Life of Crime Page #4

Synopsis: Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Daniel Schechter
Production: Roadside Atrractions
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
R
Year:
2013
98 min
$261,695
Website
409 Views


the whores on Webster

Avenue! Everything!

I need a pen.

We know about Melanie.

We know everything you do!

Don't f*** with us!

Write it down!

Who is it?

89500...

Slow down!

What am I, a stenographer?

8950039!

Repeat it back to me!

Correct.

How did it sound?

Sh*t!

Sh*t, yeah!

Who was that?

I don't know.

Only thing that...

What?

What's he tell this Melanie?

How tight you think he is with her?

She ain't nothing but some ass.

Just some ass.

Don't worry about that.

You f***ing b*tch!

I'm gonna kill you!

What's going on up there?

Hey, hey, hey!

Richard! LOUIS:
F***!

Richard!

The f*** are you doing!

Put my eye out with a cigarette.

Sh*t.

How'd she... You peep through the walls.

What did you expect?

He thinks he's in the f***ing Gestapo.

Who gave her those cigarettes?

I did. Just relax.

Let me take a look.

I'm blind! I can't see!

No, you're good.

Blind? You got the other eye.

Shut up! Shut up.

I'm cool. I'm cool.

I'll take a look at it.

Oh, shut up!

Get you some ice. Just cool out.

Whoa.

Mickey, you okay?

Uh-huh.

Shut up.

So, Richard, I got a joke for you.

You might like this one.

You too, Louis.

Dude goes to the doctor, right?

Doctor says, "Sir,

you have to stop masturbating."

Patient goes, "Why?"

Doctor goes,

"Because I'm

trying to examine you."

Oh, what's the matter?

What, that too close to home?

All right, how about this one?

A n*gger, a Jew and a Nazi

get in a Volkswagen...

I got some food for you.

I got chicken and noodles

cooked in chicken soup

with onions and some other things.

Looks pretty good.

You got your mask on?

Can't tell. Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

You can turn around.

It doesn't matter.

Oh, come on!

No! Take it off!

Don't look.

I used that tape to cover

up the hole in the wall.

You guys are gonna have to get

your kicks another way, okay.

You don't have to worry about that.

We'll cover the holes.

What is wrong with that guy?

He's disgusting. He stinks.

Yeah. Well, he's got a few problems,

but who hasn't, right?

Sh*t.

What are you gonna do to me?

Your son, he didn't

go with him, did he?

No, he went to Florida.

Yeah.

You know your husband has a

girl with him down there.

No.

You never suspected it?

No.

You guys get along all right?

Why? I'm just asking.

Most men, they go away,

they pick up something.

It isn't unusual.

How do you know that?

I can't tell you.

You know about his personal

bank account in Freeport?

Hey.

Face forward.

I know he does business down there.

I would assume that...

With over a million in it?

How do you know that?

We know.

Maybe that's...

It's 50 grand a month

he's been taking

out of his apartments

in Detroit and putting it away.

So the building

cost me 100 grand.

I put about 40 grand worth of

materials and appliances in it

and have it

reappraised for 200 grand.

Wow.

Okay. Now, I've only

put 10% down, right?

And the 40 grand of

materials actually only

really cost me about

four or five grand.

But I'm writing off

depreciation on...

Two hundred grand. Right.

And on the rentals,

I only declare 60% occupancy.

And that's all paid in cash.

Jeez.

You're a genius, baby.

Somehow, though, these guys that called,

they know about this.

What's f***ed up here,

besides the obvious,

is here you are filing for divorce,

and then this happens.

Not wanting to be married,

but, I mean, gosh, don't want anything

awful to happen to her, either.

Yeah. Yeah, right.

I mean, you may pay the million bucks,

and they still might...

I mean, let me rephrase that.

You still might not see her again, honey.

Or if I couldn't get to

the bank for some reason

and didn't make the payment on time,

then what?

Do you know what?

We don't even know if she's alive or dead.

We know she's alive.

I talked to her on the phone.

But was that really her?

That was her.

It was definitely her.

Gosh, I don't know.

