At Any Price Page #5

Synopsis: In the competitive world of modern agriculture, ambitious Henry Whipple wants his rebellious son Dean to help expand his family's farming empire. However, Dean has his sights set on becoming a professional race car driver. When a high-stakes investigation into their business is exposed, father and son are pushed into an unexpected crisis that threatens the family's entire livelihood.
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Director(s): Ramin Bahrani
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
R
Year:
2012
105 min
$300,000
Website
121 Views


Let's kick rocks.

Irene. How long

were you gonna wait

before you told me

about the $15,000?

Cadence, this is addressed to Dean.

Will you run and give it to him?

Not sure he wants

any company.

I'm sure he does.

He's out at the second farm.

My son has always wanted to be a race

car driver and that was my money.

That was family money.

No, it's mine.

From my personal account,

so I used it for him.

Why can't you be happy with

what's right in front of you?

Need a hand?

No, kid.

I gotta do this myself.

All right, well, urn,

see you later.

See you later.

Aw.

Oh, my God. Ha-ha-ha.

I lost my shoe.

Hi, Dean, from base camp.

Headed for the summit.

Freezing winds and tons of snow.

Wish me luck.

Hope you're tearing up the tracks.

We'll race for beers at Archie's

when I get back.

Love you.

Grant.

Cadence brought these flowers.

Don't they look pretty?

Can you ask her

not to come anymore?

You're just tired.

I'm not tired, I'm thinking.

You need anything?

You wanna explain to me

what's going on?

I don't know

where I went wrong with Dean.

No, no, no, not Dean. Dean's a kid.

He'll bounce back.

I'm talking about the farm.

What about it?

I don't know what sh*t you're

trodding through with these agents,

but you better get out of it.

Don't you lose what my daddy started.

Dad, do you remember

when we had chickens and cattle?

No.

Oh, come on.

During the harvest,

kids would come over

and we'd bale hay on wagons.

Yes. Of course I remember.

I remember it was backbreaking work.

Things like this

wouldn't happen back then.

Those times, they were so simple.

Let me tell you what simple is.

It's a 48 row planter,

with air conditioning

that drives itself with GPS.

Oh, yeah, things are better now.

And how you got into this mess

is beyond me.

You better get off your ass

and make things right.

Do you hear me?

Yes, sir.

Welcome home, son. Found this baby

parked in the driveway this morning.

It's got your name on it.

The Dean Whipple

red mean machine.

Torgeson helped me find this thing.

It's got a 421 Chevy engine in it.

It's got a 350 turbo transmission.

It's got a Ford 9-inch

rear-end

and a whole bunch of other stuff I

don't even know anything about.

What do you think? You like it?

Thanks, Dad.

Could you take it back?

Take it back?

I thought that you and I

could work on this together.

No, I'm not racing anymore.

When you fall off a horse,

the best thing you do is get back on it.

Look, I politely asked you,

please take it back.

Hey.

Thanks, Morn.

You need anything else?

No, I'm good.

Those the guys

Granddad talked about?

I don't know.

Are you kidding me?

Hey, hey, let Dad handle it.

Hey, there. I wasn't

expecting you guys today.

- Surprise.

- What do you want'?

Dean, just go back inside.

Who is this?

Who am I?

Who the hell are you, a**hole?

- Watch your mouth.

- Hey.

You pushing us around?

We'll examine your invoices.

Have a warrant?

Mr. Whipple is aware of our rights.

We'll go inside

and we'll handle this...

They don't have a warrant. F*** them.

Whipple, ask this person to leave.

Dean, that's enough. Dean, go in...

Hey! Dean! Dean! Stop it!

Stop it!

This person

is telling you to take a hike.

What is wrong with you?

We can handle this

another time. Give me a call.

Handle it with no trouble.

- There's an easier way to do this.

- I haven't done anything wrong.

I don't know why we keep bending

over backwards for these a**holes.

Will you just calm down?

I'll handle this.

You can't do

things like that, Dean.

Come on.

