Gravesend Page #3

Synopsis: Four young men spend their Saturday night trying to come up with the money to cover up the accidental death of a family member. As the night grows old, the tensions between the four rise and the situation becomes all the more desperate.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Salvatore Stabile
Production: Palm Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
R
Year:
1997
85 min
52 Views


MARK'S TIRES.

ANOTHER TIME, HE POURED

SUGAR IN HIS GAS TANK.

ANOTHER TIME, RAY HAD

F***ED MARK'S FIANCE,

CAUSING THEM TO SPLIT.

BUT THE WORST WAS

WHEN MARK HIT RAY

IN THE FACE WITH HIS SHOE

AND RAY TOOK BOILING WATER

AND THREW IT:

ALL OVER MARK'S LEGS,

GIVING HIM:

A THIRD-DEGREE BURN.

IT'S THE ONLY

VIRGIN MARY THAT

EVER EXISTS, MAN.

AT LEAST:

IN THIS PROPERTY.

WELL, YOU GUYS REALLY

CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY.

I'M PROUD OF THAT.

Sal:
WE ALL TOLD

RAY TO MOVE OUT,

BUT RAY HAD NO MONEY

AND NO JOB.

F***IN' FIGHT

WITH A GUN.

HANG A SHINING STAR

UPON THE HIGHEST BOUGH

AND HAVE...

OPEN THE F***ING

TRUNK, MAN.

COME ON, MAN.

JUST OPEN:

THE TRUNK.

A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS

JESUS CHRIST, WE GO CARS PASSING, MAN.

OK, OK, READY?

ON 3, ON 3.

1...2...3.

COME ON, LET'S GO.

WHO IS THIS GUY?

JOJO.

JOJO WHO?

JOJO THE JUNKIE.

HE OWES ME SOME DRUGS.

JOJO JUNKIE?

YEAH, MAN, DON'T F***IN'

WORRY ABOUT IT, MAN.

YOU'RE LETTING A JUNKIE

BURY MY BROTHER?

RAY, RAY,

CAN WE GO, MAN?

LISTEN, MAN, YOU'RE DOING

THE RIGHT THING, ALL RIGHT?

JOJO JUNKIE?

YOU'RE GONNA

F***IN' REPEAT.

DID I STUTTER?

YEAH, JOJO THE

F***IN' JUNKIE.

LET'S GO, MAN,

BEFORE F***IN'

PEOPLE COME.

GO TO THE LIGHT,

MAKE A RIGHT,

GO TO THE STOP SIGN,

MAKE ANOTHER RIGHT.

WHO IS:

THIS GUY JOJO?

YOU KNOW, ZANE,

I DON'T HAVE

ENOUGH GAS.

HERE. WEAR

MY BASEBALL CAP, OK?

YOU BE THE SKIPPER.

DOES HE KNOW:

A LOT OF PEOPLE?

YEAH. WE GOT GAS

IN THE TRUNK.

YEAH, BUT

THAT'S NOT GOING

TO BE ENOUGH.

DON'T YOU THINK

IT'S A BAD IDEA

THAT WE TAKE MY BROTHER

TO HIM IF HE KNOWS

A LOT OF PEOPLE?

RAY.

HE MIGHT TALK.

WHAT? TAKE HIM WHERE?

WE'LL TAKE HIM TO JOJO.

I KNOW. THAT'S

WHAT YOU JUST SAID.

AND YOU SAID HE KNOWS

A LOT OF PEOPLE.

DON'T YOU THINK

HE MIGHT TALK?

TALK TO WHO?

I DON'T KNOW.

I DON'T EVEN

KNOW THE GUY,

AND YOU WANT TO TAKE

MY BROTHER TO HIM?

I MEAN, ALL I KNOW

IS YOU TOLD ME:

HE'S A JUNKIE.

YOU GUYS,

WHAT IS THIS, 20/20?

HUH? BARBARA WALTERS,

WALTER CRONKITE?

WHOA, WALTER CRONKITE?

YOU MEAN, HUGH DOWNS?

NO, I MEAN

WALTER CRONKITE.

NO.

20/20.

IT'S HUGH DOWNS.

YEAH.

NO, IT'S NOT.

IT'S WALTER CRONKITE.

IT'S HUGH DOWNS.

IT'S EITHER HUGH DOWNS

OR ANDY ROONEY...

OR MICKEY ROONEY OR

ONE OF THE ROONEY BROTHERS.

I WATCH IT:

MONDAY NIGHT, 5:
30.

IT'S WALTER CRONKITE.

IT'S HUGH DOWNS.

WALTER CRONKITE:

F***ING COVERED

THE KENNEDY:

ASSASSINATION.

GET OUT OF HERE.

LAST TIME HE:

WAS ON FILM,

CATCH THIS LIGHT HERE.

IT WAS F***IN'

BLACK AND WHITE.

LOOK, ARE YOU

SURE WE'RE GOING

TO GET GAS?

YEAH, I'M SURE.

I DON'T CARE

ABOUT 20/20 AND

WALTER CRONKITE.

ALL RIGHT, GUYS.

WHAT DO YOU:

WANT TO DO THEN?

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Salvatore Stabile

Salvatore "Sal" Stabile is an American television and feature film writer, director and producer. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1974, Sal directed his first feature film, Gravesend (1997), when he was 19 years old. Stabile has gone on to write for numerous television shows, including The Sopranos (2001) and Rescue Me (2004). more…

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