A Walk in the Woods Page #6

Synopsis: In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife, and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail - 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied by the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek - his long lost and former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer who, after a lifetime of relying on his charm and wits to keep one step ahead of the law - sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some debts and sneak into one last adventure before its too late. The trouble is, the two have a completely different definition of the word, "adventure". Now they're about to find out that when you push yourself to the edge, the real fun begins.
Director(s): Ken Kwapis
Production: Broad Green Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
46%
R
Year:
2015
104 min
$19,189,413
Website
1,413 Views


That would be nice.

Go ahead. Help yourselves.

Oh, jeez.

Okay, complete the following sentence.

What goes up must come

down.

What the hell happened to down?

It can't be uphill all the way to Maine.

Coming through.

Oh, my God. All right.

- What's up?

- Not much.

- Beautiful day.

- Yeah, it sure is.

- Excuse me.

- Okay.

Little f***ers.

MAN:
It's just

over the hill, guys.

(KATZ PANTING)

(GRUNTING)

- KATZ:
Boy.

- You okay?

KATZ:
Yeah.

I almost fell off the log.

(PANTS)

How far do you figure we've gone?

Oh, about a quarter of a mile.

Motherfuck.

We're going already?

(GRUNTING)

Just kill me now.

I don't care how you do it,

but please, just kill me now.

(GROANING)

(PANTING)

- What, that's it? No dinner?

- (GROANING)

(ZIPPING UP TENT)

(KATZ GROANS)

KATZ:
Hiya.

- KATZ:
You remember the Randall Farm?

- Of course.

KATZ:
Super-Walmart now.

BRYSON:
Christ.

KATZ:
The old drive-in theater?

- BRYSON:
Don't tell me.

- (CHUCKLES)

- KATZ:
Subaru dealership now.

- No.

KATZ:
Yeah. I got my first blowj*b there.

- BRYSON:
In the Subaru dealership?

- (CHUCKLES)

- Bit of a late bloomer, huh?

- (LAUGHS)

I bumped into Jimmy Duncan

a few weeks back.

You remember him?

- Yeah. His mom worked at the library?

- (LAUGHS)

'Course you remember his mom.

BRYSON:
Yeah, she was nice.

KATZ:
And she didn't own a bra.

- BRYSON:
Well, if she did, she never wore it.

- (LAUGHS)

KATZ:
Man, I loved that library.

(HARMONICA PLAYING)

(CONTINUES PLAYING)

- KATZ:
Hey, Bryson?

- Yeah?

KATZ:
Have you really kept in touch

with Doug Glawinski all these years?

BRYSON:
No, not at all. Why?

KATZ:
You invited him,

so I was just curious.

BRYSON:
Well, yeah.

I invited everyone I could think of.

KATZ:
No, not everyone.

I heard about it from Doug.

BRYSON:
I don't think I had your number.

KATZ:
You had Doug's number?

BRYSON:
Well, if it makes you feel any

better, I really don't like Doug.

KATZ:
(LAUGHING)

Well, I don't blame you.

I'm not sure how that's supposed

to make me feel better, though.

BRYSON:
Yeah.

I guess I really didn't think that through.

Good night.

KATZ:
Good night.

(TENT UNZIPPING)

You burying your sh*t?

Yes.

- In the woods?

- Yeah.

Oh, Bryson, I've missed you.

Thank you. (LAUGHING)

Can't wait to read about this in the book.

BRYSON:
I'm not writing a book.

Hi.

You guys camping here?

No, we live here.

(LAUGHS)

What are you guys eating?

Noodles? Ugh, big mistake.

Noodles have got, like, no energy in them.

I mean, like, zero.

I'm Mary Ellen. Is that your tent?

BRYSON:
Yeah.

Oh, big mistake.

They must have seen you coming

at the camping store.

- How much did you pay for it?

- I don't remember.

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Michael Arndt

Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter. He is best known as the writer of the films Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Arndt won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine and was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3. This made Arndt the first screenwriter ever to be nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay for his first two screenplays. He has also been credited under the pseudonyms Michael deBruyn and Rick Kerb, which are mainly used for script revisions. more…

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