The Motel Life Page #2

Synopsis: Two brothers who are forced to leave Reno after being involved in a hit-and-run accident. Based on the novel by Willy Vlautin, this moody thriller is a searing and profound examination of brotherhood set in the timeless Sierra Nevadan frontier.
Director(s): Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky
Production: Polsky Films
  3 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
69%
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Year:
2012
85 min
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I can't go to jail, Frank.

You're not gonna go to jail.

Okay? Nobody knows

anything. We just lay low.

If anyone finds out, if the

police or anyone finds out,

- you gotta get me outta here.

- They ain't gonna find out.

This TV's starting

to drive me crazy.

That poor kid.

You see Polly Flynn?

I pretended like I was asleep.

I ain't never been in love, Frank.

Marge is the only

girl for me, I guess.

And she's just a picture I draw.

It sure don't feel like

love with Polly Flynn.

If it does at all, it's

when we're f***ing.

Sometimes I feel like

I love her then.

Never anytime else, though.

But then...

I used to feel that when I

used to f*** that fat old lady

when we were staying

at the Silver State.

Even then when I was about to let go,

I felt like I wanted to marry her.

Here you go.

Thanks.

At least you've been

in love, Frank.

I don't care what you say,

that girl really did like you.

All she ever did was

talk about you.

Hey.

- You want one of these?

- Alright.

- Hey Gary.

- Frank.

I went by and I sat

with him yesterday.

Seeing him there like that...

it's hard not to think about the night

that you guys jumped the train.

Yeah, I've been thinking

about that too.

Why do you think he did it, Frank?

I don't know much...

but what worries me is you

guys just f***ing split.

- Did you at least cover it up at work?

- No. We just left, I was...

drunk, and Jerry Lee was so

upset, he was out of his mind.

But that looks bad.

I mean, somebody starts asking around...

and now you're both f***ed.

I know.

Why don't you ever come

down on him, Frank?

'Ey.

Come on.

Luck of the Flannigans.

Almost worse than mine.

Almost.

Uh...

Jerry Lee said you

owe him some money.

Yeah, I do.

Yeah, look, I owe him that

money and I'd pay you, Frank.

I would pay you but...

I've been betting the playoffs and I

f***ing lost the last three weeks.

I'm down a couple grand, man.

I should've bet it on the Tyson Douglas

fight, that's what I should've done.

Buster Douglas is gonna

win that fight, Frank.

Christ, Tommy.

Besides Jerry Lee, you're

the unluckiest guy I know.

Don't you read the papers?

Jesus, nobody thinks Buster Douglas is

gonna make it outta the first round.

Hey guys.

- Guess where I've been.

- I don't know, where ya been, Al?

I've been in the loony bin.

- Could I get a vodka cranberry?

- Sure, hon.

Ugh, come on.

I happened upon a bottle of liquid

acid. And I couldn't stop taking it.

I ended up walking down Virginia.

Right down the center of town.

All I was wearing was my

underwear and flip-flops.

Luckily I'm still

half sane, though.

They say they try to get you straight...

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