Imaginary Heroes
Matt Travis was a great swimmer
Step up
Take your masks
But it wasn't just that he was a great swimmer
it was simply that he was a greater swimmer than anyone i ever knew was good--whatever they were good at
Go! Go! Go!
Matt Travis was a legend:10,15,20
and he hated the attention
Hey!Come on let's go
But the only thing he hated more than the attention...
was swimming
Matt Travis hated to swim more than anyone i knew hated to do--whatever they hated to do.
And when someone hates something that much...
it doesn't matter how good they are at it.
But you can't expect the other people to understand that
Tim, can you go and wake up your brother ?
Please.
Matt,Matt
Where are the bedroom keys?
Under the bathroom sink.
What?
Behind you. What in the world have you tracked through my--?
Oh, Christ!
This is where we live, Mom.
she thinks she can sit on her porch
and smoke cigarettes on this day?
she is blowing the smoking in my face
you've been in dramatic
it's a free country.
And that's the problem, Timmy.
She doesn't talk about me when you go over there, does she?
Do you really think I'd let her?
You wouldn't tell me anyway, would you?
No.
He would been have a
She bought a new grill.
She doesn't even has a husband and she buys a new grill.
Are you expecting her to come over?
Of course not
He's 17, Hal. He's graduating this year.
Lightning doesn't strike twice.
Don't worry, honey He is just an old bitter ass hole.
Which one?
Take your pick.
What was it like?
"It"?
I stepped into the blood and...
"it" was like a crater.
like a giant....
canyon.
it open ringt in the middle
and just...
it will take you to pray
praying?
praying to God
Now that the most important moments in their lives are lost and we can never retrieve them because they have been
and once they're gone
how much longer we're going to be able to remember them
That's why Joe thinks we need a digital camara
I know exactly what you mean
I am so hungry Did you see the spread?
-Yeah -Yeah I am doing the,so there is nothing,you know
I brought the
Excuse me.
I'm here to pay my respects, Sandy.
I'm so sorry.
Tim,your mother said you used to play the piano like Beethoven
We have piano you can come over any time as the day
that even to talk
Would you like that?
Later.
hey
You got a new
em...yeah
Er..this is Jenny.
Hi
Jenny this is Tim.
He is..er..was Matt Travis's brother
Really?
Oh, you don't want anything like him.
I'm really sorry.
That kind of thing can fuck you up for life.
Yeah ,of course
Forget about it.
No.
in the bathroom at school tomorrow.
What? Really?
You're very late for dinner.
And you're too old to be up this late.
Was he really that unhappy, Tim?
em...he broke a lot of dishes
stopped to wash his clothes about three weeks ago
spent a lot of time at shower
He was
He was crying.
he cut himself
it
Come on.
when was your last time you went to a doctor?
When they tied my tubes.
I have been the only monther and son at the town who can say to each other and not laugh
I don't want to have that conversation ever again.
What?Don't worry. I did not read your diary.
So are you gonna go to the jazzy band and practise tomorrow?
No. Uh... I quit.
Sorry.
. Sorry, Tim
Sorry, Tim.
Sorry.
Sorry, man.
Sorry.
I to ask
but did anyone find three minutes to do their reading?
now,of course you....
you gotta be kidding
hey,hey
you,you can't leave campus what's your name?
Tell me your name!
People are so stupid and I can't bear living around anymore
and they only get worse
and you just have to find the one quality that makes them,bearable
like me
I'm your mother,so...
you have to like me
ok
What about Dad's?
well
you used to make me feel like I was the...
only person
I proud to grow
Kyle said that fire your school
with a
No It is an M18
The truth is you won't understand how good for you I am until I am died
I never really love my parents 'till they died I....
I certainly never told them.
you love me
I didn't say it back.
Well
Do you love her?
I don't know.
Then you don't, Timmy.
Timmy,I...er...I've got a surprise for you.
Exactly.
I don't speak Spanish.
. Somebody give me a back rub
Do you wanna talk about it?
Can we...can we talk about something else?
Sure.
What happened to your back?
I trapped
It's nothing.
ddd
Of course.
What do you say we finally made a night to remember?
I love you
Do you love me?
Of course.
Is there any more chicken?
That's all I made.
That's why we should do this,Ben
creeping me out
I won't be making all these extra food for every meal
It's wastful
It doesn't bring him back
We'll do it because I say so
We'll do it because he will be alive at this table and because he is my son
and because he was the onl y thing in this family.
you'll made the food
and you'll shut the fuck up.
He's losing his mind
Penny,things fall apart,
and we put them back together.
