Fierce People Page #4

Synopsis: Trapped in his mother's Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old Finn wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or "Fierce People," with the anthropologist father he's never met. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to help his drug-dependent mother, Liz, who scrapes by working as a masseuse. Determined to get their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them into a guest house on the vast country estate of her ex-client, the aging aristocratic billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne. In Osbourne's close world of privilege and power, Finn and Liz encounter a tribe fiercer and more mysterious than anything they might find in the South American jungle: the super rich. While Liz battles her substance abuse and struggles to win back her son's love and trust, Finn falls in love with Osbourne's beautiful granddaughter, Maya, befriends her charismatic older brother, Bryce, and even wins the
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Griffin Dunne
Production: Lionsgate Films/Autonomous Films
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
24%
R
Year:
2005
107 min
Website
265 Views


Nope.

Adolescence is a time of indulgence

for the girls.

What's the chivalrous thing to do

when you make out with a girl...

with her comatose father laying

next to you like a big root vegetable?

I knew I should call her.

But what do I say?

"Hi. I like kissing you.

Thanks for letting me touch

your boob. Can I do it again?"

Finn!

Finn?

Could I have some privacy, please?

I'm trying to make a phone call.

- Okay, I'll tell Maya Langley

to beat it. - What?

Shoot!

Damnit!

Shut up!

- I just Windexed that!

- Yeah, well, too bad.

- Hi.

- Hi.

I got tired of waiting

for you to call me.

I don't know if I should let

my sister see that, Finn.

That's a film my dad made...

- on his first trip to South America.

- Your father's Fox Blanchard?

I read him in my anthro class

at Harvard. Maya...

do you realize this man's father

is the Elvis of anthropology?

- Well, I guess I do now.

- It's movie time.

- What is that?

- A tapir.

It's a small hog pig-like animal.

How are they gonna eat all that?

After a feast, the women

hide the leftovers in their vaginas.

- That's disgusting!

- Fantastic!

God, your dad is so cool.

You look like him.

I was gonna spend the summer

doing field work.

I would kill to be doing that

with your father.

- Why don't you go?

- I got busted.

- What for?

- Coke.

Very cool. I'm impressed, Finn.

My mother thought living in Vlyvalle

would be a wholesome influence for me.

I think the Ishkanani

have it all figured out.

What do you mean?

It's f***, kill.

Unlike us domesticated creatures,

they like something, they f*** it.

If they don't, they kill it.

- Do you always have to say "f***"?

- Virgins fall into two categories.

- Finn, you paying attention?

- Yeah.

They either love the F word

and they don't wanna do it...

or they hate the F word

and they're dying to do it.

- Cut it out!

- Let's watch it backwards.

Stop it!

F***.

Kill.

F***.

Kill.

F***.

Kill.

F***.

Kill.

- Want me to see if I can get you in?

- Maya invited you!

You want me to speak to her?

For me?

Oh, no. That's not likely.

Then I guess I should

throw this away then.

- Are you serious?

- Serious.

- Oh, really!

- Really.

My foot!

So that's Osborne's new super drug.

I wonder if she charges the old goat

by the hour or by the orgasm.

- You know, Mom?

- What?

Since you've gotten sober,

you've gotten much better looking.

- It's hardly the time to put me down.

- No, I'm serious! Really!

- Okay. Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- I've gotta have a drink.

- No, you don't have to have...

- Just a little get-through. Relax.

- You don't have...

- Just to calm my nerves.

- Liz!

- Liz...

- Hi!

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Dirk Wittenborn

Dirk Wittenborn (born 1952 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American screenwriter and novelist. more…

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