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Synopsis: Stan Philipps's wife Grace is a sergeant with the U.S. Army. While she's posted to Iraq, the earnest Stan is home in Minnesota with their daughters, Heidi, 12, and Dawn, 8. He manages a home supply store. After morning visitors bring Stan news, he takes the girls for a car ride that turns into a spontaneous trip to Dawn's favorite place, a Florida amusement park. On the way, they stop at Stan's mother's house, where his brother is staying. Heidi is an insomniac, who tries to fathom her father's uncharacteristic behavior. Dawn is cheerfully unreflective. They have fun at the park. Stan summons his courage.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Jim Strouse
Actors: John Cusack, Emily Churchill, Rebecca Spence, Jennifer Tyler
Production: The Weinstein Company
  Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
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PG-13
Year:
2007
85 min
Website
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At the Home Store?

Just wondering if

you're coming in to work today.

Okay. Thanks.

[beep]

- Race you!

- Oh!

What's this?

Give me that.

Thank you.

Hi, girls.

What are you doing here?

Where'd you get that?

Someone left a casserole.

You okay?

Don't eat that.

- Why not?

- Just don't.

Is something wrong?

Don't. Stop.

Stop. Stop, please.

Okay, girls, let's go

in the living room.

I want to talk to you.

Girls.

Yeah, Dad?

Hey, who's hungry?

Who wants to go get something to eat?

- I do.

- It's only 4:
00.

So what?

Shotgun!

You can't call shotgun

until you're outside.

Race you.

Dad?

Go. Go, go, go, both of you.

Go, go, go, go, go.

[car radio]

# Doot doo-doot #

# Hey, Dad, yeah #

# Hey, Dad, yeah #

# Shake your booty, no way #

# Shake your booty, okay #

# Jump jump #

- You go get a table...

- Okay.

...and we'll go to the arcade.

- All right.

- Bye, Dad.

## [dance]

## [dance in distance]

## [growing louder]

Okay, girls, we're going right now.

- Dad--

- Come on.

We just got here.

We were just getting into it.

I don't care. Just come on.

Heidi, move.

Where are we going?

Where would you like to go?

I don't know.

How about you, Dawn?

Is there any place

you'd like to go?

Enchanted Gardens.

Don't be a moron, Dawn.

I'm not. Daddy asked

where we wanted to go.

That's not what he meant.

You don't know.

Yes, I do.

I don't care. I want to.

Stop it.

Stop it.

- Seriously.

- Seriously.

Stop!

Oh, God.

Aah! Stop!

What if we did?

[groans]

What?

What if we did right now

went to Enchanted Gardens?

What if we did?

What?

Go to Enchanted Gardens

right now?

[Dawn]

Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh!

[excited babbling]

Be quiet, be quiet.

[screaming]

Eww.

Huh? Would you like that?

We can't.

Is that's something

you'd like to do? Why not?

- Sit down, Dawn.

- No!

Girls, why not?

Dad-- Dad--

We have school.

You can miss

a few days of school.

Yeah, Heidi.

- We can?

- Yeah.

Of course we can. Right, Dad?

- Sure. Why not?

- Yes!

What about your job?

Don't worry about my job.

Don't worry about his job.

Dad--

Huh? Well?

What about homework?

Don't worry about your homework.

Don't worry about our homework.

We can do-- We can help you

with your homework.

Dawn and I can

help you in the car.

Let's do it. Right now.

- Are you serious?

- Yeah!

Of course he's serious.

Yeah. Why not? Let's go.

You got to get some fun

out of life, Heidi.

- Aah!

- You, too, Dawn.

- Let's do it!

- Let's go!

Let's do it! Do you guys

want to do it?

I do!

You party pooper!

Yes or no, Heidi, right now.

This is a one-time-only offer.

Enchanted Gardens right now.

- Right now, Heidi.

- Right now!

Do we have an atlas?

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Jim Strouse

James C. Strouse is an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote the film Lonesome Jim, directed by Steve Buscemi. He wrote and made his directorial debut with Grace Is Gone starring John Cusack. more…

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