8 Million Ways to Die Page #2

Synopsis: Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage. During his recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous, he meets a mysterious stranger who draws him back into a world of vice. In trying to help this beautiful woman, he must enter a crime-world of prostitution and drugs to solve a murder, while resisting the temptation to return to his alcohol abuse.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Hal Ashby
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
0%
R
Year:
1986
115 min
$1,305,114
434 Views


No but you seem a little...

Oh no, everything is fine, really

I'm sorry Sarah.

Hi.

So...

I'm gonna get another drink.

Come on baby!

He is just.

I don't like the look of this one, baby.

This guy related to you, basso?

I've never saw him in my life.

You never saw him?

Ok, ok. Here you go.

What are you laughing at?

You remind me of my ex-wife.

She wouldn't bet on a fixed fight either

Sarah, what do you think of my guy?

Ah hell, honey, it's not what I think

that counts, is it?

Let's give it to the man over here

who bet on Lopez.

Just protecting myself, man. It's ok.

You want to go for a ride?

Alright.

Call me later.

Hey, slim.

Get out of here Matt,

we need the business.

Hi.

You live around here, don't you?

About 50 feet out that back door.

Banana daiquiri please.

What are you doing in a bar

if you are trying not to drink?

Do you like making it hard on yourself?

Give me a coke.

Coming Matt.

Don't be nervous

I'm not nervous.

I guess I'm a little nervous.

I guess I want a drink.

And I want to hear you talk a little.

Before I do.

Are you ready to talk now?

We 90 up to your place?

- My place?

- Your place.

Ok

one more thing.

What's that?

Another banana daiquiri to go.

Please.

Where did you get my name?

God, you are so nosy.

This is it.

You are a cop, right?

Ex-cop.

Detective actually, sheriff's department.

And now you go around fixing things?

That's one way to put it.

No if it's a leaky faucet,

or requires a bail bondsman.

I'm real good at major felonies

including my own.

Well this is nothing like that.

I hear you have influence

with certain people.

And I want you to talk to them.

I'll pay you $5,000.

To talk?

To talk.

Do you know what I do?

Yeah, you are a hooker.

Yeah... you're right.

I got to go to the bathroom.

Sunny.

Hi, this is Matt...

Phone's ringing.

I am not at home right now.

Leave your name number and time you called

I'll get back to you...

I am here.

I'm here.

Daddy, what are you so mad about?

Oh, nothing honey, the phone.

It's a little late for you to be calling, isn't it'?

Give me a break, it's only 11:30 and

we don't have school tomorrow.

And what are you going to do?

Go riding with you.

- Oh geez. I won't, I mean I didn't...

- Matthew?

What time?

Could you come here a minute please?

How about 8 o'clock in the morning?

Matthew? How long has this been going on?

Matthew?

She sounds like a real wuss, daddy.

Yes, I know.

I mean...

- Honey, I'm gonna see you in the morning, alright?

- I love you.

Ok, I love you too...Bye bye.

What's the problem sunny?

Oh, no problem.

I want to show you something.

The street light makes my

p*ssy hair glow in the dark.

Cotton candy... the glow

I'll show you.

Not only you are a whore, you are a

dump whore. Here.

What in your experience

tells you a man is

more reliable because

he's going to f*** you?

Well that's just what I've always done...

Predictable is not reliable.

Stop-

whether it's for money or not, getting

f***ed is usually getting f***ed.

This whole thing is making me

very f***ing nervous sunny!

I want you to spit it out

or you are out the door.

You are out of here.

No, don't... please don't.

Please don't.

Level with me!

I promise, I'll tell you everything, ok?

I don't want to be a whore any more

and I am afraid to tell chance.

You have to talk to him for me.

He will listen to you.

You can tell him you love me

tell him you're crazy about me.

You can tell him that we

want to get married. Yes,

tell him we're going

to get married, please.

Come on, I'm gonna

call him on the phone.

No, you can't tell

him on the phone.

I'll go over there then,

come on, let's go.

No, I can't go over there,

I am scared of chance.

Please let me stay here.

It's safer for me, ok?

Let me get this straight,

are you giving me $2,500...?

So sunny doesn't have

to f*** for a living?

Pimps...

...have been known to do bad things to

girls who leave them, right?

Look man.

I pay all the girls around here a

base salary for showing up at my club.

I feed them.

I lease their cars.

I even have a trust fund set aside

in case something happens to one of them.

But all I paid them for is their

availability to my customers.

They pay me for absolutely nothing.

Now, sunny may be a high priced whore but..

...who, when and for how

much it's strictly her business.

Look, I'm sorry

Willie this is...

Hey, don't call me Willie

man, don't say you are sorry.

You don't have to be doing that.

Look man, I am not her pimp, I'm

nobody's pimp and if I was

a pimp I'd be the most

p*ssy-whipped pimp in this town.

No one pays me for the privilege

of being a whore. Anyone around

that wants to sell themselves

they do it strictly on their own.

Here.

It's alright man.

I hate money man.

If it's new, it cuts your

fingers, if it's old, it stinks.

- You heard that.

- Me and half the club.

- You got any maalox?

- No, you need compazine.

No, I want maalox, this

makes me too sleepy.

You stayed up late enough,

I'll handle things.

Mr scudder.

Look, she really said that

she was scared of me?

Yes, she indicated that.

Don't play with that, alright, put that

down, you know nothing about art.

Put it down.

It's expensive.

Well I guess what you do

to her, if she left I guess.

You know what she wanted me to tell you...

Forget it.

What? What, motherf***er

don't play with me.

She wanted me to tell you we were going

to get married.

You like that?

Thought you would.

I'll tell you what

I'll give you $2,500 to see you say that

with a straight face.

So, what do you want me to tell her?

Mr scudder, why don't you come with me

so Mr. Walker can have some rest now?

You are Pete rose around here, aren't you?

Who is Pete rose?

Baseball, he is a playing manager.

- I handle some of the business, yeah.

- Besides your own.

I need a hard 8.

Arrita, for good luck.

There it is. See you later?

- If you are lucky.

- I'm always lucky.

How are you doing?

You've had quite an education, haven't you?

Anyone who gets past the

age of 2 has an education.

Tram is here.

What is it with you?

What do you have against me?

It's been like this ever since we met.

I don't like cops

I'm an ex-cop.

Goodbye mr scudder.

Tell sunny she is no different

than the rest of us.

That was a long drive for nothing.

Don't you sleep?

Where did you get that'?

I found it in your the drawer as i

was looking for a shirt to put on.

He says you are free to go.

Can't you see through him? It's all an act.

He's gonna hurt me, I know it.

Well f*** you, I don't need you anyway

i can do this on my own.

Sunny.

Sunny.

Please.

Stay with me until I go on

the plane this afternoon.

Alright, I'll take you to the airport.

I got to pick up my daughter, take

her riding I'll be back at 12:00pm.

You got to take me with you.

Hi.

Thanks a lot.

You keep your airline ticket

in a safe deposit box, eh?

Sure, that way no one knows where

I'm going until the last minute

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