Girlfight Page #2

Synopsis: At 18, Diana has a chip on her shoulder; she's close to expulsion from high school for fighting, her mother is dead, her dad is surly, the popular girls at school set her teeth on edge, she knows men can cause pain. When she picks up her younger brother at a Brooklyn gym where he boxes to please his father, she decides she wants to train. Hector, a coach, reluctantly agrees to teach her. It's soon clear to him that Diana has talent; he pushes her. She spends time with another young fighter, Adrian, who has a girlfriend, but Diana intrigues him and stirs real feelings he tries to articulate. She, too, must accommodate her toughness and ironic detachment to her feelings for him.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Director(s): Karyn Kusama
Production: Screen Gems
  15 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
R
Year:
2000
110 min
$778,046
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1,839 Views


- Don't be like that.

She treats you like sh*t.

WHy take her side?

Diana, I don't take sides.

Veronica don't even mean

half the stuff she says.

Look, I just wanna be friends

with everybody. That's the way I am.

Yeah, well, I hate her,

and that's the way I am.

Set his wife on fire,

then fatally shot himself.

Neighbors of the slain woman

expressed shock and sorrow today as...

Knock knock.

It was open.

You here to beat me up?

Remember her from the other day?

The bare knuckles.

You should've seen Ray's face.

Hey, I'm trying to say something.

I wanna train with you.

I wanna be a boxer.

Sure.

It's a great workout.

No, for real.

I wanna fight.

- You can train, but you can't fight.

- Why not?

You just can't.

Girls don't have

the same power as boys.

Why not aerobics?

Am I talking to you?

Nice.

There's plenty of things you can do

better with your life than box.

Prove it.

You got money?

'Cause I don't work for free.

A little.

I charge $10 a session,

and that's cut-rate.

I don't have

that kind of cash.

Well, there you go.

- Dad?

- Hmm?

You know how you pay for Tiny

to train with Hector?

Well, I was thinking on

how that's like an allowance.

And I should get one too.

It's not an allowance.

Then what is it?

I'm preparing him

for the world out there.

- Yeah, but...

- Look, it's insurance.

These kids are gonna

eat him alive.

- That's not true.

- Tiny, it is true.

What if he doesn't want to box?

Sure, he wants to.

What kid wouldn't?

He could go to college, Dad. He could

do all sorts of stuff with himself.

You think I don't know that? You think

this is just spending money for him?

He ain't over at A&S Plaza buying

lipstick or whatever you girls do there.

Please. Don't front like I'm some

girly-girl when you know I'm not.

Would it kill you

to wear a skirt once in a while?

Look, your mother

was a receptionist...

in a very nice office.

You want some extra money,

get a job.

I ain't giving you anything

until you show me you deserve it.

It's not like you

give me anything anyway.

You think I don't hear you?

Shut up, already.

Stop doing that.

You again.

Relax. Jab. Jab.

What are you doing here?

- I got the money.

- I didn't promise nothing.

You said

once I got the cash.

You seem like a nice kid.

It's just not right.

Diana...

This is bullshit. You said

once I got the money, and now I do.

Wait a minute.

You're gonna train with Hector?

Yeah.

- Why?

- Why not?

Well, what about Papi?

- You tell Dad, and I'll kill you.

- Take it easy!

Please.

I'll train you.

You will?

If you don't sweat for me,

you're out of my life. Got it?

- Got it.

- Oh, man!

Tiny, come on.

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Karyn Kusama

Karyn Kusama (born March 21, 1968) is an American independent film director known for the 2000 film Girlfight, which she wrote, directed, and produced.Kusama went on to direct 2005's Æon Flux and 2009's Jennifer's Body. She directed the 2015 horror film, The Invitation, and has recently worked as a television director. more…

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