A young woman struggles for independence and identity in a small Florida tourist town HD ( Drama, Romance )
A young woman struggles for independence and identity in a small Florida tourist town HD ( Drama, Romance )
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00:00Oh God, we are Your servants.
00:14Man is very weak.
00:19There is a lack of love in millions.
00:24Man is very weak.
00:29There is a lack of love in millions.
00:59There is a lack of love in millions.
01:29I'd love to hire you, honey.
01:42But you've come out of step with the season.
01:45We just cut three girls.
01:47The last one goes back to school tomorrow.
01:50Have you tried any place else?
01:52Yes, they're all half shut down or they're not hiring.
01:56Well, like I say, your timing is way off.
02:00It's now or never.
02:04Mrs. Chambers, I've done retail before and I work real cheap.
02:12What is your name?
02:15Gissing.
02:17Ruby Lee Gissing.
02:32Ricky is slime.
02:34He'll come on to you sooner or later.
02:36Came after me once and he ain't even a liberal.
02:41You know, even Mrs. Chambers knows her son is a true bastard.
02:44But she admitting it would be a confession of her own, now wouldn't it?
02:48All bosses are scumbags.
02:51Is that why you left wherever?
02:53Manning.
02:55Tennessee.
02:58My mom passed and things kind of went bad all around.
03:03There's more to life than working at Uncle Jack's store and taking crap from men.
03:08You are a dreamer, ain't you?
03:10Right here, moving up in the world and all.
03:15I got out of Manning without getting pregnant or beat up.
03:20That's saying something.
03:29Well, speak of the devil.
03:36Ain't he a mess?
03:38He works his mama's books upstairs and God knows what on the side.
03:41Must be a drug dealer.
03:43Hardly. Real estate, stocks, that kind of stuff.
03:46He's one can make money when all the news is bad.
03:49That's a good trick.
03:51Yeah, for him maybe.
04:08Thanks.
04:36I was here once when I was ten years old.
04:40Only vacation I can remember.
04:42Yeah?
04:44Summer's fine.
04:46On the other hand, this time of year is kind of bleak.
04:51Seems fine to me.
04:54Like a ghost, maybe.
05:21It'll be like this pretty much till spring break.
05:24This year they're expecting thousands, hundreds of thousands.
05:29Sounds impossible.
05:31Well, just the same. That's what they're saying.
05:34You know, most of the locals try to stay clear, but sometimes it's fun.
05:38You know, the clubs have great music and everybody just goes a little bit crazy.
05:44Last spring, you know, Billy, my boyfriend, he just about got himself killed.
05:49What?
05:51Well, he didn't get hurt. I mean, we were leaving this club, see.
05:55When these four rednecks pull up and start shouting,
05:57they don't want us niggers on their beach.
05:59And they were drunk, you know, wild and up on us before we knew it.
06:03So club security, they got there in a flash.
06:06It's a good thing, too, because, see, Billy, he was kicking behind.
06:09And club, they gave us some passes and a round of drinks,
06:13and I got a story to tell.
06:16And Billy?
06:18Billy goes to school in Atlanta,
06:20and we're supposed to get married and all that good stuff.
06:25Knock on wood.
06:31Where's that club at?
06:33Just up a ways.
06:49♪♪♪♪
07:02My God.
07:04Tomorrow, World Geo and Counting 201.
07:11Yeah.
07:18♪♪♪♪
07:49-♪♪♪♪
07:55We agreed that you were going to make these kind of deals
07:57without telling me about it first.
07:59I tried, but I had to act, and I couldn't find you.
08:01And out of my account?
08:03I don't like being told that I can't write a check.
08:06You know, selling short and all the rest of this stock market crap
08:09doesn't make any sense, Ricky.
08:11You're betting on losing money.
08:13Why don't you just throw it away at the dog track?
08:15I only made four grand in three days.
08:17I went to the store net last week.
08:19This store has been very, very good to you.
08:21If you spent half the time here that you do on your deals,
08:24it could be even better.
08:25How many times do we have to go through this?
08:27Yes, the store has been great to me.
08:29No, I will not commit, because there is no future in retailing.
08:32I don't see us hurting.
08:34I want my own deals.
08:35You know, one day one of your hunches is going to backfire.
08:38I've got to be able to trust you, Ricky.
08:40I'm not going anywhere, Mother.
08:44I'm not going to bite the hand that so generously fed me.
08:47You don't have to get nasty about it.
08:49I don't have to get anything about it.
08:51I'm late.
09:14I'm late.
09:33You and Rochelle get all those t-shirts marked down.
09:35It's Mrs. Changler's.
09:37They're all priced on the show.
09:39Well, next time make more noise when you come in.
09:45I'm going to be away for a week starting Monday.
09:48Ricky will be in to open up and cover the upstairs.
