Miracle in the Woods (1997) | Full Movie | Meredith Baxter | Della Reese | Patricia Heaton

[Music] [Applause] [Music] enable us today oh lord to reflect on the life of our beloved emma barnsdall may her tradition of love and charity live on in the hearts of her two beautiful daughters sarah who has joined us from atlanta today and our own dear wanda bless and keep them both amen amen amen darling he was very nice wanda what the ceremony mother would have been very proud ever you're not staying everybody's coming over to the house well i'd love to but i need to get back to atlanta jared is very busy gina and i are going to take him to the airport and then we'll be back i hope you don't miss too much no anytime's fine [Music] did you know that when i was a little girl your grandma had a magic gallery bucket and she used to use it whenever she wanted to make it stop raining all she had to do was just set it outside and before you knew it we could go back out and play it again yes okay just like this one almost as pretty as her mama you okay honey yeah you need anything no but thanks [Music] uh gina take off the headset won't hurt you to be sociable gina thank you gina oh gina sweetheart i didn't see you out there how you doing come on in what's going on lana i want you to know how much i appreciate everything you did for mama i'm sorry it didn't come sooner i'm surprised you came at all oh it's quite a turnout you had i'm sorry you know business has been so hectic these past few years i i hope you know it wasn't personal i i hardly see jerry anymore how you holding that wanda oh save it sarah i was thinking of asking a visit up from atlanta but i guess that's out of that question you could stay in the back room eddie had it fixed for mama when we moved here from the nursing home oh that's real nice but i think we'll get a hotel room well there's no point in that because mr hampton's coming at eight o'clock tomorrow morning to read the wheel hi eddie i hope we can wake you no no we're we're glad you're here can i help you with your bags i was there in the car we're gonna be having breakfast before mr hampton gets here in the morning gina can sleep on the pull-out sofa uh you want to keep the fan on so the room doesn't get too hot and when you use a bathroom just jiggle a handle on the back of the toilet okay i'd also like wandered i have my china tableware my 19-inch magnavox television set shoes clothing and all remaining belongings not so designated and above mentioned exhibits one and two respectively moving on finally to my daughter sarah i bequeath my leather reclining chair what that that's it i i get the strata lounger and and she gets everything else maybe mama didn't think he needed anything sarah what what that's it no i'm afraid so well what about the property that's right the pecan grove mama didn't say anything i i wasn't aware of any pecan grove you see it's unfortunate but my partner mr adama who prepared this for your mother he died several years ago it's about a hundred acres up off highway seven and surely that's worth something well benjamin was it was real thorough i just can't imagine how it slipped through have you been out there i mean do you know what kind of condition it's in uh the only time i saw it was when i was driving by mama used to go out there once in a while though until she got sick so what happens now i mean how long can this take in probate oh well i know judge mcnamara i suppose i could speed it through of course you know by default you both would be named as beneficiaries so we split it equally 50 50. [Music] mom when are we going home this place sucks well certainly not the way mother described it of course not nobody took care of it after daddy died and to make things really exciting there's no paint can perhaps left behind by some ancient civilization oh maybe there's a slug we can put on mom's head oh look look that must be the old tractor daddy had oh he's talk about this all the time uh-huh [Music] mom mom mom gina there's a pathway [Music] oh don't go g gina you wreck your outfit the grove suddenly came alive a secret passage leading deep into the nether regions gina wait up [Music] gina look it's a baby panther this is gina don't touch that cat what the oh it's daddy's old pecan shack oh someone's living in there jasper william come on baby it's supper time mama done made some oprah and cornbread eat them anime y'all come on now oh my gosh who is that y'all get off this land you're here this is private property no trespassing i'm warning you jesus who's that who is that um i'm an e.o.p is that you praise the lord that is you you didn't come all the way from clearwater to see me gina i ain't seen you sister cotton farm excuse me back in alabama oh you do remember don't you oh phil p did they get you too ma'am i think you had the wrong person you are confusing my daughter with someone else oh don't be silly i just knowed field p since she was knee-high to a dog i'm sorry i