Jury Duty Page #7

Synopsis: When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make the sequestration more comfortable for himself.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): John Fortenberry
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
4.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
0%
PG-13
Year:
1995
88 min
485 Views


Can you believe it?

You're gonna help me

find him, right?

(GRUNTS)

You can't leave

your shoes lying around.

Someone's liable

to break their neck.

So, does anybody else

know about this little,

uh, theory of yours?

Monica,

but she hates me.

Why? You're so likeable!

You know something, Frank?

What?

You can help me

with Monica.

She won't believe me

by myself,

but with you there, oh, yes.

She'd buy it in a second!

You're so smart, Tommy!

And that is

why you elected me

jury foreman.

Let's go.

(ENGINE STARTING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(GLASS SHATTERING)

Come on, let's go, Frank!

Come on, Frank, come on!

What are you doing here?

I told you I didn't want...

I know, Monica, I've been

a complete jerk, okay?

I'm sorry.

But I figured it out.

Whoever this guy is,

he's got something

for non-recyclables.

Right, Frank?

Good thinking.

You got a gun.

We might need

that later. Smart.

Anyways, Monica,

please listen...

Frank, come on.

You gotta find

the guy first.

Put the gun away.

Whoever he is, right,

he's gotta be some

flipped out,

psycho environmentalist

guy, right?

I mean,

he's very similar to...

Frank?

Frank.

That's a pretty

smart idea, Frank.

Getting on the jury

to convince us

Bishop was guilty.

Thanks.

Ouch, that's too tight,

I can't breathe.

Nice cutlery, Frank.

I wouldn't carve

your initials in the table.

Look, the librarian's

right here.

Don't worry.

I won't be carving

the table.

What can we do?

There's gotta be something.

There's a guard

out front.

Oh, I'll get

his attention.

How?

Okay, watch,

watch, watch.

(GRUNTING)

(CREAKING)

(THUDDING)

Uh... Uh!

(CHATTERING ON TV)

Couldn't you

have just yelled?

What the hell is

going on in here?

Hey!

Ahh!

And that is why

we elected you

jury foreman.

Got any other

bright ideas?

Yeah, just one.

(YODELING)

Hush up, Tom!

That was

your bright idea?

You'll see.

ALEX TREBEK ON TV:

This capital is one of

the USA's busiest. April?

What is Denver?

Right.

"State capitals"

for $400, please.

The answer there,

the daily double!

(AUDIENCE CLAPPING)

Whatever your plan is,

it's not working.

Wait. What time is it?

(SIGHS)

8:
57.

Oh, damn! Jeopardy!

...look at today's

final Jeopardy category,

"Poland."

We'll be back with a clue

relating to that subject

following this break.

(GRUNTING)

Why did you do it, Frank?

Or should

I call you the psycho

environmentalist killer?

My mother

called me Billy.

I'll tell you why I did it.

I'm only hastening

the inevitable!

Mother Earth needs

to cleanse herself,

or we're all gonna

burn in a fiery hell!

Oh, God,

can't you see?

There's no hope!

(GASPING)

Aren't you

a ray of sunshine?

Sure there is.

There's plenty of hope.

But you have to turn

the world around

to help people.

Free Willy, Billy,

not kill Willy.

Billy.

No.

Kill Tommy,

Tommy.

(BARKS)

(GRUNTS)

I knew you'd

come save us.

(LAUGHS)

Come on, Puppy!

(GROANING)

(GRUNTING)

(LAUGHS)

TOMMY:

Okay, let's go.

(GROANING)

You wait here.

I'll take care of him.

What are you doing?

Come on, Frank.

Come on.

You want some of me, Frank?

Come on, come on.

(CHOKING)

Now, I really

can't breathe.

(GASPING)

I can't breathe.

(YELLING)

Please.

The verdict is in.

You are sentenced

to die.

Asbestos.

(SCREAMING)

(BELLS TOLLING)

(MONICA PANTING)

So that's what

these things are for.

Look on the bright side,

Frank.

At least

you're biodegradable.

(COUGHS)

Well, 6,

I think it's time

we deliberate.

I couldn't agree more.

(FLASH EXPLODING)

(APPLAUDING)

This is truly a proud moment

for the Department of Justice,

and to Thomas B. Collins.

It is my great honor

to present to you a check

for an extra day's work.

That's way too much.

CROWD:

Tommy! Tommy! Tommy!

TOMMY:
Well,

thank you, thank you,

distinguished guests.

And to you, Judge Powell.

I believe I owe you

the biggest debt of gratitude.

For you,

of all people, showed me

what I should be

doing with my life.

(PEOPLE CHEERING)

I wanna make

(WOMAN LAUGHING)

I wanna make

every woman I see

Uh-uh-uh.

I'm a heterosexual man

Just a heterosexual man

(WOMAN HOOTING)

WOMAN:

Go ahead, sweetheart!

I wanna do it to them

in their clothes

TOMMY:
All right!

Yeah, Peanut, you made it!

Little puppy,

be a good boy!

(YODELING)

Judge Ito,

a bite of my burrito!

Kato, have some of my tomato.

Hey, Mr. Cochran,

have some of my...

Okay, I won't say that one.

(SWEET SOUL REVUE

PLAYING IN JAPANESE)

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Neil Tolkin

Neil Tolkin is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Montreal. He attended Westmount High School and Dawson College and McGill University. more…

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