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Synopsis: In a small town, an oil company is drilling for oil. The geologist, Dowd, informs his boss, Tenneson that they detected what could be an ecosystem which could affect their drilling rights. But Tenneson tells them to go on and something happens. Something came out and Tenneson wants to keep it quiet by keeping what came out on ice. In the town, something's been taking the fuel tanks off vehicles, leaving a big hole. Tripp, who lives in the town is frustrated at his life, specifically not having a vehicle of his own. He works at a scrap yard and he's been working on restoring an old truck. One day he thinks he hears something and traps it in the storage pit. He calls the Sheriff who's his step-father, whom he doesn't like. And when he gets there, it's gone. Later he sets a trap for it and sees it's a slug like creature who feeds on oil. He would bond with it. Later a man from the oil company shows up at the yard and asks him about the thing he reported earlier. Tripp feigns it was mistak
Director(s): Chris Wedge
Production: Paramount Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
41
Rotten Tomatoes:
30%
PG
Year:
2016
104 min
$33,243,820
Website
531 Views


You want to see

something crazy?

See, I'm growing out

my hair, like you.

Hope people don't

think we're brothers.

Mr. geldon:

We've had trouble before,

but usually it's a rock

through the window,

smashed taillight,

that kind of thing.

Check it out.

Told you you've never

seen anything like this.

Mr. geldon:
They ripped out

the gas tanks.

I mean,

who would even do that?

Well, it has to be vandals.

Serious power tools.

Meredith:

Tripp, you know what?

I happen to have the schedule

for our tutoring right here,

and it says our next sessions

are Thursday and Friday.

This Friday.

Uh, I have work Friday.

I can come by your work!

See you later, Tripp!

Good to hang out

with you, bro.

It's on the far side.

Here. Come on.

Where is it?

It's in there.

We're gonna need

more guys.

What is it? A bear?

No. Just open it up

and look.

Grab that.

You're going to need, like,

12 more of those things.

It's in there.

I don't see anything.

What? No, I...

No, no, no.

I trapped him in here!

He had...

He was huge.

He had tentacles and giant

eyes.

You guys go on ahead.

I'll handle this.

Rick, I know

what you're thinking,

but you've got to

believe me. He...

He sucked all the oil

out of the can!

He sucked it out.

Are you done? Huh?

I knew it.

I knew it as soon as I heard

it was you on the call.

I knew something

wasn't gonna go right.

You thought this

would be funny, huh?

Pranking me and my guys?

Making me look like an idiot?

I saw it.

Yeah. Well,

i hope it was fun.

You're gonna wind

up just like your dad

if you don't

straighten out.

Don't talk about my dad.

That's it for you. That's it.

Meredith:
I feel so squeezed

in here, like trapped.

Like, I might die here

if I don't get one

of those scholarships,

because we can't afford

an out-of-state school.

But there's no way I can

imagine staying here, either.

I mean, did you see

that thing on the news?

About the burning well?

It's like, nobody cares

about how much

damage they're doing

to the environment because

all the money in town

comes from terravex oil.

Hey, you know a lot

about biology, right?

That's what

I'm tutoring you in.

How often do they discover

new species?

Seriously?

I was just watching

a show on this.

Do you watch nat geo?

No.

Oh.

Well, um, they said that

they discover, like,

15,000 new species every year.

So, would it be possible

for there to be,

like, a giant sea creature

here in north Dakota?

Technically, totally.

This whole state was under

an ocean at one point.

So theoretically,

the deep lakes

could have something

like that.

I mean on land.

A giant sea creature on land.

Well, no.

Because its body evolved

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Derek Connolly

Derek Connolly (born c. 1976 in Miami, Florida) is an American screenwriter and film producer, mostly known for his collaborations with director Colin Trevorrow on the films Safety Not Guaranteed and Jurassic World. Connolly was also reported to be working on a remake of the film Flight of the Navigator as well as writing an upcoming Pixar film with Teddy Newton. Connolly was listed on Variety's Ten Screenwriters to Watch in 2012. Connolly rewrote Kong: Skull Island (2017), for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Connolly has been tapped to pen the script for a Metal Gear film. Connolly and Trevorrow co-wrote the screenplay for the sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and by February 2018, had written a story treatment for Jurassic World 3, set for release on June 11, 2021.Connolly attended Palmetto High School in Miami and NYU Film School. more…

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