A Single Shot Page #2

Synopsis: The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): David M. Rosenthal
Production: Single Shot Productions
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
R
Year:
2013
116 min
Website
285 Views


I'm sorry.

The hell you say.

Christ almighty.

I'll come by

and see Nolan then.

He's gonna be there, right?

It's not a good time.

I need to see him.

And you.

I got somethin' important

to tell you about our future.

John, I...

Lookit what you done my pants!

What about your goddamn pants?

They look pissed in.

Well...

We got some kind of problem?

What'd I tell you about

comin' in and raisin' sh*t?

Don't trouble yourself, Puffy.

We're good over here.

Ain't we good over here?

You get your pants cleaned.

We got 'er straightened out,

right, we got it

straightened out.

Drop the goddamned bag.

Is this... is this

1201 Belmont?

I ain't shitting you, man.

Okay. I think

I got the wrong house.

Yeah.

Most-f***in'-likely.

No. He don't.

That's John.

John?

The husband.

I'm Jess's friend, Carla.

From Puffy's?

I'm babysittin'.

Babysitting?

Sh*t. Where's Jess?

I didn't ask.

Are you watchin' pornos

on the f***in' TV?

Yeah, well, we got

a constitutional right.

You got a f***in' gun on me.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I put it away.

And you're f***ing

in front of my kid!

Well, he was sleepin'.

Till you woke him, John.

You best be gone, or dressed,

when I get back.

I don't want to see

your sorry ass naked

in my wife and kid's house.

Hey. Hey...

Hey! It's daddy!

Can you say "dada"?

Oh, sh*t.

It's okay. It's okay.

It's okay.

Better let me have him, John.

What's the matter with him?

Oh, he just ain't

used to seeing you is all.

What do you mean,

ain't used to seeing me?

Aw, I know, baby.

I know.

What's the matter with him?

What'd you people do to him?

He's just a little scared

is all.

Yes, you are, baby.

Is that right?

Hey.

I'm gonna tell Jess

what I found here.

Best believe me that.

How's that?

Say "bye-bye, daddy."

You know, the look on your face

makes me think

you do remember me.

I'm wondering why you can't f***

in your own place is all.

Sh*t, you know how it is, John.

My dick's a basset hound.

I'm just the poor

son of a b*tch

holding its chain.

I can't figure out why

you're still here neither.

Well...

Nobody lives here's

asked me to leave.

Yeah, well, most guys

who make a**holes of themselves

don't wait to be.

Well, hell, John,

that was nothin'.

I mean, you should've come

a few minutes earlier,

got the same show

the pizza man did.

Should I put this

in the fridge?

It feels like

maybe it needs it.

You mad at me

for some reason, John?

I don't like guns

being pulled on me.

If a f***ing lunatic madman

breaks into a place,

what would you do? Huh?

I don't like 'em

around my kid, neither.

Oh, come on, now.

A lifelong hunter

like you, John?

I don't believe that.

See, the truth is,

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Matthew F. Jones

Matthew F. Jones, is an American novelist and screenwriter who grew up in rural upstate New York and currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. His novels have been translated into various foreign languages and several times have been named on best novels of the year lists. Three of his novels, A Single Shot, Deepwater and Boot Tracks, have been made into major motion pictures. He has taught creative writing at a number of colleges and universities, including Randolph Macon College, Lynchburg College and the University of Virginia. He grew up on a horse and dairy farm in rural upstate New York and currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Patrick Andersen, in a Washington Post review of Jones’s 2006 novel Boot Tracks, termed the phrase ‘literate noir’ to describe the tense, psychological nature of Joes work. And in a starred review of Jones’s 1999 psychological thriller Deepwater, Booklist critic Bill Ott described Jones as a ‘leading contemporary author of country noir, a subgenre whose roots trace back to James M. Cain’s Post Man Always Rings Twice.’ A film version of Deepwater was released under the same name in 2006, starring Lucas Black, Peter Coyote and Leslie Anne Warren. Jones’s own screenplay of his 1996 novel "A Single Shot" was made into a film of the same name in 2012 and released in 2013. The film version of the novel stars Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Jeffrey Wright, and Kelly Reilly. more…

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