"Copyright from ecOtOne™" "(BIRDS SINGING)" "(GRUNTS)" "Oh!" "(WHISTLES)" "(GRUNTS)" "(SIGHS THEN GIGGLING)" "INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED" "(SEAGULLS SQUAWKING)" "MAN:" "My Dad used to say that fear is like the creatures in nature that man can tame." "A creature?" "Like which one?" "Like like a wolf." " Why a wolf?" " Because if a wolf sees yöu're scared, it will attack yöu." "Yöu have to stare back at it to learn how to tame it, to scare it away." " Sha!" "Sha!" " Sha!" "Sha!" "Sha." "Sha." "Sha." "He'd also say there were big fears and small fears." "JOHNNY:" "Hold on, son." "Everything's okay." "That's why I named yöu Valentin." "Because yöu're so brave." "(LAUGHING)" "(WHIMPERING)" "VALENTIN:" "Dad, please, let me out of here!" "Dad!" "My Dad not only prepared me for this world's fears." "Hold on, kiddo." "It's almost midnight." "Tame the fear son." "Everything's okay." "Remember..." "Sha, sha." "VALENTIN:" "Sha!" "Sha!" "He also prepared me for the fears of the afterlife." "Please, Dad!" "Let me out, Dad!" "(GROWLING)" "Sha." "Come here." "Yöu're so brave, son!" "Congratulations!" "What happened?" " Did yöu pee yöurself?" " No, it wasn't me." " It was the wolf." " What wolf?" "Yöu're crazy." " Let's go home." " No, let go of me!" " I don't love yöu anymore!" " But I do!" "Come on, let's go find some ghosts!" "Run!" "Even though, honestly I was never able to master the small fears..." "Don't throw me in the water, Dad!" " ...or the medium ones..." " It's for yöur own good!" "If yöu do this, yöu'll never be scared again..." " ...or the big ones." " Dad!" "25 YEARS LATER" "Unh." "Kiss me." "But if I couldn't master the big fears the medium fears and the small fears..." "I love it when yöu grab my hand." "...let alone the mother of all fears," "Valentin marry me!" "Commitment!" "Valentin!" " Valentin..." " Hm?" "...do yöu love me?" " Mm..hm." " Why?" "I love yöu because because yöu're different." "Because yöu're... different." "Because yöu're different." "Because yöu're different!" "(IN ENGLISH) Do yöu love me?" "I adore yöu, Julie." "Yöu're my first and last love." "20 MONTHS LATER..." "Can yöu just hang on a second, okay?" "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Valentin." "Yes?" "Have we met?" "I..." "I was yöur endless love." "What?" "(IN SPANISH) I was yöur eternal love a year and a half ago." "Oh, yeah!" "Right!" " Is that yöur baby?" " Yes." "Did yöu get married?" "No, yöu idiot!" "She's yöur daughter." "VALENTIN:" "No." "Hold on a minute!" "I don't want to have children." "I don't want troubles, and that baby doesn't even look like me..." "Do yöu have ten dollars?" " What?" " Ten dollars, to pay the cab." "No, I don't have dollars." "Let me see..." "(IN ENGLISH) Hold on." "(COOING)" "Ch-ch-ch-ch!" "Stop that!" "That's not yöur food." "I don't think yöur sister is coming back for the baby." "The truth is it looks like I'm the baby's father." "Yöu did it with yöur sister?" "No!" "No, no!" "No, it's just that..." "Well... she's not my sister." "But she did go to pay the cab, though." "Well..." " Here!" " What?" "What?" "I just remembered I have to go to the doctor." "Yes, I have a problem with my... prostate." "Yes." "Bye, honey." "Women don't have prostates." "No?" "Well, that's why I have to see a doctor." "Bye." "Hey, but... yöu said yöu'd stay the whole weekend!" "Hey, yöu know yöur mom." "She wouldn't leave yöu here, would she?" "Would she?" "(PHONE RINGING)" "Hello?" "Hi, it's me." "Julie." "What Julie?" "Oh, Julie!" "(SIGHS)" "Look, I'm..." "I'm sorry." "(VOICE BREAKING) Please take good care of her." "She's just a baby." " Julie, where are yöu?" " I..." " Julie!" " I can't." "(IN SPANISH) I can't do it." "(IN ENGLISH) I'm sorry." "...what is it yöu can't do?" "Julie!" "Julie, where are yöu?" "Julie!" "WOMAN [OVER PA]:" "Passengers on Flight 2264 bound for Los Angeles please proceed to Gate 9." "(KEYPAD BEEPS)" "I'm such a moron!" "(COOING)" "The next time I leave yöu alone and yöu don't say anything I swear I'll leave yöu." "(TIRES SCREECHING)" "(HORN HONKING)" "AIRPORT" "DEPARTURES" "Excuse me, ma'am." "Have yöu seen a blond girl kind of hippy, in her twenties?" "(CHATTERING)" "Julie!" "Julie!" "Julie!" "Yöur baby!" "Yöur baby!" "Julie!" "No, no." "It's hard." "It falls down!" " Valentin!" " Can yöu change diapers, Sammy?" "Yeah, sure." "It doesn't have to be disgusting." "It's dirty, but yöu have to I just go to the bathroom and wash my hands afterwards." " Where's Judeisi?" " She's over there." "I'll call her." "Judeisi!" "What is this?" "That's it, my baby." "She's full of crap." "I'll change her diaper." "What's yöur name?" "What's her name, Valentin?" "I don't know." "It must be here." "Maggie?" "Her name is Maggie." "She's named after a sauce." " Have some vegetables, kid." " What are yöu doing?" "I'm giving her carrots." "That's too spicy." "Why don't yöu just keep her?" "It's high time yöu settled down." "No way!" "What would I do with a baby?" "Goodbye freedom, goodbye tourists!" "What will I do for a living?" "I might even have to get a job." "And yöu'll have to learn English." "'Cause when she starts talking, yöu won't understand her." "I'll have to send her to school, feed her." "Every day, three times a day." "And speak to her like a dummy so she'll eat." "(IN HIGH-PITCHED VOICE) Eat, baby!" "Eat, baby!" "(IN NORMAL VOICE) And I'll have to watch Barney over and over." "One day she'll ask me why she's growing boobs." "When she's older, she'll want to borrow my car." "I'll have to beat up her boyfriend when he knocks her up." "No, no!" "Besides, I'll suck as a Dad." "Hey, I have an idea!" "Write to Angelina Jolie." "Tell her the baby's from Acapulco or Oaxaca." "Maybe she'll adopt her." "I know!" "Let's go to yöur house." "VALENTIN:" "I found this other box." "Yöu must have something from that Julie woman." "Didn't she leave yöu a souvenir?" "She did." "But I got rid of it with penicillin." "I mean, a telephone number, an address." "Something." "Here's a letter from a Julie." "A Julie." " Really?" " Yes, look." " She wrote a letter?" " Didn't yöu know?" "She wrote it a year and a half ago." "Look!" "Let me see!" "Does she say how to contact her, a phone number, anything?" "No." "It only says," ""I miss yöu kissing my..."" "How very explicit!" "Kisses from L.A." "What does L.A. mean?" "Loving American, no?" " Look for her at this hotel." " What hotel?" "This one." "Look." "California Hills Hotel." "It looks like she works there." "Where is that?" "Hey, that's in Los Angeles." "I barely understand English." "I hate the language." "I always flunked it." "Besides, I'm broke." "And yöu're scared of flying." "Really scared." "Yöu're crazy." "I'm not scared of planes." "Well, then yöu have no choice but to keep the baby." "Oh!" "She's so beautiful." "Yöu'll end up falling in love with her." "VALENTIN:" "I've never been scared of airplanes." "It's just that if we go by road, we'll save money." "We'll have more time to chat." "We'll have more father-daughter moments." "Now, if I return yöu to yöur mom it doesn't mean I don't love yöu." "It's just that yöu'll be better off there." "For example, movies premiere much earlier there." "Just think." "When Twilight premiered here it was already Breaking Dawn there." "Besides, if yöu stay here... yöu'll be pretty, but darker and smaller." "But, if yöu grow up there... yöu'll probably be blond, blue-eyed tall." "Besides, here yöu could get mugged any time by a thief or a cop." "Not to mention the corruption drug dealers demonstrations the traffic the politicians potholes the national soccer team." "There are only disadvantages here." "What?" "Are yöu sleeping again?" "But it's time to eat!" "Don't yöu want to eat?" "Look." "Yöur milk is warm now." "(SPITTING)" "(GRUNTS)" "I want an abortion!" "Damn cheap condoms!" "(GUN COCKS)" "Is the baby real?" "Get in!" "My name is Lupe." "(MAGGIE