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  • 7/14/2025
Josie (2018) is a slow-burning drama set in a quiet Southern town, where the arrival of a mysterious young woman sparks curiosity and tension. As she forms an unexpected connection with a reserved local man, past secrets and personal struggles begin to surface. With a moody atmosphere and strong performances, the film explores loneliness, trust, and emotional complexity.
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00:00:00There's all sorts of stories.
00:00:30Happy ones, sad ones, pathetic ones, mine.
00:01:00Happy ones, happy ones.
00:01:27I don't know.
00:01:57I don't know.
00:02:27I don't know.
00:02:29Yoo-hoo.
00:02:31Hank.
00:02:32Morning, Mrs. Joyner.
00:02:34Well, how many times am I going to have to tell you to call me Martha?
00:02:38Sorry, ma'am.
00:02:39Just don't come natural.
00:02:40Oh, you southern boys are just so gosh darn sweet, aren't you?
00:02:44Yes, ma'am.
00:02:45Speaking of which, do you think you could come by sometime this weekend and help out with
00:02:49a little project?
00:02:51Yeah, I suppose I could.
00:02:53Oh, you are just as sweet as maple syrup.
00:02:56You have a good day now.
00:02:58You too, Mrs. Joyner.
00:03:00Is that you Hanky Panky?
00:03:03Mr. Joyner.
00:03:05Hey.
00:03:06How did you hit him today?
00:03:07Ah, crooked as my old wrinkled crank.
00:03:09Gordon.
00:03:10What?
00:03:11It's true.
00:03:12When are we going to get you out on the course?
00:03:14Hank doesn't play golf.
00:03:16For Christ's sake, Romero, stop sneaking up on me like that.
00:03:19Hey, English Romero, you live in America now.
00:03:23Don't make me ask for your papers.
00:03:25Okay, Trump.
00:03:26You leave him alone.
00:03:28Romero is just fine.
00:03:29He's from El Paso.
00:03:31So he says.
00:03:33Anyway, I gotta get back to work.
00:03:35I'll talk to y'all later.
00:03:37All right, Hanky Panky.
00:03:39See you later.
00:03:40Take it easy.
00:03:46Slow down.
00:04:05Can't park there.
00:04:06Hey, suck it.
00:04:08This tank.
00:04:09How have you told?
00:04:14Dumbass.
00:04:16What?
00:04:17Oh, perfect.
00:04:40Wait.
00:04:44everything all right out here everything's just fine thanks what can i do for you well i'm just
00:05:00moving in here and um romero i think that's his name pointed to your door and said a big burly
00:05:06strong man lives in there and he'll help you out i reckon he said that he's gotten his truck and
00:05:11hightailed out of here yeah something like that so how about it lend me a hand
00:05:18i just give me a minute will you right i'm just across the way
00:05:41hey what's your name hey i'm josie nice to meet you hank
00:05:48there we are thank you it would have sucked carrying all those boxes alone
00:06:10place is all mine
00:06:12got more furniture
00:06:18nah king with a bed that's enough
00:06:20looks like you got to
00:06:23make this more one huh
00:06:26place is in decent shape
00:06:36yeah i think it will suit me just fine
00:06:50hmm
00:06:55well i'm sure
00:07:01nice to meet you joey yeah you too
00:07:08if you need anything
00:07:12right over there
00:07:15that's right
00:07:18see you take care hank
00:07:23settle in everyone
00:07:30settle in everyone
00:07:37later
00:07:38love you
00:07:39yeah after class
00:07:41today we're gonna start working on your final projects for the end of the year
00:07:47we only have three weeks left and you're gonna need every single one of them
00:07:54hi dear come on in
00:07:57uh are you miss elkins
00:07:59yes i am
00:08:00thank you
00:08:01oh good everyone we have a new classmate josephine walker
