Civic Duty Page #4

Synopsis: Shortly after landing a job, Terry Allen is laid off, starts looking for another circa post September 11, 2001 media frenzy and paranoia with President George W. Bush stating that grief has turned to anger, anger to resolution, and that there are thousands of terrorists in over 60 countries ready to strike. With increasing reports of identity theft, the involvement of wealthy & educated foreigners in terrorist activities, Terry starts suspecting his new neighbor, a middle-easterner, who he stereotypes as 'raghead', 'camel jockey', and 'sand nigger'. His wife, Marla, does not share in his bigotry, but he believes that she has turned her attention from rock-stars to Jihadists. While looking for employment, as well as a loan to purchase a house, he also contacts the Federal Bureau of Investigation as he feels he has sufficient evidence that his new neighbor is structuring money, experimenting with chemicals, and associating with other middle-easterners for devious reasons.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Jeff Renfroe
Production: Freestyle Releasing/Yari Film Group
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
56%
R
Year:
2006
98 min
$54,902
Website
27 Views


involved in a home invasion.

[Music filters from apartment]

[Music continues]

[Rattling and crashing]

[Bag thuds]

[Printer whirring and clicking]

[Neighboring car starting]

[Alarm honking]

[Alarm chirps and shuts off]

[Other car starting]

[Shifting gears]

[Anchorwoman]:
the 25-Count

indictment unsealed yesterday

Charges the charity

organization

Used hospitals,

islamic committees,

Student and other organizations

Controlled by fundamentalist

organizations

In the middle east

To direct money

to plotters

Of extremist causes.

Law-Enforcement officials

And the attorney general's

office claim

The arrests represented

one of their most-

What are you doing?

Hey.

You scared me.

What's that?

Uh, nothing, i just...

Look, he drives a long-Term

rental car, marla.

So you met him, then?

No, i didn't,

But just listen to me,

all right?

He made a call

on a pay phone

Even though he had a cell phone

on him.

Yeah?

And he works

at a copy center

With other

middle eastern men.

Only middle eastern men.

You were

following him?

No, i wasn't following him,

i just saw him and-

Look, what do you

want me to say?

Doesn't this sound

kind of suspicious to you?

Marla?

Where're you going?

Hey! What are

you doing?

Marla.

What the hell

was that all about?

His name

is gabe hassan.

That is what

we will call him

From now on.

He moved here

To finish

his master's degree.

Yeah.

Yeah, so he's probably

budgeting his living

On student loans

and his copy job.

Probably

can't afford a car

Or a land line,

And maybe his cell phone

ran out.

You don't know that.

Neither do you.

So unless this guy

leaves his apartment

With a warhead on his back,

He is just

our neighbor,

And it is not our problem.

Yeah, i bet

you just can't wait

To borrow a cup of sugar

from him, too.

What's that supposed to mean?

That you want to replace

your fetish for rock stars

With jihadists?

I think

that's very "now" of you.

You've got way too mucerry.

You need to get a job,

Or we're going to lose

that house.

[Television playing]

[Man]:
by law,

they are unable

To invade a place-

Hey.

To target

only mobs-

[Sighing softly]

If you

don't want

To meet our neighbor,

You don't have to.

But could you call

the loan officer today

About the house?

Just find out where things are?

Yeah, okay.

[Tv continues playing

in background]

Maybe watch

a little less of that today?

[Door opens, then closes]

Hi, this is terry allen.

I submitted an application

For your cpa position

a couple of weeks ago?

[Woman]:

okay.

How can i help you,

mr. Allen?

Just making sure

that you received it.

Well, i'm sure

we have it on file.

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