Grandma Randolph used to smile a lot.
She said it was good for the heart.
Grandma was the first dead person I'd ever seen.
She also said there was nothing a smile couldn't fix.
So it started.
An endless line of relatives waiting to toss dirt on my grandma.
My dad loved astronomy.
Most mornings I'd wake up and find him asleep in the attic,
his telescope aimed at the horizon.
He loved watching the moon set.
He died when I was nine.
Oh, it's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
Come on, sweetheart. It's okay. It's okay, Ryan.
I should never have let him look in the casket.
He'll be all right.
His cousins are the same age. They did fine.
Tossing the dirt.
I should have seen that coming. It was all too final.
He wasn't ready for that.
You can't protect him from everything,
from life.
I do that?
In a way.
It keeps him tucked away in his room.
He's a boy,
let him fly.
My dad told me the moon's a big, magic ball of dust,
and I believed him.
I used to be able to see the Man in the Moon,
until my mom gave me my dad's telescope.
Then all I found up there were a bunch of craters and rocks.
It's weird.
Sometimes when I look at the moon without my telescope,
I can almost see him again.
Almost.
My dad was crazy for Gordie Howe.
"Guy walks on water," my dad used to say.
"Frozen, of course."
Grandpa doesn't even know Grandma's gone.
Mom says that's the silver lining of Alzheimer's.
Ryan, honey, why don't you take your cousins outside? Okay?
Show them how to play hockey.
Come on. Come on.
Come on.
Hey, did you notice one of Grandma's eyes was open?
You know what that means.
One of the relatives is gonna die in six months.
Maybe one of us.
It's true. I swear it.
Yo, Flynn O'gain!
Yeah! Mazzelli goes low and scores!
What's up?
Think your mom will let us go fishin'? The trout are jumpin'.
All right.
Hey.
Does he ever talk?
If you watched your dad get mashed by a train, you'd probably go mute, too.
Why? You having trouble understanding him?
I'm sorry about your grandma.
She was a real nice lady, made us laugh.
It's all right. We really didn't know her. We live in New Jersey.
Oh, then I'm real sorry.
Later.
Dude, the fish are gonna be great.
My cousin caught a 20-inch trout.
20 inches.
All right, it was 18.
Oh...
Slow down, butt wipe!
Get out of the road!
Jackass!
You all right?
He didn't really hit you, did he?
You sad, Ry, about your grandma?
Hey, come on. Don't worry about it, buddy. She's in heaven.
What, are you an atheist, Flynn?
Someone who doesn't believe in God?
If you're even thinking about it, that can't be good.
I mean, if there weren't a God,
that would be harsh.
Gonna go for the bridge?
No, thanks. That bridge is like a pile of toothpicks.
Besides, it's not even a shortcut to the lake.
But whatever.
Check it out, Flynn O'gain!
Am I the master or what?
Look at that. Look at that, baby.
Oh, yeah. Oh, it's a lively one.
I got it. I got it. Hey!
Hello!
Hello! Hello!
I could reel in Orca the killer whale here,
and you'd only notice if he bit you in the butt.
What's up, dude?
You're like a pile of moldy cheese today.
You're usually up six fish on me by now.
Ryan, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Oh! You're so history!
Come here!
Oh, no. Don't move! Don't move.
That hurts!
I know, but what were you doing in the lake
where your hook was still cast?
Ask Flipper.
Success!
I'm not gonna be able to ride my bike for a week.
Oh, you'll live. You'll live.
Yo, Ry.
Ryan?
See you tomorrow.
Thanks, Mrs. Flynn. You saved my butt.
Ahh. Get out of here. Go, go, go, go!
Ryan?
Oh, God. Ryan, we've got to get out!
Ryan!
Ryan, get out of the car!
Oh, my God.
Dad!
Ryan?
Morning, Ryan. When do you want to meet?
All right. See you in five.
Excuse me! How about asking for the phone?
Uh...
