Black Tar Road

Synopsis: BLACK TAR ROAD is a gritty, dark, love story between two women, Heather and Charlie, who meet at a desolate truck stop. Charlie McElroy (Amber Lee) is a drug mule, who mules drugs for an operation that is run out of an interstate truck stop. After Charlie hangs around town where she meets Heather Plath, (Noelle Messier) a hardened truck stop prostitute who's spent her life in the rural landscape. Few films are more despairing and yet, curiously, so hopeful as this one, which argues that even at the very end of the road, at the final extremity, we can find some solace in the offer and acceptance of love. These women fall in love with each other.
 
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3.6
Year:
2016
85 min
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- Everyone has a story.

I'm Heather, and this is mine.

- The lot is

pretty much where the truckers

kinda tend to hang out,

you know, it's a place

where they can stop over,

and they sleep when they're

on their long-night ride

and all that.

- Hey lady.

I saw you earlier today.

You still working commercial companies?

- I'm walkin'.

- Walkin'?

Woah, woah, woah, come

here, come here, come here.

Look, look, look, look.

Wanna party?

Come on in.

Atta girl, that's my girl.

That's my girl.

Think I'm some kinda

f*ggot or somethin', huh?

You're gonna f*** me, God dammit.

That's what I'm

just f***in' that a**hole, huh?

That's it.

F***in' that a**hole.

That's what you like.

That's what I like, isn't it?

I'm gonna come, f*** it.

F***in' b*tch, I'm gonna

come in your f***in' a**hole.

I don't know what time it is

And I

Don't even know the day

My eyes

Fill up with tears for you darlin'

You know

I still love you today

If, if

If only dreams came true

Then I

Would be back in your arms again

Yeah

If this were

Guessed it'd be too much for you baby

You know

- They don't care

that I'm not beautiful.

I don't even think they look at me.

That's not what I'm there for.

Most times, they don't even want me

to be f***in' naked.

Just hike up the skirt

and bend at the waist.

And they sure don't

want me to look at them.

Facin' them, or facin' away,

as long as I'm on my knees

and not meetin' their eyes,

it's money well-spent.

There's a poetry to pain.

It's in all the storybooks, songs, movies.

I've always f***in' hated that.

Pain is just somethin' that happens

while you live your life.

It doesn't make you special.

You do what you have to do to survive,

and if what you have to do sucks,

well, then it sucks.

There are no Prince Charmin's,

'cause at the end of the day,

every guy wants the same thing.

Property.

Something to show off to people,

to hang on his arm at parties and say,

look what the f*** I have.

Something he won, or earned, or paid for.

Property isn't supposed to feel or think.

It's just supposed to lay

there and be walked on.

The world is the world

and there's no point

f***in' hatin' it.

Wasted energy.

Same with dreaming.

But still, it would be nice to once,

just once, know that I

could look at someone,

and them at me,

and not still feel lonely.

- Yeah she was kind of a mystery,

and maybe that's part of

what intrigued me about her

in the first place, 'cause

she was so different

than everybody else in town.

Where did she come from?

And I knew, I knew she had a rough life,

I knew that she was probably

runnin' from somethin'.

I know somethin' real bad happened,

and I never talked

about it, I never asked.

I think, because, I

didn't wanna have to ask.

Funny thing to say.

You know, 'cause she's a

woman and all, but the thing

that women usually say about men,

like that they feel

protected and they feel safe,

there was somethin' about

Charlie that made me feel

safe with her, and made me feel protected.

- I'm here.

Yeah.

Long haul, yeah.

- So the last load is in.

- I dropped it at the back lot.

Yeah, back row.

Back row, yeah.

Lizard row, it's there.

- You know where you are, right?

Keep a low profile and don't,

don't do that sh*t that you always do

and start f***in' sh*t up.

- I'm not gonna f*** it up, God.

- You know how you f*** sh*t up.

Just don't do it.

- I know, I know, lay low.

Got it, I got it.

Look, I'll do the best I can.

- On more haul tomorrow, all right?

- Right.

I know, I'm doing a

turnaround in the morning.

I'm just layin' low tonight,

and tomorrow I'm off.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, that's my last one.

- The feds are bucklin'

down, so we're gonna,

we're gonna start runnin'

light after this one.

Don't bring any attention

to the operation.

- I just want my debt paid off, that's it.

Then I wanna be done.

We made the deal.

- Yeah.

I know.

- So you glad I'm back?

- Stupid b*tch.

- Charlie.

- Hey!

- Where the f*** you been?

- Hangin' out with my lower companions,

you know, the usual.

- Oh you mean, like truckers?

They're havin' a party

down the street, wanna go?

- I don't know, are you going?

- Of course.

I'll be there in some incapacity.

- All right.

F*** yeah, all right, I'll go.

I'll see you thee.

- Okay.

- Hey, so a lot's happened

since I saw you last.

- Oh my God, I know.

- Yeah, totally well,

after I found out he was bisexual,

I had him ride the Harley

and get the divorce papers.

Right?

- Right, I guess, yeah.

- What can I do, man?

Wanna ride?

Wanna ride on Sunday?

- Yeah, I gotta go to Texas.

- Okay.

- Next time.

- Okay, sure.

- Yeah, did you see

the tits on that b*tch?

- Hey.

What kind of Halloween costume is this?

What the hell is that anyway?

What the hell you supposed to be, anyway?

- Oh come on, that's the best you've got?

- Oh, I can do a lot better than that.

I got lots better.

- Good, I'm sure you do.

- I do.

Come on, let's have some fun.

Let's party.

- All right.

All right, I'll be right back.

- Oh, sorry.

- Hey.

Dude, I've been looking for you.

- I figured soon.

What are you looking for?

- Got Shiva?

- Yeah, I got your

black, how much do you want?

- Half piece?

- I got a half piece, 350?

- 320.

- F***.

Yeah, I'll do it tonight.

But that's it for that.

Be careful, it's strong.

- All right.

All right, good seein' ya.

- I'm just gonna go.

- Oh, what's wrong, buttercup?

- I don't feel good.

- You're okay, you just need

to walk it off, that's all.

Come on.

- But I just had that one.

- You're gonna be all right.

I got your hair.

That's all right.

You're all right.

- I feel better.

- Yeah, you feel real good right now.

- No, I feel good, I'm going.

- Hey, where are you goin'?

Hey, hey, come here.

You're not going anywhere.

- What?

No, no, no.

- The party is just beginning, honey.

Now you hold still.

- What are you doing?

Get off.

Don't!

- We're gonna have

a little fun right now.

- Get the f*** off of me!

Stop it!

- You b*tch!

You hit me?

You dare hit me?

You dare to hit me?

I'm gonna tear you up.

Woah, woah, woah.

All right now.

Hold on, take your finger off the trigger.

- F*** you.

- Come on, now.

- Yeah.

What now?

- I shot someone.

Ducky, I don't know what to do.

- You shot someone?

- What do I do?

- You know what?

This is how you don't bring attention

to the operation.

- Should I come over there?

- No, you cannot come here.

- I'll do the last haul.

- Yeah, you will do the last haul.

- Okay, well what do I do?

- You'll get the money,

and you'll send it here,

but don't call me ever again.

And you can start over wherever you want.

But do not contact me again.

- Okay, I'm hanging up.

- Charlie,

she had this dark spirit about her,

you know, it's like

when I think of a color,

I guess I'd think of black.

And she liked to wear black

all the time, and she had

black hair and black eyeliner,

black pants, black tank

tops, black shirts, you know.

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