Hostage Page #2

Synopsis: Jeff Talley, a former LAPD hostage negotiator, has moved himself away from his failed career outside of Los Angeles, and away from his wife and daughter when three perpetrators move in on an unsuspecting family. But the family's father has a secret which might compromise his kin, and one of the criminals is about to jump over the edge. Jeff Talley has to get everybody to survive the night......if he can.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Florent-Emilio Siri
Production: Miramax
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
44
Rotten Tomatoes:
35%
R
Year:
2005
113 min
$34,617,915
Website
646 Views


- Yeah,

What do you say we rename today

"Low-crime Monday"?

- Followed by what?

- Low-crime Tuesday,

That's right,

Low-crime Tuesday,

Yes, I would say

Brenda's looking very good,

Fine, Couple of minutes,

Daddy?

Uh, can you give me just a second?

My son just walked in,

What's this attached to my ear?

- A phone,

- Why is it attached to my ear?

- 'Cause you're talking on it?

- Which means you are...

- Interrupting your conversation?

- That's my genius,

OK, Mr, Genius, What I'd like is

all your homework done, on my desk,

before any more television, Sound good?

- God...

- I know,

How about getting

the doors there for me, champ?

- Appreciate it, One, and then...

- The other,

Yeah, Thanks, champ,

OK, I am ready

to loan you Heaven Can Wait.

What time would you like me to drop it?

OK,

Done,

I like it,

Let's just go to the movies,

We're gonna go to the movies,

- But first we're gonna take daddy's car,

- No, man,

Dennis, this is way worse

than any sh*t you've done before,

Stay in the truck, OK?

Dad, you're such a dinosaur!

All right, All I'm saying

is that there are men out there,

Men, Not the boys I go to school with,

Right, Men, OK?

Men see this sort of outfit

as a sexual invitation, That's all I'm saying,

- Looking for something?

- Empty,

Ooh, how'd that happen?

Look, how's this?

If I change what I'm wearing,

- will you give me $40 for tonight?

- If that doesn't remind me of your mother,

How about you change

what you're wearing,

then we talk about the $40 afterwards, OK?

Hey, Hey,

Door,

Say it again, rich b*tch, Huh?

Say "F*** you,"

Tommy?

- Tommy, what...

- Hey, don't move,

- No, No,

- Don't move, man,

- What do you want?

- Who else is in the house?

Nobody,

Daddy!

- Tommy...

- Where's mommy?

Huh? Where's mommy?

My wife's dead,

Mars, the door,

You really should listen to your brother,

- Sh*t!

- What are you doing?

I told you to stay in the f***ing truck,

- Dennis, man, you can't do this,

- I told you, don't use my f***ing name,

- Where are the keys?

- Keys?

- Where are the f***ing car keys?

- In my office,

Office, Go, Come on, let's go,

All right,

It's gonna be OK,

I like your shirt,

By the way,

Carol's answering a silent alarm,

Says there's a suspicious vehicle out front,

All right, Let's get her some backup,

See who's in the area,

Bristo 23 and 29er, 15 requesting backup,

Ruiz, Kovaks, are you out there?

Bristo 23 and 29er,

Bristo 23 and 29er,

Louise, what's the address on that alarm?

I'm gonna go check it out myself,

- Daddy, just give them the keys,

- I'm gonna give them the keys, honey,

I just need to be certain...

- What is that? What the f*** is that?

- The front gate,

- It's a cop, Dennis, it's a cop,

- Sh*t!

- It's OK, I know her, Just be cool,

- Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t!

- It's OK, I can just...

- Shut the f*** up!

Calm down, OK? I can talk

to the police officer from here using that,

I can tell her that everything's fine,

Then she'll go, and then you can go,

Hello?

Afternoon. This is Officer Flores

with the Bristo Camino Police Department.

We're answering a silent alarm,

Is everything OK in there?

I'm sorry. We must have

accidentally tripped the alarm.

I understand, sir,

These things happen all the time,

But there's an abandoned

pickup truck on your street,

Have you seen who it might belong to?

Oh, no, it's not abandoned. There's

a guy here fixing the air conditioning.

I'm sure everything's OK,

Could you come outside, please?

- Say something,

- Officer, my son's got a fever,

I've got the pediatrician on hold. Do you

really need me to come down there?

