Hunting Elephants Page #8

Synopsis: Three elderly men and grandson Yonatan find themselves stuck together in a Jerusalem nursing home. The kid is a genius, but stammers and is bullied at school. Yonatan's grandfather, Eliahu, whom he had never met, is a former member of the Lehi (pre-State Jewish underground), and a cold person. Eliahu's best friend from Lehi, Nick, is full of ambition and passion that will never materialize; and Eliahu's English brother-in-law, a has-been, third-rate actor in debt for 232,000 euros. There's one thing keeping them together - they all want to rob the bank that employed Yonatan's deceased father to avenge it for not paying the Yonatan's mother compensation for his dad's death, due to the "small print" in his employment contract. And they want the money to make their last wish come true.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Reshef Levi
Production: Xlrator Media
  7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
36%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
107 min
18 Views


instead of Rhoda.

If anything happens, God forbid,

it's all yours.

Jonathan!

Hello. Dedi's busy,

he can't see you now.

What is this?

Another stick-up?

Twice in a week?

I'm changing mezuzahs,

what are you doing?

Eliyahu came into my room,

broke my nose,

and said, "That's for Dorit."

Then he smashed

my top row of teeth,

60,000 shekels' worth.

He said,

"That's so you'll open the safe."

What did you do?

I opened the safe.

I sued the bank.

I received no damages, no pension.

I tripped up on the fine print.

I have a gun here,

nobody moves or I'll shoot!

I have a gas can here,

I'll burn the bank down!

Good thing you're here.

Give me the bag.

The cameras aren't working,

nobody will know

you came in or went out.

Put it in.

I'll help you up.

I'm staying here,

Don't worry, those shitheads

won't take me alive.

Like Kasparov,

sometimes you sacrifice the king

if you want to win.

But...

I don't want you

to die because of me.

It's enough I killed Dad.

Shh, kid.

Nobody died because of you.

I can see you, shitheads!

Don't move or I'll shoot!

Kids and old people

are transparent.

Walk out slowly and whistle.

You're coming with me.

All my life

I never did anything right,

not as a father,

not as a husband.

I didn't even have the guts

to kill Rhoda when I should have.

Now I have a chance

to be a grandfather,

your grandfather.

Take the money, Jonathan,

go, go, my boy, go.

Go, it's okay. Go.

Go, run.

Run! Go! Go!

I have a gun!

Stay away or I'll shoot!

Duke...

- Grandpa is hurt.

Duke, what happened

in the bank?

We did it. I got the money.

Look, we're attracting attention. We've

got to get away from here. Come on.

No. I... I have to go back

to save Grandpa.

You can't go back.

I have to. He's dying there.

Duke, your grandfather

sacrificed himself for you.

You can't give the money back.

You'd be better off burning it.

Maybe that's not such a bad idea.

Samoha, do me a favor.

- Don't shoot!

I'll get him out.

My grandfather's in there.

Call an ambulance.

Kid!

He's burning the money.

Sh*t, he's burning the money,

who burns money?

Who burns money?!

Jonathan went through

a traumatic experience.

His grandfather has Alzheimer's

and exhibited violent behavior

which Jonathan witnessed.

Please give him

the respect he deserves

and be kind to your friend

who bravely tried to stop

a bank robbery.

I see the MP3 still records.

It doesn't work,

it just lights up.

You know he flunked twice?

Son, you have to get along

with people less smarter than you.

You have enough problems

as it is.

I don't...

I don't stutter like I used to.

Nick, what's she thinking about?

She's a nymphomaniac,

she hasn't had any

since last night,

it's driving her nuts

and she wants more and more,

and now she's here all alone

and she's horny as hell

and she needs...

Eliyahu's crank.

I think my bank robber came

just a little ahead of my Oliver Twist.

I was there,

I was in the moment.

You wrote a play

about the bank robbery,

and in that play

the boy and your character

didn't burn most of the money.

Is this what happened

in real life?

Absolutely not.

No, I deny that totally.

That was all fiction.

The bank manager Dedi,

before he was fired,

also claimed that he doesn't think

that you burned most of the money,

but the cops didn't believe him.

No, no.

Anyway, I have Alzheimer's.

You can't give the money back.

You'd be better off burning it.

Maybe that's not such a bad idea.

We'll just burn 15 percent.

I'm used to it. I have an agent.

Nick, wake up,

I know you're not in a coma.

Well, I tried.

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Reshef Levi

Reshef Levi (Hebrew: רשף לוי‎; born 1972) is an Israeli screenwriter, playwright, film director, producer, writer, comedian and television presenter. Winner of the Israeli Theatre Award and the Israeli Academy of Television Award. Levi is married with seven children and lives in Kfar Sava. Reshef Levi is known for his successful debut feature film “Lost Islands”, which was nominated for 14 Ophir Awards by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television for outstanding cinematic work. In addition, Reshef Levi is a writer of one of the most popular television crime drama shows in Israel, “The Arbitrator” (Ha Borer). His last comedy film, “Hunting Elephants”, was made with the participation of Patrick Stewart. more…

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