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Footloose

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"Tom Sawyer"" is a classic."
Hi, everybody, excuse me. Rusty and the girls are goin' out for burgers. Can I go with them? And then to Wendy Jo's to study tonight?
Tomorrow is a school day.
We won't be there too late! 10:00?
No later.
10:00!
Gentlemen?
I, on the other hand, thought he was never gonna shut up!
Well, then, Ariel, why don't you just talk to him? He's your father! Tell him he's borin' and not connectin' with any of us.
Why? He never listens to me. And anyway, I... (seeing Ren)... Welcome to Bomont.
Pick your jaws up of the floor, put your tongues back in your mouths, and let's go.
See ya!
And where are you goin'?
Where do you think?
Oh.
And if the question ever comes up, I was with you guys all evenin', right?
Are you askin' us to lie for you?
Yeah.
Hey, good-lookin'! Miss me?
You wish.
How's it goin'?
Travis. Lyle.
Your father know you're here, Miss Moore?
Not exactly, but I won't be here long. Just came to say hi. Promise.
(threatenin'ly) What are you doin' here?
Oh gosh, did I interrupt your weekly poetry club meetin' at the Soda Shop?
Funny. Hey, do you know who that new guy in church was?
Who? That Ren guy? I dunno. Just some new guy from Chicago.
Should I be jealous?
I'm countin' on it.
Everything that she needs!
Like you'd know what that is.
Ariel, I swear, God's gonna strike you down with a lightnin' bolt.
No, she's not!
Hey! Hey, it's Ariel, right?
Yeah.
I'm Ren. Rennnn McCormack? We met after church Is this a small world or what?
Howdy.
Whoa-oh
Chuck, stop! I don't want to be late!
Whoa-oh
My dad is still not crazy about me seein' you.
Well, tell him to get used to it.
Right! You tell him!
Maybe I will! ...Reverend Moore?
"Maybe not right now. I""m not in the mood for one of his sermons. Bye, now. ...Go home! ...Go!"
Whoa-oh
Hi, Mom. Dad.
Are you hungry?
Starving! What's playing-- Don't tell me! Haydn, the Second Sonata?
The Fourth
Number four, right. I guess that kind of music's okay, huh, Dad?
I'm aware of that, Vi. This kind of music is uplifting. It doesn't confuse the mind.
Are you working on your sermon?
I am.
Remember when I was a kid and on Saturdays I would sit in a pew down front and listen to you practice over and over?
I do, indeed.
And then I would clap, and you would bow. Remember?
Shaw!
What just happened? Did I say something wrong?
Ariel, honey, why don't you set the table?
I'm not really hungry anymore. (exits)
How do you pronounce this word?
Camelot
Are you sure?
Yes.
Cliff Notes. It took me forever.
It's even better in the book! There's all these knights on horseback joustin' and stormin' the castle.
Hi. How're y'all doin'?
Hi, Willard.
Well, I haven't been fired and it's already my second day!
You may have found your future.
Ariel, uh, what's... what's your pleasure?
Nothin' on the menu.
Ariel likes trouble. And you have definitely proved to everybody in this town that you are T-R-U-B-L.
Come on, I was only teasin' him.
You told us that you read just to escape to other worlds.
Exactly! In books, I get to meet guys who amaze me.
What about Ren?
What about him?
And I think he is haaandsome!
Cute, maybe.
If I could only find a guy...
Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?
I need a hero!
Oh no! Betty, what time is it?
8:30. Why?
Crap, I'm late. Chuck's gonna lose it!
Ariel! What the hell's goin' on? We had a date a half hour ago!
Chuck, I'm sorry.
"...When I say ""Meet me at 8,"" what am I, talkin' to myself? What part of that do you not understand?"
No, you're right. Calm down, honey.
Don't tell me to calm down! Don't EVER tell me what to do. I know what your friends think of me. And that's bull! I'm the best party in this town, baby, and those three dogs oughta be tied up under the porch. Let's go!
No...
Get in the truck!
No!
Excuse me?
I said no. Am I talkin' to myself? What part of that do you not understand?
Oh, when the preacher's daughter says no, all I hear is yes.
