Good Time Page #2

Synopsis: After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city's underworld in an increasingly desperate-and dangerous-attempt to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Production: A24
  6 wins & 36 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
80
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
2017
101 min
$1,999,047
15,736 Views


-It burns, it burns.

-Stop, stop it.

The pants got dye all over

them. Got to get them off.

I like these pants.

I don't care if you like them.

Gotta get them off right now.

You got sweatpants underneath.

That's why you wore them.

Hurry up. Lace them up.

Look for anything...

- Yes, yes, yes, please.

- Come out now!

Just keep your head down.

Gonna pull back up on us.

Just don't say anything,

all right?

-Okay.

-Don't look at them.

Don't be scared.

-All right.

-Let me do all the talking.

Hey fellas, where we going?

Can I talk to you

for a minute?

First of all, could you take

your hoodie off for me?

Why? What did we do wrong?

Hey.

You with the black sweatshirt.

Yo, my man, turn around!

He's all right.

We didn't do anything wrong.

Yo, oh, oh!

Get back here!

NYPD. Stop!

Nick, let's go!

Nick!

Connie!

Stop! Stop!

You're under...

NYPD.

You are not getting up.

Sir, I need you to get up!

Thanks for the welcome.

Yo, CO!

Let me talk

to the f***ing captain, man.

I've been here for four days!

-Get off the bars!

-F***!

Stop fighting!

Stop fighting!

Get the captain.

Stop fighting.

Stop fighting or chemical

weapons will be utilized.

Stop fighting.

The judge is gonna ask her

about Connie.

And if she says to the judge,

"I can't talk about that."

He's gonna say, "Then go away,

I'm not going to help Nick."

She needs to keep the judge

happy, answer his questions.

She can't do that

unless you answer

-her questions first.

-I don't like to.

I don't want to.

The point is, it doesn't

matter what you tell me.

It doesn't matter

what you say.

It doesn't matter what we do

in this time together.

Nothing that you and I

do here is going to get

your brother in trouble.

Then why do you keep

asking about him?

Because, you know what?

The thing is, is that I don't

think you're as responsible

for this

as you believe that you are.

That money was for us.

And he was going

to buy me a farm,

and we were gonna

live in the woods.

And I was going to be able

to do whatever I wanted,

when I wanted, okay?

You don't love me, okay?

He loves me. Connie loves me!

Talking all day

on the phone over here, man.

You don't know

what love is!

Yo, son,

can you please hurry up?

I don't want to talk

to you no more! Okay?

That was for us.

-Hey, yo...

-He did it for us.

I'm talking

to my grandmother, okay?

16,480.

You need another ten grand.

You can't do anything

with this?

This stuff is dirty.

It's nasty.

You can't clean it?

You can't do nothing with it?

Nah, nah, nah. Come on.

It's all garbage.

You get another ten grand,

I'll get the judge

to sign the order.

And that's it.

I'll have the order

waiting for you.

Your brother will get out.

Go get the ten grand.

We're gonna watch Empire.

What the f*** are you doing?

I was watching this channel.

You can't do that.

I was watching

something in it before.

You do not rock

on this TV, man.

Hey, yo, man.

If I was you,

I wouldn't f*** with the TV.

-Just leave it alone.

-Don't talk to me, all right.

I don't like you, all right?

-Don't talk to me.

-You got that green...

Nobody

was in here before.

I'm allowed to watch

whatever I want.

Yo, my man.

Don't touch that TV!

Man, this is some...

What the f***

is you doing, man?

Give me that!

Are you not entertained, huh?

Not entertained?

I told you

I was gonna get you,

you b*tch motherf***er!

- I got it!

- No, no, I'm here.

-Who is it?

-It's Connie.

Con...

No, no, no, no.

Ma... Mama,

I called him down.

Wait a minute.

How'd you get in the building?

- I invited him up.

- They didn't call up.

The doorman recognized me.

He's not

coming in here.

Yes, he is.

Well, I can just

come back later, Loren.

Hey.

Connie,

we're having dinner.

And I think

-if you could just...

-I... I can leave.

No, no, no.

- Go to my room.

- This is a very bad

time for us.

What's wrong with you?

What's wrong with you?

How rude!

I'd never treat

one of your friends this way.

- Look at you!

- What?

I'm begging you

to shut your mouth!

- Shut my mouth?

- Please, please...

Would you just

please go look at yourself

in the mirror?

Just look at yourself.

This morning you were fine.

What are you

talking about?

I'm fine right now.

This is your problem.

Would you just

do me a favor?

- You know what?

- What?

Call Dr. Klienman.

Why don't you call him?

I have a friend over.

Mom, I want to stop

this conversation.

- Yes, yes.

- I am stopping it!

- Yes.

- I'm zipping it!

And I'm gonna go

visit with my friend.

- Yes.

- You get a hold of yourself!

- Do that.

- F***ing freak!

Puerto Vallarta.

They have the best,

best hotels.

I love it there.

There's a Grand Miramar

resort and spa.

You can drink

right in the pool.

It's like they have

a whole bar.

Ah, f***.

The flight's too long.

It's like eight hours.

Okay, that's all right.

What about Florida?

Or hey, hey, hey.

Can you just put it down

for a second?

Costa Rica.

Just put it down for a second.

I gotta come clean

with you about something.

What?

So, I told you

about my brother, yeah?

Yeah.

I told you

about the program

he's forced to attend and

how he shouldn't be there.

Yeah.

And how everybody

involved with it doesn't know

what the f*** they're doing,

and he f***ing hates it.

Hey, Costa Rica's

only four and a half hours...

Please, could you just put it

down for two seconds.

Just listen to

what I'm saying.

Look,

something happened,

I don't know exactly what.

But one of the therapists

was abusing him,

and I guess he must have

lashed out violently,

and he really hurt the guy.

Now this guy's

gonna press charges.

My brother's been arrested.

He's being held

at Riker's Island.

Oh, my God, that's awful.

I know.

You have no idea.

I've just gotta get him

out of there

before something bad happens.

See, he could get

killed in there.

I'm just a little short

on the bail money right now.

How short?

It's like a few thousand.

Okay. That's not bad.

That's why I was just hoping

your mom's credit card

could cover the rest of it.

Oh. Um...

Look, it's just to get him

out of Riker's.

It's like a temporary loan.

You get it right back.

Any judge is

gonna dismiss this

as soon as he gets to court.

Yeah.

Okay?

What, and our trip?

We'll go after?

Seriously,

that's your response

to what I just told you?

That's your response?

Um, I mean, I'm thinking

about your brother, too.

Yo!

We gotta make

a different stop.

It's still Queens. It's, uh...

82nd and Queens Boulevard.

It's near the Union Turnpike.

Eric, he's coming.

What'd I tell ya?

Couple of hours, right?

Yeah. You got the full ten?

10,000?

-$10,000.

-Yeah.

-You do credit, right?

-Yeah. Yeah.

Wait. $10,000?

Yeah.

You said it was like

a couple thousand dollars.

It's a loan.

You get it back

the same time as the three.

What's the difference?

It's like $7,000 difference,

you know.

It's for my brother.

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Ronald Bronstein

Ronald Bronstein is an American film director, screenwriter, editor and actor. He directed, wrote and edited the 2007 film Frownland. more…

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