Criminal Activities Page #2

Synopsis: Pic is about four young guys who reunite at an ex-classmate's funeral. One mentions to the others inside information on a stock that is a guaranteed lock to make them instant millionaires. Unfortunately, the deal goes south along with their investment. Things go from bad to worse: one of them borrowed his share of the money from a mobster.
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2015
94 min
160 Views


under the table, he

put all the shares

in this account, in

this trust account,

under a fictitious name.

And now he's

starting to freak out

and he wants

to sell the shares.

What's he asking?

Two hundred grand. Cash.

Oh, is that all?

Yeah, why?

If what he says is

true about that stock,

it could be worth 10

times that tomorrow,

maybe even more, the

sky's the f***ing limit.

My rent check

clears this month,

my account holds a little

over 300 dollars, so.

Well, everything I got

is tied up in investments

right now, I'm not

really a liquid...

You know, I can't get my

hands on that type of cash.

Well, I could, I could get it.

You could get what?

The money. I can get it.

- You can get the money?

Sure.

How much of it?

I can get-

I can get all of it.

- Really?

- Yeah.

Want some more of this?

Thank you.

You know of

course, if everyone

wants in, we'd have to split

it four ways, you know?

That way we,

you know, would be,

equal partners, you know?

On principal

whatever you pay back,

plus some accrued interest,

but,

you know, this, I mean this

is how it works, right?

You know?

We can, like, be the

Four Amigos or something.

With business.

Oh, wait, it was three.

Four Musketeers.

Let's sign a treaty!

I like this!

It's a great tip.

I'm starting to

feel a sensation here.

This is Zach.

Warren, what's up?

What, no, I'm at work.

What?

What channel?

Hours after

the SEC seized hard drives

from its corporate offices,

its chief executive officer,

Peter Nelson, was apprehended.

It seems Bidexco, a startup

pharmaceutical company

was under heavy surveillance

by federal authorities

for the past six months.

It's unclear whether

Peter Nelson acted alone,

or if Bidexco's executives-

Yeah, Warren.

I think this means

our shares are

f***ing worthless!

F***! F***! F***!

F***! F***!

F***! F***! F***!

F***! F***!

F***! F***! F***! F***!

How many different

ways you want me

to say we got f***ed, Warren?

The stock has no value!

The CFO just got

arrested by the Feds!

You know what, I can't-

Hey, what?

What? Hey!

Jesus, what the f***'s

going on? Listen!

Listen, listen!

Hey. How ya doin'?

Hey, guys, I don't-

- Mike.

- Just-

Now, if you don't want

to repeat this exercise,

you'll keep your mouth shut,

and let me do the talking.

Let me be brief.

You and your partners borrowed

a substantial amount of

money from my benefactor.

And in light of recent

events, he's concerned

about getting paid back.

Which is understandable.

He wants a sit-down, tomorrow,

the Royale, three o'clock.

That's it.

Oh, and don't forget

to bring your buddies.

Little Mike.

Where is he?

F*** if I know!

He said three o'clock.

Are you sure he said three?

I'm pretty sure he said

three o'clock, Warren, yeah.

Considering I was thrown

in the back of a f***ing trunk.

Couldn't wear a nice shirt?

I just got off work.

If you need to borrow a f***ing

shirt, you can ask me.

I do not want to-

Are you sure he said he wanted

to talk to all of us?

Actually he said

he wanted to talk

to everyone but the black guy.

Yes!

He wants to talk to all of us!

Real f***ing cute, Zach.

Noah, what the f***

did you get us into?

Guys, you asked me to get

the f***ing money, I f***ing-

We thought you had

the f***ing money!

What the f*** are

you talking about?

Did you bury it with

your f***ing father?

Oh, gee, "Hey, Noah, thanks

for getting the money-

Shut the f*** up.

I swear to you...

Would you sit down?

Shut the f*** up!

Who did you borrow

this money from?

Hey, Eddie.

Paula, hold up there.

How you doin'?

It's not as bad as it looks.

What happened?

I, fell down

a flight of stairs.

Really?

You know how clumsy I am.

Still with the mechanic?

Eddie it was my fault, it was,

I screwed up,

it was all my fault.

I gotta get back to work.

- Okay, okay.

- Good seeing you, Eddie.

Yeah, you too.

They here?

They're here, at your table.

Yeah, that's him.

