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Synopsis: Smashed is a 2012 American drama film directed by James Ponsoldt, written by Ponsoldt and Susan Burke, and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul. Winstead and Paul play a married couple, Kate and Charlie Hannah, both alcoholics. After a series of embarrassing incidents caused by her drinking habit, Kate decides to get sober with the help of a coworker and a sponsor from Alcoholics Anonymous.
Genre: Drama
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
R
Year:
2012
81 min
$375,981
Website
832 Views


KATE:

(taken aback)

Um...sure.

7.

FREDA:

Good.

(whispers)

Hey, I’m not really okay.

Oh...

KATE:

FREDA:

My b*tch sister just took off andleft me here so she could hook upwith some a**hole. Now what am I

supposed to do? Huh? I don’t have acar here.

KATE:

I guess I could...

FREDA:

You’ll give me a ride? Oh my god!

Thank you!

Freda gets up quickly -- and almost falls over. *

KATE:

I was gonna say “call you a cab,”

‘cause, you know --I don’t evenknow you.

FREDA:

It’s not far. Please? Pretty

please...?

Kate looks dismayed. Not sure what to do.

CUT TO:

3 INT./EXT. SUBARU (MOVING) - NIGHT 3 *

The car passes through Chinatown on its way downtown. *

Kate drives with Freda in the passenger seat. Freda glancesdown at the floor and notices a FLASK. *

FREDA:

You know, you shouldn’t drink and

drive.

KATE:

I wasn’t -FREDA

Just kidding. Can I have a sip?

8.

Kate’s speechless.

FREDA (CONT’D)

I’m really thirsty.

KATE:

It’s, uh...whiskey.

FREDA:

F*** yeah, it’s whiskey! I love

whiskey. You’re the real thing,

huh? A hardcore drinking b*tch like

me!

Freda takes a swig from Kate’s flask.

KATE:

I don’t know. No.

FREDA:

Can I smoke in your car?

KATE:

(slightly annoyed)

Okay, fine -- go ahead. Can you

just roll down the window?

FREDA:

Of course -- I’m not uncivilized.

Freda takes out a -

--CRACK PIPE and lights it, deeply inhaling crack smoke.

KATE:

(in disbelief)

WHOA!

Kate immediately pulls the car over.

KATE (CONT’D)

Not what I thought you meant.

FREDA:

Want a hit?

KATE:

No, I...is that pot?

FREDA:

(as though it’s a

ridiculous question)

Of course not! What do I look like?

A stoner?

(MORE)

9.

FREDA (CONT'D)

(beat)

It’s crack.

KATE:

Oh, sh*t! No...no thank you.

FREDA:

C’mon -- it’s good crack.

KATE:

I don’t, um...I’ve never smoked

crack.

FREDA:

(surprised)

Really? This stuff is the truth --

and it’ll sober you up.

KATE:

Uh...I think you should go.

FREDA:

I’m not getting out in the middle

of nowhere. Do you know what could

happen to me all alone out here at *

night?

KATE:

I don’t know -- people might offer

you crack?

FREDA:

Seriously? It’s not a big deal --

just take a little hit.

Kate and Freda stare at each other. A stand-off.

KATE:

I said no.

FREDA:

One hit won’t hurt you. It’ll sober

you up.

Kate glances at the pipe, which Freda wiggles in front of

her.

FREDA (CONT’D)

(high-pitched cartoon

voice)

Smoke me!

Kate LAUGHS.

10.

KATE:

One puff. Then we are both going

home.

Freda nods. Long beat.

KATE (CONT’D)

Fine.

Freda puts the pipe into Kate’s lips and lights it. Kate

sucks in crack smoke. Her eyelids flutter.

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James Ponsoldt

James Adam Ponsoldt is an American film director, actor and screenwriter, now based in Los Angeles. He directed the drama films Off the Black and Smashed, the romantic comedy-drama The Spectacular Now, and the drama The End of the Tour. more…

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