Good One (2024) Movie Script
I know. I see it.
- I see it.
- Hey, mummy!
What's that for?
- Filtering water.
- Uh-huh.
And that?
That's to dig a hole
to burry your shit.
- No.
- Yeah.
That's disgusting.
Glad to know you care
about what I'm doing.
- Chris.
- That's a headlamp.
Which is also a flashlight.
No, it's a little flashlight.
It's, like, little.
How many lights do you need?
- Did you wash these?
- I washed the things you told me to.
But were these with the things?
You have no idea how much
preparation this takes.
Wash them in a river
if you have to.
- Jesse!
- Yeah?
Can you get me a
tampon? That drawer.
Thank you.
How is it not going
to get smooshed?
Because my dehydrated peanut butter
is going to work as a cushion.
Come on! Come on, come one.
What?
Alright?
- We love this!
- Dad...
- It's great.
- Come on.
Hey.
Get in the back.
- What?
- Can you get in the back?
Why do I have to go in the back?
Because I'm asking
you so nicely.
Three weeks ago you
said you were gonna go!
Sam's going. Everybody's
ready to go but you.
Yeah. Cause I'm...
I don't care! Go without me.
I'm fine, I'm fine!
- Hey!
- Little shit!
- You want me to...?
- No, leave it.
I don't wanna look at his
ugly little face this weekend.
- Are you sure?
- Just drive.
- Is Dylan not coming?
- No.
- Do you want me to try?
- No, no.
Let's just go.
Stephanie's gonna
fucking love this.
- God.
- You want me to drive?
- Not really.
- Watch out for this guy.
I see him. Got the two eyes.
They're going this way.
That scaffolding has
been there for 14 years.
I'm not kidding.
It's not cheap to have that up.
- You want this down?
- No. Can you...?
Okay. Do you want it up?
Yeah. It's, like
going in my face.
Thank you.
- Matt...
- There's a glitch. Sorry.
Stop!
- Thank you.
- Some sort of wiring thing.
- Sure.
- Something with the wires.
Oh, there it goes.
How many miles a day?
Divided up, it should
be eight or nine.
Have we done that much before?
Well, it's all
about the terrain.
We have done the mileage, like
we did on the Mirror trail.
Remember?
So go pick him up!
Well, then tell him
to take the subway!
I don't care.
Good luck with that.
Fuck.
20.92.
3.99 on sale. You want one?
Matt, no. Put it all back.
The umbrella will
stay in the car.
The rest is for tonight.
You seriously need 16
ounces of jalapeno cheese?
- Yeah, I might.
- I got it.
No, I got it. I just booked
an IBS commercial, so...
You want some gum?
No. I'm good.
You need to learn
to indulge yourself.
Your dad likes to deny himself
the simple pleasures in life.
Because. I don't know, he's...
A pleasure for me is
to not carry around
a bunch of useless food that
has no nutritional value.
- This is, like, an ounce.
- Ounces make pounds.
Divorce is a lot of work.
But marriage was work and
divorce was the fun part.
It's all work and compromise.
Tell me about one time
you've compromised.
That's the problem. April
and I didn't compromise.
That's why we're divorced.
Casey does all your
compromising for you.
Some marriages are
easier than others.
I need a Casey.
You've got to figure it out,
make the old work with the new.
I gave her the apartment.
I didn't have to do that.
I mean, she's living
in the apartment.
His life's basically unchanged
because I'm bending over
backwards to make sure of it.
What the fuck is
he so angry about?
His parents'
relationship ending?
Oh, hello.
Are you eavesdropping
on us back there?
I'm literally a a
foot away from you.
Then why don't you weigh in?
- On what?
- On my dilemma.
- What's your dilemma?
- That everyone's mad at me.
Sure, it's more
complicated than that.
I don't know.
Yeah, I guess.
I don't know, maybe
you should think about
how it's complicated,
like, specifically for
Stephanie and Dylan.
And then you won't
have a dilemma anymore.
Just fix it.
I'm just saying, think about it
from everyone's perspective.
That's all I do. I
try to figure out
what they're thinking.
Dad, can I drive? I'm carsick.
You're sick because
you're texting.
Dad.
Shit.
Can you check that, Sammy.
Better check.
Sharon said,
"Did the approvals
come through?"
Text her that I spoke
to my guy at the city.
We expect the approvals
on the Tuesday
after the holiday.
"My guy at the city..."
- Okay.
- What'd she say?
I don't know, I just sent it.
Okay. She's typing.
Uh-huh.
She said,
"Construction must
start by Tuesday."
Oh, for Christ's
sake. Alright.
Uh...
Just tell her,
"The work will be completed
on the agreed upon date."
It's kind of cold.
Well, what would you say?
I don't know, like...
"Even if we don't...
Even if we aren't
able to meet..."
You can't just roll
over for these women.
They'll keep asking
for the next thing.
What do you mean, "these women"?
How stupid is it.
This outdoor kitchen that is
three feet from
her indoor kitchen.
Can you just call her?
- I'm driving.
- Okay, let me drive.
Text her, "Roger that."
- R, O, G, E...
- Yeah, I got it.
Sent it.
You could have
left the umbrella.
Yeah.
You didn't tell me that
we were sharing a room.
Oh, God.
You'll survive.
It was the biggest smile that
her plastic surgery would allow.
- Like this?
- Like that.
Oh, here it is.
Alright. You've got some cod.
Thank you.
And a couple of burgers.
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
- Another beer?
- Yeah.
Same.
I don't think I've ever
seen you eat this much.
This is a regular
amount of food.
I didn't know you ate meat.
I thought you were a vegetarian.
I eat meat at lunch.
Really?
I've never been a
vegetarian, Dad.
You seem like one,
though. Don't you think?
- Sort of. Yeah.
- Just a little bit?
- No.
- Slight...?
- No.
- A shading of vegetarianism.
- No.
- No?
Get your own.
Fair trade.
I don't want your frozen fish.
You'll be dreaming of it
after three days of
powdered peanut butter.
I like the peanut butter. It's good.
I put it in my smoothies and stuff.
- Jesse's addicted, too.
- Who's Jesse? Your lady friend?
You have a little
food on your lip.
She's my friend.
What's her deal?
Um.
She's going to NYU next
year for photography.
You're lucky, man.
This one likes girls.
Boys are fucked up.
You should see Dylan's
browser history.
The internet is a dark place.
I tried to tell him that.
The search terms are from
a fucking horror movie.
I wish we were four,
but three will do.
Eww!
This was today?
Jesse!
- Mircoles is Wednesday.
- Right.
Sbado is Saturday.
- Yeah.
- What is Monday?
- Lunes?
- Lunes. Is martes Tuesday?
- Maybe. I don't know.
- Lunes, martes, mircoles.
- Thursday...
- Viernes Is Friday, right?
Yeah. Sabado. Is
domingo Sunday?
Domingo. Yeah, maybe domingo.
We have six out of seven.
