Fierce People Page #2

Synopsis: Trapped in his mother's Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old Finn wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or "Fierce People," with the anthropologist father he's never met. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to help his drug-dependent mother, Liz, who scrapes by working as a masseuse. Determined to get their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them into a guest house on the vast country estate of her ex-client, the aging aristocratic billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne. In Osbourne's close world of privilege and power, Finn and Liz encounter a tribe fiercer and more mysterious than anything they might find in the South American jungle: the super rich. While Liz battles her substance abuse and struggles to win back her son's love and trust, Finn falls in love with Osbourne's beautiful granddaughter, Maya, befriends her charismatic older brother, Bryce, and even wins the
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Griffin Dunne
Production: Lionsgate Films/Autonomous Films
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
24%
R
Year:
2005
107 min
Website
265 Views


has had about six wives.

His daughter lives here

with her two kids.

The chief's grandson flies around

in a hot air balloon...

with a babe in a dashiki.

And his sister is into horses.

And there's this cop

who runs errands for Mr. Osborne.

And he looks just like Barry White.

Now Mom, she also

works for the chief. "

- Daddy?

- Herbert.

- Daddy? Hi.

- Hi.

You didn't tell me that your

new friend was a doctor.

I felt so foolish yesterday.

The maid was just going on and on

and on about Dr. Earl this...

and Dr. Earl that.

- Felt foolish? Amazing.

- I thought she was just a masseuse.

Well, you were wrong.

Dr. Earl, meet my daughter Pilar.

It was nice to meet you, Dr. Earl.

Christ! No wonder I'm sick.

What's wrong?

I never told anyone I was a doctor!

For 10 square miles I'm king.

If I say you're a doctor,

you're a doctor.

Which is not to say there's anything

wrong with being a masseuse.

Okay?

Oh, God! Oh, God!

"There's this big retard in the woods

who draws dirty petroglyphs...

who's obviously gotta be somebody

because he's a fifth.

- And there's this weird... "

- Finn!

- "And, dad... "

- Finn!

"We've got a maid.

And she's my age. "

- You wanna shotgun?

- Sure! What is it?

"And very friendly. "

You wanna fool around?

Sure.

You're weird.

- Jilly.

- I still have to vacuum.

Jilly, I'm sorry!

It's just that...

Just never seen him before.

The Ishkanani say that

everyone has an animal spirit.

It's called your nureshi.

It's a spiritual counselor that keeps

the tribe from breaking your taboos.

- He's really talented.

- I'm not sure what mine is yet.

Mom! Look at that.

I'll stop giving you sh*t about

Osborne if you put that one on.

Come on, please!

And I'll put that tallyho outfit on...

and we can parade around

with that stuffed dog thing.

- The color matches your eyes.

- Hi!

Her eyes are the color of celery?

- How you doing, Liz?

- You know, one day at a time.

That's what they say, right?

This is my son, Finn.

And this is Dr. Leffler.

You can call me Dick.

Nice to meet you, Dr. Dick.

I left a message on your machine...

see if you wanted a lift

to tomorrow's nooner.

- I'd like that.

- Great. Till then.

See ya.

Mom? You're allowed to date Dr. Dick

while you're sleeping with Osborne?

His name is Dr. Leffler.

I met him at AA.

You're not supposed to know that

because it's anonymous.

I'm not dating him. And cut it out

about me screwing Osborne!

You think it's a good idea,

sleeping with Osborne's doctor?

Jesus, Finn!

I didn't mind my mother doing Osborne.

I mean, she's done worse.

I just didn't like her thinking

that she was fooling me.

Bryce! Open up this door.

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Dirk Wittenborn

Dirk Wittenborn (born 1952 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American screenwriter and novelist. more…

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