Raising Arizona

VOICE OVER

... and hoping that maybe we'd broadened his horizons a little, even if he couldn't remember just how they'd got broadened.

BACK TO BEDROOM

Still craning down, now very close to the sleeping Hi .

VOICE OVER

But still I hadn't dreamt nothin' about me'n Ed. Until the end...

DISSOLVE THROUGH TO:

A COUPLE

The man and woman are sitting on a sofa in the foreground with their backs to the camera. They are in the living room of Hi and Ed's trailer, which is suff-used with a warm golden light.

As they face the trailer's front door, all we see of the couple is the backs of their heads. They both have white hair, the woman's pulled into a bun. The old man wears a cardigan, the woman a shawl.

VOICE OVER
... And this was cloudier 'cause it was years, years away.

The front door bursts open. Two young couples are entering as their kids – about a dozen of them – stream in around them.

The old couple on the couch raise their arms to embrace their visitors. The children boil onto the couch.

VOICE OVER

... But I saw an old couple bein' visited by their children – and all their grandchildren too. And the old couple wasn't screwed up, and neither were their kids or their grandkids. And I don't know, you tell me. This whole dream, was it wishful thinking? Was I just fleein' reality, like I know I'm liable to do?

FLOATING IN TOWARD A LONG DINING TABLE

In the trailer. The table is all laid out with a Thanksgiving dinner, a huge turkey sitting at the far end.

Cut-out letters at the other end of the room say: "WELCOME HOME KIDS!"
 

The grandchildren are running into frame and taking their seats at the table, accompanied by their parents.

VOICE OVER

... But me'n Ed, we can be good too...

The elderly couple enter from either side of the camera and stand in the foreground, backs to us, facing the table.

VOICE OVER

... And it seemed real. It seemed like us. And it seemed like well... our home... If not Arizona, then a land, not too far away, where all parents are strong and wise and capable, and all children are happy and beloved... I dunno, maybe it was Utah.

The elderly man drapes an arm around his wife's shoulder and draws her close. She rests her head against his shoulder, and we:

FADE OUT

THE END