[birds chirping]
[serene music]
- [Man] Dearest Charlotte.
You begged me to freeze time.
I'll do anything, even that.
The taste of your skin
fresh from the cool water,
will nourish me through this war,
Until I've frozen time for you.
Your devoted commander.
- [Charlotte] Dearest Hal.
Can we dance to it?
[uptempo big band music]
♪ Sway Lake
♪ Can you hear
- [Old timey announcer] Every young couple
knows the Eden Sisters' number one hit, "Sway Lake".
But did you know that Sway Lake is a real place,
where now anyone can visit?
Even you!
Named for philanthropist Ulysses Sway,
who purchased it in 1890,
Sway Lake was for many decades
an exclusive retreat for the well-to-do,
escaping the heat of New York City.
Come spy on the piano-playing war hero
Captain Hal Sway,
along with his fetching wife, Charlie,
as they entertain their guests at Crane Point,
which remains in the Sway family to this day!
♪ Sway Lake
- [Announcer] Cole Porter has stopped by...
So has Dwight Eisenhower!
Why not you?
Hey look, there's their boy Timmy.
Are you going to be a hero like your father, old chap?
[water splashing]
- [Charlotte] Dearest Hal.
Our son said that when words fail, there's music.
When music fails, silence.
[uptempo jazz]
♪ When they begin the beguine
♪ It brings back the sound
♪ Of music so tender
♪ It brings back a night of tropical splendor ♪
♪ It brings back a memory ever green ♪
- [Charlotte] Dearest Hal.
Five months after our son's suicide,
our grandson Ollie has decided to return
one last time to the lake that bears our name.
His plan is to steal a valuable
78 record from the house.
The original "Sway Lake" record,
performed and painted shut
by Tweed McKay himself, on our wedding night...
Never to be heard again.
- The cheesy hit version was done by the Eden Sisters.
In '44.
Got rich bleaching other people's songs
for the masses.
- I cannot wait to hear the original version.
- Nah, we can't open the record.
It'll lose its value.
We take it and run.
- [Charlotte] Ollie believes his father
would've wanted him to have it.
For as a music collector,
only Ollie appreciates that a perfect thing
must never be sold at any price,
its seal never broken.
♪ What moments divine, what rapture serene ♪
- [Charlotte] To aid him on his mission,
Ollie's recruited his only comrade.
- Hello trees!
Woo!
- [Charlotte] A Russian vagabond named Nikolai,
who exaggerates his charm
for whatever audience is before him.
Both the boys are orphans,
both believe the modern world is vulgar,
and both agree that stealing is moral
when it's in the name of love.
♪ Don't let them begin the beguine ♪
♪ Let the love that was once a fire remain an ember ♪
♪ Let it sleep
- [Charlotte] The young men have sworn
to complete their mission with loyalty,
honor, and verve.
It's never too late to find the perfect sway,
my dearest departed commander.
Your devoted darling.
♪ The beguine
- [Nikolai] Incredible, man.
What a beautiful asset.
You're joking.
I had no idea you were such a rich fucker, my friend.
- [Ollie] It's not mine, it's my grandmother's.
She never comes here anymore.
[glass breaking]
- [Nikolai] Hey, what are you doing?
- [Ollie] Hey, you wanna sleep in the street again?
- No thanks.
This, you know...
[soft string music]
[uptempo vintage music]
- Hey, hands off the military stuff.
- You know, you really should DJ again.
You're good.
- Thank you.
- [Nikolai] Your papa never left you a will, no?
- If he did, my grandmother burned it.
She hates clutter.
Where the fuck is this?
It really should've gone to me when he died.
- Don't worry, Ollie.
We're going to find that record,
and make your papa proud.
[loud commotion]
- [Ollie] It's probably just locals fishing on our dock.
- You must protect your assets.
Let's fuck with them.
[water splashing]
[foreboding music]
- [Guy in water] There's something down there!
- [Young woman] Who's out there?
- [Guy on dock] Maybe the ghost ate his ass.
- What the fuck?
- Who are you?
- [Ollie] Nik, what are you doing?
- [Nikolai] This is private property.
- [Guy on dock] Who cares, the owner's dead.
