Summer of the Monkeys (1998)
Wilford Brimley: Grandpa Sam Ferrans
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Grandpa Sam Ferrans : That's actually not the reason why I came here your parents are worried sick about you I think you should come home.
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Sarah Lee : [back at the house after Grandpa Sam brought Jay Barry home] Absolutely not. That's like rewarding him for everything he's done.
[Jay Barry eve's drops from the top of the stairs]
Grandpa Sam Ferrans : Oh I don't think so. You know if you make a jail out of this farm he'll get to where he hates it.
[Sarah pours her dad some coffee and Daisy joins her brother as well]
Grandpa Sam Ferrans : Why don't you let him go with me. I'll take him to Ridgeweld show him the library he might even learn something.
Sarah Lee : [not pleased with it] Jay has been disobedient he should be punished.
Grandpa Sam Ferrans : Well maybe so. Ain't it strange how things have a way of working out. I remember a skinny little girl with pigtails kind of pretty. Gotten way more her share of trouble.
[trying to bring up when Sarah was a little girl]
Sarah Lee : Well, well that was a long time ago and we're talking about the here and now.
Grandpa Sam Ferrans : Might not hurt you to look back. You might even see that skinny little girl sneaking out of the house on her way.
[Sarah interrupts]
Sarah Lee : But if I remember
[Sam cuts her off]
Sarah Lee : On her way to enter a runt pig in the county fair after her dad told her not to.
[Daisy and Jay Barry realized that their mom did something that she wasn't supposed to]
Sarah Lee : And you shut me in my room for that and you didn't even let me go to the fair!
Grandpa Sam Ferrans : [remorseful] That was wrong and I'm sorry. Your mother and I were young and kind of dumb, probably made a lot of mistakes. But I wish I'd let you go to the fair you and your pig. You might have learned something. Hell you might have even wanted to who knows.
[looks at his watch]
Grandpa Sam Ferrans : Well think about what I've said I'll be by in the morning.
[to John]
Grandpa Sam Ferrans : Goodnight.
John Lee : Goodnight
[kisses Sarah and pats her on the shoulder as Sam leaves Jay Barry and Daisy run back upstairs]
John Lee : [a while later John finds Sarah standing outside looking out towards the distance] I never heard that one before I'd love to see you sneaking out to register that runt.
[Sarah chuckles]
Sarah Lee : Well that wasn't the first time I snuck out nobody should know that better than you.
[John rubs his wife's shoulders]
Sarah Lee : I'm just trying to raise him proper John.
[referring about Jay Barry]
John Lee : You are.
Sarah Lee : I don't know, he's so willful.
John Lee : So are you, and you turned out alright.
Sarah Lee : Thank you very much.
[both chuckle and look out towards the distance]
Sarah Lee : Do you think we should let him go?
John Lee : I keep seeing the young man inside that boy trying to get out. Lord knows it's a struggling doesn't always do what's right. But I do believe you're Pa has gathered some wisdom over the years so yes I say we let him go.
[Sarah sighs]