Angel and Big Joe

Year Published: 1975

Country of Origin: United States

Description: 16mm Film - Angel and Big Joe - USA 1975 Written and directed by: Bert Salzman Cienematography by: Paul Glickman Music by: Arlon Ober and Jay Lee Starring: Paul Sorvino, Dadi Pinero, Gloria Irizarry, Nicky Irizarry et al. For most of his life, Angel has been a migrant worker, helping his family as they move from place to place picking crops. When a phone won't work, Angel enlists 'Big Joe's' aid to repair it and from then on a friendship develops. Joe and the boy team up to start a rose-growing business. A call from Angel's father comes, the family must leave. Angel can stay with Joe and the promise of a future, or he can go with his family and continue in the uncertain lifestyle of his parents. Angel ist das älteste Kind einer puerto-ricanischen Familie, die in die USA ausgewandert ist und dort ihren Lebensunterhalt vorwiegend mit dem Sammeln von Feldfrüchten bestreitet. Der Vater ist fortgezogen, um Arbeit zu finden, und so warten Angel, seine Mutter und sein Bruder seit längerer Zeit auf einen Anruf von ihm, damit sie ihm nachfahren können. In der Zeit des Wartens wird das Geld, das der Vater ihnen dagelassen hat, immer weniger. Als das Telefon eines Tages nicht mehr funktioniert, spricht Angel einen Techniker an, der unweit des Hauses eine Oberleitung repariert. Durch seine hartnäckige Art bringt Angel den Mann, der sich Big Joe nennt, dazu, das Telefon zu reparieren. Einige Wochen später sehen sich beide wieder. Big Joe nimmt ihn mit nach Hause, und beide decken das Dach von Big Joes Villa. Angel bestaunt das große Grundstück, das jedoch überhaupt nicht bepflanzt ist. Big Joe erzählt, wie er mit seinem Sohn Pete einen Gewächshausbau begonnen hat, jedoch abbrach, als Pete in die Navy eingezogen wurde. Angel und Big Joe werden Freunde. Big Joe bittet Angel eines Tages, ihm beim Fertigbau des Gewächshauses zu helfen. Beide fangen schließlich an, Rosen zu züchten. Angel verbringt in dieser Zeit mehr Stunden bei Big Joe als bei seiner Mutter und hat ein schlechtes Gewissen, weil er insgeheim hofft, dass der Vater nie anruft, auch wenn er sieht, wie seine Mutter unter der Situation leidet. Eines Tages sind die Rosen schnittreif, und Angel und Big Joe können die Blumen für einen guten Preis verkaufen. Big Joe plant bereits weiter und will mit Angel zwei weitere Gewächshäuser bauen, damit sie in einigen Jahren richtig gut wirtschaften können. Angel gibt zu bedenken, dass er dann sicherlich nicht mehr da sein wird. Big Joe bietet ihm an, zu ihm zu ziehen und für immer in der Stadt zu bleiben - er selbst habe früher zur Unterstützung der Eltern mit ihnen in einer Mine gearbeitet, irgendwann jedoch erkannt, dass er auch eine Verantwortung für sich selbst hat und die Familie seine Unterstützung in der Form gar nicht brauchte. Angel geht, und Big Joe verspricht, ihn am nächsten Tag anzurufen. Angel wird bei seiner Rückkehr von der Mutter erwartet: Der Vater hat angerufen, und die Familie wird am nächsten Tag zu ihm reisen. Angel weint, entschließt sich jedoch, seiner Familie zu folgen. Big Joe hinterlässt er einen Abschiedsbrief mit Vorschlägen für seine neuen Rosenzuchtpläne.

