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Synopsis: Assassins is a 1995 American action thriller film directed and produced by Richard Donner, written by Andy and Larry Wachowski and also rewritten by Brian Helgeland. The film stars Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas and Julianne Moore. The Wachowskis stated that their script was "totally rewritten" by Helgeland, and that they tried to remove their names from the film but failed.[
Production: Warner Home Video
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
15%
R
Year:
1995
132 min
640 Views


Contractor:
Where have you been, Robert?

Rath:
Sick. The flu.

INT. CONTRACTOR'S OFFICE - LATE AFTERNOON

EXTREME CLOSEUP OF eyes, hands, mouth, computer, etc.

Contractor:
I don't believe you.

BACK TO RATH:

RATH:

I don't care what you believe.

I want out. I've had it.

Contractor:
I've been sitting on a prime contract.

But these days, something else is on Rath's mind.

RATH:

Who are you, you sonuvabitch?

Rath:
Send the file. I'll have the estimate tonight.

Contractor:
I'm worried about you, Robert.

RATH:

You should be.

Rath:
Don't be.

Contractor:
Good. You are my #1.

The screen goes blank. A beat and the word "TRANSMITTING"

appears. Rath stands.

A slimline PRINTER HUMS, starts to reproduce a newspaper

photo of ALAN BRANCH. Strong. Hard eyes which Rath

studies a moment, then circles. As a second sheet

feeds, Rath isn't that interested.

EXT. CITY STREETS - SUNSET

Mist fills the air. As night comes on, Rath walks. He

has no real purpose at the moment. And the crowds don't

magically seem to get out of his way. He watches them

laughing, talking, hurrying this way and that. Rath's a

loner. An outsider. Life moves around him, but he's not

part of it. At least not this version. The mist turns

to darkness.

INT. MALL - UPSCALE WOMEN'S CLOTHING STORE - NIGHT

Rath pauses, his eye caught by a scene inside.

A dowager berates a female CLERK. The Clerk takes it

stoically, nodding, placating. Huffing and puffing, the

dowager heads back to the racks. The Clerk watches her

in exasperation. No one deserves this kind of abuse.

Rath is going to continue when, on an impulse, he decides

to enter the store instead.

INT. UPSCALE WOMEN'S CLOTHING STORE - NIGHT

Rath steps inside, begins to look around. The Clerk sighs

to herself. Another customer and it's almost closing time.

The dowager jams the dress back on the rack and it falls

to the floor. She ignores it, but Rath doesn't.

RATH:

I think you dropped something.

The dowager gives him a look.

RATH:

Maybe you better hang it back up.

And it isn't a question. The woman looks shocked, then

gruffly hanging the dress back up, hurries out of the

store.

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Brian Helgeland

Brian Thomas Helgeland (born January 17, 1961) is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He is most known for writing the screenplays for L.A. Confidential (for which he received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), Mystic River, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. Helgeland also wrote and directed 42 (2013), a biopic of Jackie Robinson, and Legend (2015), about the rise and fall of the Kray twins. more…

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