didn't quite get your name my name's lily lily cooper and any friend of field peas is a friend of mine uh sarah willoughby this is my sister wanda how did you this is our property piggy party well i'm others uh miss cooper by any chance did you know i'm mama miss bonds doll emma yes emma barnes dog so i know she about rode up to orangeburg stock up on some dry goods for the winter gonna be a cold one you know she let you live here of course she do and if she ain't back in a few weeks i'm gonna be in a mess of hot water trying to get this crap in before the freeze but why who's asking oh we was just wondering well one down your own time i got a family to feed william jenny lulabelle y'all come on now cause it's suppertime well i can't believe she's been living out there that's not right it's our place now but mama let her live there you know she was always helping people like that that doesn't mean we have to be responsible for her living by herself she could get hurt she's a liability wanda besides there'll be property taxes and maintenance costs we can't keep that place up so what are you gonna do i don't know look inside tomorrow i can remember when you and your little sister were playing in the mud out behind watson's hall farm he used to pull her down there i'm sorry to say i've not been doing much of that lately um based on the price of some of the other tracks out there uh i'm guessing the bicycle for about 150 000 if we don't parcel is that correct yes well but i can't guarantee the prices will hold up now well then we'll have to move quickly won't we i'd like to put on the market since possible yes but you understand i have to have wanda's consent i i can't oh you have one's consent i just don't want to go sticking any legal documents in the face right now it's a very bad time you understand okay yeah sure all right well let me know the minute you have an interest i'd like to have this wrapped up by the end of the week this week yes this week [Music] [Music] [Music] hello hello anybody home hello anyone [Music] it's feel pee [Music] phil p you didn't miss your train huh it left about an hour ago so you really live out here of course i do me and my family you know that was really cool how you shot that gun yesterday you scared my mom to death oh not that i wanted you to scare her it's just cool how you got her attention that's all what you got there phil p you taking pictures making a movie you always was interested in pictures i was you want to be a movie star miss cooper oh sh what i need this one how to be famous get rich and stuff i had a lot of money once more than i knew what to do with really how did you get it oh you remember silly it all started that night that skinny babcock turned that old barn over by stoney creek into a dance hall you came all the way over to mrs hammerman's just to help make me up pretty because everybody was saying how funny it was that you was my friend but you didn't pay them no man you said best friends don't look at each other for what's on the outside it's what's on the inside that counts so when i decided to get me a husband you wanted to help me now remember act like you're going to have lots of babies farmers like that i don't want to farm a field pee farmers smell funny don't be silly and don't be too pushing neither men don't like a woman with a mind of her own you just let them do all the talking for a while anyway [Music] [Music] all right you told me don't be shy find me a good one and just go and get him cause if i didn't somebody else would [Music] excuse me [Music] hey man over here [Music] well young lady either you came over here to ask me for a cigarette or you'd like to dance which is [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] [Applause] [Music] and my mama she worked on her daddy's farm that's how phil p and me came to be friends she did my hair for me darling be careful this is the only truck i got but i still didn't explain how a nice young lady like yourself learned to drive an automobile after mom and dad i got a job driving cotton trucks to support myself a truck driver huh well the skill like that could come in handy i suppose i tell you what pulling up to the house yonder will uh stretch our legs a little bit what you say well now how do you like my house oh mr cooper that's beautiful where'd you get all your money well i'm a businessman young lady so how about a toast to the most beautiful lady of dance so did you marry him is that how you got the cotton farm well mr cooper was a little older than i had hoped for but he had his charm wow what a way to meet a guy i met ray at the mall he works at a juice bar but don't tell mom that she doesn't know about him yet no no no you know i almost forgot i've been saving something for you you have yeah oh god [Music] jerry [Music] [Applause] hey gina look what you gave me i saw that lady again she said that this is the necklace that we bought together at woolworth's before she went to this big dance