Prince Avalanche Page #2

Synopsis: After a rough time working a night shift job in the city, Alvin is spending the summer on a remote two-man public works crew painting lines on newly paved roads through what is a recently wildfire-ravaged region of Texas. He is camping along the way living off the land, even doing so on his days off. He is what he considers a responsible man, earning and sending money to his girlfriend, Madison, a single mother, so that she need not concern herself with anything besides child rearing. The junior second that Alvin hires for his crew is Madison's brother, Lance. Alvin's controlling and judgmental nature comes to the surface in his dealings with more immature and irresponsible Lance, who goes back to the city on the weekends so that he can have "his little man squeezed", something he cannot understand in Alvin being without Madison or any woman for such a long stretch of time. Alvin prefers to stay in the burnt out woods on the weekends as being alone with his thoughts and his chores - ma
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): David Gordon Green
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  3 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
R
Year:
2013
94 min
$204,951
Website
422 Views


Oh, not me.

Alvin did most of them. I

just started working for him.

How many'd you do?

I haven't kept an exact count,

But I've hammered in

a boatload of posts

And painted a whole

bunch of stripes.

Yeah, don't forget the posts.

The posts are important.

Yeah, you're telling me.

You know, would it be all

right if I had one of those?

All right.

Do you have a light,

by chance? I, uh...

thank you.

Nothing but desire, huh?

Ooh.

Mmm.

You got it?

I know how.

You know what?

What?

You shouldn't smoke.

Oh, yeah, I know.

It's bad for you.

No, I mean you shouldn't smoke.

You look stupid.

[LAUGHING]

ALVIN:
You been

out here for a while?

Longer than you want

to know, son.

LANCE:
I don't know what

I'm doing out here, man.

There's no girls

out here at all.

Well, you got

to take care of that

On the weekend.

You got to go to town,

Meet a lady.

But, uh...

I can't discuss that

too much 'cause,

You know, I got a lot

Of bad memories

there, you know.

ALVIN:
Really?

Yeah.

Sometimes you get involved

a little too young,

Things happen and then

more things happen

And she takes off,

Maybe takes the child with her.

You just don't know. That

can be pretty rough.

Ahem. Hmm.

Well, I got to go. I'm tired

of fooling with you guys.

Here. Say...

[WHISTLES] Take that.

Oh, no.

This is too much.

No. Just my way of

saying thank you.

Oh, thank you.

Have a good day.

Take care of that.

That's good for you.

[DOOR SLAMS, ENGINE TURNS OVER]

Thank you.

[HORN HONKING]

Ha ha ha ha!

[HONK HONK HONK]

[ENGINE REVVING]

[SPRAYER ENGINE BUZZING]

[DISTANT THUNDER]

Aren't you gonna eat that?

What?

Aren't you gonna eat that?

The skin?

Yeah.

No.

The most nutritious part.

[PASSES GAS]

Oh, god. Farts?

[SIGHS] Relax.

We're having a very nice evening.

Enjoy your hot fish.

Seriously, are you really cool

not getting laid all summer?

I don't really have much

of a choice, do I?

I mean, when you were out here

For the spring by yourself,

Didn't you get lonely,

like, so lonely?

There's a difference between

being lonely and being alone.

There is?

Oh, yeah.

I reap the rewards of solitude.

How do you do that?

Well...

I write letters to your sister,

I...read,

I paint, I sew.

I had a cat, so I used to take

care of my pet before it was killed.

I have a lot of

prescription medications,

But I try not to use them.

Wow.

I don't know.

I get so horny

out here in nature.

Don't you? Horny?

I don't think so.

Let me ask you a question.

Does it, like...

feel different

Having sex with a woman

that's had a baby?

Yeah.

You know, like, Madison. She's had kids.

Mm-Hmm. Yeah.

Is it, like...

less tight?

Lance, she's your sister.

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David Gordon Green

David Gordon Green (born April 9, 1975) is an American filmmaker. He has directed dramas such as George Washington (2000), All the Real Girls (2003), and Snow Angels (2007), as well as the thriller Undertow (2004), all of which he wrote or co-wrote. In 2008, he transitioned into comedy, directing the films Pineapple Express (2008), Your Highness and The Sitter (both 2011), as well as episodes of the HBO comedy Eastbound & Down (2009–13). In 2013, he returned to his more dramatic roots with the independent films Prince Avalanche and Joe. Since then, he has directed the films Manglehorn (2014), Our Brand Is Crisis (2015), Stronger (2017), and episodes of the television comedy-drama Red Oaks (2014–2017), which he also executive produces. Green will next direct the upcoming eleventh installment in the Halloween franchise, which he co-wrote with frequent collaborator Danny McBride and takes place forty years after the events of the original 1978 film. more…

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