Dean Page #3

Synopsis: A comedy about loss, grief, and the redemptive power of love. Dean is a NY illustrator who falls hard for an LA woman while trying to prevent his father from selling the family home in the wake of his mother's death.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Demetri Martin
Production: CBS Films
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
64%
PG-13
Year:
2016
94 min
$248,849
Website
133 Views


and some from ad age,

digital age, digital ad age.

- - Oh, uh-oh.

Wow.

This is great.

That moment you land

a huge account.

- Congrats. That's awesome.

- Thank you so much.

Yeah, it's a blessing.

So let me cut to the chase.

We like your drawings.

They're, um...

They're simple.

- It's like a kid did them.

- It's insane.

Yeah, and we want to use

your drawings

for this new viral campaign

that we've got.

- It's body spray.

- It's gonna be epic.

Directly targeted at tween boys.

We're gonna use your drawings

for our hero, so to speak,

although he's definitely

not a hero.

- He's a nerd.

- Total loser, you know?

No friends at all,

spends all his time alone,

just drawing in his little

notebook or whatever.

He's got his dick in his hand.

Yeah, but then check this out.

With the help

of blade boy body spray...

- Mm-hmm. - ...He gets

all these "shorties"

on his jock like flies on sh*t,

and he absolutely

transformifies,

and so do his doodles.

We already hired

this other dope artist

for those drawings

that he was talking about,

- so that...

- Yeah, he's gonna do sort of,

- the badass ones, when, like...

- Uh-huh.

The transformation

takes place, okay?

He's from Japan.

And those are gonna be insane.

They're awesome.

We already

locked him up for those.

Can you guys just...

Excuse me for a second?

Just for one second, thanks.

Thank you.

- Thanks. I'm sorry.

- What's up?

All right, well,

we'll just copy his style.

Cool. I'll just get Nick

to do it.

- That's chill.

- All right.

First voice message.

Dean, what up?

It's, uh, Eric.

Love that you're in L.A.,

I can't hang out tonight

'cause I'm doing something

with my roommate Nicholas,

but I can definitely

hang out tomorrow night,

and we definitely should.

Love you, dude.

I don't know why I said love...

Next message.

Hey, man, it's Paul.

Uh, got your message.

I'm out of town, unfortunately,

but let me know next time

you're in L.A.

Next saved message.

Hey, honey, it's mom.

I love the drawings you sent,

and I know that

it's a lot of work,

but you'll get it done.

Call me if you need

a pep talk, okay?

I miss you. Bye.

Message saved.

Hey, Dean.

Blast from the past.

It's Becca.

I'm sorry I missed your call.

I just got out of

a pretty intense audition.

Give me a ring.

I'm so sorry to hear about

you and Michelle.

- That sucks.

- Yeah, thanks.

That sucks, but I actually...

I totally relate to that.

I'm actually kind of

going through something

kind of similar.

I'm, like, still in

the middle of it, actually.

But not to name any names,

but give you a hint,

he's starring on a, like,

a ridiculously popular

vampire series.

Well, that narrows it down

quite a bit.

It's, like,

all the rage right now.

Vampires are so in,

and I just don't get it.

It's like, I would pick

mummies if I had my way.

Yeah, he likes to, uh...

He likes to play with people,

but me, you know, I don't...

I don't play.

Never.

Do you like vampires?

- Uh, no.

- Okay.

Needless to say, it's

been a whole shitload of drama,

but, you know,

I think I've found something

that is pretty amazing for me.

- Oh, yeah?

- Improv.

- Comedy.

- Ah.

- Improv comedy. Yeah.

- Right, that kind, yeah.

Improv comedy.

- Oh, yeah.

- It's like, um,

where you make stuff

up off the top of your head

and just, like, say sh*t

for no reason.

- It's amazing.

- Yeah.

"Yes, and," is, like, the...

The philosophy, you know?

And it's starting to,

like, open me up

in auditions a lot, and also...

I feel more open, like, in life.

- Mmm.

