Compliance Page #8

Synopsis: At a fast food restaurant, the manager, Sandra, is having a bad day. Suddenly, she gets a phone call from a man claiming to be a police officer who has a complaint that one of her young female employees has stolen from a customer. At the orders of this authoritative sounding stranger, Sandra takes the apparent accused, Becky, to a back room to search her before she is picked up. Once there, the phone scammer manipulates the gullible personnel into participating in Becky's sexual humiliation that grows more twisted with every new sucker on the phone. Only when one final person has the conscience to revolt do they realize the crime they were tricked into, which the real police are hard pressed to solve.
Director(s): Craig Zobel
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  7 wins & 34 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
R
Year:
2012
90 min
$318,622
Website
1,044 Views


No. I don't. Nobody does.

Would you agree with me

that you're disobeying?

You'd agree with me, right?

I guess. Yes, sir.

Good. Then you'd be right.

What used to happen

when you've been bad?

When you were a kid,

you'd get a spanking, right?

BECKY:
Okay.

Evan will have to spank you, right?

For being bad.

And then you can do

something nice for him.

Can you do that?

Can you take your punishment

and do something nice

for his assisting the police?

Yes, sir.

Good girl.

Now I want you to give him

back the phone.

It's Van.

Evan, you there?

Yes.

Okay, well, I talked to her, and she

understands she did something wrong,

and you're gonna need to spank her.

Can you do that?

- Yeah. I can do that.

- Okay.

But, hey, I don't want you

to just pat her, you know?

This isn't, uh, patty-cakes here.

I really want you to--

I want you to send a message

that this behavior will not be tolerated.

VAN:
All right.

Uh, hard and long,

for a really long time.

I don't want you to stop

until you know that you got

your message across.

Oh, and lay the phone real close,

real close so I can hear.

You want me to, um,

lay the phone on her back

so you can hear?

Yeah, that's an excellent idea.

Just--Yeah, lay the phone

right on her back.

All right.

All right, what?

All right...

sir.

Good.

Okay, and then we'll have her

do something...

really nice for you,

thank you for all your...

help and patience in this matter, okay?

- Mmmmm.

- You go ahead now.

So he says you have

to bend over my lap.

Come on.

Come on.

Come here.

[spanks]

[spanks]

[Spanking]

[Overlapping chatter]

[quietly] Here you go.

So what's going on

with the situation in back?

Just waiting for them to come.

What's Van doing?

He's guarding her till they get here,

just sitting back there.

Well, when it slows down out here,

you want me to go sit with her?

Maybe. We'll see.

Hi! Can I take your order?

[water trickling]

DANIELS:

What's going on, Evan?

Talk to me, buddy!

This doesn't work

unless you talk to me.

[door opens]

Tell me what's going on.

- SANDRA:
Hey, guys...

- Evan, you there?

I brought you something to eat.

What's going on in here?

Why aren't you on the phone?

Did he hang up?

Officer Daniels?

Sandra, hello there.

What's going on?

Is everything okay?

Sandra, we've exhausted your poor fianc

with all the waiting.

I think it's time

we let him go home.

Oh, yeah?

Why? Is there a problem?

No, no, he's been great, but, uh...

[whispering]

God damn it, what happened?

I don't think it's his fault.

He just hasn't been able

- to get all the information.

- I gotta go.

- SANDRA:
Could you hold on a second?

- Sure.

[Van breathing heavily]

Bye.

Aren't you gonna kiss me goodbye?

[Door opens]

Oh, hey, Harold.

What are you doing back?

I thought I'd stop in for one

of those frosted thingies.

[laughs] All right.

Ohh.

Oh, Harold. Harold, good.

Come with me.

[Breathing heavily]

Hey, man, can I come over?

I did a bad thing.

[distant siren wailing]

HAROLD:

What is all this now, ma'am?

Uh, Becky stole something,

and we have to watch her

until the police come.

Becky stole?

Yeah, Becky stole something,

and we had to strip-search her,

and the regional manager is involved,

and it's been a very hard day.

