Breakin' All the Rules Page #5

Synopsis: Quincy Watson, after being unceremoniously dumped by his fiancée, pens a "how to" book on breaking up and becomes a best-selling author on the subject. Not wanting his male friends to suffer the same fate, he gives them advice on dumping their mates. A comedy of errors ensues.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Daniel Taplitz
Production: Screen Gems
  1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.5
Metacritic:
46
Rotten Tomatoes:
31%
PG-13
Year:
2004
85 min
$11,827,301
Website
125 Views


- Publishing boys treating you right?

- Pretty decent.

That book is just

the beginning too.

I'm seeing the whole line now

of Spiil books.

Spiil's Guide ti Sex.

Spiil's Guide ti Gilf.

- Spiil's Guide ti Pimping.

- I'm branding the whole damn world.

- Yeah.

- Okay.

Guess you're wondering why

I asked you up here.

- Yeah, why am I here?

- Okay, just... Why don't you sit.

Let me just put it right out on the table.

I need your help.

- With what?

- Firing somebody.

Which is not the right word. More

"letting go," "getting rid of," "losing."

- Another employee?

- It's my girlfriend.

You want me to help you

fire your girl?

Well, no, if only you could.

No, no. I've gotta do this myself.

I'm not gonna delegate this.

I would if I could, but I can't. It's just...

...I am at my wit's end. This woman...

God, she has a power over me.

Just a... It's like a voodoo, hoodoo,

she do! She's got me.

I am... I'm not in control.

No. This is not me.

Hi, it's Sandra.

You asked me to tell you

if there was anything to know.

- Mr. Gascin has briught in a ringer.

- I need a professional.

- Breakup professional?

- Breakup professional.

- Me?

- You.

- Him.

- You've got to help me.

No, it's a disaster. My God.

Amy, I look like a bigheaded alien.

No, Evan's gonna freak.

No, I don't know what I did. It's ugly.

Oh, Jesus. Would you stop

with the "perfect couple" crap?

No, no, I don't look like Halle Berry.

I look like her Yorkshire terrier.

Okay. No, I gotta go.

Nicky.

- Nicky.

- I'm in the bedroom.

All right, come on.

We're gonna be late.

- Did you hear me?

- I'm not coming out.

- What?

- Never. I'm never coming out.

- What are you doing up there?

- Nothing.

You're doing nothing in

the bedroom?

- Yeah.

- And why are you never coming out?

- Because I'm hiding.

- And why are you hiding?

Baby, we need to talk.

Damn, he did jinx me.

Prepare yourself.

God.

Evan?

Hey, Evan?

Evan?

- What's up, Q?

- What you doing here?

I was driving by and saw

you had the lights on.

- That's why I'm here.

- What's with the hitting?

- You jinxed me, man. I knew it.

- I'm gonna whup your ass.

- You know what happened?

- What?

- She tried to break up with me.

- What?

"What?" She was being evasive

and she was hiding...

...and you know what she said to me?

"Baby, we need to talk."

- Yeah, that sounds familiar, don't it?

- What did you say?

What do you mean?

I preempted the strike. I ran.

You was gonna break up anyway.

I was gonna break up with her.

You feeling that? I with her.

There's a world of difference.

But it's cool because I have a plan.

This the plan, okay? I made plans

to meet her at the Zig Zag at 9:00.

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Daniel Taplitz

Daniel Taplitz is a writer and director, known for Red Dog (2011), Chaos Theory (2008) and Commandments (1997). more…

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