- The owner is right here.
- Jimmy, let's go.
[engines revving]
- [Nikolai] Stupid fucks.
Don't come back!
So, this is where your papa...?
I'm sorry man.
- That girl was hot, right?
- Ollie...
This summer is for our pops.
[classic music]
- Dinner, honey.
Alright, we start on the east attic,
and then work our way through
until we find this record.
- Is this your grandpa?
- Commander Hal Sway.
The most decorated officer
in the Pacific Convoy Patrol.
- What a stud.
Piano playing captain with his sexy bride.
Paradise.
To Charlotte and Hal.
- This is my dad's 33rd favorite record.
- Is this the record?
- Listen.
[uptempo vintage music]
♪ Hold that tiger
- Backwards!-- - Forward!
Stop talking to a fucking squirrel!
- It's a chipmunk.
[glass breaking]
♪ Hold that tiger
[glass breaking]
- I have to check my asshole,
for glass in my ass.
[excited yelling]
- Let's go find purple-haired girl.
She's so perfect.
She's not here.
- Okay.
Find a new girl.
I have never in my life been turned down,
and neither should you be.
Watch me.
Excuse me, girlies.
Come here please.
Here they come.
- You look like Luke Perry.
- Thank you.
- No.
No.
No!
- Where are you going?
- Is this your piece of shit, girls?
Race you back!
Show them the way, Ollie.
Make your move!
- Do you guys know a girl with purple hair?
- [chuckling] Isadora?
She's like a lesbo.
- [Girl In Back] Who fucks guys.
[laughing]
[cheering]
[hard rock music]
[classic old timey music]
[piano music]
- This is Memphis Mabel.
She was homeless at 12, a chorus girl at 15,
and ended up as the highest paid singer in...
[annoying piano music]
[somber dreamy music]
♪ Sway Lake, can you hear? A loon crying out in the ghostly moonlight ♪
- Hey Ollie. How's your collection going?
- [Ollie] B plus, Dad.
- [Ollie's Dad] It's the crackle I love.
We can disappear into it.
We're collectors.
- [Ollie] Dad...
You happy now?
- [Ollie's Dad] Do you understand what makes this
one record perfect?
[light whimsical music]
- [Nikolai] Dear Charlotte.
Code name greatest day in Eskimo history approaches.
Your devoted commander, Hal.
[relaxing old timey music]
♪ Love is funny, or it's sad
♪ Or it's quiet, or it's mad
♪ It's a good thing, or it's bad ♪
♪ But beautiful
♪ Beautiful to take a chance
♪ And if you fall, you fall
♪ And I'm thinking--
- [Charlotte] Excuse me.
- [Nikolai] Hey, who are you?
- I'm Mrs. Sway.
This is my house, who are you?
- I'm sorry.
I'm a friend of Oliver.
- Oliver's here?
I'd have thought he'd stay away.
- Oh!
Mrs. Sway.
Ollie.
I'm so sorry about your dad.
- You were missed at the funeral.
- What are you doing here?
Put some clothes on, dude.
- I'm speaking at town hall about that dreadful marina,
tying up some loose ends.
I'm selling this place in the fall.
I hope you're wearing your sun protection,
you do have your father's skin you know, dear.
- Come on, let's go.
How long is she staying?
- [Maid] Ollie, just--
- I hope no more than a week.
- [Ollie] Perfect.
- This driveway is a mess.
- Great to have you, Gran.
- Young man.
You may want to wear a touch more clothing for dinner.
[piano music]
- [Ollie] She has witch powers, pack your shit.
- But you're not your dad,
you don't care what she thinks.
- I can't believe she's selling.
- What about the record?
We never give up on a mission.
Hey look, look, look, look.
Hey.
We locate the record, then we go.
Okay?
Play nice, it belongs to you.
[bell ringing]
[old time French music]
- We eat while it's hot, Nikolai.
Respect the chef.
When did you last wash your hair?
I remember when people wanted to look their best.
This meat is a bit tough.
- I think it's perfect.
- It's overdone.
Hal rescued Marlena from Cuba.
- Oh!
- He tried desperately to get her kids out too.