That's not fucking bad.
We're leaving.
Okay, so on this
curve, just easy.
- Easy.
- I'm taking them easy.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just sometimes
it doesn't feel easy.
I'm just driving.
Okay, slow down a little bit.
I'm going the speed limit.
You're actually going
five miles over.
I'm not. And you always
go at least ten over.
That is my privilege as father.
She's a better
driver than you, man.
That's because I taught her.
Thank you, Matt.
Take a left up here.
Okay.
Damn! That's heavy.
- You're joking.
- What?
We are hiking all day.
Yeah.
So it's going to
be be a lot heavier
after an hour or seven.
I'm fine.
Uh-huh. Take that off.
Let's do a little
necessity inspection.
- Oh my God.
- Oh my God!
That is heavy.
What the hell do
you have in here?
Okay.
It's this thing.
What am I feeling here?
Oh my God. You
think you're even
going to make a dent in that?
I'm not gonna twiddle
my thumbs at night.
I brought playing cards.
Another extravagance
I don't approve of.
Oh, in here is something you
could have lived without.
And more denim.
I'm not going to wear the same
pair of jeans for three days.
You shouldn't be
wearing jeans at all!
My God, Matt!
This weight is going
to be killing you.
- I can handle it.
- You have, like, four cups.
Like, how many do you need?
Hey, what's your favorite color?
- I don't know. Blue?
- But is it really blue?
I don't know. Does it matter?
I always wonder.
When people ask
me that question,
if I'm giving a real answer,
or if I'm just saying
the first thing
that pops into my head?
Who asks a grown man what
his favorite color is?
You would be surprised.
I always say orange, but I think
I only say that
because it's bright.
Not all oranges are bright.
I guess I'm talking
about bright orange.
You're an odd man.
I didn't think bright
orange existed in nature
until I saw this mushroom cap.
It was fucking neon.
Oh, and newts. There's
an orange newt.
You know newts
have been in space?
A lot of animals
have been in space.
So it doesn't move you at all
to think about
this tiny amphibian
being plucked from
the forest floor
and flung into outer space?
I think I could have been a
philosopher in another life.
I would have been
happy with that life.
It's not really a job, is it?
I'm talking about fantasy.
You could be a
philosophy professor
who wrote on the side.
Yeah, a philosopher.
- What about you?
- What do you mean?
In another life.
I'm happy with the
one I've made now.
If you had to choose.
Bookshop owner.
What about you, Sam?
I feel like I still get
to choose this life.
You better not waste it,
cause you only get one.
Nobody can say you haven't
made the most of it.
What's that supposed to mean?
Just that you've enjoyed life.
- And?
- And it's a good thing.
Well, you've enjoyed life too.
It's not an accusation, man.
It feels a little accusy.
Oh, for crying out loud.
How was your nature pee?
It's great.
The bars were supposed
to be packed on top.
You packed the bars.
I think I could do it.
People train for,
like, a year, Matt.
But if I had to,
like, gun to my head,
I would get through it.
There's a whole strategy.
It's not just, like, running.
It's training certain
muscles to perform
in a certain way, about pace.
You can't just jump into it.
Then how come there's
always some 80-year-old dude
hustling with the 25-year-olds?
Because he's probably been
doing it his whole life.
The impression I get
is that his wife died
and he needs a purpose in life.
Okay. But I think for you,
since we're talking about you,
I think it's going to
take more than just grief
to get you in the marathon flow.
I'll train.
I'm just saying, you want
to ease your way into that.
I don't think you
want to, like...
It's like steps.
You're just jealous because
I can run a marathon.
I'm not jealous that
you can run a marathon
because you haven't
run a marathon.
But you get back to
me when that happens.
Count on it.
Come on.
Just keep it coming.
Can you hand me
your sleeping bag?
Yeah. I realized
a lot of miles ago
that I left it in the car.
Are you serious?
What are you going to sleep in?
- What's up?
- Matt forgot his sleeping bag
You're gonna be cold.
I got a beanie.
I did send you a list.
I thought that was the
stuff you were bringing.
Interesting you
managed to bring booze
and didn't bring a sleeping bag.
I figured I'd need
it for the cold.
Fucking lighter.
Sam, do you know
where the lighter is?
Why don't you just
rub sticks together?
Thank you.
Trail friends!
Hey, company!
Other people!
- What's up?
- Hey.
Hello.
- Welcome.
- It's a nice little spot you got here.
- Good real estate.
- Thanks.
And this is nice.
Is this vintage?
Yeah, well, I'm vintage, so...
He's going to be vintage cold
because he forgot
his sleeping bag.
You want to borrow
mine, big guy?
Yeah. This guy runs hot.
No. I'm good.
You should take it.
I'm gonna be monastic about it.
No frills. Just me
and the forest floor.
Cool. Yeah. Me too.
So say if you need it.
Great. Thanks.
Hey, I want the
flat spot tonight.
I was on a hill last night.
Okay, let's get one
thing straight, though.
That's the pee rock.
And then 40 meters that
way, that's the poop rock.
Are they staying here?
That's fine. Is that my cup?
- Are they staying here?
- It's fine.
It sucks when you need to pee and
you see a poop right next to it.
I'm gonna go scout a poop spot.
I'll scout a pee spot.
Not yet.
Patience.
Careful.
I'm careful.
I know how to cut
a scallion, Dad.
Totally.
My girlfriend at the
time was a witch.
- And...
- Hook me up.
You know, she kind of got me
into doing a daily reading and...
But then I actually
found a lot of value.
You know, kind of
just a nice framework
to kind of approach the day.
Oh yeah.
Perfect.
- I haven't had a reading.
- Oh.
I'm interested.
I'd love to do one for
you if you don't mind.
- Tonight?
- I don't have my deck on me.
- I have a deck.
- You have a deck on you?
When do you put the scallions?
What kind of deck do you use?
You garnish with the scallions.
Oh, I see, it's a garnish.
Put it on top.
It doesn't go in with the rest.
She knows what she's doing.
That's a very steady pour.
Did you notice that, Matt?
It's a very steady pour.
Do you guys want chili flakes?
Yes, please.
- I want everything.
- All of it?
Well, not the whole
bottle of chili flakes.
Of course not.
I'd like the whole complement,
the little magical things
in that plastic bag
that you brought.
- Cheers, boys.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Cheers, guys.
Love you guys.
Mmm.
Mmm!
- It's yours.
- Thank you, Sam.
Thank you.
God, this smells good.
You guys are like
little monsters.
You okay?
It's just...
It's just so good.
I wish Dylan was here
so he could try it.
What was our first hike?
Was it the year we graduated?
It was a year after we
were out of college.
You just started dating
April. God, she was hot.
You're talking about
Sam's mother, Matt.
I know Mom's hot.
You guys had just
started dating.
I was super pissed that
you brought her along.
She was the only one that
knew where we were going.
She did everything.
We were hopeless.
You were hopeless. It
was such a crazy idea.
