War of the Worlds Page #4

Synopsis: Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. When his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son Robbie and young daughter Rachel for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm suddenly touches down. What follows is the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it in this contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells seminal classic sci-fi thriller.
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 44 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
PG-13
Year:
2005
116 min
$234,141,872
Website
2,470 Views


What happened?

What's going on?

Dad, what's the matter?

What's all that stuff all over you?

- Ray.

- What's all this stuff?

Hello?

Ray?

We're leaving this house

in 60 seconds.

What? Why?

I have no idea what's going on.

All the food from the refrigerator

and the cupboard, put it in here.

- What's going on? Just tell me.

- Just do it.

- Rachel, sweetheart...

- Dad, you're really scaring me.

- I need you to get your suitcase,

- Dad.

The one that you brought,

and bring it to me, okay?

Can you just do that for me, darling?

Okay?

I don't think it's a fire.

- See? That looks like smoke to me.

- What's happening?

I can't tell you now.

We've only got about another minute.

Please.

Please.

- Just keep it down.

- Ray, I'm standing right beside you.

Can you please answer me?

Just get in the front seat, Robbie.

- Whose car is this?

- Just get in.

Whose car is this?

Hey. Hey, Ray.

You were absolutely right.

That is exact...

I had to change the solen...

Ray? Hey.

Hey, Ray? Ray.

Ray.

What...? Come on, open up.

Open the door, come on.

Open the door, Ray.

What are you...?

- Get in, Manny.

- You gotta get out of the car.

- Get in the car.

- It's not my car. It's not your car.

- Manny, Manny, shut up.

- Daddy's acting crazy.

You can't do this.

Guy's gonna come back and...

Manny, Manny,

I don't have time to...

You're busting my chops.

I got a shop to run.

- Manny, listen to me.

- No, Ray.

Get in, Manny, or you're gonna die.

- What do you mean?

- Okay.

All right, get out of the truck. I'm not

kidding now. Get out of the car, Ray.

I'm not gonna get in.

I'm not getting in.

- Manny, get in with us.

- I'm not gonna get in trouble.

- Look, I'm not fooling around...

- Close the door, Robbie. Close it.

Ray, bring the car back, Ray.

It's not my car.

Get down!

Get down, get down! Get down!

Is it the terrorists?

- Just get down. Get down! Get down!

- Holy sh*t!

- Where are we going?

- We gotta go.

We got, maybe, like,

the only working car around here.

- I'm not stopping until we're clear of it.

- Clear of what?

- We gotta go.

- What's going on?

- Look, you saw, we're under attack!

- By who?!

Who is attacking us?!

Rachel? Rachel,

you've gotta keep it down.

Rachel. Rachel. Shut up, Rachel.

- You're freaking her out!

- Look, I'm driving! Do something!

Okay, put them up, Rach.

Make the arms.

This space right here, this is yours.

This belongs to you, right?

- Yes.

- You're safe in your space.

- I'm safe.

- You're safe in your space.

Nothing can happen to you

in your space.

Okay. I'm gonna go to the front seat,

I'm gonna talk to Dad.

- No.

- I'll be 2 feet away.

- Okay.

- Will you hold my hand?

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Josh Friedman

Josh Friedman (born 1967) is an American screenwriter best known as writer of the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the 2005 film adaptation of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Friedman also publishes the blog "I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing". After being offered an opportunity to work on a script titled Snakes on a Plane, Friedman posted a blog entry that sparked interest in the film on the Internet before the movie entered production. The same entry introduced a profane line that was added to the film when the cast reconvened in March 2006 to shoot additional footage. On August 1, 2013 he was announced as co-screenwriter of Avatar 2 with James Cameron. He is a kidney cancer survivor. more…

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