Don't feel you'll have to come home early for this party tonight
Okay? One of us should have some fun.
and you don't be such a stranger
You don't have to wait for a holiday to come home, you know.
All right. See you and come visit me, huh?
Told the girls all about your magic fingers
Abracadabra.
OK
Have fun tonight Don't do anything I will
Your ride is here
Do you need any money?
No, thanks.
I'll leave you a 20 on the table.
What?
You're not gonna do someting.. bad..to yourself
are you?
Are you?
My life is really,really,really hard
Probablly,I am17,doubt,presures...
I have real problems to deal with
Wouldn't you say so,Tim?
No,not really,what are you talking about?
Aren't you sad?
Why would I be sad?
Aren't you sad that your brother died?
Well,I am
I am sad
Those are amazing,feel like...artists
Some of them are like vivid amazing artists
They plug his brother's head and you couldn't even see any hole
at all
Hi.
How are you?
I'm fine
Jesus Christ, stop it.
sorry
you know I just....
one more again
Oh!
Fine,I'm perfectly fine
Dame I left my camera in the kitchen
Do you want me to do it again? 'Cos I can do it again
Go to get your camera
Still fine. Party hard!
Everything is back to normal
I need papers.
Er....rolling papers to make a...
...joint.
Cut one of these in half.
Knock at the tobacco
Fill it,close it with oneside little in the other
Lick it, light i t, smoke it.
Thank you.
Uh-uh.
It's on me.
Thanks.
Wow
What?!
Do you live in calm?
Yeah
Goes around and comes around
What do you think about euthanasia?
I don't know I supported,I guess
Play something.
you think it is ok to kill someone's
to stop it
You think it is OK to have that kind of control over someone's life?
I'm gonna die anyway
Play something,I have never even heard you play
Yeah,but everyone dies anyway
I mean, all children eventually die, Stephanie.
All babies die.
What're you talking about?
Nothing
I don't know
Forget it
Do you want to have sex?
Well, just pull out, okay?
Come up my face,I love that
Oh god that's a walking on your parents
I have never gonna seen my parents kiss
You're lucky
Come on
Oh,it's three-year-girl's bedroom
I swear
Really first time for everything
-Tim. -Don't.
Tim.
Jesus Christ,Tim,what...
I don't want to talk about it.
Don't do this
Do what?What are you talking...?
Who did that to you?
Go away,we don't wait,ok?Just don't ask me to talk about it
I don't care,I just want to know what happened
Go away and everything will be normal
What are you trying saying to me?
I don't love you.
Well I got a really waste I have a counterpart named Lo--
What's wrong with you?
Are little Timmy doing this to you?
Get out of here,Jack.
would you like that?
Make you happy?
With you?
No. No.
Okay, kids, the party's over. Everybody disperse.
You've got to drive.
I can't.
Hello
Yes.
Oh, no.
Sandy!Sandy!Sandy,wake up
Shit.
Shit!
Oh!
Oh.
Hello.
Who's that?
It's my mother
She hates hospitals.
Who did this to you?
He did it to himself
I didn't ask you
He was drunk-driving.
I'll be right back, ok?
What's this?
It's a miracle of modern medicine
It will revamp all your painings and worries
It will make everything feel normal again.
Is he ok?
Trauma team to ERB
Is he ok?
Who has been hitting my son?
Jack Donson
This bully at our school
Is he here?
We've already spoke to the police and I promise you Jack was not the only one bringing drugs to that party.We've already spoke...
Send him out here
Jack?
Sandy Travis.
Look,em...
You can torcher, paunch,drive drunk with me, I can forgive you
Hell,I can understand,I am a good question, you know,I can forgive and forget
But,em,,,you mass with my kid
May god himself to send from heaven
to protect you
'Cos as long as I live
And I will,I will live you all
I will wake up and go to sleep at night
Just dreaming up ways to make your petty,insignificant lives in to hell on earth
You fuck with my kid agian
You fuck with him
and I will fuck with everything you hold dear.
Nice trailer.
Don't you go to school with me?
You're Mandy Matthews, right?
What happened to you?
Well,I've been trying to relocate...
to a higher plane of life.
Unsuccessfully.
You have to cut up and down...
not a cross
Yeah,if you don't mind bleeding slowly for five hours.
Why?
Em..'Cos there is nothing here that I even remotely care about
I got nothing to fight for
And if I...if I don't want to live here why should I have to?
I don't care how much better of I am than everyone outside
It's not the point.
Think you're my new hero.
You know one of two things happens when you meet your heroes.
