Down by Law Page #5

Synopsis: DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn't commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the English language is both entertaining and infuriating. More useful to them is the fact that Roberto knows an escape route.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Jim Jarmusch
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  4 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
1986
107 min
3,157 Views


till we find out where the hell we are.

Right, Lieutenant.

Cool, cool. Yeah.

Hey, would you mind?

Scram.

Go, scram. Move.

Zack, do you like Robert Frost?

Not this again.

A Road Less Traveled by Bob Frost.

He was a very cynical man.

Robert Frost, in Italian?

Yes. I have read only

your poets in Italian.

Bob Frost.

Bob Frost.

In Italian.

Be careful, Jack! Watch out the trees.

The trees, a lot of trees.

- Be careful.

- Come on, shift.

- Come on, shift!

- Look out! Another trees.

Dangerous.

Watch out, I cannot swim.

Be careful!

Well, which way now?

Man, haven't we been here before?

Seems like we passed

this fork hours ago.

Man, it all looks the same to me.

I really can't tell.

We've been goin' around in circles, Jack.

Ragazzi! The boat! The boat!

The boat is finished.

- There's water in the boat.

- Bail! Bail!

- Go in the land! Go in the land!

- Move your leg.

- No!

- Move your leg.

Well, I don't know

which way to go now.

- What do you think, Jack?

- How the f*** should I know?

Yeah, well,

whatever you say, Jack.

Hey, where is he?

- What?

- Where's Bob?

I don't know, man.

He said something about food.

- Maybe the alligators got him.

- Hey, man, don't say that.

You know, we could

starve to death out here.

Aah, nah. This swamp can't

go on forever, man.

- We'll find something.

- Man, he's leading us the wrong way.

Who, Bob?

He ain't leading us.

Hey, man, you don't seem

to think I see what's going on.

You're leadin' us around in circles.

I'm not blind to this. You're f***in' us up.

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah.

That's right, man.

We're just gonna tire you out...

then we're going to

move in for the kill.

Then we're gonna have

Jack Romano for dinner.

Yeah, is that right,

you f***in' idiot?

C'mon! C'mon.

C'mon, man.

Stop! Stop, my friends!

Stop the fight! Stop!

My friends, stop! Stop.

I have catched the rabbit... dinner.

For dinner.

Huh?

F***, man. I'm goin' off by myself.

I'm better off alone. F***.

- S'all right with me, man.

- A rabbit. Very difficult to catch rabbit.

- Every man for himself.

- Zack! Jack!

I run half an hour for this rabbit...

very cunning rabbit.

Well, it's 46 degrees.

Slight breeze blowing

through some of our cypress trees...

that are blending in with

a lot of the smaller fir trees in the area.

Vegetation, well, I'd say off hand...

dates back to the Mesozoic period...

the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley,

the cradle of civilization.

Guy's a f***in' a**hole, man.

Sh*t.

I'm f***in' starvin' to death.

Man, my thing was cool, boy,

you know. I had my things goin', you know.

My last walk out was like,

''Hey, L.C., how you doin', man?''

Ohh... I'm sorry, baby. I didn't know

it was gonna be like that, man.

Jack, Zack?

Zack, Jack?

Jack?

Why do you leave me alone?

There is a very good...

very good rabbit.

I know a very good way to cook it.

My-My mother teached me.

My mother, Isolina.

The name of my mother.

With rosemarino,

rosemarino, olive oil, garlic...

and other secrets of the Isolina.

We're waiting right now for a check

on our general barometric pressure.

Then it's back to more music

with the Lee Baby Simms Show.

Didn't I tell that creep,

''She's not f***in' available.''

Right?

Shut up!

Before, she is very kind

with the rabbit.

She call the rabbit,

''Good rabbit''. I like this little rabbit.

The eyes of the ra... Ta!

Suddenly, the rabbit dead.

Very strange mother, my mother.

Very strange, yes.

My father, no. He's very strong,

but with the rabbit he is afraid.

My sister... I have one mother

and three sisters.

Bruna, Albertina, e Anna.

I had a picture of my mother

in my room,

smiling with the rabbit in her hand

and the other, so... Ha, ta.

Sometime I-I dream

of my mother that call me,

''Robertino, vieni qua.

Robertino, come on.''

''No, I don't want.''

''Come on. Come on.''

Ta! Una bota in my neck.

''I am not rabbit.'' ''Yes, you are.''

My mother...

very strange mother.

But I love my mother.

Isolina, and my father, Gigi,

and my sisters Bruna, Albertina, e Anna.

My family and my rabbit.

And I love...

to catch...

to dream...

What is?

What? Zack! Heh.

Jack! Jack and Zack!

I knew! Come on. Come on.

To eat the animal

I have catched.

The rabbit. I run half an hour

behind it. Very good.

Come on. Jack, come on.

Sit down.

I am glad.

Sit down, the fire.

Yes. Yes, taste it.

Yes, taste it.

Taste, Zack, taste. Eh?

Taste. In a moment.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah? Of course, I haven't

garlic, rosemarino...

very important... and olive oil,

but is good, eh?

- It's disgusting, Bob.

- Yes.

- Bob, it tastes like a tire.

- Yeah. I know, is very good.

The road.

Civilization.

Well, which way now, Jack?

Well, I say we go that way.

- I agree.

- Aye, aye, Lieutenant.

It's a mirage.

You think we're imagining this?

Well, if we are...

I could use some imaginary pie and coffee.

One of us should go in there alone,

in case the law is inside.

All right, Bob.

I want you to go in there first.

Make sure everything's safe.

If everything's all right,

you come back out and tell us.

- You understand me?

- I understand. I ''ham'' ready.

Okay. Hey, Bob,

we'll be right here.

- Right here waiting.

- Yes.

Jesus, he walked right in there

like an idiot.

Let's hide over here.

Hey.

How long was I asleep?

Let's check it out,

I'm starving to death.

And I'm freezing, all right?

All right. Let's move slow.

Just look in the window.

- I'll be right behind you.

- Oh, thanks.

Holy Toledo.

Can you believe this?

He's from outer space.

Oh! My friends!

What the hell's goin' on here, Bob?

Come on. Come on. Is wonderful.

Look, eh, wine, food.

Come on. Come on.

Sit down, please.

Sit down here, Jack, Zack.

Sit down. Sit down.

Is wonderful, look.

My friends. I must tell us some news.

I ''ham'' in love.

This is Nicoletta.

- Hi. How you doing?

- Hello.

- Fine, thank you.

- Eat, please.

Thank you.

Eat.

- She is from Italy too.

- Yes, I'm from Italy.

- Do you know, I am from Cesena?

- Cesena.

- You know Cesena?

- No. No?

And this place was given to me

as a present from my Uncle Luigi.

What happened to your Uncle Luigi?

He died.

You laugh. He died.

What was he like?

He was wonderful. Yes.

He won this place playing cards,

and he was afraid to lose it again,

so he gave me like a present.

But I didn't know

what to do with this.

And one day...

it was a very particular day...

like out of the blue,

my boyfriend left me.

- Aw.

- Yes. It was my birthday.

- Aw.

- Yes.

And Uncle Luigi died.

- Oh, no.

- All in the same day.

So in the same day, I left Italy

and I come to live here.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

And now I have falled

in love, at last.

I have finded my new home.

She has asked to me

if I stay here...

to live together with her

forever and ever.

- Like in a book for children.

- Yes.

No.

Well, how did you learn

how to speak English?

Oh, yes. I speak pretty well,

but I know nothing

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Jim Jarmusch

James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing such films as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016). Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released two albums with Jozef van Wissem. more…

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