09:56There's one rule I have for all my employees.
09:59They don't date my son.
10:02Do you understand that?
10:04Yes, ma'am.
10:07It's so great being out of high school.
10:10When I saw all the other kids going back last month,
10:14I felt like I was out of prison.
10:17It's amazing how much you grow.
10:20You're so different.
10:22You're so different.
10:24You're so different.
10:26You're so different.
10:28You're so different.
10:30You're so different.
10:32You're so different.
10:34It's amazing how much you grow in a couple of months.
10:47Drive well, Jimmy!
10:49Jimmy!
11:03Jimmy's an artist.
11:06Does airbrush, shirts and stuff.
11:10It's a glory to watch.
11:13He's going to teach me so that I can do it next summer.
11:18Did you know Jimmy in school?
11:20I knew Ed.
11:22It's his night to cook, but I always help.
11:27We all get along just fine, you know?
11:31We're very liberated.
11:38It's a neat old rocker.
11:41Thanks.
11:43It was my granny's.
11:45You knew your granny?
11:47Both of them. Granddaddy's too.
11:52Wow.
11:54I barely knew my ma.
12:12Where the hell have you been?
12:14You run out of gas?
12:16No.
12:21Is that right?
12:23Yeah.
12:46Shit.
13:17Nothing fancy here.
13:22Just try to put down my thinking over time.
13:28Maybe figure out the whys of running off, of coming here.
13:35Back home.
13:37Seems strange to say that.
13:39Back home.
13:42Back home.
13:44Seems strange to say that.
13:46Back home.
13:48Seems strange to write that.
13:52It was, do this, do that.
13:56Now it's up to me.
13:59To what I want to be.
14:05I got some idea about inside.
14:09Things and stuff.
14:12But about the outside.
14:16The acts and looks of things.
14:20Of me.
14:25I am not so clear.
14:34Wonder if I'll ever feel just what I am.
14:39I don't know.
15:10No.
15:12No, you're right, you're right.
15:14I may never be the same.
15:16Those little bastards love nothing more than make trouble for business.
15:20Uh-huh.
15:22Well, leeches is what they are.
15:24Work with them.
15:28No, no, no.
15:30It shouldn't affect me.
15:32$30.73, please.
15:35No, not at this time, please.
15:37Hey, I'll keep you informed, okay?
15:40Listen, J.B., if I'm gonna meet with you in a half hour, I gotta go.
15:44Oh, and, J.B., five bucks is a take-you-by-three.
15:48Mm.
15:50Okay, you're on.
16:07See you later.
16:09Are you leaving?
16:11It's dead.
16:13But I...
16:15The store needs two people.
16:17No, no, you don't.
16:21Trust me.
16:25So how about tonight?
16:27Excuse me?
16:29Dinner, dancing.
16:31This is a resort town you move to.
16:34You need to resort.
16:36What do you say, Ruby?
16:38For one thing, I say you're about as appealing as day-old roadkill.
16:41Roadkill?
16:43And for another, your mama says that the help stays clear of the boss's son.
16:46Ah, well, my mama tries to protect me from opportunists,
16:49but, uh, I can take care of myself.
16:53Can you?
16:57Come on, we might as well get this out of the way.
17:00Who knows?
17:06I dare you.
17:10Eight o'clock, where do you live?
17:12I'll meet you here.
17:15Okay.
17:17Come on, let's go.
17:47Come on, let's go.
17:49Come on, let's go.
17:51Come on, let's go.
17:53Come on, let's go.
17:55Come on, let's go.
17:57Come on, let's go.
17:59Come on, let's go.
18:01Come on, let's go.
18:03Come on, let's go.
18:05Come on, let's go.
18:07Come on, let's go.
18:09Come on, let's go.
18:11Come on, let's go.
18:13Come on, let's go.
18:16Let's go!
18:38Come on, let's go.
18:41See you that day, I'm outta here
18:46See you that day, I'm outta here
18:50I'm outta here
18:52I'm outta here
18:54I'm outta here
19:04I give my love to you and say
19:07Oh, we...
19:37I give my love to you and say
19:42I give my love to you and say
20:06Someone get the goddamn car!
20:12Someone get the goddamn car!
20:17Someone get the goddamn car!
20:42Someone get the goddamn car!
21:12Someone get the goddamn car!
21:38So far fun has been nothing but work.
21:43Ricky was right.
21:45Get it over with.
22:12Good morning.
22:14Good morning, Blake.
22:43Here.
22:47It's for those lonely nights when we can't be together.
22:51I really enjoyed our evening.
22:56We'll do it again sometime.
22:59I'll get the cash drawer.
23:01Another day, another dollar.
23:03I hope.
23:05I hope.
23:07I hope.
23:09I hope.
23:10Another day, another dollar.
23:12I hope.