- You know?

- I don't know if you can tell how different I am?

- Oh, yeah.

I was gonna say back there

you're very spontaneous.

Yes. Yes, exactly.

And also my hair.

My hair's also different.

Yes, and lighter.

I just made it darker, actually.

- There she is.

- Oh, hey, Vagsicles.

I am what I eat.

- He said as he quivered.

- Oh, god.

These guys are in

my improv troupe.

- Yeah, yeah.

- Guys, this is Dean.

- Hey.

- Dean the Dean

of the university

of first names.

Look at his face.

- Oh...

- You do have, like,

- a funny look, man, like...

- Funny in, like, a good way.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, it's good.

- It's, like, a hilarious face.

- It is.

- Thank you.

- Yeah, it would work good

- on stage, I think.

- Hmm.

Fine.

- Get out of here.

- We reserved this.

- We reserved it for an hour.

- Get out of here.

- Hey, there.

- Hi.

Hi. Are you okay?

Oh, yeah, I'm fine.

Are you talking about that?

- Uh, yeah.

- No, I just tripped.

- It's no big deal.

- No, don't underplay it.

You really ate it back there.

I saw the whole thing.

Well, thank you. I appreciate

you coming up to let me know.

- Mm-hmm.

- Thank you for...

Yeah, that was me.

No, I was feeling a little

too comfortable at the party,

and I saw you, so I figured,

"why don't I eat sh*t

in the kitchen?"

Oh, good save.

So how do you know Tony?

Uh, Tony?

The owner of the house.

Oh, uh, I saved his life

a while back

and then after that

we just kind of clicked.

Hmm.

- I'm Dean, by the way.

- Hi.

Hey.

Uh, Todd's outside, and

he's here with Jeremy.

- I got to go. Lovely meeting you.

- Oh, yeah, you, too.

Those guys are here,

so you should go.

Yeah.

- Hi.

- I'm poor. You're rich.

Where I'm falling, remember,

I saw your b*obs?

We saw y...

We both saw your b*obs.

- It was so good.

- I don't like you

saying that when there's other...

They didn't see my...

- This is a scene.

- We're doing scenes.

- We're doing improv.

- We're doing scenes.

Hey, you didn't have to leave.

Just...

Call me later, okay?

Bye.

- Hey.

- Hi.

- Hey.

- Hello.

You never told me your name.

Oh, well, it starts with an "n,"

and it ends with "icky."

Hmm. You're very cryptic,

like sudoku.

Yeah, I like to cultivate an

air of mystery around myself.

I do something

very similar with deodorant.

- Hmm.

- Not in a gross way.

I, you know, I don't need

to wear a lot of deodorant.

I don't, you know,

smell that bad or anything.

- Mmm.

- Good, nice, huh?

Which part of Brooklyn

are you from?

It's that obvious?

Yeah, you have a certain just-

off-the-subway quality to you.

Thank you.

You could just say immigrant.

It's cool.

That's not what I meant.

You don't look lobotomized like the

rest of the guys at this party.

Yeah, I saw a couple

walking head shots downstairs.

Um, so where'd you grow up?

- Nicky, we got to go.

- Oh, okay.

Uh, Dean, this is Jill.

Jill, Dean.

Jill, hey, my best friend

in high school was...

I'm sure it's a great story, but

we're late for a surprise party,

- so I'll just see you in the car?

- Okay.

- Okay.

- Well, you just told me, so...

Well, good luck

in L.A., Dean,

and watch out

for kitchen floors.

I will.

Hey, um, you want to, like,

trade emails or something?

I'm gonna be in town, I don't know,

just for a couple days, but...

- Why don't you just give me your number?

- Okay.

No, it's cool,

I got a pen and paper.

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Demetri Martin

Demetri Martin (born May 25, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, artist and musician. He is best known for his work as a stand-up comedian, being a contributor on The Daily Show and his Comedy Central show Important Things with Demetri Martin. In stand-up, he is known for his deadpan delivery. more…

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