So we're going up this
steep mountain road...
With the cliff.
Like, two inches from the edge.
You could see skid marks
going off the cliff.
And it was pitch black.
Couldn't see a thing,
not even a moon out.
April had to tape a flashlight
to the cliff side of the car.
And it's a 200-dollar
beater of a car that we had.
A disaster. That wasn't even
the weird part of
the whole trip.
- What was her name?
- Angela.
- Angela.
- Who's Angela?
She wore flip-flops the whole...
I was dating her. She wore...
Yeah. Matt couldn't
handle being alone,
so he manifests this
female to bring along.
Well, we properly did it.
She'd met my mom,
but she wore...
She hiked in flip-flops.
The whole time!
I even know that
you don't do that.
But then she just left.
- Do you remember that?
- I remember.
And we only had one car.
I don't know how she...
She walked home
in her flip-flops?
Was something wrong with her?
She was schizophrenic or...?
Yeah, but I don't...
I don't think
that's why she left.
I mean, maybe...
It's because you farted
her out of the tent.
You two are fools.
In the tarot, the
fool's actually awesome.
It's like a...
innocent adventurer.
I hope I'm a fool.
When I'm old.
You can't play that.
Aces are not high.
Since when?
The beginning of
the 19th century.
When the game was invented.
Walking is cool.
I love walking.
Yeah. Our buddy Josh was
supposed to come too,
but his cousin died,
and now he's walking to Canada.
- Yeah.
- To honor his cousin.
Did his cousin walk?
No. His cousin died.
When I was in my
20s, my ex and I,
we hiked through Patagonia.
- Oh, we did that!
- Took a lifetime.
We did that last year.
We did six weeks
in South America.
We've got to get back there.
You guys ever go to Alaska?
Yeah, we did rovers,
like, three years ago.
It's too cold for me.
It's cold. I don't
like that too much.
Wow.
Well, I'm thinking of
doing a trek across China.
Putting a crew together three
to four weeks next year.
Are you? How's Casey
gonna feel about that?
What do you mean?
She'd come with.
With the kid?
This guy looks old, but
he actually has a baby.
Whoa!
Seriously, how's
Casey gonna feel like
if you take off for a month.
I don't consider it taking off.
You know, the best thing
you can do is have a family.
That's the last step
in your maturity.
And sometimes they're gonna
hate you. And sometimes...
they gonna even want
to hang out with
you, like this one.
Would you consider trekking
across China with me?
Yeah, that sounds cool.
I'd trek across
China with you, man.
I'm in.
Now we've got our team.
Matt, you come too,
but you got to
work on your core.
I gotta piss.
- Are you sleeping?
- I am.
OK.
- It's ready now.
- It's not.
It's gotta get to a full boil.
Otherwise, the bean doesn't...
meet its potential.
You need the bean to
meet it's potential.
Okay.
Hey.
How'd you sleep?
Soundly.
Were you one with the forest?
A slug.
Oh yeah.
You probably shouldn't
eat food in the tent.
I need my night snacks.
You had food in the
tent last night?
- Just a little bit.
- What were you thinking?!
A bear can smell a
fucking blueberry, Matt!
- I have low blood sugar.
- I don't care what you have!
Be reckless with your
kid! That's my daughter!
- Dad, it's okay.
- Okay. Chill.
- No, it's not!
- Chill, chill.
He's right. I'm
sorry, Christopher.
French fries,
soggy from the oil,
but still crispy,
dipped in mayonnaise.
Strawberry
milkshake. Very cold.
Okay. Wedge salad with a
ribeye and creamed spinach.
And two martinis.
Um...
Fried chicken sandwich I had
I had that had this,
like, jalapeno coleslaw.
Soup dumplings, piping hot,
but cool enough you
don't burn your mouth.
Grilled cheese with
American cheese,
tomato and a Coke.
- Very cold, from the can.
- You know what?
Just a simple fried egg
with bacon and sausage
and hash browns,
and two blueberry
pancakes with maple syrup.
And also a waffle.
Sounds reasonable.
- Here.
- Nah...
We're gonna get more.
No. I'm good. Okay,
give me that water.
Okay, let's do this.
This make our top five?
Yeah, I think it does.
Oh.
This must be the elevation.
Everything okay with work?
Yeah, I'm fine.
Yeah. I didn't come up
here to think about that.
Oh, Jesus.
Okay.
No more.
Dad.
Stop.
What?
- No.
- Come on.
Hey, Matt, will you
take a picture of us?
Let's see.
Okay.
- Thank you.
- You can see my bald spot.
- Isn't that nice?
- I like that one.
We got to do this more often.
I got to do this more often.
I got to, like, hike
the whole West
Coast or something.
Yeah. You should.
Why?
No. Absolutely.
Dad...
What?
You should do that.
That'd be fun.
It's so quiet.
Oh.
Alright. You ready to
be freaked the fuck out?
This is gonna be
so fucking scary
you're gonna shit your pants.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
So this happened to Allison,
who works for me.
And she was, uh...
She is a very nice girl.
But she's had such
a terrible time
meeting guys, right?
Very bad luck.
But finally she meets
this guy online,
and she's smitten with him,
and he is smitten with her.
And, in fact, they're
a couple of smittens.
And he has a cabin in the woods.
In... in...
deep woods.
Oh my God.
What?
This is...
Focus! This is...
Anyway, so they go up there.
There's no internet
and no cell service.
Oh, and there was
a sound outside.
And so she's like,
I should go outside
and see what's out there.
Is it an animal?
And so she opens the door
and she steps outside.
Dad, you're terrible at this.
This is real!
You're supposed to be confident
in all your details
and everything.
- That's what makes it scary.
- It wasn't an animal.
It was the ex-girlfriend.
She had a knife or something.
Maybe it was the
neighbor. Anyway, the end.
I was just getting going.
You have no patience.
Dad...
That was the worst.
Okay, I've got one.
And this is a
real-life true story
that you better
brace yourself for
because it's fucking spooky.
So there's this guy.
We'll call him...
Smatt.
No, Pat, we'll call him Pat.
So Pat is a successful
man of stage and screen.
For example, he has
a recurring role
in an early 2000' crime drama
and with that money,
he buys an apartment.
And he's living high on the hog.
People love him and
he's got a wife,
and soon he'll have a son.
And everybody is
living high on the hog
until work starts to dry
up and he can't book.
And the residuals
only take him so far.
And his wife is a poet,
which to her credit,
she did start teaching
adult ESL classes at night.
But it's not gonna put
the boy through college.
So Patty boy starts to panic.
And another actor friend of his
sells blenders on commission.
So on his darkest
day, Pat signs on.
And you know what?
He's amazing.
He's great at selling
toasters and blenders.
He's so good, in fact,
that they pay him
to train the other employees
and they fly him to Vegas,
they put him up
at Caesars Palace.
He's training hundreds
of failed actors
to sell these products.
