The Lookout Page #2

Synopsis: An admired high school hockey player with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girlfriend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the robb
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Scott Frank
Production: Miramax
  1 win & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
2007
99 min
$4,538,656
Website
401 Views


What happened before that?

Um, one goes, "Someone's been sleeping

in my bed, and she's still there."

And before that it was,

"Someone is sitting in my chair."

Yeah, and then the bear kid's chair's

all jacked up.

Then it goes all the way back

to her walking in the door.

- First she walks in the forest.

- You sequence just fine.

You just gotta start at the end,

work backwards. Write that down.

- Hi, Mrs. Lange.

- Hi, Chris.

- He's in a good mood.

- Oh, OK.

- Good night.

- Good night.

The harvest checks go out

in a week or so.

That means we're going to be very busy

the next few weeks.

Which is why I want you to write down

"bank extra clean"

in your little notebook.

Good night.

Mr. Tuttle?

I'd like to apply to the executive

training program in Wichita,

but before I can, I have to have worked

- Take that up with Mrs. Lange.

- I have already.

We've been practicing.

She gave me some money.

She what?

See?

You said you'd think about

giving me some hours at a window.

You have to be able

to keep track of the debits.

A good teller is primarily

a good counter.

A teller keeps track of money

all day long,

taking care to keep the corners on bills

facing the same way.

At the end...

Um... The end...

Ends...

At the end... At the end of the day,

the teller balances the cash

against the payout tickets.

A good teller can go for years

without being out of balance.

Mrs. Lange has never been

out of balance yet.

But the real key

is a friendly personality.

The motto of a teller is,

"Be friendly and accurate."

- "But mostly be accurate."

- Very good, Chris.

Mrs. Lange also says the women's

bathroom fixture needs a new bulb.

Good night.

He'll scoop the puck

into the right corner.

Hartigan will center it

to the far boards.

Defense pushed it back to the line

to Lidstrom into the corner for Lang.

Lang floats it back to Lidstrom,

skating on the blue line with it.

Now fires a rising shot. Kicked aside.

But a goal pass by Pascal Leclaire.

Trevor Letowski

carries it out to center ice.

A glove save. Now the puck bounces

away from Lidstrom out to center.

In pursuit Manny Malhotra.

Detroit played better

in the first period.

Malhotra is all over Williams,

forcing the Red Wings to have

a power play in their own zone.

Here comes Lidstrom

over the Columbus line.

Drop pass. Samuelson with a shot.

Passed to Danny Stevens.

Stevens back to Pratt.

Lidstrom right down the center.

Fakes it left.

Pratt fakes a shot on the right

and dekes out the goalie.

I think Mark...

Game is tied...

And there's Holmstrom,

Johnny-on-the-spot, to fire it in...

You cannot be serious.

That is pathetic.

That's Chris Pratt.

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Scott Frank

A. Scott Frank (born March 10, 1960) is an American screenwriter, film director, and author. He has earned two Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations, for Out of Sight (1998) and Logan (2017). more…

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