Take Me Home Tonight Page #2

Synopsis: It's the late 1980s, when Wall Street is riding high, and it seems as if the entire country is cashing in on the bumper profits. Disgusted with the materialism that surrounds him, Matt Franklin, a brilliant young MIT graduate, has walked out on his well-paid position at a local lab and taken a low-level job as a video clerk, much to his father Bill's consternation. And the crises keep piling up in Matt's life. His best buddy Barry has just gotten fired from his job, his brainy sister Wendy is getting hitched to her vapid boyfriend Kyle, and the gorgeous Tori Frederking, long-time object of Matt's unattainable adoration, is suddenly back in the picture. Now, on one wild, woolly and irresponsible evening, everything is coming to a head, with explosive results.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Michael Dowse
Production: Relativity Media
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
28%
R
Year:
2011
97 min
$6,923,891
Website
860 Views


Your boss is standing right behind you.

And I'm not buying your bullshit... Barry!

Or a sedan.

F*** me, f*** me, f*** me.

You know what?! I gave up college for

you bastards.

Oh sh*t.

Start the engine.

F*** you!

So um, dad. Somebody's gonna ride

the "ball" tonight.

Darling, nobody rode that thing when I was

a kid. And nobody's gonna ride it tonight.

How's your dad doing, Barry?

Well, his parole got pushed back about six

months, so he's pretty upset about that.

I still don't understand

why they let you go.

my youth.

Look at it this way, Barry. At least

you went for it.

You realized a goal. You rolled up your

sleeves and you applied yourself.

Well I see the traditional evenings

torture is in full swing.

Matthew, we had a deal.

You said just give me the summer to figure things out.

Well guess what. The summers over!

I want to hear your plan.

Dad, I guess my plan is to keep working at Suncoast until

I figure out what I really want to do with my life.

Why don't you just get an engineering job

until you figure it out?

Honey, we just think you have such potential.

You could be anything. You could be an astronaut.

Oh, problem solved. I'll just be an

astronaut.

Matthew, I didn't give a quarter of my savings

to MIT so you could work at the mall.

I'll see you all in the morning. I gotta

go to work.

Matt!

- Are you OK?

- I applied to Cambridge for my masters.

- Holy sh*t! You finally did it.

- I don't wanna open it.

- Why not?

- Because I'm scared, dip sh*t.

- Oh... want me to open it?

- No! Matt, no! Knock it off!

No I think you do.

- Wendy, you're going to England.

- I don't know. I don't even know if I'd go.

Why?

I don't know if Kyle would come or not.

We took possession of the condo on Tuesday...

I mean look, he'll visit. He needs to

experience a new language. Open it!

I just applied to see if I could get in.

Okay, Wendy, you know that I hate

giving you compliments, right?

I've read your short stories. They're

amazing.

I know.

Open it, open it, open it.

F***in open it!

- No!

- Ok!

No I'm not going to. No, not now.

No, I just want to have fun tonight.

Matt? Don't tell anyone, promise!

You can trust me. I'm a Goldman

Sachs man.

Good luck with that...

Ok, here we go. Nelson Mandela,

Purple Rain, windsurfing.

- Windsurfing?

- Windsurfing?

What am I doing?

I'll never get this girl.

I don't wanna hear that talk tonight. Ok?

How long do I know you?

- Since 5th grade.

- Since 5th grade, right?

You're whippin it real good now. Look at

you. You're the smartest guy I know.

The acne is all cleared up.

Hey, you've had sex now.

- Yeah.

- Yeah!

I'm gonna be with you, every step of

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