And one night at
the craps table,
a female trainee puts
her hand on his knee
and she asks him up to her room,
and, well...
he does a stupid, stupid thing.
It's pretty spooky, right?
You do the bad thing, and...
I don't know, you keep thinking
about the bad thing,
and the bad thing is
all you think about.
Multiple times a day.
And one day you realize,
oh, I only thought about
the bad thing once today.
That's not even the thing
that made her leave.
She never even
really knew about it.
Then you think about the
bad thing a little bit,
but then you kind of
can't even remember
what the bad thing was.
And after a while you
don't think about it.
It's like it never
even happened.
Fuck.
I'm sorry. I'm
really weepy lately.
I was so in love with her.
Remember when she got
pregnant and I got so sick
and I put on, like, 15 pounds,
and we joked that it was
like a sympathetic reaction.
But she never knew this...
That I actually felt her labor.
I felt myself being
torn wide open.
That's a thing. In
Papua New Guinea,
the husband will build a hut,
and when the wife
is giving labor,
he'll like, enact labor,
he'll basically
do a labor ritual.
I don't know why we don't
do that in our culture.
I certainly felt that.
And now all I'm
thinking about is,
this is my future.
I don't know how he became so...
Yeah. Untethered.
Oh, man.
It happens to the best of us.
The worst just
doesn't happen to you.
You're involved in the process.
Well, I didn't want
to get divorced.
It wasn't my idea,
for the record.
Maybe mom wouldn't want if you
didn't do things that
made her want to.
I didn't do things until
after she did things.
So it's both your faults.
That's my point.
I just couldn't make
your mother happy.
Okay.
She's right. You're right.
We're all complicit.
How did you get so wise?
I'm not really.
So tell me this.
What's next for me?
Hmm...
This might be really spooky.
Um...
I'd say...
in two to three months
you're gonna meet a
beautiful 25-year-old.
And then you're gonna stay in it
because it's fun.
She's gonna stay in it.
Then it's gonna
get kind of serious
when she turns 30.
Cause she's gonna want to
start doing adult things,
you know, like, have the kids,
do the marriage, you know.
And, I mean, you're 60,
so you have no control.
You're gonna do
whatever she says.
So then you are gonna
be 60 with a newborn.
Alright. Okay.
Yeah. Alright, we get it.
I'm just kidding.
It's depressingly accurate.
When will my son stop hating me?
Never.
But look what you
made. Made a good one.
I tried not to fuck her up.
I don't think it's a matter of
whether he hates you or not.
I think right now he feels
the need to protect Stephanie.
Yeah.
So right now,
just don't make him pick sides.
I just think about all
the bad things about me
that she's filling
his head with.
I mean, you're
always gonna wonder
what she's saying about you.
But the best thing you
can do in this situation
is just say only nice
things about her.
Try it. See what happens.
Too young to be so wise.
Well, I've had some experience.
You just give Dylan
too much stuff.
He's gotta take care of himself.
Or do that.
Go to bed, man.
Dad. You're sleeping.
I'm not sleeping.
But I think I'm gonna go to bed.
Okay. Do you want water?
No, I don't.
I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.
Good. Okay.
- Watch the fire.
- Be right there.
Yeah. I'm okay.
- Sweet dreams, buddy.
- Yep.
You're pretty smart, huh?
And observant.
- I don't know.
- Oh, yeah. You are.
Okay. Observe me.
You're a little drunk.
No, shit.
And sad.
Ding, ding.
You know, I haven't
lived alone in 30 years.
You have Dylan, though.
He thinks my place
is depressing.
It is depressing.
Maybe you should
get some plants.
Plants.
Well, it'll get better.
That's what people say.
Sorry. It's kind
of a dumb thing.
I know. I believe you.
Oh. It's cold.
Yeah.
You know what kind
of moon that is?
- No.
- It's a new moon.
See how you can...
sort of see the rest of it?
Like you can see the
outline of the old moon.
It's called earthshine.
Earthshine.
I love that word.
I'm going to put this out.
Yeah.
Or you can sleep
next to the fire.
It's probably warmer
than your tent.
Unless you can keep me warm.
Yeah. It's not fair. Your
dad gets extra body heat.
I'm gonna get some water.
Excited about college?
What?
Are you excited about college?
What?
I think that's
the first question
you've asked me all weekend.
Come on, I ask you
questions all the time.
Not exactly.
Well, are you?
Sure.
"Sure"?
That's it?
I just don't feel
like talking about it.
Like trying to squeeze
water out of a rock.
I'm just tired.
Stop.
- Dad...
- Come on!
Do you want to take a dip?
Attagirl.
So Matt said something
kind of weird last night.
Yeah? Well, he's a weirdo.
But he was kind of weird to me.
You know not to listen to him.
No, I know.
It was...
Don't get offended by
him. He has no filter.
I'm not offended by him.
I'm just saying.
He asked me to come
into his tent last night
to keep him warm.
Well, he should have
brought a sleeping bag.
Don't you think that's weird?
I hope you told him
he should freeze his
ass off by himself.
That's what he gets
for not being prepared.
It's not about that.
Come on.
Can we just have a nice day?
Yeah.
Hey! I know you won't
get this until tomorrow,
but I had to tell you
that Solaris made
fucking tofu lasagna,
and it was absolutely
disgusting.
And she was asking
everyone to go around
and tell her how good it was.
It was a mess.
Anyways...
Obviously, I miss you.
Uh... Yeah.
Bye.
Where were you?
Here.
You just up and left?
Yeah, I guess I did.
Well, I guess I
just don't get it.
I didn't think you would.
Sam.
What?
You wanna drive?
No.
Okay.
Will you please drive?
Okay, Dad.
It's locked.
It's locked!
Please, open the door!
Oh my God. Come on!
Hey! Come on! Open the door!
Sam.
Please. I'm tired.
Can you open the...
Thank you.
In-between two tall mountains
there's a place
they call Lonesome.
Don't see why
they call it Lonesome;
I'm never lonesome
when I go there.
See that bird sittin'
on my windowsill?
Well he's sayin' whip-poor-will
all the night through.
See that brook runnin'
by my kitchen door?
Well, it couldn't talk
no more if it was you.
Up that tree there's
sort of a squirrel thing.
Sounds just like we did
when we were quarrelling.
In the yard I keep a pig or two.
They drop in for dinner
like you used to do.
I don't stand in
the need of company,
with everything I
see talkin' like you.
Up that tree there's
sort of a squirrel thing.
Sounds just like we did
when we were quarrelling.
You may think you
left me all alone,
but I can hear you talk
without a telephone.
I don't stand in
the need of company,
with everything I
see talkin' like you.
See that bird sittin'
on my windowsill?
Well, he's sayin' whip-poor-will
all the night through.
Just whip-poor-will
all the night through.
In-between two tall mountains
there's a place
they call Lonesome.
Don't see why
they call it Lonesome;
I'm never lonesome
now I live there.
When did you write that?
