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Synopsis: Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea, a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Har'el tells the story of three protagonists. The trials of Benny Parrish, a young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder whose troubled soul and vivid imagination create both suffering and joy for him and his complex and loving family. The story of CeeJay Thompson, a black teenager and aspiring football player who has taken refuge in Bombay Beach hoping to avoid the same fate of his cousin who was murdered by a gang of youths in Los Angeles; and that of Red, an ancient survivor, once an oil field worker, living on the fumes of whiskey, cigarettes and an irrepressible love of life. Together these portraits form a triptych of manhood in its various ages and guises, in a gently hypnotic style that questions
Director(s): Alma Har'el
Production: Focus World
  2 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
80 min
Website
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Even though it occurred in

August 2002,

after we have a heavy rain,

it uncovers a lot of

the ordnance

that has been covered

with dirt or buried.

Goddamn.

It hasn't gone off.

Well, we'll just put a block of

C4 on it and make it go bye-bye.

Ooh, look at the shrapnel.

I'm glad those people

are doing good.

They are now, they are.

They're--

they're doing great.

Hard to believe it's the same

Parrish Family, you know?

Pamela:
Sometimes I think,

what else can we do

with our family here?

Because there's nothing.

All we could do is go riding in

the desert, shoot guns.

But we can't do that anymore.

Child Protective Services

already took the kids twice,

so if they take them again

for the third time,

they told us that

we would never see them again.

girl:
How did Stephanie know

that CPS was here?

Sabrina told me that she saw 'em

at a house when he drove by,

and there were county cars

and the sheriffs.

And if they're

gonna take kids away,

there's gonna be

a sheriff there.

'Cause you can't-- they can't

take 'em without a sheriff.

- They had three sheriffs there.

- I know, so...

But you know what?

We're not doing

anything wrong.

And we're-- our house has been,

you know--

- Clean?

- Cleaned.

So, if they come, all you need

to do is tell 'em the truth.

- Or, just say...

- That you're happy.

You have a house.

You're not take--

You're taken care of.

Or just say...

"I'm begging you, I'm sorry."

"Please don't take me."

After we got back from prison

and we got the kids back,

I noticed Benjamin

was a little different than

the other children.

- This is my bunny, huh?

- Mm-hmm.

Because I'm a girl.

This is my backpack.

Funny, Mom.

I'm a girl.

I'll be back soon, Harry.

I can go to school, like,

playing nicely.

Yeah, you can.

I can say,

"Hello, pretty girl,

I love you."

Well, I don't know about that--

you can say hi.

Well, this ain't Halloween.

Pamela:
Bye.

What's this, Mommy?

- A bullet.

- Oh, that's a bullet.

Can I see it?

Can I have it?

Throw that over there,

okay?

- Can I throw it in the water?

- No.

- Because it will scare fish?

- It might.

Look at the wave.

I know,

they're beautiful, huh?

I'm gonna go in the wave.

I think they're gonna

be big this time.

- I'm gonna go in the big wave.

- Yeah.

I'm gonna take off my shoes,

I'm gonna go really far.

Yeah.

Well, you don't

have to hold me.

- You can watch, huh?

- Yep.

You can watch me.

- I won't drown.

- I won't let you drown.

- Because you will run quick.

- Yep.

I'm gonna be

swimming like a dolphin.

Dolphins don't go

in here, huh?

No, it's too salty,

I think they're in the ocean.

- Is this the ocean?

- No, it's just the sea.

Dead fish, I hate dead fish,

'cause if I step on 'em,

it will get inside my shoes,

inside my foot.

What kind of a fish would you be

if you could be a fish?

- A fish.

- What kind of fish?

Like a silly fish,

or purple, or...?

A happy fish.

A happy fish,

that's a good one.

I think I would be

a happy fish, too.

We've got fishes!

Where you going?

man:
The main thing I remember

is throwing up so hard

that there was nothing

left but bulimic acid.

Yeah.

I mean, I could just barely

force the water down.

Hydrochloric acid

is like, aah.

Oh, man.

