A Girl Named Sooner - 1970s TV Movie

getting things ready for everything, but Harvey, what are you doing here? I got the impression you were planning to ignore the fair this year, there are no tables above the ladies pavilion and I signed up to host for tomorrow anyway, can I come home with you, well what? Did you walk here from the city? Why didn't you ask me? I will leave him as a foreigner. Come on, what? Oh, I like to get there in one piece, not that I really want to go home. not at all like I thought maybe we could go somewhere and talk and every night you come home and we have dinner and we're so empty and we don't talk, we don't.

I've been quite busy Elizabeth with the arrival of The Fair. with everything else all day every day I go over in my mind what I want to tell you and then we could walk away all day if you like silence nothing will have changed what you want to do rehash don't think better of it I myself am exactly a strange tool, no , they are not just doubts. I know I can't make it up to you before, but believe it anyway, everything I told you the night before she ran away was true. Not just for your sake, can you help me a little?

That's true. So it took me quite a while to admit it. Elizabeth, you told me that if we brought anything of hers, we would use her, not us, me, just me. Phil tried to tell me the first day I brought her home, but I didn't listen, it was wrong for her and it was wrong for you, it was just wrong to hear you again, oh, I've missed you so much and it wasn't wrong it wasn't that's what I wanted. telling you all it's not for me anyway there's a difference oh just I keep wondering I know what you mean friends we do for her abroad I'll do it we have to find us a place so I can spread the word about who we are All in all, you need worthless checks, it's no good, why don't you do what you're told?

Leave it big, please, William, please, thank you, get something to eat. I'll be looking for You came back here a long time, bad evening, I have to go. Keep your word, buy me some foreign whiskey drinkers, stay off my map for you William, somewhere, that's Ruby, safe scene for bugs out of my way, foreign

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, thank you. Okay, foreigner, did you like cotton candy? Aren't you still hungry? How about a hot dog or a hamburger? I only have my diamonds. Well, I have much more than that. Let's both go eat a hamburger. Yes, ma'am, we would like two hamburgers. please, and we would like a lot of ketchup for both of us and, uh, two sarsaparillas, you are not a foreigner, it is very sweet, darling, but hey, everyone must have a name of their own and, before, the beautiful name will be yours, foreigner, before, Oh God.

God, I could just wipe your face and then you can have a cold drink William, I forgot William, it's okay, before, before, come back earlier, there's no one here, exercise is everywhere, kahoot with Jim CV, that's what What are you, this is if you Don't get this whiskey out of here right now. I'm going to confiscate you. You're still trying to do it with a poor old lady and it went straight to her. You'll end up in federal court. Well, I can't get William to move. alone, okay, if that's the way you want it, that's the way it will be, but it's a shame because you make the best damn whiskey I've ever tasted in my life.

You are under arrest. Come on, Mrs. Hawes, where are you? Where before? Never where Bill is supposed to be, have you seen her? No, no, I haven't seen it. I hope you get this animal out of here. I'm William, get up, get down here, William, get it, get it, yeah, William, Sooners and I are going to Florida and yeah. you'll take my whiskey, tell me I'll never warm up when I myself would take up a collection just to tell you to go to Florida or somewhere else so I can surprise you, but why not, it's a really good idea.

That is, you have a deal if I have to become a smuggler, I will raise enough money to send you to Florida, yeah, go home, oh William, no good food, they were never worth anything before, never mind any of that. He can't do it as well anymore. You see, Mac, isn't there something that belongs to you? It's all worth it just because it's yours and it's Elizabeth, isn't it? Yes, oh yes, darling. I'm sorry he's gone. William died earlier. I killed them. Both, no, honey, I never saw City and I was old and I spoiled him, so you think I didn't know all along how I was wasting my kindness on that new "come on." The Sheriff says we have to get you, but don't forget, Sheriff.

That's my job to find corn liquor and all those jugs you made, you said it yourself, so I'm expecting a lot of money from you so I can get to Florida overseas. What's the matter? Anyway, we have to go. I don't want to. to go to Florida, I thought Steve is Hawaiian and I'll see you here. I never said you had to go. Does everything in this world go with us? In fact, friends, they will love you and you will love them and I will go to Florida. back to himself continue continue let's go back Tom Sawyer foreign things go wrong again Elizabeth I think it's probably okay now let's go back home thank you what a lovely film on so many levels and I find that the things we often resist the most are the things What else do they teach us?

Lee Remick is afraid of love and she is an upper-class woman and she has not been able to have a child and suddenly this little urchin unexpectedly comes into her life and she resists, I mean, and then the grandmother, the grandmother is the same. I mean, at the end we see Grandma come to terms with who she is and who she isn't in that situation and of course the place sent us this little

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called sister. a little boy will guide them is a perfect example. I mean Lee Remick, the person who plays her wife, accepts her ability to love and that it is possible for her to experience intimacy if she is open to it and opens that door first.

She, the grandmother, I mean, the same thing happens there as I said at the end, but what is really interesting is the level at which they are able to overcome their loneliness. Each of these characters seems to me to be lonely people. The grandmother, the mother, the wife, also lack of communication, I want I mean, when she doesn't know before that her adoptive parents have come for her and then she unexpectedly finds them again at this Carnival absolutely absolutely it's like a confluence of circumstances that seem predictable over those that are unpredictable come together in the interest of the child but I also think that for the Redemption of the grandmother the father and the mother the adoptive mother I am also very interested in the parallel between animals and people before uh especially with the bird and what does that bird represent the killing of the bird and she almost killed a part of herself in that scene.

She loves animals and can communicate exactly, but part of the tension is that The Sooner is trying to become part of her adoptive parents' world. She goes to this world that she finds herself in. school and these children are the other children who are trying to make this bird fly, the bird does not fly, that's why the little bird needs help and before saying: I really want to be part of this group of peers that I really want to have. new friends I want to be a part of this world in my adopted world to a certain extent and she allows them to stand like a little bird and it just kills her inside and I think it's part of her struggle with what it means to be in this new situations correct this new culture, so to speak, where there are resources and people have a more middle-class lifestyle, where she was out in nature, where, of course, this would never happen on her own terms.

I think we all struggle with that in one way or another. Don't we all try to find acceptance and also find it at deep levels of life that are not so easily overcome until we are challenged and will soon present some of it? Angelique will be joining me again and I hope he will too. Like Odyssey brings you more inspiring films whose stories have messages of hope and knowledge for us all. I'm Mariette Hartley and I'm Angelique Walker Smith. Thank you for being with us abroad.