How did you happen
to get that idea?
- I see it.
- Hey, mummy!
What's that for?
- Filtering water.
- Uh-huh.
And that?
That's to dig a hole
to burry your shit.
- No.
- Yeah.
That's disgusting.
Glad to know you care
about what I'm doing.
- Chris.
- That's a headlamp.
Which is also a flashlight.
No, it's a little flashlight.
It's, like, little.
How many lights do you need?
- Did you wash these?
- I washed the things you told me to.
But were these with the things?
You have no idea how much
preparation this takes.
Wash them in a river
if you have to.
- Jesse!
- Yeah?
Can you get me a
tampon? That drawer.
Thank you.
How is it not going
to get smooshed?
Because my dehydrated peanut butter
is going to work as a cushion.
Come on! Come on, come one.
What?
Alright?
- We love this!
- Dad...
- It's great.
- Come on.
Hey.
Get in the back.
- What?
- Can you get in the back?
Why do I have to go in the back?
Because I'm asking
you so nicely.
Three weeks ago you
said you were gonna go!
Sam's going. Everybody's
ready to go but you.
Yeah. Cause I'm...
I don't care! Go without me.
I'm fine, I'm fine!
- Hey!
- Little shit!
- You want me to...?
- No, leave it.
I don't wanna look at his
ugly little face this weekend.
- Are you sure?
- Just drive.
- Is Dylan not coming?
- No.
- Do you want me to try?
- No, no.
Let's just go.
Stephanie's gonna
fucking love this.
- God.
- You want me to drive?
- Not really.
- Watch out for this guy.
I see him. Got the two eyes.
They're going this way.
That scaffolding has
been there for 14 years.
I'm not kidding.
It's not cheap to have that up.
- You want this down?
- No. Can you...?
Okay. Do you want it up?
Yeah. It's, like
going in my face.
Thank you.
- Matt...
- There's a glitch. Sorry.
Stop!
- Thank you.
- Some sort of wiring thing.
- Sure.
- Something with the wires.
Oh, there it goes.
How many miles a day?
Divided up, it should
be eight or nine.
Have we done that much before?
Well, it's all
about the terrain.
We have done the mileage, like
we did on the Mirror trail.
Remember?
So go pick him up!
Well, then tell him
to take the subway!
I don't care.
Good luck with that.
Fuck.
20.92.
3.99 on sale. You want one?
Matt, no. Put it all back.
The umbrella will
stay in the car.
The rest is for tonight.
You seriously need 16
ounces of jalapeno cheese?
- Yeah, I might.
- I got it.
No, I got it. I just booked
an IBS commercial, so...
You want some gum?
No. I'm good.
You need to learn
to indulge yourself.
Your dad likes to deny himself
the simple pleasures in life.
Because. I don't know, he's...
A pleasure for me is
to not carry around
a bunch of useless food that
has no nutritional value.
- This is, like, an ounce.
- Ounces make pounds.
Divorce is a lot of work.
But marriage was work and
divorce was the fun part.
It's all work and compromise.
Tell me about one time
you've compromised.
That's the problem. April
and I didn't compromise.
That's why we're divorced.
Casey does all your
compromising for you.
Some marriages are
easier than others.
I need a Casey.
You've got to figure it out,
make the old work with the new.
I gave her the apartment.
I didn't have to do that.
I mean, she's living
in the apartment.
His life's basically unchanged
because I'm bending over
backwards to make sure of it.
What the fuck is
he so angry about?
His parents'
relationship ending?
Oh, hello.
Are you eavesdropping
on us back there?
I'm literally a a
foot away from you.
Then why don't you weigh in?
- On what?
- On my dilemma.
- What's your dilemma?
- That everyone's mad at me.
Sure, it's more
complicated than that.
I don't know.
Yeah, I guess.
I don't know, maybe
you should think about
how it's complicated,
like, specifically for
Stephanie and Dylan.
And then you won't
have a dilemma anymore.
Just fix it.
I'm just saying, think about it
from everyone's perspective.
That's all I do. I
try to figure out
what they're thinking.
Dad, can I drive? I'm carsick.
You're sick because
you're texting.
Dad.
Shit.
Can you check that, Sammy.
Better check.
Sharon said,
"Did the approvals
come through?"
Text her that I spoke
to my guy at the city.
We expect the approvals
on the Tuesday
after the holiday.
"My guy at the city..."
- Okay.
- What'd she say?
I don't know, I just sent it.
Okay. She's typing.
Uh-huh.
She said,
"Construction must
start by Tuesday."
Oh, for Christ's
sake. Alright.
Uh...
Just tell her,
"The work will be completed
on the agreed upon date."
It's kind of cold.
Well, what would you say?
I don't know, like...
"Even if we don't...
Even if we aren't
able to meet..."
You can't just roll
over for these women.
They'll keep asking
for the next thing.
What do you mean, "these women"?
How stupid is it.
This outdoor kitchen that is
three feet from
her indoor kitchen.
Can you just call her?
- I'm driving.
- Okay, let me drive.
Text her, "Roger that."
- R, O, G, E...
- Yeah, I got it.
Sent it.
You could have
left the umbrella.
Yeah.
You didn't tell me that
we were sharing a room.
Oh, God.
You'll survive.
It was the biggest smile that
her plastic surgery would allow.
- Like this?
- Like that.
Oh, here it is.
Alright. You've got some cod.
Thank you.
And a couple of burgers.
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
- Another beer?
- Yeah.
Same.
I don't think I've ever
seen you eat this much.
This is a regular
amount of food.
I didn't know you ate meat.
I thought you were a vegetarian.
I eat meat at lunch.
Really?
I've never been a
vegetarian, Dad.
You seem like one,
though. Don't you think?
- Sort of. Yeah.
- Just a little bit?
- No.
- Slight...?
- No.
- A shading of vegetarianism.
- No.
- No?
Get your own.
Fair trade.
I don't want your frozen fish.
You'll be dreaming of it
after three days of
powdered peanut butter.
I like the peanut butter. It's good.
I put it in my smoothies and stuff.
- Jesse's addicted, too.
- Who's Jesse? Your lady friend?
You have a little
food on your lip.
She's my friend.
What's her deal?
Um.
She's going to NYU next
year for photography.
You're lucky, man.
This one likes girls.
Boys are fucked up.
You should see Dylan's
browser history.
The internet is a dark place.
I tried to tell him that.
The search terms are from
a fucking horror movie.
I wish we were four,
but three will do.
Eww!
This was today?
Jesse!
- Mircoles is Wednesday.
- Right.
Sbado is Saturday.
- Yeah.
- What is Monday?
- Lunes?
- Lunes. Is martes Tuesday?
- Maybe. I don't know.
- Lunes, martes, mircoles.
- Thursday...
- Viernes Is Friday, right?
Yeah. Sabado. Is
domingo Sunday?
Domingo. Yeah, maybe domingo.
We have six out of seven.
That's not fucking bad.
