Donald Cried

Synopsis: With sudden passing of his grandmother, Peter Latang returns to his hometown and encounters his long lost, childhood friend, Donald Treebeck. What begins as a simple favor, turns into a long day's journey into the past.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Kris Avedisian
Production: Electric Chinoland
  8 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
NOT RATED
Year:
2016
85 min
$61,309
Website
15 Views


1

Yeah, keep going.

It's like three houses down,

and it's the...

Yeah, blue house

on the right, there.

- This one, here?

- Yeah. Yeah.

Hey, it's only 15 bucks, man,

don't worry about it.

We got to go back to the bus,

man, I gotta get my wallet.

Can you just take me back to

the bus station? I can't...

No, no, I can't do that.

I can't...

I can't take you all the way back there,

dude. Just don't worry about the 15 bucks.

I can't go, I got other fares, I

can't go all the way back there.

I understand that.

It's just...

There's no way that I can tell you

exactly what seat I was sitting in.

Do you understand? It was

probably like seven back.

Seven from the...

It was like the middle.

It's like the middle of the bus!

I don't even...

I, I don't know.

Peter Latang.

L-a-t-a-n-g.

How often do these kind of

things turn up? 'Cause I...

I just want to get... okay.

- Hi, Kristin.

- Hi, Peter, how are you?

Come on in.

Sorry about the walk.

Oh, it's okay.

Sorry about this sh*t hole,

this place is...

- This is not a sh*t hole.

- Well.

Believe me, I've seen

plenty of those.

Can I get something for you,

some coffee...

No, I'm fine. You know,

I got to run, so.

My phone's already on

the photo app.

So I'm just going to go through and

take some photos if that's okay.

- Yeah, that's great.

- Okay, great!

- That's great.

- Are these hardwoods,

are they all through the house?

Yeah, I think...

That's great! You know,

that's gonna really...

That would definitely up it.

And if you want

you can do an estate sale.

Oh, that must be a lot more work for you.

You don't need that.

I really don't mind, you know. It usually

helps with the cost of the cleaning.

Oh, you're in this shot so,

just, uh, look handsome.

Nice!

Uh, yeah, honestly,

the sooner we get this done,

the better.

I'd really like to be kinda

over with it, you know, like...

- Yeah, definitely.

- Yeah.

Um, all right, well,

how long are you in town for?

Just the night. I'm going back

tomorrow morning.

Oh, bummer!

If you could just sign here?

Okay.

And... yeah.

Yeah, that's great.

All right, well, thank you. And I will

call you if I have any questions.

How about that?

Yeah! Okay,

do you have my number?

Uh...

I have whatever number

you called me with.

Oh, yeah. Okay, all right.

Well, thank you so much, Peter.

Well, Kristin, thank you.

It was really...

A pleasure to meet you.

You don't remember me, do you?

Nah...

I'm tan Megan's youngest sister!

Ah, all right.

Mm-mm.

- Yeah.

- Okay!

I thought you'd remember me,

but you just totally didn't!

- No.

- Okay.

I'm super gay.

I'm just gonna...

I'm just gonna go, and, uh...

Yeah, ah, ah,

ah, ah, I'll just...

I'll just see you

later then, hopefully.

Okay. All right. Kristin...

- Yeah, you skipped one there.

- Yeah, yeah.

All right, all right, uh...

All right.

- Okay, bye.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- Great to see you. Bye.

Bye, Kristin.

No.

F***!

Hey, listen, Kenny. I really don't

want to waste your time, man.

I just... I'm in a real pinch.

I lost my wallet

right when I got here.

And I'm kind of f***ed!

And I was wondering if you

could possibly, uh, wire up

a couple, you know, like, you

know, 100 bucks or something?

Are you serious?

Oh, I hate to see you like super

polite to me for a second, bro.

I'm don't know why.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

That's okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is it?

What is it? What's up?

Uh... would that be possible?

Um... uh...

Uh...

No, today's not a good day.

I don't think so.

Here's the thing, man, I got

a bunch of stuff happening.

Oh, god.

I don't need you to do it

right now, I mean, really,

if you could come later,

it'd be fine.

I mean, I'm really,

really kinda stuck.

Listen, like I said,

it's just not a good day.

Like, any other day, man, I'd be

there for you in, like, a second.

Bro, like, you know,

you don't have any friends

or family there that

can help you out?

No, no, no, no, no.

There's not.

Yeah, I wish I could, man, but like

I said, it's just not a good day.

Okay.

Donald?

Can I help you?

It's Latang.

Pete?

Are you serious?

How you doing?

Oh, my god.

No!

No, it's not you!

It's not you.

Oh, my god!

Yes!

Yes!

Oh, my god.

Oh!

- How are you doing?

- What are you here for?

Oh!

Oh, my god.

Are you moving back here?

Tell me you're moving

back here, please.

I'm not.

- You're not?

- No, I'm...

I'm here for Nona's.

I'm just taking care of the affairs

and the house and everything.

Yeah.

I wasn't sure if you'd

be back for that or not.

I know, I know.

My family and everybody,

we're so sorry.

- That's very sweet...

- And you know in these times

how important it is,

the grieving process,

to have friends

and family around.

We would be here for you,

whatever you need.

- Yeah, okay, I appreciate that.

- All right?

- All right.

- Thank you.

I mean, what are we gonna do?

That's the question

we need to start asking ourselves

right now, what are we gonna do?

- What are we doing?

- Yeah.

I am...

I'm just still like...

Having such a hard time processing

this reality right now.

This is such a hard reality.

Do you feel like that

at all? Yeah?

Yeah, me too.

I'm kind of sensing it, yeah.

I was like, "who is this old guy

at my f***ing doorstep.

Who is this old guy?"

And you said your name and I

was just like, "oh, my god!"

I would have never have

recognized you, I mean,

you just look

so much different now.

- Mm. -Your skin just looks

tired and worn, and I just...

I just thought, like, when you left

you became, like, a bounty hunter

- or something like that. So

when you came back... -Oh?

Home, it would just be you

on this f***ing motorcycle,

cruising down the street

on a big hog with just...

And everybody, the whole neighborhood's

just coming out and you're f***ing like,

hair is just flowing,

your muscles are all f***ing jacked

up, you have weapons and everything.

Like, the craziest f***ing muscles

anyone has ever f***ing seen.

Just like the most oily, veiny,

strong... just muscles.

And your hair, like...

You obviously cut it, but,

imagine what your hair would look like.

You'd actually...

I just kept...

Yeah, I mean, seeing you now, you'd

look, if your hair was long still,

you'd kinda look like...

I don't know, like a

Jewish witch or something.

But I had pictured you

never cutting your hair.

And it just being like this long

hair that almost told a story

about where you've been.

Like, whoever you killed,

whatever bounties you collected,

you'd take a keepsake from them.

And, like, weave it

into your hair.

And, like, each kill you did

you would take a keepsake.

If you killed a father with like a

family, you'd take the baby's...

Like, something from the baby's

and weave it into your hair.

So your hair would

actually tell the story.

That's kind of how

I had pictured you coming back.

I get this must be pretty

disappointing then, I guess.

No, I mean...

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