00:08:06oh it's josie actually
00:08:08josie um my name is josie
00:08:10welcome josie
00:08:12welcome josie
00:08:13say welcome
00:08:14hi josie
00:08:15you can have a seat honey
00:08:17so as i was saying your project will be done in pairs and you'll receive an individual and a collective grade so don't even think about letting your carker do all the work
00:08:29name's marcus
00:08:31hey
00:08:33hey
00:08:34hey
00:08:35you'll also have to memorize it and act it out before the class
00:08:38okay
00:08:39i'm gonna let you find your partner
00:08:42and we have an even number now that we have josie here
00:08:46thank you
00:08:48man can you believe this shit i don't think i can do it
00:08:53so you wanna be partners
00:08:56about how
00:08:57uh yeah sure but your friend here
00:08:59don't worry about gator okay you'll find someone else won't you gator
00:09:02this is really fucked up marcus
00:09:04you'll survive
00:09:06dickhead
00:09:08you sure that's okay
00:09:10yeah he'll be fine
00:09:12so i guess we got to uh meet up outside of here
00:09:17work on this stupid project
00:09:20yeah i suppose we do
00:09:23any ideas where we could go
00:09:25i'd offer up my place but it ain't right at the moment
00:09:28you got a place
00:09:30yeah i do actually
00:09:32pink motel you know it
00:09:34sure do
00:09:35yeah i'll be there around seven
00:09:37yeah i'll be there around seven
00:09:52god damn fool
00:09:54look that out marcus
00:10:01good afternoon hank
00:10:04you heard me put it out
00:10:07oh this thing
00:10:09six ain't cheap
00:10:11now i ain't finished
00:10:13now i'm done
00:10:26now i'm done
00:10:33three
00:10:35three
00:10:36two
00:10:37one
00:10:383, 2, 1, oh hell, mother fuckers, oh shit, you guys didn't have a shitty day,
00:10:59you guys didn't have a shitty day.
00:11:29Hey Francine, how you doing?
00:11:43Yeah you're right, I don't have any pants on, long story.
00:11:59I'm sorry, I don't have any pants on, long story.
00:12:09I'm sorry, I don't have any pants on.
00:12:16I'm sorry, I don't have any pants on.
00:12:21I'm sorry, I don't have any pants on.
00:12:30I'm sorry, I don't have any pants on.
00:12:36I'm sorry, I don't have any pants on.
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00:58:33Well, I'm real sorry about your truck.
00:58:36Yeah, me too.
00:58:38Fucker.
00:58:41Other than that, though, it was a hell of a night.
00:58:46Yeah, it was.
00:58:49Yeah.
00:58:58Is that about an hour okay?
00:59:00Yeah.
00:59:01Can I just be there?
00:59:03Yeah, yeah, I'll be there.
00:59:10You kissing her?
00:59:11Yep.
00:59:12Holy fucking love, son of a bitch.
00:59:14Just wait till I tell you what else we did.
00:59:16Oh, get the fuck out.
00:59:18Yeah, smell my fucking fingers.
00:59:20Yeah, you're sick.
00:59:24All right.
00:59:25I'm out.
00:59:45What was it?
00:59:46Josie.
01:00:07Can I come in?
01:00:08I don't want to feel much like talking.
01:00:16Me neither.
01:00:17But, um, you got that whiskey right there, and I still haven't seen your habitat, so I figured we could go sit with the turtles and have a drink.
01:00:34Wow.
01:00:52Looks amazing out here.
01:00:53Oh, there he is.
01:00:54Can I pick him up?
01:00:55Go ahead.
01:00:56Oh, God.
01:00:57They are gorgeous.
01:00:58Is this the boy or the girl?
01:00:59It's the girl.
01:01:00What's your name again?
01:01:01Francine.
01:01:02It's a funny name for a tortoise.
01:01:04Name it a tortoise or anything.
01:01:05It's pretty funny to think about it.
01:01:08No.
01:01:09No.
01:01:10No.
01:01:11No.
01:01:12No.
01:01:13No.
01:01:14No.
01:01:15No.
01:01:16No.