I mean, we could call their

bluff and see what happens.

No, I can't do that.

No, we can't do that.

It's too risky. Yeah.

Huh?

I mean, they might be bluffing.

Although, let's put

ourselves in their place.

Where would you be

if she were dead?

Where would I be

if she was dead?

Where would you be if she were dead?

Where would I be?

Not you, sweetie.

I mean, where would they

be if she were dead?

You mean if I were them? Yeah.

Where would you be

if she were dead?

Hello, Mr. Taylor. Welcome back.

Rodney, have you seen Mr. or

Mrs. Dawson the last few days?

Frank and Mickey?

Not since Sunday night.

Mickey either? No, sir.

Detroit Police Department.

Please state your emergency.

I think perhaps

a woman's been taken.

May I have your name, sir?

She's a family friend.

Her name is Mickey.

Marsh!

Just a minute, please.

Marshmallow,

what are you doing here?

Just making a phone call.

Dad, why aren't you at work?

Would you stop that?

Your father's on the phone.

Hello? Are you there?

Why? What am I doing?

Just be clear about what you

want so I can understand you.

I would like you to

stop bouncing your ball

against the door so

I can talk to Daddy.

Please.

Hey, man, are you

there? Are you there?

Okay, that'd be great.

Hello? Sir...

Please. You, too. Bye now.

You almost finished in there?

Where'd you learn

to bandage like this?

The Navy.

You were a doctor?

No,

I was the one getting bandaged.

Oh.

Now this is what you

do? Kidnap people?

No, you're my first.

Ow.

All right.

Hey! Hey! Put the mask on!

Jesus!

I've already... I've already seen you.

With both of my eyes.

At the country club.

Okay?

Come on.

Oh, my...

Oh, my gosh. Wow. Oh, my God.

What, you don't like history?

I hear this stuff's worth a lot of money,

what I'm told.

When am I going home?

He hasn't paid yet.

Can I ask how much

are you asking for?

A million.

A million dollars?

He's got it.

I told you that. Unless you can

think of a reason he won't pay.

God.

Oh, gosh, a million dollars.

It's just not gonna happen.

What do you mean?

He's got it. I told you that.

Oh, God.

Tell me more about

those apartments.

Should I get it?

Should we get it?

Do you want me to get it?

Maybe you should get it.

I can get it.

I got it.

Mr. Dawson's residence.

How can I help you?

Put the man on.

I'm afraid Mr. Dawson

isn't here right now.

Would you care to

leave a message?

You tell the man

get on the phone

if he wants to

speak to his wife.

Actually, Mr. Dawson left the

island this morning on a boat

and didn't mention

when he'd be back.

Have a good day.

I used to be a receptionist

for this PR guy in LA.

The guy was a real

a**hole, but actually

I made a lot of

interesting friends.

So it was a good experience overall,

I mean.

What did he say?

He didn't really say anything.

He just asked for you,

and then he said he knew you were here.

How would he know that?

He's just guessing.

He doesn't know sh*t.

Motherf***er.

Call again.

Well, what happen when I call

and she don't put him on again?

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Daniel Schechter

Daniel S. Schechter (born 1962 in Miami, Florida) is an American psychiatrist known for his clinical work and research on intergenerational transmission or "communication" of violent trauma and related psychopathology involving parents and very young children. His published work in this area following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York of September 11, 2001 led to a co-edited book entitled "September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds" (2003) and additional original articles with clinical psychologist Susan Coates that were translated into multiple languages and remain among the very first accounts of 9/11 related loss and trauma described by mental health professionals who also experienced the attacks and their aftermath Schechter observed that separation anxiety among infants and young children who had either lost or feared loss of their caregivers triggered posttraumatic stress symptoms in the surviving caregivers. These observations validated his prior work on the adverse impact of family violence on the early parent-child relationship, formative social-emotional development and related attachment disturbances involving mutual dysregulation of emotion and arousal. This body of work on trauma and attachment has been cited by prominent authors in the attachment theory, psychological trauma, developmental psychobiology and neuroscience literatures more…

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