wait wait wait wait you went all the way out there by yourself yeah don't tell mom gina she kept on calling me field p and told me about this guy that she meant and used to live with i was caught in the farm like a jillion years ago gina wait a minute you think that's a good idea to go out there again oh yeah she's cool she gave me some money to buy her some stuff like soup and stamps postage stamps yeah it's like i'm some long-lost friend or something it's really weird oh no i'm glad to see you i got to talk to you about the property hi darling i talked to jimmy white he said if we move quickly we can maybe get about 150 for it we split that of course that's 75 a piece so i gave him a go ahead to find a buyer 75 000 pretty nice huh yeah if i decide to sell what do you mean why wouldn't you i don't know what if i like it wanda this is not a joke we said to make a lot of money here what about miss cooper she shouldn't be out there anyway i was hoping to get this wrapped up by the end of the week so you can get back to atlanta is that it you can't stand being here one more day you know it's a big decision an extra day or two to think about it isn't gonna hurt anything how long you been living here miss cooper well since that old pecan tree fell oh i see have you ever thought about moving someplace a little bigger you know i'm sure the church could help you find something oh no i got a family here ain't that right jasper well did you see my mama who miss barnes doll from the church emma mm-hmm oh all the time matter of fact she's supposed to be here tomorrow we'll be hiring for the fall soon miss cooper mm-hmm my mama miss barnes doll uh-huh you know she died last week oh she was real sick no emma's an orange bird that's just a rumor too much work to be done right here why don't you tell her about the cotton farm you know like you were telling me it was the most wonderful place in the world do you really have a cotton farm yes i did first home i ever had being an orphan and all i never had no proper place to meet henry henry was her husband i was planning on having lots of babies that's why when i moved in i tried to make sure they have a good home to grow up in [Music] but mr cooper had other plans with him it was always work work work [Music] so [Music] so you were driving that truck for your husband's business huh mm-hmm and sometimes for days on end well he'd have me trucking cotton seed clearing the mississippi and sometimes the folks that didn't even look like farmers i didn't know who my husband was doing business with but we were doing okay i suppose miss cooper it's been a pleasure talking to you and it's been a pleasure talking to you too well thank you phil p don't forget to tell emma about the hiring we're gonna need 12 good workers this year okay oh oh oh feel b feel free set this bucket out there cause we sure don't need no more rain come harvest in time but don't you see it's the same thing that's who mama got the story of the bucket from miss cooper told her yeah so so it's just neat that's off darling 75 000 would be neat and then every year christmas daddy give hay rides to all the children in town and lots of memories out here oh my goodness that must be my daddy's old tractor i think there's real investment potential here something special now if i was to buy this place i'd think about clearing out some of those trees and putting a house right there that way you'd have a view all the way to shepparton county hey dad let me show you oh no they're not that way let me show you this over here hey oh you're still here huh that's some good news find a buyer for the land yeah it's off is not quite what we ask but jimmy thinks it's fair so you want to hear how much uh sarah i'm not selling the land you go ahead sell you a half no one's gonna buy half a pecan grove one look it's just not right what do you mean well miss cooper lives there can't just go and kick her off she was mama's friend look it is too bad that no one knew to look after her when mama got sick but the truth is that woman should have been in a nursing home a long time ago we i'm not putting her in any nursing home sarah she could die out there wanda is that what you want for crying out loud she could waste away by herself in that shack what would you care you want me to believe you care more about her than you did about our own mother i cared about mother show up here after three years acting like oh everything's just fine not obligations you know that mother needed you what happened was between mother and me it had nothing to do with you oh like hell it didn't you abandoned her our own mother i am not selling that land sarah well yeah but just because you own it doesn't mean that i'd go out there and throw her off she's got squash rats and one of those exactly well if she's been out there as long as you think she has she got a right to stay that's ridiculous i own the property well now you may have the title but that lady's got a homestead