L.I.E. Page #3

Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old Howie loses just about everything and everyone in the space of a single week, but ends up finding himself in the process. His mother has just died. His father, a building contractor, can barely keep tabs on his young girlfriend, let alone his own son. Thusly, the teen must navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised. Floating towards an ill-behaved existence, Howie and his crowd begin robbing houses in the middle-class neighborhoods off the Long Island Expressway. Together, he and his best friend Gary break into a place belonging to an old guy named Big John, a local man who is a respected pillar of the community. When Big John fingers Gary for the crime, Howie learns that his pal has been leading a secret, dangerous but also alluring double life. Subsequently, we also discover that Big John has secrets of his own.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Michael Cuesta
Production: Lot 47 Films
  20 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
R
Year:
2001
97 min
Website
850 Views


You're not one of these favour people.

Hey, I guess you two want to be alone now.

Go f*** yourself.

Suck my Titanic, kids.

Sh*t, I got to spilt with you, man.

I got a call on home. - what the f***.

F*** you all!

So, get's ready for California, man.

You and me?

You and me, duke.

Oh yeah, but... everybody calls me Howie..

Wait a minute, let me join...

No, no, please...

My name's Harrigon, John Harrigon,

people call me Big John.

I don't see I know you well...

Maybe I don't remember I've seen you.

No.

I just got back from L.A.

That's good.

How do you know I speak French?

Your mummy talked about you all the time, Howie.

She was so proud of you.

While you finish this, I'll...

I'll give you right back the run of drive.

I'm going that way.

I'll be great.

Well.

You like it, huh?

I mean this is my dream car. I suppose

I never seen it in real life.

Real life?

Get in.

Oh God.

So. What's tough speed on this boy?

It's great tough.

Oh yeah, proof it.

Not now.

Howie.

I've walking around with this thing.

Have you seen around this?

Perhaps you've seen it.

Believe me, Howard, youw ant to talk to me...

you don't want to talk to the cops.

I know my house is not the only one you breaking into.

Now, come back over here.

I just want to talk to you.

You don't know my mum.

Oh, get in the car. - No f***ing way.

Come on, I'm being reasonable here,

I just want to talk about this thing...

and then I'll drive you home.

Or I can take you to the police right now.

Listen, I don't want to chase,

I don;t chase after people...

And use your head, all right? Never try sometime.

You remember me now, don't you?

You look different than they like.

I have that before.

Gary told me everything.

You know Gary?

He told me you guys were very close friends.

That's right, we are.

He also told me that my guns were gone.

I guess so.

You guess? Come on, Howard.

You sold them, you know that guy.

I didn't sell them, I didn't even touch you guns.

Somebody did.

This is nothing to do with me, Mr.

Don't call me that. Call me Big John.

Big John.

I don't lie, all right? I don't touch the stuff.

I don't believe that Gary told you I didi.

Then what the f*** were you do in my basement?

I just want a long. - You just want a long?

If I don't get pay back,

I'm gonad change the way that f*** look perment ugly.

How much they worth?

What if I can get them back for you?

Is that do able?

Could be.

Well, you do that.

Then, we'll see.

Will we?

Gary.

Hey, Gary.

Gary.

Where the f***ing money...

Oh, boys...

Yeah.

Is John home?

Who are you?

I have some for Big John, name Howie.

You can give it to me.

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Stephen M. Ryder

Stephen M. Ryder (born 1943, in Monticello, New York) is an American Journalist, poet, screenwriter, director and producer. more…

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