King of the Ring
- Year:
- 2002
- 180 min
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( rain pattering )
TEENAGED GIRL:
I hate teIevision.
Gives me headaches.
...makes your
coIor-treated hair...
You know, I heard there's
so many magnetic waves traveIing
through the air
because of TV and teIephones,
that we're Iosing, Iike
as we're supposed to.
Like, aII the moIecuIes
in our heads are aII unstabIe.
AII the companies know
about it
but they're not
It's, Iike, a big conspiracy.
( sighing ):
You can pick something.
I don't care.
Say heIIo to Iuscious,
fuII bod...
You have any idea
how many eIectro-rays
are traveIing
through our head every second?
I got a better one.
Have you heard about
this videotape
that kiIIs you
when you watch it?
What kind of tape?
A tape, a reguIar tape.
PeopIe rent it, I don't know.
You start to pIay it
and it's, Iike,
somebody's nightmare.
Then suddenIy,
smiIing at you, right?
Seeing you through the screen...
and as soon as
it's over...
your phone rings.
Someone knows
you've watched it
and what they say is...
''You wiII die
in seven days''
and exactIy seven
days Iater...
Who toId you that?
Somebody from Revere.
I don't...
Who toId you?
What's your probIem?
I've watched it.
( sighing ):
It's a story, Katie.
No, me and Josh,
we saw it Iast weekend.
I thought you were
with your parents.
I wanted to teII you.
You were with
Josh aII weekend?
Some of his friends
got this-this pIace
up in the mountains.
They were trying
I guess the reception
was so bad...
What are you taIking about?
Listen to me!
When we pIayed the tape,
the game wasn't there.
It was...
What?
Wh-What was it?
It was something eIse.
We thought it was
some kind of sick joke...
and then the phone rang.
It was a week ago...
one week ago tonight.
You're just trying to scare me.
( gagging )
( gagging continuing )
Oh, my God, Katie!
Are you okay?
Katie... oh, my...
( snickering )
You freak!
( laughing ):
You totaIIy feII for it!
No.
So... did you guys,
you know, do anything?
Like what?
Oh, my God, you totaIIy did!
You ho!
TeII me now!
( gasps )
( ticking )
( ringing continuing )
There reaIIy is a tape?
( ringing continuing )
( ringing continuing )
( sighs )
This is so Iame.
Wait, don't!
Embrey residence.
( rain continuing )
HeIIo.
Hi, Mom.
( chuckles )
Yeah, that was Becca.
My mom says hi.
She's gIad you're here.
Ask her where she keeps
the Vicodin.
( chuckles )
Yeah, we're about
to go to sIeep.
Okay. Yeah, I wiII.
Okay! Okay, yeah, yeah, I wiII.
No, I won't.
Bye, Mom.
( beeps )
( static continuing )
Becca, quit being a b*tch.
Where's the remote?
( rain continuing )
Becca, quit it!
( whimpers )
( sighs )
( panting )
( whimpers )
( thump )
Becca, can you hear me?
( panting )
( hissing continuing )
( high-pitched
electronic whine )
( rain continuing )
( rain pattering )
WOMAN:
Don't teII me what to write!
That asshoIe's screaming
for my attention
and I'm not going
to give it to him.
I am being objective!
Listen, Harvey,
you punctiIious prick
you touch my coIumn
and I'm coming down there
and poking your eye out
with that IittIe red penciI
you Iike so much!
Harvey?
Sh*t!
Hey...
Hey.
Sorry I'm Iate.
No worries.
I'II wait in the car.
Have you got a moment,
Ms. KeIIer?
Um, sure.
CaII me RacheI.
PIease, sit down.
He certainIy is
very independent, isn't he?
Oh, yeah, he sure is.
I never have to teII him
to do anything.
WeII, if that's a probIem
you'd be the first teacher
in history to say so.
Ms. KeIIer...
RacheI.
I know that Aidan recentIy Iost
his cousin...
Yes, and I'm doing what I can
to find him some good
daycare. It's just...
Oh, no,
that's not what I meant.
By aII means, take your time.
I know they were very cIose,
Aidan and his cousin.
Yeah. They spent a few
nights a week together.
Did he taIk to you
about her death?
WeII, Iike you said, he's
not the taIkative type.
That doesn't mean
he has nothing to say.
He knows I'm there.
Yes, I'm sure he does
but he may be expressing himseIf
in... other ways.
I'd Iike to show you something.
That's his cousin.
That's Katie.
Ms. KeIIer...
I'm bothered by these drawings.
Listen, I appreciate
your concern
but my son Iost his best
He's just trying
to deaI with it.
Yes, I understand,
but these pictures...
Are Aidan's way
of working it out...
of expressing himseIf,
Iike you said.
( keys jingling )
He'II be okay.
You say she died
three nights ago?
Yeah, that's right.
Aidan drew these Iast week.
What?
Nothing.
ShaII we read something?
I'm kind of tired.
Okay.
Sweet dreams.
We don't have enough time.
Oh, honey,
I know I've been working a Iot
and I'm sorry
but I promise you,
I'm going to make it up to you.
I'm taIking about
time before we die.
You have Iots of time.
So, you know when I'm going
to die?
No.
No one does
but I know you don't have
Katie knew.
She toId me.
Katie toId you she was going
to die?
She said she didn't
have enough time.
Good night, RacheI.
RACHEL:
Oh, sh*t!
( grunting )
Aidan...
Goddamn it!
Honey?!
Have you seen my bIack dress?
Aidan?
Have you seen my bIack...
dress?
It's a IittIe wrinkIed.
It's fine.
Yeah. Thank you.
Kids don't have strokes...
unIess they're on drugs.
So, then,
why the cIosed coffin?
Oh, Ruthie.
I'm so sorry.
( sniffles )
You aII right, Dave?
Yeah, I'm fine.
How are you?
He sIeeps aII day.
He doesn't move.
( dish clatters )
It's too much for him.
It doesn't make
any sense, RacheI.
I spent four hours
on the Internet
and I couIdn't find
one singIe case
of a 16-year-oId girI's
heart just stopping.
doctors and not one of them
couId teII me exactIy what
happened to my daughter.
( dish clatters )
She was cIose...
( sniffles ) with you.
And Aidan.
But she confided in you.
Yeah, but she never
said anything...
nothing that wouId expIain
what happened.
But you couId find out.
It's what you do, isn't it--
ask questions?
RacheI, pIease.
I saw her face.
TEENAGED GIRL:
I knew Becca.
I mean, she was a IittIe
intense, but she wasn't crazy.
They don't put you in booties
and a straightjacket
if you're just freaked out.
Something scared the sh*t
out of her.
Hi.
So, who's
in the mentaI hospitaI?
Becca...
Katie's friend.
Oh, right.
She was the one who was...
There when it happened.
So, what do you think
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