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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about John, Janie, Leann entitled The Tie That Binds.. End with the sentence '\nDana finds Russell and Janie, and Janie finally feels comfortable about being with the Cliftons.'.
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conversations.value: The Tie That Binds (1995 film): In California, John Netherwood (Keith Carradine) and his wife Leann Netherwood (Daryl Hannah) are fugitives who are wanted for murder.\nThey have a 6-year-old daughter named Janie (Julia Devin).\nJohn and Leann are robbing a house when the elderly residents of the house show up.\nAfter killing the two residents, John and Leann go outside, where there are cops waiting.\nJohn and Leann escape after John gets shot by Officer David Carrey (Ned Vaughn).\nJanie is found in the car that John and Leann left behind, and Janie is placed up for adoption.\nHelped by adoption agency case worker Maggie Hass (Jenny Gago), Los Angeles architect Russell Clifton (Vincent Spano) and his photographer wife Dana (Moira Kelly) adopt Janie, welcoming a traumatized Janie into their home.\nThough intelligent and charming, Janie\'s behavior is very disturbing: She hides in closets, cuts herself, steals food, and draws monstrous pictures of the "Tooth Fairy," of whom she\'s terrified.\nRussell and Dana believe that with love, Janie will be alright.\nThe Netherwoods begin planning to reclaim Janie.\nLeann picks up Officer Carrey, and John tortures the name of the adoption agency out of Carrey before John slits Carrey\'s throat, killing Carrey.\nThe Netherwoods then force Maggie to tell them who adopted Janie, then they kill Maggie.\nAt the same time, Russell and Dana have found out who Janie\'s biological parents are.\nLeann tries to kidnap Janie from school, forcing the Cliftons to go into hiding with Janie.\nThe Netherwoods track down the Cliftons\' friends, Lisa Marie Chandler (Cynda Williams) and her husband Gil Chandler (Bruce Young), and Leann threatens to hurt the Chandlers\' newborn baby, forcing Lisa Marie to tell Leann where the Cliftons are hiding—a half-built house that Russell designed for himself, Dana, and Janie.\nThe Netherwoods head to the half-built house and take Janie and the Cliftons hostage.\nJohn sets the house on fire.\nRussell and John struggle with each other, then John starts running through the burning house looking for Janie, who has now run off into the nearby woods.\nAlong the way, John runs into Leann in the blinding smoke.\nLeann has found Dana and Janie, and has had a change of heart.\nBecause of that, John kills Leann by snapping her neck.\nDana runs into the woods to find Janie, and John is following Dana.\nJohn is the first to find Janie, and Janie pulls out a knife, stabs John in the stomach, and then says "I learned that from you, Daddy".\nJust as John is about to lunge at Janie for stabbing him, Russell shows up and grabs a log the size of a baseball bat, and he hits John with it, knocking John to the ground.\nWhen John gets back up and tries to lunge again, Russell hits John in the head with the log, killing John.\nDana finds Russell and Janie, and Janie finally feels comfortable about being with the Cliftons.
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Edith, Lyman, Goodnough entitled The Tie That Binds.
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conversations.value: The Tie That Binds (novel): The story opens with the narrator, Sanders Roscoe, defending his neighbor Edith Goodnough to a reporter trying to dig up dirt on her.\nShe has been accused of murdering her brother Lyman.\nSanders seems disappointed in the Sherriff for caving in to the reporter, saying that to understand what happened you would have had to know Edith\'s story, which he begins to tell.\nIn 1896, newlyweds Roy and Ada Goodnough leave Iowa and settle down in northeastern Colorado under the Homestead Act of 1862.\nThe business of farming is a tough affair in those days, but Roy is a hard-working man who eventually succeeds in growing wheat.\nAda bears him two children: Edith, who is born in 1897, and Lyman, born two years later.\nAs their neighbour, Hannah Roscoe, the narrator\'s grandmother, a Native American woman whose white husband left her and their six-year-old son for good, quietly observes the Goodnoughs and also, on Ada\'s request, helps deliver Edith and Lyman.\nVery soon Ada regrets leaving Iowa for the plains of Colorado.\nHer husband turns out to be a bully, an angry and violent man without any sense of humour who makes her and their children work very hard on the farm.\nWhen she dies in 1914, aged only 42, Edith has to take over all of Ada\'s chores and duties.\nThen, in 1915, a terrible accident during harvest time seals Edith\'s fate: Her father\'s hands get entangled in a machine, and nine of his fingers are chopped off.\nThis severe physical handicap leaves Roy Goodnough all the more cruel and demanding; he considers, and treats, Edith and Lyman as his "self-sired farmhands", bossing them around and taking all decisions himself.\nAs the two siblings grow up, they start looking for means of escape but soon realize that they are stuck on their father\'s farm and, as opposed to city kids, they are bound by a rural code of honour and a sense of duty and thus prevented from abandoning the farm and leaving their father alone.\nFor the next 37 years, Edith performs the duties of farmer, housewife and nurse without ever complaining, renouncing her personal freedom and refusing to get involved with men except for a brief but powerful romance with the narrator\'s father, who Edith loves but refuses to marry out of a sense of duty to her father and brother.\nDespite her rejection, he never gets over her.\nLyman, tall, inexperienced in the ways of the world and deeply frustrated, finally sees his chance of escape when, in 1941, the United States is attacked by Japan.\nIn the middle of the night and with the help of the Roscoes, he secretly leaves the farm and goes to the city with the intention of joining the armed forces.\nBut at 42 he is too old to enlist and instead embarks on a tour of the United States which lasts for more than 20 years.\nAll those years, Edith never doubts that one day her brother will return.\nHe does so, too, in the early 1960s, almost ten years after their father\'s peaceful death at 82.\nFor six years Edith and Lyman, now both in their sixties, live happily together in their farm house, often going sightseeing in Lyman\'s Pontiac.\nThen in 1967, the Goodnoughs, Sanders and his wife Mavis, now eight months pregnant, decide to go to the county fair together.\nThey stay late into the night, drinking and having a good time, but on the way home Lyman crashes his Pontiac, causing Mavis to miscarry and giving himself a head injury from which he never truly recovers.\nHe becomes moody, childish and antisocial.\nEdith\'s sense of duty requires her to look after her brother, who becomes more and more reclusive, eventually refusing to leave the house and his new obsession: planning trips around the country that he\'ll never take.\nAs they grow older and frailer, Edith decides to move everything downstairs and close off the second story, and enlists Sanders\' help.\nUpstairs, he discovers only one bedroom with only one bed, a fact which Edith does not attempt to disguise, saying only that they moved the extra bed out when Lyman came home to make room for his things.\nSanders says nothing, allowing that when you live out in the country you come to understand your neighbors, or at least accept them, because you all know how hard life can be.\nIn the following years, Edith draws some pleasure from spending afternoons with Rena, Sanders\' daughter, who is born in 1969.\nBut soon it becomes too dangerous for Rena to go to the Goodnoughs on her own, as Lyman, who has regressed to infancy, is prone to unprompted outbursts of violence.\nEventually, on New Year\'s Eve, 1976, Edith, unable to care for Lyman but unwilling to put him in a home, prepares for the only way out she can see.\nShe has Lyman put on his best clothes, cooks a three-course dinner for him, waits for him to fall asleep and then sets fire to their house.\nThings do not happen according to plan though because the fire is detected too soon and the two old people are evacuated.\nHowever, Lyman never recovers from the injuries inflicted by the fire and dies soon afterwards.\nIn the spring of 1977 Edith Goodnough is still lying in a hospital bed with a policeman stationed outside her room and facing charges of attempted murder.\nThe Roscoes visit every day.