CRYING)" "VALENTIN:" "Enough!" "Shh, shh." "Enough!" "Enough!" "I said it's enough!" "It's enough!" "Can yöu change diapers?" "...I was just asking... (MAGGIE CONTINUES CRYING)" "Oh!" "Yuck!" "Is she sick?" "Sorry." "It wasn't her this time." "(MAGGIE CONTINUES CRYING)" "Change her already, will yöu?" "I'll change her for a quiet baby." "Don't try to be funny." "Change her!" "I'll just finish my burger first." "(TIRES SCREECHING)" "Right now!" "Good idea." "Right now!" "See?" "Yöu could've changed her three hours ago." "(BURPS)" "(MAGGIE BURPS)" "She sounded just like me!" "We're identical, mija!" "(HORN BLARES)" "VALENTIN:" "Look, the baby's a gringa!" "I'll just drop her off with her mom in L.A. and come back." "(SPEAKS IN SPANISH)" "Oh..." "I told yöu I don't have one, I didn't know, Mr. Copper." "But I'm not staying." "I'll just drop her off and come right back." "I'll be back today." "Yöu can have my watch and my ID as proof that I'll be back in 5 hours." "(IN ENGLISH) Get out." "What?" "Didn't he go for it?" "Why didn't yöu tell me yöu didn't have a visa?" "Are yöu going to Los Angeles, too?" "ALL:" "Shh!" "ALL:" "Ah..." "Water!" "Say hello to yöur Aunt Zenaida." "Careful!" "Get up." "Say hello to Queta, babe." "Tell her that grandma didn't even make it to Cuernavaca." "Thank yöu." "Thank yöu, Lupe." "Thank yöu so much." "Lupe..." "Do yöu know where this hotel is?" "(IN ENGLISH) Nah, man." "She doesn't work here anymore." "She..." "She went down to Mexico looking for her baby's father." "Then I think she was going to New York for school or something." "Yöu know what?" "She left her phone number here." "Yöu want me to look it up for yöu?" "It's just in the computer back there." "Yeah?" "Okay." "(SPEAKS IN SPANISH)" "I can give it to yöu." "Just give me one second." "I'll find her." "Whoa, whoa." "I'm sorry, but yöu can't bring children in here." "What?" "No children." "(MAN  WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "But the dog?" "No children." "What about the dog?" "No children." "Gimme a break." "They let the dog in." "Psst." "Hey, paisana, help me out." "Do yöu know this girl?" "(IN ENGLISH) Sorry, I don't understand." "Julie." "Her name is Julie." "Oh, yeah." "She was the aerobics instructor until they caught her having sex with a guest in the presidential suite." "(IN ENGLISH) Presidential suite?" "Presidential suite, yeah." " Yeah." "(IN ENGLISH) I don't want any CGI bullshit in this movie." "I want to use a real guy." "Isn't there a single stuntman left in this town with any balls?" "(DOORBELL RINGS)" "Listen, it's only a 13-floor jump, okay?" "Thirteen floors how hard can that be?" "Hold on." "Ah, finally." "The leading girl's headshots have just come in." "Come on." "Yeah." "Who the...?" "Who the hell is this bimbo?" "(IN SPANISH) I was told..." "Look, is this some kind of joke?" "Why would yöu send me a Polaroid of a frigging nobody?" " Julie?" "Julie?" "Yöu know what, this conversation is over." "Put Casting on." " Can yöu call Julie?" " Yeah." "Shh!" "Bonnie, sweetheart." "Listen, come on, why are yöu busting my balls?" "What do yöu mean, yöu haven't sent them yet?" "I've got yöur messenger standing right in front of me." "Bonnie, when I say "immediately," I mean five seconds ago, not two hours ago." "Yeah, but that's why I asked yöu to do it now." "Yeah." " Two hours..." " Hey, girl!" "Baby!" "What was it?" "What was it?" "She was named after a sauce." "Cholula...!" "...no..." "Tabasc...!" "...Tabasco." "Valentina!" "Valentina!" "Okay." "Could yöu shut the fuck up for a second?" "Yes." " So let me see if I get this straight..." " Baby!" "(MAGGIE COOING)" "(FRANK SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "Sha." "No, don't throw me in the water." "Dad, please!" " Ha..ha..ha." " Dad!" "JOHNNY:" "If yöu do this, yöu'll never be scared again." "Ha..ha..ha!" "(GROWLING)" "Sha." "Sha." "Sha." "Sha!" " Holy shit." " Sha." "Sha." "Sha." "Sha!" "(SCREAMING)" "I have to learn yöur name!" "(MAGGIE CRYING)" "(IN SPANISH) Yöu could be a great stuntman." "Yöu're brave." "Here they're all softies!" "No." "No, I live in Acapulco." "I only want to go back with my daughter." "I don't want to be a wetback." "(IN ENGLISH) Ah." "Sorry." "Towels." "More towels." "Quickly." "Listen." "(IN SPANISH) When yöu cross..." "Shoo." "When yöu cross the border and they see the baby is a gringa they'll take her away and yöu'll go to jail." "(IN ENGLISH) To jail." "(IN SPANISH) Think it over." "I'll give yöu a good job as a stuntman." "ONE YEAR" "(SIGHS)" "(THUDS)" "TWO YEARS" "(INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE)" "(MAGGIE GIBBERS)" "Poop!" "Poop!" "(CRYING)" "Maggie!" "THREE YEARS" "Maggie!" "Maggie, why did yöu draw on the walls, honey?" "I told yöu not to draw on the walls." "That's what notebooks are for." "(SNIFFLING AND WHIMPERING)" "Don't cry, honey!" "Calm down." "Calm down, don't cry." "Don't yell at me!" "(NOSE HONKING)" "Surprise!" " Aah!" "Aah!" " Surprise!" "FIVE YEARS" "SIX YEARS" "Maggie!" "SEVEN YEARS" "VALENTIN:" "Sha." "Sha." "MAGGIE:" "Dad, it's yöur turn." "Coming, Maggie." "Why do yöu always go to the bathroom before work?" "Are yöu scared?" "No way!" "I'm not scared, I'm concentrating." "What's that?" "Thinking." "To concentrate is to think." "Oh." "And yöu use yöur brain to concentrate?" "Uh..huh." "(VALENTIN FARTS)" "I heard what yöu're thinking." "Valentin!" "(IN ENGLISH) Ah." "Where's yöur dad, sweetie?" " Sha." " (IN ENGLISH) He's concentrating." "Can yöu go take yöur seat, please?" "Thanks." "Yöu okay, buddy?" "Yöu know I hate English, okay?" "Yeah, fine, look." "(IN SPANISH) We're waiting for yöu." "Maggie's already there." "Coming." "Just remind me," "Why the hell am I doing this?" "(IN ENGLISH) Um, because... (IN SPANISH) Because it's the only thing yöu know." "Because yöu're scared they won't let yöu take Maggie to Mexico." "Because no other job pays up to 10,000 dollars a day!" " Because..." " Okay, okay, okay." " Enough." "That's enough." " (IN ENGLISH) Okay." "Come on." "(SIGHS)" "Let's go." "(IN ENGLISH) I gotta say, I think it's all about the attitude." "MAN [IN ENGLISH]:" "Yeah, totally agree, Johnny." " Yöu don't wanna be too wild, yöu know?" " Yeah, yeah." " In a pyramid just like this one..." " Mm..hm." "...but in Egypt, my mom found the famous Nefertiti." "(IN ENGLISH) Mm." "Ready?" "(IN SPANISH) Are yöu ready?" "Tell her I am." "(IN ENGLISH) He's ready." " When is he going to learn English?" " I don't know." "MAN 1 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Silence, everybody." "WOMAN 1 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Rolling." "WOMAN 2 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Fifty-eight, Take 1." "A mark." "DIRECTOR:" "Action." "(IN ENGLISH) Well, Aztec Man." "Are yöu going to tell us where is the gold hidden?" "(IN BRITISH ACCENT) Over my burning feet." "Ha!" "As yöu wish." "Cut!" "Nobody moves." "Bring the stunt in." "WOMAN 3 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Dolly's not set up." "Set it up now!" "(IN NORMAL VOICE) Enjoy yöurself, man." "(IN SPANISH) He says to enjoy yöurself." "MAN 2 [IN ENGLISH]:" "All ready?" "Everybody standing by." "MAN 3 [IN ENGLISH]:" "We're good." "It's not in the shot." "(BREATHING DEEPLY)" "What's wrong, Dad?" "Are yöu scared?" "No." "WOMAN 4 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Can we get a set dress?" "MAN 4 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Quiet, please." "We're rolling camera." " And action!" " Sha." "(GROANING)" "Cut!" "MAN 5 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Are yöu okay, sir?" "Yöu need a hand?" "That was perfect, Valentin." "But could yöu try not to look scared when yöur face smashes against the wall?" "Don't look scared, Dad." "We'll have to do it again." "MAN 6 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Quiet on the set!" "DIRECTOR:" "Okay, let's go." " One more." "MAN 6 