Disconnect Page #3

Synopsis: A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. A couple is drawn into a dangerous situation when their secrets are exposed online. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Henry Alex Rubin
Production: LD Entertainment
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2012
115 min
$1,400,000
Website
690 Views


It's like picking

your nose in the car

and you think

nobody's watching you.

And then they wonder

how in the world

someone got their

social security number.

JASON:
You done with this?

MIKE:
Yeah.

- Hey, Dad?

- What, babe?

You think maybe...

Maybe I could get an iPad?

My teacher said it would,

like, help with all my school work.

(LAUGHS)

Really? I told you

I fixed the screen

on your laptop.

It's up in my office.

You don't need an iPad, bud.

What's this thing with you rolling your

eyes every time I say something?

Wrap that up good.

Way to go, butterfingers.

No chicken salad for lunch.

And clean the floor.

And don't use the dish rag.

(MUSIC THUMPING IN HOUSE)

COLE:
Yeah,

so I got that same guy.

Keeps coming back on

with the lights turned off.

I can just see, like,

the shadow from his face on the thing.

It's, like, come on,

creeps me out. It's f***ed up.

MALE:
That's f***ed up.

What's up, Kyle?

KYLE:
Harvey,

this is Shane.

What's up, man?

He's that kid I met

at the skate park.

You hungry, Shane?

KYLE:
Dig in.

COLE:
He makes really

good f***ing spaghetti.

- Dig in.

- It's my thing, spaghetti. I make spaghetti.

COLE:
So, where you from?

Des Moines.

Yeah, you been on the streets?

Let the kid eat.

You know what

we do here, Shane?

How old are you?

SHANE:
Um, 15.

Let me ask you a question.

Do you jerk off?

Yeah? You wanna

get paid for it?

- That would be f***ing awesome.

- KYLE:
Good, man.

One rule, Shane.

Trust me,

no one else. Okay?

SHANE:
So, what am

I supposed to do?

MARIA:
Take off your pants.

Just look cute.

They're dying for you to take it all off.

Now, play with

the toys over there.

Guys talk to you all at once

and your goal is to get them to go private.

And how long does

it take for someone to be interested?

Look, he's already got 14

that want to go private.

Look, this freak

wants to go C2C.

C2C is kinda gross

'cause you have to look right at them.

But cam to cam costs more

so if they wanna do it, you gotta do it.

Okay. All right.

Who is this guy?

MumboJumbo27.

- You feel good?

- Yeah, I feel good.

You just gotta do it.

(BOTH EXCLAIMING)

One nil! Big f*** you!

F*** you.

Pick new teams.

All right. Let's do it again.

I'll beat you anyway, so...

- Dude. Holy sh*t.

- What?

- Oh, my God!

- He sent it.

I didn't think

he'd f***ing do it.

He did it! He's butt naked!

- Oh, my God! What the f***!

- He actually sent it.

He f***ing wrote "love slave"

on his leg with lipstick!

Oh, my God.

That is f***ing disgusting.

That's awesome.

It looks like a pink sausage!

This is so...

What, do you feel

sorry for him?

- No.

- Are you in love with him?

No, Frye.

Are you in wuv with him?

- Dude, stop.

- Are you in wuv with little Ben Boyd?

Gross, man!

I can feel your boner!

Okay, what I'd like

to tell people at this point is that...

I am not a marriage counselor.

I don't know what you two

know about each other, and that's okay.

I don't wanna know.

That being said, here's your CD

and a printed overview

of all suspicious activity.

Now, I think some

of your personal information

may have been retrieved with your

communications with fear&loathing.

What?

Who's fear&loathing?

It's just some guy.

He's in the chat room I go to.

All you would have

had to do was click on a link

or open an attachment from

him, and then he would've...

He would've installed

a Trojan virus onto your system.

Now, once he does this, he can do

anything he wants with your computer.

You log on, you punch in your

passwords, it comes up on his screen.

Everything you do, he can see.

He can turn on your camera.

He can watch you.

Who is fear&loathing?

Who's he?

How does he have my password?

Your password is your birthday.

And, Derek, gambling websites

are hacked all the time.

And you're also

corresponding with

the bank regarding

your second mortgage.

Wait, we don't have

a second mortgage.

Yeah.

And you received an e-mail

requesting additional information.

Now, banks would never ask for sensitive

information like that via email.

So, I think that's how he possibly got

your personal account numbers,

your social, your mother's maiden

name and all that other stuff.

Who is this guy?

What's his name?

The name I came up with

is Stephen Schumacher.

He's from Oakdale, PA.

- He told me his name was Finn.

- Yeah.

What I need to do now

is find proof. And then once I do that,

I need to contact the local PD in

Oakdale and bring them into it.

What kind of proof?

Bank receipts,

credit card statements.

If he makes any

large transaction, it could nail him.

All right.

And how long will that take?

Could take three weeks.

Could take three months.

We don't have three months.

The cops couldn't do

sh*t for us, that's why we hired you.

I understand that,

but it's just not that easy, Derek.

- You have to be patient.

- I'm patient. My bank's not patient.

I understand that,

but these people

use mail drops,

they use PO boxes.

They open an account one day,

they close it the next.

DEREK:
Well, if you'll

excuse me, I gotta get back to work.

Don't want to lose my job, too.

I'm sorry you had

to see all this.

No, no, no.

Don't be sorry. It's okay.

I'm sorry to say

that I'm used to it.

Take that.

You been doing this long?

Privately, like 6 years.

I was a cop for 20 years.

Computer crimes unit.

My wife passed away,

so I retired

to spend some more

time with my kid. So.

I'm sorry.

It's gonna be okay.

It's gonna be okay,

I promise you.

It's in there.

He's gonna see everything in there.

I didn't, wasn't

really doing... I just...

NINA:
You're just

going to look at me.

Okay.

You're gonna change

my voice for this, right?

NINA:
Yeah.

My mom's boyfriend was a drunk.

Rager with a wicked left hook.

So, how did you end up here?

I met this guy at the mall.

He told me he could help me out,

give me a place to stay.

And then I got there and there were other

kids. It was just kind of chill.

He's really not a bad guy.

So, how does it work

in the house?

You know, some people

have built-in cameras on their laptops,

some have just webcams.

All of our stuff

is kinda streamed

through a site

that hosts everything.

And then they kinda,

like, take out a commission, I guess,

then just send us our checks.

I don't know, I mean, the younger you

look, then the more you make.

And what happens

when you outgrow it?

When you get older and you're too

old to bring in enough customers?

Um...

Do you think that

you'll do this forever?

I don't know.

I haven't really...

I haven't really

thought about that.

That's the guy!

Love slave!

STUDENTS:
(CHANTING)

Love slave! Love slave!

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

LYDIA:
Ben?

Hey.

You're home so early.

Is everything all right?

Yeah.

No band?

Canceled.

What are you doing?

Homework.

You okay, sweetie?

Yeah. I have a lot

of stuff to do.

All right.

Okay.

Why didn't you tell me money was

so tight with the second mortgage?

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