Summer of the Monkeys (1998)
Michael Ontkean: John Lee
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Quotes
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John Lee : [realizing the storm is getting worse he enters Jay Barry's room to find Jay and Daisy in there] Let's go down to the basement till this storm eases up.
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Jay Berry Lee : I'll clean everything up okay, I promise.
John Lee : You'll do a lot more than that! You can start with the kitchen.
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John Lee : [checking on Jay Barry] Listen Jay I think it's time we call it a night.
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John Lee : I think we better head inside this storm looks like to be a mean one.
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Jay Berry Lee : Did you get Baylis Hatcher out of his house Pa?
John Lee : I did, the undertaker has him now son.
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John Lee : [stops Jay from leaving and forces him to look at the trashed house] You're Not Going Anywhere! Look At This Mess! LOOK AT THIS MESS!
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John Lee : [frustrated Jay Barry gets up and runs to the stairs but John stops him] Jay Barry you're not excused just yet.
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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]
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Jay Berry Lee : [enters the barn with his new pony and sees his dad shoveling hay] What you doing pa?
John Lee : Figured we'd better get started on a stall for Annie.
Jay Berry Lee : You don't need to do that
[John stops and looks confused]
Jay Berry Lee : I only gave Mr. Patterson a few dollars to borrow Annie for the morning.
John Lee : I I don't understand?
Jay Berry Lee : Well when I went to the ranch this morning, I figured I was going there to buy Annie. When I got there, I knew I couldn't.
[on the verge of tears]
Jay Berry Lee : I want Annie so bad. That's why I wanted to ride her today. Just this once, but I know that 85 dollars would also pay for Daisy's operation.
[John goes wide eyed]
Jay Berry Lee : And I decided that was something I wanted more. I want Daisy to know what I feels like to be free Pa.
John Lee : I'm proud of you son.
[walks over to Jay Barry]
John Lee : You just grew ten feet tall in my eyes. I'd like to shake your hand.
[Jay Barry does exactly that and John gives his son a big smile, but looks up and relizes Daisy overheard the entire conversation. She runs over to Jay Barry and hugs him sobbing Jay Barry hugs her back]
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Jay Berry Lee : [the morning after the monkeys trashed the Lee family home]
[outraged]
Jay Berry Lee : I can't work at Grandpa's for the next two weeks?
John Lee : [inside Jay's bedroom with Sarah next to him] That's right!
[Jays sighs heavily while sitting on his destroyed bed]
John Lee : When you're not working in the fields you could be rebuilding the chicken coops.
Jay Berry Lee : [to his parents] This is so unfair!
Sarah Lee : Well you should've thought about that before you left the house son.
Jay Berry Lee : And I suppose Daisy gets away Scot-Free!
Sarah Lee : [Sarah instantly becomes infuriated with her sons statement] Shame on you! Your sister is laying in bed with her leg hurt, and all you could think about is wether or not she is getting punished!
[John shakes his head in a disapproving manner at Jay Barry]
Jay Berry Lee : [yelling back at his mom] I DIDN'T ASK HER TO FOLLOW ME!
John Lee : You're job was to watch over your sister, and you didn't do it!
Jay Berry Lee : Yeah well what about the monkeys? I can't trap them if I'm busy all the time!
[Jays parents just stare at him annoyed]
Jay Berry Lee : [begging his parents for amnesty] Please, they're worth 85 dollars.
John Lee : [in a stern and cold voice at Jay] Well I don't care what their worth. You just think about what you've done wrong!
[John and Sarah leave and lock Jay Barry in his room putting into solitary confinement, forcing him to reflect on his wrongdoings for everything that happened and Jay falls backwards on his bed and sighs heavily]