[speaking in Spanish]
[distant piano music]
- [Ollie] Hey dad, I met a girl.
What song should I play her?
- [Ollie's Dad] What do ugly fellas like us
know about love?
Better to leave it untouched.
I marked it five out of five for you.
- How can you rate a record without hearing it?
Dad?
- [Ollie's Dad] Leave.
[loud gasp]
[fly buzzing]
- These are 78s?
- No, those are 33s.
These are 78s, heavy ones.
Vinyl used to be industrial grade.
Could slice a head off with a 78.
- Why'd your pop hide it?
- He didn't want his mother to have it.
I heard she played the Victor recording
of America the Beautiful at the funeral.
If 50 years of nagging hadn't driven him to suicide,
that shit would've killed him for sure.
Found my dad's porn.
Shit is depressing, man.
- Until Admiral McKinley accepts that
Wolfpacks can also be engaged in the Pacific,
supply lines will continue to be at colossal risk.
He was right, you know.
- [Ollie] Why are you reading that shit?
My grandfather was a dick.
- February 17, 1943.
Eskimo Day begins.
What does this mean?
Hey!
Excuse me, Mrs. Sway.
Where would I find a Criss Craft valve?
- [Charlotte] Whatever for?
- For the racing boat.
She needs just a little attention,
and she will be beautiful.
- Do what you like, I don't go to the dock.
You and Oliver could clean up the grounds
rather than trash them.
That would be useful.
Ollie.
Come on, put your back into it.
Having fun?
♪ My Yellow Ginger Lei
♪ Reveals her scent through the day ♪
Hey, get away from the shore!
[Cursing in Russian]
- For medicinal purposes only.
♪ My Yellow Ginger Lei
- Found her.
My arrow will make her fall in love
with the first person she sees.
♪ Makes me love you
- This fucker right here.
- Cupid was weird, he was a naked baby.
Made me feel uncomfortable.
[chuckling]
But what if she looks in the lake,
and sees her own reflection first?
Or sees me?
- I didn't get that far in the fantasy.
- This dart of yours,
it takes the fun, the fun from seduction.
- Who needs firewood in August?
[bell ringing]
- Marlena, there's a mouse.
[bell ringing]
Marlena! Mouse.
- Caught him.
- Take him outside.
- So what is all this?
- Condolences.
So far, I've only managed eight replies.
- So burn them.
Tears are not meant to be polite.
- I don't cry, Nikolai.
Timmy cursed this place when he did what he did.
- [Nikolai] So you punish Ollie?
- It's easier to lose a father than a son.
- You're supposed to be helping me.
- [Nikolai] What?
- Nice canoe.
- [Nikolai] Fucking canoe?
This a genuine Adirondack guideboat.
The Ducati of 1899. Fucking "canoe."
- Commander Sway used to row that guideboat
every morning.
You could set a clock by it.
What you need?
- Eight cylinder head gasket,
for a 1939 Criss Craft.
- [Store Owner] Are you serious?
That old speedboat hasn't been out on the lake
in 20 years.
- [Isadora] Fucking dumb motor, fuck this.
- [Store Owner] College kids.
Work at a hotel on the lake,
but don't know a thing about boats.
Nice to have a fella like you on the lake.
- [Isadora] Why doesn't it fucking work?
- Let me try that.
- Fuck, I don't need your help.
- All right, all right.
Hah, see?
- I told you.
Can you get out of my boat?
- You know, you aren't that friendly.
- Says the guy whose friend tried to drown someone.
- He's excitable,
there's a lot of freedom here, you know?
I'm Ollie.
- I'm Isadora.
- [Ollie] That's a pretty name.
- I was named after Isadora Duncan.
Sorry about your dad.
- How'd you know about my dad?
- Everybody knows.
- Cool.
- Hey Is.
Headed to The Cab this weekend,
you gonna be there?
- I don't know,
I'm sort of like sick of illiterates.
- [Store Owner] I'll look around
for a gasket for you, Nicky.
- [Nikolai] Now this is a--
- Hey Jim, I can't get this piece of shit to work.
- Ah, that's my kid's venture.
- Dad, I fixed it yesterday.
- The choke is stuck.
[engine revving]
- You got lucky.
