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Synopsis: The four sons (Diesel, Green, Pepper, Davoli) of major Brooklyn mobsters have to team up to retrieve a bag of cash in a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff. Specifically, the story gets started when Matt Demaret (Pepper) goes on a job to deliver the money for his mob father (Hopper) on the advice of his uncle (Malkovich). Things don't go as planned though...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Production: New Line Cinema
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
30
Rotten Tomatoes:
21%
R
Year:
2001
92 min
$11,509,127
Website
371 Views


-They're keeping the money.

Look, you two can leave

if you want to.

But l ain't goin' anywhere.

Scarpa. Goddamn,

l've heard that name.

Yeah, well, Bill IKurtis

was talking about him...

on the history

of organised crime on A&E.

-You get A&E with satellite?

-Yeah.

You think that's his kid?

Oh, yeah, l surely do.

You know something else, Don?

That Demaret kid

wasn't Just Jaw-wagging.

His daddy Benny Demaret...

seems like he's Just under

the top guys.

Holy sh*t, Stan. An underboss?

Look, we're not

rousting Juvies here.

They're not Just gonna

let this go, that kind of money.

They're gonna call their uncles

and their fathers...

and they're gonna come here

looking for the money.

The place

is gonna be crawling with 'em.

You're watching too darn much

of that satellite, Donnie.

Nobody's comin'

to this marine's town...

and doing a damn thing.

Just think about it.

They can't Just call...

and say they lost the money.

They'd have done it already.

They do that, they end up

in a barrel of acid...

or whatever else they do

with their bodies these days.

I see what you're saying.

I Just don't figure on them

leaving empty-handed.

See, that's the thing.

We can't let 'em leave.

I'll tell you one thing,

next time l see those fucks...

I'm gonna be packin'.

I keep a piece in my plane.

I'm sorry, Johnny.

That is a big Heartland Lodge

buck right there.

Feature this.

State senate thinks they can

tell me how to run my shop.

So, yeah, there is

a three-day waiting period...

technically.

But that's mostly enforceable...

for your garden variety

Latino stick-up men...

which you boys

don't appear to be.

No, sir. Definitely not.

Listen, l appreciate

you moving this along for us.

Here's a bill

for all your trouble.

They trouble? l thought

they would be trouble.

No. No. No trouble.

Ouestion 'em, mostly.

Just question 'em.

Just wanna

yoggle-doggle with 'em.

You give me a call

if you see 'em.

You sure nobody from out of town

has been here?

No. Oh, out of town.

Yeah, John Heater

come up from Beach.

Had a party goin' huntin'

up Big Timber.

-No strangers?

-No stranger than you.

-I gotta say this one time.

-What's that?

You and Scarpa

take the car and drive.

Leave me here with Marbles.

It's his fault anyway.

Are you serious?

No, there's no way.

It's not even a choice.

Matty, l'm not Just talking

about this little field trip.

I'm talking about all of it.

You had it right

in the first place.

Looking for a regular Job,

being a citizen.

I tried it, man.

It's the only thing left now.

You don't want a piece of this.

Matty, for ninety-nine guys

out of a hundred...

this is lose-lose.

It's not like the way

it was thirty years ago.

It's not like the stories

your uncle was telling us...

when we were growing up.

Now it's either a bullet

in the back of your head...

or Jail for life.

Just snap it back in there.

So you know all this, but l

don't see you trying to get out.

I said you. Come on,

we're talking about you, here.

Sorry l got you into this,

Taylor.

It's Just more

of the same for me.

Just more of the same.

You fellas are on a real

busman's holiday, aren't ya?

Hey, look at you.

You roll into town with

more guys than Sinatra, right?

Teddy, l Just want you to know

how truly sorry l am.

I know l f***ed this up

right from the get...

but l'm gonna do everything

l can to make it right.

Marbles, that voice

is cutting right through me.

You are unlikable.

If it wasn't for Matty...

I'd love to kill you right now.

As it is, l'd like to kick you

through the uprights...

Iike a f***in' field goal.

So, where are we at?

We've had a wrinkle.

-Cops are involved.

-Dirty f***in' cops.

Yeah, he said cops.

They give you that makeover?

They do nice work.

-You want to talk inside?

-No. We're not gonna talk here.

We'll go over the state line

into North Dakota.

If anybody's lookin', we don't

want 'em to find us yet.

Sheriff Decker's a lifer.

Came from the military,

highly decorated.

Been in office eighteen years.

The man controls the town.

Good. A man

used to running things...

gonna think he can run us, too.

Marbles, pay the check.

Matty, you ride with me.

I gotta ask you something.

None of my guys

would even be here...

if they weren't trying

to help me out.

They shouldn't suffer for that,

you know?

If we get that money back...

nothin' happens to Marbles,

all right?

Used to be there was a way

to do things...

and things got done.

No room for whining,

no room for mistakes.

Now, everybody's feelings

are involved.

A guy steps wrong now, he ends

up on the witness stand...

or on the f***in'

Barbara Walters.

But l'll tell you what, Matty.

Since you're askin'...

I'll give you a one-time-only.

Nothing will happen

to your friend. OIK?

Thanks.

You know, this whole thing's

my fault, anyway.

I figured

l wasn't a kid anymore.

-I figured l was ready for this.

-Age got nothin' to do with it.

You take Taylor,

you put him in that basement...

it don't matter if he's

a toddler or 1 03 years old.

He's gonna pull that trigger,

and you're not...

'cause you're not made that way.

And that's good, OIK?

Don't get down on yourself...

and the sheriff

will surface soon.

We'll sort the thing out.

You might want to notch it

back there a notch.

We got work tonight.

I don't know, man.

I'm not feelin' ready.

We ran a check. We know

who you are, Mr. Demaret.

We're willing to deal.

Don't want guys like you

unhappy.

Good.

So let's get this done, then.

I'll come down.

No, l don't want you

walking into my station again.

We meet tonight.

I'm off duty at twelve.

Brickman's Meats.

It's past the tracks.

-So why not now?

-I'll say when.

Bring your friends

if you're worried.

I'll tell you what.

I don't like the sound of this.

If you want to see

your money again...

that's where it's gonna be.

You're not talkin' about

leavin' are ya?

I am.

I think you should

come with me, cuz.

Matty needs us.

Matty's got

all the backup he needs.

Bus rolls by the interstate

and goes to Billings at 1 1 : 1 5.

I booked us a room

at the Sheraton...

back in New York

by tomorrow morning.

My father works things out

with Benny Chains...

six months from now,

nobody's gonna remember a thing.

No chance. No f***in' way.

You're my first cousin...

and l have

a responsibility to you.

This whole thing is my fault.

It's my doing and l'm sticking.

If you gotta go, you go.

All right, let's go in and see

how we set this thing up.

That makes it twenty.

-How about a check?

-I go to cash it...

you cancel it the minute

l walk out of town? Nah.

-Borrow it from your friend.

-Hey...

Mr. New York mile-a-minute,

why don't you shut your mouth?

You're makin' my ears hurt.

That'll be enough of that,

fellas.

-Go on and have a drink.

-Ain't none of your business.

You don't want me

to make it my business, huh?

Believe me.

Come on.

Can you imagine

these hillbilly bastards...

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Brian Koppelman

Brian William Koppelman (born April 27, 1966) is an American filmmaker, essayist, podcaster, TV series creator, former music business executive and record producer. Koppelman is the co-writer of Ocean's Thirteen and Rounders, the producer for films including The Illusionist and The Lucky Ones, the director for films including Solitary Man and the documentary This Is What They Want for ESPN as part of their 30 for 30 series, and the co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer of Showtime's Billions. more…

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