Come on. What's going on?
Are you... Are you angry with me? What?
Oh, well, Rocky will just have to wait.
Besides, I thought we had an agreement.
On the weekends we fish together.
All right,
but next weekend it's you and me, okay?
All right. Go on.
Hey! Slow down!
Ryan!
You all right?
Ryan!
Ryan, where are you?
Ryan!
Grandpa Randolph?
Do you like the car outside?
When did you start talking?
I, I didn't know I stopped.
I mean, when did you start?
Where's my mom?
She's not here.
Am I dead?
No, no, you're... No.
Where am I?
In your room.
No! Things are different.
Well, you must have wanted them to be.
I didn't ask for this.
Frankly, neither did I. Some things you don't ask for.
Is my dad here?
I don't bite, boy. Just need a hand getting up, please.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you very much.
What?
Your hand.
It... It just went through the glass.
Ahh.
Oh, yeah. That...
That explains why... why you've been standing in the toilet there.
You'll have to forgive me. Before the Alzheimer's, this was a bathroom.
There was a closet. Obviously, your... your mother renovated.
Oh.
Your father was quite a stargazer.
Astronomer.
He was an astronomer.
Someday, I'm gonna fly up there.
The moon.
An astronaut.
You have a...
You have a taste for adventure.
Never miss a shuttle launch.
Oh, yes.
Grandma said you were a dreamer.
Yeah. Well, sometimes
you have to step back
to see what's right in front of you.
And dreamers are good at that, very good at that, yeah.
You are coming or are you going to stand in the toilet all day?
That's the closet.
Not for me.
Who's that?
Pretty, huh?
Why is she wearing a coat in the summer?
Why don't you ask her?
Go on, tortoise, chase the hare.
I'm not a turtle.
Prove it.
Ryan.
Come on out.
What's the matter? You won't get wet.
Of course I will.
Course you won't.
Come on.
That is so unfair.
It's always winter for me.
You're lucky you arrived in summer.
Give me heat any day.
Tahiti, now that's the place.
How do you do that?
What's your name?
Ryan. What's yours?
Melanie. But I like the name Pan better.
Like Peter Pan, only a girl.
Oh.
You do believe in Peter Pan, don't you?
Uh...
If you don't, I couldn't ever speak with you again, ever.
Why?
It would mean you have no imagination.
So, do you believe?
Sure.
Have you been to the Factory?
What factory?
Oh, excellent! I get to take you.
Come on.
What's the matter?
Ryan?
It's nothing.
Let's go.
Come on. Let's go, slow mo!
Pretty creepy, huh?
He runs the show. Boo!
How long have you been here?
A while, I guess.
Time is kind of unimportant here in the Dust Factory.
That's what you call this place, the Dust Factory?
Yep.
Kind of a home away from home until you're ready to go back,
which I'm not.
You gotta see how the Big Top works to understand.
Come on.
Who are all these people?
People like you and me. We're stuck here.
Stuck?
It's called "getting dusted."
You see, when you decide to make the leap,
you only get one chance to fly,
so either you make it and move on
or get dusted and go back home.
That's the only way to go home?
To jump and miss?
No one's getting me up there.
Wow! So she made it?
Yep, she moved on.
Perplexing, isn't it?
Hey! Do you like to spin?
I don't know what you mean.
Spin in circles so you get queasy and see double. Spin.
Bet I can ride this longer than you! Yeah, right!
I can go forever without puking.
Bet you can't!
I'm gonna win.
Come on.
Oh, careful!
Don't feel bad about puking. I always win.
I wasn't puking. I was spitting.
Uh-huh.
See you tomorrow?
Not "tomorrow." Just "see you."
She, uh, she a nice girl?
I guess. Have you been to the Factory?
Sure. Joined the crowd once. Didn't jump, of course.
Yeah, I'm definitely not big on jumping.
And I don't like that dust.
Hmm, can't blame you. Hmm?