Either they're assholes...
or they're just like you are.
Either way you're always live
Hey,guns always have their mark
Yeah,only if you really want to die
Com'on,Tim,it's time to go
Before we begin our seremony,I have to report some terrible news
Sophomore Mandy Mattews...took her own life last night
I'd like moment to silence for Mandy's best friend Engela read an...
original poem,found in Mandy's school notebook.
Is there something wrong?she said
Of course there is,you're still alive,she said
Do I deserve to be?
Is that the question?
and if so...
if so...
Who answers?
It's noon.
You have right to community service, so I am going to Do you want anything?
One of those chocolate energy bars and a Fleet's enema.
I'm not buying you chocolate.
Look for the orange bottles.
Touch?.
All right, man. I'll come get you at 2.
Come on.We're late.
What did you take?
I'll be fine,I...I feel great
Give me some
Dude...it's Viagra.
Sorry. I mixed them up.
Isn't he dead?
Won't stop?
Hell, no.
You..must be the community service boys
Kyle and Tim, right?
This is the extra special day for the residence
It's casino day.
Oh,well you have to get sitting jobs,though
well,what happened to your leg?
It''s a war injury
and I don't like to talk about it
Oh,that's cute
Yeah
They'll love that here.
What happened to your leg?
War injury
Which war?
Vietnam.
Does any one have a seven?
This isn't Go Fish, Murp h. This is poker.
As far as I know,the Vietnam confict was 30,40 years ago
Which division were you in?
I was in a secret
a secret ?
En-uh
Come on, we're done. Let's go.
Oh, you're doing some hiking.
Er...yeah
Yeah,got to keep the energy up,doing some hiking, staying fit,running around America,maybe,you know
Er,21 miles Have you done that before?
Yesterday I was the bag boy
Ah
You must be like what,thirty?
You must be what,thirteen?
God, you're a beautiful woman.
You are.
That's a beautiful shirt you're wearing.
Can I give you my number?
Are you serious?
Yeah, I'm serious.
Okay.
WOMAN: I'm not even really hungry yet, you know?
Hi,I was..em..
I'm looking for the good stuff.
A good stuff?
Yeah.You know
The..er..real stuff
Oh!
The real stuff
Yeah
Like what?
They're wanna...
You wanna my men want...?
Hey,I go up at thirties
I can handle this,I'm not a snatch,I mean..
I may look like Rebecca or Sandy Brekform,but... well,I just got by
How much do you want?
I think we have ... I just...give me one second
That one looks like it hurts
Can you come through here?
You're under arrest for the solicitation of want Please hold your hands in front of you?
I'll read you your rights on the way to the car.
I'm sorry,Mam
Your parents should be ashemd of you
Nothing I can do about it,there's a camera in saw of my store and...this is my job
Oh,fuck of you,nark
I can explain it to my husband
I mean...this is embarrassing for the entire family.
Just let me do my payments
Bad judgment
Bad judgment. That's what this was.
I'm a grown woman,I'm a mother
Don't you have mother?
My mother respects the law.
This is even more depressing than I thought it would be.
Are you a posititude?
I'm a whore.
Oh,ok
That,is a "healthy" habit
Are you afraid of lung cancer?
No. Not anymore.
-Mrs. Travis? -Yes.
New British office of Ben Travis,please leave a message
He must be at lunch
It's almost 5:00.
Can you,can,can I just give a checkue
and you drive me back to my, um, car?
I'm sorry that he is not
I've been meaning to get it fixed, but..
You're so nice to do this
I wasn't...It wasn't really that trouble
No, I'm...
I'm really sorry
Don't be sorry
It's really... not a problem.
Oh! Fuck!
You're the perfect damage ,Ben
You haven't changed since high school.
What's the secret?
Well...
How is everything?
you have strong you pull through
You always have
You boys was in this afternoon
My boy?
Timmy has this to cast off
Oh,it is about time
Leg healed up just in time for the holidays.
Christmas is coming up soon,Ben
You might wanna think about having some
A little pick-me-up might do some good
You're all dealing with this in such different ways.
I got another one. Wait a minute.
How are you doing?
Oh!
No,you have to do once,com'on
As hard as you can.
Aww.
ddd
Timmy,we're
You should bring stuff
We're not any more
You're still friends, right?
You like that band Nirvana?
If you need some cash to go to a concert, you know,let me know
What?
Well...
The lead singer killed himself years ago
Where have you been?
What do you think about cosmetic surgery?
Like...er..face works
For example,let me see,take away ten years or more
Ten years!
