Love Ranch Page #6

Synopsis: In the mid-70s, near Reno, Grace Bontempo runs the Love Ranch, a legal brothel. Her husband Charlie, with big dreams, a felony record, and an aptitude for spending and infidelity, is the brothel's public face. On the day Grace's doctor tells her she has cancer in an advanced state, Charlie takes on new client, Argentine boxer Armando Bruza, Charlie's ticket to fame: he hopes to promote a fight with Ali. Because of Charlie's felonies, Grace is Bruza's titular manager. With the IRS and the church ladies circling the business, Grace takes the manager's role seriously and, along the way, Bruza charms her. Secrets play out: is there love at the Love Ranch? How will Charlie respond?
Director(s): Taylor Hackford
Production: E1 Entertainment
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
37
Rotten Tomatoes:
13%
R
Year:
2010
117 min
$134,904
145 Views


The two are dying, Grace, damn.

Good story, huh?

Are you there?

Yes? - Charlie dismissed Valerie,

you have to get out.

Now I can not.

We can not miss Valerie,

you have to leave.

Ok, I'll be in five minutes, okay?

You better hurry,

I can not find Charlie.

You better leave here.

Not you fear I have Charlie.

Please, you gotta get outta here.

Go through the window. - Ok, ok.

But go with you.

You can not go with me where?

Where is out of here,

please get out of here.

Oh, no, no, I can not

do that, I have fear.

Grace, Grace, look,

not afraid of anything right?

Ok.

You know, more or less dead, who cares

mind, I have anger, everything worked.

Oh sh*t, oh, well.

Is this Grace?

Forget it.

Who is Grace?

Where the hell are you?

Come on, Charlie, Charlie, dear.

Damn fool.

Hey, Grace.

Oh, hell, my car.

I brought my car, do not worry.

We must hurry.

Grace, what's going on?

Grace, what the hell is happening?

Where are we?

California.

I do not believe.

Yes, just arrived an hour ago.

Where are the girls in bikinis?

My mom used to bring

here when not drinking.

I had forgotten how beautiful it is.

Would you think?, Listen to this.

That will make us feel better.

You make me feel better.

Beautiful, huh?

What is that?

Carlos Gardel.

Who?

It's a god.

Are you a god?

No, no, Elvis is a god.

Look, here God here

Elvis and here is Gardel.

"Grace?

Charlie."

He is not here, why do not you sit,

take something and look together?

Okay, Charlie, back then.

Know this, is not it?

What?

From his bloody betrayal.

I do not know you talk about, Charlie.

Did not you know who was

with that damn boxer?

Charlie, I just found out today at

later, but I have to tell you something.

I'm happy for her,

I hope you have fun and is happening

the best time of your life.

How can you be happy?

Get out.

You deserve to be so cursed.

Get out.

Listen, little man, perhaps

pills to help you with your problem.

Warren, bring to

Jannie, we must do something.

Summer season, two small

Girl Scouts, I loved it.

What is this?

It's for emergencies.

Nieva enough here, is famous

in American history.

It is something great here.

Like a paradise?

Yes - Here? - Yes.

In times of Indians

this is where they hid,

got their food,

never before seen a white man.

They hid in trees

and saw the white food bodies

and one of them said:

Eat each other.

They eat each other, eh?

Yes

I like this, I can get used to.

What?

In your hair.

No, not horrible.

How come the Bible?

Did you think that?

Yes, every word.

I know I'll go to hell and will not be alone.

Oh, really?

Yes.

Who will you?

You.

Charlie.

That's for sure.

Almost everyone.

You know... what you said was true,

We even eat each other.

We still eat each other.

Harm to people who loved me.

I know, I saw those pictures on the wall, I know.

They did everything for me.

I loved my wife and my son.

I said to myself,

Finally I have something real.

I said, maybe fight once or twice more,

and then we moved to

Across the country, you know?

Far from it.

But I'm stupid, Grace,

I am a hero in Argentina.

Luxuries, women, everything is free.

And one day I met a star

Buenos Aires theater.

It is very nice, I'm a champion.

My wife heard through the newspapers...

And it shattered.

It was with my child.

I know, I know, I read in magazines.

Might deserve this, my head.

I do not know, maybe worth the pain.

No.

I do not care what happens to me,

I do not care to be here.

You...

And now I do not know

how long we have,

weeks, minutes.

I do not know or care.

Bruza, wake up.

Bruza, wake up. Wake up.

Armando.

What? What happens?

I have to go back to the ranch.

When you farm?

Yes.

No, no, why?

We need to get away from there.

I know and I will, but.

No, it is a mistake, the ranch has already been for you

all we need we have it.

I have to go back, I have to fix

Charlie, I owe, do you understand?

Ok, then go with you.

No.

Yes.

No.

You have no idea what he is capable.

I can manage to Charlie.

Do not worry.

What do you want?

"Stay here?

No, I know a place to take.

Come on.

Ok, you'll be safe here

Charlie hates these people,

once stayed and

told them all to hell.

But he has spies everywhere

promise me you will not abandon

your room, promise me.

I promise, I promise.

Ok.

Take this.

You know, when I came to USA,

knew only two English words, perhaps

not great, but I wrote it for you.

One poem, "I wrote a poem?

Yes, I am Argentine.

Apart from a boxer could

be a poet too.

You can read it now, not very long.

You are the shield of my brain.

You are the cure for my pain.

You are my beauty.

Okay?

It's beautiful.

I know.

I'll be here. - Ok. - Ok.

Grace is back, Charlie.

Really? When did?

Ok, thanks.

Ok, Charlie.

I remember this case.

Pack up, eh?

Did I tell the story he told me

Prado on Bruza's wife?

He deceived and abandoned,

and she committed suicide with her child in her arms,

a story in the whole country,

Imagine that.

Even went to the funeral,

because he was too stoned.

Never mind, Charlie,

none of that matters.

Never mind eh, nothing matters.

Never mind you think you

and imported him in bed?

Who better to talk, Charlie?

When was the last time

you spent the night here?

Do not say that, Grace,

all the girls I slept

I do not care and you know it.

You're my wife, never played

anyone in our bed.

I'm your business partner,

is all I was.

That's not true and you know it.

What about family? Let

having children. Forgot?

The wanted, we tried.

Toma.

Can I have possession?

That's all you wanted.

The other, you know,

true, I'll take me.

Which will help me

survive for long.

Now I know why, years ago, when

I saw you, I said this girl is for me.

You're just like me.

You are.

Well done, you have everything, eh?

Grace, listen,

I can understand a guy who comes looking,

I fell in love and take care of you, I understand.

I really do,

and I promise you never

I will get between you.

Oh, Charlie, I'm dying.

You mean this

conversation you're dying?

I have cancer I got six months.

No, less.

Grace, you're talking to me, what

damn kind of story is that?

It is true do you remember the doctor?,

I did all the tests,

in San Francisco.

If all that is true,

Why I did not know before?

I tried to say it a million times.

Charlie, did you see?, I'm not good

for you, not the ranch.

So Keep it, keep the ranch

because that is all I ever wanted.

No ranch without you and you're not

die is a damn sh*t.

I was dead for years

never noticed.

I'll see with the doctors,

discover your lie.

Goodbye, Charlie.

Fare thee well, Grace.

Have your damn luck.

Riva. Riva, I'm Bruza Grace Are you still there?

I need to talk to her.

Bruza, not back.

Charlie is.

Who is it, "Bruza?

Charlie, Charlie 'Goodtime'.

Do not give me that, idiot.

If you want to see Grace, come here.

I challenge you to come here

you and me, face to face, here.

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