and nothing either one he can do about the other unless she dies or just moves on but she's not well she needs help well that may be uh she got any family i don't know well unless she decides to go on her own there's really nothing you can do about it because by law it requires a family member to admit it to a nursing home jerry she can stay out there as long as she wants i'm telling you it is useless all right i'll be home tomorrow is daddy coming no gina can we go out and see miss cooper why would we go out and see her because she's my friend i should be your friend you've only seen her once wait have you been going out there with wanda oh terrific well what's wrong with that miss cooper's neat that woman has made things very difficult for your father and me we're going home tomorrow we can't she needs me i'm her only friend gina just one more visit please mother so i can say goodbye we could take her some groceries at least we can do that and her whole family has a name every one of them right miss cooper yeah that's it's fine oh thank you so much hannah that's awful sweetheart we appreciate that say goodbye gina we got a hit wrong mother gina bye miss cooper god bless you well like i'm too late what's going on here huh gina and i were just about to leave oh you were mm-hmm well why does gina have to go she could just stay with me and eddie you know until school starts or uh i don't think so besides i don't appreciate you bringing her around here without my knowing it come on gina right oh look at that look at that baby baby oh my baby [Music] the little boy upset his daddy though i found out after we got married me and mr cooper had different ideas raising the family wasn't one of his [Music] [Music] baby [Music] [Music] lily [Music] uh [Music] ugh [Music] [Applause] [Music] there [Music] give it to the cars [Music] [Music] it's okay [Music] he's okay my baby [Music] god bless you god bless you both so what happened what did you do yeah mrs cooper about your son um where is he wherever he is i know he's all right but where is he is is he still alive i don't know what do you mean you don't know okay you don't have to tell us we'll see you tomorrow is that okay [Music] i'll be back i promise that woman is absolutely nuts but i think kevin she has a son why do you care oh i got to sing about aunt wanda don't have to we're staying you have a phone known for anyone named cooper cypress alabama yeah whatever you got just one thanks all right you keep calling these and if you find anything call me wait where are you going i'll be back in a couple hours oh there must be something no the only henry cooper i can find from alabama that matches your information he died in 1972. well he was born back in 1890 so that makes him a little old to be her son that must be her husband uh from what she was saying i'm guessing her son to be about 50. no there's no record mr or missus ever had a child together there isn't no ma'am and believe me i looked at every database and every county down there if a person had ever set foot in that state dead or alive i'd find him for you i am a tax assessor are you sure that woman ever really had a son and what else has she been telling you now do you know i'm a nurse miss cooper i'm over at fairview hospital and from what i can tell you better watch this because it's getting infected now nothing but a little scratch yeah well you got to be careful now when is the last time you saw a doctor i don't need no doctor cause i ain't sick everything gonna look so pretty when he gets here you'll have a good home to grow up in your son well i thought you said he'd be here any day now i know it miss cooper where is he is he coming you really have a son miss cooper he was the sweetest thing he never caused me one bit of trouble and that smile that smile on his face and it was brightest on sunday morning when i was taking him to church what happened to him miss cooper [Music] so lily [Music] you got time to lounge around the house all day you can make the deliveries over in mississippi now the neighbor's going to watch the baby while you're gone cause i ain't got time to mess with the neighbor he can't take my baby oh come on i won't it's gonna be all right no i ain't gonna leave him i won't i know what you're doing i seen what you got in bags and it ain't legal let me tell you something huh how do you think you got this house that you love so much oh now you go do something stupid we can lose everything we got you gonna want that little hand man with you come on [Music] come on i'm gonna talk to you next week [Music] so [Music] baby [Music] it's okay honey it's okay mommy gonna leave you again i promise excuse me excuse me sir yes ma'am [Music] what's dilly what can i do for you [Music] sir my husband is a moonshiner i know cause he makes me deliver his liquor phone he hides it in bags of cotton seed god insane hmm he makes it in his barn at night time and i don't want my boy being raised around him [Music] i'm