Leave me alone, Chuck. Don't!
And I believe this is none of your business.
Ren, don't...
Thank you!!!!
You are either very brave or very stupid.
Which do you think it is?
I haven't made up my mind. Wanna see somethin'?
Don't you have a curfew?
(feigns serious) Oh, you're right. (resumes normal) Please, my dad invented it. Don't you think rules are made to be broken? Come on!
(feigns serious) Oh, you're right. (resumes normal) Please, my dad invented it. Don't you think rules are made to be broken? Come on!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
What are you doing?
"I'm answerin' the train. I'm saying, ""I can't wait for the day when I get onboard and leave this town!"" Try it."
No thanks. I just ate. You...are really something.
What do you mean?
I mean the whole package. Minister's kid, Chuck Cranston's girlfriend...
Guilty.
Just a church-goin' gal with some bad-ass red cowboy boots.
My dad hates these boots.
And you love that, don't you? Getting up in his face?
At least that way he'll notice when I'm gone.
Where are you gonna go?
College, for starters. I've applied to some places my dad doesn't even know about. I wanna speak five languages and see the world. He wants me to teach English Lit in Baylor County. ...They barely even speak English is Baylor County.
I can't picture you as a teacher.
Thank you. Neither can I. I'll leave that to him.
He's a preacher, not a teacher.
When you're good at it, it's the same thing. And he used to be real good.
What changed?
His mind. He closed it.
I noticed.
He used to be so open, so inspiring. I've seen him give people hope when hope was long gone. I've watched him change lives for the better.
If you love him so much, why do you make such an effort to piss him off?
I didn't say I love him.
Boy, do I know what you mean! My dad...
...So, uh... What happened there?
"He walked out. One day he just walked out the door. No ""Goodbye"" ...nothing."
Wow. I bet you've got lots to say to him.
Lots.
Like what?
I... I can't...
Tell it to the train. That's what I do.
How can you be so stupid to leave Mom and me? I HAAAATE you!
Feel better?
I'm not sure.
Do you... do you wanna kiss me?
...Someday.
"Someday? What do you mean, ""Someday?"""
I've got a feeling you've been kissed a lot. I'm afraid I'd suffer by comparison.
You don't think much of me, do you?
Eleanor, why is it that the only place Shaw's prayers seem to fail him is at the bridge table?
Come on, just say hello to everybody. ...Hi! You all know Ren McCormack.
Hi everyone. Reverend Moore. How's it going? Principal Clark. Coach Dunbar.
Hi, Mrs. Dunbar.
I believe this is yours.
Ren! Thanks for... you know...
Walking you home?
Yeah. That too.
I don't want you to see him again.
Ren? Why? Just because he hasn't lived in this town his whole life?
That's not it. Clearly the boy has no respect for authority. Everyone tells me he's a troublemaker.
Who's everyone? The Bridge Club? Gimme a break.
Ariel! What am I going to do with you?
Me? Lately all you do is look for the worst in people and then, of course, you either find it or invent it!
Where did that come from?
From you! Today's sermon is: The world is evil, and Ariel has to be locked away in a tower.
That's a little melodramatic, don't you think?
No! I don't! You make me feel like a prisoner, and I hate it. I just... I hate it.
McCormack! You and your friends are late!
Coach, Ren is injured. Look at his eye!
Don't waste your breath or my time with another poor excuse.
It's not an excuse! After Ren walked me home last night, some guys jumped him.
Ariel, I would encourage you to stay away from this guy. I've been asked to keep my eye on you and--
Oh, my father called you? No surprise there!
Gee, if my father makes a phone call, will you get off of my back too?
Ren--
How long do you have to live in that shadow? There's gotta be a way out of this!
The only way out of here is by train.
Act 2
Ren, where have you brought us?
And only Bomont! Don't you think, if dancing were really that bad, it'd be outlawed everywhere? What makes Bomont better than anywhere else?
Nothing!
Ladies, could you excuse us for a minute?
Let me guess, Willard's actin' weird?
So it's not just me?
Rusty, you and Willard have been weird since kindergarten.
