Fighting Page #8

Synopsis: Shawn MacArthur, the kind-hearted son of an Alabama wrestling coach, makes a grim living selling fake products on the streets in New York. After dealing with thieving punks, he's discovered by bare-knuckle/street-fight manager, Harvey Boarden. He soon proves himself worthy and starts earning a small fortune, part of which he volunteers to spend on single mother Zulay Velez. Shawn doesn't cheat and that seems to be a major problem, notably after the arrival of his Alabama high-school rival.
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Director(s): Dito Montiel
Production: Rogue Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
39%
PG-13
Year:
2009
105 min
$23,036,320
Website
1,236 Views


Half a million dollars.

Hmm?

So what are you doing

walking around the street

with half a million dollars

in your bag?

I have investors.

Investors.

If it's too much

money, I can...

Too much?

Listen to that.

She's cleaning up the

dumpster, now she's in the club.

Tell your rich-ass and your

drunk-ass investor friends

that I will be happy

to pay them off.

And happier not to.

Count it.

The man

is here. Outside.

We need to get everybody out on

the terrace so we can do this thing.

People, the show's

going to start. Outside.

You have a nice place here. Of course.

City Hall, I've got

the Woolworth Building.

My meditation room.

Let's go, people.

Look, I'll meet you out.

Let me talk to you

for a second.

You know what we're

dealing with here, right?

Let's just go.

Let's get it over with.

Look at this, Harvey.

Now you see how far

you've come?

Hey, everybody,

Jerry invited us all

up here so we could

catch a glimpse of

his bank account.

That's nice, huh?

Here's to Jerry.

But what

the thing is...

I mean, the real sh*t

of this thing is,

is what's going on

right here.

So, Jerry, right now,

you should step off.

And gentlemen,

you should step up.

Let's go baby, let's go!

We're going

to sit down, people.

And these two gentlemen are going

to go toe to toe, blow to blow.

Whatever goes on

up here, whatever.

Whatever you do to

each other, whatever.

Whatever you say to

each other, whatever.

In the words of the late,

great, American poet,

Mr. Marvin Gaye,

"Let's get it on!"

Let's go, baby,

let's go! Yeah!

You froze? Huh?

It's a stare-down.

Oh.

It's the evil eye.

Is that what you gave

your old man? Huh?

Knock that smile

off his face, let's go!

Yeah, baby!

All right. Let's play.

Let's play, Shawn.

Show him what

you got! Do it!

Do it, baby!

Go on, Shawn! Yeah!

Get him, Shawn!

Get him! Get him!

Right here, Shawn.

He's talking sh*t!

You can't stay there,

Shawn!

Oh, sh*t!

Hey, hey,

that's it! That's it!

That's it! That's it!

That's enough! Call it!

That's it! That's it!

Go on, Shawn!

Get up! Get up, bro!

Get up! Get up!

Get out of it! Get out of it! Get out!

Come on, Shawn!

You got to fight!

Come on! Get out of it!

Fight!

Come on, Shawn! Yeah!

No! No!

Harvey, what's

going on, Harvey?

No!

Come on! Yeah!

Holy sh*t!

No!

Yeah, boy!

Yeah, Shawn!

Yeah, Shawn!

You got it, Shawn.

Let's start moving, boys.

Yeah!

What up now, b*tch?

Harvey, I'd like to

shake your hand, man.

You're a dead man.

You're a dead man,

Harvey. Dead man.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

What up now, b*tch?

Yeah, baby!

I'll need a drink

after that, man, right!

Thank you, Evan,

you fight like a b*tch.

Harvey, we're going out,

VIP Harvey, we out of here.

Whoa, there he is!

You're the sh*t, man.

Yeah, last night was

great, man. Thanks a lot.

Thanks for the ride.

Thanks for

being there.

Yo, we're going to the club

tonight, kid. You wanna come?

VIP all night,

drinks all night.

Come on. Let's go.

No, I'm beat up.

VIP, Harvey. VIP.

VIP, you all

be careful.

Well, tonight,

show your butt off.

You know, I'd be lying if I didn't

say, secretly I wanted you to win.

That's crazy, right?

If I wasn't a dead man,

I'd be happy, you know.

But you killed me

with that, Shawn.

You know, you do what

you do, you know.

Look, Shawn,

in a couple of minutes

there's going to be some men

that's going to come here,

and you can't be here

when they get here, okay?

Me and Zulay,

we put it on us to win.

Yeah.

We knew you'd

never go for it,

so we didn't say

nothing, but...

There's $1 million

in there.

Business ready

for business, huh?

Business ready.

You taught me that.

Okay.

That's a lot of

money in there.

Mmm-hmm.

No, I'm not kidding, Shawn.

That's a lot of money.

That's a lot of IHOPs.

We're going to Birmingham.

Okay...

You know, we're going

to go and see my family.

See what's left of it.

You know what I mean?

Maybe stop by Chicago,

or something.

On your way to

Birmingham, Chicago.

Right. Yeah.

Mmm-hmm.

Why don't you come?

So Birmingham is

where you're thinking?

Yeah.

It's where I'm from.

Okay, what we

should do, then...

Hear me out.

I think we should go past

Birmingham to some place warm.

If you're going all the way to Chicago,

through Birmingham,

whatever...

Take it to California.

You know, they've got a whole lot

of great opportunities out there.

I've been doing

a lot of reading,

I'm not giving those

people this money.

I don't give...

Unless...

We shouldn't give nobody none

of this. We should just go.

"'I believe in love,'

said Grandma,

"I'm going to go to Africa

because my boyfriend is there.

"And then I change my mind,

maybe. Because love is beautiful."

Oh, my God.

It's amazing, Alabama.

Alabama. Alabama. All the

time, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama.

Would you

all shut up already?

You're driving me crazy.

You're making

my ears bleed in here.

It's raining,

Harvey. It's raining.

Harvey, it's always raining.

It's raining, Harvey.

It's just rain, rain.

It's always raining

in this raining town.

Always raining. What am I

supposed to do with the rain?

Harvey, it's raining.

It's raining, Harvey.

Harvey, it's raining.

Harvey, it's raining. What are

we going to do with the rain?

I know

it's raining, Mary.

I know, it's raining,

Harvey, it's raining.

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Robert Munic

Robert Munic is an American producer, writer, director and occasional actor. He is a director and the writer/Co-Executive Producer of the television series Empire, a hit television series for FOX that has won several top honors from the NAACP, BET, the Golden Globes and Fox Television’s Teen Choice Awards.In 2016 mogul Dr. Dre personally selected Munic to write and executive produce Apple’s first original television show. The series is entitled Vital Signs and is said to be a semi-autobiographical account of Dr. Dre’s life. more…

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