Compliance Page #5

Synopsis: At a fast food restaurant, the manager, Sandra, is having a bad day. Suddenly, she gets a phone call from a man claiming to be a police officer who has a complaint that one of her young female employees has stolen from a customer. At the orders of this authoritative sounding stranger, Sandra takes the apparent accused, Becky, to a back room to search her before she is picked up. Once there, the phone scammer manipulates the gullible personnel into participating in Becky's sexual humiliation that grows more twisted with every new sucker on the phone. Only when one final person has the conscience to revolt do they realize the crime they were tricked into, which the real police are hard pressed to solve.
Director(s): Craig Zobel
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  7 wins & 34 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
R
Year:
2012
90 min
$318,622
Website
966 Views


calling me, describing you exactly,

telling me your name and saying

that you stole from a customer?

What am I supposed to do with that?

I don't know. Just--

I guess I have to take this with me now.

Come on.

You okay, Sandra?

SANDRA:
Still dealing with it.

Hello, Officer? Hello?

Yeah. What--

What's the news?

I didn't find anything

in her purse or in her pockets.

I was afraid that might happen.

Okay, this is gonna require

more of your help, then.

I'm gonna need you

to keep her there.

Me and my marked units

are gonna come in soon.

Till then, can I count on you

to assist the authorities?

Um, yes, of course.

Whatever you--

Whatever you need.

She's been a good person

here at the restaurant.

SANDRA:
I--You're sure about this?

Are we sure about this?

I have the victim here with me.

Why, you think she's innocent?

We just never had any trouble

with her before. That's all.

Right, but, I mean,

doesn't it make sense

that if she was doing

something wrong, that...

she wouldn't want you to know,

that she'd--

I don't know--hide it from you?

Yeah, I guess.

Right.

Yeah.

Well, look, I hear a little...

hesitation in your voice, Sandra?

- No, no. I'm, you know--

- It's okay, you know?

I'm just trying to do the right--

- Yeah, it's fine.

- What I'm--Yeah.

Look, Sandra, I'm the police officer.

I'm the one who's gotta take the hit.

SANDRA:
Yes.

I want you to know that as an officer,

the officer in this case,

I have to take the full,

final responsibility for this,

- and I take that very seriously, okay?

- Right. Right. Yes.

And I have your regional manager,

Robert Gilmour, on the other line.

- Right.

- We need to act now.

- Okay.

- Your responsibility

is to facilitate that action,

so I--I don't even...

You know, it's your job.

You understand?

Yes. Yes, I do,

and I'll do everything, you know,

that you need.

All right. Can you put Becky

on for me, please?

Sure.

Wants to talk to you.

Hello, Officer.

All right, I need you to shoot me straight

and just explain this whole situation to me.

I have no idea what happened.

I don't know what's going on.

I was working.

I was up front. I was wor--

You can ask anybody

that was up there with me.

- Do me a favor and calm down.

- I was--

Just calm down

and explain the situation to me, okay?

All I know is that I was working,

and then Sandra came and told me

that I stole some lady's money.

That--That is everything that I know.

You stole some lady's money.

Did you know the lady in question?

No. I don--I can't even think of anyone

that it would possibly be.

- Miss, be quiet.

- There's no one--

Now, had you seen this woman

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Craig Zobel

Roger Craig Zobel (born October 6, 1976) is an American film director of the films Compliance and Great World of Sound and who also co-founded Homestar Runner and Ron Planet. more…

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