But Ramsey reminds her he can’t afford to pay her to work, and some unexplained history Rayleen has with the other troop’s leader ( Allison Janney’s Miss Massey, who cloaks every mean comment behind an “I’m playin’, I’m playin'”) seems to prod her into accepting the role.Īll that remains is to turn this ragtag crew into official Birdie Scouts, so they can enter the talent show and win a spot on that Golden Record. “I don’t get on good with little girls,” Rayleen complains.
Having checked the Birdie guide out of the library and finding no rule limiting membership to girls, she makes Joseph her first comrade then come the most feral bullies she knows (Hell-No and the speechless Smash, played by Milan Ray and Johanna Colon) then the one-eyed Jesus freak Ann-Claire (Bella Higginbotham).įor a troop mother, she recruits Davis’ Rayleen, who, as a secretary for Christmas’ luckless defense-lawyer father Ramsey ( Jim Gaffigan), has a bit of time on her hands. Grace spends much of the film’s first half jittering nervously, or bouncing on her heels as if about to launch into orbit.) But NASA will select its Georgia participants at the annual Jamboree of Birdie Scouts, and the mean-girls in her local Birdie troop want nothing to do with her. When she learns that NASA is recording everyday people for a record it will send off with the Voyager spacecraft - and that some local kids will be part of that project - she can barely contain herself. Christmas fixates on the idea of sending messages out to whatever beings might exist in deep space.
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