01:01:17No.
01:01:18No.
01:01:19No.
01:01:20No.
01:01:21No.
01:01:22No.
01:01:23No.
01:01:24No.
01:01:25No.
01:01:26No.
01:01:27No.
01:01:28No.
01:01:29No.
01:01:30No.
01:01:31No.
01:01:32No.
01:01:33No.
01:01:34No.
01:01:35No.
01:01:36No.
01:01:37No.
01:01:38No.
01:01:39No.
01:01:40No.
01:01:41No.
01:01:42No, please.
01:01:55No.
01:01:56No, please.
01:01:57Can I get some of that?
01:01:59You a god for him, I think?
01:02:21Nah.
01:02:23Ain't never really had no use for a god.
01:02:26What about in that room where you watched all those people die?
01:02:38Ain't no god in there.
01:02:42Even with a priest reading those rights?
01:02:48No.
01:02:48You know, in school when I was little, they used to teach us about God, heaven, hell,
01:03:02all that.
01:03:05And I'd tell my mama about it, about what I learned and how I wanted to go to heaven and
01:03:10love you, Jesus, and God, do you know what she'd say to me?
01:03:23She'd say,
01:03:24Josie, there ain't no god.
01:03:28And even if there is, he's a fucked up asshole who ain't never done right by you or me.
01:03:41And I just look up at her.
01:03:46These big, wide eyes, not even sure what all the words really meant.
01:03:50Eventually, I'll let you know.
01:03:55But not a day goes by that I don't think about what she said to me.
01:04:04Do you believe it?
01:04:06I don't know.
01:04:09Don't care so much either, I guess.
01:04:11Just something that always stuck with me.
01:04:14What is she at now?
01:04:20Dead.
01:04:23It's hard to hear that.
01:04:28Me too.
01:04:33You slash up Mark's tire?
01:04:36He ain't that bad of a guy.
01:04:38Y'all just need to sit down and have a beer and straighten out whatever's been going on with me too.
01:04:45What's going on lately?
01:04:48You.
01:04:58I took the liberty.
01:05:05Thanks for coming, Marcus.
01:05:07No problem.
01:05:09Hank, I asked Marcus here so you two could talk about whatever's been going on and maybe come to some sort of an agreement.
01:05:17I believe Marcus has a few things to say.
01:05:22Yeah, well, uh, sorry I call you Spank and that I messed with your truck.
01:05:33And?
01:05:35And your boat.
01:05:36That wasn't right.
01:05:39I'll stop messing with your stuff.
01:05:44Hank?
01:05:44Sorry about your tire.
01:06:03I'll replace it.
01:06:08I hope we can stay out of each other's way.
01:06:15Sure we can.
01:06:18I'll be over here sometimes, though.
01:06:21Think we can be civil?
01:06:25I don't see why not.
01:06:32That extended school, too.
01:06:38Yeah, it does.
01:06:39Yeah, it does.
01:06:40Appreciate that.
01:06:47See?
01:06:48When it's so hard, let's seal it with a drink.
01:06:52That's it.
01:06:53I got it.
01:06:53Catch anything good out in the lake?
01:07:05Good enough.
01:07:05I can, I can get dinner for, for a few days.
01:07:17You finished?
01:07:18Yeah.
01:07:19Yeah, I also like to hunt.
01:07:22It's a day time.
01:07:35Mm-hmm.
01:07:37Cheers.
01:07:39What's your hunt?
01:07:54Just whatever.
01:07:56If it breathes, I'll kill it.
01:08:05I got this a while back.
01:08:09Dear Lord, let me take a look at that.
01:08:24Whew.
01:08:25That's beautiful.
01:08:27Yeah.
01:08:28Mm-hmm.
01:08:37How beautiful.
01:08:38Mm-hmm.
01:08:44That's so.
01:08:58I got it.
01:09:01Yeah.
01:09:02That's so.
01:09:10Fuck.
01:09:24Fuck.
