Stone Page #4

Synopsis: Parole officer Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro) has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald "Stone" Creeson (Edward Norton), a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to indulge Stone in the coarse banter he wishes to pursue and feels little sympathy for the prisoner's pleas for an early release. Seeing little hope in convincing Jack by himself, Stone arranges for his wife, Lucetta (Milla Jovovich), to seduce the officer, but motives and intentions steadily blur amidst the passions and buried secrets of the corrupted players in this deadly game of deception.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): John Curran
Production: Overture Films
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
R
Year:
2010
105 min
$1,796,024
Website
519 Views


- Madylyn:
This is very very serious.

...and I cannot choose to be born again.

She's four-- can you believe it?

Radio:
I had no choice

in that matter whatsoever, and yet

-there are so many people that...

- Where have you gone?

...think they have a choice

in the matter

of their spiritual rebirth

and their spiritual formation.

The fact of the matter is, a seed

is planted and conception takes place,

- which you had nothing to do with.

- Male caller:
Amen.

All Voices Under God, WDDL,

will continue here right after

these very important messages.

Stone:
Look, we was high as sh*t

and we were lookin' for money.

You know?

My poppy hears us.

Him and Teach have words.

Poppy goes and gets his gun.

And I was like, "F*** this.

I don't want no part of this,"

and I went outside.

So then, Teach done what he done

and then the house got burnt.

It was--

you know, it was terrible.

I was like a terrible mistake

that I made.

I was tragic and it was

a long time ago

and I've paid-- I've paid...

With a lot of hard time.

And I just think, you know,

I'm so ready to be out

and start my life again,

and well, so what--

you know, what-what-what

can we do to make that happen?

How can you help me

make that happen?

Well, we'll see.

We were just getting started, so--

A lot of good things have

happened for me in here, you know.

I did my GED like that, man.

I held down this job--

Textiles Unit,

number one position

the last two years.

I'm goin' home to my wife.

She's got a spot for me, you know,

Mount Elliot Chrysler,

job lined up.

- I'm-I'm going, you know.

- Yeah, whose idea was it?

Lucetta-- she knows

the branch manager at Mount Elliot.

No no, not your job.

Whose idea was it

to go to your grandparent's?

- What?

- Whose idea was it?

I told you--

I told you it was Teach.

Teach, you know.

Like I said, I wasn't even--

I was-- I went outside the house.

Yeah, but you

didn't stop them, did you?

~ Stop 'em what?

- From killing your grandparents.

You-you-you ain't gonna do it, man.

You're not gonna--

You don't give a f***, man. Sh*t.

I was outside,

Teach-- Teach come out,

and I didn't even know

what he'd done until he told me.

Teach testified to that, man.

He-- that's why I didn't even

catch the rap

for-- for manslaughter.

I got accessory and arson.

I've done eight out of 10-15.

I mean, what-- what more

do you want from me?

Okay, so,

let's make today

an extra special day.

Let's do one nice thing

for someone else,

but not tell

anyone else that we did it, okay?

(all agree)

Madylyn:
Win with the seventh deuce,

it's 10 bucks for everybody.

- ( phone ringing)

- Win both ways with the seven deuce,

- 20 bucks a head.

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Angus MacLachlan

Angus MacLachlan is a playwright and screenwriter most famous for writing the screenplays for the 2005 film Junebug as well as the cult short film Tater Tomater. He graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1980 and continues to reside in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He adapted one of his plays into the film Stone directed by John Curran and starring Robert De Niro, Milla Jovovich, and Edward Norton that was released in 2010. more…

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