6 Balloons Page #4

Synopsis: A woman (Jacobson) learns her brother (Franco) has relapsed on heroin.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Marja-Lewis Ryan
Production: Netflix
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
Year:
2018
74 min
Website
1,177 Views


I think I need to go pee-pee, Dad.

I need to go pee-pee,

or something.

- Hello.

- Hi.

Have you used this medication before?

It's my birth control, so, yeah, I-I have.

I use it, like, all the time.

I've got to poop!

Oh, my God. That's sad.

I've got to poop.

Does she need to be changed?

Yeah. Oh.

Picking up? Last name?

Um... No. Uh...

I need to buy one needle...

and everything that comes with it...

please.

I don't understand.

Um...

Short tip, or something.

They come in a ten-pack.

That's convenient.

You having a good night?

Yeah, I'm having a great night.

- Seems like it.

- Yeah. Thanks so much.

One, two, three.

Can I have the bathroom key, as well?

Please?

Ma'am, I'm going to need you

to give me the key to the bathroom.

Give me the f***ing key.

Give me the key to the f***ing bathroom.

I'm going to need you to bring that back,

if you think you can manage that?

I'm sorry. I'll bring back the key.

OK, up we go. Up we go.

OK.

Hey, I'm going to change

that diaper, all right?

Come on.

OK, let's change this.

I don't...

That's dirty. That's dirty.

Yeah, that's dirty.

OK.

OK.

OK.

Do you think... OK.

I can't do that, right? I can't do that.

Could we change your diaper standing up?

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

OK.

We want to take that.

OK. Ready? Let's take it off.

Here we go. OK.

OK. OK.

I'm going to throw it away.

Hold this up.

Stand right there.

Oh!

Oh, my goodness.

OK. OK.

Here we go. Here we go.

Come back here.

OK, let's put this on.

Here we go, here we go, here we go.

OK, look at me. OK.

It's OK. It's OK.

Ready?

Hold the bunny up. Hold the bunny up.

Don't want to get the bunny messy.

OK.

I know what I'm doing.

OK. There we go.

We got it, right?

Do we got it?

Do we got it?

Yeah, hold that up.

OK.

Here we go. Up on here.

All right.

OK.

Please don't do too much.

Only stupid people OD.

Great. That's great.

OK, wipe this off.

OK.

I'm going take them off real quick, OK?

OK. We're just going to...

Oh, gosh!

In there.

Are you OK?

You're OK.

Is that a little monkey I hear?

How did a cute little monkey

sneak in here?

I got... sh*t everywhere.

We don't care about

no stinky poop, do we?

We love poop, don't we?

You want to climb on the tree?

You want to climb on the tree?

We love poop

Yes, yes, we do

We would eat it all the time

If you let us...

What are you doing?

Seth, what are you doing?

Seth, what are you doing?

Stop.

Seth, stop.

Daddy hurt his hand.

Can you kiss it?

Can you kiss it? Thank you.

Do you know what time it is?

Put your arms out.

It's chopper time!

Let's chopper out!

It's time to chopper out!

Chopper out!

Chopper out!

Chopper out!

Chopper landing.

Let's go. Let's go. We want to play.

No. It's just been, like,

such a... crazy night.

Um...

The cake took so long, and we got a flat.

I'm going to eat them.

He bit me!

Hold on, sweetie.

I can't hear you.

You've got to bite him back!

- You've got to bite him!

- I love you, too.

- Save us, quickly!

- No, I'll be home really, really soon.

Yes, you bit his head off!

You saved humanity!

Oh, my gosh!

You're my hero.

You're my hero, you know that?

Oh, sh*t.

What?

OK, you've got to...

you've got to promise not to kill me.

What?

Are you f***ing kidding me?

- Are you f***ing kidding me right now?

- I don't want it. You take it.

I'm sure she'll be very happy to see you.

F*** you.

Language! There's a child present.

Oh, no.

Uh-uh.

- I have the key.

- I don't care.

She's going to get in so much trouble.

You don't want me

to just hand you the key right now?

No, because we're closed right now.

Are you f***ing kidding me?

No, I'm not kidding you. You can go now.

They locked the door. They locked

her out. She is not going to be happy.

Oh, sh... Yes.

Yes! Let's go! Let's go!

Chopper out! Chopper out! Let's go!

I got you.

OK. Oh, f***!

That's right. That's right.

