Paper Man Page #5

Synopsis: A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his imaginary Superhero friend.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
37
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Year:
2009
110 min
669 Views


Here.

[shell cracking]

- Oh.

[shell cracking]

- There.

Okay?

Hmm?

There you go.

Hmm?

- lf only everything

in the world

could be covered in butter.

What a world that would be.

- l guess.

- What a buttery world.

[birds cawing]

- He any good?

- l don't know.

lt's kind of wordy.

- So what does

the renderer render?

- l haven't gotten

to that part yet

- Well, let me know.

l'm sure it's something

briIIiant

- What were you doing

in my gym class?

- Nothing.

- You think l didn't see you?

- l was just there

for moral support.

- l suck at volleyball.

- You do not

- l suck at everything.

- [sighs]

No, you don't

You're fantastic

across the board.

- Would you just shut up?

- We never go out anymore.

- Look, you got to leave, okay?

l'm meeting Bryce later.

- He's beneath you, you know.

[both moaning]

- Why you got to wear

so much sh*t?

- 'Cause it's freezing in here.

Run the heater.

- You want to pay for the gas?

[grunting]

- Are you done?

- [sighing]

Yeah.

[moaning]

See you later.

[engine turns over]

[rock music blaring]

[buzzing]

- Okay.

- Well, just go for it

- ll

l'm going.

[buzzing]

Okay, well, he's dead now.

Why don't you go?

Damn it

lt's your turn.

l don't know how you do this

all day.

l mean, there's so much

pressure.

- Well, it's just a game.

- l know.

- No one's dying here.

- Go ahead.

- We can play something else.

- No, it's fine.

lt'syou know.

- All right

Let's see.

That one's on my side.

- Yeah.

Well, that was fun.

- Yes, it was.

- Fun-packed weekend.

- Okay, weII,

have a productive week.

And l'll see you on the 15th.

- Yeah.

[engine turns over]

- [humming quietly]

What?

You're standing.

Oh.

Really?

[groans]

[exhaling deeply]

That's enough of that

You remember when you stuck

that dime up your nose

and tried to snort it

out your mouth?

The cowboy outfit for your

seventh grade school picture?

You remember?

The horny toads,

the hunger strike?

l cautioned you against

those decisions,

but you didn't listen to me,

which is fine,

'cause you were just a kid.

But now it's grow-up time.

The babysitter?

Bad, Richard.

Very, very bad, Richard.

That chair's gonna be a problem.

- Sakes alive.

[sighs]

- "Making the monkey.

"A humorous monkey is popular

in zooIogicaI gardens.

"For exampIe, it is IoveIy

that you make a baby monkey

"with small paper and that you

put it on a mother monkey.

Fold A, top right corner."

- Why origami?

Why now?

- l needed something to do

with my hands.

- l'm having trouble telling

which is the monkey

and which is the swan.

[knocking at door]

- Oh, that can't be all of them.

- No, no, there's a bunch more

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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