6 Balloons Page #2

Synopsis: A woman (Jacobson) learns her brother (Franco) has relapsed on heroin.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Marja-Lewis Ryan
Production: Netflix
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
Year:
2018
74 min
Website
1,131 Views


In my heart, I can't.

F***ing face.

The fireworks. It's going to be...

- It's almost too much.

- It is.

It is almost too much.

OK. All right. OK.

I'm going to go get the cake.

- I can do that.

- No, I'm going to get the cake.

Then I'm going to get the tacos

before my mom starts telling me

everyone will starve.

- OK.

- OK.

Please stop eating everything.

This is a tiered thing.

- I worked hard on making these color...

- You're losing your mind. Go.

- Remove yourself from the premises.

- We love you. Go!

- Call me if you need anything.

- Have fun. We are covered.

- She's freaking out.

- You're stressing her out.

I ate one of these.

- Can you peel or...

- Have you tasted these?

- Put that away.

- Will you taste it?

Chapter two.

You are on the same boat.

Notice how water has rotted the boat.

Promise yourself to fix it

before you travel.

- Lost one.

- Yeah, it was my fault.

My fault. My fault. I got excited.

OK.

It's OK.

Katie, I hope you have

more food than this.

Your friends are going to starve.

Yeah, Ma, I'm going.

And get your brother

for me on the way.

Ding-dong!

I'll be right there.

All right. Got your backpack? Your shoes?

Have you got your shoes?

My balloons.

I forgot my red balloon and my blue one.

I have two balloons.

Two red ones...

- Yeah?

- ...and two blue.

- Can you go get them?

- Are you OK?

Yeah.

Keep that there, and give you this guy.

Oh, yeah.

Kitty cat.

This f***ing thing just, like...

It's... It's a normal seat belt.

- Just click it in.

- Maybe you could come back and help me.

I don't know why you're in the front.

- Sorry.

- Yeah. Meow!

I just can't get this. I need more slack.

Meow! Meow! Meow! Meow!

Meow!

How do stupid people do this? I'm just...

Meow! Meow!

- Hi. Yeah.

- OK. Are you in?

Can you say "Aunt Katie is incompetent"?

- Can... Can you say "incompetent"?

- Incompetent.

Yeah, that's my girl.

- That's not good.

- Incompetent.

- Exactly.

- No, that's not a good thing to teach her.

Incompetent.

How old is Jack?

He's thirty...

- Thirty-six.

- ...six.

He is a grown man.

Yeah, you're throwing a 36-year-old

grown man a surprise party. That's...

It's supposed to be funny.

- Yeah.

- And it's going to be. It's... Yeah, it's going to be hilarious.

Great idea, and it's going to be executed.

What's uh... What's this?

Oh, Jack needs paper towels.

Man, Jack is such a... B-minus.

He's a B-minus?

Then you're definitely a D.

I would rather be a D

than a f***ing B-minus.

OK, I'm going to just ignore you now.

Dinner to go. Your order's ready.

- Does that look like everything?

- Oh, that's perfect. Great.

Do you need help?

No, I've... I've got this.

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Marja-Lewis Ryan

Marja-Lewis Ryan is an American writer, director, producer, and actress. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 19 March 1985. She received an honors BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at The Atlantic Theatre Company's Acting School. She is best known for writing and co-starring in the LGBT drama film, The Four-Faced Liar, which won multiple awards, including Outstanding First Narrative Feature at L.A. Outfest. She also co-produced that film. In the early 2000s, she was a member of a theater company in Los Angeles, Theater of NOTE, where she received positive critical reviews as a writer and director. She earned the Maverick Award from the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival in 2016.In an interview, she described her interest in writing as stemming from her time at NYU. She and her friends figured that "you have to make your own work." And so she wrote her first script for them to workshop as actors. As for her thematic interests, she recounts what happened after The Four-Faced Liar got released: "I had the opportunity to go into meetings with crazy big people. The one question that came up repeatedly was 'what kind of work do you want to do for the rest of your life?' The first time someone asked me that, I answered it so truthfully that I shocked myself. I said, 'I just want to write dark comedies for women that don't ostracize a male audience.'"Ryan wrote and directed the film 6 Balloons, released in March 2018, and is drafting the reboot of Splash starring Channing Tatum and Jillian Bell. She has been tapped to spearhead the sequel to The L Word, currently in development at Showtime, as executive producer and showrunner. more…

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