We're leaving.
Okay, so on this
curve, just easy.
- Easy.
- I'm taking them easy.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just sometimes
it doesn't feel easy.
I'm just driving.
Okay, slow down a little bit.
I'm going the speed limit.
You're actually going
five miles over.
I'm not. And you always
go at least ten over.
That is my privilege as father.
She's a better
driver than you, man.
That's because I taught her.
Thank you, Matt.
Take a left up here.
Okay.
Damn! That's heavy.
- You're joking.
- What?
We are hiking all day.
Yeah.
So it's going to
be be a lot heavier
after an hour or seven.
I'm fine.
Uh-huh. Take that off.
Let's do a little
necessity inspection.
- Oh my God.
- Oh my God!
That is heavy.
What the hell do
you have in here?
Okay.
It's this thing.
What am I feeling here?
Oh my God. You
think you're even
going to make a dent in that?
I'm not gonna twiddle
my thumbs at night.
I brought playing cards.
Another extravagance
I don't approve of.
Oh, in here is something you
could have lived without.
And more denim.
I'm not going to wear the same
pair of jeans for three days.
You shouldn't be
wearing jeans at all!
My God, Matt!
This weight is going
to be killing you.
- I can handle it.
- You have, like, four cups.
Like, how many do you need?
Hey, what's your favorite color?
- I don't know. Blue?
- But is it really blue?
I don't know. Does it matter?
I always wonder.
When people ask
me that question,
if I'm giving a real answer,
or if I'm just saying
the first thing
that pops into my head?
Who asks a grown man what
his favorite color is?
You would be surprised.
I always say orange, but I think
I only say that
because it's bright.
Not all oranges are bright.
I guess I'm talking
about bright orange.
You're an odd man.
I didn't think bright
orange existed in nature
until I saw this mushroom cap.
It was fucking neon.
Oh, and newts. There's
an orange newt.
You know newts
have been in space?
A lot of animals
have been in space.
So it doesn't move you at all
to think about
this tiny amphibian
being plucked from
the forest floor
and flung into outer space?
I think I could have been a
philosopher in another life.
I would have been
happy with that life.
It's not really a job, is it?
I'm talking about fantasy.
You could be a
philosophy professor
who wrote on the side.
Yeah, a philosopher.
- What about you?
- What do you mean?
In another life.
I'm happy with the
one I've made now.
If you had to choose.
Bookshop owner.
What about you, Sam?
I feel like I still get
to choose this life.
You better not waste it,
cause you only get one.
Nobody can say you haven't
made the most of it.
What's that supposed to mean?
Just that you've enjoyed life.
- And?
- And it's a good thing.
Well, you've enjoyed life too.
It's not an accusation, man.
It feels a little accusy.
Oh, for crying out loud.
How was your nature pee?
It's great.
The bars were supposed
to be packed on top.
You packed the bars.
I think I could do it.
People train for,
like, a year, Matt.
But if I had to,
like, gun to my head,
I would get through it.
There's a whole strategy.
It's not just, like, running.
It's training certain
muscles to perform
in a certain way, about pace.
You can't just jump into it.
Then how come there's
always some 80-year-old dude
hustling with the 25-year-olds?
Because he's probably been
doing it his whole life.
The impression I get
is that his wife died
and he needs a purpose in life.
Okay. But I think for you,
since we're talking about you,
I think it's going to
take more than just grief
to get you in the marathon flow.
I'll train.
I'm just saying, you want
to ease your way into that.
I don't think you
want to, like...
It's like steps.
You're just jealous because
I can run a marathon.
I'm not jealous that
you can run a marathon
because you haven't
run a marathon.
But you get back to
me when that happens.
Count on it.
Come on.
Just keep it coming.
Can you hand me
your sleeping bag?
Yeah. I realized
a lot of miles ago
that I left it in the car.
Are you serious?
What are you going to sleep in?
- What's up?
- Matt forgot his sleeping bag
You're gonna be cold.
I got a beanie.
I did send you a list.
I thought that was the
stuff you were bringing.
Interesting you
managed to bring booze
and didn't bring a sleeping bag.
I figured I'd need
it for the cold.
Fucking lighter.
Sam, do you know
where the lighter is?
Why don't you just
rub sticks together?
Thank you.
Trail friends!
Hey, company!
Other people!
- What's up?
- Hey.
Hello.
- Welcome.
- It's a nice little spot you got here.
- Good real estate.
- Thanks.
And this is nice.
Is this vintage?
Yeah, well, I'm vintage, so...
He's going to be vintage cold
because he forgot
his sleeping bag.
You want to borrow
mine, big guy?
Yeah. This guy runs hot.
No. I'm good.
You should take it.
I'm gonna be monastic about it.
No frills. Just me
and the forest floor.
Cool. Yeah. Me too.
So say if you need it.
Great. Thanks.
Hey, I want the
flat spot tonight.
I was on a hill last night.
Okay, let's get one
thing straight, though.
That's the pee rock.
And then 40 meters that
way, that's the poop rock.
Are they staying here?
That's fine. Is that my cup?
- Are they staying here?
- It's fine.
It sucks when you need to pee and
you see a poop right next to it.
I'm gonna go scout a poop spot.
I'll scout a pee spot.
Not yet.
Patience.
Careful.
I'm careful.
I know how to cut
a scallion, Dad.
Totally.
My girlfriend at the
time was a witch.
- And...
- Hook me up.
You know, she kind of got me
into doing a daily reading and...
But then I actually
found a lot of value.
You know, kind of
just a nice framework
to kind of approach the day.
Oh yeah.
Perfect.
- I haven't had a reading.
- Oh.
I'm interested.
I'd love to do one for
you if you don't mind.
- Tonight?
- I don't have my deck on me.
- I have a deck.
- You have a deck on you?
When do you put the scallions?
What kind of deck do you use?
You garnish with the scallions.
Oh, I see, it's a garnish.
Put it on top.
It doesn't go in with the rest.
She knows what she's doing.
That's a very steady pour.
Did you notice that, Matt?
It's a very steady pour.
Do you guys want chili flakes?
Yes, please.
- I want everything.
- All of it?
Well, not the whole
bottle of chili flakes.
Of course not.
I'd like the whole complement,
the little magical things
in that plastic bag
that you brought.
- Cheers, boys.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Cheers, guys.
Love you guys.
Mmm.
Mmm!
- It's yours.
- Thank you, Sam.
Thank you.
God, this smells good.
You guys are like
little monsters.
You okay?
It's just...
It's just so good.
I wish Dylan was here
so he could try it.
What was our first hike?
Was it the year we graduated?
It was a year after we
were out of college.
You just started dating
April. God, she was hot.
You're talking about
Sam's mother, Matt.
I know Mom's hot.
You guys had just
started dating.
I was super pissed that
you brought her along.
She was the only one that
knew where we were going.
She did everything.
We were hopeless.
You were hopeless. It
was such a crazy idea.
