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, and 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 Miss 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.
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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.
10:21I'm going to miss you.
10:23I'm going to miss you.
10:25I'm going to miss you.
10:27I'm going to miss you.
10:29I'm going to miss you.
10:31I'm going to miss you.
10:34It's amazing how much you grow in a couple of months.
10:47Drive well, Jimmy!
11:03Jimmy's an artist.
11:06Does airbrush, shirts and stuff.
11:10It's a glory to watch.
11:14He'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.
12:02Where the hell have you been?
12:05You run out of gas?
12:07No, not this time.
12:09Come on.
12:11Is that right?
12:13Yeah.
12:15Guess what I got.
12:17You did.
12:19What?
12:21Hey!
12:23Hey!
12:25Hey!
12:27Hey!
12:29Hey!
12:59Hey!
13:25Nothing fancy here.
13:29Just try to put down my thinking over time.
13:35Maybe figure out the whys of running off, of coming here.
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.
14:04I got some idea about inside.
14:08Feelings and stuff.
14:12But about the outside.
14:16The acts and looks of things.
14:20Of me.
14:23I am not so clear.
14:32Wonder if I'll ever feel just what I am.
14:52No.
14:54No, you're right, you're right, I may never be the same.
14:56These little bastards love nothing more than to make trouble for business.
15:00Uh-huh.
15:02I'm gonna go.
15:04I'm gonna go.
15:06I'm gonna go.
15:08I'm gonna go.
15:10I'm gonna go.
15:12I'm gonna go.
15:14I'm gonna go.
15:16I'm gonna go.
15:18I'm gonna go.
15:21Uh-huh.
15:23Bleachers is what they are, worthless, worthless.
15:29No, no, no, it shouldn't have been.
15:33$30.73, please.
15:36No, not at this time, please.
15:38Hey, I'll keep you informed, okay?
15:42Listen, JB, if I'm gonna meet with you and see you in a half hour, I gotta go.
15:45Uh-oh, JB.
15:48Five bucks, and it'll take you by three.
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?
16:43Your 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.
17:42I'm sorry.
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18:36I'm sorry.
18:38Siempre te amaré.
18:42Siempre te amaré.
18:46Siempre te amaré.
18:52Amaré.
18:54Amaré.
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21:37So far fun has been nothing but work.
21:42Ricky was right.
21:44Get it over with.
21:46I don't know what you're talking about.
21:49I don't know what you're talking about.
21:52I don't know what you're talking about.
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23:01I don't know what you're talking about.
23:04I don't know what you're talking about.
23:07I'll get the cash drawer.
23:10Another day, another dollar, I hope.
23:13Do something with that tile display when you get a chance.
23:16Some sidewalk needs sweeping.
23:19How you doing?
23:42Glad you could come.
23:45I had to know how you were doing with Freddy Krueger.
23:48All right, I guess.
23:50Mrs. Chambers has been on vacation.
23:52So you've been alone with the masher?
23:54He come on to you yet?
23:56I keep him at arm's length.
23:58Besides, half the time he's not even there.
24:00That's good, see,
24:02because he's the kind you give an inch, and he owns your butt.
24:04He could care less about the store.
24:08How's school?
24:12I'm on what they call a pre-business track.
24:14It's junk, mostly.
24:16Buying and selling like Miss Chambers.
24:18Mama wanted me to be a teacher,
24:20but I said,
24:22forget that no-money crap.
24:24A blue Volvo and job security
24:26will make me a happy camper.
24:28My worst nightmare
24:30is I turn into another Ricky.
24:34Oh, well.
24:36As one of my professors says,
24:38necessity has always been our easiest excuse.
24:42What would you teach?
24:46How to be children.
24:48How to survive.
24:52With your soul intact.
24:56Yeah.
24:58I guess that's it.
25:12Today, lunch with Rochelle.
25:16I don't know what I'm doing here.
25:46I don't know what I'm doing.