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onions the soldier bought nobody got any more money he's birthday how are we going to eat if we ain't got money happy are we going to eat don't you talk to your mother away foreign okay um foreign something goes wrong how's that song what do you want I want you to come fix my phone it's broken got to call the telephone office if my phone's broken you're somebody else's phone I don't know who's anybody else's that tools you don't come and fix my phone foreign I thought all you people moved out a couple months ago no some of those people are still here and some of us people even got broken telephone all right I'll call my office and they'll send them in tomorrow no good what do you mean no good this guy get fixed today what's your hurry the hurry is my father's supposed to call from Arizona so cold tomorrow ah come on man my mother's home crying you're just gonna sit up there and do nothing what is it with you all right I'll call you up and see if it's all right okay pretty cool it go inside too not too much it doesn't matter I'm concerning my father called and said we got some work and we're leaving for Arizona [Music] from Mexico it's a big joke you got any jobs around the house paint your garage clean your attic you know that kind of stuff no no job sorry hello this is Joe Johnson give me a check on 555-9728 and call me right back how's the weather look okay thanks release the line okay your phone is working what's your name Angel what angel look in heaven and your wife entered the Earth nice brother d-i-a-z d-a-z oh thanks man I gotta go I'll pick a call Angel a I didn't see Big Joe for a couple of weeks and things would get really bad my father still hadn't quote so I got me a job after school during all weekends when I said I went into business for myself [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] a big job yes Mike you want to put some nice cash crops you know like lettuce tomatoes cucumbers or something too much trouble too much trouble are you crazy you know how much money you losing out there remind how much I'm losing job real way all that beautiful land just sitting out there doing nothing hey what's that what's what nothing out there oh that's my Greenhouse the greenhouse yeah Mike and Pete and I were going to build that greenhouse and grow some flowers yeah flowers you know what you get for Roses these days a dozen roses 15 bucks sometimes more now that is a good cash crop what happened okay join the Navy so why don't you get your leg to help you I'm divorced behind me I'll help you no that's okay we got it 15 bucks a dozen and if it was my station she was just coming out the channel [Music] so then I came around a few times a week because Joe asked me to help her with some other things [Music] the funny thing is at first I didn't like Big Joe too much and I didn't like him because I didn't think like me but then one time Victor told me about her when he was in the war and they were fighting and there was a lot of shooting and these guys were getting killed and everything and he told me about how he got so scared that all of a sudden he couldn't talk no more it's a long time I couldn't talk I tried to yell I couldn't yell I couldn't do anything and it was frozen then I think when the main shooting start they all got up to when he told me that I like them because I figured that when someone tells you about how when they were so scared they couldn't talk they must like you pretty good too [Music] I have a job no I'm in this book people he said that there was people living on you think he's right I know I've never been there well if there was people what kind of people you think they are probably some kind of weirdos I wanted to be funny and there were all Spanish people like me you know for the weekend Mexican real powerful and they came down here millions of these glasses and I'm gonna run out there and I'm gonna wait hey baby I'm your friend Angel and they're gonna say hey Andrew baby we had to get on bad numbers that I heard in the Spanish people and I'm gonna say yeah well I know is there don't mess with mommy you know sorry stay little let us back brother and I say bye yeah [Music] angel [Music] I've been thinking how would you like to help me finish building the greenhouse Greenhouse yeah we can start tomorrow you mean it yeah I mean it to make some money I give you some of the profits until we began to build a greenhouse right you got to remember that I've been working in the field and picking across my whole life and I hated it hated it but working with Big Joe is not like really working it was more like playing around and having fun I really liked it okay [Applause] [Music] all right foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] I can't go to a Maria's house now I'll probably never know where we are [Music] um my mother was worried and crying and all that time the only thing I was really thinking about was the Roses foreign okay here okay okay no I want to cut look at it come on foreign [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign six dollars I tell you what I'll give you 450 11. I'll take all the Roses you got let's go five dollars a dozen that's it take it or leave it [Music] I think she did good you know what we're going to do tomorrow morning what we're going to start building two more greenhouses two more yeah that's what I said we keep putting back the profits into the business in a few years we're really going to have something what's the matter um I forgot about that so why don't you stay okay remember to stay right here is plenty of room excuse me yeah I'm serious I really want you to stay what are you gonna do if it crash the rest of your life no no hey but you know I'm a family man the name let me tell you something my father worked his whole life down on the mines and when I was 14 I quit school and went down to the mice to work with him I liked School I was good in school but I quit because I thought my parents needed me to help out I spent six years down in the coal mines eating cold dust and hating every minute of it and hating my father for letting me do it one day on a day off I was sitting in the park and I was watching two kids we're playing they're having a great time just laughing and playing and I try to remember the time the last time that I had felt like laughing and I couldn't remember it and I got really angry I didn't want to work in the market I could work in the minds all right I had a responsibility to them but what about me not a responsibility to me too so I ran home packed a bag Christian goodbye and left that town and the funny thing is my family didn't stop after I left but I almost spent my entire life down in the mines just because I thought they would I'd like you to think about that I'll call you tomorrow and I'll see you amazing [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you foreign foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] but I think my family needs me maybe they really don't but that's the way I feel so I gotta go with them I think you should build your greenhouses anyway but next time big job lots of less than seven dollars it does cause and I hope maybe I'll see you again someday real good friend [Music] [Music]

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