Digging for Fire Page #4

Synopsis: Married couple Lee and Tim, a part-time yoga instructor and a public school phys ed teacher respectively, jump at the opportunity to sit at the secluded Los Angeles hills house of an actress acquaintance for two weeks as a mini-vacation for themselves and their three year old son, Jude. The house sit starts with an unusual event: Tim finds on the property in the wooded hills just beyond the swimming pool a gun and a bone. He believes the bone could be a human one and that there could be a murdered dead body buried in the hills in the vicinity of where he found these items. Tim telephones the police, who tell him they can do nothing unless an actual body is found. As such, Lee convinces Tim to drop the subject. On their first weekend at the house, Lee decides to leave Tim on his own for the weekend to complete their income tax return, which he has long put off, while she and Jude go to visit among others her mother and stepfather, and her sister Squiggy and her family, neither who she s
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Joe Swanberg
Production: The Orchard
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
R
Year:
2015
85 min
£119,364
185 Views


- Hey, man.

- -Hey, man.

- How are you?

- -Good.

Can you believe it?

This is very strange.

Very unusual for people like me

to be at a place like this.

- It's the best, right?

- Yeah. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, you got it.

I'm just griling out, man.

Check it out.

Explore the place.

This is all ours tonight.

There's a pool, there's a hill.

Yeah?

I think I am gonna walk around.

This whole place is hers?

Everything.

Hey, would you grab some buns?

Yeah, yeah.

I'm gonna pee in each of the

bathrooms, is that okay?

So then the lesson is, "Hopefully

you get a really lucky,"

and your grandmother marries a

man who's got a lot of money,

and then therefore you get

to go to private school,

"but your parents couldn't

have sent you there."

Yeah.

And so then you're essentially

alienated from your own surroundings.

Right.

Yeah, I mean, there's

pros and cons to both.

I think the optimistic choice is

sending them to public school

because we teach

at public school.

That's right. That's right.

If we don't believe that you can

send your kids to public school.

- Then what am I doing?

- That's right. What are we...

Yeah, what are we doing?

Yeah, what is that lesson then?

I teach there,

but my kid doesn't go.

- Very cynical.

- Yes.

I'm very cynical.

Mind you, I teach gym.

We would start constructing the

fire when there was still light.

- That's right.

- So we, you know,

we could do it right,

the tepee.

No, I'm good, thanks.

Here you go, Paul.

When we told her, you know...

So we were with the cat and it's

like, "We don't believe in anything."

We don't believe

you're going to cat heaven."

So it's like we're just telling her, like,

"We appreciate that you were alive."

- Oh, jeez. -Like it's just so...

It's devastating.

You know what, though, having someone come

over and put the cat out of its misery,

way better

than taking an animal in.

'Cause the last thing they'll remember

is all this panic and fear in the car.

- You shouldn't take them in.

- No.

I think you have to put

them down at the house.

I think it's funny

'cause it's just like...

Cremation versus burial is such a

no-brainer when I think about it.

It's like crem...

Everyone should be cremated.

Why is it a no-brainer?

Because there's too many people

on the earth, there's no space.

- Oh, you mean practically?

- Yeah.

So no one got it. All right.

150!

That was a nice toss, though.

Oh, yeah, thanks.

- Okay.

- -Perfect.

350 to 280 to 120. One hundred!

420 to 180 to 130.

Hey, uh...

Sorry, um...

Did I get the wrong house?

I'm looking for a Tim guy.

Oh, yeah, Tim's in the kitchen.

Hey, man!

Whoa!

Look at this guy!

- What's up, homie?

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Jake Johnson

Jake Johnson (born Mark Jake Johnson Weinberger; May 28, 1978) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his role as Nick Miller in the Fox sitcom New Girl (2011–18). He also appeared in Paper Heart (2009), Get Him to the Greek (2010), Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), 21 Jump Street (2012), Drinking Buddies (2013), Jurassic World (2015) and Tag (2018). more…

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