ready to talk to whoever you want i can tell him everything i won't be that sad man i'll tell you what you're going home and you act like nothing ever happened i'll get my men together and we'll come over there tonight but don't you got a word of nobody here yes sir we don't want to scare him now do we [Music] it's gonna be fun [Music] well look at here where you going so fast hold on now i'm not going to hurt you miss cooper i'll scare you let me see a little baby what are you doing no my baby give me my son you ain't got that baby [Music] since you ain't got enough sense to keep her quiet then i sure will you're damn lucky i got you when i did get in the car henry henry what happened where did they take him i don't know does your husband have him or did they put him in a home i don't know [Music] do you think you could find him can you find him oh yes i feel people find it thank you i'm telling you the sheriff the woman is crazy she said she had a son but there's no birth certificate no death certificate nothing you should see the place she's living there's no running water no electricity she could also be dangerous yes she has good i've seen it now there's no law against that unless she's used it on somebody or threaten someone she has sheriff she has threatened my daughter and me hello gina she did oh my gosh i'll be right there okay bye baby what's wrong i gotta go down to the grove it's miss cooper is she all right do you need me to do between me and sarah you just watch ruby i'll be back shortly now please ma'am we just won a few words with you it's ridiculous that thing probably won't even shoot yes it will it's cooper let me scoop all i want to do is talk to you this cooper i got a social worker out here with me and she just wants to make sure you're okay what's going on here oh look there is nothing wrong with her now she just wants to make sure you're okay now maybe she can help you with your living arrangement it doesn't need any help cut yourself down you shouldn't be doing this wanda it's okay it's just me i'm here all right come on no listen nothing's gonna happen all right i'm not gonna let it here just give me that you're not gonna need that that's it now ma'am i understand you have a son that might could help us out here no you've got no sun give me my flower no no no no no no no no no no no no no let me go [Music] i am trying to help you have never helped anyone but yourself no are you no leave him out okay it's okay [Music] baby gina oh gee are you okay hater i just hate her oh honey why is she doing this it used to be friends no it's like i don't exist no i know she used to be my friend too gee oh gosh i hope i didn't put you two at odds over this but she still is your mother you gotta respect that it's hard i know she said so strange lately she didn't tell me that she was leaving till this morning she went back to atlanta she said she had to be with dad how's miss cooper she okay oh well she just keeps talking about her friend phil p where's field piece she says yeah she's at the hospital they're doing some psychological tests on her but so family haven't found anything wrong with her of course everybody thinks she's a little crazy but there's no law against that right you know why don't we find something to take to her after supper tonight huh make her feel more at home come on let's do that how long will i have with him a few minutes i've been with him all morning he's not doing so great he's cooperated with the investigation in every way there's no reason for this i'm sorry sarah james we're doing what we can now if you come up with a bail we'll arrange for him to go home tonight sarah are you okay down you mind sure oh jerry well i guess we knew this was coming this is so how do you let this happen he stalled as long as he could sarah i had to turn myself in or risk being arrested somewhere so how's it going have you talked to wanda have you come up with anything nothing at all well there has to be something that you can do how long do you think i can sit in here jared i'm doing everything i can my sister will probably never speak to me again and gina god knows how i will tell her about this she has no idea i don't know what to do anymore tell me what's right i want to do what's right jared you have to get me out of here miss cooper looks like you have company [Music] just had her dinner how's she doing she still has periods of confusion they're gonna do some more blood work before they let her go miss cooper we're here we brought you some things it's vlp miss cooper phoebe phoebe you come to save me save you from what [Music] lily we're going to try and relax you a bit everything will be okay [Music] [Music] did you find him did you find my son your son is with the neighbors ma'am he's okay they're going to take care of him until you're well enough to go home but i bet already no sheriff says you got to stay here a while why don't you write your son a letter [Music] you said they gave