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  • 5/20/2025
Little Women - My Hands Are Empty
Jo (Winona Ryder) confesses her undying love for a forlorn Friedrich (Gabriel Byrne).

FILM DESCRIPTION:
In this 1994 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic, the March sisters confront growing pains, financial shortages, family tragedies and romantic rivalries in mid-19th-century Massachusetts. Jo (Winona Ryder) struggles for independence and sometimes clashes with her beloved mother and her sisters Meg, Amy and Beth. She also contends with their cranky Aunt March, their impulsive neighbor Laurie (Christian Bale) and kindly linguistics professor Friedrich Bhaer (Gabriel Byrne).

CREDITS:
TM & © Sony (1994)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Winona Ryder
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Screenwriter: Robin Swicord

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Transcript
00:00Friedrich!
00:18Friedrich, thank you for my book.
00:23When I didn't hear from you, I thought you hated it.
00:27Oh, no, no. Reading your book was like opening a window into your heart.
00:34James Fields took it out of my hands and he would not give it back to me.
00:38I said, such news I have to give to her myself.
00:43Well, it was... it was a silly...
00:47No, no, not silly at all.
00:51It's so good to see you. Come and meet my family.
00:55No, I... thank you, but...
00:59I have to catch the train.
01:02I... I'm going to the west.
01:05My ship leaves from Boston tomorrow morning.
01:09Oh.
01:10Yes, the, uh... the schools in the west are young.
01:14They... they need professors and, uh...
01:17They're not... so concerned about the exit.
01:21I don't mind it either.
01:25You see, my... my aunt left me a plum field.
01:32It isn't a field, it's a house, actually. A rather large house.
01:35And... it isn't really good for anything except a school.
01:39And I want a good school.
01:41One that would be open to anyone who wanted to learn.
01:44And... well...
01:46I...
01:47I...
01:48Be meeting someone who...
01:49knows how to teach.
01:52Is there nothing I might say to keep you here?
01:55I confess that...
01:56I was hoping that I might have a reason...
02:00To stay, but...
02:02Congratulations on...
02:05The celebration of your marriage.
02:07Oh, no!
02:08No!
02:09No, that's...
02:10That's Amy.
02:12My sister Amy and...
02:13And Laurie, actually.
02:15No, I...
02:16I'm not married.
02:17Please don't go so far away.
02:25Joe...
02:27Such a little name for...
02:30Such a person.
02:35Will you help me?
02:38With all of my heart.
02:39With my heart.
02:45But I have nothing to give you.
02:46My hands are empty.
02:51Not empty now.

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