The Square Page #2

Synopsis: Lovers Ray and Carla plan to burn down her house at Christmas, to run off with her husband's drug money. Ray has a side scheme going too, taking kickbacks on the love hotel project whose construction he's managing. The suburban Aussie marrieds live across a river from each other, the much older, domesticated Ray in a upper middle-class neighborhood, Carla on the wrong side of the water. The cheaters will lure their families to the same Christmas picnic celebration, to provide alibis while still being able to sneak off and chat about the arson. Carla's tow-truck owner hubby, Smithy, is a fearsome tough to cross, so will the philanderers' holiday gifts come through, or explode in their lying faces?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Nash Edgerton
Production: Apparition
  2 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
R
Year:
2008
105 min
$404,898
Website
566 Views


Got to watch the quiet ones, huh?

Yeah, nah, you're sweet.

- All right.

- I'll come by your office, yeah?

Thanks, mate.

- So there's your problem, mate.

- What?

- See this crack?

- Yeah.

Well, I don't stock these,

but I can order one in for you.

- Have it back in operation for you by Friday.

- Right.

- Well?

- Well, what?

Would you like me to go ahead

and order it, or...

No, I'd like you to be able to fix things like

that on the spot like you're supposed to.

Well, that doesn't answer my question.

Yes, make it.

And, mate, don't leave your ute

just sitting there, blocking everything.

Sorry about that.

- Hello?

- Carla, it's me. We need to talk about this.

What are you doing, Ray?

I'm outside the house.

Listen, I am doing something.

I've been getting

some money together, so we...

Ray, please don't call me anymore.

Carla, wait. You...

- Gidday.

- Gidday, mate. How're you going?

- Not bad.

- Been up to his old tricks again, huh?

Yeah, yeah.

Must have some bullshit

dog food at your house.

Yeah, that's true.

Breakdown on Fuller Road.

Yeah, why don't you try

closing the side gate?

Don't live in a tent. Bye.

Cheers.

Yeah, mate...

- I know someone who can help us.

- Forget it, Ray.

- No, I'm serious.

- Go home.

No, I'll do it. We can take the money.

But if we're going to do it, I just...

I just need to know that...

Are you sure?

Hello.

Chris. You Chris?

Sit down.

Wipe the guilty look off your face.

Relax. This is just a lunch with friends.

We're all friends of Roger's, so...

Let me talk you through it first.

We don't talk about this or that out loud,

or to anybody else.

All right, whatever happens here,

stays with us. You understand?

All right, second,

once it's done, you wipe it away.

It never happened. We never met.

Say yes, Chris, or nod, or say something.

Sorry. Yeah. Yeah.

Now, pass it over.

Anyone else got the number?

Haven Cove.

Is it true what they say

about the sharks down there?

Apparently, yeah.

I've never seen any.

That's a good drawing. It's pretty good.

Right. Money.

Life's strange, isn't it?

Things we do.

It's all there.

When do you want this done?

Wendy.

Martha, hi.

Hello. How are you? Gidday, mate.

How are you?

- Good to see you. Very well. Hello.

- How are you?

- Lovely to see you.

- Ray, how are you?

- I'm Carla. Hi. Hi.

- Oh, yeah.

Martha, Ray, this is Carla.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- So, what you got there?

- I've got some white wine.

I'm with my husband and his sister,

but thank you.

It's really nice to meet you

and Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

Keep your eyes in your head.

Can you be a bit helpful, please?

You get my phone off the charger

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Joel Edgerton

Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor, director, writer, producer and filmmaker. He has starred in numerous Hollywood films, such as Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), Warrior (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), Black Mass (2015), Bright (2017), It Comes at Night (2017), and Red Sparrow (2018).In Australia, Edgerton portrayed Will McGill in the drama series The Secret Life of Us (2001–02), for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama. He has also appeared in several Australian films, such as The Square (2008), Animal Kingdom (2010), for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Wish You Were Here (2012), and Felony (2013). In 2015, Edgerton received a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film for The Gift, a psychological horror-thriller film Edgerton wrote, directed, co-produced, and in which he co-starred. Edgerton garnered further critical acclaim for his performance as Richard Loving in the 2016 historical drama Loving, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. more…

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