So we're going up this
steep mountain road...
With the cliff.
Like, two inches from the edge.
You could see skid marks
going off the cliff.
And it was pitch black.
Couldn't see a thing,
not even a moon out.
April had to tape a flashlight
to the cliff side of the car.
And it's a 200-dollar
beater of a car that we had.
A disaster. That wasn't even
the weird part of
the whole trip.
- What was her name?
- Angela.
- Angela.
- Who's Angela?
She wore flip-flops the whole...
I was dating her. She wore...
Yeah. Matt couldn't
handle being alone,
so he manifests this
female to bring along.
Well, we properly did it.
She'd met my mom,
but she wore...
She hiked in flip-flops.
The whole time!
I even know that
you don't do that.
But then she just left.
- Do you remember that?
- I remember.
And we only had one car.
I don't know how she...
She walked home
in her flip-flops?
Was something wrong with her?
She was schizophrenic or...?
Yeah, but I don't...
I don't think
that's why she left.
I mean, maybe...
It's because you farted
her out of the tent.
You two are fools.
In the tarot, the
fool's actually awesome.
It's like a...
innocent adventurer.
I hope I'm a fool.
When I'm old.
You can't play that.
Aces are not high.
Since when?
The beginning of
the 19th century.
When the game was invented.
Walking is cool.
I love walking.
Yeah. Our buddy Josh was
supposed to come too,
but his cousin died,
and now he's walking to Canada.
- Yeah.
- To honor his cousin.
Did his cousin walk?
No. His cousin died.
When I was in my
20s, my ex and I,
we hiked through Patagonia.
- Oh, we did that!
- Took a lifetime.
We did that last year.
We did six weeks
in South America.
We've got to get back there.
You guys ever go to Alaska?
Yeah, we did rovers,
like, three years ago.
It's too cold for me.
It's cold. I don't
like that too much.
Wow.
Well, I'm thinking of
doing a trek across China.
Putting a crew together three
to four weeks next year.
Are you? How's Casey
gonna feel about that?
What do you mean?
She'd come with.
With the kid?
This guy looks old, but
he actually has a baby.
Whoa!
Seriously, how's
Casey gonna feel like
if you take off for a month.
I don't consider it taking off.
You know, the best thing
you can do is have a family.
That's the last step
in your maturity.
And sometimes they're gonna
hate you. And sometimes...
they gonna even want
to hang out with
you, like this one.
Would you consider trekking
across China with me?
Yeah, that sounds cool.
I'd trek across
China with you, man.
I'm in.
Now we've got our team.
Matt, you come too,
but you got to
work on your core.
I gotta piss.
- Are you sleeping?
- I am.
OK.
- It's ready now.
- It's not.
It's gotta get to a full boil.
Otherwise, the bean doesn't...
meet its potential.
You need the bean to
meet it's potential.
Okay.
Hey.
How'd you sleep?
Soundly.
Were you one with the forest?
A slug.
Oh yeah.
You probably shouldn't
eat food in the tent.
I need my night snacks.
You had food in the
tent last night?
- Just a little bit.
- What were you thinking?!
A bear can smell a
fucking blueberry, Matt!
- I have low blood sugar.
- I don't care what you have!
Be reckless with your
kid! That's my daughter!
- Dad, it's okay.
- Okay. Chill.
- No, it's not!
- Chill, chill.
He's right. I'm
sorry, Christopher.
French fries,
soggy from the oil,
but still crispy,
dipped in mayonnaise.
Strawberry
milkshake. Very cold.
Okay. Wedge salad with a
ribeye and creamed spinach.
And two martinis.
Um...
Fried chicken sandwich I had
I had that had this,
like, jalapeno coleslaw.
Soup dumplings, piping hot,
but cool enough you
don't burn your mouth.
Grilled cheese with
American cheese,
tomato and a Coke.
- Very cold, from the can.
- You know what?
Just a simple fried egg
with bacon and sausage
and hash browns,
and two blueberry
pancakes with maple syrup.
And also a waffle.
Sounds reasonable.
- Here.
- Nah...
We're gonna get more.
No. I'm good. Okay,
give me that water.
Okay, let's do this.
This make our top five?
Yeah, I think it does.
Oh.
This must be the elevation.
Everything okay with work?
Yeah, I'm fine.
Yeah. I didn't come up
here to think about that.
Oh, Jesus.
Okay.
No more.
Dad.
Stop.
What?
- No.
- Come on.
Hey, Matt, will you
take a picture of us?
Let's see.
Okay.
- Thank you.
- You can see my bald spot.
- Isn't that nice?
- I like that one.
We got to do this more often.
I got to do this more often.
I got to, like, hike
the whole West
Coast or something.
Yeah. You should.
Why?
No. Absolutely.
Dad...
What?
You should do that.
That'd be fun.
It's so quiet.
Oh.
Alright. You ready to
be freaked the fuck out?
This is gonna be
so fucking scary
you're gonna shit your pants.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
So this happened to Allison,
who works for me.
And she was, uh...
She is a very nice girl.
But she's had such
a terrible time
meeting guys, right?
Very bad luck.
But finally she meets
this guy online,
and she's smitten with him,
and he is smitten with her.
And, in fact, they're
a couple of smittens.
And he has a cabin in the woods.
In... in...
deep woods.
Oh my God.
What?
This is...
Focus! This is...
Anyway, so they go up there.
There's no internet
and no cell service.
Oh, and there was
a sound outside.
And so she's like,
I should go outside
and see what's out there.
Is it an animal?
And so she opens the door
and she steps outside.
Dad, you're terrible at this.
This is real!
You're supposed to be confident
in all your details
and everything.
- That's what makes it scary.
- It wasn't an animal.
It was the ex-girlfriend.
She had a knife or something.
Maybe it was the
neighbor. Anyway, the end.
I was just getting going.
You have no patience.
Dad...
That was the worst.
Okay, I've got one.
And this is a
real-life true story
that you better
brace yourself for
because it's fucking spooky.
So there's this guy.
We'll call him...
Smatt.
No, Pat, we'll call him Pat.
So Pat is a successful
man of stage and screen.
For example, he has
a recurring role
in an early 2000' crime drama
and with that money,
he buys an apartment.
And he's living high on the hog.
People love him and
he's got a wife,
and soon he'll have a son.
And everybody is
living high on the hog
until work starts to dry
up and he can't book.
And the residuals
only take him so far.
And his wife is a poet,
which to her credit,
she did start teaching
adult ESL classes at night.
But it's not gonna put
the boy through college.
So Patty boy starts to panic.
And another actor friend of his
sells blenders on commission.
So on his darkest
day, Pat signs on.
And you know what?
He's amazing.
He's great at selling
toasters and blenders.
He's so good, in fact,
that they pay him
to train the other employees
and they fly him to Vegas,
they put him up
at Caesars Palace.
He's training hundreds
of failed actors
to sell these products.
