Beach Pillows Page #2

Synopsis: Once-promising writer Morgan Midwood works at his father's furniture store to save up enough money to buy an engagement ring for his high school sweetheart and presumed saving grace. However, when he discovers she's been making a cuckold of him, he enters a tailspin-getting arrested, evicted, and fired in short order-and seems content to move home with his parents and embrace a life of anonymity and failed promise. At the same time, Morgan's carefree, underachieving best friend Nick, who has arguably exacerbated Morgan's troubles, finally decides to take some stock in his own life, championing a revolutionary piece of furnishing for sale in Morgan's father's store. Over the course of a Long Island summer full of love, laughs, heartbreak, and self-discovery, these two friends ride a violent and hilarious wave teeming with women, family, cops, and cons, hoping not to get swallowed under.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Year:
2014
96 min
37 Views


YOU JUST FINISH THAT CHAPTER?

WHAT ABOUT SUPPLY AND DEMAND,

YOU CONDESCENDING F***?

WHY CAN'T YOU JUS GO OVER THERE YOURSELF?

WHY CAN'T I

GO OVER THERE MYSELF?

BECAUSE THAT'S DANIELLA DELBUSSO

OVER THERE.

CAN'T EXACTLY GO ASK HER

FOR A CIGARETTE:

GIVEN THE TERMS UPON WHICH

WE ENDED OUR RELATIONSHIP.

- SO ASK SOMEBODY ELSE.

- YOU SEE ANYONE ELSE SMOKING?

CAN'T EXACTLY GO AROUND ASKING

STRANGERS FOR CIGARETTES.

I MIGHT AS WELL... MIGHT AS WELL

TRY TO SCORE SOME CRACK

- WHILE I'M AT IT.

- [SCOFFS]

I'M ALL BENT OUT OF SHAPE.

SEE, THIS IS WHAT THEY DO.

THEY GET YOU ALL WORKED UP

ABOUT THE STIGMA THAT GOES ALONG

WITH BEING A SMOKER,

YOUR NERVES ARE ALL SHOT,

AND YOU NEED A BUD EVEN WORSE.

MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE A JUNKIE,

ED!

I FEEL LIKE A JUNKIE.

[IMITATES SHUDDERING]

THANK YOU.

SO, DID SHE ASK ABOUT ME?

YEAH.

SHE ASKED WHY YOU COULDN' JUST GO OVER THERE YOURSELF.

[CHUCKLES]

THAT B*TCH HAS A LOT OF NERVE.

MY P.O. SAYS I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO

BE AROUND IMMATURE SITUATIONS.

I'M GOING TO THE CITY.

MORGAN'S WAITING. LET'S GO.

NAH, I DON'T REALLY

FEEL LIKE IT TODAY, MAN.

WORKING ON A BASE HERE.

ALL RIGHT.

GIVE ME YOUR KEYS.

I CAN'T.

MY MOM HAS WORK TONIGHT.

OKAY, F***ING DRIVE ME

TO THE TRAIN STATION.

- LET'S GO.

- ALL RIGHT, AFTER THIS CHAPTER.

WHAT?

BUY LOW, SELL HIGH.

POOR PEOPLE ARE LAZY.

COME ON, MOTHERF***ER!

[LAUGHS]

OOH!

WHOO-HOO-HOO!

WOW. THERE IT IS.

[SIGHS]

IT'S PERFECT.

SO, ON THE PRICE,

IS THAT A HARD NUMBER,

OR IS THERE SOME W-WIGGLE?

UM, DO YOU TAKE DEBIT?

I SOMETIMES THINK

YOU'RE SMARTER

JUST LIVING ON THE STREETS,

LIVING OFF WHAT MAN

LEAVES BEHIND, YOU KNOW?

NOBODY'S SAYING

IT'S YOUR FAULT, MAN.

I MEAN, IT'S HARD TO SAY

WHAT A GUY LIKE ME

WOULD HAVE GONE THROUGH

HAD I NOT HAD:

THE SUPPORT NETWORK I DID.

MORGAN.

HEY, I'M LIKE A THIRD

OF THE WAY THERE.

YOU GET ALL THE HOLES PUNCHED,

YOU GET ONE FOR FREE.

SANDWICH. GOOD SANDWICHES.

IT'S A FREE COUNTRY,

AND WE BECOME ACCUSTOMED

TO HANGING OUT AT THE SAME

PLACES, BUT IT'S A BIG BEACH.

- THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING.

- RIGHT.

SO, SHE EITHER

FOLLOWED ME THERE...

THAT DOESN' SOUND LIKE DANIELLA.

...OR SHE SAW ME, AND THEN SHE

STRATEGICALLY POSITIONED HERSELF

IN FRONT OF US,

WHICH, I'M SORRY, THAT'S SAD.

SHITSUCKER:

FORGOT TO LEAVE A KEY.

[SCOFFS] REMIND ME AGAIN

WHY WE HANG OUT WITH CAMPBELL.

OH, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

DON'T DO THAT.

JUST KNOCK ON THE DOOR.

WHOA! WHOA! WHOA!

WHOA! WHOA! WHOA!

WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?

HEY! OH!

WE'RE IN THE WRONG APARTMENT.

WE THOUGHT THIS WAS...

[DOG GROWLING]

OH, SHE'S CUTE!

WHAT IS SHE, A WESTIE?

[GROANS]

["ME ME ME" PLAYS]

[METAL CLANGS]

YOU KEPT ME OUT OF TROUBLE

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