Two For The Money Page #2

Synopsis: Brandon Lang loves football: an injury keeps him from the pros, but his quarterback's anticipation makes him a brilliant predictor of games' outcomes. Needing money, he leaves Vegas for Manhattan to work for Walter Abrams advising gamblers. Walter has a doting wife, a young daughter, and a thriving business, but he has problems: a bum heart, a belief he's a master manipulator, and addictions barely kept in check. He remakes Brandon, and a father-son relationship grows. Then, things go awry. Walter may be running a con. The odds against Brandon mount.
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Director(s): D.J. Caruso
Production: Universal Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
R
Year:
2005
122 min
$22,862,049
Website
426 Views


Hey the packaging's not that great

but there's a prize on the inside.

What do you say? No?

Oh that's OK.

You'll be back. I'll have a life.

Well, I'm waiting for my wake-up call

And everything's my fault

Good morning Mary.

This is Brandon.

Congratulations, you went nine and two

last Sunday. This is Walter Abrams.

I don't know if you know me. I run

the biggest sports service in the country,

and I'm a big fan of yours, Brandon.

As a matter of fact,

I've got a poster of you on my wall.

- This is a joke right?

- No, this is not ajoke. This is ajob offer.

In your top drawer- go ahead, open it up -

there's an envelope with your name on it.

Now, that's travel cash and an airline

ticket. It's not a magic trick, Brandon.

I paid someone to put it there,

who told me that the place you're in

reminded him of a Turkish prison.

Now, all I'm asking you to do

is come up with a number.

You write down the number

of what you make now, you cross it out,

you write what you should be making,

and then toss in how much it's gonna take

to get you to fly to New York first-class

and come work for me.

Now, focus, Brandon, focus.

With your bum knee, a comeback

isjust a dream. My offer is real.

Run the numbers, do the math.

Hold on a second. Yeah.

Mom holding twojobs,

Denny going to college,

this looked like a chance

to make some real money.

And besides, I'd never seen New York

and New York had never seen me.

Oh goodness. Hey.

All right.

So what's this guy Walter like?

How long have you been working for him?

A long time.

- Two weeks.

- Two weeks.

Every day with Walter's an adventure.

Super cool, super mean

Feelin' good for the man,

supertly, here I stand

Secret stash, heavy bread,

baddest b*tches in the bed

I'm your pusherman

I'm your pusherman

That's OK.

All right double it. Triple it.

No everything's about money.

Listen this Sunday my little girl

an angel turns six.

This is not likely to happen again.

She loves elephants.

Your circus has ten. I only need one.

Now my little girl's happiness

is in your hands.

I don't need advice

from a guy who doubles as a clown.

I need a f***ing elephant.

Now I'm willing to pay.

What'll it take to grease your wheels

and get one here this weekend? Hello?

Fuckwad!

Find Ringling Brothers. Get someone

who understands profit. Whoa!

Brandon Lang.

The Marlboro man here.

- Nice to meet you.

- Hey you're in great shape.

- I've been in better.

- You're modest too. Oh!

Modesty - not a virtue.

Could be a vice. Sit down.

There are rules to success my friend.

Rule number one is know what you know

know what you don't know

and know that I gotta know everything

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Dan Gilroy

Daniel Christopher Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler (2014), for which he won Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards, and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards. Before becoming both a writer and director, Gilroy worked mostly as a screenwriter. His screenwriting credits include Freejack (1992), Two for the Money (2005), The Fall (2006), Real Steel (2011), and The Bourne Legacy (2012)—the last in collaboration with his brother Tony Gilroy. His wife, Rene Russo, has also been his frequent collaborator since the two met in 1992 and married later that year. more…

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