Buried Page #2

Synopsis: Waking groggy in pitch darkness, Paul Conroy, an American truck driver working in Iraq in 2006, slowly realizes he is trapped inside a wooden coffin, buried alive. With his cigarette lighter, he can see the trap he is in, and he quickly realizes that there's not enough air for him to live long. He finds within the coffin a working cellphone, which allows him contact with the outside world. But the outside world proves not to be very helpful at finding a man buried in a box in the middle of the Iraqi desert. Paul must rely on his best resource--himself.
Director(s): Rodrigo Cortés
Production: Lionsgate
  15 wins & 32 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
R
Year:
2010
95 min
$200,000
Website
1,095 Views


I'm an American citizen.

Just send someone to find me, please!

- Do you know where you're... lo... if... dy..

- Hold on! I can't hear you.

What did you...

Hold on!

No, no, no, just...

Sh*t!

Thank you for calling Crestin,

Roland and Thomas.

How may I

direct your call?

Somebody, I need to talk to someone

right away. It's an emergency.

Who is this, please?

It's Paul Conroy.

I'm a driver for you

guys. I'm calling from Iraq.

My convoy was attacked.

Sir, if this is a crisis situation.

you need to contact the Safety

Number your were provided.

I know, I know, but I don't have it anymore.

The people took it.

Who took it, sir?

The Iraqis, I think.

I blacked out.

I'm going to put you through to

Alan Davenport.

Davenport? Who's that?

Director of Personnel.

Please hold.

Personnel?

No, no, wait, wait...

At CRT, we work with our clients...

to provide effective and

sustainable solutions...

to the challenges they face in our

fast-growing, global economy.

As the premiere...

You've reached Alan Davenport.

Personnel director at Crestin,

Roland and Thomas.

Please leave your

name and number at the tone.

And I will return your call

as soon as possible.

This is Paul Conroy, I'm from

Hastings, Michigan.

I'm a driver for CRT,

my convoy was ambushed...

by terrorists or

insurgents. I don't know.

I don't know who it was.

I'm stuck, buried in a coffin.

Please send help. I'm begging you.

I think I'm in Baqubah

in the Diyala Provence.

Please send help right away.

I can't breathe in here.

I can't breathe.

I don't know who else to call.

Please send help...

F***!

F***!

F***!

F***!

F***!

F***!

Hello?

Is anybody there?

Hello?

Hello?

Breathe no breathe, American? Ah?

Breathe no breathe?

Hold on? I don't know what

you're saying. Who is this?

American can breathe

no breathe?

No, I can't breathe.

Please get me out of here.

- Get out?

- Yes, get me out. please help.

Soldier.

No, no I'm not a soldier.

I'm a truck driver.

Just a contractor.

- Contractor?

- Yeah. A contractor. Not a soldier.

- Blackwater?

No, not for Blackwater.

I'm not a security contractor.

I'm just a truck driver. That's all.

- You are American.

- Yeah.

Then you are soldier.

No, I'm not.

I'm here unarmed.

But, you still shot at us.

In head and in throat,

so you tell no more lies.

I'm not lying!

We were all drivers.

Drive what?

Trucks. The trucks you see

driving around with the supplies?

That's me, that's us, that's all.

not soldier. Truck driver.

- Five million money.

- What?

Five million money tonight nine

PM or you stay. Buried like dog.

- Five million dollars? From who?

- Your family.

My family doesn't have five million

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Chris Sparling

Chris Sparling (born March 21, 1977) is an American screenwriter, director, and actor from Providence, Rhode Island. He is married to Kerri Morrone Sparling, author of the diabetes blog Six Until Me. more…

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