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Roll camera." "Action." "(GRUNTS THEN GROANING)" "DIRECTOR:" "One more." " Unh!" "DIRECTOR:" "One more." " Hunh!" "DIRECTOR:" "One more." " Unh!" "DIRECTOR:" "One more." " Hunh..." "DIRECTOR:" "One more." " Aah!" "(GLASS SHATTERS THEN CRASH)" "Uh..." "One more." "(GRUNTING)" "(ALL GASP)" " Cut!" "MAN 7 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Need some help." "That was a good one." "(ALL CLAMORING)" "MAN 7:" "Are yöu okay?" "Sir?" "Medic!" "MAN 5:" "Hurry up!" "MAGGIE [IN ENGLISH]:" "Let me in." "MAN 8 [IN ENGLISH]:" "We need an ambulance." "MAN 7:" "Medic!" "MAGGIE:" "Excuse me." "I got it." "He'll be fine." "I got it." "(IN SPANISH) No fall, nor wound, nor aching head can stop this charm from bringing yöu back from the dead!" "(WHISPERS IN ENGLISH) Come on, Grandpa." "(IN SPANISH) No fall, nor wound, nor aching head can stop this charm from bringing yöu back from the dead!" "Yöu'll be scared if yöu forget!" "(ALL CHUCKLING AND CHATTERING)" " Dad?" " Hm?" "I want to be like yöu when I grow up." "A stuntman?" "No, I want to be immortal just like yöu." "Good afternoon." "ANDERS:" "Um, Mr. Bravo, yöur mail." "Ah." "Thank yöu." "I'd like to remind yöu about the elevator maintenance fee." "Please." "I already paid it." " Oh no, Mr. Bravo." " I gave yöu the money yesterday." "Mr. Bravo!" "I never forget these things." " It's okay." " Yöu haven't paid." "Here." " I'll write yöu down on my list." " Yeah, okay." "Dad, Mr. Anders is kind of absentminded." "Yöu think?" "Hey!" "I can't write yöu down!" "It says here yöu haven't paid." "(SCOFFS)" "JACKIE [IN ENGLISH]:" "Wait." "Wait, wait, wait." "Oh." "VALENTIN:" "Hello." "JACKIE [IN SPANISH]:" "Hi." " Hi!" "MAGGIE:" "Hi!" " How are yöu?" " Fine." "Fine." "But my bathroom is still broken." "When are yöu coming to check my pipes?" "Later." "(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)" "Well..." "Bye." " Bye." "MAGGIE:" "Bye." " Dad." " Hm?" "That woman's drain is always clogged, isn't it?" "Mm..hm." " Yöu should take a look at it." " Mm..hm." "(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)" "(MAGGIE SHOUTING)" "Wanna play?" "Yöu're on!" "Stop!" " Stop!" " Get out of the way!" "Stop!" "(CRYING)" "Shut up!" "Shh!" "Way to go!" "Bravo!" "Ha..ha..ha." "Well done, honey!" "Okay, time for yöur bath, kiddo." "Come on." "MAGGIE:" "ls Johnny Bravo really my grandpa?" "VALENTIN:" "That's right." "MAGGIE:" "Why doesn't he ever visit me?" "Because, I told yöu he doesn't have a passport." "Besides, he's working on his diving." " Tell me about grandpa." " Again?" "Yöu know his life by heart." "Come on, so I can tell my friends." "Okay." "(VALENTIN SIGHS)" "Johnny Bravo was the greatest..." "BOTH: ...diver of La Quebrada." "That's right!" "Ha..ha..ha." "He loved diving from the very top!" "No." "He loved diving into dumpsters!" "Everybody loved Johnny." " Because he had..." " A big heart!" "No." "He had a big pimple on his nose that looked really funny." "(BOTH CHUCKLE)" "No, that's not right!" "Tell me the story right." "Okay." "When I was a kid one day, yöur grandpa threw me from the top of La Quebrada." " Ha, ha." " Don't laugh." "I'm serious." "It was awful!" "I was about I don't know, six or seven years old." "Like yöu." "But thanks to that I was never scared again." "I'm seven years old when will yöu take me to Acapulco to jump from La Quebrada?" "No." "I'd never do that to yöu." "Come on, please." "I don't want to be scared of anything." "(SPITTING)" "VALENTIN:" "Good shot!" "(BOTH LAUGH)" "(IN ENGLISH) Yes!" "(IN SPANISH) Good shot!" " Very good." " Yöur turn." "Ahem." "(COUGHS THEN CHUCKLES)" " Dad, it's yöur turn." " Coming." "Take my turn." "(MAGGIE SPITTING)" "Let's see." "Bills more bills." "(GASPS)" " What?" " Look, Maggie!" "A letter from mom!" "MAGGIE: "Dear Maggie I've been too busy to come and see yöu, 'cause I've saving the world." "On my way home, I stopped to buy yöu a present." "And that was when, a mysterious masked man dressed as a bat, asked me to help him..." "He wanted me to help hand out bean tacos and cactus juice to the earthquake victims in Gotham City."" "I bet that masked man was Batman!" "I bet he was." "What else does it say?" ""After that, I was sent on a mission in Australia." "I had to save the last duck-billed platypuses from extinction." "The mommy platypus fell in love with a Canadian beaver much yöunger than she was and the tease ran off with him, abandoning her nest." "So, I had to sit on the eggs she'd left behind." "I even had to fight off some wolves to save the poor things since their mom never came back to sit on her eggs."" "Huh?" "With her beaver?" "No, no!" "I mean, she chose her beaver, over her children." "Oh..." "Yes... yes..." ""While I was waiting for them to hatch, I thought of yöu." "As usual, I miss yöu very much, honey." "The only thing that comforts me is knowing that yöu're taken care of by the most loving, intelligent brave, and above all the most handsome Dad ever!"" "She's exaggerating." "As usual." ""Yöu must be very proud of yöur Dad because he's the best man in the world."" "Please stop!" "Stop!" ""P.S. Tell him to keep on helping the neighbor with her pipes." "God will repay him some day." "Lots of love, mom."" " Dad." " Hm?" "Yöu have to go to the doctor tomorrow." "No, I'm not going." "I don't like doctors." "They only give yöu shots and medicine." "Yöu're scared of shots!" "Of course not!" "It's just that I don't like people looking at my butt." "I think yöu're scared of going alone and want me to go with yöu." " That'd be nice." " Okay." "But yöu have to start going alone." "What will yöu do when we can't be together anymore?" "Why do yöu say that?" "Because when I go to college, I won't be able to go with yöu." "(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)" " Have fun, honey." " I will, Dad." "I love yöu, Dad!" "Mr. Bravo, can we talk?" "Why didn't Maggie come to school yesterday?" "Oh!" "It's just that I took her to the shooting of Aztec Man." "It's the sequel of the sequel." "Yöu know Aztec Man, don't yöu?" "And the day before?" "Ah." "Well, I..." "I... organized a Quidditch match, and..." "What?" "Quidditch." "Yöu saw Harry Potter, didn't yöu?" "Mr. Bravo..." "Maggie doesn't lead a normal life." "The girl has issues because she lives in a fantasy world." "Real life is not Disneyland!" "What are Maggie's issues?" "(IN ENGLISH) And my mom brought it for me from the Moon." "She went there with NASA on a mission to bleach it." "'Cause the Moon was turning yellow from all the cigarette smoke from Earth." "(IN ENGLISH) Oh, Maggie, urn..." " That's just a piece of cheese." " Yöu bet it is!" "But it comes from the Moon." "(IN ENGLISH) Yeah, sure." "And yöur father is Aztec Man and yöur grandpa is Johnny Bravo." "(CHILDREN LAUGHING)" "Really." "I asked yöu nicely to quiet down." "Um..." "I know yöu are a good father, and I can see yöu do everything yöu can to make her happy." "But, hm it seems as if yöu're overcompensating." "What really happened to Maggie's mother?" "She went to pay the cab." "(VALENTIN GRUNTING)" "All set." "(IN SPANISH) Yöu see, Dad?" "It didn't hurt." "Yöu're right, it didn't." "That's why I like yöu to come with me." "Take care of him, Maggie." "Remind him to take his medicine." " What about my vitamins?" " Ha, ha." "See?" "Yöu should learn from her." "I bet she doesn't forget to take her vitamins every day." "Maggie would yöu like to feed the fish?" " Mm..hm." "Go on." "Hurry." "(CHUCKLES)" "The treatment didn't work." "(SIGHING)" "How long?" "Not long." "I'm sorry, Valentin." "(WOLF HOWLING)" "(SIGHING)" "Do yöu know what the doctor prescribed?" "Shots?" "Mm..mm." "(ALL SCREAMING)" "VALENTIN:" "Sha!" "Sha!" "Sha." "Yay!" "Wow, Dad!" "My head is spinning." "We'd better leave, then." "No." "I'm okay." "I might barf, but that's all." "(IN ENGLISH) Let's go, honey." "Come on." "Oh." "Oh, I'm sorry." "I thought yöu were my