Summer of the Monkeys (1998)

Leslie Hope: Sarah Lee

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Quotes 

• Sarah Lee : [at Jay Barry]  Monkeys? You really expect us to believe that monkeys made this mess?

• Daisy Lee : He's telling the truth!

  [hands her mom a note] 

  Sarah Lee : [Sarah takes the note from Daisy and reads it to herself]  You saw them too?

  Jay Berry Lee : I didn't think you would react this strongly.

  Sarah Lee : The two of you should've been here the whole time.

• Jay Berry Lee : [upset that he can't see if the traps got triggered]  This is unfair!

  Sarah Lee : [not want to hear his complaining]  You're staying here and

  [becomes very stern] 

  Sarah Lee : That's The End Of It!

• Sarah Lee : [responding to Her daughter]  That's enough Daisy.

• Sarah Lee : [the storm raging outside]  The Lord is my Sheppard I shall not want.

  [in the basement Sarah reading from the bible her voice calm and resonate] 

  Sarah Lee : He Maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his names sake. Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil

  [thunder strikes] 

  Sarah Lee : For though are with me

  [a tornado touches down and a window shatters knocking over objects] 

  Sarah Lee : my rod and my staff as my comfort.

  [Jay Barry and Daisy huddle together in fear] 

  Sarah Lee : Thou preparest the table before me in presence of my enemies. Thou anoinist my head with oil my cup runneth over.

  [Sarah continues reading as the storm rages it's fury] 

  Sarah Lee : Surely his goodness will follow throughout the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

  [looks up and realizes the storm begins to die down] 

• Sarah Lee : [to Jay Barry]  Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor. Doing honest work with his hands so that he may be able to give to those in need.

  [Jay Barry starts to ascend the stairs but Sarah stops him] 

  Sarah Lee : Ephesians 4:28

  [Jay Barry runs upstairs and goes into his bedroom] 

• Sarah Lee : [back at the house after Grandpa Sam brought Jay Barry home]  Absolutely not. That's like rewarding him for everything he's done.

  [Jay Barry eve's drops from the top of the stairs] 

  Grandpa Sam Ferrans : Oh I don't think so. You know if you make a jail out of this farm he'll get to where he hates it.

  [Sarah pours her dad some coffee and Daisy joins her brother as well] 

  Grandpa Sam Ferrans : Why don't you let him go with me. I'll take him to Ridgeweld show him the library he might even learn something.

  Sarah Lee : [not pleased with it]  Jay has been disobedient he should be punished.

  Grandpa Sam Ferrans : Well maybe so. Ain't it strange how things have a way of working out. I remember a skinny little girl with pigtails kind of pretty. Gotten way more her share of trouble.

  [trying to bring up when Sarah was a little girl] 

  Sarah Lee : Well, well that was a long time ago and we're talking about the here and now.

  Grandpa Sam Ferrans : Might not hurt you to look back. You might even see that skinny little girl sneaking out of the house on her way.

  [Sarah interrupts] 

  Sarah Lee : But if I remember

  [Sam cuts her off] 

  Sarah Lee : On her way to enter a runt pig in the county fair after her dad told her not to.

  [Daisy and Jay Barry realized that their mom did something that she wasn't supposed to] 

  Sarah Lee : And you shut me in my room for that and you didn't even let me go to the fair!

  Grandpa Sam Ferrans : [remorseful]  That was wrong and I'm sorry. Your mother and I were young and kind of dumb, probably made a lot of mistakes. But I wish I'd let you go to the fair you and your pig. You might have learned something. Hell you might have even wanted to who knows.

  [looks at his watch] 

  Grandpa Sam Ferrans : Well think about what I've said I'll be by in the morning.

  [to John] 

  Grandpa Sam Ferrans : Goodnight.

  John Lee : Goodnight

  [kisses Sarah and pats her on the shoulder as Sam leaves Jay Barry and Daisy run back upstairs] 

  John Lee : [a while later John finds Sarah standing outside looking out towards the distance]  I never heard that one before I'd love to see you sneaking out to register that runt.

  [Sarah chuckles] 

  Sarah Lee : Well that wasn't the first time I snuck out nobody should know that better than you.

  [John rubs his wife's shoulders] 

  Sarah Lee : I'm just trying to raise him proper John.

  [referring about Jay Barry] 

  John Lee : You are.

  Sarah Lee : I don't know, he's so willful.

  John Lee : So are you, and you turned out alright.

  Sarah Lee : Thank you very much.

  [both chuckle and look out towards the distance] 

  Sarah Lee : Do you think we should let him go?

  John Lee : I keep seeing the young man inside that boy trying to get out. Lord knows it's a struggling doesn't always do what's right. But I do believe you're Pa has gathered some wisdom over the years so yes I say we let him go.

  [Sarah sighs] 

• Sarah Lee : [Sarah returns home after being out for a while. She enters the house and sees the place is completely trashed and she's not too happy about it]  Jay Barry Lee!

• Jay Berry Lee : [the morning after the monkeys trashed the Lee family home] 

  [outraged] 

  Jay Berry Lee : I can't work at Grandpa's for the next two weeks?

  John Lee : [inside Jay's bedroom with Sarah next to him]  That's right!

  [Jays sighs heavily while sitting on his destroyed bed] 

  John Lee : When you're not working in the fields you could be rebuilding the chicken coops.

  Jay Berry Lee : [to his parents]  This is so unfair!

  Sarah Lee : Well you should've thought about that before you left the house son.

  Jay Berry Lee : And I suppose Daisy gets away Scot-Free!

  Sarah Lee : [Sarah instantly becomes infuriated with her sons statement]  Shame on you! Your sister is laying in bed with her leg hurt, and all you could think about is wether or not she is getting punished!

  [John shakes his head in a disapproving manner at Jay Barry] 

  Jay Berry Lee : [yelling back at his mom]  I DIDN'T ASK HER TO FOLLOW ME!

  John Lee : You're job was to watch over your sister, and you didn't do it!

  Jay Berry Lee : Yeah well what about the monkeys? I can't trap them if I'm busy all the time!

  [Jays parents just stare at him annoyed] 

  Jay Berry Lee : [begging his parents for amnesty]  Please, they're worth 85 dollars.

  John Lee : [in a stern and cold voice at Jay]  Well I don't care what their worth. You just think about what you've done wrong!

  [John and Sarah leave and lock Jay Barry in his room putting into solitary confinement, forcing him to reflect on his wrongdoings for everything that happened and Jay falls backwards on his bed and sighs heavily]