Fathers' Day Page #4

Synopsis: Jack Lawrence is a smart aleck lawyer who is one day visited by an ex-girlfriend who tells him her kid was his. Enter Dale Putley, a depressed goofball who is also a writer, meets with the same ex-girlfriend who tells him her kid is his. One day Jack and Dale meet and discover what had happened: they've been told the same story and now there's a question of who the real father is. They learn their son is following a rock band called Sugar Ray around. So Jack and Dale hit the road to Sacramento and find their drunk, love-struck son. Soon after they bring him back to their hotel room, their son escapes and Jack and Dale must use teamwork to find him again, bring him home, and find out which one of them is the real father.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Ivan Reitman
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
25%
PG-13
Year:
1997
98 min
405 Views


[Screaming]

[Music playing faintly]

Is he still here?

I'm so cold.

I'm so cold.

AHAB:
God damn it.

What happened to my sister?

Hold me.

Mary, my sister.

What did you do with her?

Kiss me and I'll tell

you what happened to her.

No.

Gross.

[Coughing]

Why?

You f***ing hurt me.

Kiss me and I will tell you

what happened to Chelsea.

[Coughing]

There.

Now, where is she?

You didn't even touch.

Yeah, well, you just... I did.

You just probably didn't feel

it because of your dying.

[Groans]

[Coughing]

[Laughing]

(COUGHING) He took her in

a white truck, heading east.

AHAB:
Thanks, Mary.

Take Chelsea's scrapbook.

She has everything

on that bastard.

[Coughing]

Hey, is that some

of Ahab's syrup?

Oh, yes.

Uh, Ahab gave it to me.

Bastard always loved that

syrup more than he loved me.

Did you ever take us seriously?

Are you going to

answer her or...

I would but she's already gone.

[Music playing]

How do you know

he'll be on this road?

Is there any other way out here?

I know he's out here.

I know it.

I can smell him.

Can't you smell him, Ahab?

I don't know.

I can smell something I think.

TWINK:
Shut up.

[Grunting]

It's him!

How do you know?

Shot in the dark.

Roll up to Chelsea's window.

FATHER SULLIVAN:
Oh,

this is so dangerous.

TWINK:
I got her!

Chelsea!

Twink!

[Screaming]

[Yelling]

I didn't get her.

Help!

AHAB:
Get me on that truck.

[Groaning]

Ahab!

Ahab!

Ahab!

[Yelling]

Go, man!

It's dead.

Come on!

God damn f***ing thing sucks.

[Groaning]

Ahab!

You're hurt.

[Groans]

No, I'm fine.

[Yells]

[All yelling]

It's out.

We just got to get

this thing running.

[Groans]

Is he dead?

Yes.

We have to get him out of here.

This is isn't safe, man.

What about the GD jeep?

I think we can fix it.

[Explosion]

I think we can fix it.

[Humming softly]

I should've killed him

when I had the chance.

Ahab, you can't blame yourself.

No, not now.

I mean, when I was a little kid.

Chris Fuchman killed my

dad right in front of me.

And I tried to stop him but...

FUCHMAN:
You taste like p*ssy.

I hate p*ssy.

[Erratic breathing]

FATHER SULLIVAN:
You

were just a child then.

[Crying]

YOUNG AHAB:
Please don't!

[Screaming]

AHAB:
I swore that I would find

the man that killed my dad.

I would make him pay.

SENSEI:
Your thirst

for revenge is strong,

But your pain makes you weak.

AHAB:
It's all I

could think about.

But it seemed the closer I got,

the further away he actually

Was.

Till one night I had him.

Happy Father's Day.

But he tricked me.

It wasn't Chris Fuchman at all.

The cops were there

in a heartbeat.

We got you, Ahab.

Your father f***ing

days are over.

The jury didn't look

too kindly on a vigilante

Killing an innocent man.

They gave me 10 years.

That's 10 years to

think about how I took

Some dad away from some kid.

When I got out, I just

wanted to disappear.

[Clears throat]

Why did you come back?

It was time.

It was time.

Is he OK?

I don't know.

