♪ Demons come from every side ♪
♪ In the darkness is the light ♪
♪ Out of the shadows of my life ♪
♪ In the darkness is the light ♪
♪ Surrender will win the fight ♪
♪ This girl's walked on fire and ice ♪
♪ But I come out On the other side of paradise ♪
♪ Paradise ♪
[Annie] Have you ever wished really, really hard for something?
Most of us have.
I mean, everybody wishes things could be different
once in a while, right?
Some people wish they were taller or richer or faster or smarter or...
There are lots of kids who wish they could be grown-ups already.
And why not?
Have your own car, stay out as late as you want,
never have to study for a final exam again.
Never again. [laughs]
All you have to be is just a little older...
The only problem with having a wish come true
is if you change your mind...
and there's no turning back...
Ever.
[Molly] This is just what the doctor ordered.
A couple of days relaxing by the sea.
[seagulls gawking]
[door opens]
Isn't this great?
[Jack] Wow.
[Carey] Wow.
I can't believe we only get to be here two days.
What kind of vacation is that, Mol?
It's a musicians-on-tour vacation, that's what kind.
I'm already stretching our budget as it is.
I wish my mom and dad could be here.
Well, Carey, it's their anniversary.
I'm sure they're glad to be off by themselves.
Hey, let's go check out the beach.
Lead the way.
[Carey] Don't trip.
[Annie] Hey, Molly.
-Hey. -[Annie] Where are Jack and Carey?
Down on the beach.
Wicked. I'm there.
Annie.
[Annie] What?
Honey, Ned left some homework for you before he took off.
Well, how come Jack doesn't have to do his homework till later?
Jack's a senior.
He can do his homework whenever he wants.
The older you get, the more privileges you have.
It'll be that way for you when you turn 17.
-Fi used to complain about the same thing. -[Annie sighs]
[smack]
[exhales] Homework...
[suspenseful music playing]
[wind chime jingles]
[Jack] I'll see your oyster shell and raise you...
a shark's tooth.
You're bluffing.
There's only one way to find out.
[Jack] How's the geometry coming, Annie?
Ha, ha, ha...
Hey... I had to go through it when I was younger.
[Jack] Now it's your turn.
Done.
Hey, honey, aren't you going to hang out with us for a while?
[exhales] I'm not sure these mature, grown-up kids
want to hang out with someone as young as me.
I was just joking.
[Annie walks up stairs]
[knocking on door]
[door closes]
Hey.
Annie,
don't let those guys give you a hard time, okay?
Okay, your homework is done.
The rest of the time here, you're free to do what you want.
It's just sometimes I really wish I was older.
I wish that all this being a kid stuff
was over.
I know.
I used to wish the same thing when I was your age.
[Annie] You did?
Oh, yeah. I wanted to stay up late.
I wanted to go to the movies whenever I felt like it.
[Molly] But, honey,
being a kid
is one of the best things out there.
Don't go wishing it away.
[sighs]
[door closes]
[faint female voice] William...
[wind chime jingles]
[suspenseful music playing]
William...
William?
William...
[wind chime rings]
[gasps] Sorry.
-Annie, take it easy. -[laughs]
-[woman] Didn't mean to scare you. -Who are you?
-Hey, how about, "Hi. I'm Annie Thelen... -[laughs]
...I don't think we've met."
[woman] I'm Mrs. Leslie, and I own the bed and breakfast.
I was just coming up to see if everything's okay.
Yeah, everything's fine.
Except...
Oh, you heard Virginia.
-Pardon me? -My neighbor, Virginia Hasby.
Oh, I'm afraid she's gone a little...
Well, she was out on the terrace, and...
Who's William?
[Mrs. Leslie] Oh, her husband.
He was lost at sea, and she somehow has it in her mind
that he's going to return one day.
[Annie] How long has she been waiting?
[Mrs. Leslie] It was exactly 50 fifty years ago tonight
that this coast was hit with one of the biggest storms ever.
Folks around here remember the date
because a lot of local fishermen lost their lives out on their boats.