Now that is a salad.

I baked 150 pork chops,

so I think we have enough.

Come here,

you smell real cute.

Well, you-- you better

be careful because--

You come here, come here now.

I-- I ain't gonna be sexy with

you, I just wanna smell you.

It's gonna cost you

a dollar a whiff.

Can-- hey, can I charge

a pack 'til the ninth?

It's when I get my money,

you know?

Well damnit,

if I charge cigarettes, I--

I know, blah, blah,

blah, blah, blah, blah.

Don't blah-blah me,

the hell with it.

Because goddamn, there's

too many that's owed me

and they still

owe me up today.

Yeah, but I don't do that.

Well, they didn't either,

they said, until they owed me.

Whatever, okay,

well, I-- you know, my...

man:
Hey.

Were you sitting there

for a long time?

Just for a cool minute.

You got bored or are you just

having fun throwing rocks

in the water?

- Like that?

- That was good.

Maybe it's just stuck

on something.

Maybe you just stuck

on being impatient.

What you wanna do

Fourth of July, Day-day?

Well, we could go to Calipat.

And do what?

What you wanna do?

I know what you wanna do.

Go mess around and pop

some fireworks.

I'm thinking 'bout some girls,

I'm talking some girls.

No, we gonna pop

some fireworks.

- Oh...

- Yeah.

Pop some cherries, you mean,

yeah, yeah, yeah...

My rocket is ready to launch.

Yeah, right.

How many cherries

you gonna pop?

Um, one, hopefully.

- One?

- Yeah.

That's your goal, that's all

you're goin' for?

Yeah.

Disappointment,

disappointment.

But I'm a virgin, so I have to

go for one good one.

Naw, you go for

six, seven, eight, nine.

Don't laugh like that.

Let me see it.

You can stop

looking at him.

All right.

- Why you do that?

- Ooh!

- Put it in the bucket.

- No, that little-bitty thing...

Okay, well, put it back in the

water, don't just let it die.

Oh, my God.

I hope you get hooked.

- Stupid.

- You're stupid.

You're the one

that walked past it.

Pick it up.

Don't kick it,

just pick it up.

See?

Now it's probably dead.

Happy?

- Ooh.

- Ooh.

B*tch, I like you,

but your attitude stank.

B*tch, I like you, but--

These stay fresh all day.

We in a recession.

You can use it when you

masturbatin' if you washin' it.

Get the beat, get the beat,

get the beat!

Hey!

Don't fall.

Sh*t!

I'm so fly, I'm so fly like

I say, it's the Fourth of July.

I'm so fly, I'm so fly, like I

say, it's the Fourth of July.

B*tch, I like you,

but your attitude stank.

B*tch I like you, but your

attitude stank.

Stank, stank, stank, stank.

Use this tonight.

I'm gonna lose my virginity...

You a virgin?

- You a virgin?

- Of course not.

Yeah?

All right, me and you are gonna

lose our virginity, watch.

You're gonna die

a virgin now, b*tch.

I'm tellin' you,

today's our day.

B*tch-ass nigga!

Oh, oh, oh, oh...

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Oh!

What's up with that girl you--

you-- you f***ed?

- Nothin'.

- You lost your V-Card?

Alls you need to know

is that it happened.

- Big tits?

- I-D-K.

- You didn't lick 'em?

- Naw.

- You didn't suck on 'em?

- She had her shirt on.

- Why didn't you take it off?

- Lame-O.

It was like a-- like a shirt,

like a big shirt on,

but she didn't have

nothing on up under it.

Sexy.

- So where'd you f*** her at?

- In the bathroom.

You didn't get in

the shower with her?

- Aw, nah.

- You didn't jump in?

Naw, she was like,

"Bring my bra."

And I brung her bra, she was

like, "Thank you."

I caught him in a lie,

I caught him in a lie there.

He said it, yeah,

didn't he-- didn't--

Yeah, he did,

you lie, you liar!

You didn't lose your

virginity!

Why, why you say that?

'Cause you just said,

"She had a long shirt on,

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