But tonight it's different. This is the first time we've ever left Bomont together. (gasps in horror) Maybe we don't travel well together!
Rusty, it's just a car ride!
"But that makes it like a first date, don't ya see? Oh, I should've seen the signs! The whole way up here I had to do all the talkin'! All he said was, ""Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. Yup."" You know what that means, don't ya? He's scared!"
Now, don't make yourself crazy. Come on. I'll dance with you!
Where were you?
Oh, Rusty and Wendy Jo and I were...
Shaw. Ariel, we know you weren't at Wendy Jo's.
I can't believe you're checking up on me!
Sweetie, we didn't check up on you. We trusted you. Chuck Cranston stopped over here after going to Wendy Jo's trying to find you.
So he ratted on me? Some way to win a girl over.
Ariel, if we don't know where you are, how can we know you're not out there hurt somewhere? We're concerned for your well-being.
Then how come when I'm at home, Dad's never interested in what I'm thinking or how I'm feeling? But the minute I walk out that door, WHAM! Suddenly he's the concerned parent?
Stop taking her side. She has to start answering for herself.
I don't konw what good that would do! You don't listen to me any more than you listen to her.
Come on, boys. We gotta find Chuck... right now!
Willard, stop! Please don't. I'm in enough trouble tonight. I don't want to cause any more.
Chuck's been on a tear since he found out about our little field trip the Bar-B-Que Dance Palace.
He ordered me not to see you anymore. I told him I see who I like, and then he just started swingin'.
Let me look at that eye.
I'm just so mad at myself. I don't know why I was with him in the first place.
Maybe you should see a doctor.
I'm fine.
You want me to call your folks?
No! Please, I just want to be alone, okay?
You want some company?
No. ...yes.
You sure? I mean, I won't take it personally if--
Shh.
What?
Listen.
(Sound Cue - Distant Train)
Come on!
What? Where are we going?
You'll miss it if you don't catch up.
Whoa! It's a free fall into the river from up here. Are you out of your mind?
You finally noticed.
What are we, like, four stories above the water?
Just look around. Up here, we an pretend we're halfway to heaven. I listen to the river... and look what happens.
Wow. This place is covered with graffiti.
It's not graffiti. It's...poetry, I guess. I call this place my diary.
You climb all the way up here and write poetry?
Yeah. They're all dedicated to Bobby.
Who's Bobby?
My brother.
You haven't ever told me you have a brother!
Had. Had a brother. Bobby was one of the four kids who went off the Potawney Bridge.
Oh, wow. I'm... I'm sorry.
"Yep. One of the (imitating her dad) ""four young people who held the promise of Bomont's brightest future."""
Why didn't I know this?
We never talk about it. And once my dad decided the town needed savin', he never mentioned Bobby again.
That doesn't sound healthy.
It's not.
You must miss him. Real bad.
I try not to think about it.
That never works. I'll bet you think about it all the time.
What makes you think that? How... How can you tell?
I pay attention.
Oh, yeah? What do you see?
Somebody who's smart--
Thank you.
Maybe a little bit angry.
Maybe a lot.
And somebody who's sad. ...I always wondered where that came from.
And now you know. (after a pause, she starts to say something but stops herself)
What?
I've never felt like anyone's ever stopped to really look at me.
Paradise.
You know, you make me forget everything that's wrong with my life.
There are some things I'd like to forget.
Like?
This battle I'm causing Bomont. And I still don't know what I'm gonna say to the Town Council.
Oh, that reminds me. You'll need this.
A Bible?
I marked all the pages.
Oh... Hey, that's... Wow, this is great. How did you know where to find all these passages?
Are you kiddin'?
Oh, thank you.
I thought that perfect love was hard to find...
...Thanks.
Dad?
Oh, I didn't hear you come down.
I heard voices.
That was your friend, Ren. He sure asks a lot of questions.
And what did you tell him?
For once, I had very little to say. ...I think I'm running out of answers.
Dad? I know it's hard for you, and I know I don't make it any easier. It's just that I don't know if I believe in all the things you believe in. But I believe in you. (they embrace) Get some sleep. You have a sermon in the morning.
If I can figure out what to say.
You will.
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