Mr. Hasby... William Hasby was one of them.
[Mrs. Leslie] Tomorrow makes 50 years.
[wind chime jingles]
[wind howls]
[Annie gasps]
-[wind howls] -[waves crash]
[gasps]
[sea gulls gawking]
I found another shark's tooth.
Sharks are just such amazing creatures.
Did you know that they...
grow and shed these pearly whites
throughout their entire existence?
Uh, no, professor, but thanks.
That's weird.
What?
That old woman next door still waiting for her husband
after 50 years.
Yeah. I'd say she shouldn't keep her hopes up.
[laughs]
Hey, what's that?
It looks really old.
There's something in it.
Oh, it's a message.
[grunts]
Here, let me try.
[grunts]
Just break it.
[Carey] "Virginia Hasby."
It's for her.
[Carey] Let's go show Annie.
[Annie] This isn't a joke, right?
You guys really found this bottle out on the beach?
No, Annie, it's not a joke.
I say we just put the bottle in her mailbox and beat it.
Carey, who knows if she even checks her mailbox?
-Okay? And besides, we have to do this. -[door opens]
What do you want?
I believe this is yours.
[Jack] Have a nice day. Bye.
What he said.
Well, come in.
I don't get many visitors.
Oh, that's okay.
I wasn't going to stay.
I just wanted to give you this bottle.
Well, the thing is there's a piece of paper inside.
You know what? That's pretty hard to open. Maybe you should let me.
[cork pops]
[swishing]
[exhales shakily]
[Virginia] This is William's handwriting.
"My dearest Virginia,
I am finally on my way home..."
Oh...
[Virginia] Oh, I must get ready for him.
But he hasn't seen me in such a long time.
He won't recognize me.
-[Annie] Yeah, Mrs. Hasby-- -[stuttering] This is...
This is me when I was young.
This is how William will remember me.
That's really nice, Mrs. Hasby,
but...
[gasps] Oh, please, go.
I have to make myself presentable for my husband.
[Annie] But...
Go.
-[exhales] -[door creaks]
Honey, I don't see how that bottle
would stay in the same place for, what, 50 years.
It'd be halfway to Africa by now.
But it did. I saw it.
That message from her husband
was probably a not-very-funny joke from somebody in town.
Hi, Mother.
Gosh, don't you look attractive tonight?
And might I add that hairdo is especially flattering.
-Is it new? -[Molly chuckles]
All right, what do you guys want?
Mom, Carey and I really want to go scooter riding around town tomorrow.
[Jack] Is that okay?
They rent them just down the street. I talked to the owner,
and he said that we can go exploring in these hills up here.
So how does my "flattering hairdo" figure into this equation?
Well, you see, the thing is
is that we need to be accompanied by someone who's over 21.
[gasps]
You're over 21, right?
Just barely.
Okay, yeah, I'll come along.
-It looks like fun. -Yes!
[Annie] Can I come, too?
Sorry, kiddo, the...
owner said you've got to be at least 16 and have a driver's license.
Why don't we choose something that we can all do?
No, Molly, that's okay.
I have... I have stuff to do here.
Are you sure?
Sure.
Okay, why don't we go kayaking after the scooter ride?
That's something we can all do.
Sounds good.
Oh, why can't I be young again?
I wish I was older.
Oh, I wish I could be young again.
Young...
Older...
Young again.
Older...
Young again.
[tinkling]
[Molly] Good night, Annie.
[sea gulls gawking]
[suspenseful music playing]
[gasps in shock]
[moans]
[faintly] Molly?
Guys?
[sighs]
I wish I was young again.
I really, truly wish I was young again.
[sighs]
[Virginia] William...
William...
Virginia?
Yes, ma'am? Can I help you?
I was here yesterday.
I gave you a bottle with a message in it.
It's you, isn't it, Mrs. Hasby?
[Annie] I don't know how it happened,
But it's like... both of our wishes came true.
[Annie] I got older,
And you got younger.
Dreams can come true, even impossible dreams.