daughter." "So cute." "I'm sorry." "(SIGHING)" "What is it?" "I wish mom were here." "My friends say mom is like Santa Claus." "Chubby and bearded?" "No, Dad." "They say that because I've never seen her." "If she loves me, why doesn't she come see me?" "Oh, sweetie." "(SNIFFLING)" "Look, I don't care how yöu do it, just make it happen." "Now." "Twenty-four hours." "I'm sorry, Frank." "I know yöu're busy, but I need yöur help." " (IN SPANISH) What do yöu want?" " Look." "MAN 1 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Watch yöur back." "MAN 2 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Careful." "Okay." "Huh?" "That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard!" "No!" "VALENTIN:" "Do it for Maggie, please!" "No, no." "I won't do that!" "VALENTIN:" "I just need..." "Frank!" "FRANK [IN ENGLISH]:" "Number 12, please." "Speak Spanish?" "(IN SPANISH) Show me yöur left profile." "Right profile." " What do yöu think?" " She's good." "(IN ENGLISH) Okay, whenever yöu're ready." "Maggie my daughter I'm Julie yöur mother!" "Thank yöu." "We'll let yöu know." "I have an idea." "(IN SPANISH) Why don't yöu make up a story about Julie going on a mission to Afghanistan and not coming back?" "No, no, no." "Maggie needs to meet her mother." "Number 13, please!" "FRANK [IN ENGLISH]:" "Yöur name, please." "(IN DEEP VOICE) George." "BOTH [IN ENGLISH]:" "Next." "(DOORBELL RINGS)" "JACKIE [IN ENGLISH]:" "Who is it?" "(IN SPANISH) I'm here to pick Maggie up." "Mr. Anders, what are yöu doing here?" "I called him to check Miss Jackie's drain." "I tore apart the entire drainpipe and couldn't find any problem." "(IN SPANISH) Eh?" "Now we have to pay Mr. Anders for all he did." "Not to mention that yöu still owe me the elevator fee." "Alright, already!" "Thank yöu." "Oh, sweetie..." "It's so nice of yöu to be so helpful, honey." "So nice..." "(GASPS)" " What?" " Look, Maggie!" " A letter from mom!" " Yes!" "A letter from mom!" "(IN ENGLISH) Yes!" "(CHUCKLES)" "(PHONE RINGING)" " Hello?" "Mm." "WOMAN [IN SPANISH]:" "Valentin?" "Um..." "I'm I'm Maggie's mother." "Maggie's..." "Oh!" "Oh, Maggie's mother!" "What's up?" "(IN SPANISH) "Dear MAGGIE"" "I'm writing from nuclear submarine Pancho Villa II." "I'm going to capture the leader of Al Qaeda because I discovered he's planning to buy lighters to increase global warming." "As soon as I finish, I'll finally be with yöu." "This time, baby, there won't be penguins, beavers duck-billed platypuses or earthquakes to prevent me from visiting yöu." "Lots of love Mom."" "Mm..." "I understand yöur aloofness." "Well, that's me on the phone but I'm just the opposite in person." "I'm calling yöu because I don't know how to say this." "Don't be nervous." "Look, if it's about money, talk to Frank." "No, no." "It's not about money." "What I want is..." "Look, we have to meet in person." "I'd love to but being good in bed won't get yöu the part." "It's up to Frank to decide who's the best mom for Maggie." "Okay, number..." "What's yöur name?" "Valentin, my name is Julie." "Julie Weston." "And I'm the mother of yöur daughter, Maggie." "MAGGIE:" "Dad, Dad!" "Dad, guess what!" "Mom is coming!" "Mom is coming!" "Yöur mom is coming." "Yes!" "For the first time!" "(ANIMAL BELLOWING)" "(ANIMALS SQUAWKING)" "Is that her?" "VALENTIN:" "No..." "Well..." "I'm not sure." "I haven't seen her in a long time." "Uh, wait here a sec." "Hello." "(IN ENGLISH) Hi." "Do yöu work here?" "What?" "Yöu don't speak Spanish now?" "(IN SPANISH) Um, a little." "Mm." "That's Maggie." "(IN ENGLISH) Hi, Maggie." ""Hi, Maggie!" Is that all yöu have to say?" "Just... "Hi, Maggie!"" "(IN SPANISH) Um, Maggie is very pretty!" "Pretty!" "Yöu take off for 6 years and yöu come back and all yöu can say is "she's pretty"?" "(IN ENGLISH) Listen, calm down." "How can I calm down?" "After so many years yöu suddenly show up and say yöu want to see Maggie?" "Yöu have some nerve!" " Hey." " Uh, Dad, I don't think that's Mom." "She's too sloppy-looking." "What's yöur name?" "(IN ENGLISH) Yöur name." " Melissa." " Melissa." "(IN SPANISH) Not Julie?" "No." "My name's Melissa." "Okay." "Okay." "Okay." "No, Maggie, trust me." "It's not her." "Maggie?" "Mom?" "(KISSING)" "Does she know I left her?" "No." "She thinks we were married and then we divorced." "That yöu left for some years and..." "Hey, mom, they are like the ones in Africa, right?" "JULIE:" "Yes, Maggie." "Do elephants bark or what do they do?" "I don't know." "And how did yöu find us?" " I tracked yöu down." "I work for Newman, Newman, Newman  Newman." "What's that?" "The most important law firm in New York." "Hey, Maggie, why don't yöu go find out what elephants do?" "Okay." "MAN [IN ENGLISH]:" "Get yöur hot dogs here, get yöur hot dogs!" "Let's see." "Yöu took off and now yöu just show up out of nowhere?" " What do yöu want?" " To get to know her, for starters." "Oh, for starters." "And then?" "(CHUCKLES)" "She's an amazing girl." "Yöu've done great, Valentin." "Oh, thank yöu!" "I'm glad I didn't disappoint yöu." " I was so worried!" "MAGGIE:" "Mom, mom!" "I found out what elephants do!" "JULIE:" "What?" " It's green and runny." "Hey, Mom?" "Do the baby platypuses know their mother left them to run away with her beaver?" "Of course they know, Maggie." "Yöu can't keep those things from children." "Remember Snow White?" "She abandoned the dwarves to hook up with a prince and everybody found out." "Mom, yöu know Batman, right?" "Why does he wear his underwear on the outside?" " (IN ENGLISH) What?" " Um..." "Honey, do me a favor." " Go find me a cazacuaz." " A cazacuaz?" " Yes, a cazacuaz." "Go!" " Okay." "(IN SPANISH) Do I know Batman?" "Mm, I'll explain later." "How long are yöu staying?" "I don't know." "It depends." "Do yöu want to play target practice, mom?" "Are all these toys yöurs?" "Yes." "Mine and Dad's." "Wow." "It looks nothing like yöur bachelor pad in Acapulco." "Acapulco?" "Yöu've been on missions in Acapulco?" " Missions?" "MAGGIE:" "Mm..hm." "Yöur missions, Julie." "To save the world and ensure people's well-being and happiness." "I have all yöur letters, Mom!" "Wanna see them?" " My letters?" " Yöur letters." "Yöur letters." "Yöur letters." "Look." "Come here!" "I kept them all." "When yöu freed Willy when yöu found Nemo when yöu revived the Dead Sea." "When yöu saved Private Ryan." "I wrote quite often, didn't I?" "Once a week." "At least." "And I've been to all these places?" "And to Africa with Bono." "With Prince William and Adam Sandier and with La India Maria!" "JULIE:" "And with Lionel Messi." "He's Maggie's favorite player." "Yöu even sent her his autograph." "Remember?" "Look!" "Here it is." ""Julie, I would've never made it without yöu." "Thank yöu so much." "A big hug for yöur daughter." "From male champion to female champion Lionel Mesi."" "Written with only one "S"." "Ah." "Well yöu have to forgive him." "He hit the ball with his head so many times he has spelling issues." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "Hey, Maggie." "Do yöu speak English?" "(IN ENGLISH) Yes, of course." "But I don't do it at home." "Did yöu finally find a yeti in the Himalayas?" "(IN ENGLISH) Um..." "That's cool." "Yöu know what?" "I wanna hear about yöu." "How are yöu doing in school?" "(IN SPANISH) She's asleep, out like a light." "Yeah, that sounds like her." "Why didn't yöu tell her the truth?" "I considered it but after a lot of thought, I couldn't find a politically correct way of telling her," ""Yöur morn didn't love yöu, so she left."" " Thank yöu." " I didn't do it for yöu." "Yöu've done a great job with her." "She's a happy, sweet little girl." "(IN ENGLISH) I don't know how I could have left her." "Yöu can take my bed." "I'll sleep on the couch." "Okay." "(IN SPANISH) Thank yöu." "(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)" "This is my morn." "She's the one I told yöu about." "(IN ENGLISH) Hi." "This is my morn." "She's back from Australia." "Hi." "This is my morn." "She's the one I told yöu about." "This is my mom." " This is my morn." " Hi." "Nice to meet yöu." "MAGGIE:" "This is my mom." "She came back." "She's here." "She finally came back from paying the cab." "Looks like the cab driver didn't have any change, so..." "JULIE [IN SPANISH]:" "What is it yöu wanted to tell me?" "Um..." "Come on, say it." "Some years ago, I was I was filming in Minnesota and I had an accident." "Well, work stuff." "I was taken to a clinic in Rochester." "Maggie was with me, as usual." "The point is that, when we were there... (PHONE CHIMING)" "(IN ENGLISH) I'm sorry." "Oh, shit." "(IN SPANISH) I have a meeting in 15 minutes." "But tell me." "Yöu were at the clinic and..." "No, no." "It's okay." "I'll tell yöu later." "Are yöu sure?" "Sure." "Okay." "Uh... (IN ENGLISH) Ah." "Taxi!" "I'll see yöu later." "(IN SPANISH) I don't have any cash." "Do yöu have ten dollars for the cab?" "What?" "And then yöu won't come back?" "Ha, ha." "Thanks." "(IN SPANISH) So yöu didn't tell her." "No." "There was no time." "But I thought it over and I'd rather not tell her." " Why not?" " No, no." "Tell her the truth!" "No." "It's enough that yöu and I know it." "I don't want pity." "Okay." "Hey, what did yöu feel when yöu saw her?" "Oh..." "I don't know..." "I didn't even remember her face!" "But when I saw her she looked so gorgeous." "It was as if time had stopped..." "FRANK [IN ENGLISH]:" "Hey, hey, this midget's not working out for this." "Bring me the one with the wooden leg." "WOMAN [IN ENGLISH]:" "Okay." " Sorry, pal." "(IN SPANISH) I'm listening." "So... what?" "Yeah, I was saying that..." "I don't know, after so much time I saw her and she looked gorgeous, she looked so elegant..." "FRANK [IN ENGLISH]:" "Why are yöu bringing the dog on now?" " Dog comes on later." "WOMAN:" "I'm sorry." "(IN SPANISH) So..." "What did yöu feel?" "Uh..." "Oh yeah, I was telling yöu..." "She's changed a lot." "She's changed so much, and I don't know I felt like..." "like kind of..." "FRANK [IN ENGLISH]:" "The frigging dog just took a piss." "WOMAN:" "I got it!" "I got it." " One of the midgets slipped on a piece of shit yesterday." "(IN SPANISH) So?" "What did yöu feel?" "Uh..." "Fine." "Fine." "Well, sort of." "Yöu know..." "it was a long time..." "FRANK [IN ENGLISH]:" "I told yöu to clean it up." "Now we got another midget down." "Gosh!" "Frigging morons." "(IN SPANISH) So..." "Yöu felt nothing?" "Yeah!" "I didn't care." " Yöu didn't care?" " Yeah!" " I would've thought yöu..." " No!" " After so many years..." " Hey, tell the limping girl not to limp!" "She's messing up the hay!" "(VALENTIN SIGHS)" "Do yöu miss Acapulco?" "(SCOFFS)" "She's asleep." "JULIE:" "Like last night." "Out like a light." "Yeah." "Why are yöu here?" "I needed to meet her." "(SCOFFS)" " So yöu did it for yöurself, not for her." " Mm." "But now that I know her it's different." "Sometimes I even think we could've been a family." "Why not?" "No, no way!" "(IN ENGLISH) Yöu know... (IN SPANISH) We don't need to be together to fulfill Maggie's dreams." "She thinks we're divorced, right?" "It's not a big deal nowadays." "Besides, I can't stay in Los Angeles." "I live with someone in New York." "And I hope yöu don't mind they are coming tomorrow to meet Maggie." "My Dad has more hair." "(IN ENGLISH) Hey." "My Dad is yöunger." "WOMAN [IN ENGLISH]:" "Hi, Dad." "My Dad is more more more Mexican." "(SIGHS)" "Here they come." "(IN ENGLISH) Good afternoon." "My name is Michael." "(IN ENGLISH) The waiter?" "But, Mom this guy is really skinny and ugly." "And I also have pimples on my butt." "Yöu want to see them?" "Now, what do yöu want for lunch?" " (IN ENGLISH) Sorry I'm late." " Aah..." "Hi." "Yöu must be Maggie." "Um..." "This is Renee my partner." "(IN ENGLISH) Uh, and this is Valentin." " Uh, sorry." "Maggie's father." " Hello." "RENEE:" "Oh, hi." "Nice to meet yöu." " Valentin doesn't speak English." " Oh." "Okay." "(IN SPANISH) She is yöur boyfriend?" "Um..." "Do yöu remember that episode of Barney where they talked about families that were different?" "RENEE:" "So yöur dad is a stuntman, huh?" " (IN ENGLISH) Yes." "And, uh, what does he do?" "Tell me." "Well, he does all the stuff that movie stars won't dare to do." "Like if Tom Cruise is too scared to drive a car 150 miles per hour my dad does it." " Really?" "Ha, ha." "And if Russell Crowe is afraid of fighting with a wild lion my dad fights for him." "Get it?" " Wow, that's amazing." " So, urn, he must be a very brave man." " Yeah." "Even his last name is Bravo which means "brave" in Spanish." "RENEE:" "Oh." "Wow." "Did yöu know that Johnny Bravo's my grandpa?" "No, I didn't." "(IN SPANISH) Johnny Bravo?" "Another fantasy of yöurs?" "No." "My Dad is Johnny Bravo." "(IN SPANISH) Dad, can we invite mom and Renee over to the set so they can see how very brave yöu are?" "Okay." "MAN 1 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Check with the script supervisor about that." "MAN 2 [IN ENGLISH]:" "That needs to be moved." "(IN ENGLISH) Uh, I feel like I need him to be higher." " Yöu see what I mean?" " (IN ENGLISH) Yeah." "Um, could yöu tell him we need him to fall from the eighth floor instead of the fifth?" "(IN ENGLISH) The eighth floor?" "Hm." "My dad can jump from the top floor." " From the top floor?" " Yup." "That's almost twice as high." "I mean, that would be great." "Uh..." "Do yöu think he would do that?" "Sure." "My dad isn't afraid of anything." "He's the bravest stuntman there is." "And how much are we talking about here?" " Um..." " Maggie!" "What is he saying?" "(IN SPANISH) He wants yöu to jump from a little higher." "No, honey." "I can't jump from any higher." "There's not enough room." "I could fall outside the air mattress." "No way!" "DIRECTOR:" "I need the extras." "I told yöu, I need the extras." "WOMAN [IN ENGLISH]:" "Uh..huh." "I got it." "DIRECTOR:" "Do whatever yöu need to do." " Yeah." " (IN ENGLISH) He says 20 grand." " Twenty thousand dollars?" " Yup." "Mm..hm." " That's a bit too much, but, uh..." "VALENTIN:" "Maggie!" "Tell him I can jump one more floor, tops." "He says 20 grand and one Xbox." "(LAUGHS)" "Okay, yöu've got yöurself a deal." "Congratulations, man." "Yöu've got some big guts to get on up there." " Ha..ha..ha." "MAN 3 [IN ENGLISH]:" "I have a question." " What did he say?" " (IN SPANISH) He said congratulations on being so brave and jumping from so high." "Tell him thanks, honey, but..." "Look, I thought it over." "No higher than the fifth floor." "It's too risky." "In fact, ask him if I can jump from the fourth floor." "What did he say?" "(IN ENGLISH) He says he's nervous but happy to show my mom and everyone else how brave he is." "Ha, ha." "Yöur dad is one big wacko." "I've never seen anyone like him." "(IN SPANISH) No, sir!" "Ha..ha..ha." "(IN SPANISH) Did yöu hear? "No, sir." Sorry!" "(IN ENGLISH) Okay, everybody." "Let's take the equipment downstairs while they take the stunt guy up." "Hurry up." "Come on!" "WOMAN 1 [IN ENGLISH OVER RADIO]:" "Background is coming in." "That's a 10-4." "(IN ENGLISH) Wait!" "Don't throw me!" "Come on, guys." "Give me just a minute." "Oh, that son of a bitch!" "Don't throw me." " Unh!" "Unh!" " And cut!" "Send in the stuntman." " (IN ENGLISH) We're on our way up." "MAN 1 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Okay, hurry up." "Okay." "MAN 1:" "Yeah, they're right here." "Okay." "MAN 2:" "We're in position." "Ten-four." " Good luck." "(IN SPANISH) We've made the necessary adjustments." "What adjustments?" "What floor is this?" "No, no!" "Yöu're making a mistake!" "No, my friend!" "(IN ENGLISH) Friend!" " Oh, my God, that..." "That's really high." "VALENTIN:" "Friend, friend!" "No, no, no!" "MAGGIE [IN ENGLISH]:" "I told yöu." "He's the bravest guy on Earth." "Did yöu know he jumped the La Quebrada when he was six?" "La Quebrada?" "What is that?" "(IN ENGLISH) It's this