26:16I don't know.
26:46I don't know.
27:16I don't know.
27:46Call it an experiment.
27:48Folks do this crap
27:50and a whole lot worse
27:52without batting an eye.
27:54After all,
27:56why slave your life out
27:58when you can just take?
28:02Are there any real reasons
28:04for living right anyway?
28:08Mama always thought so,
28:10and they held her like a moth to light
28:12with the hopes of earning
28:14everlasting peace and glory.
28:16This life and the next,
28:18she used to say.
28:22It was all a bloody mean trick.
28:24I don't want none of it.
28:28Get away from Ricky.
28:44Come on back here.
28:54Welcome back, Mrs. Chambers.
28:56Thank you, Ruby.
28:58How's everything been?
29:00Fine. Real nice.
29:02Yeah, the store looks good.
29:04You know, usually I'm afraid
29:06to come back after a trip,
29:08but you did a good job.
29:10I'll ask you to do the cash drawer
29:12for me.
29:24Surprise.
29:26How about tonight?
29:28We can meet at the driftwood.
29:30I don't think so, Ricky.
29:32Last time was wonderful.
29:34It was fantastic.
29:36I don't want to lose that momentum.
29:38It was real nice, Ricky,
29:40but...
29:44And I didn't come all this way to be your chippy.
29:48Ricky?
29:50It's for you.
29:52There in a second, Ma.
29:56I'll give you a few days.
29:58We'll work it out.
30:06It was fantastic.
30:08Fantastic.
30:38That's right, Tom.
30:40In fact, now might be a good time
30:42to cover your plants
30:44and bring in the cat,
30:46because we're expecting
30:48the first severely cold weather
30:50of the season.
30:52As you can see,
30:54there is quite an extensive Canadian front
30:56draping into the southeast this hour.
30:58Behind it,
31:00some parts of the Tennessee Valley
31:02are already covered.
31:04We'll have to wait
31:06Here in northwest Florida,
31:08we'll be feeling the effects
31:10of that cold front
31:12by early tomorrow morning.
31:14There's also a small craft advisory
31:16in effect tonight.
31:18If you have to be out on the Gulf,
31:20do exercise extreme caution.
31:22We'll have a look at current conditions
31:24and the extended forecast
31:26right after this message.
31:36Do exercise extreme caution.
31:46We'll have a look at current conditions
31:48and the extended forecast
31:50right after this message.
32:06We'll have a look at current conditions
32:08and the extended forecast
32:10right after this message.
32:36We'll have a look at current conditions
32:38and the extended forecast
32:40right after this message.
33:06We'll have a look at current conditions
33:08and the extended forecast
33:10right after this message.
33:36It's snowing back home.
33:38It's snowing back home.
33:40It's snowing back home.
33:42They don't need snow here.
33:44They don't need snow here.
33:50Here you could get washed out to sea
33:52and nobody'd ever even know where to look.
33:54and nobody'd ever even know where to look.
34:06and nobody'd even know where to look.
34:18How's the jade?
34:20Excuse me?
34:22You came in here a while back, bought a little jade plant.
34:24Mm.
34:26Probably should've cut it so I did it myself.
34:28Fine. The plant's fine. That's why I'm back.
34:30Right.
34:32Right.
34:34You know, uh...
34:36Most of the nurseries around here,
34:38they buy their stuff,
34:40but we grow almost everything ourselves.
34:42Huh.
34:44Yeah.
34:50Now, in California,
34:52jade there grows big as garbage cans.
34:54jade there grows big as garbage cans.
34:56It's bigger.
34:58But out here,
35:00outside, it wouldn't make it till Thanksgiving.
35:02Thanks. I'll remember that.
35:04But now, uh,
35:06you need to know about your new companion here.
35:08Now, I get off in ten minutes.
35:10Five.
35:12I'm a good guy.
35:14You've seen where I work.
35:18Okay, you tell me where you work,
35:20and I'll come by and visit you there.
