Buzzard Page #3

Synopsis: Bored office employee Marty, is out to cheat the system. One day he decides to make his escape by swiping dozens of undeliverable refund checks from his company. From here, his small-time scams manifest into paranoia and violence.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Director(s): Joel Potrykus
Production: Oscilloscope Pictures
  4 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
NOT RATED
Year:
2014
97 min
Website
86 Views


- Hey, who you talking to?

- Hey.

- Yeah, no, I'm here.

- He's a liar and a cheater.

Dude!

Yeah, also my mailing address.

Yeah.

Who you talking to?

Okay. That's it?

All right. Thank you.

- What's this?

- All right. Yep.

- What is this, dude?

- Definitely.

Sure.

Yep. Bye.

- Bye.

- What is this?

- Dude!

- What?

- Hey, come on.

- What's this stupid drawing, man?

- What is this thing?

- it's something I'm making, man.

It's the plans.

This is plans for something you're making?

What is it, some Medieval butt-scratcher?

It's a glove.

- A glove?

- Yeah.

- It's actually kind of svveet.

- Yeah.

You're gonna make this?

With those things up there and stuff?

Yeah. They're blades.

Well, this looks like

a third-grader did it, man.

This blueprint- The scale's Way off.

Everything doesrft make sense.

If you Want a sweet blueprint of this...

I got this blueprint software

on my computer.

I'll give it to you for free.

it'll be Way better.

Don't bother, man.

I clon't ever even use my computer.

Yeah, What is that? You're scared of

technology and robots and stuff.

- With good reason.

- Yeah.

Come over to the party zone next week.

I'm getting a new computer installed.

That's gonna be

an awesome situation clown there.

- What is this party zone?

- Party zone-

I'm turning my basement into,

like, a party-zone thing, man.

I've told you about it before.

Hey, come on, man,

that's not your check, dude.

Whoa, vvhoa, Whoa.

That's not your check either.

Well, it vvill be,

if I carft find this persorfs address.

Those are the checks Carol gave you, huh?

It does- You carft just

take someone check and make it yours, man.

- It cloesrTt work like that.

- Yeah, I can.

I will do it- all the Way to the bank.

- To the bank?

- Mm-hmm.

Dude, they're not gonna cash that.

I've worked here

for three months longer than you.

They can see the front and the back

of every one of those checks.

You're gonna get in trouble, dude.

it's not gonna vvork.

I dorft think that's true, man.

I'll ask Carol.

Ask her.

I'm just gonna sign it over to myself.

Hmm. So it'd be like the time

you were at Best Buy...

switching the price tags on the CDs.

Now that was hilarious, man.

This is what this is gonna be like.

- It's not gonna be like that.

- Yeah, its gonna be like that.

No. My mom told me that I just have

to sign the persorfs name-

Whds this? Wayne Needler.

Just write Wayne... Needler.

Pay to the order of...

Martin... Jackitansky.

- That looks stupid.

- Ta-da.

Dude, What are you eating?

Like a Milky Way mini muncher

or something like that.

It's gross, dude. Stand back. Geez.

You're gonna get fired

for that, you know that.

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Joel Potrykus

Joel Potrykus is an American film director and screenwriter. His feature film debut Ape won the Best New Director prize at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival, while his follow-up feature Buzzard won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2014 Ljubljana International Film Festival. more…

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