Men at Work Page #2

Synopsis: Carl and James are two pleasant but unambitious garbage men. Carl has a telescope with which he observes his neighbors. One evening he sees a man giving a female neighbor a hard time. As she leaves he shoots the man with a pellet gun. Hiding, he and James miss two men strangling the man and leaving with the body. When he appears in a can on their route they are afraid and hide the body, fearing that they may be implicated in the death. Trying to crack the case, they spy on the woman, join up with a slightly to majorly crazed Vietnam vet, kidnap a pizza man and help to protect the ecology.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Emilio Estevez
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
29%
PG-13
Year:
1990
98 min
686 Views


- Golf clap?

- Golf clap.

"Dear John. I'm sorry

things didn't work out for us."

"You're a sweet man,

and I'll always love you."

Ah!

You know, this is the kind of sh*t

that really breaks me up.

- It's an epidemic.

- What is?

Just women, relationships, all of it.

I never have a problem with it.

- Hi, James.

- Morning, baby.

- That's cos you've got no heart.

- What?

You've got no heart. Who was

the last girl you were serious about?

Betsy Sabetta.

Betsy Sabetta? That was

in the ninth grade and she had a harelip.

- She did not.

- She did too.

- She did not!

- Did too, did too.

- What do you know about her, anyway?

- I know she had a harelip.

What an absolutely gorgeous day.

Warm sun, beautiful women.

And the air is just right for drinking.

Would you just look at all the activity

that's going on down here, Carl.

It's close, man. I can see it.

Right here, right on the strand.

Carl and James' Surf Shop.

It's gold. It's gold, James. It's a gold mine.

Just think of the garbage business

as a way station on the road to nirvana.

Maybe now you're single again, you'll be

able to put more time and energy into it.

Whoa. Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Hold on, wait a minute, just a second.

I have put a lot of energy

into getting our surf shop together.

And we'd be a lot further along

if I didn't have to do the work of two.

Pardon me? Let's not forget that I chose

the bank that we went to to get our loan.

We didn't even get the loan.

It's not like you researched it. You picked

the name out of the Yellow Pages.

What exactly are...

Good God!

What exactly are you trying to say?

What I'm trying to say, James, is that

sometimes you are completely hopeless.

- Really?

- Yes.

- Hey, Carl.

- Yeah.

- What exactly did you mean by hopeless?

- I meant exactly what I said.

I still don't understand.

Well, let's examine the word.

Hope less. Less than hopeful.

That's what you are.

But am I majorly hopeless

or partially hopeless?

I would say majorly. Why do you ask?

- I'll try to change.

- No, you won't.

I need to talk to you, Leo.

Hi. Nice to see you.

I need your help on something, Leo.

I know who's responsible for

the toxic dumping off Las Playas,

and I'm kind of involved.

Jesus, Jack.

I just never thought it would go this far.

Look, it's all on the tape. Listen to this.

What is this? Some kind of a joke?

This is not the right tape.

She took the wrong tape!

- What are you talking about?

- The wrong tape!

Hey, wait a minute.

Come on. Let's do the nasty.

- Do we have to?

- Yeah, afraid so.

- Nasty!

- Nasty!

- Nasty!

- Nasty!

Yeah, Dalton here. Listen,

Jack Berger was in here earlier today.

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Emilio Estevez

Emilio Estevez (; born May 12, 1962) is an American actor, director, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is well known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, starring in The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, and acting in the 1983 hit movie The Outsiders. He is also known for Repo Man, The Mighty Ducks and its sequels, Stakeout and its sequel, Maximum Overdrive, Bobby (which he also wrote and directed), and his performances in Western films such as Young Guns and its sequel. more…

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