It doesn't look good.

I've done all I can.

What are we going to do?

I've got to keep

this fire going

Or he'll freeze

to death out here.

I'm hungry.

I wish we had something to eat.

Well, I found these

berries in Ahab's jacket.

Here.

I know we don't get along.

But if he... you know...

You have to promise me

We'll finish this for Ahab.

For your father.

These things taste like sh*t.

We must be thankful

for what we have.

I just hope Chelsea's OK.

[Music playing]

[Erratic breathing]

[Groaning]

I swear to God if you come

near me with that thing,

I'll bite it off!

[Heavy breathing]

I'm not a dad!

TWINK:
You don't know me!

You don't know me!

FATHER SULLIVAN:
What was that?

You don't know me, boy!

Eye boy.

Do you think we have something?

Did you hear that?

I think he's going to be fine.

What was that?

I got you some stuffs.

I don't want to watch it.

I don't want to watch

it, but I can't stop.

I can't stop watching it.

I don't want to

look at it anymore.

I don't want to

look at it anymore.

No more.

(VOICE DISTORTING)

No more berries.

I think he's under

that eye patch.

[Screaming]

I'm going to go

track down a stick,

Find out what's under

that GD eye patch.

Jesus, is that you?

[Screaming]

You're dust, eye patch.

Baby, I think I'm pregnant.

I have no choice.

He will come for me.

I feel pregnant, too.

What's wrong with you?

This isn't my coat.

(VOICE DISTORTED) Don't

find your coat, find me Ahab.

AHAB:
Find my what?

[Music playing]

Chelsea!

Save me, Ahab!

AHAB:
Where are you going?

Twink?

If you want to get out

just look at your hand.

AHAB:
Chelsea, come back!

[Gasping]

FATHER SULLIVAN:

Just go to sleep.

It's for the best, OK?

These aren't my hands!

I lost everything.

No, no, no!

[Thud]

Ahab?

You're OK.

I'm fine, John.

Someone must have fed me

some of my tasty berries.

Come on.

Twink?

FATHER SULLIVAN:
According

to Chelsea's scrapbook,

Fuchman's hiding out at

some abandoned water slides

By the old condemned dam.

Yeah, it went out of

business after a couple

Dads went missing.

Yeah.

And that place is

hundreds of miles away.

We're never going to

make it there on foot.

Me agrees.

Not with that

attitude we won't.

TWINK:
Well, he agrees.

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I knew you would

save me, Blake Star.

[Music playing]

NARRATOR:
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on the Astron-6.

Your Channel 6 super station.

We now return to "Father's Day."

FATHER SULLIVAN:
Water slides.

There's nothing sacred

to this monster.

TWINK:
I used to piss on these

slides, so joke's on him.

AHAB:
This is it.

All right, Padre, if

it comes down to it,

You're going to be our bait.

FATHER SULLIVAN:
What?

AHAB:
You're the closest

thing to a father we've got.

TWINK:
He's right.

FATHER SULLIVAN:
You've

got to be kidding me.

AHAB:
This ain't no

time for jokes, Padre.

If we find that GD thing,

we've got to take it down fast.

And if that means you run

a little interference,

Well, that's just the

way it's got to be.

[Groaning in distance]

Oh, sh*t.

This is it, isn't it?

God, I'm going to die down here.

Oh, f*** me.

My Father, who art in

heaven, hallowed be thy Name,

Thy kingdom come,

thy will be done,

On Earth as it is in Heaven.

[Gasps]

What?

F***!

It's locked.

Wait.

I have an idea.

That didn't work.

Twink, look for a key.

What's it look like?

Like a freaking key, Twink.

Look for a key.

[Grunts]

Look at that.

That's disgusting.

FATHER SULLIVAN:
Oh,

what's in his mouth.

God, it's in his mouth.

He's got a key in his mouth.

Twink, get the key

out of his mouth.

I don't want to get the

key out of his mouth.

You're right.

Padre, get the key

out of his mouth.

Why do I have to do it?

Because you do whatever

we tell you to do.

OK.

TWINK:
I would do

it, if I was you.

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