W. Page #2

Synopsis: Oliver Stone's biographical take on the life of George W. Bush, one of the most controversial presidents in USA history, chronicling from his wild and carefree days in college, to his military service, to his governorship of Texas and role in the oil business, his 2000 candidacy for president, his first turbulent four years, and his 2004 re-election campaign.
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Production: Lionsgate
  1 win & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
58%
PG-13
Year:
2008
129 min
$25,517,500
Website
637 Views


who don't know...

...his grandfather Prescott...

...is our esteemed senator

from Connecticut.

My father's running for Congress

in Texas.

Yeah.

Planning on following

in their footsteps there, Bushie?

Hell, no. No way in the world

I'd wanna do that.

Congressman George Bush.

May I please speak with my son?

- Daddy's on the phone.

- Hey, tell your mom I said hi.

- Wait here. I'll be right back.

- Help us out here, Bush.

- I'll be right back.

- Don't forget about us.

Hello, Pop. Is that you?

What's this about?

What kind of trouble you in now?

Oh, it's penny ante. I swear, Poppy.

Hey, we beat Princeton.

Won the darn championship.

We were tearing down the goal posts.

I was hanging on the crossbar.

But they arrested me on account of

me being head cheerleader, I'm sure.

Hill and Dowling had great games.

I mean, we kicked their butts.

The only thing better than beating

Princeton, beating Harvard.

You beat both of them when you won

the championship.

Went to the first

College World Series.

The first two college national

championships.

Forty-seven and '48.

Right after you were born.

There are still photos of you...

... and that team up on the walls

of Delta Kappa.

Tell you, things in this life

you wish you could go back, do over.

I could field, but I couldn't hit.

Went 0 for 3 against Cal in the finals.

How history goes.

Still, you were on the greatest

Yale baseball team of all time.

My father

would've kicked the crap out of me...

... if I ended up

where you are now, Junior.

They're gonna let me go, Poppy.

I have to get out of New Jersey

and promise never to come back.

Which is okey-dokey with me.

Don't work that way, Junior.

Not to me, not to this family.

Now, I'm getting you out of this,

this time.

I don't wanna get

any more phone calls like this again.

Ever.

- You hear me?

- Yes, sir.

- Where is your grease gun?

- It's up there.

Quit messing with me.

- Manuel.

- Get your butt back in here.

I thought you just wanted me

to go up there just now.

Sh*t.

- What happened?

- I think the bearing stopped.

- Hey, watch this for me, will you?

- Okay.

- Watch it.

- Okay.

Hey, Miguel.

- Is that too hot?

- Yeah.

Damn.

I need some help out here.

Bush, what you doing off the floor?

Shift's not over till 1800.

I'm having a drink, sir.

Get back there.

The motor's overheating.

I need every swinging dick I got.

Yeah, I know that.

But, sir, you see, I'm about parched.

You know, I just need

a couple of minutes here.

You already had your break. This ain't

some fancy-ass lvy League school.

Now, haul that butt of yours

back out to your motor...

...before something else happens.

All right. You know, sir...

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Stanley Weiser

Stanley Weiser is an American screenwriter. He was born in New York City. He is a graduate of the NYU Film School. His screen credits include Wall Street and W., both directed by Oliver Stone. He also wrote the 20th Century Fox film, Project X. He is credited for creating characters in the sequel to Wall Street: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. In addition, he served as script consultant on Oliver Stone's Nixon and Any Given Sunday. Weiser's other projects include two civil rights dramas, developed as feature films, but made for television. Murder in Mississippi, a chronicle of the 1964 Freedom Summer movement and the lives and deaths of Cheney, Schwerner, and Goodman, the three young civil rights workers who were killed by the Ku Klux Klan, which aired on NBC in 1990. It was nominated for four Emmys and won the Directors Guild of America Award for best TV movie. Freedom Song, a semi-fictional account of the early SNCC movement in Mississippi, was co-written with Phil Alden Robinson, who also directed. They shared a Writers Guild of America Award and Humanitas nomination for the 2000 TNT film. Weiser also adapted the novel, Fatherland, by Robert Harris, for HBO. It was nominated for three Golden Globe awards and Miranda Richardson won for best supporting actress in a TV or cable movie. He wrote the NBC four-hour mini-series Witness to the Mob in 1998, which was produced by Robert De Niro. He also wrote Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, for which he received a Writers Guild of America nomination for best TV movie. As of 2012, he wrote a biopic on the life of Rod Serling, the writer and The Twilight Zone creator. Weiser began his career as a production assistant for Brian De Palma on Phantom of the Paradise, and as an assistant cameraman on the Martin Scorsese documentary, Street Scenes. He is married and lives in Santa Monica, California. He is a founding member of the West Los Angeles Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center. more…

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