Sit down.
Falling all that way.
How do you know if you're ready?
I'm certainly no expert.
I suppose it's different for everyone.
Some folks probably dawdle around here
quite a while, trying to figure that out.
Melanie, for instance. She...
She seems a bit of a dawdler.
I don't mind dawdling if it means not having to jump.
Hitting that floor looked awful painful.
Oh, you are afraid of a little pain.
That's an overrated phobia.
So what's it like?
What?
You know, dying.
I don't know.
Well, you must. You're practically dead.
Oh, thank you. Thank you very, very much. Thank you.
It's gotta hurt.
Hurt? Life hurts, boy.
Boxing, that's a real pain.
I was a boxer myself.
Yeah, not a good one, but I was a boxer. Come. Let's see.
Come! Come, come. You can do it.
Two, three. Now box, box, box, box!
Bish, bish, bish.
Yeah. Come, come, come, come.
More, more! Come! Come!
Oh, no. You are too strong for me.
Heard you called me a dawdler. Not me.
I didn't!
Promise you didn't?
If it means you letting go, I promise!
Mean it? Yes, I mean it. Let go!
Better mean it.
What was that for?
Doesn't this day ever end?
What do you mean?
Well, there's a beginning, but no end.
How do you know it began?
Well, it had to or it wouldn't be.
That's not true.
It just is what it is.
You know, light all the time.
Maybe if we run away from the sun we'll find night.
Let's go east.
That way we're going with the earth's rotation.
Gives us a better chance of outrunning the sun.
Wow! You're a boy scout, too.
Grab your skates, slow-mo, and I'll race you
to the train tracks and the cemetery.
Maybe it's night there.
Catch up, dawdler!
Dawdler? You wish.
Yeah!
Don't! Cheater!
Catch up!
Get off, you nut!
Don't. Ow!
Bet those skates don't work on grass!
First!
That was great, wasn't it?
You don't like to lose, huh?
You don't hate me for winning, do you?
No.
Besides, it's not the last race we'll have.
You have no idea how long I've waited
for someone like you to come along.
Too long, I'd say.
We didn't beat the sun.
It must be night somewhere.
I miss the moon and the cool breezes.
I love the sun's warmth.
I suppose you would.
Make me a promise?
Sure.
If you decide you want the four seasons again...
That means jumping at the Big Top.
Forget it!
I'm never going home. But if you change your mind,
promise you'll tell me first.
Why?
I might consider going is all.
Partners? Partners.
Bonjour!
Mademoiselle. Monsieur.
Been a while since I tried my green thumb, but I think I found it.
Grandma died.
When?
The other day.
Where?
There.
Here?
No.
There.
You're not supposed to be down there. I was supposed to go first.
I suppose I...
I messed it up.
Ah.
It's a...
It's a beautiful day.
There's a celebration this evening.
What's the point? She's dead.
Exactly. If no one celebrates her life, what's the point?
We bring meaning to each other's life,
and now particularly your grandmother's.
Here. For the Grand Ball.
The formal initiation of all neophytes, of which you are one.
You serious? Yes, I am serious.
- He serious? - Yeah!
Do you dance?
Course he does. You know, tangos and waltzes?
Of course not. I'm a guy.
Oh, lame-o excuse.
Dancing is the most
Exhilarating, glorificating, fantazilating
Just let your toes go tapping, heels kerplanking
It's the essence of life
And if you think you are too fancy, too grand-iancy
Just let your feet explore the floor
They'll know the layout
Forget yourself and play out
'Cause there is no substitute
And now for the romp-stompinest
Skip-alonginest, kind of fun around
Heck, it's the essence of Heck, it's the essence of
Life! Life!
What do you say, Ryan?
I guess.
What was Grandpa thinking?
I can't wear his old clothes.
That is definitely out!
Here. These will fit.
If we're gonna get anywhere, you've gotta start using your imagination.
Try these on.
I can always stitch them up.