- All my life.
- Any sign of it?
- No, Mrs. Sway.
But I promise, I will find it.
- You realize what you've done
by agreeing to work, she's a sadist.
What are you wearing?
- We need to take military action.
Your purple lady has been kidnapped!
But they have revealed their position.
Kill kill kill kill.
Tomorrow you die!
- [Guy] Who's out there?
- [Other Guy] Hey dude, what's your problem?
- Let's go.
- Retreat!
- [Guy] Hey, we see you man.
- [Nikolai] Did your papa teach you to fight?
- [Ollie] He was neither lover nor fighter.
- [Nikolai] But your pop taught you music.
- [Ollie] I need to find a girl
who likes old records.
- [Nikolai] Remember when you would do anything
for a girl, because you thought she would save your life?
No woman is worth dying for anymore.
We were born too late.
[melancholy love song]
- If she weren't rich, she'd just be crazy.
- Why does she not go to the dock?
- She's afraid she'd jump.
- And you don't swim.
Runs in the family.
[loon birds calling]
[distant piano and orchestra]
- [Hal] May the water of Sway Lake
find me in the Pacific.
May 12th, 1944.
Dearest Charlie.
The pure water of Sway Lake awaits our return.
July 6th, 1944.
Dearest Charlie.
Far from these blood stained seas,
codename greatest day in Eskimo history approaches.
In love as in war, we judge our allies best
by the secrets they keep.
You are a keeper of secrets, Charlie.
When I open my eyes, I see you again,
swimming toward me.
I see our guests dancing in the barn
to Tweed's orchestra as we sneak to the water.
Now that you're a Sway,
you and I are in cahoots
to ensure that the lake remain a place
where time can stop.
The music echoes in my ears.
And the taste of your skin...
Your devoted commander, Hal.
[engines revving]
[piano music]
[beautiful piano music]
- Would you mind looking for Ollie?
We're late for the town hearing.
- Okay.
- [Charlotte] Nikolai.
Did you move my desk?
Well, it'll have to be back where it belongs by dusk.
There's dew.
- The guideboat was gone, I'll take you.
- [Charlotte] Typical Oliver,
he never cared about the lake.
- Hey.
[old timey music]
♪ Strolling along the avenue
♪ Whiling the time away
♪ Dreaming of all
- Could you do this for me?
It always comes undone.
- Of course.
- A large town dock will bring new boats.
Business this community needs.
- That's right, Jim!
[laughing]
- We give the floor to public comments.
- [Woman] Mrs. Sway.
- [Man] Oh, look who it is.
- I...
I grew up on this lake.
It used to be--
- [Woman] Two weeks a year don't give you the right--
- Let her talk!
- It used to be this lake connected us to the past,
to nature, to each other. To silence.
First, we lost the trout.
Then, most of the loons.
- [Man] For God's sake, Mrs. Sway.
- While I wish Jim success
with his son's jet ski business,
a public dock will triple the amount
of motors on this lake.
When Eel Lake got their dock,
they saw milfoil come in from outside boats.
It destroyed their purple reed, their fish stock.
This isn't about a dock.
This is about the water.
The purity of this lake, our lake.
- [Man] You mean your lake!
You don't own the lake anymore.
- She is so full of it, man.
[somber piano music]
- You hear that?
That's a 460Z.
One day this lake is gonna be a destination
whether you like it or not. Bitch.
- Hey, what did you say?
[somber piano music]
[faint sobbing]
- [Ollie] Marlena, are you okay?
- You're so sweet, Ollie.
Like your father.
You know, he did his best for you
after your mother left you guys.
But it's hard to live without love.
- I know.
- He was so quiet.
Did he ever show you his collection?
- Some of it.
- Don't say a word, okay?
But I can't find a record that Mrs. Sway
says is so important.
She says she needs the money.
I don't trust him.
- And once again, Oliver is missing.
- I am sorry, Grandmother.
[thunder rumbling]
[old time Caribbean music]
- [Ollie] I don't know where else to look.
- What are these markings?
- Everyone in the family
had their own way of ranking records.
When I was little I graded these
so I wouldn't accidentally DJ subpar music.
