American Heist

Synopsis: James (Hayden Christensen) owes his life to his older brother, Frankie (Adrien Brody) after taking the rap for a crime they committed together. While Frankie served time, James worked to turn his life around, got a steady job and began courting his former girlfriend Emily (Jordana Brewster). Now, Frankie is released and back on the streets with no money and no place to go. He turns to his underworld connections (Akon) and convinces James to join him in hopes that one last job will be the solution to change both their lives.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Sarik Andreasyan
Production: Lionsgate
 
IMDB:
5.1
Metacritic:
23
Rotten Tomatoes:
13%
R
Year:
2014
94 min
671 Views


Come on, come on, came on.

Francis Kelly!

Here you go. That's everything.

Yeah, that's my brother.

Hey, Frankie.

Frankie, see ya in a couple months.

Yeah, I'll pay your mom

a visit in the meantime.

- I'm a free motherf***er.

- Here he is.

What up, baby?

- What up, Frankie?

- What up, Sugar?

I'm a free motherf***er!

Oh, sh*t. You got my hat.

Yeah, Frankie's back, baby.

Frankie's back.

- Frankie's back. My man.

- What up'!

Come on, Frankie.

Come on, boy. You good.

Watch your head, hm.

Oh, sh*t. Oh, Ray, man.

This is your place, bro? Oh, man.

Yo, dude, this f***ing girl tonight, bro,

this f***ing p*ssy was like--

- Bro, what--

- Where's his brother?

Can somebody get that'!

James, grab the phone!

Lewis's Auto.

Yeah, I'm James Kelly.

Yeah, well, I thought it was

your mandate or whatever...

to support small business with loans.

Yeah, no, I understand.

Nah, man, I don't have a degree.

And I don't really

see how that matters much.

Yeah. Yeah, all right.

All right, all right.

Thanks for your time, man.

A**hole.

F***.

Hey, Joe! I got this one.

Emily.

James Kelly.

I thought you moved away after Katrina.

I did, but soon as I could get work,

I came back.

Oh, yeah? What do you do'!

Pm a dispatcher is: the NON).

Really?

- What, so you're like a cop or something'!

- No, I'm not a cop.

I'm a glorified operator.

That's cool.

You kind of disappeared.

Yeah, yeah. No, I know.

I went traveling.

I was traveling abroad for a little bit,

you know.

Really? 'Cause I thought maybe

you got abducted by aliens...

or started working for the CIA or,

I don't know, went to prison.

Actually, yes.

I used to be a secret agent for the CIA.

But on very top secret missions.

But that was a long time ago and

I don't want to talk about it anymore.

Come here for a second.

- You live nearby?

- Not far.

- Got a garage at your place?

- Sure.

Look, this...

this shop, it's, you know, too high priced.

If you want,

I could just fix your car at your place...

and you don't gotta pay me for my time.

I'll pass along new parts at cost

and I'll save you a couple bucks.

That is very sweet of you.

Least I could do.

So this guy goes to prison

and they lock him down in a cell.

Two-man room.

He looks in and he

sees there's a big 350-pound black guy...

just sitting there mean-muggin' him.

Black guy says, "Say, man

you wanna be the mama

or you wanna be the daddy?"

The guy says, "Excuse me?"

He said, "Did I stu-- stu-stutter,

motherf***er?"

I say, 'You wanna to be the mama

or you wanna the daddy?

Guy says, "Well, I'll be the daddy."

He said, "Fine. You the daddy."

Come over here and

suck on mama's dick.

Come on, Jim. Come on, man.

It's been 10 years.

You can do better than that, no?

You got some f***ing balls

showing up here, man.

What's the matter, Jimmy'!

I came to see you.

You didn't come to see me.

Whatever happened to me

and you against the world, huh'!

- You want to know what happened, Frankie?

- Yeah, what happened?

- You want to know what happened'!

- Yeah, what happened?

Yeah'! I'll tell you what happened.

You f***ing turned the world against me.

You still crying about that?

That's life, buddy. Sh*t ain't fair.

F***!

Hey, all right, all right, all right!

Don't act crazy, come on.

I'm sorry, man. I'm sorry!

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Ah, sh*t, Jimmy.

Sh*t, Frankie.

Let's go get a drink, huh'!

Come on, let's go grab a drink.

I can't tonight.

Tomorrow.

- You're prompt.

- I like to keep my appointments.

Not what I recall.

What happened to your eye'!

- Oh, it was just a--

- You know what? I--

All good, it's not my business.

So, I'm guessing you have tools'!

Yeah, yeah. In my car.

You got the keys?

Yeah.

It's very sweet of you to do this.

Really.

I think I owe you.

It's a long time ago, James.

I'll be inside if you need me.

All right.

How's it going out there?

It looks like someone put

sugar in your gas tank.

- You're kidding.

- No.

Probably just some bored kids.

You park in bad neighborhoods'!

I won't ever again.

Can you fix it'!

Yeah, yeah, sure.

It's fixable, it's just--

It was gummed up pretty bad, so

I'm gonna have to replace the fuel filter...

but we got a bunch of

those kicking around the shop...

and clean out your gas tank,

which will take me a bit of time.

But the worst part is

you're gonna need a new carburetor, so...

I'm gonna go back

and order one of those tonight.

Guess I'll see you tomorrow then.

Guess so.

All right, I'm gonna go lock up.

You have yourself a good night.

Okay, you, too.

Mr. Kelly, I'm afraid there's

been a misunderstanding.

This is not the type of loan

that's attractive to us right now.

Well, if you could

just take a look at what I got here.

You know,

you might find it a little interesting.

I've done the research and,

look, the area needs another auto shop.

All right?

This is my location right here.

There's like 10,000 cars

that go around this circle.

It's a prime spot.

It makes perfect sense.

Here, look. This is it right here,

and it's just sitting there empty.

I'm not looking for that much cash.

Just enough to cover

the rent for 7, 8 months

and then I'll start turning a profit.

And my business plan,

it's good, all right?

You just gotta take a look at it,

but I promise you--

Frankly, Mr. Kelly

we don't make small business

loans anymore.

All right.

Well, what the hell do you guys do'!

You know what'! Never mind,

all right'! I'm sorry.

It's just your Johnny-on-the-spot

with those overdraft fees.

Yo!

I can't believe this place

is still in business, man. Come here.

Yo, let me get another Jamison's. Two.

Two, for me and my brother.

My brother, huh'!

How you been, Jimmy'!

It's James now, all right?

People don't call me Jimmy no more.

Okay, James.

You all grown up now'!

Look, I know you're upset.

You got a right to be.

It's just, I figured all this time, you know'!

Yeah? What did you figure, Frankie?

What did you figure, man?

You'd come back and what?

I went to jail, Frankie.

Bro, you got off easy with

16 months. I did 10 years.

Every day I was in there

every f***ing day, Jimmy,

I thought about you, man.

I'm sorry, man.

I want to make amends.

- It's not so easy, Frankie.

- I know, I know.

I know.

Jimmy, I'm so proud of you,

bro, really.

I'm proud of you.

You're a f***ing good-looking kid.

I mean, I don't know who Mom f***ed,

but you lucked out.

You know how much

I bragged about you, man'!

Every f***ing cat in D block knew about

you blowing up these al-Oaeda niggas, man.

Everybody, dude.

You know what kind of street cred I got...

for having a brother

who knows how to blow sh*t up? Come on.

- The world forgets fast, Frankie.

- So we'll make 'em remember.

I got a solution.

You got a solution.

Frankie, I've changed, all right'!

- Jimmy, I've changed.

- Yeah, you've changed.

Yeah, I've done a lot of soul searching.

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