Don Jon Page #4

Synopsis: Jon Martello objectifies everything in his life: his apartment, his car, his family, his church, and, of course, women. His buddies even call him Don Jon because of his ability to pull "10s" every weekend without fail. Yet even the finest flings don't compare to the transcendent bliss he achieves alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Dissatisfied, he embarks on a journey to find a more gratifying sex life, but ends up learning larger lessons of life and love through relationships with two very different women.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Production: Relativity Media
  2 wins & 27 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
2013
90 min
Website
8,087 Views


Right. 'Cause f***ing losers watch porn,

guys that can't get laid.

Well, no. My friends' boyfriends are

watching porno on the Internet all the time,

- it's f***ing disgusting.

- It's stupid is what that is.

Why would they watch porn

when they can get with a real girl?

- So you don't do that normally?

- No.

When was the last time you did that

before this?

I don't even know.

When I was a kid or something.

You're never gonna do it again?

No. Why would I?

- Promise?

- I promise.

Baby...

I love you.

Come here.

It's not that I can't stop.

I just figure, why should I?

I mean, my girlfriend doesn't like it.

So she doesn't have to know about it.

It's not like I'm cheating on her.

I don't do it when she's around.

And everything's fine.

She has been spending a lot of time

at my place, though. So I looked into it.

And it's pretty amazing how easy it is

to get porn on-the-go these days.

So...

Excuse me? Sorry, were you on your

phone?

No.

- I'm Esther.

- Good to meet you.

- What's your name?

- Jon.

- I hope I'm not bothering you.

- No, it's fine.

I just wanted to apologize.

I don't know if you remember,

you caught me in a kind

of an inopportune moment last week.

- When I was sobbing by the door?

- Oh! Yeah, sorry, I'm sorry about that.

Please, don't. Please, don't you apologize.

You didn't do anything wrong.

- I felt like I should say something.

- OK. Well...

Because I've been thinking about it,

a lot actually, and I realized that,

you know, nobody's seen me

like that in, like, six months,

- and it's not like it's a rare...

- Good evening, everyone.

...a rare occurrence,

I mean, I do that all the time,

I'm crying all the time. It's just

something that I do in private now.

On the one hand,

you go there when you go there.

On the other hand, it's really f***ed up

to keep it hidden, right?

That's what became clear to me

when you startled me.

You didn't, you didn't mean

to startle me, you walked by,

but I just...

so I wanted to say thank you.

Were you... I'm sorry, this might be rude,

but were you watching

people f***ing on your phone?

- What? No!

- It's OK if you were. I'm not judging you.

- Lady, I'm just here to take this class.

- Did you just call me "lady"?

So you take care.

Oh, yeah. Sorry. Say no more.

- I'm sorry.

- No, it's fine.

What, are you f***ing kidding me?!

You're f***ing kidding me, right?!

- Baby!

- What?

I feel like I should leave my jacket

in the car. Maybe not. Should I bring it?

- Yeah, whatever you want.

- Oh...

- I'm nervous. That's all.

- Why you nervous?

- I don't know...

- You got nothing to be nervous about.

You look beautiful.

God, you look beautiful.

Oh.

- Are you ready? Go ahead.

- Yeah. All right.

- Hi, Mom.

- Hi.

Oh, hello, hello! You must be Barbara.

- Hi, Mrs. Martello. Here, for you.

- Thank you, and please call me Angie.

Come in, come in. Jon! Jonny's here!

Come say hello to your son!

- Please.

- Let me get by you there, babe.

Dad? I would like you to meet Barbara.

Baby, this is my dad.

- Hi, Mr. Martello.

- Hey, good to meet you.

- Jesus Christ!

- Jon!

Oh, I... I wasn't expecting such

a lovely lady, that's all.

Thank you. It's so nice

to finally meet you both.

My pleasure, my pleasure.

Well, please sit down

and I will be right back.

- Can I help you with anything at all?

- Oh! I love her already.

- Yes, please, sweetie, come on.

- You want me to take that, babe?

- Hey, hey, Jonny-boy!

- She's cute, right?

Are you f***ing kidding me?

You didn't tell me you were bringing home

- a piece of ass like that!

- I told you she was the most beautiful thing

- I've ever seen in my life.

- Yeah, you told me, but I mean,

Jesus Christ, those tits! They're real?