- Olivia Newton-John.
A?
- What?
She's hot.
- [Charlotte] Thank you Marlena, I'll take those.
- Harry Belafonte.
He's like the black Neil Diamond.
Julio Iglesias. He's like the Spanish Neil Diamond.
[chuckling]
- [Charlotte] That is a terribly good recording,
such a handsome man.
- B minus?
It's not his best calypso.
What are those?
- For my laborers.
- Oh.
Thank you.
- [Nikolai] Moscow Mule.
Famous American drink.
- I gave it four stars.
The letter grades were your system, Ollie.
I like to think I played a part in Ollie's "calling."
Now he knows what people want to hear
before they do.
- Looks like we agreed on this one.
- [chuckling] Not a handsome fellow.
What grade did Timmy give it?
- You know, Americans would rather organize music
than hear it.
In Russia, we simply dance.
Ollie, you spilled Moscow Mule!
- [Charlotte] Careful.
[chuckling]
- What are you doing?
- Trying to throw her off the scent.
- [Charlotte] Oh.
- Relax, I can fix it.
Okay.
Done.
- Masterful.
- I don't know how this work.
- You think because I'm a woman
I haven't rowed in the ocean?
Of course I have.
You feather your oars, and cut right into the waves.
- I swam in the Arctic Sea.
Have you done that?
- Try this lake, five AM in April.
Hal and I used to swim naked every morning.
The water used to be so pure, you could drink it.
- In Saint Petersburg, when the ice turns to mud,
it spits out treasure.
And my pop used to take me to the swamps
to look for German corpses,
clutching their G41 semi-automatics
with no fucking bullets.
See, what he loved about the USA
is that you don't leave your soldiers
dead in the mud.
You take every soldier home.
And that is what makes this
the greatest nation on earth.
[chuckling]
- Hal would've adored you.
- Oh shit.
- Ollie.
You're so clumsy.
Be careful of Hal's sweater.
- Well I'm trying to clean it.
- [Marlena] Here, here, here, here.
- Ollie.
Here we go, here we go.
Here we go.
- [Charlotte] Take it.
- Ollie.
- You're not getting paid enough
to put up with her.
- [Marlena] Mice.
- I'll take care of that, Marlena.
[mysterious music]
[sobbing]
You're not ugly.
The perfect record.
There you are.
The one too good to hear.
It's you.
[old time Caribbean music returns]
Fuck.
- Look at this.
[mysterious ominous music]
- You happy now?
[old timey blues music]
- [Man] Yo, you a guest here?
- Goldbergs? cabin six?
♪ Stick out your can
♪ Here comes your garbageman
♪ In the morning
♪ Stick out your can
♪ Here comes your garbageman
♪ In the evening
♪ Stick out your can
♪ Here comes your garbageman
- Have you seen a girl with purple hair?
Do you know where Isadora is?
- Who?
[saxophone music]
- Are you gonna kidnap me
and put me in your dungeon?
- You scared the shit out of me.
- I scared you?
Give me those.
Weirdo.
Were you touching yourself?
- All right, all right, give them back.
[moaning]
What are you doing?
- Tantric breathing.
It's empowering.
Are you trying to come to the party tonight at The Cab?
You should come, I'm really into creeps.
- Still not done with cabin three, Isadora?
The rest of the girls are finished,
but they don't have quite as many boys
speaking with them.
- It's my fault.
I was trying to get reservations for my grandmother,
Mrs. Sway from The Point.
- Oh, I can help you with that.
Right this way, Mr. Sway.
- Thanks for your help.
Could you get started on my room?
- Go fuck yourself.
Dick.
- Got her, yeah?
Slippery, watch out.
- Almost seems a shame to lose all this.
Is everything accounted for?
- Almost everything.
See, it's listed here...
But there's no Tweed.
- Marlena, that record is worth a lot of money.
- I know.
- Is that why it's missing?
Oh, Marlena.
I'm sorry.
I'm not myself.
- Yes you are.
- Okay Ollie, here's the plan.
You go left, I will take the right flank.
And we will meet up for the attack.
- Hey, let me take this one solo.
This really isn't a war.
- [Nikolai] That's where you're wrong.
