Turn The River Page #3

Synopsis: In New York City, Gulley, who's in middle school, lives with his father and step-mother; his paternal grandmother dominates the family's life. In secret, he's recently been in touch with his mother, Kailey, a pool hustler, who wants to win big and take Gulley to Canada. With the help of Teddy Quinette, who runs Quinn's Pool Hall, Kailey may get her shot at big money. Can she win the match, keep her son's confidence, and, using fake documents she gets from Markus, a friend of hers, make it to Canada to start a new life?
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Chris Eigeman
Production: Screen Media
  3 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
R
Year:
2007
92 min
Website
52 Views


won a game yet.

Okay. I'll try for Duncan.

That's gonna

be a hard

game to get.

He's good.

He'll also try

to negotiate weight.

Should I give him any?

No! He's good.

All right, I'll be

back in an hour.

Keep him here

if he wants a game.

Hey, is Markus there?

You got a number for him?

Okay, well, uh,

maybe if you run into him.

I know, but maybe

if you just happen to see him,

can you tell him

that Kailey's in the city,

and to keep an eye out?

Kailey. K-A-I-L-E-Y.

He'll know.

For Gulls tomorrow.

You Duncan?

I am, yeah.

Kailey.

It's nice to meet you.

Want to play

some one pocket?

Maybe. For what?

I don't know.

Okay. Give me two balls.

No. Can't.

Quinn says I can't

give any weight.

He does, huh?

He does, and

he's a fair guy.

Is he staking you?

No.

Okay.

Maybe. But he's wrong.

I don't know.

Seemed to play okay

earlier tonight.

I was playing

against Mike Simms.

Play him every week.

Beat him every week.

He's a degenerate.

He loves to lose.

It's no reflection.

How about no weight,

but a guaranteed renegotiation

after five games?

Okay, but we play

for a hundred a rack.

Okay.

Lack for break.

No, I'll give you the break.

I'll take

the right pocket.

Seven ball.

Nice games.

Maybe you should be

giving me a ball.

Nope.

- But out, Quinn.

I'll give her a ball.

Nope, she's gonna quit.

What the f*** Quinn?!

You pull me off a game

just when the dipshit's

about to give me a ball?!

Jesus f***ing sh*t!

He ain't a dipshit.

He still would've took ya.

F*** you.

Oh, f*** yourself.

You're playing like sh*t, Kai.

I know it. You know it.

You're wrong.

- No.

I easily had the last game.

You barely got the last game.

I don't know what's

on your mind, but,

you know, you're not

playing half-way decent.

Where are you going?

To find a f***ing game.

Well, go get it.

Kai! Kai!

I thought you

hated this city.

More and more

every f***ing day.

How are you Markus?

I'm all right.

Uh, I'm not really a

running kind of guy, so...

Thank you.

Oh, what are you doing in town?

Trying to get out.

Oh, that should be easy enough.

- No.

Really out.

Oh.

I'm thinking Canada out.

Oh.

You could do that, right?

I could, yeah.

How much would that be?

$10,000, thereabout...

There'll be two of us.

Twenty.

He's a kid.

Oh, that's...

that's different, Kai.

Yeah, I figured.

No, I mean, that's

really different.

I can get you

a passport,

get you into Canada,

no problem, but...

traveling with a kid?

That is way different.

They look hard-- single

adults traveling with kids.

Passport'd have to be

f***ing bomb-proof.

Can you still do it?

Maybe, uh...

the price goes up.

How much up?

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Chris Eigeman

Christopher "Chris" Eigeman (born March 1, 1965) is an American actor and a film director. Eigeman is best known for roles in films written and directed by Whit Stillman: Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco. more…

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