Okay.
Oh, please. I won't look.
Ready for the shirt?
Hey, come on! Turn around.
Oops! Sorry.
Oops.
You wear butt-huggers?
Briefs.
They're cotton briefs.
You should wear boxers.
They're way cooler than butt-huggers.
Baseball cards?
Hockey.
They're collector's issues.
There's nothing wrong with having heroes.
Baryshnikov! Nureyev! I adore them.
Oh, but Pan. Oh, he could fly.
Oh, cool! I love astronomy!
Really? Yeah.
Wow, it's got your name engraved and everything.
It was my dad's.
We used to watch the shuttle launches together.
So you spy on your neighbors?
No! The stars, the moon.
Isn't the moon kind of close?
I mean, you don't even need a telescope to see it.
I was looking for something more specific.
What? The flag Apollo 11 planted?
No.
Did you know Galileo thought that oceans made up
the face of the Man in the Moon?
Actually, they're lava flows.
I know. They're called "maria."
Do you know the name of the biggest, nearest crater to the Apollo 11 landing?
Julius Caesar.
Know when Apollo 11 landed?
Summer of '69.
Which hemisphere?
West. Can you name an eastern landing?
Apollo 15. Summer of '71.
Name another west.
17. Winter of '72.
Name a landing near Copernicus crater.
Apollo 12, summer of '69, and 16 landed in spring of '72.
And 14 in winter of '71.
We're all out of missions.
Wouldn't it be fantastic to go there?
Someday I will.
They'll have really fast interplanetary ships.
Yeah, and they'll use...
What's that power source?
Electromagnetic propulsion.
Yeah, that's it.
Good thing you met me, then, huh?
Every space traveler needs a partner.
Only we can't see the moon if it never gets dark.
Here. Try this on.
Very handsome.
What'll you wear?
Hmm?
What was that for?
I don't know.
Bonjour.
I'm still not used to you doing that.
Sorry, it's the only way in for me.
Oh! Oh, oh, oh, oh. Stunning.
Your grandmama wore a dress just like that
the first time I fell in love with her. Yes.
You fell in love with her more than once? Of course.
How old were you?
Sixth grade. What a romance!
It lasted a week. Then, then my family moved,
and I didn't see her again till I went away
to college.
Did she remember you?
No, not a bit,
but we fell in love all over again.
That is so romantic.
Yeah. My beautiful wife.
Let's see. Come.
Let's see. Here.
Is the tortoise ready to dance?
Hmm.
Shall we?
We shall.
Ryan.
No.
Oh, come on.
You're a quick study, when you want.
I've never seen him outside the Big Top before.
Let go. No.
Stop it! Stop it!
The kids...
The kids have to finish the tango.
What does he want with me, Grandpa?
Don't fear him, boy.
That would be a mistake.
He's no one to be afraid of.
No.
No one
to be afraid of.
Ryan?
Oh, Melanie would love this.
You ever get bored?
Didn't know I needed more than this.
No, I mean knowing you're stuck here.
Who says I'm stuck?
Did your mother ever tell you about the Fair-Footed Flekk?
No.
What about the Flekk?
Fair-Footed Flekk.
Is there a point to this?
Oh, there will be if you have any patience.
I'm patient! You're patient, huh? We will see.
Come. Come. Come.
Once upon a time, there were three men
who decided to climb the tallest mountain in their country.
Which mountain? The tallest.
That's the point.
These fellows knew if they succeeded,
they would be showered with wealth and power by the king.
For climbing a mountain?
This happened a long time ago
when climbing a mountain wasn't, wasn't a weekend sport.
They even referred to the mission as a "quest for paradise."
Now, this is an honest to goodness fable, huh?
You'll see.
Now, the king had a beautiful daughter,
and he promised her hand to the bravest of the men.
So even if the guy was an ugly toad with fart's breath,
she'd have to marry him?
Yes, yes.
