8 Million Ways to Die Page #3

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
439 Views


what's the problem?

Nothing.

I just thought I recognised that guy.

Hey, this is your bank.

Right.

God, I'm so paranoid.

I'll be back in a sec, ok?

Ok.

Sunny

I'm going to the shop next door to buy my

daughter a birthday present.

Ok...L'll be right back.

Excuse me.

Do you got any English riding boots

for girls, size 6, in black'?

Let me check for you.

I'm in kind of a hurry.

Sunny?

Sh*t!

You stupid son of a b*tch.

You don't know what the f*** is going on?

He's gonna hurt me, I know it.

You do it right or you don't do it.

You are a cop or something?

I will pay you $5,000.

Help me.

Waking up is the hardest part.

F*** you I don't need you anyway.

I can do this on my own.

Nurse.

How long have I been here?

I'm sorry, that's confidential information.

But I am the patient.

Those are the rules.

I don't even know how I got here.

Well, you didn't drive here,

that much I can tell you.

What's your name?

Scudder...

Scudder'?

What is the last day you

remember Mr. scudder?

The day before my daughter's birthday.

You don't expect me to

remember that I suppose.

Her birthday is the 3rd.

Anyway, they brought you

here the night of 6th.

You've been here 2 days Mr.

scudden

I've gotta sign out.

I think you better shake it

out a bit more before you go.

L got to go-

one more drink and wherever

it is you're going

you are gonna be dead

before you get there.

I'm sure you are right

but I got to sign out.

Yo.

You've come for your car.

You got my car?

Yes, I've parked it out back.

After you looked at your hooker friend.

I figured you wouldn't

be in a shape to drive.

Well you didn't prove me a liar.

You do remember what happened

to your hooker friend sunny?

Yeah.

I've saved you 96 bucks in impound fees.

Sorry.

I owe you.

Forget it.

Look just...

I'm a little pushed for time right now man...

What cha got goin'?

There's been a murder, remember?

You can't remember anything.

You f***ing lush!

- You are working in sunny's case?

- That's right.

You aren't homicide.

I'm an investigating officer and the

boys from the homicide want to talk..

...to somebody around here who

knows everybody including you.

Me why?

Maybe because you know chance

and he'd been into drugs.

Maybe because you told them

sunny was leaving town

because she was terrified of chance.

- Joey, this doesn't make any sense man.

- Homicide.

All other investigations around here

take a dump.

Homicide comes in, takes a good look at you,

they got nothing good to say about us.

There is a dead body.

An ex-cop who's a friend of a pimp who

works an after hours club.

Geez, fellows, nothing looks too good

around here so we are eating sh*t.

Out.

See you Joey.

I just don't have time for you Matt.

Hello.

Hi, can I speak to Laurie?

Laurie doesn't want to speak to you.

Ls she there?

You were supposed to see her

last weekend.

What are you talking about?

Poboys market, Jaime speaking.

Poboys market, Jaime speaking.

What the f*** are you doing

with those logs, pendejo?

Put them in the back by the leftovers of the

Christmas decorations.

You say you don't want them to be sold.

No, what I said is that there is no

f***ing way I'm going to sell them.

In a neighborhood where

i can't make a profit.

So Jaime please take

them and stack them

over here where they will

be out of the way, ok?

Ok.

I hear what you're saying man

but Mr. chance wants all the paper.

God damn, scudder man!

What the hell is wrong with you?

Put the gun away, I don't

want any mistakes.

Put it away.

Damn man, you look like sh*t.

I feel like sh*t.

Hey look, why don't you sit

down and talk, alright?

You are not going to

throw up, are you?

I might

sh*t.

Damn, man.

What are you doing here?

What are you doing here?

This is my store.

This is your store?

This is my store.

What do you have to say for yourself?

- What do you mean?

- What do you mean what do I mean, man?

Whatever the f*** you

told homicide, man

had them jumpin up and out of my black ass

for five and a half f***ing hours.

I was in samsonite luggage they

were making a living doing

what they do best, what do

you mean what do I mean?

I don't know what I told homicide.

Sunny got killed, I got drunk

i blacked out.

You blacked out.

So in other words, you could have

said anything about me, right?

Not anything, I am an

alcoholic, I'm not a liar.

You took sunny's money

man, what the f*** for?

Everybody who knows me knows better man.

That woman wasn't worried

about me for a second you

were going around making

smoke without a fire.

She was scared.

She wasn't scared of me, man.

B*tch.

F*** me man.

Scudder god dammit man!

All I can tell you she told me

she was scared of you,

I told that the homicide and you

are a suspect motherf***er.

- The suspect, motherf***er.

- And so am I.

Now are we going to continue with

this adversarial relationship?

Or are you going to help me

find why she was scared?

Don't give me any

problems, will you.

F***.

What the f*** do you

want from me man?

I want you to tell me who

was closest to sunny

Sarah was.

And she knows who was.

I'll have Sarah call you

better yet, I'll call her for you, alright?

Do me a favor, get the f*** out of my car.

You got a lot of hispanics working here.

So what man? You work for immigration now?

Checking green cards'?

Let's go big man.

Get Sarah on the phone.

You are using this place as your laundry

or you are going legit?

What do you think?

I haven't got long.

- All you girls live here?

- I do.

What regular customers liked sunny?

They all did.

Any that...

Thank you very much Sarah.

Bye teach.

Any she liked?

Not a one.

Did she see any other customers

with regularity?

That's a different question.

Who did she see?

Mort silverstein,

Victor zern, art margota.

If you knew sunny at all,

you had to know she was

a natural born victim.

I mean, some guy would want to tie her

up hang her outside the window upside down

and toss marmalade on her bottom.

Somebody asked her to do that?

I'm giving an example

she'd come to me and say "gee, Sarah, do I have to?"

And I would toss the guy out.

You meaning you?

Me or whatever.

Chance doesn't bet with his ass or mine.

That's why we get along.

If even smells a problem with a customer

they are out of here.

What would you call a problem?

Cheating, drugs, violence.

Is that it?

Sarah, you know what happened to sunny...

...can happen to any of you girls.

- I really don't think so.

- You don't -no, I don't.

Why not?

Because none of the other girls

have you protecting them, mr scudder.

And by the way, I think you're f***ing

freeloader, a lush and you got sunny killed.

What about angel maldonado

what about him?

Did she see him, was she seeing him?

No, angel's expressed interest seems

to be in me.

Look, sunny may have seen him, alright?

But that must have been a long time ago.

Why don't you ask angel'?

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