What Doesn't Kill You Page #6

Synopsis: An armored car is robbed by three men. A passing police officer and one of the robbers exchange fire. The robber is Paulie. In a flashback we follow him and his closest friend, Brian, as they grow up together in South Boston. They're tough guys, thugs, doing jobs for the local boss and chaffing to do more. Paulie's the leader. Brian drinks too much and free bases, ignoring his wife and two young boys. Life-changing events lead him to try to go straight, look for work, take what comes his way, and go to A.A. meetings. He struggles. Paulie shows him the plans for the armored car job. Will they do it? "I am who I am," Brian tells his wife. Is crime his only skill?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Brian Goodman
Production: Yari Film Group
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
R
Year:
2008
100 min
Website
135 Views


I'll be back in a minute.

All right.

- Who is it?

- Brian.

- Hey, Jay.

- What's up, Brian?

I was wondering if you

have any of that money yet.

I told you I wasn't gonna have it

till Friday. Hey, come in, come in.

Thanks. You having a party?

- Yeah, you want a drink?

- Sure.

Hey, Brian, what's

up? I'm Matt.

Hey. How you doing? Yeah,

I've seen you around.

- Here.

- Yeah, I'll take that.

What do you got?

- How much, Brian?

- A "G."

I don't have a

"G." I don't have...

Jay, come on. What do you got?

I don't... I could

give you like 500.

I'll take that. You

got some coke, too?

Yeah, give me a second.

F*** them, Jay. F*** them!

- These your girlfriends?

- No, they're strippers.

- Oh, yeah? You're a dancer?

- Yeah.

Show me some of your moves.

Nice. Let's see the backside.

Nice.

Tim, how you doing?

Yeah, set me up.

I'll set you up.

- What's that you're smoking? Crack?

- Yeah.

You guys are freebasers, huh?

It's like a morgue in here.

I want to be dead like you.

Here's the five, Brian.

Plenty of coke, all right?

Come on, no more coke for you.

That's not bad.

- You gotta suck it in real hard.

- Okay.

When it fills up with

smoke, take your finger off.

All right, I

think I got it now.

Where is he?

Everything all right?

- What do you mean? He's not here?

- No, he never came home.

- Weren't you with him last night?

- Yeah, yeah, I was with him earlier.

- This is it. I've had it.

- What?

Every night he's out until

3:
00, 4:00 in the morning.

- Take it easy.

- You take it easy!

- Stace. Stace.

- 15 years of this sh*t.

I know.

12:
00 in the afternoon?

You're the biggest a**hole...

I just spent the night locked

up! Leave me the f*** alone!

Hello?

He just got in.

It's Paul.

- Yeah, tell him I'll call him back.

- He's gonna call you back.

I don't know, some bullshit

about being arrested. I gotta go.

So what happened?

Nothing. I was just

with some broad.

- You okay?

- Yeah.

Jay! Jay! Jay!

Almost had a touchdown there.

I got your message. What's up?

Yeah. Remember that kid Matt you

met at my house the other night?

- Yeah, yeah. What about him?

- When was this?

What?

Last week sometime.

What about him?

Well, he sells steroids to these

muscle-heads out in Stoneham.

Yeah? There's money in that?

- I guess. He says 20 to 30 grand.

- 20 to 30 grand?

Yeah! Yeah.

Well, anyways, he's

been dealing a few years.

His connection

just got busted.

These f***ing clowns keep paging him

every day for more. They don't know.

- Is he for real? - I figured you guys

might want to take them.

- No bullshit.

- Yeah.

You know, it sounds good.

Sounds real good. All right, we'll

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Brian Goodman

Brian Goodman (born June 1, 1963) is an American film and television director, writer, and actor. more…

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