- 15, please respond.

- Bristo base, this is 15, Come back,

Carol, be advised

there's a felony want on that red pickup.

The vehicle's suspected of being involved

in a carjacking last week in Valencia...

Mars! F***, f***, f***, f***ing sh*t!

Sh*t!

Code three!

I'm taking fire, I'm taking fire!

Get on the f***ing couch!

I gotta f***ing think, man,

- F***! Sh*t,

- Dennis, in my desk I have contacts

for lawyers and judges,

- I can help you get out of this, Dennis,

- F***! Don't say my f***ing name!

- No! No!

- Dennis! Dennis! Dennis!

Stop it!

Daddy, no! Daddy, wake up!

F*** you,

Flores is down. Flores is down!

Heads down, heads down,

I'm coming up to...

- Hector, you all right?

- Jesus!

Jesus Christ, what are you doing?

They ran your truck, dawg,

They know we've been jacking cars,

- Sh*t,

- Attention, you in the house.

This is Chief Talley

of the Bristo Camino Police Department.

I'm gonna bring my car closer

so I can evacuate the injured officer,

I am not coming in the house,

I repeat:
I am not coming in the house,

Do not shoot me,

Do not shoot at me.

Carol, come on, Give me your hand,

Hang on, Come on,

Come on,

Just hang on, Hang on,

Hey,

Pull yourself together,

Put this in the back of one of the cars,

Go on,

ETA on the sheriff is 15 minutes.

Deputy in charge is Captain Shoemaker,

negotiator is Wil Bechler.

Thanks, Louise,

Truck's registered

to a Mary Anne Kelly of Agua Dulce,

We're still trying to track her down,

But a neighbor told us she lives with

her two teenage boys, Dennis and Kevin,

And the neighbor also told us

that Dennis has some juvenile history,

You're gonna go to jail,

- You're all gonna go to jail,

- Enough!

- Why won't you just leave us alone?

- Tie 'em up,

- Tie 'em up with what?

- I don't know, Just figure something out,

Tie 'em up, Go upstairs, Let's go,

I'm not leaving my father,

I'm gonna take care of him, I'm gonna get

some ice for his head, maybe a pillow,

- It's OK,

- Come on, let's go,

Let's go,

Yeah?

Since you're answering the phone,

I'm going to assume this is Dennis.

I'll take that as a yes,

This is Jeff Talley, Dennis,

I'm with the local police,

You the man in charge in there?

Yeah, I'm in charge,

All right.

Then you can tell me who shot my cop,

- Was it you, or Kevin?

- No... no, don't put that on us,

I want to talk to Mr, Smith for a minute,

I want to hear from him

that everything's OK inside the house,

F*** you, I'm running this sh*t,

- You talk to me,

- That's right, Dennis.

You are running this sh*t.

Tell me you're the man in charge, that'll

be your responsibility. You understand?

F*** you.

Don't try and play me.

You get us a helicopter

to fly us out of this sh*t.

I'm just a local paper-pusher, Dennis,

Get me a f***ing helicopter

before I start shooting people.

Be cool, Dennis, Be cool,

Nobody wants to hear guns go off in there,

You tell me you didn't shoot my cop?

All right, I believe you,

But nobody's gonna be able to help you

if you start hurting people in there,

- You understand?

- Just get me what I want.

- I'm not the guy, Dennis,

- Then get me the guy!

- Louise, come back,

- Go, Chief.

Confirmed the entire Smith family

is inside the house,

along with two suspects, possibly a third,

You want a hit?

OK,

- Can't get out this way,

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Doug Richardson

Doug Richardson is an American screenwriter and novelist, who specializes in action movies and thrillers.He first made an impression with his as yet unproduced spec script Hell Bent... and Back which sold for one million dollars. He wrote an adaptation of Walter Wager's novel 58 Minutes which became the basis for the sequel Die Hard 2. Other screenplays include Bad Boys and Hostage.His novels include 99 Percent Kill: A Lucky Dey Thriler, Blood Money, The Safety Expert, True Believers, and Dark Horse. Richardson's first non-fiction book, The Smoking Gun: True Tales from Hollywood's Screenwriting Trenches is a collection of popular weekly blogs from his website. more…

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