ATL Page #4

Synopsis: As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Chris Robinson
Production: Warner Bros.
  7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
PG-13
Year:
2006
105 min
$21,160,089
Website
11,802 Views


If you want a ride,

you better stay here with us.

But we just got here.

I'll take her.

Hey, twins, get your

little thieving asses down here!

Hurry up!

Out there stealing and sh*t!

Get your asses-!

Y'all's asses gonna go to jail, stealing!

Some dyke's gonna get ahold

of your asses!

And all that crying

don't mean a damn thing to me!

Your asses wasn't crying

when you were stealing.

Now you wanna cry.

Hurry up and get your asses in the trunk!

Kick your asses tonight.

New New.

What's so funny?

What kind of name is New New, anyway?

I'm New New...

...because I always

rock the new, new sh*t.

- Thank you.

- Yeah.

Heard you and your homegirls

don't buy none of that new, new sh*t.

Whatever.

Your parents ain't gonna be hot

about you coming home so late?

Boy, I am grown.

Your parents gonna be mad

that you out this late?

No.

Your parents don't care

about their little baby, Rashad?

My parents passed away...

...a few years back.

Car accident.

- I'm so sorry, Rashad.

- It's cool.

I think love is in the air.

Let me go to my request lines,

see if anybody's on.

- What's happening?

- Pull over there.

- How's everybody doing out there?

- Go ahead and give your shout out.

I just wanna send

a shout out to my boo...

...who's incarcerated, but I want him

to get some love right now.

- What we stop here for?

- I'll tell you what.

This one is going out to you, baby.

My bus come in like an hour, so...

Your bus?

Think I'm gonna stalk you

if I find out where you stay?

Maybe.

I mean, but- Like, for real, though...

...you ain't gotta hide nothing from me.

Ain't like I'm Donald Trump or somebody.

This is my song.

Don't play with me right now.

This is my jam.

What? Oh, yes, hey.

You like this song?

All right, go, girl, sing it. What?

How about we listen to it

and let them sing?

See, all that is unnecessary.

I'm just kidding, shorty.

- So how do I skate?

- What you mean?

You said you could tell a lot about a man

by the way he skate.

So how do I skate?

- I don't know.

- Just be real.

You... You all right.

You got a little style to you.

You real confident, you know.

I can't believe I'm even talking to you

and telling you this right now.

You special.

Special, huh?

I don't know about that.

I wish you could see what I see.

You ain't never had real barbecue

till you've had JJ's Rib Shack.

I don't know how you living.

How you living? You ain't had

nothing till Abdullah's Rib Shop.

I know he's a pro wrestler and everything,

but he can make some sauce.

Check that out, man.

Get the door.

Ain't you supposed to be in class, boy?

Man, bell's about to ring right now.

Man, what you rolling on, 24's?

No, see, that why you

need to be in class, boy. Them 28's.

- Where your ruler at?

- Man, I need to get myself one of these.

You do.

Come on, take a ride with your boy.

- For real?

- No, boy, for play-play. Come on.

Get some of this tuna, man.

- No carbs, bro.

- Cheesesteak.

- You scared of dogs?

- No.

Watch out now, boy!

What's up, boy?

You sure you ain't scared of dogs?

- No.

- Good, then.

It's feeding time. Come on.

Back up.

You go first.

Get back in there.

What's up?

Young buck, so what's shaking?

You got a broad?

No.

Jumping and stuff.

Hit that bowl right there.

Come here, baby.

Scare, come here.

Oh, man, look at that.

You put more food

on the ground than in the bowl.

You costing me money already.

How about kids?

Not that I know of.

You doing something?

- You know, a little something.

- Boy, you ain't doing nothing, boy.

You smoke? You smoke? You smoking?

I don't, but, you know, to each his own.

That's cool, boy. Say no to drugs.

Dare to be different.

So, what was your last

place of employment, young buck?

- Cleaning.

- Cleaning?

Look to me like the Swann Cleaning Service

about to lose an employee.

You wanna work, right?

But you know

this is grown-man business, don't you?

- I know.

- You sure?

Okay.

We gonna see.

- Hey.

- Yo.

Where you been?

Out.

Out? Come here.

I know you ain't been out there

being stupid.

- I'm telling you, Ant, I ain't playing.

- What?

"What?" Don't "what" me, man.

What's up with you missing history class?

That's what.

Man, you probably caught me

on bathroom break or something.

I look stupid?

Man, I'm saying, though...

...I don't see

how the Great Wall of China...

...helps me clean the floor

at Value Village.

Man, what, you hustling?

You should know better than that.

You ain't gotta be

a dope boy to have money.

This what cleaning the floors gets you.

I been saving this for three years now.

Ever since the accident.

- Been saving for what?

- For you.

So you can get out of here.

Do something with yourself.

Go to school.

Get away from dumb-ass Uncle George.

Man, you should spend that

on some rims...

...or skates or something.

Don't be wasting that on me.

I guess just because your head big,

that don't make you smart.

Hey, I believe in you, even when you

too stupid to believe in your damn self.

- What's the deal?

- What's up, man?

- Man, I hear you holding now.

- Man, who told you that?

Why you tripping?

I known you since third grade.

Yeah, but you been out of school

for four weeks.

Man, I had mono.

Come on, man, you holding or what?

- No.

- All right, that's what's up.

Narc.

Hey, Ben.

Oh, hey, Mr. Garnett.

Nice to see you again.

My buddies and I, we lost our fourth.

Afraid of a little weather.

You play?

That's my partner.

Oh, damn.

Yeah!

So your family's from the city, Ben?

You're not

a Mechanicsville hood product.

No, not me, sir.

You wouldn't catch me in a place like that.

That shot on 17 was about 200 yards.

Hell of a game, man.

We whipped their asses.

Yes, we did.

Oh, man.

Oh, no, no, sir.

- It was my pleasure.

- Oh, no, don't be silly. You earned it.

And if there's anything I can ever

do for you, you let me know.

Well, actually, there is something

you could help me out with.

Talk to me.

I could use a letter of recommendation.

And she had the nerve to step to me.

- She know she lucky too.

- Forget her.

The question is, what happened

when Rashad gave you a ride, nasty?

- "I'll take her. "

- Nothing happened.

- You lying.

- It's all in your grill.

That's him right there. Come on.

Men, grab your ladies.

Ladies, grab your weaves.

It's about to be on. Y'all got

three minutes till couples' skate...

...and four weeks till Skate Wars.

But until then, hold this.

Man, I got that good...

...the bad...

...and, man, the ugly herbal.

- I gotta smoke something.

- Hey.

Man, I don't understand

a word that you been saying.

What you want, man?

Well, well, well.

So we meet again.

What's up, gorgeous?

You tell me.

You're the one that's shining.

Oh, you know, that's how we do.

But you look mighty fine yourself.

Oh, thank you.

So do you wanna hook up or what?

Yeah, you know, like...

...if it set up all right.

You know, I be real-

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Tina Gordon Chism

Tina Gordon Chism is an African-American screenwriter and director. Her movies include Tyler Perry's Peeples, ATL and Drumline. Chism studied drama at Duke Ellington School for Performing Arts. She was inspired by The Cosby Show to tell stories of rich black families. HBO has green-lit a new series done by Chism called Crushed. more…

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