your son to a neighbor do you remember his name all right oh it's okay there's got to be a way we can find out who that neighbor was maybe if she can remember where she lived what street she was on hi gina um well i'm not gonna talk too many no i have nothing to say to you uh you have no idea who you're dealing with here she's made this whole thing up what are you talking about i didn't know how to break this to you earlier but i talked to god the tax assessor's office he said there is no record that miss cooper ever had a son i am so sorry well that's a lie she doesn't have a son yes she does miss cooper you don't have a son do you sarah mom please tell the truth you don't have a son you ain't got no son give me my little henry henry you know he might be no my baby give me my baby it's all right mr boy take care of you the sheriff wants you to stay mr boyd for a while mr boy boy they came by baby to mr d w boyd she remembered what's she talking about [Music] boyd you said [Music] how many boys can there be in alabama it's all right sweetheart we'll try again tomorrow you know what if he doesn't live there anymore i want to be somewhere else hi my name is gina i got your number from information i'm looking for someone named dw boyd and i was wondering if by any chance you were related to him come on i'll fix this a snack huh let's see what looks good hello hi i'm looking for d.w boyd you're not related to him are you yeah you are uh yes i am he's my great uncle he is why are you with the irs no no don't hang up please i'm looking for someone that he knew a long time ago a little boy named henry cooper i know henry my great uncle raised him is he alive is he okay well i suppose i hadn't seen him in a while well do you know where he is last i heard he was working on a river barge here in alabama somewhere he's in alabama we can find him y'all i thank you so much do you know how i can reach you good miss cooper's gonna need a place to live cause i sold the land look sarah i don't care who this fire is or where you found him until you have my signature there is no sale you understand that we got to find miss cooper's son she's been waiting for this her whole life can't you see how important this is so mr boy said that he would leave a message for your son at church praise the lord he go to church is he coming well we hope so we won't know for sure till he calls us back why wouldn't him his mama oh he will i know he will oh how did you meet our mama i mean how did you end up on that pecan grove see you pete remember don't you [Music] oh you've baby here so long how did you manage [Music] i'm so sorry we've been out of the country [Music] i had no idea until i got your letter i'm so sorry feel me so would you like to come and stay with bob and me for a little while to get your feet on the ground huh my husband and i would like you to come and live with us in south carolina yes sweetie you like that wouldn't you lilly i can't i gotta go home i got to find my baby [Music] [Music] now bus 493 go straight to clearwater alabama but it doesn't leave till midnight are you sure you still want to wait i just hate that you won't let me drive you oh i'll be fine you go home now i got my sandwich and i'm going to sit over here wait you don't have to be so darn stubborn about it if it doesn't work out down there then this is my address and i want you to come and see me right away [Music] goodbye [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] north must for savannah georgia now leave it henry henry [Music] so [Music] uh [Music] hi kitty hi [Music] me [Music] i've been thinking thank you but i can't stay here that sheriff might find me and my husband well you can't just wander from place to place all the time it's not safe i'll be all right well i won't have it you're worried about that chef you can stay in the pecan grove there's a caretaker shack out there that you can have no one can find you i'm afraid it's not much you can stay here as long as you lie oh and i'll take good care of it too and i can simply my son once i saved up [Music] i wish i knew how to help you lily so sorry i can't do more i'm fine you've done plenty already i promise not to tell her to sew your hair right emma [Music] wow back emma she come to me and she said my mama can't come home because she got the cancer but i know philp never leave us she always come back so i told emma we have to take care of this grove till your mama come home and show that yes she a is friend never leaves you all right wait emma um our emma um our mother emma barnes doll and emma's mother was was feel pee coast that's only a nickname field p proper name edith edith oh my gosh it's eda simpkins it's your great-grandmother seeing our mother let you live out there without telling anyone oh i made her promise i couldn't have that share from my husband finding me then a couple years back emma she come to me and she said she's tired of fooling with the place and she want me to have it