[speaking in Russian]
[90's indie rock]
♪ So dull, dull, dull
♪ What can I do
♪ Except watch forever and ever and grow up ♪
- Hey!
Ollie!
Why do you keep following me?
- Technically, you're following me.
- I didn't know you were coming.
- I didn't know you did this on a schedule.
- Hey Is, you okay?
- Yeah, I'm awesome.
- [Jimmy] You only like him because he's a Sway.
- [Nikolai] I'm sorry but, you play with children,
they wet the bed.
So, are you ready for Operation Silencer?
- Whatever that is, yes.
- [Nikolai] Operation Silencer is where
I put my penis in your mouth.
- Fucking crazy.
- You already agreed to it!
[laughing]
I have your revenge all planned.
Soon, our waters will no longer
be infested by that dickwad
and his fucking jet skis.
In case of emergency, three flashes.
- Roger that.
[water splashing]
[loud commotion]
[chuckling]
- Who was it?
- [Ollie] Spies, man.
Raccoon spies.
- Spies?
Raccoon fucking spies?
Retreat, retreat!
[laughing]
This is a victory for the lake.
Our lake.
[mysterious trumpet music]
Ollie.
- [Hal] Of all our allies,
I believe it's the Russians who will prove to be our greatest.
- [Hal] Dearest Charlotte.
Remember the Eskimo days?
We will have one again.
[sirens blaring]
- [Nikolai] You sleep good?
Look, she's almost finished.
- [Ollie] What if someone got hurt?
- [Nikolai] Don't worry,
the tripwire burned all the ignitions.
Simple operation.
- [Ollie] At least get rid of the evidence.
[knocking]
- Yes?
- Is Oliver Sway here by any chance?
- He's down there.
♪ I drifted away with you
♪ Deep into the ocean blue
- Imagine getting a blowjob
from eight vibrating jaguar mouths.
That's what driving this baby
is going to be like.
- I could turn you guys in.
- But you won't.
- I saw both of you rowing to the Livery.
Whose stupid idea was that?
- Mine.
Your boyfriend wanted to turn this lake
into a toilet.
- He's not my boyfriend.
Is she sea-worthy?
- [Nikolai] You want to try her out?
I'll take you for a spin.
- You take me.
- Okay.
- Pump her slowly, Ollie.
Do you floor the accelerator
of a 1968 Ferrari GTO,
the moment you sit...?
No, same with this beauty.
Okay?
[engine accelerating]
- [Old timey presenter] Ladies and gentlemen, the Eden Sisters!
♪ Sway Lake
♪ Can you hear
- Have you been through the channel?
- What?
- [Ollie] Been through the channel?
- Yeah.
- When?
- Yeah, I've been there like a thousand times.
I said like a thousand times.
♪ That bird is just like me
♪ Lonely tonight
- Hey, does this thing go any faster?
- Please hold... Give me a second.
[old timey big band music]
Nikolai did this on purpose.
♪ Lonely tonight
- What are you doing out there?
- I wanted to see if you noticed the silence.
[chuckling]
- Like it used to be.
You can come in, Nikolai.
- It was a stealth operation.
You like?
- What?
- I took the jet skis out for good.
[chuckling]
I did it for you.
Look, wait, look.
- See if Marlena needs help in the kitchen.
She'll be planning my farewell dinner.
I didn't find what I came for,
so we're leaving tomorrow.
- You cannot leave the lake.
The lake needs you.
- Now we'll be electrocuted.
- This was a great idea.
[laughing]
- You like this old "Sway Lake" song?
- This song sounds perfect, but I don't know.
There's no soul.
I guess I love sad music.
Music that makes me feel it so much,
I just want it to stop.
Do you know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- It's like the way I miss this place
even when I'm here.
- Probably just better to leave it all behind.
Go live in Brazil or something.
- And you'd leave tomorrow with nothing?
- Yeah, you know, I don't care about any of it.
- You're such a liar.
Rich people always hang on to something.
- [Ollie] She'll be fine.
- Ugh.
That was crazy.
- I'm sorry.
It's a towel rack.
- Ah, thanks.
So do you remember how I was doing
that breathing thing before, like tantric?
