Speed Page #3

Synopsis: Bomber terrorist's elevator plan backfires, so he rigs a bomb to a LA city bus. The stipulation is: once armed, the bus must stay above 50 mph to keep from exploding. Also if LAPD Officer tries to unload any passengers off, Payne will detonate it. Joe Morton co-stars as Jack's superior, and Jeff Daniels supports Jack helping him try to defuse the bomb.
Director(s): Jan de Bont
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 19 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
R
Year:
1994
116 min
Website
1,546 Views


Mazel tov.

I can't do that.

We're the two luckiest guys in the world,

you know that?

We got the bad guy

and we didn't lose any civilians.

We're good.

No! You were lucky.

No, we were lucky.

You better understand it.

We were dealing with a total psycho.

This guy could've blown us up at any time.

Phew!

And I got a bullet in me.

and they're giving the medal

to my wife.

Harry, come on, man.

I mean, we won. We got him.

Do you listen?

Do you ever...

Because I am not going to be around

to back you up,

so you better start thinking.

Guts'll get you so far

and then they'll get you killed.

Luck runs out sooner or later.

Right, Chief?

That's right.

Ho!

I'm all right. I'm all right.

I'm going to go home, have some sex.

Harry, you're going to go home

and puke.

Yeah, well, that'll be fun, too.

Come on, you gimp.

Hey, Jack, saw you on TV.

Congratulations.

Thanks, Bob.

Yeah. You looked fat.

Take it easy on him, Bob.

The boy was up late last night partying.

Wild party?

I don't remember that well.

Couldn't have been too great.

Woke up alone.

Yeah? The last time I partied like that,

I woke up married. Huh, Vinnie?

Hey, Jack, you forgot your muffins.

Have a good one, Bob!

Thanks, Jack! Take care, huh?

Thanks.

See you tomorrow!

What do you think, Jack?

You think if you pick up

all the bus driver's teeth,

they'll give you another medal?

Jesus!

You think I wouldn't have been prepared?

Two years I spent

setting up that elevatorjob.

Two years I invested myself in it.

You couldn't understand

the kind of commitment that I have.

You ruined a man's life's work

and you think

you can walk away?

You got blinders on to the world,

but I got your attention now, didn't I, Jack?

Why didn't you just come after me?

This is about me!

About my money!

This is about money due me,

which I will collect.

$3.7 million.

It's my nest egg, Jack.

At my age, you've got to think ahead.

When I find you...

Pop quiz, hotshot.

There's a bomb on a bus.

Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour,

the bomb is armed.

If it drops below 50, it blows up.

What do you do?

What do you do?

I'd want to know what bus it was.

You think I'm going to tell you that?

Yes.

Very good.

There are rules, Jack,

and I want you to get this right.

No-one goes off the bus.

You try to take any passengers off the bus,

I will detonate it.

I want my money

by 11am.

We can't pull that kind of money in time.

Focus, Jack!

Your concern is the bus.

And don't try to call.

The radio's down.

Now, the number of the bus is 2525.

It's running downtown from Venice.

It is at the corner of

Ocean Park

and Main.

Sam!

Sam!

Annie.

Sam!

Tell him to stop!

Sh*t. Excuse me. Coming through!

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Graham Yost

Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified. In 2002, he created the widely acclaimed, yet short-lived drama series Boomtown. He has also written for the television series Herman's Head and Band of Brothers. He also created the short-lived NBC drama Raines. Yost teamed up with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Yost is the creator and executive producer of the FX series Justified, and an executive producer on the FX show The Americans. more…

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