Oh, guys, I am so

sorry I'm late, traffic.

Ah, yes, kale shake.

Dehydrated cactus powder.

I'm training for a 5K.

Hello, Noah.

Mr. Lovato.

Eddie. Come on, we're in

business together.

I think it's appropriate to be

on a first-name

basis, don't you?

Yeah.

So, how are you?

Good?

Good.

You boys ever hear of the

seven rules of economics?

That's okay.

Basically there's seven

fundamental notions,

let's say, that reflect

how our economy operates.

There's scarcity,

there's subjectivity,

there's inequality,

competition, imperfection,

ignorance and complexity.

But I believe there are eight.

Luck.

Which as of yesterday morning,

you boys seem sh*t out of.

Because as of today,

you owe me 400 grand.

The number was 200.

Ah, you forget

the cost of money.

Which is a theory, another

basic fundamental rule.

With all due

respect, sir, we didn't

borrow the money

from you, Noah did.

Noah.

Are these your partners?

Yes, yes they are.

Well, then, you share

the debt equally.

- Mr. Lovato-

- No, Eddie. Eddie, please.

Eddie.

Can I ask you a

question, and I mean this

with all due respect.

Sure.

Are you, you know...?

Am I what?

Am I Italian? Yes.

What are you getting at?

Am I...?

- You know-

- Oh, am I this?

Noah, you borrowed money

from the f***ing mob?

It's one of your

New Year's resolutions, Noah,

become a complete

f***ing moron?

What do you mean

become a moron,

he's always been

a f***ing moron.

I am with ya, I swear, and

a guy I know referred me

and he borrowed money,

he had no problem.

- Noah.

Yes.

Did he pay it back?

Yes. Yes, he did.

Okay.

F***ing idiot!

Why am I the only one

catching blame here?

- Yell at Bryce's cousin!

- F***!

He didn't borrow money

from the f***ing mob!

Hey, hey, hey!

You guys.

Hey, hey, hey, calm down.

Relax.

Okay, all right,

this is the deal.

My sister's husband,

Buddy, that's his name,

not the brightest bulb

in the lamp store, okay?

He got a cocaine habit,

my sister didn't know it,

nobody knew.

And I don't blame

her, I mean, you know,

she's in love and she,

you know,

sometimes you don't

see the warning signs.

But this habit, you

know, it went from like

a few lines a week to

2,000 dollars a day.

And he runs a forklift, okay,

so he's not exactly

Warren Buffet.

Right?

So now he builds up a

hefty tab to the source,

who's tired of looking in

the mouth for his check,

and now the source is looking

to collect on what he's owed.

So, he kidnapped my niece.

And because of this

world-class degenerate,

in my opinion, my baby

niece's safe return

is of the utmost

importance to me,

is being held in

lieu of payment.

So why don't you

just pay off the debt?

Oh, normally that would be the

standard operating procedure.

This dealer, this f***ing,

Tyrone is his name.

Got a chip on his shoulder.

Now he wants Buddy

for my niece.

Okay, just to make

some sort of example.

The problem is,

Buddy is MIA,

which is

where you guys come in.

How?

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. His family, past and present, were important subjects in his poetry. Growing up in Boston also informed his poems, which were frequently set in Boston and the New England region. The literary scholar Paula Hayes believes that Lowell mythologized New England, particularly in his early work.Lowell stated, "The poets who most directly influenced me ... were Allen Tate, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams. An unlikely combination! ... but you can see that Bishop is a sort of bridge between Tate's formalism and Williams's informal art." Lowell was capable of writing both formal, metered verse as well as free verse; his verse in some poems from Life Studies and Notebook fell somewhere in between metered and free verse. After the publication of his 1959 book Life Studies, which won the 1960 National Book Award and "featured a new emphasis on intense, uninhibited discussion of personal, family, and psychological struggles," he was considered an important part of the confessional poetry movement. However, much of Lowell's work, which often combined the public with the personal, did not conform to a typical "confessional poetry" model. Instead, Lowell worked in a number of distinctive stylistic modes and forms over the course of his career.He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, where he served from 1947 until 1948. In addition to winning the National Book Award, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 and 1974, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award in 1947. He is "widely considered one of the most important American poets of the postwar era." His biographer Paul Mariani called him "the poet-historian of our time" and "the last of [America's] influential public poets." more…

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