All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mo | dG1fdkRCX191ejdaT2s
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00:00 Dear Mr. Curtis, I ain't ever been in a fight before.
00:05 What am I gonna do, let him squat and shit on my name?
00:09 What's a name except for everything?
00:12 I don't know where mine comes from.
00:14 Hendrick, that's my father's name.
00:17 But who's he except for a face I've never seen?
00:21 So who's at home now, Robbie?
00:23 Just me and my mom.
00:25 Her half-brother Fass, Cramming Kimmel, and the dog Billy.
00:30 How about your brother Lucas?
00:32 He draws by her every once in a while.
00:34 I just tell her I need her.
00:36 Tell her things that her husband doesn't.
00:38 Everybody's talking about the fight.
00:40 They didn't think you'd come.
00:42 Who says I'm fighting anyways, Kissinger?
00:45 You know, Robbie, I carry this thing forward.
00:48 When you go to high school next year and everybody knows who you are,
00:52 I don't think you want that, and I don't want it for you.
00:55 ♪ Skies warm, she's a- ♪
00:57 What will I say when Mom comes home?
01:01 You think I should be madder than hell at her?
01:05 I should yell and yell and ask her why she left again?
01:09 Why she left again like she said she never would?
01:12 Before you go looking at me with those eyes,
01:15 you better know I was seeing them before I was born.
01:18 I ain't gonna say a word, Mr. Curtis.
01:22 "Mom, don't worry," I'll say.
01:25 I'll clean the floor, wash down the sink.
01:29 Don't worry, Mom.
01:31 Not one single word, except to open the door.
01:35 ♪ Nothing's more ♪
01:38 ♪ than you ♪
01:44 ♪ Only love ♪