No?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Okay, so can I do it with you?
The tantric breathing.
Okay, so just, I'm gonna breathe out
and you breathe in.
It's like CPR but it's not.
[coughing]
Sorry, I'm sorry.
You have to keep breathing.
- Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, again.
[light harp music]
- No, no, no, what are you doing?
Chill.
- Sorry.
[light music]
What are you doing later?
Want to come over for dinner?
- You Sways are kind of weird.
Is your friend gonna be there?
- We won't bite.
- Yeah, I don't know.
Your family scares me.
[calming music]
Is everything okay?
[laughing]
- Idiot kid chained his craft all wrong.
One of his dipshit buddies
got second degree burns.
Boats and liquor don't mix, do they?
- Yeah, I guess not.
Jesus.
- [Nikolai] You're in the way, Ollie.
- Where are you going?
- [Nikolai] Charlie needs champagne
for her goodbye dinner.
Do you know she's leaving?
- The boat stalled in the channel, good work.
- You gunned it.
- I invited her for dinner.
- You think you love that holy hole?
You know, I could have that girl tonight
if I wanted.
But I want quality. She's trash.
Forget about her.
We'll crank up the record player
and have Sway family celebration in the barn.
- Yeah, I'll choose the music.
[mysterious music]
Son of a bitch.
[Sway piano music]
You want to be a Sway...
You ever find that 78?
- After 30 years, she will fire me.
Maybe Timmy threw it in the lake.
- Check all the bedrooms.
Behind the clothes.
[ominous music]
[knocking]
- Old fashioned, eh?
- She hasn't called the police.
You can send him back to Russia with one call.
- Don't call anyone.
[French romantic song]
[lighthearted music]
- [Isadora] Hi.
- You came.
- This is how you greet a lady?
Tell her she looks gorgeous.
- These are for your grandmother.
- [Ollie] Nikolai, why don't you go find her?
- Yeah.
[old timey music]
- What's this music?
- [Ollie] Fred Astaire, 1932.
♪ I've got you on my mind
- Marlena, you shouldn't have gone
to all this trouble.
- [Marlena] No trouble, Mrs. Sway.
- It's lovely.
- [Marlena] Ollie helped.
- Ollie.
Marlena can take yours in a bit.
Make it more becoming?
- Oh, these are for you.
- Carnations?
Charming.
Fred Astaire?
Terribly interesting choice, Mr. Disc Jockey.
Not much of a voice, but what a charming fellow.
Please, no waiting, everyone.
Sit.
Respect the chef.
- I'm sorry, I actually don't eat chicken.
- Dear, it's pheasant.
- For everybody not here.
Hal, and Timmy, and my pop, Sergei.
We eat this blessed food.
Thanks to the big man upstairs.
- Eat.
So...
Isadora?
Who is your family?
Are you lake?
- Skip the inquisition.
- Actually, my family moved when I was 10.
The Kyles.
- [Charlotte] Oh, the Kyles.
They worked for us for a bit.
- She's in college, gran.
Don't worry.
- I study business in Albany.
I want to open a hotel here.
Like a good one.
- Goodness.
More hotels.
[chuckling]
- Well, actually, more like an old fashioned camp.
I mean if I had the cash,
I would open the kind of place that you could go
and it would feel really real.
Kind of like this place, actually.
- Well, let's hope you have the ambition.
- My father, Macklin, whom I adored,
he came to Wall Street with nothing.
He lost a fortune during the crash.
And he told his employees...
"I can't pay you, but if you stay I can give you food."
They all stayed because they knew
he was a gentlemen.
He put me through private school,
with his bridge earnings.
[chuckling] So, anything is possible.
It's a shame not everyone in your generation
knows how to work hard.
- What did you do?
- I raised a son and managed a household.
Is that not enough?
And I married a man who said I was his equal.
If I'd been a man, imagine what I'd have done.
- You hired a nanny.
You gave your son a wad of cash
to get him out of your hair.
- Your father made himself miserable,
made us all miserable.
He did nothing but listen to records.
As Hal always said, he was an unhappy soul.
I did my best with him.
Some people are born that way,
I didn't wish him ill.
