Serena Page #2

Synopsis: In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton's timber empire becomes complicated when he marries Serena.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Susanne Bier
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
36
Rotten Tomatoes:
16%
R
Year:
2014
109 min
$326,289
Website
541 Views


takes no interest in your work?

Oh, I'm a bachelor.

I can assure you, Mr. Buchanan,

I didn't come to Carolina

to do needlepoint.

Of course not.

She is a pistol.

Buchanan's a funny one, isn't he?

He seems a little bit, I don't know,

too fond of you.

What do you mean?

He'll loosen up.

Yeah.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

Mrs. Pemberton's father owned

the Vulcan Lumber Company in Colorado.

And she's equal to any man here.

I expect you to follow her orders

the same way you follow mine

or Mr. Campbell or Mr. Buchanan's.

And she'll take no quarter

and she'll expect none.

You'll soon see the truth of that.

Good day.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

Come on, now.

Let's get to it.

The trees ain't gonna

cut themselves, boys.

- Mrs. Pemberton.

- Campbell.

How's everything going?

Well, good as can be expected, ma'am.

Don't notch so high!

You're wasting a foot of timber.

Any lower won't fall clear, ma'am.

Yonder's in the way.

Give me your axe.

- Ma'am?

- You heard me.

- It'll clear.

- Ma'am.

What do you think?

She'll clear.

Get back to work.

Who's that man up there?

His name is Galloway, ma'am.

- He seems standoffish.

- He is.

He's the best hunting guide

in over a hundred miles.

Track a grasshopper on a cap rock.

He say he has a gift of visioning.

Whatever that is, I don't know.

Mr. Galloway.

Serena Pemberton.

You were in prison.

Why?

Manslaughter.

He had it coming.

Stand back, now.

- Timber!

- Tree down!

Our Smoky Mountains contain

the last virgin forests

in the eastern United States.

But with every passing year,

we're losing 'em

to the cut-and-run philosophy

of the logging barons.

But we're fools if we think

that what God has created

can be sacrificed for a quick profit.

The simple question before us is this,

ladies and gentlemen.

Do we want our Smoky Mountains

to be made a national park?

Or do we want them to be made a desert?

Thank you, Mr. Kephart. And thank

you all for showing up this afternoon.

What about the jobs, Sheriff?

These men need to work, don't they?

And the logging camps bring

in railroads and electric lines

to places that never had them before.

We're bringing progress to Carolina.

Progress? Progress for whom,

Mr. Pemberton?

All the profits are going north.

Well, what is it

that your park's providing?

I'm sure your park

will be very nice for you

and your rich friends to go

on a Sunday afternoon hike

but for the working men,

the men in this room, Sheriff,

the men unlike you, Mr. Kephart,

it's a matter of survival.

He's right, Sheriff.

The logging barons always cry "jobs"

and "free enterprise"

but the truth is, you barely pay

enough to put food on the table.

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