Dealin' with Idiots Page #5

Synopsis: Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son's youth league baseball team, Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get to know the colorful parents and coaches of the team better in an attempt to find the inspiration for his next movie.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Jeff Garlin
Production: IFC Films
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
37%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
88 min
$15,308
Website
21 Views


Max, I'm not sure about

spending more time than

is necessary with

that crowd.

You know, I don't have to

spend that much time

with them. Just a... few

hours.

What?

Nightmare.

I'd be happy to help.

I have a lot of

ideas for movies.

Okay, it's not... I just

wanna talk and get to...

I wanna get to know

the parents...

Here's my thing.

Here's my thing.

- Yeah?

- As long as it's educational

and instructive

for the kids...

The kids learn...

'cause kids are sponges.

We were just talking

about that.

How much like

sponges they are.

And I will help write it, act

it, shoot it,

I don't know how to do

any of that stuff...

They just keep absorbing.

But I'll tell you what, I

work at a copy shop,

in case you didn't know.

And I think you did.

Uh, and we can make

copies of he script there.

And then you can hand

them out next week,

and we'll learn our lines

and do it.

What's the title?

What's the script?

Well, no no,

I don't know yet.

Is it from a book?

No, it's gonna be from the

research that I do

when I spend time with...

What's the rating?

Oh, dear God.

Oh, that's wrong.

What's up, guys?

He wants to uh, do, some

research on my method

of uh, coaching. He's

watching,

he's paid attention. I think

he sees what I'm doing...

It's a great idea.

All right guys,

talk to you later.

Right on, man.

Why is it, whenever he

works with Rickey,

he's gotta take off his

shirt?

He's hot.

The man gets hot, he

wants to take his shirt off.

Did you ever hear of

shirts and skins?

Yeah I've heard of shirts

and skins, playing football.

He does it in life.

That's what it is.

Those who can do skins, do

skins.

Those who can't do skins,

they don't do skins.

- What side are you on?

- I'm clearly on the shirts side.

See?

Except when I shower.

Work on the slide!

Because Jimbo says so,

thats why!

Don't answer me back!

Run through the base!

Through the bases!

All right, so what I'm

gonna be doing is that

I got the blessing from...

I got the blessing from

Commissioner Gordon.

It's research for

a comedy movie

that I might or might not

even write.

So it might not

even happen.

I'm just sort of getting to

know everybody

and seeing if there's a

movie there

about the parents and the

coaches and such.

So you show up,

do research,

interview everybody, for

something that might not happen?

Yes. That's the first thing

you nailed exactly.

Sounds like a waste of time

to me.

Uh, if we don't win the

championship,

I'm gonna pull the plug,

so...

I'm not shooting a movie!

It's gotta end with us

winning, or I'm not, uh...

- A waste of time.

- ... approve.

I'm not gonna sign off

on it.

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Jeff Garlin

Jeffrey Todd Garlin (born June 5, 1962) is an American comedian, actor, producer, director, and writer. He is widely known for playing Jeff Greene on the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mort Meyers on Arrested Development for Fox and Netflix and the patriarch of the titular family in the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs. He has also appeared in Daddy Day Care, Wall-E, Toy Story 3 and Safety Not Guaranteed among other films and has hosted his own podcast on Earwolf since 2013. more…

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