- Yeah, they're real.

- Oh! F*** me!

- Did you clear the table?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here, here, honey.

Let me move this here,

so you can put that right there.

- Right here?

- Right there. That's perfect.

So tell me. Tell me, how did

it go?

I was out with some girlfriends.

We went to see some band.

Back then you used to see bands

when you went out.

- Honey, what band was it?

- You think I remember?

It was 28 years ago,

and I didn't even give a sh*t then.

Anyway, I saw him early in the night,

I don't know if he saw me till later,

but I saw him.

And I saw her, you couldn't miss her.

- She was like you.

- Thank you.

- You know what I said?

- Listen to this.

I said right then,

right when I saw her, I said...

..."That's mine."

- Oh, God.

- Yup. And he was right.

Can you... Well, that's beautiful.

- Oh! Big play! Look at that!

- OK, Jon.

- All right, Dad.

- All right, yeah.

- Good job, big guy.

- Sweetie, so nice to meet you.

- Bye, Mr. Martello.

- Please call me Jon.

OK, Mom.

- All right, babe?

- Oh! Bye.

- Bye-bye.

- Bye.

- Bye-bye.

- Drive safe.

- I love her! I love her!

- Pretty good, huh? Not bad at all.

In the name of the Father, the Son

and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

- Amen. Bless you, my son.

- Forgive me, Father, forl have sinned.

It has been one week

since my last confession.

Tell me your sins.

Since last Sunday, I had sexual

intercourse out of wedlock seven times.

But... I stopped watching porn.

Yeah, no more of that,

just the intercourse now.

So...

For these and all the sins of my life,

I am sorry.

- Five Lord's Prayers and five Hail Marys.

- Thank you, Father.

Through the ministry of

the Church,

may God give you pardon and peace,

and I absolve you from your sins

in the name of the Father, of the Son

- and the Holy Spirit.

- Amen.

Very good. OK, when we

come back,

we'll go over employee personality testing.

Go ahead, take a break.

- Hi. Mind if I sit down?

- You know, actually, I...

- I brought you something.

- You what?

- What's that?

- Open it.

- I don't want to take that from you.

- No, no, open it.

It's something silly.

It's a little thing. Go ahead.

All right. I'll open it.

- What the f*** is this?

- It's actually pretty good.

- What is the matter with you?

- Have you seen it?

- Are you crazy?

- It was made by this Danish woman

in the '70s. It's probably not what you're

used to looking at, but it's pretty hot.

OK. Look, I have a girlfriend, all right?

So...

I'm sorry, did you think I was

hitting on you? Because I'm not.

Will you just take this?

I didn't mean for it to be a big thing.

I thought you could use something better

than that sh*t you're

watching on your phone.

Am I right?

If you have a girlfriend,

why are you watching dirty movies?

- What?

- I'm just asking.

- You're f***ing weird, you know that?

- I don't entirely disagree,

but you're the one who's gonna

pretend you're texting

while you watch people pretend

they're f***ing on your phone!

The sh*t I watch on here,

they're not pretending.

Of course they are.

Forgive us

our trespasses...

...as we forgive those...

who trespass against us...

...and lead us not... into temptation...

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (; born February 17, 1981) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, and entrepreneur. As a child, Gordon-Levitt appeared in the films A River Runs Through It, Angels in the Outfield, and 10 Things I Hate About You, and as Tommy Solomon in the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun. He took a break from acting to study at Columbia University, but dropped out in 2004 to pursue acting again. He has since starred in (500) Days of Summer, Inception, Hesher, 50/50, Premium Rush, The Dark Knight Rises, Brick, Looper, The Lookout, Manic, Lincoln, Mysterious Skin, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. He portrayed Philippe Petit in the Robert Zemeckis-directed film The Walk (2015), and whistleblower Edward Snowden in the Oliver Stone film Snowden (2016). For his leading performances in (500) Days of Summer and 50/50, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Gordon-Levitt also founded the online production company hitRECord in 2004 and has hosted his own TV series, HitRecord on TV, since January 2014, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Social TV Experience in the same year. In 2013, Gordon-Levitt made his feature film directing and screenwriting debut with Don Jon, in which he also stars. He previously directed and edited two short films, both of which were released in 2010: Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny and Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo. more…

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