Why?

I don't know, it's fun.

All right.

Sh*t.

Sh*t. Go, go, go.

Hey, come here.

Hey. You're a real gem,

you know that?

I'm gonna get the cops on you so

you can join your dad in jail.

Find your own boyfriend, old whore.

Cadence, come on.

I told him never

to come here.

Why am I getting calls from Meredith

saying you're tearing up her house?

I don't know. Ask her.

I want this to work out. I do.

If Meredith...

If she's telling you to f*** her

in a cornfield somewhere.

I don't want this to work out.

I don't need anybody to take care

of me or ask me where I am at night.

I'm not sad about it.

I don't think it's good anymore.

I didn't do anything wrong.

I got bigger holes in my shoes

to be dealing with.

Go fix your holes, then.

Wait. Do you even know

what's happening now?

Dad won't get a lawyer.

He's guilty of cleaning those seeds.

He didn't wanna tell you before your race.

Wait, what? Sorry, what?

He didn't wanna tell you

before your big race.

We'll lose everything.

I've got coffee in the microwave.

It's getting cold.

Cadence, wait.

It's Byron, isn't it?

Go help your dad out.

He loves you a lot.

Hi, Dean. What's up?

Call the agents off.

Hey.

Right now. You hear me?

Look, let's go talk

in the barn.

It's okay, dear.

Everything's all right.

Call Liberty,

tell them you made a mistake.

But I didn't...

Henry and I are both guilty.

If I reported him, I'd be in trouble too.

Well, who reported us'?

I don't know.

Who was it?

I don't know.

Tell me who it was!

Big farmers are very aggressive,

and your dad made a lot of enemies.

And there's this guy...

Jim Johnson.

It was Jim Johnson,

wasn't it?

What is it?

Dean knows. He just left my place.

Did he say where he was going?

Henry.

Oh, goddamn, Dean.

I know what he's going through.

If Grant was here...

Will you shut up about Grant!

Those days are gone.

I'm the one to blame.

It was me, Henry.

I've been a seed cleaner

my whole life.

Now my kids

have to send me money

so I can make it

through each month.

Well, why didn't you ask me?

I did.

I asked you for work, remember?

You wouldn't listen.

So you went and made a deal

with Liberty Seeds, is that it?

No.

I didn't report you.

Well, you just said...

Some guy came snooping around a few

weeks back and got to talking.

About you.

He offered me money.

Who?

Who was it? I just couldn't refuse.

Larry Brown.

What do you want, man?

Tell your dad to call off

the agents. Call them off!

What's your problem?

Call them off!

Come on!

Is that what it felt like

to lose ARCA, p*ssy?

Is that what it felt like

to lose?

Come on, get up! Get up!

Come on!

- Afternoon.

- Hi.

Heat getting to you?

Doing all right, thanks.

Hi, there.

Are you Larry Brown?

I thought I'd be too small for

a shark like you to remember.

Oh, I don't know

about that.

I'm Henry Whipple.

I know who you are.

"Whipple wants you."

Impossible not to smell

your sh*t from a mile away.

Uh, look, uh...

I just came over here

to talk things over with you.

You're in trouble,

aren't you?

Listen, Larry.

Uh, Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown.

I need you to call off

those Liberty agents.

You ruined me.

I don't even know

what I've done to you.

Well, let me

refresh your memory.

You bought my land

at the Pritchard's funeral.

I'd been renting that land

for 10 years.

Me. Larry Brown.

And you took it away

from me and my family.

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Ramin Bahrani

Ramin Bahrani (Persian: رامین بحرانی‎; born March 20, 1975) is an Iranian-American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert listed Bahrani's film Chop Shop as the 6th best film of the 2000s and hailed Bahrani as "the director of the decade." Bahrani was the recipient of the prestigious 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, and was the subject of several international retrospectives including the MoMA in New York City, Harvard University, and the La Rochelle Film Festival in France. Bahrani is a professor of film directing at Columbia University's Graduate Film Program in New York City. more…

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