We are choppers.

- Go! Go!

- Put your seat belt on!

Oh!

Sh*t!

Oh! Drive! Just f***ing drive!

- You're a mess! Go!

- OK, OK, OK!

Chopper out!

Hey.

- She's fine.

- Oh, you got through?

- Did you talk to her?

- She's with Seth, and she's fine.

Oh. Oh.

- She told me he went home.

- Don't do this. Don't.

- Can you call her back?

- No, don't make him call her back.

- She sounded fine.

- I want to hear the sound of her voice.

Please, just call her back.

Yeah. Yeah, of course.

Dad was, like,

driving 90 miles an hour up the five,

and I had to stick my head

out the window to puke.

You really don't remember?

This was, like, a big moment.

I don't think so. Keep going.

So I puke out the window

and everything just...

Comes back on the car?

Came back on the whole side of

the car, and they couldn't see anything.

Oh, yeah.

We get to Santa Barbara

and Dad gets out.

He was f***ing pissed.

"Who the f*** puked

all over the side of my car?"

I just don't understand how he thought

someone else puked on his car.

Dad always says

the exact same thing.

What?

You know. Think about it.

All right, yeah.

"Suck it up,

walk it off, grow a pair."

And then let them dangle.

I don't remember that part.

I think that's a new addition.

Maybe.

Dad doesn't joke

with me any more. It's weird.

In 1.3 miles,

turn left onto North Figueroa Street,

then merge onto CA 110 North

towards Pasadena.

I know what Mom will say, too.

What?

She'll tell me I broke her heart.

She really loves to tell me that.

Hey, Ella.

You want to see monkey brain?

Bleugh!

Like that monkey brain?

A kitty! A kitty!

A cheetah.

I think I can do it this time.

It feels different, you know?

Yeah.

I know what I've got to do

and I'm just going to do it.

In 200 feet, keep left.

Oh, look, they're right over my house.

Have you ever been over on the fourth?

No, I don't think so.

Keep left.

And a blue one.

Should we go check them out?

Let's do it. It will be fun.

Come on, let's do it.

Come on, let's go check them out,

and then... and then we can go

to that place in Pasadena.

- I really don't think it's a good idea.

- It's not going to make a difference.

I'll be fine. I promise.

- Really?

- Really, really. Yeah, I swear.

I've got to go get the cake.

Is that a yes?

Fireworks?

We're going to see fireworks, baby!

Yes! Let's go eat those fireworks.

I'm sick of fries and burger.

I want fireworks.

Oh! I'm going to eat a pink one...

and a blue one,

and I might even dip my fries

in the fireworks.

Pink fireworks

And blue fireworks

And pink and blue

At the same time, fireworks

If we go, you have to promise

not to sing any more.

I cannot do anything of the sort.

You sing the same song

with different words.

- You just list things.

- I will attempt.

- It's just you listing items and things.

- I cannot make any definitive promises.

That's it.

Jealousy does not look good on you.

It doesn't.

I'm so jealous

of these song skills, right?

You know what?

You're either born with it or you're not.

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Marja-Lewis Ryan

Marja-Lewis Ryan is an American writer, director, producer, and actress. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 19 March 1985. She received an honors BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at The Atlantic Theatre Company's Acting School. She is best known for writing and co-starring in the LGBT drama film, The Four-Faced Liar, which won multiple awards, including Outstanding First Narrative Feature at L.A. Outfest. She also co-produced that film. In the early 2000s, she was a member of a theater company in Los Angeles, Theater of NOTE, where she received positive critical reviews as a writer and director. She earned the Maverick Award from the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival in 2016.In an interview, she described her interest in writing as stemming from her time at NYU. She and her friends figured that "you have to make your own work." And so she wrote her first script for them to workshop as actors. As for her thematic interests, she recounts what happened after The Four-Faced Liar got released: "I had the opportunity to go into meetings with crazy big people. The one question that came up repeatedly was 'what kind of work do you want to do for the rest of your life?' The first time someone asked me that, I answered it so truthfully that I shocked myself. I said, 'I just want to write dark comedies for women that don't ostracize a male audience.'"Ryan wrote and directed the film 6 Balloons, released in March 2018, and is drafting the reboot of Splash starring Channing Tatum and Jillian Bell. She has been tapped to spearhead the sequel to The L Word, currently in development at Showtime, as executive producer and showrunner. more…

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