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.

• 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]