23:14Do something with that tile display when you get a chance.
23:17And the sidewalk needs sweeping.
23:41Glad you could come.
23:43Had to know how you were doing with Freddy Krueger.
23:45Who?
23:47Slick Rick, the hunk in the trunk.
23:49All right, I guess.
23:51Mrs. Chambers has been on vacation.
23:53So you've been alone with the masher?
23:55He come on to you yet?
23:57I keep him at arm's length.
23:59Besides, half the time he's not even there.
24:01That's good, see, because he's the kind you give an inch and he owns your butt.
24:05He could care less about the store.
24:07How's school?
24:10I'm on what they call a pre-business track.
24:13It's junk, mostly buying and selling like Mrs. Chambers.
24:17Mama wanted me to be a teacher.
24:19But I said, forget that, no money crap.
24:21A blue Volvo and job security will make me a happy camper.
24:26My worst nightmare is I turn into another Ricky.
24:31Oh, well.
24:33As one of my professors says,
24:35necessity has always been our easiest excuse.
24:40What would you teach?
24:43I mean children.
24:46How to survive.
24:50With your soul intact.
24:54Yeah.
24:56I guess that's it.
25:02I guess that's it.
25:13Today, lunch with Rochelle.
25:24I don't know what I'm doing here.
25:32I don't know what I'm doing here.
26:02I don't know what I'm doing here.
26:32I don't know what I'm doing here.
27:02I don't know what I'm doing here.
27:32I don't know what I'm doing here.
27:50Call it an experiment.
27:52Folks do this crap and a whole lot worse without batting an eye.
27:55After all,
27:57why slave your life out when you can just take?
28:03Are there any real reasons for living right anyway?
28:08Mama always thought so,
28:10and they held her like a moth to light
28:12with the hopes of earning everlasting peace and glory.
28:17This life and the next, she used to say.
28:22It was all a bloody mean trick.
28:24I don't want none of it.
28:29Get away from Ricky.
28:32Get away from Ricky.
28:56Welcome back, Mrs. Chambers.
28:58Thank you, Ruby.
29:00How's everything been?
29:02Sure looks good.
29:04You know, usually I'm afraid to come back after a trip,
29:07but you did a good job.
29:09I'll ask you to do the cash drawer if you don't mind.
29:24Surprise.
29:26How about tonight? We can meet at the Driftwood.
29:29I don't think so, Ricky.
29:30Last time was wonderful.
29:32It was fantastic.
29:34I don't want to lose that momentum.
29:36It was real nice, Ricky,
29:38but your mom's back and I just think it's too risky.
29:40Don't worry about that.
29:44And I didn't come all this way to be your chippy.
29:48Ricky? Ricky?
29:51It's for you.
29:53There in a second, Ma.
29:55I'll give you a few days.
29:58We'll work it out.
30:01It's fantastic.
30:03It's fantastic.
30:30I'll see you later.
30:50That's right, Tom.
30:52In fact, now might be a good time to cover your plants
30:54and bring in the cat
30:56because we're expecting the first severely cold weather
30:58of the season.
31:00There's quite an extensive Canadian front
31:02draping into the southeast this hour.
31:05Behind it, some parts of the Tennessee Valley
31:07are already reporting record low temperatures.
31:10They're experiencing blizzard conditions in some areas.
31:14Here in northwest Florida,
31:16we'll be feeling the effects of that cold front
31:18by early tomorrow morning.
31:20There's also a small craft advisory in effect tonight.
31:23If you have to be out on the Gulf,
31:25do exercise extreme caution.
31:27We'll have a look at current conditions
31:28and the extended forecast
31:30right after this message.
31:40Do exercise extreme caution.
31:53We'll have a look at current conditions
31:55and the extended forecast
31:56right after this message.
32:26We'll have a look at current conditions
32:28and the extended forecast
32:30right after this message.
32:56We'll have a look at current conditions
32:58and the extended forecast
33:00right after this message.
33:26We'll have a look at current conditions
33:28and the extended forecast
33:30right after this message.
33:57Liz Carden,
34:11How's the jade?
34:19Excuse me?
34:21You came in here a while back.
34:23Bought a little jay plant.
34:24Mm-hmm part of a set of cuttings. I did myself fun. That's fine. That's one back
34:31Right
34:35You know
34:37Most of the nurseries around here they they buy their stuff, but we grow almost everything ourselves
34:42Huh?
34:50Now in California Jade there
34:54Biggest garbage can it's bigger
34:57down here
34:59Outside it wouldn't make it to Thanksgiving
35:03Thanks, I'll remember that but now
35:05You need to know about your new companion here. Can I get off in ten minutes?
35:11Five I'm a good guy. You've seen where I work
35:19Okay, you tell me where you work and I'll come by and visit you there
35:24Chambers Beach Emporium, but I'm not allowed to have visitors. Is that a fact?
