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Synopsis: John Sayles' murder-mystery explores interpersonal and interracial tensions in Rio County, Texas. Sam Deeds is the local sheriff who is called to investigate a 40-year-old skeleton found in the desert....As Sam delves deeper into the town's dark secrets, he begins to learn more about his father, the legendary former sheriff Buddy Deeds, who replaced the corrupt Charlie Wade. While Sam puzzles out the long-past events surrounding the mystery corpse, he also longs to rekindle a romance with his old high-school flame. Sayles' complex characters are brought together as the tightly woven plot finally draws to its dramatic close.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Director(s): John Sayles
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 15 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
R
Year:
1996
135 min
183 Views


Doing what they tell you.

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Do what they tell you?

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I mean, follow orders, sir.

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With your attitude, Private...

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...I'm surprised you want to stay

in the service.

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I do, sir.

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Because it's a job?

1371

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Outside it's such a mess. It's....

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Chaos.

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Why do you think...

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...they let us in on the deal?

1375

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'Cause they got people to fight:

Arabs, yellow people, whatever.

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Might as well use us.

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It works like this, Private.

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Every soldier in the war

doesn't have to believe...

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...in what he's fighting for.

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Most of them fight just to back up

the other soldiers in their squad.

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You try not to get them killed.

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You try not to get them extra duty.

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You try not embarrass yourself...

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...in front of them.

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Why don't you start with that?

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Yes, sir.

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Dismissed.

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Thank you, sir.

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iThis time, Fred Zenito for Pager/i

iand the Aggies jump to a 1 4-point lead./i

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iSooners back to punt on their own 27./i

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Longhorns are going to kick some serious

butt this Saturday. You just watch.

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We got a kid, a tailback from

down your way, out of El Indio--

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That's in Maverick County.

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Right, and you're in?

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In Rio.

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This kid, Hosea Brown...

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...he does the 40 in 3.4.

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Soft hands, lateral movement,

the whole package.

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-Only a sophomore.

-Still go to all the home games?

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Daddy's got his box in the stadium

and I'll fly to the Cowboy away games.

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And Friday nights there's high school.

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Churchill's got this boy, 6 foot 6,

310, moves like a cat.

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High school, we're talking.

Guess how much he can bench-press?

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Bunny, you....

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You on that same medication?

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-Why, do I seem jumpy?

-No.

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You look good. I was just wondering.

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Last year was awful with Mama passing on

and this business with O.J.

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It's not Don Meredith or...

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...one of our boys,

but it kind of threw me for a loop.

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You look good.

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Then that squeaker,

the Aggies dropped to Oklahoma.

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That son of a b*tch stepped in some

lucky sh*t before he kicked that goal.

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If they hadn't pulled me off that woman,

I'd have jerked a knot in her.

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Were you in a fight?

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Daddy calls it an altercation.

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How you doing, Sam? You look skinny.

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No, I'm the same weight I always was.

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Daddy hired a pinhead to take your job.

Says so himself:

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''Even my son-in-law was better

than this pinhead I got now.''

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Bunny....

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That stuff I left in the garage still there?

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Least he never called me that.

With me it was always ''high-strung.''

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''Bunny would've done something

with her life if she wasn't so high-strung.''

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Or ''tightly wound.''

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You haven't had one of your fires,

have you?

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The stuff I left in the garage,

some of it was my father's.

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Did you watch the draft this year?

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Of course not. Idiot question.

They try to make it dramatic...

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...like it's a surprise who picks who

in the first round...

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...but they went over it for months

with their experts, computers...

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...doctor's reports, coach's evaluations...

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...highlight reels, psychological profiles....

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I wouldn't be surprised if they collected

stool samples on them, had them analyzed.

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All that to pick...

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...a football player for your squad.

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Compared to that, what you know about

a person when you get married to them...

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...doesn't amount to diddly, does it?

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No, I suppose not.

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You kind of bought yourself

a pig in a poke, didn't you?

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The whole time we were seeing each other,

you didn't know that I was tightly wound.

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It wasn't just you, Bunny.

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No, it wasn't, was it?

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You didn't exactly throw yourself

into it heart and soul.

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Your sh*t's still in the garage,

if that's what you came for.

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Three hundred and fifty pounds.

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That boy Churchill's got.

He plays tackle both ways.

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Bench-presses 350 pounds.

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Imagine having that much weight on you,

pressing down.

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Be hard to breathe, hard to swallow.

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I think they have another fella there

to keep it off your chest.

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A spotter.

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John Sayles

John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996). His film Men with Guns (1997) has been nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. His directorial debut, Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980), has been added to the National Film Registry. more…

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