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Synopsis: It's early autumn of 1975 in Brooklyn and 18-year-old Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) is killing time, pulling off petty crimes with his street tough older brother Danny (Geoff Wigdor), whom he both idolizes and fears. He doesn't really want to be a criminal, but he doesn't share the dreams of his old friends from their working class neighborhood either. They all yearn for the culturally approved 9-to-5 Civil Service jobs with benefit packages that will carry them through weekends of beer into lazy retirement. Brian doesn't want to end up in a soul-numbing job like his buddies, but he's sure he doesn't want to be like his best friend Todd (Zachary Booth) either. Todd has betrayed their blue-collar roots by accepting a scholarship to college. But Brian has a secret -- he's a talented artist. In the basement of the bagel shop beneath his parent's apartment, he creates impressionistic charcoal and watercolor images of the stifling city that surrounds him. When he puts on his headphones and pa
Genre: Drama
Director(s): John Gray
Production: Screen Media Films
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
R
Year:
2010
109 min
Website
48 Views


- Paddy, just eat.

- Never know what's going on

inside that brain.

It's like I've got an alien

living here

or something like that.

Hey, big bri,

how are things on planet pansy?

Ah, come on.

Come on.

Laugh, get pissed off,

something.

Show me you've got some stones.

Maybe you're adopted.

I don't know.

- Dad.

- What?

- Don't.

That's very...

- What?

[Michael campaga

and the average johnsons'

off to see the wizard]

- Come on. We gonna follow

the yellow brick road.

Here we go.

# well I'm off to see

the wizard #

# get my business fixed #

# with all the problems I got #

# I'm gonna need

a wizard's tricks #

# working and worrying #

# lord it's all I ever seem

to do #

- When I tell them to be

at the table for dinner,

you better make sure

that they're there.

- Tell them yourself.

- I will.

I'm laying down the law

right now.

- # 'Cause you know the people

with all the money #

# puttin' a scare

on people like me and you #

# well I'm going down

to the 7-eleven #

# yeah I'm gonna play

the lottery #

# even though you know

I know you know I know #

- Hey, f*ggot.

Don't worry about it.

That one sucked anyway.

Is the old man looking for me?

- Yeah.

- Got something for you.

- What's this?

- What do you think?

- I thought you fired me.

- Look, I made a good deal

with jimmy cheeks.

I'm giving you half.

Don't bust my balls.

And don't take everything I say

so f***ing serious.

Let me ask you something.

What good are all these

f***ing drawings?

I mean,

what can you do with them?

Can you sell them?

- Probably not.

- Who'd buy them with all

the people out of focus?

What is that?

- I don't know.

Maybe I need glasses.

- Maybe you need a kick

in the balls.

- You've already given me

one of those, thanks.

- Come on; I haven't kicked you

in the balls in years.

- Yet somehow, that feels like

it was just yesterday.

- You're too easy on them,

the both of them.

They walk all over you.

- I can't talk to you

when you're like this.

- Sounds like a seven.

- He broke something before.

- Make it a nine.

Hey, I got an idea I want

to talk to you about.

- You know what?

I've actually got to go.

'Cause I'm gonna meet

my friend todd.

He just got back from college.

We're gonna go meet him

at the kill car.

- What was he doing at college

during the summer?

Must not be that smart.

- Yeah,

I'll ask him for you.

- I got a friend coming back too

next week... From prison.

Oh, yeah, well, I mean,

that's, you know,

that's cool too.

- Look, I got something new

in the works.

It could make us

some real money.

- Danny, listen, I don't want

to sound like I'm being-

- all right,

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