Wedgerino Page #5

Synopsis: Best friends and roommates Carl and Larry are perpetually out of work, and their new landlord is angrily demanding rent. With no job prospects in sight, all looks bleak until they meet Johnny, a charismatic stranger with a painful past. Johnny comes up with a plan to help the pair out of their financial bind: fight each other on the undercard of a boxing match in exchange for two months' rent. As Carl grows close to the mysterious Johnny while preparing to do battle in the ring, Larry fears his bond with his best friend could be broken forever.
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2015
78 min
12 Views


- Look, even if you come

up with another name

or if the name isn't taken,

how does this idea make a quick buck?

A website about jam?

I assume your primary source of revenue

would be advertising.

It takes time to get advertisers.

- We would also maybe be selling jam.

- Would you be making the jam

or would you be buying it wholesale?

Either way, it's gonna cost money upfront

and you guys can't even make rent.

- That's why we're trying to make money.

- What you guys need is a

steady source of income.

- We don't mean to sound non-supportive.

It just seems like you two

haven't thought this idea

all the way through.

- Well, you do sound non-supportive,

so thanks for nothing.

Come on Carl, let's go.

- Don't tell me what to do, Larry,

but I will go with you

because I agree with you.

- Why don't you boys stay for dinner?

- Yeah, we can order pizza

and eat it on the stoop.

- I've lost my appetite.

- So have I.

- I can't believe

the lack of support

from our girlfriends.

- I know, both our girlfriends

were completely non-supportive.

Maybe I was right to

have a crisis about mine.

Maybe you were wrong to not

have a crisis about yours.

- Well, at least

we'll always have each other.

- I'm really grateful we're

number one best friends, Larry.

Larry?

Larry?

- I was just taking a break.

Getting a little shut mouth.

- Cool.

- What's up, fellas?

- Hello.

My name is Larry

and this is my best

friend and roommate, Carl.

Haven't seen you around.

Are you new in town?

- Just got in this morning

and drove all the way from Cali.

- That is a looooong drive.

- It's long enough.

Gives you time to think.

That's my motorcycle over there.

- Nice hog.

Nice wheels.

- You know about bikes?

- Not really.

- Neither do I.

- It's because you're not from California.

Everyone in California rides a bike.

My name's Johnny.

My full name's Jonathan Junior,

so some people call me J.J.,

but you guys can call me Johnny.

Trying to get away from

the whole J.J. thing.

- Carving out a new identity

on a new coast, huh?

- Something like that.

- Say, we were just about

to go inside and unwind

because we just got into huge

fights with our girlfriends.

You wanna come inside and join us

for some decaffeinated coffee?

- I don't see the point in decaf.

I'll take some almonds if you got any?

- So does your bike have a name?

- Bike Tyson, like the boxer.

- Funny you should mention boxing

because the landlord

of this very apartment

is not only a landlord,

but also a boxing promoter.

- I know.

He's my brother.

I don't particularly care for my brother.

We didn't even really grow up together,

except summers.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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