The Samaritan Page #2

Synopsis: After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): David Weaver
Production: IFC Films
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
37
Rotten Tomatoes:
24%
R
Year:
2012
90 min
$1,744
Website
364 Views


that you were best

friends, partners.

She tell you what we did?

Our work'?

. No.

But I figured it out.

It's everything I could find.

Every article, every picture.

Why would you keep all this?

How else

could I get to know him?

You were grifters,

best in the city, according

to a lot of the old-timers.

Ethan, you need to let this go.

Your dad's been dead

a long time.

No, I need to know.

Foley, put yourself in my shoes.

We were on the grift...

A long con with a volatile mark

but with a high yield

if it played.

And it played.

Till your dad got greedy

and tried to squeeze the mark

loo hard,

I never figured out why.

He was in debt.

He was way over his

head, cards, horses.

Took my mom years

to get out from under it.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Mark was a heavy hitter.

Didn't take well

to being ripped off.

Kill your dad, or I

could die with him.

I'm sorry.

I spent a long time

in a very small room

thinking about

the choices I made that night.

I was young,

younger than you are now,

but I made a choice.

I never broke frame,

and I was punished for it.

What was his name?

The mark'

what's it matter?

He was the mark.

Your dad put us both

in a corner,

and there was only one way out.

Well, if somebody

did that to me,

I'd kill him too.

I'm just saying...

I understand.

You understand?

Yeah, I do,

and I think we can help

each other.

Look at me, Ethan.

25 years of my life are gone.

Now, if you're as smart

as you think you are,

you should go in this room,

rip that sh*t down

off that wall,

and throw it away!

This isn't the kind of thing

where we got to make small talk,

is it'?

Can I just watch my game?

Pitcher of your cheapest.

Sit anywhere you like.

You think'?

Oh, sh*t.

Watch it.

I said no. Get off me.

Got to go to the bathroom...

sh*t.

Damn.

Always choke in the clutch.

' No!

Leave it be.

He's bad business'

No, no.

Please stop.

Shut up.

Please stop.

She said stop.

Get the f*** out of here!

After you.

Hey. Hey. He can't hurt you now.

Put it down. Put it down.

God damn.

It's-it's all right.

It's okay. Hey.

How you know this guy?

I just met him tonight.

He was supposed

to go get me some...

Hey, you're that freak

from the other night.

Beautiful.

For your trouble.

What about your cut'?

I wasn't even here.

What about the girl?

She's waiting inside.

Tell her I said good night,

Good to go.

The pipes!

Hey!

What the hell happened?

I could have been

f***ing killed!

Ll don't know.

It was all secure.

I don't give a sh*t!

You come to work

looking like hell!

You almost killed my guy!

Now, get off my site! Now!

Brother man, hey, look.

I need this job.

Look, I will make it

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Elan Mastai

Elan Mastai is a Canadian screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for The F Word, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014.His other screenwriting credits include MVP: Most Vertical Primate and Fury. He has described The F Word as the first time he wrote a screenplay in his own voice, rather than to the commercial demands of a mass-audience film.He was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a Canadian mother and an Israeli immigrant father. He studied film at Queen's University and Concordia University.In 2015, Mastai secured a $1.25 million deal for his debut novel, All Our Wrong Todays. A science fiction novel about a man from an alternate history utopia who, while part of a time travel experiment, causes a drastic alteration of his history, and regains consciousness in our society. The novel was published on February 7, 2017. more…

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