Halfway up the mountain,
one of the men turned to the guide and said
he couldn't justify the strain of another day's hiking
just for the king's good blessings.
Go on, Grandpa.
Go on. Go on. Go on.
Next morning, the second man
decided the climb was foolish.
Even if the king were offering pails of gold,
he figured it wouldn't be worth spending from his deathbed.
So off he went.
The last man...
The last man was chipper as a fox in a chicken coop.
Already counting his good graces.
Anticipating wealth! Wench! Happiness!
The guy's styling.
Guy's styling, yes.
Well, his excitement was short-lived.
As the guide outlined the final day's journey, treacherous,
this fellow just shook his head in disgust.
I mean,
for a spoiled child bride,
it would take all the king's money to keep her happy anyway.
So without even a proper fare-thee-well, he turned on his heel
and left the young guide alone.
And you know
what the guide did then?
Bailed?
He went for it.
Cool! Good! Yes!
So then what?
After two more days he reached the precipice
and discovered a weathered bench,
looked out over the countryside,
cupped his hands and shouted,
"What paradise is this?"
He was answered by a beautiful voice.
"What paradise do you seek?"
The Fair-Footed Flekk? Yeah, she skipped through the clouds
as if she were light as air itself.
She explained how the men he'd started with were glory seekers
expecting paradise,
but disappointed.
Disappointed at the price.
The young man was touched and moved
as he looked over this,
this tiny piece of the world,
seeing with a clarity he'd never known.
And a word tumbled from his lips,
"Paradise."
And the Fair-Footed Flekk?
Gone into the clouds.
Memory.
Climbing the mountain was his reward?
Climbing was his paradise.
You all right, Grandpa?
Yeah. Never better.
I wish Melanie was here. She'd dance for us.
Melanie?
But, Ryan, you can dance!
Ryan, you can dance, huh?
And left turn. And right turn.
Left again, and right again. And now...
That's impossible.
In the Dust Factory anything is possible.
You just have to unlearn your cans and can'ts.
Besides, the walk back
would have finished me.
So you have been getting tired.
And you are feeling stronger?
Yeah, I guess?
Ever heard of "conservation of energy"?
Can't create it...
Or destroy it.
Just keeps moving around.
As it should.
Ryan, Ryan, Ryan.
Ryan.
Come on.
Let's go!
See you later, Grandpa.
Boy! Boy! Don't forget you're on a quest for paradise.
Yeah.
Oh, careful there, partner!
I almost got it. All right.
Eyes forward.
What's up with you?
I don't know.
I just feel great.
Feel like you're in Neverland?
I suppose.
I never saw the movie.
But you get it now.
Now, more balance.
Try again.
All right, balance.
Eyes forward.
Ryan?
He's not ready.
Ryan, are you okay?
Of course.
Don't worry. I'm not gonna fall in the lake.
Now show me that spinning move again.
Okay.
Pirouette, eyes forward.
Mazzelli goes low and scores!
What?
I don't know.
It's like I forgot to do something.
It runs? Why wouldn't it?
I didn't have butchers for mechanics.
Hop in. Jump. Come on!
You, too. Come right here.
Yeah, oh-ho, yes, it's wonderful.
So three aboard and gone!
Where are we going?
Patience.
What are you doing?
Hey, what's with you two?
You didn't see any trees?
- No. - This is an orchard.
Grandpa, watch out!
Hey, hey, hey, what's with you two?
That was so close!
You didn't see any trees.
Uh, no.
Look at all the leaves.
My grandfather told me
when a leaf floats past you
it means somewhere someone is thinking of you.
Oh, please!
What?
You don't think anyone thinks about you?
Oh, Melanie! You have to believe.
I know what you're up to. It's not fair.
Oh, Melanie.
Little lady.
I believe.
Patience. Patience.
I don't want this to ever end.
Again with that word "end."
It's a myth.
That's a lie.
Don't be selfish, Melanie.