insane thing they do in Acapulco." "A diver jumps off of a cliff hundreds of feet above the ocean." "And my dad is going to throw me from there some day just like Grandpa Johnny Bravo did to him." "WOMAN 2 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Set the fire off." " And action!" "(IN SPANISH) For God's sake!" "No, no!" "No, please don't!" "I beg yöu!" "Whoa." "He's a good actor." "What did yöu tell them, Maggie?" "!" "(IN ENGLISH) Cut!" "Cut!" "Cut!" "Why the hell did he cut?" "What's going on?" "Man why the hell did yöu cut?" " (IN ENGLISH) Sir." " What?" " It seems the stunt never agreed to jump from that height." "I think the little girl was lying." "Did yöu lie to me?" "Come here!" "Come here!" "Did yöu lie to me?" " (IN SPANISH) What's going on?" " It seems Maggie lied to us all." "She said yöu agreed to jump from this height." "No, tell the director I did agree." "I'm screaming because..." "I'm acting, yöu know?" "But I'll do the jump." "DIRECTOR:" "This is not a game." "Yöu can't do this!" " Sir." " Now what?" " Yes?" "MAN 3 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Are yöu listening?" "Yes, I'm listening!" "MAN 3:" "Oh, good, good, good." "The stunt says he wants to jump." " That he was just acting." "DIRECTOR:" "Okay." "Okay, then." "That's why he was screaming." "(WOLF HOWLING)" "DIRECTOR:" "Okay, everybody ready for action." "And..." "MAN 4 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Rolling." "WOMAN 2:" "Set the fire off." "Nobody crosses the stage." "DIRECTOR:" "Action!" "(SCREAMING)" "Sha!" "Sha!" "Sha!" "Shaaa!" "(ALL GASP)" "Don't be scared. it looks like he's dying, but I always bring him back." "WOMAN 3 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Call the doctor!" "MAGGIE:" "Corning through." " Help is on the way." "I got it." "Excuse me." "MAN 5 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Is he okay?" "What's going on?" "(IN SPANISH) No fall, nor wound, nor aching head can stop this charm from bringing yöu back from the dead!" "(IN SPANISH) What was that  "aching head" thing all about?" "Ah." "It's a game Maggie and I play." "I pretend to be dead, and she resurrects me." "What would happen if someday the game became real?" "Who would take care of Maggie?" "Yöu don't have any family." "Yöur job is very dangerous, Valentin." "My job allows me to give her the lifestyle she deserves." "(IN ENGLISH) Oh, by the way... (IN SPANISH) Don't yöu think yöu spoil her rotten?" "So what?" "Yöu have no right to butt in!" "I do have a right." "I'm her mom, and I'm part of her life now." "(WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY IN ENGLISH OVER PA)" "(IN ENGLISH) We are." "We are going to be a family, Maggie." "Just a special family." "It'll be a little bit different." "Renee and I will keep living in New York." "We'll come visit yöu very often." "And..." "(IN SPANISH) And yöu can visit us on holidays." "If yöur Dad's okay with that, of course." "Yöu won't travel around the world, helping people anymore?" "JULIE:" "Um..." "Maggie, I never went to the Moon." "(SIGHS)" "Or to Australia." "(IN ENGLISH) Nor did I meet Batman." "Or..." "Or hatch platypus eggs." "Yöur dad..." "He made all of it up because when yöu were just a little baby, I..." "I..." "Oh, God." "(JULIE SIGHS)" "I had to go away." "Yöu lied to me?" "(IN SPANISH) No, no." "He told yöu that so..." "So yöu wouldn't forget her." "So yöu wouldn't stop loving her." "But, well that's in the past." "(IN ENGLISH) And now I would really like to be in yöur life and for us to be friends." "And I promise yöu that I..." "I will always, always be close to yöu." "(IN ENGLISH) Yeah." "From New York." "(SIGHS)" "WOMAN [IN ENGLISH OVER PA]:" "Flight 178 to New York." " Please report to gate number eight." " That's it." "That's our flight." "See yöu soon, Maggie." "Valentin." "Goodbye." "Why can't yöu take me with yöu a few days?" "I will." "When it's time for yöur vacation..." "Right now." "Because... (IN SPANISH) Because yöu can't..." "Yöu can't miss school." "(IN SPANISH) Dad says it doesn't matter." "Right?" "Honey, we should leave." "JULIE:" "Okay." "If yöu come with me yöu'll leave yöur dad alone." "Doesn't that matter?" "(VOICE BREAKING) Dad will always be with me." "(IN ENGLISH) I just want my mommy for a little bit longer." "Last call for passengers flying to New York." "(MAGGIE SOBBING)" "We're gonna miss the flight." "Flight 178, please process immediately to gate number eight." "(IN ENGLISH) I promise I will see yöu very soon." "(IN SPANISH) Yöu liar!" "What?" " Liar!" "Liar!" "Liar!" " Please, honey, don't..." "Go away!" "Get out of my room!" " Calm down!" " I don't love yöu anymore!" "VALENTIN:" "Don't say that!" "I love yöu." "Why are yöu angry at me?" "MAGGIE:" "Because yöu lied to me!" "ONE WEEK LATER..." "And yöur mom?" "(IN ENGLISH) She's away." "Oh, she's probably on a very important mission, right?" "Did her and Aquaman go to rescue victims from the last tsunami?" "(GIRLS LAUGHING)" "MAGGIE:" "Shut up!" "I hate yöu!" "GIRL:" "Aah!" "Leave me alone!" "(IN ENGLISH) Maggie, I just told yöur dad what yöu did." "Are yöu gonna say yöu're sorry?" "(DOORBELL RINGS)" "(IN ENGLISH) Mr. Valentin Bravo?" "(IN ENGLISH) Yes." "MESSENGER:" "Sign here, please." "Thank yöu." "I confess, I am guilty." "I abandoned my daughter." "But I..." "I've come to this court to rectify that mistake." "And I..." "I'd like to thank Valentin because in spite of his many limitations not being able to speak English after six years of living in this country and being forced to take a job that exposes him to reckless..." " (IN ENGLISH) Objection, Yöur Honor." "(IN ENGLISH) We're not on trial yet, counselor." "Go on, ma'am." "I was just saying, I wanted to thank Valentin because in spite of his limitations, he's always done..." "He's always done what's best for Maggie." "At least what he thinks is best." "And I'm sorry." "I know." "I screwed up once, but I..." "I won't do it again." "And I can't allow my daughter to stay with a man whose idea of rewarding a child is to throw her off some rocky cliff." "That's all." "That's all." "JUDGE:" "I'll, uh see yöu all in two weeks for the trial." "(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "Julie." "(IN SPANISH) Why are yöu doing this to me, Julie?" "(IN ENGLISH) Don't talk to Julie." "This..." "This wasn't our agreement." "Julie." "(IN SPANISH) Valentin, yöu need to find a low risk job." "According to statistics, being a stuntman is the third most risky job." "What are the first two?" "Pizza delivery boy in Mexico City and bricklayer." "Valentin!" "VALENTIN:" "Julie!" " Why?" "Huh?" " We should go." "Why are yöu doing this to me?" "(IN SPANISH) We're not supposed to speak before the trial." "Why would yöu take her away?" "I never prevented yöu from seeing her." "Why?" "I'm talking to yöu, Julie!" "The child shouldn't live with someone who might kill himself any time." "For God's sake!" "Two weeks ago yöu left saying," ""Bye, see yöu on vacation."" "Yöu were so calm, and now yöu want to take her from me?" "Eh?" " Why?" " Because I fell in love with her!" "Because I'm not willing to see her just two weeks a year." "Because she's safer with me, and because she's my daughter!" "Would yöu like to live with her?" "(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)" "It's a Court order." "It's in English." "It says that during the trial I have the right to spend 3 afternoons a week with Maggie." "(JULIE CHUCKLES)" "Go with Mom, okay?" "See yöu in a while." "I'm glad yöu picked me up, Mom." "JULIE [IN ENGLISH]:" "How was yöur day?" "MAGGIE [IN ENGLISH]:" "Boring." " What do yöu expect?" "JULIE:" "I was thinking that yöu and I could go shopping this afternoon." "MAGGIE:" "Yeah." "Cool." "MAN [IN ENGLISH]:" "I'll be there in five." "WOMAN [IN ENGLISH]:" "Okay." "I've acted in many movies, I've received many awards." "I've worked under many directors." "I've been killed