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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
423 Views


I mean, I don't know

how you do it.

I could never last

the whole summer

Without getting the

little man squeezed.

You suggesting I cheat

on your sister?

You've heard the story

about Tristan, right?

Tristan, your cousin?

No.

Who's Tristan?

That guy. Hasn't Madison

ever told you about him?

No.

Don't you guys talk

about stuff?

Yeah.

Well, don't you know who she slept with?

What do you know

about who she slept with?

Well, you know her bedroom was

next doors to mine in high school,

And you could just hear

the moaning and stuff.

[SIGHS]

What?

Do you think she was a virgin?

[RAINFALL]

[SNORING]

Do you have any plans

for the weekend?

Anything you're getting into?

What do you mean?

Do you have your eye on anyone?

You know, a girl.

No.

[POLES CLATTER]

Hey, Alvin.

Yeah?

I lied to you.

I do have my eye

on someone who's a girl.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Her name is Maggie Johnston.

She's a total goddess. I've been

working on her for a while.

Nice.

Yeah.

But I kinda

messed it up, though.

I lost her to my friend kip,

But I think they were on

the road to splitting up

If the way she was behaving last time I saw

her at the dance club was any indication.

Problems in the relationship?

Probably by now.

Is she, uh, giving off signals?

Signals?

Yeah.

Well, she was making

out with me in a toilet,

If that's a signal.

What?

Someone knocked on the door.

Probably would have gone full

lamb chop if no one had knocked.

With your friend kip's girlfriend?

Yeah.

Probably

ex-Girlfriend by now.

Are you sure you don't want to

come into the city this weekend?

You could crash at my

parents' place with me. No.

Thanks, though.

I'm gonna stay here.

I could use the solo time.

Not me.

I get lonely.

What's up?

[LANCE SIGHS]

There's birds in here.

Oh, so just, uh,

toss me the keys

And I'll pick you up on Monday.

You need any help with

the camp, setting up?

Sure.

Really?

You know what? Don't worry

about it. I'll get it. Oh.

But you do have

to do one thing.

I want you to mail that

for me, all right?

It's for your sister, and there's money

in there, so be careful with it.

Sweet. How much?

None of your business.

Aw, come on. How much?

Hundreds of dollars.

Why doesn't she get a job?

Why do you send her money?

She's got a lot going on.

No, she doesn't.

She stays at home and talks

on the phone and chews gum.

Yeah, she's raising her child.

Who's in school all day.

Drop it.

So you just take off and bust your ass

And send money back home?

It's called love.

I don't get it.

Yeah, well, you know what? You

don't have to get it, all right?

All you have to do is

mail that letter.

Oh, and one more thing.

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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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