I can't accept that!" "Don't be a goose!" "I have a reputation of being a good tipper!" "And it's a tradition I intend to uphold." "Thank you." "Twenty bucks?" "Thanks, grandma!" "There are some things that we may never get straight between us, Paul." "But it wouldn't be right if I didn't tell you how much I appreciate you bringing that boy to see me." "Sorry is not going to save Christmas as it used to be." "When they'd light up that tree it was... it was like a miracle." "I guess we used up all our miracles." "Oh, all it is is just like glass balls and lights." "No, it's a bigger deal than it sounds." "The main thing is the decorations are locked in the town hall basement." "Maybe someone unlocked them." "Let's go look!" "Are you serious?" "Who do you suppose is gonna help us?" "We'll help ourselves." "Just came in about your pal, Paul Forrester." "He's wanted for questioning by the FSA." "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." "Stella was right, this is fun." "They are pretty nice, Paul." "Amazing how that door was open." "Hey!" "You can't do that!" "Sure I can!" "So can you!" "What's going on here, Harlet?" "Dave, it seems to me that folks are decorating the tree." "Those ornaments were supposed to be locked-up at the City property." "The City is just a bunch of people with something in common, Dave." "Yeah?" "Where did you hear that?" "That's what Stella Forrester's boy said." "It kind of made sense to me." "I don't believe this." "Alright people!" "This is unlawful assembly without a permit!" "I want everybody off this property immediately or you a subject to arrest." "(Ohhh, ohhhhh!" ")" "Hello, Dave!" "You forget what I said about waiting til Christmas." "You are under arrest." "It's Christmas, Winfield." "Time for miracles on 34th street." "Angels with wings, the fat man being pulled around around my a dozen antelopes." "If all of that can happen, why can't we... light up a Christmas tree for Stella Forrester?" "Huh?" "We could use a ladder." "Where are you going?" "Looks like I need reinforcements." "What's the trouble?" "We got an emergency here, chief." "Yeah?" "What is it?" "Somebody said they thought we might have a star missing up on top of the tree." "I thought maybe we ought to take a closer look." "Right!" "Let's run it up, boys!" "I figured you'd gone away without saying good-bye." "Stella, they say this is a time for peace on Earth." "I think there should be peace between us too." "17 years without a word?" "I'm sorry." "Weren't you sorry enough to make peace with your father in his death bed?" "You wouldn't even come to his funeral." "I don't understand why I did those things." "But I think I must have been hurt very much." "And that it took time and distance to get over the pain." "Not a word, not even a whisper." "I think as the time and distance grew it became more difficult to come back." "I'm your mother." "Didn't that have any meaning at all to you?" "Maybe not then, but it does now." "I can't change the last 17 years." "But maybe this can make up for a small part of it." "It's time you had it back." "Oh!" "Thanks for the camera." "Paul." "Hey!" "Hi!" "Stella, how you doing?" "Merry Christmas." "Merry Christmas, grandma." "Oh, thank you, Scott." "Oh!" "But I..." "I have nothing to give you two." "You gave Paul Forrester life." "I'd be nothing without that." "And you gave your love." "That's the best gift of all." "Thank you, Paul." "And thank you, Hal, for bringing all of us together for this wonderful Christmas." "How is it going?" "It's all set." "(" " Oh, honey!" ") (" " Ready?" "Stay)" "(Oh, that's beautiful!" ")" "(That's just right!" ")" "(There's a spot, there's a spot!" ")" "(Can you reach that high?" ")" "Merry Christmas, Sam." "Sorry, Robert, for last night." "(Alright, everyone!" ")" "(Let's sing a song for Stella!" ")" "♪ Good King Wenceslas looked out, ♪" "♪ On the Feast of Stephen... ♪" "What's that?" "Some friends, grandma." "♪ When a poor man came in sight ♪" "♪ Gath'ring winter fuel ♪" "♪ Hither, page, and stand by me, ♪" "♪ If thou know'st it, telling ♪" "Oh, Paul!" "For a second there," "I thought I saw the tree." " Let's skip!" " Why's that?" "I don't anybody saw me," "I just cut the power to the center of town." "They were about to turn the lights on on this damned Christmas tree!" "Christmas tree?" "What Christmas tree?" "The Christmas tree in the town square!" "Now let's get out of here!" "Merry Christmas, mother." "Merry Christmas, son." "Good-bye, dear friend." "Good-bye, grandma." "Dad?" "I got a feeling that we are not gonna see a lot more of each other." "I juts wanna say that you're a better son than Paul Forrester ever was." "Merry Christmas, Hal." "For a second I thought I could smell pancakes." "I know what you mean." "Thanks to you we'll go on eating Stella's pancakes." "I don't suppose there's any way we could stick around til the funeral." "Dave Winfield said he run my name through the police computer, we can't take the chance that Fox won't find out somehow." "It's a good thing he warned you." "That warning was a Christmas present." "Speaking of Christmas presents, erm..." "You wouldn't wanna leave yours under the tree." "Thanks, Scott." "I think there's something under the tree for you too." "Whoa!" "Thanks." "It's to help you find your way around the stars." "This is terrific!" "Oh!" "Thanks!" "You like it?" "It's just terrific!" "What is it?" "It's a key-ring to put your car keys on it." "There's something I have to tell you about the car." "It's OK, isn't it?" "Oh, it's fine!" "It's just not ours anymore." "I needed the money to buy Stella's present." "I guess the key-ring wasn't a very good present." "It's the best present I ever got." "From my son!" "Translation and subtitles by PEPPER  LALASPAIN *** SONG LIVES FOR EVER ***"