35:29It's too bad
35:31Well, I was just thinking you know, everybody's got to eat sometime
35:35Would you promise not to say another word about plants what's the plan
35:43They come from all around but I was old enough to figure out she had something special going on I
35:50Spent all day in the kitchen. I
35:54Don't know people from Tennessee like oysters everyone I know
35:59It's
36:04So funny to me my aunts didn't care
36:06About how great she cooked. They never tried to learn met a new guy Mike McCaslin
36:11He could talk your ear off about anything
36:14But he's a good listener, too. I guess I've been needing this
36:24We've seen each other a few times now
36:28You
36:36His great-great-granddaddy helped settle Panama City and Mike says he knows everything about this place
36:49Like how the Indians lived
36:51And
36:57Where the Spanish first landed
37:12And how things started going wrong almost from the start
37:22You
37:28Michael's role involved once and trying to make things better
37:35But now he says he sees there's no point
37:51You
38:11My granddaddy and I we used to fish off this bridge here
38:22Ain't nobody gonna be fishing off of this bridge
38:30Always seems like people have to tear something down to make themselves feel alive
38:36Then we run around scared to death or whatever it's gonna come along and take us out and turn
38:43Like cockroaches or bigmouth bass, right?
38:48Anyway, this whole place will be underwater in a hundred years or so. How'd I slow us down son?
38:54Why wait, why not just end it all now?
39:07It's pretty isn't it? It's kind of dirty
39:11It's kind of dirty
39:24My can get morose that is no lie
39:30But most often he just seems glad to be here like a tree he says
39:38That's his job
39:41That and keeping the record straight
39:57Looks like you live next to a junkyard. It's Jimmy Ed and Debra Ann. They're alright
40:11You
40:15Wanna come in next time I'll fix yourself
40:41It's
40:47Been a long time since one kiss made my lips hum I
40:52Can still feel it
40:58Must be all that bike riding
41:07Gotta watch it with Mike
41:11Be
41:16Careful now
41:23They're beautiful, so what's this all about our second season you'll see
41:31I
41:45Like selling stuff, okay, is that good?
41:50Five days of one thing for two of something else fair enough
41:56Anyway the weeks are moving faster now
41:59Sometimes I see Rochelle
42:11She says I should set my sights higher go back to school
42:21But Mike doesn't see much point to it
42:28You just need a guy to aim you in the right direction and here you are
42:42Mike says there's a whole new way to see the world
42:45Low impact living he calls it
42:48getting unburdened
42:49Giving nature a chance
42:52It sounds fun
42:55What I can make of it
42:58And yes, we've gotten it on all tender and romantic
43:09I've been here almost three months and hadn't gone swimming Mike said that was long enough
43:16The Canadians go all the time, but God it was miserable cold
43:21We sure had fun
43:25Uncle water can wake you up
43:28I
43:58I
44:28I
44:58I
45:28I
45:53Good morning
45:55I've never seen so many books in a house
45:58That's cuz only fools read anymore
46:02But you can have anything you like whatever looks good
46:07For somebody doesn't see the point of school, how do you figure all these it's something else
46:13More like a vain addiction really I only read what I had to like the Bible a
46:22Lot of good it did me I guess you think I've missed something
46:28Now that that may be a little bit tame for you, but it's a great choice
46:40No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her
46:46born to be a heroine
46:48Her situation in life the character of her father and mother her own person and disposition were all equally against her
46:57Those are my odds
47:01Her father was a clergyman
47:04Without being neglected or poor and a very respectable man
47:10Go on I don't think so. We'll take it then
47:15You can join my fool's reading Society
47:19Meetings nightly after love-making a lot of good. It's done you
47:27Saved me from evil
47:29Restored my soul brought peace to my troubled mind
47:34And joy to my broken heart
47:47I'm not sure what Mike's getting at, but I liked this one
47:54All that fuss over finding a man
47:57Isn't all that different now. Who's it gonna be and when?
48:03and why
48:10Never got around to
48:14You don't want to let mother catch you
48:18She she might wonder what you're doing on the job
48:21I
48:25Take care
48:29Ricky is 100% of something I would like to forget
48:41Isn't it wonderful the way Austin seems to dwell on the superficial comic and yet
48:47all the while
48:50Revealing the
48:51Contradictions and value system of an entire society. I don't think there's been anyone so
48:58subtle and elusive
49:03What do you think it was a neat story
49:10And Mike I always feel good around him
49:13He's like that red and blue sweater I had when I was 13
49:17I'm not sure perfect. I wanted to wear it all the time. Even when it got hot
49:25Not always a pleasant feeling
49:37This is crazy
49:40I
49:57Don't see why we have to leave this is garbage. What good does that do? Can you tell it's just a movie bullshit?