The Scouting Book for Boys Page #4

Synopsis: Best friends David and Emily enjoy their carefree life in a coastal caravan park. When they learn that Emily is being forced to move away, David he agrees to help her hide out in a remote cave on the beach. Emily's absence soon becomes complicated, as David watches the effect on her family and police suspect one of their neighbors of involvement. When Emily tells David the real reason she wants to hide, his world is shattered. With his complex feelings for Emily growing stronger due to their shared hidden existence, David takes action.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Tom Harper
Production: Celador Films
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
61%
Year:
2009
93 min
84 Views


- Couldn't wait to see you, either.

That makes us snap

which makes us better.

- Yeah, better.

- Too right!

Ow!

- Did she have a fella?

- Who?

- Did she have a fella?

- What?

Sharon.

Look, think it's sleep time, love.

Someone saw her with someone,

kissing her.

- Oh.

- They saw her picture on the poster.

- Did she have a fella?

- Come on, Sharon, work nights!

You couldn't work nights

if they bit you on the ares!

- Did she have a fella, David?

- No. She didn't.

Liar!

ain't going to ask you again.

Did she have one?

My head feels

like a sack of f***ing balls.

Good night.

No.

You'll need to change the number

if you want to keep using it.

Taking it seriously now, aren't you?

Two witnesses.

- People confirmed it. Two.

- This David, is it?

David, I'm Detective Inspector Kertzer,

and I'd love to... chat.

Asked him.

- He knows nothing about some fella.

- OK, David.

Five minutes?

Nothing serious.

Yeah, OK.

Coke? Tea?

As many sugars as you like.

Just a memory aid, OK?

OK.

Now, what I'm trying to do David,

is get as clear a picture of Emily

as can get,

like a portrait of...

OK.

So...

You and Emily.

Very close I've heard,

squeakily close.

- Yeah.

- You'd know if she had a boyfriend.

- Yeah. She didn't.

- OK.

So this is crucial.

Even if she left of her own volition,

it's still abduction

if she went with an older man.

- Do you understand that?

- Yeah.

David,

I've got witnesses that have seen

Emily getting... intimate

with an older man

at Sands nightclub.

- The barman confirmed it.

- She didn't have no one.

- She tell you where she's gone, David?

- No.

Can you think where she might have?

Tried, but...

couldn't think of anywhere.

OK, smashing.

Thanks very much.

That's everything.

I'm sure it's nothing serious, David.

OK? She's probably just

run off to the city.

Anyway, we're going

to up things our end.

If you do think

of where she might have gone...

OK.

Oh, just one more thing.

You two were friends

with the security guard?

Steve? Yeah.

That's great, David.

Thank you.

Right, off you go.

The secret will be to think like them.

What? Think like sheep?

Sheepdogs think like sheep.

That's basically their secret.

Sheepdogs think like sheepdogs.

You want to think like a sheepdog,

you think like a sheepdog.

But me,

I'm gonna think like a sheep.

You can stop looking at me

like a sheepdog for a start.

No. just...

You ready?

To be a sheep? You bet.

Three... two... one... go!

Go that way.

Get that one.

That one on the end.

Get it! Get it!

Get down. Get down!

- Shoo!

- Get down. There's someone coming.

- Chasing sheep?

- No.

Thought saw you chase a sheep.

No, was just mucking around.

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Jack Thorne

Jack Thorne (born 6 December 1978) is an English screenwriter and playwright. Born in Bristol, England, he has written for radio, theatre and film. Thorne began his TV career writing on Shameless and Skins, before writing Cast Offs in 2009. He has since created the shows Glue, The Last Panthers, and Kiri. He has won five BAFTA awards: Best Mini-Series for This is England ’88, Best Drama Series for The Fades, Best Single for Don’t Take My Baby, Best Serial for This is England ’90 and Best Original Series for National Treasure (starring Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough).Thorne’s feature film credits include The Scouting Book for Boys, War Book, A Long Way Down, and Wonder (starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson). Thorne is also a prolific playwright having written the critically acclaimed The Solid Life of Sugar Water, Hope, and adaptations of Let The Right One In, Woyzeck (starring John Boyega) and A Christmas Carol (starring Rhys Ifans). He also wrote the stage play for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child based on an original story by Thorne, J.K. Rowling, and John Tiffany, which won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2017 and the 2018 Tony Award for Best Play. more…

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