in so many ways but, I have never played ...an embryo?" " Well, can yöu or can't yöu?" "Yes, I can." "What's the point of all these awards if yöu can't play something as simple as an embryo?" "(IN ENGLISH) Come on." "(IN SPANISH) Make me believe yöu're an embryo!" "Yöu're shaking too much." "I must be getting old..." "I'm trying to play a mature embryo, Mr. Cuarón." "I'm not Mr. Cuarón." "Aren't yöu?" "Isn't this the casting for the movie... ."Gravity"?" "(IN ENGLISH) Nope." "And here I am making a fool of myself!" "Damn!" "Easy." "FRANK:" "Break a leg." "Next, please." "(VALENTIN SIGHS)" "I need a low risk job." "(IN SPANISH) I need an embryo for a commercial." "Are yöu interested?" "No!" "I need something to impress the judge." "(IN ENGLISH) Yöu're unbelievable." "(IN SPANISH) Why not just tell the truth?" "No." "No judge would take Maggie away if yöu told the truth." "No, no." "Never!" "I need another job." "Nothing to do with movies." "A common job, nothing risky." "Hmm..." "WOMAN:" "Recommended by Mr. Frank?" " Yes." "Oh, yes!" "The job I offer is very simple." "Yöu have to walk Diego and Frida." " Ah." "Yöur grandchildren?" " Oh, no." "(IN ENGLISH) Two dogs." "Two Chihuahuas." "Little ones." "(IN SPANISH) And yöu have to drive me to the bank to the mall, fix the electricity..." "Ah, okay." "The job is very simple, but it's really fun." " Whoo!" " Ha..ha..ha." "(BARKING)" "VALENTIN:" "Get him off me!" "Get him off me!" "Get him off me!" "Ouch!" "Not there!" "Get him off me!" "(GRUNTING)" "(FRIDA BARKS)" "WOMAN:" "Frida!" "Diego!" "Valentino!" "(CHUCKLES)" "Yöu look so beautiful." " I love it." " Yöu do too?" "I love it too." "Yeah." "Yeah." "What do yöu think of yöur hair like that?" "(RATCHET CLICKING)" "(CAR DOOR OPENS)" "Ma'am?" "(ENGINE STARTS)" "Ma'am!" "Ma'am!" "Ma'am!" "Stop!" "Ma'am!" "Ma'am, please!" "(VALENTIN GROANS THEN PANTING)" "(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "(MAGGIE GIGGLING)" "(GRUNTS)" "Valentino, it's 5 pm and yöu're taking a nap?" "(CROWD LAUGHING)" "(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)" "(CROWD APPLAUDING)" "(KISSES)" " Bye, darling." " Bye." " Love yöu." " I love yöu." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Shh." "(CHUCKLES)" "(ALL CHATTERING)" "What will I say, Frank?" "I'm terrible at speaking." "Please, Valentin, tell the truth." " No." " That will convince them." "No!" "Not that." "Something else." "Mr. Frank Ryan?" "Okay, say whatever yöu want, but convince them!" "Don't worry." "FRANK [IN ENGLISH]:" "And so I'm standing on the terrace and I'm on the telephone." "And the next thing I know Valentin jumps off from the 10th floor." "Ten floors without any protection just to save Maggie." "How many parents do yöu know would have done that for their kids?" "Yeah, well, how many parents do yöu know that have left a 10-month-old baby at the edge of a pool alone?" "MAN 1 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Right." "MAN 2 [IN ENGLISH]:" "I can't believe that." "(IN ENGLISH) He's an amazing dad." "I mean, his apartment, it looks like it's a toy store." "And he always feeds her her favorite meals yöu know, Cheerios, pizza, whatever, it's..." "And he knows absolutely every celebrity." "I mean, that's gotta be good, right?" "Oh, not to mention, Mr. Bravo, he's also an amazing plumber." "Mr. Bravo confuses loving a child with spoiling a child." "And though Maggie does get good grades in school she skips class constantly and leads a fantasy life that is far removed from facing reality." "That"" "(SIGHS)" "That can't be good for a child." "(IN ENGLISH) Well, from what I've seen, he's a real good guy." "And that girl, she's always real happy to be with him." "But he still hasn't paid his elevator maintenance fee." "He works in Hollywood with all them big stars and then he thinks he don't have to pay his elevator maintenance fee." "(IN ENGLISH) Clumsy." "Very clumsy." "Nice guy but lazy and clumsy." "Julie is the bravest human being I've ever met." "She overcame her addictions in order to become one of the most promising lawyers at one of Manhattan's most prestigious firms." "Now she's had the courage to admit her mistake and has come to fight for her daughter." "And that to me, makes her a remarkable woman." "He's a very responsible guy." "In all the years I've known Valentin he's never forgotten to put a helmet on Maggie when we go out and ride our motorcycles." "ALL:" "Oh!" "WOMAN 1 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Really?" "(ALL CLAMORING) ...I even quit my job, the only thing I know how to do because I love my daughter." "And I don't know if I am a good father, but when she's with me, she's so happy." "(WHISPERS IN SPANISH) Tell them the truth." "Uh, what else?" "Sometimes we sit next to each other, watching the sea, and when the sun goes down at the beach I feel her body shake next to me." "It's... her pulse it's her face it's her hair it's her kisses... (IN ENGLISH) Weren't those the lyrics to a Mexican song?" "I start to shake." "Oh... (SOBBING)" "(WHISPERS) What the fuck?" "Anyway yöur Honor I don't think yöu should give a little girl a father let her get attached to him and then take him away from her, just because the mom thought it over and wants her back." "MAN 3 [IN ENGLISH]:" "What?" "MAN 4 [IN ENGLISH]:" "Yöu're a deadbeat." "(ALL CLAMORING)" "That's all, yöur Honor." "WOMAN 2 [IN ENGLISH]:" "She needs to be with her mother." "(WOLF HOWLING)" "(CHATTERING)" "(ALL CHATTERING)" "(SIGHS)" "It has been very hard to come to a final decision always bearing in mind the best interest of the child." "But I've decided that the girl should live with..." "With the only parent she really knows." "The one who was proven willing to jump from the tallest building for her and also willing to stop jumping from the tallest building for her." "Mr. Bravo yöu've earned full custody of Maggie as long as yöu abide by the following conditions," "Yöu must relinquish yöur professional activities as a stuntman yöu must learn to speak English..." " (IN ENGLISH) Yes." "Yes." "...with full command of the language." "The mother should be able to visit her in accordance to the term stated by the law." "And lastly, the child should attend school on a regular basis." "That's all." "(SCATTERED APPLAUSE AND PEOPLE CHATTERING)" "Yeah." "Try spending less time fiddling with yöur neighbor's pipes." "I bet the kid isn't even his." "MAGGIE [IN SPANISH]:" "Come on Dad, yöu have to learn English!" "Yöu keep putting things away and I'll ask yöu." "VALENTIN:" "Okay." "MAGGIE:" "Let's see... (IN ENGLISH) What is this?" ""No se"." "(IN SPANISH) Oh, Dad." "It's so easy." "(IN ENGLISH) What is this?" ""No se"." "Come on, think." "No se!" "Look... it says "NOSE"." "Hm?" "(DOORBELL RINGS)" " Maggie!" " Mm..hm?" " How do yöu say "pasa" in English?" " (IN SPANISH) "Pasa"?" "(IN ENGLISH) Raisin." "(IN ENGLISH) Hi." "Raisin." "Raisin." " Valentin." " (IN SPANISH) What's wrong?" "Julie asked for a paternity test." "Here it is." "I'm sorry, Mr. Bravo." "(INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE)" "(MAGGIE SNIFFLING)" "Yöu ready, Maggie?" "(IN SPANISH) Here, Dad." "So yöu'll remember me." "(SIGHS)" "Don't yöu wanna go pay the cab?" "(IN SPANISH) I'll wait for yöu downstairs, okay?" "(VOICE BREAKING) I don't wanna go!" "I wanna live with yöu all my life!" "(IN ENGLISH) We're gonna miss our flight." "JULIE [IN SPANISH]:" "Valentin, open the door!" "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Valentin, we're going to miss the flight!" "OFFICER [IN ENGLISH]:" "Open the door!" "JULIE:" "Valentin!" "OFFICER:" "Open the door!" "(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)" "(IN ENGLISH) Oh, God." "Maggie." "Damn it." "Valentin just went out the window with the kid." "Why didn't yöu tell him to pay his elevator maintenance fee use the damn elevator and stop dirtying up my walls with his filthy feet?" "VALENTIN:" "Now, coming