Wonderful World Page #2

Synopsis: Ben is a failed children's folk singer and less-than-extraordinary weekend dad. Deeply cynical, Ben's sole pleasure in life is derived from chess games with his Senegalese roommate Ibou. When Ibou is suddenly struck ill and an insensitive municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, Ben's pessimistic world view seems unequivocally confirmed. But when Ibou's sister Khadi takes his place in their apartment, what starts as an awkward living arrangement becomes something more, and Ben finds that cynicism may be all a matter of perspective.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Joshua Goldin
Production: Magnolia Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
42%
R
Year:
2009
89 min
Website
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And when the nuclear

holocaust comes,

there'll be swarms of you

driving around in your S.U.V.s

- informing on each other.

- Park where it's legal!

Shut up.

So 8:
30, Friday, funny bone.

Everyone's coming, right?

Cassie? Leon?

- Cassie?

- Yes.

Okay. Claire?

Funny bone, Friday?

You gotta come.

I rep a comic and he's

gonna be on at 10:00, so...

Who are you?

I'm The Man.

Are you God?

No, he deals with

the birds and beasties,

planetary alignments, quarks.

I just deal with

the human element.

Then I have a question.

Why are there soda machines

in schools?

Why is it all about

greed, agenda, money?

It is easier to

keep people in line

by appealing to their worst

impulses than their best.

Now everyone has bad impulses?

Not everyone has

good ones.

Maxine, go get dressed.

Lucas, go get dressed for school.

Lucas?

Thank you.

Go get dressed, sweetie.

Hey. Look at this ass clown.

- Who is that?

- It's a guy I work with.

- In proofreading?

- Yeah.

Did you know that there's

a new study that says

cinnamon is good

for the heart?

I'm not listening. You're just

trying to get me off my game.

No no no, seriously, though,

dark chocolate lowers

the blood pressure,

tannins in red wine.

All the medicine we'll

ever need is in the food.

you will have cancer--

The doctor will make you a salad.

Hey, Ben, Cyril G. Here.

I'm going down the list,

and you're coming, right?

You got somewhere to go?

All right, I'll see you there!

He just needs a warm body.

But of course, the consumables

have their own perils--

Mercury in the fish, caffeine.

Maybe one food will

cure cancer, yeah?

But it also gives you M.S.

Your queen is trapped.

You ever wonder what the proctologist

thinks about before he goes to sleep?

- 'Cause the brain's a funny thing, you know?

- Ben.

- Ben. - If you've been spreading

ass cheeks open all day,

you know what the last thing is

you're gonna be thinking about

before you go to bed that night.

To tell you the truth,

I don't know what I'm doing here.

I hate stand-up comedy.

It really moves me

that you came, then.

That's a b*tch right there--

Proctologist.

You're the only ass clown

who showed up.

Those f***ers-- I can't believe it.

- Gynecologists.

- This is my guy.

Yeah, you won't regret you came.

He f***ing kills.

"Baby, dinner's ready."

And you go, "not tonight, baby.

I had a long hard day

looking at pussies."

I mean, they're coming at you

from all different angles.

It's like big bushy ones,

little bitty ones,

the little Hitler ones, shaved ones--

All of 'em.

It's like a big p*ssy parade.

The dude over here,

he's like--

he's like, "who, me?"

This is crazy.

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