- Hello, Officer?

- Hello.

- I have Harold here with me.

- Mm-hmm.

- He normally works during the day.

- Hey, Becky.

Okay, so he's gonna watch Becky now?

- Yes, that's right.

- Okay.

Um, I'm gonna--

I'm gonna go out front,

see if I can call Van.

Okay, you do that.

He--He just, um--I just took--

He just took off, you know.

I don't know.

Well, thaw--

You know, that's your problem.

Right. Okay, well, here's--

Why don't you just let me talk to Harold

while you take care of that.

Okay. Here's Harold.

This is, uh, Officer Daniels.

He'll tell you whatever it is

you need to know.

Hello.

Is Becky still in the room?

She's right here. Where are you?

How is she dressed?

Heh. Pardon?

She still have on an apron?

That's right. Why?

Harold, first thing we're gonna

have to do is take that off.

She stole money,

and we're gonna need to find it.

- Mister...

- She hid it up her--

I don't know who you are,

but I don't think it's right to see

a lady like this in the buff.

Well, it's an investigation.

Harold, listen to me.

As an officer of the law,

I'm gonna need you to inspect her.

It's not your decision.

Well, I'll be damned if it isn't.

MARTI:
Hey, did you hear from him yet?

SANDRA:
I don't know what's going on.

Harold, what's--

What are you doing out here?

You're supposed to be in there with Becky.

That man's asking me

to do things that ain't right.

What?

He's asking me to take her apron off

and look at her--

- It ain't right...

- What are you talking about?

And it ain't policemanly.

- See?

- Shut up, Kevin.

Robbie? Hey, it's Sandra.

Sandra? From the South End store?

Yes, sir. I'm calling

about that theft situation.

I'm sorry. What happened?

Um, my employee that stole.

The officer said you'd been talking to him.

The police? What happened?

I-I've been sick all day.

I've got that thing going around.

You haven't been talking to Officer Daniels

on the other line?

I haven't talked to anybody today.

You're the first person I've talked to.

Is everything okay?

Should--Should I come in?

- Hey, you okay?

- SANDRA:
Who are you?

DANIELS:
Yes, I'll have

an original ChickWich,

and I'll have one of those

Frost Blenders. Um--

Ha! I'm just kidding, Sandra. It's me.

Its Officer Daniels, messing with ya.

[beep 1

MARTI:
Wait. He hung up?

[sets down phone]

Star-69.

[Police dispatch chatter]

[Radio chatter]

[siren blaring]

[siren stops]

[sirens approaching]

DETECTIVE:

Look, you must be exhausted.

We spoke to your parents.

They're gonna meet you,

and we can finish this

first thing in the morning, okay?

OFFICER:
Have you always

worked under Sandra?

MARTI:
She hired me.

[sniffles]

How would you describe her

as a boss?

She's nice.

Yeah? She usually look out

for her employees?

- 8 months, June 19--

- The backups for the whole system, huh?

Yeah, uh, and then, uh...

DETECTIVE:

One last question, though.

When they told you

you had to take your clothes off,

is there a reason

you didn't just say no?

BECKY:
I don't know.

I just knew it was gonna happen.

[Police dispatch chatter]

DANIELS:
Hi, sweetheart.

How are you?

- GIRL:
Hi!

- DANIELS:
What do you got there?

Here, let me take your coat off.

This is my bunny, Lovey.

I got it at my grandpa's house.

Oh, yeah?

You got it at grandpa's house?

Um, and do you know

how many pockets he has?

How many?

He--He has one pocket right here.

- Just one?

- Did you know Lovey

got married to a mermaid named Lydia?

DANIELS:
Oh, wow.

What the hell did they put in that chicken

made everyone lose their f***ing minds?

First thing we gotta do,

find the caller.

- Okay.

- All right. And...

my best guess is the grocery

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Roger Craig Zobel (born October 6, 1976) is an American film director of the films Compliance and Great World of Sound and who also co-founded Homestar Runner and Ron Planet. more…

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