Old Joy Page #2

Synopsis: Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Kelly Reichardt
Production: Kino International
  5 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
84
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
UNRATED
Year:
2006
76 min
Website
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that he didn't want to

be married anymore.

So he moved out.

Yeah that's what I heard.

Then he ended up with these...

...f***in' blood clots on his brain.

Oh f***.

And they just showed up, out of nowhere.

He was really weak for a while,

nobody knew what to do.

Then they... dissolved.

Just went away.

That's heavy.

Put my mom through the wringer.

Yeah, I bet.

I bet.

It's kind of like when an old Eskimo

goes off to die alone.

Who knows?

You still have this.

Didn't this use to be Noah's?

- Yeah.

Found it behind Krugers, there's...

There's crumbs in there

where you can add it.

And then, it was mine for a while.

Man, Mark you really hold on to sh*t.

Not that I should talk.

I've still got crates of

records in the garage...

stuff that I haven't

even listened to in...

ten years.

I'm gonna have to take the whole

load down to Syd's I think.

See what I can get for it.

Syd's gone man.

- No way.

The rent got to be too heavy, now it's a

...smoothie place.

Rejuicenation.

- No.

Syd sells on eBay, now.

Oh that makes sense.

I should be doing that.

Tony went by in the last days,

...the only records left in the bin...

to our friends.

No more Syd's.

End of an era.

Come on.

That was amazing.

Were you catching that?

That young soldier got a raw deal...

- And everybody that was there...

Do you know where we're goin'?

- Oh yeah.

Cruisy... Downtown.

Now you take this.

No, you take this one.

You take this one.

These aren't even funny.

Back to you, Lucy.

Shoot up.

It's a great spot, man.

Gonna love it.

I was here...

two summers ago.

Totally private.

No one around.

And most of all...

It has this otherworldly

peacefulness about it.

You can really... think.

Sounds awesome.

Cause you can't... you can't get

real quiet anymore.

I visited this hot spring in Arizona

last summer.

Where no one is allowed to talk at all.

Total silence.

It's f***in' amazing.

They want me to come back and

work as a chef sometime.

I've got a whole menu

worked out for 'em.

Right I think I read about that place

in a magazine.

You remember Yogi?

Sure, he stiffed us on the rent

when he left town.

Really? I forgot about that.

Well I ran into him in

Big Sur last month.

We had the most incredible

night together.

We were out under the stars,

dancing to these drums.

Everybody was jumping over these

huge bonfires.

I've never seen anything like it.

Everyone there...

was just so joyful that night.

Beautiful women...

singing and dancing.

I don't know, just a really

really amazing group of people.

No sh*t.

- Yeah. You should've been there.

I think Yogi got laid.

Slow down...

Slow down,

you wanna go left.

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Jonathan Raymond

Jonathan Raymond is an American writer living in Portland, Oregon. He is best known for writing the novels The Half-Life and Rain Dragon, and for writing the short stories and screenplays for the films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy (both directed by Kelly Reichardt). He also wrote the screenplays for Meek's Cutoff and Night Moves, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for his teleplay writing on the HBO miniseries, Mildred Pierce. more…

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