while i'm waiting on field p and my boy that's when she gave it to me what she gave it to you sure did she gave me the papers and everything she's a sweet little thing she still comes out every season help me with harvesting and we're gonna have a good one this year huh philp you sure are it's all gonna be henry someday this money i saved from selling these pecans and the land i'm gonna give it all to him when he get here so that's why it wasn't in the well my mother had already given it away i still got them papers we can go get them if you want me to it's okay well now um i just want to say goodbye gina and i'll be leaving in the morning oh sorry i i put you through all this jimmy white and that buyer aren't too happy with me either i guess it's wasted everybody's time well i wouldn't call a waste of time sarah i mean maybe you didn't notice but uh the first time your daughter has opened up to someone gina just loves miss cooper do you know why cause miss cooper is the only person that will take the time to talk with her and share with her your daughter needs you sarah yeah i have missed out on a lot these last few years haven't i i meant to come home from mother i really did well you should have that's there i i i couldn't i couldn't because mother was right what are you talking about she hated everything about my life when i left here my my career my husband she was afraid that jerry would take you away from her she didn't hate him he's terrible troubleman when mother was dying jerry wasn't indicted on fraud charges indicted now he's in jail one of his investors found evidence that he he may have embezzled some money from one of his real estate deals a few years back i spent every last nickel trying to keep him out of jail and now i can't even raise money for fail that's why i wanted to sell the pecan grove sarah i had no idea i wanted to help mother i wanted to i wanted to send money but everything we own is in the process of being repossessed i'm so scared wonder i don't know what to do why didn't you say something oh that's too proud i know that sounds stupid and it sounds so silly now and the worst part is how i i let you down [Music] i told you you can stay father's hearing doesn't start for two weeks and wanda said you could stay with her until school starts you can be with miss cooper could have told me did you think i couldn't handle it [Music] ugh we're not home right now but please leave a message this is henry cooper jr i got a message that you were looking for me regard my mother i apologize for not getting back to you sooner but now i'm working out on the river so i'm at home now i should be home the next few days don't hang up hello hello uh hello this is uh sarah who uh i'm i'm one of the sister oh god that's gonna sound crazy um but my my sister and my daughter have been looking for you they think they found your mother they did uh let it cooper from alabama is that right yeah and uh she started telling us all about you and how she's been looking for you but uh she didn't know where to find you well i figured she was a she was insane but did uh i didn't know which oh no no she she's not crazy she's just a very sweet woman and you're all she talks about oh she she desperately would like to see you you just mean everything to her really you're kidding me right no she needs you didn't she then she should have stuck around for me but she couldn't find you with sheriff took you away from her she just ma'am [Music] ma'am uh i appreciate the call but uh thanks thanks anyway [Music] who was that some woman from south carolina [Music] she says they found my mother irma where's miss cooper did they move her oh yeah they took upstairs to ccu last night to coronary yeah any idea how long her blood pressure's gone untreated like this oh well forever i guess what's wrong well her confusion's caused by hardening of the arteries in the brain my heart's so weak we'll be lucky if she responds to medication if she responds do the best you can on it all right okay if only your son would come maybe he could help her yeah but we knew he might not sweetheart and we have to respect his decision how can we at least tell miss cooper that he's still alive maybe that'll help her just to know that i think it would just break her heart if she couldn't see him she's sad enough not being in the pecan grove she's right honey uh look uh maybe maybe we should stop and see her on the way to atlanta could you give us a call if anything happens you know we can always drive back if i have to all right gina would you mind if i had a moment with miss cooper by myself no go ahead go ahead [Music] miss cooper i just want to say i'm sorry for the way i acted i didn't mean anything against you i know sweetheart not yet but he's okay i know he is i was just too scared to go back and get him well you couldn't that wasn't your fault um i'm sure he would love you if he could only know you it weren't meant to be i guess you have loved him so much