I needed this for William, and somehow it happened.
But we've got to stop it.
I'm sorry.
I'm young again,
and my husband will be here soon.
Your husband can't be coming.
[Annie] It was 50 years ago, Mrs. Hasby.
[Virginia] Well, you saw the note.
"My dearest Virginia, I am finally on my way home..."
No, I... I can't go back to the way I was.
Please...
Read all of the note.
I don't need to.
He's on his way home, and that's all I need to know.
[Annie] But if I keep going like this,
I'm going to die.
I'm sorry, I don't know how to help you.
I can't help you.
[Carey] I feel kind of bad that Annie can't be with us.
Ah, pretty soon, she'll be old enough for this kind of stuff.
I don't like leaving her alone like this.
Why don't we wrap this up soon and go back?
[Jack] Yeah.
Oh, I asked the guy at the scooter place
about that weird old woman next door.
[Carey] They say she's a witch.
[exhales] She's not a witch.
She's just a lonely old woman who lost her husband.
[pants]
[gasps for air]
Got to make it...
[Annie] No, Virginia.
This is wrong.
[gasps for air]
What's the matter, Mom?
I don't know, honey.
I've just got this feeling that something's wrong.
You know, that's so strange, because I was feeling the same thing.
You probably just got a little freaked out by that...
bizarre lady next to the B & B.
She'd scare anybody.
I think we'd better get back to town.
Come on, you guys.
[pants]
[loud purring]
Mom, you were probably right the first time.
The message in the bottle thing was a prank.
I'm not so sure now.
No, she's right, Jack.
The bottle had been in the ocean so long there were things growing on it.
Something is going on.
[Jack] Mom, wait up.
[Virginia sighs]
Soon, he'll be here soon, after all this time.
[knocking on door]
William!
[gasps for air]
[Annie] Read it.
All of it.
-But-- -Read all of it.
"My dearest Virginia,
I am finally on my way home.
The storm is strong, too strong..."
[Annie] Keep going.
[Virginia] "I have never seen a storm so terrible.
It is hopeless,
and so I know that I am going home...
Home to that other world,
where one day you and I will be reunited.
I'll love you always...
Your loving husband, William."
[Virginia] So he's not coming home.
I can hardly breathe, Mrs. Hasby.
How did this happen?
[Annie] I don't know.
The storm...
The anniversary of what happened 50 years ago...
[Annie] It all must have all just come together.
[Annie gasps for air]
This is wrong.
-[Virginia] I wish I could fix all this. -[tinkling]
You're a beautiful girl.
But what about you?
Me?
I was born 74 years ago. I look as I should look.
-Except that-- -I wanted to be young again for William,
but now I know that William is not going to come home.
One day...
I am going to go to him.
And that is going to be a wonderful thing.
Annie, are you here?
Annie?
Okay, you guys, something's wrong.
Annie, where are you?
Oh, hey, are you guys back already?
[Jack] What did I tell you?
[Molly] Annie!
Honey, where were you?
Oh, I was just talking to Mrs. Hasby next door.
Annie, is everything okay?
Yeah.
Well, she's been going through some changes,
but... yeah.
[scoffs]
I can't believe we have to leave tomorrow.
How would you guys like to stay on two extra days?
But I thought this place was too expensive.
Well, Mrs. Leslie has three grandkids,
and she needed some emergency babysitting tonight.
So I volunteered you two boys,
and she was so grateful,
She said we could stay two extra days at half price if we wanted.
Grandkids?
Three?
Oh, it'll be a breeze. They're two, five, and eight.
[Carey] And just where do you think you're going?
Well, I thought I'd take Annie out and catch a movie.
Annie's not helping us babysit?
Oh, no. No, no, no, no.
Mrs. Leslie said that she wanted someone older,
more responsible.
You see, boys, being young has its privileges, too.
-[children shrieking] -[dog barking]
[Molly] Oh, look, I think they're here right now.
You two grown-ups have fun.
[Virginia] William...
William...
I'll always love you.
[door opens and closes]
[tinkling]