Don't be silly.
No, honey. Um...
Your birthday's coming up.
We've been such a run,you know
Matt,em?
It's given us all 20 years.
It would make you feel younger.
I know how everything is hard on you.
I know that.
It's hard on me too.
Everything you're going through...
I'm going through too
But you don't have to be such a bastard.
Okay?
I mean come on
So nice to have you home again
It's Christmas
We do it every year
Hi.
Babka?
You made it!Welcome to first annual gold seek Christmas hard day
Com'on in
Thank you.A babka.
All right,everybody.This is the Travi
Really Travis with,Travi
All right,Travi
From left hand,we have
Jane
Sussy
All right every body,the Travi
Hi.
All right, let'’’s get this party started!
Merry Christmas and Happy
College girls are the bomb.
You're telling me?
Oh?Are you?
Tonight I am.
Oh, you got your cast off.
You haven't killed you self
Things changed
Who are you?
a 1978 in mint condition?
dd Merry Christmas dd
Tim,Tim,play,play some on the piano
Come on.
Show me you good
My hand is in the accident
It's nothing wrong with your hand.
You owe me $2000.
What?
Your piano cost me $2000.
I didn''t intend to spend it on drugs,what are you doing? Bying bras?
Ah?
So?
Ha.
lessons
I went every time I just never learned
Excuse me for leaving For new years you're coming with me
Baby!
Your're Penny's Brother,right?
May I?
Tim
How about something extra...
Tim?
Don't tell your sister.
You draw your lines in some pretty strange places, Tim
Try once. See that?
Was that a joke?
Come on, let's get out of here.
How is it?
I can't subrite my teeth
I can't think straight
Try to think about things never changed
Like, look at the stars.
Same stars,as last week,last year
We were kids,we weren't even born
In a hundred years, no one will ever know who we were.
They'll know those same stars.
Let's get out of here.
Ohh! Ow!
Hey,what time is it anyway?
Come on.
I would have left first, but I live here.
I don't know what just happened.
Don't say that, Kyle.
What,man?What do you want me to say?
It's the ecstasy
The ecstasy?
The ecstasy.
Listen Tim,I'm,I'm not, not the same
You might be
It makes sense.
But I'm not.
New British Office,Ben Travis Please leave a message.
Frankly Client, How can I transfer your call?
yes,er,I'd like to speak to Ben Travis This is his wife I keep getting his voice mail
One moment, please.
Sandy,Bob
Ben's not here. He's still on leave
Leave?
Sandy,it was...it was clear to us that Ben wasn't that happy being cooked up in the office,so...
So the company gave him a three-month leave of absence.
But if he's not here, he must be--
I'm sorry,I didn't apply anything,I just...
what I mean,What if...
he's not here, where does he go all day?
I don't know what to say.
I love you.
You gotta be kidding me.
You don't look so good.
Do you think it's my fault that he killed himself?
No.
Do you think it was Dad's?
Maybe
I think he does too.
Have you ever considered it?
doesn't everyone?
Sometimes I think you're the only one stopping me
You shouldn't be saying this to me.
I never had this or thousands other conversations like this with your brother.
We never told each other the truth.
Sometimes I feel like I don't fit into this family.
You're too much like me
People like us,
we don't fit in everywhere.
If there's anything you want from your brother's room,
take it out tonight.
Why?
Because it'll be gone tomorrow.
Sandy, I'm coming over.
Shit.
Our sons have taken their brothers to war
Did you know that?
Oh,Jesus fucking Christ,I'm not the one should be apologizing,Sandy
You fucked my husband,and now you're the one that won't speak to me,what kind of black words logic tells you that's valid?
It's not about that
OK,I'm sorry I told Ben,I thought he has the right to know
You don't know,what kind of problem it cost
Sandy, it didn't even phase him.
Your problem went a lot deeper with my big mouth
Marge,show me my life,the way it should work
Show me the life I would have had
Without your big mouth
Show me the life I deserved.
I can't.
You know I have never touched you
Fuck off.
That one's for your mom.
Teach him a lesson, huh?
I will fucking cut your face off!
Whoa. Whoa . Come on.
I can't go to community service today.
Don't mention that
Oh,it's your last day I'm sure I'm gonna miss you
what happened to your nose?
It's war injury I told you
I don't like to talk about it
No I will never get tired of that one
I get very tired of that one.
Sandy!
Mom!
What am I doing here?
Did you do this to me?
No.
Sweety,leave it,leave it
Sandy.
When was the last time you check that
Something is wrong with your body.
I know.
Tim. Tim!
