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Synopsis: A struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Martin McDonagh
Production: CBS Films
  3 wins & 21 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
R
Year:
2012
110 min
$15,000,000
Website
3,794 Views


on a highway.

No, this guy,

he's got a little bit more integrity.

This serial killer will only kill

mid- to high-ranking members

of the Italian-American

organized crime syndicate.

Or the Yakuza.

- That's a great f***ing psychopath, Billy.

-Do you think?

A serial killer who will only kill

mid- to high-ranking members

of the Italian organized crime syndicate.

Or the Yakuza. Yakuza.

I'll keep with the Mafia,

saves doing Jap dialogue.

Good idea.

That's a great f***ing psychopath, Billy.

Can I keep him?

You can if you let me help write

the movie with you.

You can keep him, Marty,

I'm just kidding you.

The daughter of a Quaker went missing.

And when she was discovered,

the slit in her throat

turned out to be the least

of the damage done to her.

Her killer, whose name shall not be noted,

could not bear

the guilt and the horror, he said,

and a year to the day of her death,

he walked into a police station

and gave himself up.

And though he asked for execution,

the judge gave him life,

and the killer was sent off to Sing Sing

to serve out his sentence.

Seventeen long years went by.

The killer found religion.

And was sincere about it. He had changed.

And if he had ever been a psychopath,

he was not one anymore.

This story isn't about him.

Many more years went by

and the authorities finally realized

that it wasn't a scam,

that he did truly mean it.

That he had truly repented.

And they decided to set him free.

And he found himself a place to stay

and he determined to live a simple,

joyous life in the years now left to him.

A simple, joyous life

was not what was left to him.

This went on for 11 f***ing years,

till finally the killer went mad.

And one winter night,

while recalling a Catholic tract he'd read,

which stated that

the only people guaranteed a place in Hell

were not murderers, were not rapists,

but were those who had died

by their own hand.

The killer accepted such an idea as beautiful,

for he knew that at least in Hell

the Quaker would not be there.

So he cut his own throat open,

and the last thing that the killer ever saw

was the old man take out

a cut-throat razor of his own,

put it to his throat,

and slice.

Where were you walking him, Sharice?

The La Brea Tar Pits.

Mr. Costello, please don't hurt me.

I promise, I didn't mean to lose Bonny.

I just turned around and he was gone.

If it was a genuine error, Sharice,

if it wasn't your fault and he just run off,

why did you run off,

have us piss away 12 hours

just to find your fat ass'?

You love your dog so much, Mr. Costello,

and you're such an angry-type person,

I didn't think you'd listen to

anything I had to say about losing Bonny.

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Martin McDonagh

Martin Faranan McDonagh (; born 26 March 1970) is a British-Irish playwright, screenwriter, and director. Born and brought up in London, the son of Irish parents, he holds dual British and Irish citizenship. He is among the most acclaimed living Irish playwrights. A winner of the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, McDonagh has been nominated for three other Academy Awards, and in 2018 won three BAFTA Awards from four nominations and two Golden Globe Awards from three nominations for his film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. more…

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