Compulsion Page #4

Synopsis: The lives of two female neighbors intersect when their individual obsessions begin to unravel.
Director(s): Egidio Coccimiglio
Production: Phase 4 Films
  5 wins.
 
IMDB:
4.5
R
Year:
2013
88 min
171 Views


There isn't any money

for the role.

I already discussed this

with Eric.

I don't care.

I love it.

I.. I will even read

if there's no offer on the table.

I will do whatever it takes.

Okay.

Someone younger, then.

Someone fresher.

Fresher.

Okay.

Sorry.

So great to see you.

Jennifer, you can

come on in now.

(chuckling)

So the owner walks in

and finds all this imported furniture,

and an entire family

had moved into his office.

(laughing)

(phone ringing)

Oh, boy.

Yes, dear?

Honey, I wish

you'd return my calls.

I've got deviled blue point

crab cakes in the oven

and they just came in fresh.

You will go insane.

Honey, thought I told you

I was on the road today?

And pick up two bottles of Chablis

on the way home.

It's not too fruity.

And try to make it by nine.

Love you.

You too.

Oh, you, uh,

have a little, right...

There.

Thanks.

Welcome.

Do you fully taste the crab?

Fully.

'Cause most of the time

in the restaurant, you only get

the canned crab and the cornmeal.

Here you go, bud.

You know, he's gotta get used

to eating in his cage or

we'll never have a minute

to ourself.

He likes watching you cook.

Don't ya, Bas?

That's my boy.

Sometimes I get

the feeling my food

doesn't interest you

that much.

You know what?

Everything isn't always about food.

Who's a good boy?

Do you realize I spent all day

making that for you?

Well, don't. Don't do it.

You don't have to.

You could do

something simple for once.

Like what, a TV dinner?

Yeah. I've had 'em.

Nobody's ever died from one

as far as I know.

It's never gonna happen

around here.

What kind of woman

serves her family a TV dinner?

Well, maybe one that's got a life.

"How does it taste? Is it good?

"Is it too salty, too spicy?"

God, I'm sick of hearing

the same thing every single night.

Is there nothing else

worth thinking about?

I can't believe how much

you've changed.

We've had the same conversation

for the past year.

Find something to do with your life.

I am.

Imagine me in front of

a live studio audience.

Not this again.

A million viewers.

All waiting with bated breath

for me to deliver

the next greatest dish.

You don't get it, Freddo, do you?

This is my life.

Mmm.

You barely ate earlier.

There must be some room

for dessert in there.

No room, all full?

Come on. Open up.

You know, the secret

to making a good profiterole

is you have to freeze

the pastry first.

Uh, baby...

Start off with it nice and firm.

I've been drivin' all day.

That's why you need sugar.

Coco lifts the spirit.

It'll lift just about anything.

I could have made you anything,

like a cherry tart,

but there's nothing like

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