6 Balloons Page #3

Synopsis: A woman (Jacobson) learns her brother (Franco) has relapsed on heroin.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Marja-Lewis Ryan
Production: Netflix
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
Year:
2018
74 min
Website
1,133 Views


- Thank you.

- Mm-hm.

All right.

Come here. Come here.

Why don't you hold on to me?

Hold on to me. We're going to go.

Yeah, that's perfect.

OK, here we go.

You've got my butt?

You've got my butt?

Kitty cat.

Meow! Meow!

Um...

Mom sent Ella a truck, and I guess

you didn't call her to thank her for it.

- OK.

- Well, it's because you didn't get it.

You didn't open it.

OK.

Well, you stopped opening

your mail last time, too.

What? What?

Can you just... roll up your sleeve?

Just show me your arm.

- No.

- Just show me your arm.

Can we not do this?

- Seth, just show me.

- There's nothing to see.

Then we'll just go to my house,

go to the party.

- This f***ing hurts my feelings.

- Just show me and we go to my house.

Can you trust me?

How did this happen again?

It's hard. It's OK.

It's OK.

I've got to take you to detox.

Yeah, I know.

The wheels on the bus

Go round and round

Round and round

Round and round

The wheels on the bus

Go round, round and round

All through town...

Can you put your seat belt on, please?

The wheels on the bus

Go round and round

Round and round...

Babies on the bus go

Wah-wah-wah, wah-wah-wah

Wah-wah-wah

Babies on a bus cry wah-wah-wah

All through the town...

Which one are we going to?

The shitty one.

In 1.5 miles,

turn left onto Beverly Boulevard.

Kitty cat.

Kitty cat.

Meow!

I think we should

drop her off at my house first.

- What? No. No, please.

- I think we should take her to my house.

I can't see Mom like this. Please.

The driver on the bus

Says move on back

Move on back, move on back...

Look, I can't...

I can't take ten days off of work.

- What?

- I just... I can't.

I mean, why?

Why?

Because people don't do that, all right?

I'll get fired.

I'll do... I'll do a four-day detox.

That's it, though.

Just tell them Dad's sick or something.

No one will question that.

Yes, of course they will.

Katie, it's not that easy.

Just listen to me, please.

Dad got me the job, all right?

They will call him, then he will know,

so we're not doing that, OK?

Jesus, you never listen.

Oh, my God.

"I need to drink some juice."

"Yum."

"Yummy.

Yummy."

"Yum."

Babies on a bus cry wah-wah-wah

Wah-wah-wah, wah-wah-wah...

If I'm gone ten days, Maggie will know

and she won't let me see Ella.

Everyone's going to know.

I just wish you had told me.

Next time.

- That was a joke.

- No, it was... That was hilarious.

- Yeah, you liked that?

- I was, like, on the floor.

- You don't seem like you're on the floor.

- I mean, if I wasn't driving...

Yeah?

...I would be just, like, done.

- That's very sweet of you to say.

- Yeah, it brought down the house.

You should develop that into,

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Marja-Lewis Ryan

Marja-Lewis Ryan is an American writer, director, producer, and actress. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 19 March 1985. She received an honors BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at The Atlantic Theatre Company's Acting School. She is best known for writing and co-starring in the LGBT drama film, The Four-Faced Liar, which won multiple awards, including Outstanding First Narrative Feature at L.A. Outfest. She also co-produced that film. In the early 2000s, she was a member of a theater company in Los Angeles, Theater of NOTE, where she received positive critical reviews as a writer and director. She earned the Maverick Award from the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival in 2016.In an interview, she described her interest in writing as stemming from her time at NYU. She and her friends figured that "you have to make your own work." And so she wrote her first script for them to workshop as actors. As for her thematic interests, she recounts what happened after The Four-Faced Liar got released: "I had the opportunity to go into meetings with crazy big people. The one question that came up repeatedly was 'what kind of work do you want to do for the rest of your life?' The first time someone asked me that, I answered it so truthfully that I shocked myself. I said, 'I just want to write dark comedies for women that don't ostracize a male audience.'"Ryan wrote and directed the film 6 Balloons, released in March 2018, and is drafting the reboot of Splash starring Channing Tatum and Jillian Bell. She has been tapped to spearhead the sequel to The L Word, currently in development at Showtime, as executive producer and showrunner. more…

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