Perhaps it would've been better
had he never been born.
But then... we wouldn't have you.
- Excuse me, sorry.
I have to urinate.
- Ollie.
Ollie!
- I'm fine!
- He will be back.
- We won't let Ollie's outburst
ruin Marlena's lovely dinner.
Tears and dramatics don't solve problems.
- I think it's good to express your feelings.
I mean, I think it's healthy.
- Healthy?
For whom?
[chuckling]
Don't be silly, dear.
- If emotions get repressed, you end up just--
- Where did you learn this "hoonya"?
In psychology class?
It is conscious grace
that separates us from animals.
[loud bang]
[old timey music]
- Oliver, don't...
[soulful orchestral jazz]
♪ Sway Lake
♪ Can she hear
♪ A loon crying out
♪ In the ghostly moonlight
♪ And Sway Lake
♪ Can she see
- The composer was Tweed McKay.
Cole Porter's lover.
He recorded it right here in this barn.
♪ Lonely tonight
He got nothing from it.
- Oliver.
- He died penniless.
But you can hear his regret here.
Listen.
Just listen.
♪ On Sway...
♪ Sway...
- His voice is off-key.
It's not perfect.
♪ Summer breeze
- That's why it's better.
- What have you done?
- I wanted to hear it.
- Oliver.
I never wanted you to become like Timmy,
attached to all these dead things.
- So it was okay to let a stranger steal it?
That's what being handsome will get you.
- Ollie, let's go.
- No, no, no.
Let him let his feelings out, Lisa.
It's healthy, right?
- Her name is Isadora.
- No, I knew the Kyles, her name is Lisa.
She's just playing dress-up.
- Thanks.
- Oliver.
- Ollie.
- Isadora!
- Ollie, wait!
- You stole from us!
- Small things, to keep them alive!
- You stole from us!
- Ollie!
- I gave you a home, I didn't give you my name.
- You need me.
You need me!
You have to hit with your body,
not with your fist.
Ollie.
Ollie, please.
My brother, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, please.
Hit me, Ollie.
Hit me, hit me.
Come on, my brother, please, please hit me.
Ollie!
- You want to drown out there?
I'll take you home.
- He did the right thing, to open it.
It's just music.
- [Charlotte] Put it on again.
[beautiful string music]
♪ Sway Lake
♪ Can she hear
♪ A loon crying out
♪ In the ghostly moonlight
- [Charlotte] Hal and I wanted to open it too.
But we knew, unopened it might be worth something one day.
- What was the Greatest Day in Eskimo history?
- It was a secret between two people
who loved each other.
You may read the diaries but
you can't have our life.
- I will fix everything, Charlie.
- You have to go.
- I'm not going anywhere.
- Steal what you want.
- I'm not going anywhere.
I've been on my own since I was 13.
I'm home, Charlie.
- Put on his hat.
It's what you want, isn't it?
♪ I won't mind to grow old
♪ Oh, but doesn't she remember
- Now dance with me.
♪ Oh, doesn't she recall
♪ The songs on the lake
♪ On Sway
♪ On Sway Lake
♪ Sway Lake
♪ Can she hear
♪ A loon crying out
♪ In the ghostly moonlight
♪ And Sway Lake
♪ Can she see
♪ That bird is just like me
♪ Lonely tonight
- Your name's Lisa?
- Do you want to put your arm around me?
Please.
[somber piano music]
[sobbing]
[somber piano music]
[moody music]
- Oh shit.
- Here we go, here we go, here we go.
Nice.
[laughing]
- Get off this property.
Don't you understand human fucking English?
- I worked three summers to pay
for those jet skis.
- Your pop hates your business.
[suspenseful music]
[loud scream]
- Hey, Nik.
Fuck.
[somber music]
[somber piano music]
Let's go.
[somber piano music]
- [Hal] Dearest Charlie.
What if one day no one remembers
why this lake was called Sway?
- [Charlotte] Once we make a sound, it must vanish.
- [Hal] Darling.
- What motor is this?
- Yamaha, 780X.
- You know?
You saved me.
Fucker.
[elegant piano music]
[uptempo piano music]
[uptempo vintage music]
[singing in foreign language]