When you make the leap at the Big Top, time in the Dust Factory ends.
Melanie.
Let Ryan decide.
Melanie!
Dust.
I hate it!
I don't want to jump and I never will!
Melanie.
Ryan, help!
Mel, pull! Please! Pull!
I'm trying! It's too strong!
I'm sorry, Ryan.
I didn't mean to bring us here.
Everything was gonna be perfect.
It was gonna be just you and me.
Your grandpa went and ruined everything with those leaves.
The dust.
You never should have messed with the dust.
Careful, Ryan.
I think...
Ryan! I think you're supposed to shoot!
Ryan, don't leave me here!
Mel!
Grandpa?
There is no paradise for me.
Fair-Footed Flekks don't exist. They're all lies!
Where are you, Grandpa?
Boy! Boy! Boy!
Grandpa, it's Melanie.
Ah, she can wait.
You don't understand. I understand perfectly.
But, Grandpa, I left her in that awful place.
No. Her lack of faith keeps her there.
No.
She's just scared.
Melanie will learn on her own.
Otherwise,
she'll never make the leap,
and we can't dawdle here forever.
You're leaving.
What?
I should...
I should overstay my welcome?
But I like the way things are, here with you and Mel.
No.
You have a home, a family,
a life that mustn't be tossed aside
because you're afraid of dying.
I won't go back!
Boy,
the beauty of living is
that you get to work all the world's myths.
Let each have a tug at your insides.
Take a shot at answering the questions of, of life and death.
When I die,
I don't want it to hurt.
I don't see paradise, Grandpa.
I want to,
but I don't.
Patience.
I hear the circus clowns. Hear them.
They are
singing.
Will I ever see you again?
Ah.
The colors of sunset,
warm and cool,
always extraordinary.
Always extraordinary.
Live your life,
Ryan Flynn.
No!
No! No!
Mel?
Mel!
Mel.
I'm not afraid of you!
You're afraid I can win her back.
I challenge you!
Yes!
Come on, Mel, let's go. We're out of here.
What? I beat you. I scored!
I'm ready to leave. I proved it.
What's wrong?
You won, Ryan.
I didn't.
No!
You just have to believe
there's more to life than one long winter.
You're asking me to risk everything.
I've been here too long. I don't even remember where I came from.
Where would I end up?
I can't handle that kind of uncertainty.
Grandpa would tell you to turn all that doubt into trust.
Take a chance, Mel.
Do you trust me?
Do you trust yourself?
Say it, Mel!
Come on, get off those toe-picks and skate.
Skate now!
Meet me halfway, Ryan.
Grandpa took the leap.
Did he make it?
He made it, Ryan.
It's all right.
Thanks for coming.
Special catch, he was.
He would have caught me if I'd done nothing
but offered two stumps for hands.
What a man.
Son?
I miss you.
Dad?
I wanted to tell you so much.
Remember when you showed me the Man in the Moon?
And I couldn't see him for the longest time,
and then you drew that picture of him.
Told me his eyes were so droopy because
he only slept three days of a month?
And that his smile was so big,
because he loved to watch me play.
Ever since you told me that story, I've wanted to visit him.
I really miss you, Dad.
Ryan?
He was right here.
Ryan, it's okay.
No, he was right here!
It's okay. No!
My dad! I saw him.
I saw my dad.
He looked so real.
They're waiting for us.
Come on.
He would have caught me
if I'd done nothing but offered two stumps for arms.
What a man.
Come on. This is supposed to be a celebration, remember?
A toast, to Grandpa.
Not here.
I'm not sure I understand anything Grandpa said,
but at least I'm not afraid anymore.
I figure he's in eternity.
I almost grasp the meaning of it,
but then it slips away.
Maybe because I'm just a kid.
Fill her up.
To a wise old man who's better off not drivin'.
I never saw the Fair-Footed Flekk.
Do you know what she looks like?
No.
Then how do you know you haven't already met her?
