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Wake of the Week
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The setup
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The premise
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An elderly couple thumbs for a lift along a country road while, at the funeral home, a woman in a leopard-print coat and an older relative fuss over the body, praise the undertaker's handiwork and marvel that the same business runs the wedding hall and the ambulance. The younger woman even wants a picture of her mother beside the casket. Then the sons gather: Jimmy, poured off a plane and very drunk, wants one last talk with a father he never knew, and his brothers remember a man who was generous only when he had been drinking. A rosary is organised to restore some dignity, but Tommy forgets the prayer, swears, and turns on his brothers, and soon all three are grappling on the floor while the women shriek and one son concludes that none of them is as much of a man as their mother. By the time the hitchhiking couple, Cass and Roly, finally arrive, the fight has spilled into the parking lot, and the old women hurry off to catch the rest, promising another wake next week.
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They did a lovely job on him here.
Hatching, matching and dispatching.
They say you're really a man when your old man dies.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
John Blanchard
Director
Script
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- 00:11
That's not dead. Yes, it is. But you don't look like Dad. Oh, I don't like to be looking at it. Oh, my Alice, I'm not too late, am I, girl? You haven't got him planted. God love him. Which I lost Cassie out in Topsail somewhere. A bit of a problem with Roly.
- 00:33
They did a lovely job on him here. Took him some long time to go, though, didn't it, girl? Yes, the doctor said he had a heart like a horse bit. Of course, he was always contrary.
- 00:44
Mom, come over here. Look, I want to get a picture of you with the coffin.
- 00:47
what i will not look going to ghoul what she like my god though alice they must make some old money here
- 00:54
well well the funeral parlor in the hall for weddings and the ambulance service hatching matching and dispatching
- 01:04
no no no no no alice no disrespect intended not taken bet on
- 01:10
when's jim getting in he was supposed supposed to get into st john's an hour ago he should be here soon
- 01:15
where's tommy i don't know i think he's out in the truck
- 01:18
judas in the big one if that comes in here now in the horrors after drinking whiskey
- 01:23
Jimmy ?
where is he where's the old man where is he where is he come on boy Come on, boy. Get off the big
- 01:32
oh god they must have poured him off the plane
- 01:37
Jimmy
i just want to talk to him that's all i just want want to talk to him. I never got to talk to him. I went away, right? I never got to talk to him, right? I never knew him. You knew him. You were always around, right? I never knew him, right?
- 01:53
I didn't know him that well.
- 01:54
Nobody knew him, boy. Nobody knew him, Jimmy. Until he wouldn't think he was all heart, boy. He'd give you the last cent in his pocket. Yeah, when he was drunk.
- 02:04
Well, boy, they say you're really a man when your old man dies. Yeah, you're all mad, all mad, all freakin' mad.
- 02:11
Look at the state of them trees. Alice, we'll have the rosary. The youngsters can take a mystery each. Tommy, George and Jim, come over here. We're gonna have the rosary. Tishy, come on. Tommy, you take the first mystery. All right? The first sorrowful mystery, the agony in the garden.
- 02:30
Tommy
First sorrowful mystery, the agony in the garden. Our father apart in heaven. jeez i can't remember the rest of that friggin thing
- 02:38
my god tommy the language during the holy rose
- 02:41
Tommy ?
you shut up you you shut your friggin track he was my father he was nothing to you he was my father and he could never take me he could never take me you're a bitch man, but you could never take me the man just died. He's dead
- 02:54
what are they drinking for them bastards you gotta drink in this family i suppose if you didn't have a few drinks you'd burst on hold everything in go on you alcoholic why don't you have one for your nerves shut up junior you shut up junior and sit down why don't you make
- 03:15
Come on now! what have you put in your pocket? I'm pretty brave now, standing behind your mother. Come on, Georgie! Thank God I got a mother. Out of the way, mother! Come on, Georgie! You didn't let me go, did you? Yeah, but I just feel like I'm gonna kill that tonight.
- 03:29
Oh, my God! If one of them lands on me, they'll be laying me up in the coffin next to my...
- 03:35
You shut up! You will take a nuclear bomb to kill you. My God, Georgie! Watch your dirty big mouth, for God's sake, the legs! You shut up! You're crawling like a bunch of savages up there, biting big pieces out of each other Jimmy's for their death!
- 03:48
Georgie, Jimmy, Tom, for God's sake, people be coming to see your poor father! My God, it's infuriating, for God's sake!
- 03:55
Get up! Get up! Get up, you bastard!
- 04:01
Well, dear, as big a man as any of you eat.
- 04:04
don't go saying that everyone in this family always going on about being a man Every one of us should always want to be more of a man than the other one. None of us have the man that mum is!
- 04:19
Oh my God! It's Cassin Roly and all the grand ones! Come on, Tommy! Come on, Jimmy! Georgey! Come on! Sit up like civilised people for once in your life! Come on, Tommy, sit down! People are coming in now, sit down.
- 04:38
Oh my god, take it out of the parking lot, go on, get out of here, get out of here! You're not a soul around! Pardon the pun!
- 04:45
What a way, Hey Cassie, my darling, you're after missing the best of it. So they're out there now in the midst of a big wrecking in the parking lot. What? Fresh blood, new recruits, let's go get them.
- 04:58
Well if we make it through this one, we'll be back next week with... Wig of the Week!
- 05:03
Hey, come on! What are you talking about? Wake up, you old man!