Elizabethtown Deleted Scenes – Thick and Thin

INT. JESSIE’S HOME/SAMSON’S ROOM – NIGHT

Drew watches from the darkened doorway, as Jessie slaps pajamas on a groggy Samson.

DREW

He’s an exciting kid.

JESSIE

It’s the only thing he inherited from Cheryl.
The volume.

(to Samson)
Do you love me? Come on, I carried you
half a mile . . . do you love me?

SAMSON
(sleepily)

No.

JESSIE

Thick and thin?

SAMSON

Thick and thin.

JESSIE

I’m surprised Aunt Hollie didn’t make it.

DREW

She’s pretty broken up. She sends her love
to everybody, though.

Jessie nods, he knows the subtext.

JESSIE

I don’t blame her. Around here, their favorite thing
in the world is to get offended by something small,
and hold onto it for fifty years.

Drew smiles at his outspoken cousin, and nods as in – better get to bed.

JESSIE

But then, you and your dad were close.

DREW

Oh very close. I knew him very, very well. He was my
Dad! We were actually going to . . .  drive here together . . .
this year . . . and it became next year . . . and no, I knew him
very well. Very, very well.

And it’s obvious in the extra beat we stay on Drew that he didn’t know his father well at all.