Funny,
I still don't see paradise.
I wanna go home,
really go home.
I know,
and I don't want you to.
It was always my plan to leave, too, you know?
But I was just waiting for a sign.
I figured there'd be this perfect moment
where I'd just know it was right.
I guess I'm just a dawdler.
You know, I can still do everything better than you can.
Faster. Always will.
You can't always win.
I'll always beat you.
And I won't mind.
I'll never forget you, Mel.
You will.
No. I won't.
See you later.
Not "later."
Just "see you."
I wish I had the courage to climb a mountain.
All I have is this stupid lake!
It's not winter. It's not winter. It's not winter!
It's summer!
Ryan!
Ryan! Ryan, come on.
Over here, Ry! Swim!
Come on, you can do it. Swim!
Come on!
Shoot it! Go past it!
Go for the net, man!
- Get around the guy! - Watch the goalie.
Wow! He scored!
- How did you do that? - Goal!
Honey, when are you going to tell him his grandpa died?
I don't know. He just got out of the hospital.
He hardly knew his grandpa.
That's supposed to mean something,
when a leaf falls.
Um, it means no Indian summer.
Oh, right.
The Lewises brought their daughter home.
Shoot! Shoot!
Now, there's a girl you want to get to know, Ryan.
She's got spunk.
Like a good power forward, huh?
A girl?
Yeah, right.
You got a problem with girl hockey players, huh?
Huh? Huh? All right! All right! All right!
All right! Let me hear you say it! I wanna hear you say,
"Women are the best athletes on the planet."
Let me hear you say it. All right, all right, all right.
Women
aren't the best athletes... I got you!
I got you! Let me hear you say it. Let me hear it.
Mom! Let me hear it.
Oh, no! All right, all right, all right. I give up! Mercy, mercy!
Oh, mercy? Oh, mercy!
You were, like, dog paddling.
No, I wasn't. I know how to swim.
Oh, well, you must have forgotten there for a minute, buddy,
because you were paddling like a hound dog.
You know, I don't even think you knew that your foot was busted.
Adrenaline rush just does that to you.
God, it's so weird hearing you talk.
I don't have to.
No, no, no, no, no!
It's good.
Doesn't look like such a bad fall from here.
Are you kidding? I saw you fall.
You landed way out there.
Aren't you comin' out?
You know her?
No.
Go on, Flynn O'gain! Go for it!
Bah!
Your friend should see a doctor for that tongue thing.
People might think he's trying to catch flies.
What happened to your leg?
I fell
off this bridge.
Right.
Really. I did.
Wow!
That's pretty cool.
It was an accident.
I had an accident, in my head.
They said it was an aneurysm.
Oh.
Is that bad?
Not anymore.
How long do have to wear your cast?
Couple of months.
You really fell off this bridge?
Yeah.
Cold, huh?
I really don't remember much.
I don't like cold water.
Give me heat any day.
There's this island called Tahiti.
I'm going there when I grow up.
No winter. Just long, hot days.
I don't know. I kind of like fall
and winter.
That's 'cause your parents told you
winter makes you look forward to summer.
Why wait nine months?
I suppose you're right,
but I'd still miss the colors
and the leaves.
Boy, someone snowed you over but good.
Come on, Ryan!
Race you.
Yeah, right!
Fair enough?
We'll look like a couple of turtles.
So?
Your friend can call it.
Go!
Look at them go, folks!
I'm running!
Now she's running!
She's cheating! She's cheating!
Look at her! She's using two legs!
Ryan only has one!
This is a bit unfair, folks, but Ryan's making his way back.
It's a good race. The final stretch...
Dust is a funny thing.
It's everywhere all at once
like a teeny, tiny snowstorm
in every ray of light.
Even the moon is just a big dust ball.
But you know, it's all in the way you look at it,
not this way or that way,
not forways or backways.
Just believe before you look.
The Man in the Moon
has a magic all his own.