Adult World Page #2

Synopsis: A naive college graduate, Amy, who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job in a shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Scott Coffey
Production: IFC Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
R
Year:
2013
97 min
$16,740
Website
2,284 Views


by the rap.

Sexual preference

age, race, fetish, size.

Sexual preference

age, race, fetish, size.

It's pretty easy to remember that way,

if you do that.

I'm doing it in my head.

I don't want to do it out loud.

When this gentleman wants to

check out a video, you get his card.

That's got membership info,

notes written by employees.

What are sticky video returns?

- What?

- Really? Okay.

When that happens, we give him a copy

of our customer policies.

There you go.

Reread that.

Thank you.

Here you go.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- Happy first day.

- Thanks.

Have fun with your esoteric

reading.

- I'll see you tomorrow.

- Yeah!

- Bye!

- Drive safe!

Thanks!

Hi.

Wow. It's an old one.

Got to be 20 years old.

Thank you.

All right, who's next?

- Hello.

- Hello.

- Hi.

- What's your name?

If you don't want to have

your book signed,

can you just step out of the way,

so that people...

Yeah, I'm sorry.

- I'm so sorry!

- I got it. I got it.

I got it. I got it.

I got it.

- No, I got it.

- No, just... let me just do this.

It's fine.

Excuse me, Mr. billings?!

Hi! I am an enormous fan, like,

crazy-big fan of yours!

Thank you.

- It's so nice to meet you.

- We met inside.

I mean...You remember!

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Um...

I just wanted to say ignore the reviews.

Your new book is tremendous.

The New York times

really has no taste anymore.

I know.

It's kind of a badge of honor, really.

I just love your work.

I just want to smash your head

open and take everything in there!

- That's...Lovely.

- It really speaks to me.

- What does it say?

- It says, "wake up.

Break free from the chrysalis of

middle-class ennui that's imprisoning you."

You're paraphrasing, of

course, huh?

Yeah. Well, I can't believe

we're bantering like this.

This is so cool!

- Life is surreal, kid.

Your work... the first time I read it,

I remember it so clearly evolved me.

- What did it evolve you into?

- An artiste.

Try not to use the pupa

metaphor again, for the record.

Um, you know...

I thought maybe

we could get together sometime.

You can give me some advice or

let me know how you got started.

It's in the books.

Well, maybe we can get a coffee.

You know, I stopped drinking coffee

'cause my adrenal glands are totally shot.

Maybe we can just talk poet to poet.

- Perhaps.

- You're an inspiration.

You, my dear, are an apparition.

Au revoir.

Au revoir, Rat billings.

Hey, hey!

That is not your...

come back here!

Hey!

Sh*t!

Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, mother, sh*t!

Would you like personal lubricant...

...or a key chain to go

with your sexist videos?

That's very charming. You sure

you're old enough to work here?

Yeah, I'm an adult.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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