What?
Did you see this note?
No
Com'on,we got to go,we've got to go,Timmy
What happened to your face?
It's nothing,what's happening?
Come sit over here
You guys are speaking again?
Your mom is a strong woman
You mean "bitch" ,right?
Don't say "bitch" in the hospital, dear
What am I gonna do?
Start by passing me the joint
In life
What am I gonna do for the rest of my life?
All of a sudden,it matters.
Well,Tim, the secret of a successfull life is finding something you love
Is there somethi ng that you love?
Yes
Good
Then you have to do that for the rest of your life.
And you'd better hope you're good at it because if you feel,then you'll probably fail
How do you know if you are good at it?
I am not good at it
Yes.
People tell you.
Is there such a thing as a human heart? Now,that is a better quesiton
Well if you listen closely
You can hear him breaking
Are you all right?
It's ok
You okay?
It's all right.
How did we let it happen, Sandy?
Em...I'm not sure exactly which it we're talking about.
Everything's going to be okay.
We should save what every little money we have left
We both know what the test gonna say
-No,we don't -Yes,we do
No,we don't
Please,don't make me play this game
This is not a fucking game
I am not gonna stand around while another member step away and kill himself
Okay?
So...until those tests come back...
Okay, Ben.
Okay.
It's time to go home you guys.
Your dad is waiting outside
Say good night
Could you please hand me the notebook?
Sandy has streptoccal in the
in affection of lung
but the tumers we found there are benign
However, that doesn't mean she's in the clear.
Ben.
If you don't start taking better care of your wife, then you are goning to lose her too.
For the first time in your life,stop telling yourself that everything is okay
Why is that...good?
It's expensive
I think I've had enough
Why don't you guys give mom a minute?
Wait in the car.
Penny's gonna be graduating from high school this month, do you know?
Just gonna be you and me
No buffer.
When you get out of here, Sandy, I wanna start it again.
Do you want that?
I'd be lying if I said I knew for sure, Ben.
Don't you know we can't do this without you?
I don't know who they are,Sandy I don't know his friends' names,her major,I...the birthdays
We sit at the dinner table,I've got nothing to say to them.
To...Tim.
Well, he doesn't know who you are, Ben.
And I think it's time...we told him who he is.
You remember when you told me you felt like you didn't fit into this family?
Yeah.
When I was a girl
I was in love with Randle Duwhire
Remember him?
Yeah,he is Kyle's Dad
And the truth is that er...Randle was in love with Marge and...they got married.
That's why you fight
No.
18 years ago
when I was married to Ben...
I had an affair with Randall.
Oh!
You understand what I'm trying to tell you?
No.
There's a reason
why your brother and dad never treated you like you were one of them
In a hundred years no one's ever gonna know who we were, but...
they'll know those stars
They're the same stars I wished on when I was a--
What are you doing?
-What the fuck are you doing? -Tim please,what is this?
What is wrong with you?
Don't fuck yourself
Please. I don't understand it.
Are you out of your mind?
Get away from me.
I'm asking you,your mom read it too she isn't sure.
What's it?
It is music
Music?
Uh-huh.
You know, Mom told me.
She told me everything
and to tell you the truth
I don't mind saying it
You're a pretty horrible father
Oh,well,I guess we're telling the truth now.
OK,good
I don't want you in my life
I don't wanna see your face when you're around
I don't even want to know if you're alive or not
I hate you all,always hate you
I always will hate you
You and me,we're different people.
No,no we're not
You and me are not...
You and me are not,you and me are not different people you and me...
You and me are father and son.
I..I don't care who you came here and I don't care you are not look like me
I am your father and you are my son
and I am here,okey?
But you got talk to me
Because I...I can't do it by myself
I-- I don't know how to do this by myself.
And freedom for all with responsibility
To our family
to our friends,
and above all, to ourselves.
we remember the special moments
that we took for granteed
those wonderful,beautiful,magical moments
these were the best years of our lives
at least that's what they told us
Personally,
I hated high school
I hated all of you
and I hope you all roll in hell
Thank you
Thank you,Scully. For those honestly,inspiration words
Congratulation for graduates
To their families,to their friends
And now to work as whole our senior class member Tim Travis to play a music seletion of his own compositon.
Tim
What do you think?
Did I do that?
How would you gonna tell me how much I have left to look forward to?
He's always so angry
He just took out on me
and one day he asked me for help
I mean,me,for the first time ever
he asked mefor help.
And I said, no.
Not everyone can be a hero.
It's true, isn't it?
You boys want to get some lunch?