City of Men Page #2

Synopsis: In the slum in Morro da Sinuca, a couple of days before turning eighteen year-old, Laranjinha tells his best friend and also orphan Acerola that he misses his unknown father. Acerola decides to help his needy friend to find his father and they discover that he is in prison convicted for killing a man during a robbery and near to be released on parole. Meanwhile, Acerola's wife and babysitter Cris is invited to work in São Paulo and she sees the chance to raise money to buy a house of her own; she tells Acerola that he must take care of their son Clayton alone for one year. When the owner of the hill and Laranjinha's cousin Madrugadão is betrayed by his right-hand Nefasto, he is expelled from the slum and Laranjinha and Acerola have also to leave the hill. While Madrugadão plots a plan to invade and recover the hill with the support of the gang of the drug lord from Morro do Careca, Acerola and Laranjinha unravel the past of their fathers.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Paulo Morelli
Production: Miramax Films
  5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
R
Year:
2007
106 min
$242,655
Website
123 Views


Watch the kid.

There's your Uncle Fasto.

- Where's Ace?

- Watch the kid.

It's Ace's son.

Now he's yours, you take him!

- He looks just like you, man!

- The boy is ours, now.

- We'll return him in the hill.

- Okay, we're outta here, then.

Where's the kid?

Nothing, man!

I left him with Caju!

Let's go!

Caju, where's Clayton?

- How would I know?

- He was with you.

- With me? Are you kidding?

- You're such a prick!

Prick!

Airplane, airplane!

A header!

Pass the ball to the boy.

- Have you seen Clayton?

- A little black kid.

Kick it! Kick it!

A little back kid.

He's my son.

Kick it!

Give him to me...

Get back in the game!

Back in the game!

Remember, Goiano?

Great team, weren't they?

Sure...

- An all-star team.

- Sure, Pedreira...

Too bad you never let me play.

Why ask me for money?

Ask the guys who played.

Shirts for the boys,

won't ruin you, will it?

- What is this?

- Give him to his mother.

- What happened?

- We'll talk later.

We're not done!

What's wrong, Clayton?

What have they done to you?

Where's your father?

- Have you seen Clayton?

- In there.

In there?

My son...

Where were you?

- Where was he?

- How would I know?

You're the father.

That's a good one!

It's okay...

It's over now.

Shall we go home?

- Want to go home?

- Yes.

- Let's go then. Don't cry.

- Mommy! Mommy!

- Here's mommy.

- Son!

What happened, sweetie?

- It was awful...

- At least you know that much!

I didn't mean to...

Have you declded about Crlstlane?

I thlnk...

I don't want to have the kid.

But the money I scraped together

won't get us into a clinic.

So what are you going to do?

I don't know, man.

I'm too young to be a father.

I'll stop seeing Cristiane

for a while.

And let her

bring the kid up alone?

Let the kid grow up

without a father?

What use is a father anyway?

I wish I had a father...

to teach me how to do things...

to take me to school.

So your son will be like us,

without a father?

Having to get by on his own?

Always getting into trouble?

So how's my nephew?

In '87, I'd given up playing.

I was the coach.

- Who are the other guys?

- They were all on the team.

Did you know my father?

No, I didn't.

Wasn't he one of them?

Most of those guys are

either dead or have left the hill.

My grandma said when I was born

she told you to get my dad.

She must be going senile.

Your dad's not there.

- Were any of them waiters?

- I don't know.

I got an idea...

Goiano, you pay for Tiquinho's

shirt, he's the star player.

Then I'll go hit up the others.

- It's just $ 10 for one shirt.

- $ 15.

- 10 or 15?

- 15.

- Who are these guys?

- I don't remember this guy.

This is Helinho.

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