Men at Work Page #3

Synopsis: Carl and James are two pleasant but unambitious garbage men. Carl has a telescope with which he observes his neighbors. One evening he sees a man giving a female neighbor a hard time. As she leaves he shoots the man with a pellet gun. Hiding, he and James miss two men strangling the man and leaving with the body. When he appears in a can on their route they are afraid and hide the body, fearing that they may be implicated in the death. Trying to crack the case, they spy on the woman, join up with a slightly to majorly crazed Vietnam vet, kidnap a pizza man and help to protect the ecology.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Emilio Estevez
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
29%
PG-13
Year:
1990
98 min
696 Views


Claimed he knew who was responsible

for those Las Playas offshore dumpings.

Claimed he had some kind

of a tape that could prove it.

I don't know. This might be nothing,

but I thought you should know.

You did the right thing, Captain. I'm sure

it's nothing, but I appreciate the call.

- Any time.

- Thank you.

A tape.

A goddamn tape.

Shrewd move, Berger.

Hey, boys! Where's your originality, huh?

This means war, man.

Hey, this is sh*t. It's sh*t!

Get it off me, Frost! Get it off!

It's sh*t! It's sh*t!

It's payback time, you little shits!

Gentlemen, inside now.

- What's up, Walt?

- Nothing too serious today.

I got a complaint about banging trash

cans on P Street at 6am this morning.

- You boys know anything about this?

- No, sir.

Who rolled the bowling ball

down the alley into Avenue H?

Can't help you there either.

In the two years you have worked here,

you have broken every city ordinance

that pertains to this line of work.

Well, you can't say

we haven't been a lot of laughs.

I'm glad you have a sense of humor,

Mr. St James.

Unfortunately, the majority

of the people in this community do not.

Now me, personally, I like you boys.

Which is why

I'm giving you another chance.

Starting tomorrow, you boys

will be riding with a third party.

What?

I have decided to send an observer

along with you on your route.

A representative of Shoreline.

- Who's the observer?

- My brother-in-law.

Consider yourselves on probation.

I suggest you be on your best behavior.

The nerve of Walt, sending us

on our route with a goddamn baby-sitter.

Don't worry about it.

What does a... phrenologist

feel and interpret?

- The size of Walt's a**hole.

- Wrong.

No, a phrenologist feels and interprets

the bumps on your head, skull features.

Very good.

Who was Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff

during the final days of Watergate?

Oprah Winfrey.

No, that was... Alexander Haig.

That's right.

What does gasoline...

Jack! Jack!

The tape!

What did you do with the tape?

Jesus Christ!

- What are you doing?

- I hate shitheads who bully their women.

- So what are you gonna do?

- Shoot him.

- What?

- It's the principle, James.

With a pellet gun? What are you

gonna accomplish using that?

It allows me to seriously

aggravate a situation

without actually changing

the course of history.

It also stings like a b*tch.

Well, I'm glad that's over.

Carl, what are you doing?

Everything's cool now.

Mister, it's nothing personal.

- Where do you think you got him?

- Butt shot.

He'll never lay a hand on her again.

A**hole! I wouldn't have

voted for you anyway.

- Stop it! Stop it!

- What?

Shoot him in the head,

his head's all over the place.

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Emilio Estevez

Emilio Estevez (; born May 12, 1962) is an American actor, director, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is well known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, starring in The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, and acting in the 1983 hit movie The Outsiders. He is also known for Repo Man, The Mighty Ducks and its sequels, Stakeout and its sequel, Maximum Overdrive, Bobby (which he also wrote and directed), and his performances in Western films such as Young Guns and its sequel. more…

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