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Rose Woods:
How many times we been over this, Laz? How many times? [pause] Rose Woods:
Thought we was gonna be friendly about this. Lazarus:
Carryin' on behind my back. Make me out to look like a fool to all our people. Tell me, what's friendly about that? Rose Woods:
I'm not ready to grow old, Laz. Livin' with you. I feel it. Like I'm one foot in the dirt. Saw it happen to my momma. And that's not gonna happen to me. I got living to do. Lazarus:
And you gonna live it with him? [pause] Lazarus:
Rose. Folks get sick. But you do what you can to get on the mend. Our marriage... it just got sick. That's all. Rose Woods:
Talk to me about sick. Ain't been right since I moved into that drafty house. Lazarus:
I kept the heat on... Rose Woods:
That damned, rusty, radiator, bout burned the skin off my legs each time I passed. Lazarus:
Kept us warm for twelve years. Rose Woods:
I deserve better than this. Lazarus:
Better than me? Rose Woods:
Better than what you give. Lazarus:
Rose, please... Rose Woods:
Laz... You can't say nothin'... Lazarus:
If we get with a counselor. At the church, maybe they's... Rose Woods:
I don't love you no more!
How many times we been over this, Laz? How many times? [pause] Rose Woods:
Thought we was gonna be friendly about this. Lazarus:
Carryin' on behind my back. Make me out to look like a fool to all our people. Tell me, what's friendly about that? Rose Woods:
I'm not ready to grow old, Laz. Livin' with you. I feel it. Like I'm one foot in the dirt. Saw it happen to my momma. And that's not gonna happen to me. I got living to do. Lazarus:
And you gonna live it with him? [pause] Lazarus:
Rose. Folks get sick. But you do what you can to get on the mend. Our marriage... it just got sick. That's all. Rose Woods:
Talk to me about sick. Ain't been right since I moved into that drafty house. Lazarus:
I kept the heat on... Rose Woods:
That damned, rusty, radiator, bout burned the skin off my legs each time I passed. Lazarus:
Kept us warm for twelve years. Rose Woods:
I deserve better than this. Lazarus:
Better than me? Rose Woods:
Better than what you give. Lazarus:
Rose, please... Rose Woods:
Laz... You can't say nothin'... Lazarus:
If we get with a counselor. At the church, maybe they's... Rose Woods:
I don't love you no more!
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Movie Summary
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.