And one night at
the craps table,
a female trainee puts
her hand on his knee
and she asks him up to her room,
and, well...
he does a stupid, stupid thing.
It's pretty spooky, right?
You do the bad thing, and...
I don't know, you keep thinking
about the bad thing,
and the bad thing is
all you think about.
Multiple times a day.
And one day you realize,
oh, I only thought about
the bad thing once today.
That's not even the thing
that made her leave.
She never even
really knew about it.
Then you think about the
bad thing a little bit,
but then you kind of
can't even remember
what the bad thing was.
And after a while you
don't think about it.
It's like it never
even happened.
Fuck.
I'm sorry. I'm
really weepy lately.
I was so in love with her.
Remember when she got
pregnant and I got so sick
and I put on, like, 15 pounds,
and we joked that it was
like a sympathetic reaction.
But she never knew this...
That I actually felt her labor.
I felt myself being
torn wide open.
That's a thing. In
Papua New Guinea,
the husband will build a hut,
and when the wife
is giving labor,
he'll like, enact labor,
he'll basically
do a labor ritual.
I don't know why we don't
do that in our culture.
I certainly felt that.
And now all I'm
thinking about is,
this is my future.
I don't know how he became so...
Yeah. Untethered.
Oh, man.
It happens to the best of us.
The worst just
doesn't happen to you.
You're involved in the process.
Well, I didn't want
to get divorced.
It wasn't my idea,
for the record.
Maybe mom wouldn't want if you
didn't do things that
made her want to.
I didn't do things until
after she did things.
So it's both your faults.
That's my point.
I just couldn't make
your mother happy.
Okay.
She's right. You're right.
We're all complicit.
How did you get so wise?
I'm not really.
So tell me this.
What's next for me?
Hmm...
This might be really spooky.
Um...
I'd say...
in two to three months
you're gonna meet a
beautiful 25-year-old.
And then you're gonna stay in it
because it's fun.
She's gonna stay in it.
Then it's gonna
get kind of serious
when she turns 30.
Cause she's gonna want to
start doing adult things,
you know, like, have the kids,
do the marriage, you know.
And, I mean, you're 60,
so you have no control.
You're gonna do
whatever she says.
So then you are gonna
be 60 with a newborn.
Alright. Okay.
Yeah. Alright, we get it.
I'm just kidding.
It's depressingly accurate.
When will my son stop hating me?
Never.
But look what you
made. Made a good one.
I tried not to fuck her up.
I don't think it's a matter of
whether he hates you or not.
I think right now he feels
the need to protect Stephanie.
Yeah.
So right now,
just don't make him pick sides.
I just think about all
the bad things about me
that she's filling
his head with.
I mean, you're
always gonna wonder
what she's saying about you.
But the best thing you
can do in this situation
is just say only nice
things about her.
Try it. See what happens.
Too young to be so wise.
Well, I've had some experience.
You just give Dylan
too much stuff.
He's gotta take care of himself.
Or do that.
Go to bed, man.
Dad. You're sleeping.
I'm not sleeping.
But I think I'm gonna go to bed.
Okay. Do you want water?
No, I don't.
I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.
Good. Okay.
- Watch the fire.
- Be right there.
Yeah. I'm okay.
- Sweet dreams, buddy.
- Yep.
You're pretty smart, huh?
And observant.
- I don't know.
- Oh, yeah. You are.
Okay. Observe me.
You're a little drunk.
No, shit.
And sad.
Ding, ding.
You know, I haven't
lived alone in 30 years.
You have Dylan, though.
He thinks my place
is depressing.
It is depressing.
Maybe you should
get some plants.
Plants.
Well, it'll get better.
That's what people say.
Sorry. It's kind
of a dumb thing.
I know. I believe you.
Oh. It's cold.
Yeah.
You know what kind
of moon that is?
- No.
- It's a new moon.
See how you can...
sort of see the rest of it?
Like you can see the
outline of the old moon.
It's called earthshine.
Earthshine.
I love that word.
I'm going to put this out.
Yeah.
Or you can sleep
next to the fire.
It's probably warmer
than your tent.
Unless you can keep me warm.
Yeah. It's not fair. Your
dad gets extra body heat.
I'm gonna get some water.
Excited about college?
What?
Are you excited about college?
What?
I think that's
the first question
you've asked me all weekend.
Come on, I ask you
questions all the time.
Not exactly.
Well, are you?
Sure.
"Sure"?
That's it?
I just don't feel
like talking about it.
Like trying to squeeze
water out of a rock.
I'm just tired.
Stop.
- Dad...
- Come on!
Do you want to take a dip?
Attagirl.
So Matt said something
kind of weird last night.
Yeah? Well, he's a weirdo.
But he was kind of weird to me.
You know not to listen to him.
No, I know.
It was...
Don't get offended by
him. He has no filter.
I'm not offended by him.
I'm just saying.
He asked me to come
into his tent last night
to keep him warm.
Well, he should have
brought a sleeping bag.
Don't you think that's weird?
I hope you told him
he should freeze his
ass off by himself.
That's what he gets
for not being prepared.
It's not about that.
Come on.
Can we just have a nice day?
Yeah.
Hey! I know you won't
get this until tomorrow,
but I had to tell you
that Solaris made
fucking tofu lasagna,
and it was absolutely
disgusting.
And she was asking
everyone to go around
and tell her how good it was.
It was a mess.
Anyways...
Obviously, I miss you.
Uh... Yeah.
Bye.
Where were you?
Here.
You just up and left?
Yeah, I guess I did.
Well, I guess I
just don't get it.
I didn't think you would.
Sam.
What?
You wanna drive?
No.
Okay.
Will you please drive?
Okay, Dad.
It's locked.
It's locked!
Please, open the door!
Oh my God. Come on!
Hey! Come on! Open the door!
Sam.
Please. I'm tired.
Can you open the...
Thank you.
In-between two tall mountains
there's a place
they call Lonesome.
Don't see why
they call it Lonesome;
I'm never lonesome
when I go there.
See that bird sittin'
on my windowsill?
Well he's sayin' whip-poor-will
all the night through.
See that brook runnin'
by my kitchen door?
Well, it couldn't talk
no more if it was you.
Up that tree there's
sort of a squirrel thing.
Sounds just like we did
when we were quarrelling.
In the yard I keep a pig or two.
They drop in for dinner
like you used to do.
I don't stand in
the need of company,
with everything I
see talkin' like you.
Up that tree there's
sort of a squirrel thing.
Sounds just like we did
when we were quarrelling.
You may think you
left me all alone,
but I can hear you talk
without a telephone.
I don't stand in
the need of company,
with everything I
see talkin' like you.
See that bird sittin'
on my windowsill?
Well, he's sayin' whip-poor-will
all the night through.
Just whip-poor-will
all the night through.
In-between two tall mountains
there's a place
they call Lonesome.
Don't see why
they call it Lonesome;
I'm never lonesome
now I live there.
When did you write that?
How did you happen
to get that idea?