back to Mexico with me doesn't mean yöu don't love yöur mom." "But it's best for yöu to be my paisana." "Look, if yöu stay in the US just because yöu're gringa over 100 million Mexicans will resent yöu." "Not only Mexicans, all Latin America will hate yöu!" "Not to mention that Terminator might be yöur president one day." "Besides, in Mexico yöu'll be the envy of many dark-skinned, short girls because yöu're blond and have blue eyes..." "And yöu'll probably be tall and leggy..." "(CHUCKLES)" "Get in." "I'll give yöu a ride." "My name is Lola." "(IN ENGLISH) Let me get this straight." "Is he or isn't he the kid's father?" "He's not her father." "I mean, well, he is." "But legally he's..." "He's not her legal biological father." "FBI AGENT:" "Ma'am." "Ma'am." " Listen, I'm just saying he's..." "Yöu must understand." "We can't just break into Mexico like that." " Why not?" " There is..." "There is a time frame, we need reasonable ground." " Believe me, I know he is there." " (IN ENGLISH) I'm sorry, Mrs. Weston but there's nothing we can do at this time." "This is ridicu..." "Look, in the meantime, we can alert airports and borders so they can keep an eye out." " Are yöu kidding me?" "Besides, do yöu think he would be foolish enough to hide in the first place people would look for him?" "What's this?" "I had to glue some, because they kept falling down..." "It's not cheating!" "Valentin!" " Oh!" "It's so good to see yöu!" " This is Judeisi, baby." "Yöu're so cute!" "How are yöu?" "And the baby?" "Where is it?" "Where did yöu leave it?" "Have some vegetables, honey." " Aztec Man?" "The one in the movie?" "VALENTIN:" "Mm..hm." "MAGGIE:" "Mm..hm." " Ah, yöu're not the Aztec Man!" " He is." "Yöur father's a wuss!" "Yes, yes." "He wouldn't change a light bulb because he was afraid of heights." " That's not true, is it, Dad?" " Yes, yes." "VALENTIN:" "It's true, honey." "But yöur grandpa taught me not to be scared of anything." " My grandpa Johnny Bravo?" " Mm." "When are we going to meet him?" "Didn't yöu hear?" "Hear what?" "Well, that he..." "He doesn't live where he used to..." "Here on Earth." "I mean, he left this world." "He's gone from this life." "He went with God." "I hope he's in Heaven, hopefully." "What can we do?" "He's gone." "To the afterlife, because he's not here anymore." "He's not here anymore." "He's with God, right?" "To live for all eternity." "Forever." "He's gone, gone." "When we're gone, we're gone." "If yöu're dead, yöu never come back." "Never again." "Yöu only live once." "Yöu can't come back." "Yöu have to be careful with yöur life..." "JUAN "JOHNNY" BRAVO THE BRAVEST, THE BEST..." "I look like him, don't I?" "Yöu do, baby." "Yöu look exactly like him." "Why didn't he ever visit us or call?" "We grew apart when I was very yöung and I never understood his way of raising me." "I thought he hated me." "I started to understand him after yöu were born." "Why didn't yöu ever call him?" "I was holding a grudge." "I meant to look him up if we ever came to Acapulco, but..." "I wanted to thank him." "Give him a hug." "And take him diving with us!" "Will yöu make my dream of jumping from La Quebrada come true?" "MAN [IN ENGLISH]:" "Right there." "JULIE:" "Frank, please." "Maggie is my daughter, not Valentin's." "And I know..." " I know yöu know where they're hiding." " I haven't the faintest idea." "Look, um, do yöur friend a favor and tell him..." "Tell him if he comes back voluntarily, we won't press charges." "I don't know where they are." "I don't think Valentin understands the seriousness of the situation." "He has kidnapped an American child and to make matters worse, she's not even his daughter." "If yöu really consider yöurself Valentin's friend, yöu'll tell me where they are." "I can't tell yöu where they are because I don't know." "And even if I knew, I wouldn't tell yöu." "What...?" "Do yöu think we're stupid or what?" "Yöu're covering his back." "Do yöu know we can have yöu charged as an accomplice in the kidnapping of an American citizen?" "I'm talking to yöu!" "Okay, that's it." "I tried to be civilized." "But if this is the way yöu want it, yöu're gonna have to face the consequences." " Yöu and that stupid, irresponsible..." " Renee." "Renee." "Okay, okay, yöu want the truth?" "I'll give yöu the truth." "That stupid, irresponsible man, as yöu call him has woken up every morning for the past four years fearing that that day might be the last day he ever gets to see his daughter." " Sha." " Sha." "VALENTIN:" "In life, there are blows harder than being thrown from La Quebrada at 6 years old." "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "Now I know all my Dad wanted was to make me ready." "It was his way of telling me that he loved me." "Of preparing me to face life." "And, though my fears have not left me altogether the wolf and I have made peace." "It's just that during the time Maggie and I were together we learned a thing or two about fear and about life." "We learned that 7 years can count as much as 70 or as 700." "And that 10 dollars for a cab may end up being the best investment of yöur life." "(CHILDREN LAUGHING AND SHOUTING)" "Watching her was way better than watching the sunset." "Whoo!" "I saw her run and wondered when those skinny legs of hers would break." "It didn't last long but that doesn't matter." "It was worth it." "Sometimes life surprises yöu and hits yöu with one of those bombshells." "A little flaw... there..." "in yöur heart." "And then the doctor explains to yöu that there is no explanation." "He says one day, like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon that little flaw will grow and develop leaving yöu in a coma." "(VALENTIN  MAGGIE LAUGHING)" "Or it will just put yöu to sleep forever." "(SQUAWKING)" "The doctor's prognosis finally came true." "Maggie was gone, 2 weeks after fulfilling her dream..." "(VALENTIN SOBBING)" "No, my love no, my love...!" "ONE YEAR LATER" "In life, there are blows harder than being thrown from La Quebrada at 6 years old." "I'll always carry with me the memory of the two great loves of my life." "The first one taught me to be ready to face life." "And the second one taught me to face life without being ready." "I know that Maggie is happy now jumping from some cloud into her grandfather's arms." "(GIGGLING)" "And from there the two of them continue teaching me how to face life without them." ""Hope You've Liked  Enjoyed The Movie"" "Copyright from ecOtOne™" "Yes, yöur Dad is gone now." "He's gone, he..." "He's gone now, yöu know?" "He... he went on ahead..." "to a better life." "He's much better." "He wen... he..." "he wen... went first." "He went on ahead." "He kicked the bucket." "He kicked..." "He passed away." "He's better now..." "He's in... in..." "heav... heaven, right?" "With the angels, with God..." "With a..." "with a heavenly life." "He's bett..." "better off than here." "He... he..." "feels no... no pain." "Here, he was always going on about how his feet hurt." "My hand hurts." "My nose..." "my nose hu... hurts." "My mouth hurts." "My head hurts." "He hurt all... all... all over." "He will be better off there with God, with the angels, in a heavenly life." "Where there's no pain like in this world." "Here, we even have dirt, we tred on it." "There, we'll be treading Glory." "It's better there..." "Better than being here." "Not in earthly life, but in a heavenly one." "It's very different being here than there with God, with the angels." "He'll be bett..." "better off there." "There's a sea..." "a sea there, too..." "A sea and everything." "(SINGING) When I go to Acapulco, my problems soon disappear." "Oh, oh, oh." "On the bus coming here, there was a beautiful girl." "Ah, ah, ah." "And I told her "Baby, let's get down!"" "Acapulco, Acapulco, Acapulco is my love." "(CONTINUES SINGING)" "Acapulco, Acapulco, Acapulco is my love." "Acapulco, Acapulco, Acapulco is my love!" "Copyright from ecOtOne™"