for so long you think he'd know it's too bad we can't always feel the love around us you're a good girl [Music] so gina gina come on let's go what happened we got some business to take care of hi how you doing can we help you oh uh i hope so um we're the ones who called about your mother my name's sarah wellerbean this is my daughter gina i mean i i knew my dad and sheriff had some shady stuff going on but uh i never knew what had become my mama you got the same eyes and the same smile and all these cats there's so much you have in common i'm sorry i i just can't she adores you henry why don't you come out and see her i'm glad to know she's doing all right but uh i've spent so many years trying to to forget about her i don't know if i could make room for it now but she needs you henry really she does you could ride up with us you know what it's like you growing up feeling like your mama doesn't love you that she's abandoned you i can remember as a little boy just hoping every day that my mama would come and find me and then after a while you start to think well what is wrong with me i mean what did i do so terrible my own mama won't try and find me but she did she wrote you a letter every day after that sheriff put her in that hospital she saved everything she had so she could send for you she was afraid to go back that's why she couldn't find you please come mr cooper she really loves you henry don't miss a chance to let her know how much you love her too no kidding yeah you should have seen her she talked him into it mother talked him into it and wanda he's got cats all over the place so tell ms cooper we're gonna be there okay gina wait uh listen uh i've been trying to call you you know she's not doing too well what miss cooper she she just might not make it till tomorrow no i want you got to tell her you got to make her wait tell her to feel piastre too i'm gonna try sweetheart but listen you better just get here as fast as you can all right we'll see you soon [Music] just leave me there miss cooper miss cooper hey i have some good news for you [Music] and he's coming to see you you like that wouldn't you [Music] my baby's all right thank you thank you [Music] um to my darling henry i don't know if i'll still be here when you come to see me wanda sorry what what's happening she started having chest pains during the night so we're taking her for an angie man it's possible she'll need an emergency bypass and what are her chances we could lose her oh no billy you can't the heart team's ready wanda you got to move can i just go see her for a minute yeah thank you move your hand for me mm-hmm let me take that okay perma it's all right name is cooper now listen henry's coming you want to see him don't you mm-hmm all right that little bitty baby made this great big i ain't going nowhere baby listen gotta get ready okay see you later billy can't you wait a little longer we need to get her started mom [Music] wait he's here miss cooper is here henry where is the lord here [Music] right [Music] that's good [Music] you gotta take enough i talked to you a little while here that's my baby [Music] wanda i'm sorry she couldn't hang on no no no she can't very sorry [Applause] oh [Music] she'd known y'all be with her [Music] gina why couldn't she wait just a little longer [Music] she waited almost 50 years i wish i could have been a good friend to her like lucky were you cared about her when no one else would you believed in her [Music] you know whatever she is she's never gonna forget that ever [Music] and we thought we were heard about her story she's really talking about all of us too [Music] things will be pretty tough for a while honey [Music] i'm gonna need your help [Music] we can do it while i couldn't hold you or touch you or lift your spirits with a smile i can only hope that you will someday know how much i have loved you with all my love your mother lily cooper so they were all for me huh every last one of them i can't thank you all enough for what you've done for me you've given me something that i i never thought that i'd have i wouldn't dream of taking this place away from you all it's part of your family and i want the both of you to have it uh henry are you sure yes thank you thank you oh we gonna go for the last shot huh actually i want you to have this oh i couldn't do that maybe you'll get to know her now thank you i appreciate it henry don't want to miss that plane okay henry i hope we see you and evelyn again sometime maybe thanksgiving yeah we'd like that all right i'd like that very much fly safely now okay i have an idea now that it's ours again why don't we uh get the place running what are you kidding me oh really clean out this part over here and put in some storage sheds and use this area over here for shelling of the pecans and use the money we make to fix up a place [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 91min 44sec (5504 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 21 2020