01:09:25Fuck.
01:09:25Fuck.
01:09:26Fuck.
01:09:27Fuck.
01:09:57Any last words?
01:10:27Any last words?
01:10:29Any last words?
01:10:33Any last words?
01:10:37Any last words?
01:10:57It's okay. Don't struggle.
01:11:23The picture was snapped 17 years ago on my fourth birthday.
01:11:39Took him away three months later.
01:11:49I guess I just got used to it.
01:11:57Next six years or so, we'd visit him a few times a month and tell him what was going on, how my school project went, how my soccer game was.
01:12:16My daddy was in jail. It just became normal.
01:12:26He wasn't home, but he was alive.
01:12:36And then he wasn't even that anymore.
01:12:48I watched you strap him down.
01:12:54Yeah.
01:12:56My mom probably didn't use the best judgment bringing me there, but she wanted me to see what y'all were going to do to him.
01:13:04To an innocent man.
01:13:14She leaned over and whispered in my ear,
01:13:18And they asked him if he had any last words.
01:13:46And they asked him if he had any last words.
01:13:52You remember what he said?
01:14:22To all of you that put me here.
01:14:34You will meet a fate far worse than this.
01:14:41Keep going.
01:14:51You will suffer in ways you never thought possible.
01:15:07But I promise you.
01:15:14What do you see, Hank?
01:15:21What do you see, Hank?
01:15:28Nothing.
01:15:29You ain't a bad guy.
01:15:35Truth is, I know you're actually sorry.
01:15:42I know it torments you.
01:15:43It eats at you.
01:15:49I know it torments you.
01:15:50It eats at you.
01:15:56The others I've done.
01:15:57They just went on with their lives.
01:16:03They got off on what they did.
01:16:18Sick.
01:16:19Fuck.
01:16:20But I've made sure daddy's words came true.
01:16:25They've suffered.
01:16:26Same goes for anyone I do after this.
01:16:32Same goes for anyone I do after this.
01:16:39Oh, I know I'm not.
01:16:40Oh.
01:16:41Oh, great.
01:16:44Oh, thank God.
01:16:46Same goes for anyone I do after this.
01:17:11Not you.
01:17:16Not suffering.
01:17:20Just peace.
01:17:46Not suffering.
01:17:50Not suffering.
01:17:53Not suffering.
01:17:57I bled out in under two minutes.
01:18:27She said that Mark was pretty bad.
01:18:35I mean, look at the scene.
01:18:39He's gonna have a hard time explaining he didn't kill me.
01:18:55Martha and Gordy were asked to give a statement.
01:19:00Gordy, he told him some stuff about what was going on with me and Josie and Marcus and the pranks and the shit.
01:19:11How I lusted after Josie and was jealous of her and Marcus.
01:19:22I ain't sure where I'm at now.
01:19:24There ain't something, but there ain't nothing either.
01:19:33I got no malice towards Josie or whatever her name is before she did.
01:19:38I mean, all them years I took part even in the score for the state of Texas.
01:19:43But when we settled one that wasn't meant to be settled, nothing happened to us.
01:19:50She just rectifying that.
01:20:04I mean, as with Josie.
01:20:05Is it true?
01:20:11Is it true?
01:20:18Is she leaving me after me?
01:20:33Is she telling me what to do?
01:20:40Telling me what to do while I'm asleep?
01:20:55Is she leaving me?
01:21:21May I help you?
01:21:22Whiskey.
01:21:46Good afternoon, miss.
01:21:47You gonna just sit there or you gonna buy me a drink?
01:21:52Just don't get us a couple of whiskeys and a couple of brews, huh?
01:21:59Name's Matthew.
01:22:02Nice to meet you, Matthew. I'm Frank, son.
01:22:05Well, welcome to Huntsville.
01:22:17Good afternoon.
01:22:24Yes.
01:22:26Good afternoon.
01:22:29Good afternoon.
01:22:31Good evening.
01:22:34Yes, good evening.