Once in the Life Page #2

Synopsis: Once in the life (of drug dealing and organized crime), can anyone get out? During a brief jail stay, two half-brothers, who have rarely seen each other while growing up, connect. One of them, called 20/20 Mike because he can sense people nearby, concocts a scheme in which the two of them will steal some dope from young couriers. The heist goes awry when Billy, the junkie brother, shoots the victims of the theft. The brothers hole up in an abandoned building, and 20/20 Mike seeks help from an old cell mate, Tony, whom he thinks is out of the life. It turns out that they have stolen Tony's dope, and Tony's boss wants the two thieves dead. Is there any way out?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Laurence Fishburne
Production: Trimark
 
IMDB:
5.3
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
28%
R
Year:
2000
107 min
Website
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to talk to me like that in front of the kid? Why? Because you are just

such a f***ing a**hole. Don't you come

stepping into my life and telling me that

you care about my son. Hey, "our" son. Tony, voice-over:

Dig. Like last new year's night, when the whole scene

shown bright and all the goons

was stalking their prey. The cold was pure crime

on them neon lights and all the tricks

were doomed to pay. Crime suddenly begun

soon as daughters made sons. Some of them's

only 5 years old. You know, there's been

many, many a night I had to settle for

a bite off of some old... Moldy roll. Seen your

father lately? He's dead. He's dead?

You sure? Yeah, I'm sure. Positive? Absolutely.

Absolutely positive. A f***ing deadbeat. A f***ing prick

is what he was. Are you hungry?

You want to go get a slice of pizza

or something? Come on.

Take a walk with me. I'll buy you a slice,

all right? That's all right.

I'm good. Like you got something

better to do? Come on. Take a walk

with me, bro. Ok. But don't

call me that. What can I do

you fellas? Let me get two slices

and a coke. What you want

to drink, bro? Dr. pepper. Dr. pepper?

You need something with vitamin c, yo. Hey, let me get

an orange drink with that. Man: 10 minutes

on the pizza. Yeah. No problem. What? Look at you. Wipe your nose. Thanks. You know

you got to eat, bro. Feed a cold,

starve a fever. That's what they say. I f***ing told you

not to call me that. Now, see,

look what you did. Are you stupid

or what? Why the f*** you got

to talk to me like that? You put me back

another 10 minutes. I'm sorry. Yeah, sorry.

It does nothing for me. "You're sorry."

You know what? Get out. What? We just want

some pizza, man. Oh, get a f***ing

haircut. Two of you

are knuckleheads. Aah! What the f***! F***, man! Torch: Say it

to my f***ing face. Who's stupid now,

motherf***er? Wait a minute.

We got to go. We got to go.

The cops are coming. What are you

talking about? What cops? The ones

behind me, yo. Holy sh*t. Officers: Hold it!

Hold it! Police! Stop right there!

Police officer! Stop! Get the f***

out of the way! Torch: Wait up, man.

Wait up. How did you know

those cops were coming? I got eyes in the back

of my head. 20/20 Mike. That's me. What's the matter

with you? What? Are you

f***ing crazy? You're trying to

get us busted again? We just got out,

man. Yeah, well,

I may be crazy, but I ain't stupid. What do you mean

"we" just got out? We ain't together. Come on. Don't be

like that, bro. Don't f***ing

call me that. Just because

my old man was f***ing

your mother don't make us

brothers. Oh, wait a minute. Why you got to talk

about my mother, huh? Why you got to talk

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Laurence Fishburne

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor, playwright, producer, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for playing Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy, Jason "Furious" Styles in the 1991 drama film Boyz n the Hood and Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in the 1979 war film Apocalypse Now. For his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It, Fishburne was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992), and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in TriBeCa (1993). Fishburne became the first African American to portray Othello in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. Fishburne starred in several cult classics, including Deep Cover and King of New York. From 2008 to 2011, he starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and from 2013 to 2015 starred as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal. In 2013, he portrayed Perry White in the Zack Snyder-directed Superman reboot Man of Steel and in 2016 reprised his role in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Fishburne played Bill Foster/Goliath in the film Ant-Man and the Wasp, released in 2018 as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. more…

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