35:22and I'll come by and visit you there.
35:24Chambers Beach Emporium,
35:26but I'm not allowed to have visitors.
35:28Is that a fact? Mm-hmm.
35:30It's too bad. Yeah.
35:32Well, I was just thinking, you know,
35:34everybody's got to eat sometime.
35:36Would you promise
35:38not to say another word about plants?
35:40What's a plant?
35:44They come from all around,
35:46but when I was old enough to figure out,
35:48she had something special going on.
35:50I spent all day in the kitchen.
35:54I don't know people from Tennessee like oysters.
35:56Everyone I know.
36:02It's so funny to me
36:04that my aunts didn't care
36:06about how great she cooked.
36:08They never tried to learn.
36:10Met a new guy, Mike McCaslin.
36:12He could talk your ear off about anything,
36:14but he's a good listener, too.
36:16I guess I've been needing that.
36:22We've seen each other a few times,
36:24now.
36:34His great-great-granddaddy
36:36helped settle Panama City,
36:38and Mike says he knows
36:40everything about this place.
36:48Like how the Indians lived.
36:54And where the Spanish first landed.
37:10And how things started going wrong
37:12almost from the start.
37:24Mike was real involved once
37:26in trying to make things better.
37:30But now he says he sees there's no point.
37:54My granddaddy and I,
37:56we used to fish off this bridge here.
38:24Ain't nobody gonna be fishing
38:26off of this bridge.
38:30Always seems like people
38:32have to tear something down
38:34to make themselves feel alive.
38:36Then we run around
38:38scared to death of whatever's
38:40gonna come along and take us out and turn.
38:44Like cockroaches or bigmouth bass.
38:46Right.
38:50Anyway, this whole place
38:52is gonna be underwater in 100 years or so.
38:54That'll slow us down some.
38:56Why wait?
38:58Why not just end it all now?
39:08It's pretty, isn't it?
39:12It's kinda dirty.
39:16You know what these are for?
39:18Now they're dry.
39:24Mike can get morose.
39:26That is no lie.
39:30But most often he just seems
39:32glad to be here.
39:34Like a tree, he says.
39:38That's his job.
39:42That and keeping the record straight.
39:48Looks like you live next to a junkyard.
39:52Miss Jimmy and Brian,
39:54they're all right.
40:06You wanna come in?
40:10Yeah.
40:12You wanna come in?
40:14Next time.
40:16I'll fix yourself.
40:42It's been a long time
40:44since one kiss made my lips hum.
40:48I can still feel it.
40:54Must be all that bike riding.
41:04Gotta watch it with Mike.
41:12Be careful now.
41:20There.
41:22Beautiful.
41:24So what's this all about?
41:26Our second season.
41:28You'll see.
41:36Y'all got enough stuff now?
41:38I think so.
41:40So I like selling stuff, okay.
41:42Is that good?
41:46Five days of one thing
41:48for two of something else.
41:50Fair enough.
41:52Anyway, the weeks are moving faster now.
41:56Sometimes I see Rochelle.
42:00Finance or marketing,
42:02management, you can have control
42:04of the business one day.
42:06Or general education.
42:08If you don't know what you want...
42:10She says I should set my sights higher,
42:12go back to school.
42:20But Mike doesn't see much point to it.
42:28You just need a guide
42:30to aim you in the right direction.
42:32And here you are.
42:34At your service.
42:38Mike says there's a whole new way
42:40to see the world.
42:42Low-impact living, he calls it.
42:44Getting unburdened.
42:46Giving nature a chance.
42:48It sounds fun.
42:50What I can make of it.
42:54And yes,
42:56we've gotten it on.
42:58All tender and romantic.
43:00I'd been here almost three months
43:02and hadn't gone swimming.
43:04Mike said that was long enough.
43:08The Canadians go all the time,
43:10but God, it was miserable cold.
43:12We sure had fun.
43:16A gulp of water can wake you up.
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