My Friend Dahmer Page #5

Synopsis: A young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school.
Director(s): Marc Meyers
Production: FilmRise
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
R
Year:
2017
107 min
$1,306,946
1,725 Views


I'm not getting... I'm

not getting heated.

I'm just saying,

whose lawyer are you?

Aren't you supposed

to be representing me?

No.

Ok.

So if he has the

house then I get Dave.

Go on, go.

Get!

Go!

Get!

Just talk to

your dad before you

spend the day with him, ok?

So just... this is what you

want to surprise me with?

You know

what's not a surprise?

The face that you're

45 minutes late.

- That's not a surprise.

- I'm not leaving the kids.

You know the kids.

Oh that's right, you

don't know about the kids

because you're not

at home anymore.

What is this, some big surprise?

What do you think you want

me to do with these, huh?

What do you want me to do?

What do you want me to do?

You want custody of

David, is that right?

Stay in the car.

Give it to me.

I don't give a sh*t.

Hey, hey, hey.

Private issue.

Excuse me, sir.

Boys, just come

out of the car, please.

Jeffrey, come on.

Too late.

Ok.

All right.

Ok, all right.

All right.

Ok.

Now I remember.

Hey, man

how are you doing?

Well, would you lookie here,

the rah rah bender extreme.

Yeah, what else do

you think we'd be doing?

Lightweights?

Be home playing snare

drum or something.

It's no more active than

standing on the sidelines.

Good one.

You're all right for a turd.

Where's your

mascot, dumb dahmer?

He's not here.

What are you gonna be

a prom date, bekderkf?

No, but your mom might.

She can fit in a prom dress.

Dahmer's like your

little court Jester.

Except he's not hanging out

with you guys much anymore,

now is he.

The fan club still lives on.

Really?

Cause it looks like

he ditched you.

We'll get him to show up

for what?

He's doing a rocking

command performance.

Yeah, he'll ante up for sure.

I doubt it.

But really we should...

we should get him

to spazz to the Max.

Yeah, but derf, he hasn't

spazzed in, like, weeks.

I don't think he's into...

yeah but what about...

I have 5 bucks, I can pay him.

I mean, it gets him

out on a Saturday.

Ok I'm in.

Come on that will be so killer.

- $5.

That'll be killer.

$5

hey, Jeff.

Hey.

So.

Dahmer fanclub has a new idea.

Basically, we're going

to go to the mall,

and you're going to

spazz like crazy.

Just the craziest spazz...

why don't you just

leave him alone.

He's not a sideshow attraction.

Leave him alone?

It's gonna be fun.

I have about $32 for

you, but by Saturday I

will probably have a ton more.

So take it, and this can be like

your final command performance.

It's gonna be totally awesome.

We're gonna go out in style.

You in?

Awesome.

You excited?

Mmhmm, yeah.

Awesome yes!

So, is coming?

Uh, yeah.

He said he was.

How about burowski

and gunsler?

Oh, burowski's...

burowski didn't pay.

Um, but gunsler

said he was coming.

Jeez, dahmer.

Never seen you drink

like that before.

Here I am.

Where are we

meeting these idiots?

Um, we're going to meet them

by the lockers at fatties.

Ok, about time.

Sorry guys.

Money?

You've got money, money, money?

Thank you for coming.

Here we go.

Cash, cash, cash, cash.

All right, that's about $15.

Not bad.

All right, let's get

this show on the road.

All right.

I now present to you, Jeff.

Jeffrey.

For this, I'm Jeffrey.

Ok.

Then I present to

you, Jeffrey dahmer,

in his command performance.

Gladly.

Hey man.

Get off me, man.

It's just my medicine.

It's just medicine.

I'm so hungry!

Hey!

Hey kid.

Get out.

Out.

Leave.

Here I am!

That was awesome.

Oh, hi honey.

Hey, guess what?

The divorce is final.

Your dad got the house.

I gotta go to grandma's

with your brother,

but I need you not to tell

your dad that we're going.

Ok, can I count on you to...

to not tell your

dad that I'm going?

For me.

I won't.

Dead animals probably

turn up all the time.

No, this was a

specific incident.

It was creepy.

And you know what...

it's not creepy.

I bet it was a

coh-ven of witches.

- Coven.

- You mean a coven?

- It's coven?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Whatever.

There's been a reported

rise in satanic witch cults.

According to what?

According to who?

What?

Where?

Everyone.

All right, you know

what you should do?

You should get one

of the witch cults

to wish in their cauldron

to get you a prom date.

Piss off.

Hey dahmer, Mike's

looking for a prom date.

Oh yeah, and derf's planning

to put you up for prom king.

No I'm not.

It doesn't matter.

There isn't a girl within

50 miles of the place who

would go to prom with dahmer.

No?

Bridget.

Hello.

Hi.

I know we don't

know each other too well...

not really.

Um.

I heard your friend, um,

Margaret was going to the prom?

Yeah,

with Bryan gunsler.

They're friends from debate.

What are you

doing Saturday?

Some final

papers are due.

Well, do you

want to go to prom?

Oh, with who?

Me.

Oh, um, I don't know.

You can go with me

but spend the time with her.

I don't think that's

a very good idea.

Why?

Look, I'm going

to be late for class, so...

it will be fun.

You're not

going to be weird or...

drink?

No, I won't.

Look.

A lot of upperclassmen

don't know who you are.

But if you to go to the

prom, you will be way

ahead of most of your class.

You want to seem normal, right?

I guess.

A lot of freshmen

just want to be asked.

So it's totally normal

that I thought of you.

I don't know.

Just let me think about it?

I'll talk to my parents.

Ok.

Oh, ok.

Just stand in front of

the backdrop for me.

You guys are my

last ones tonight.

Get closer.

Don't be scared, she's

not going to bite.

And smile.

Oh, look who showed.

Unbelievable.

What is?

Just look.

Thank you.

That was sweet.

I tried.

Can you get us a drink?

Dahmer.

Hey.

It's good to see you here.

Hey, Neil.

Hey, I just

wanted to apologize

for what happened at the mall.

- You weren't there.

- I know.

I couldn't... you know, you

didn't have to do that.

It wasn't bad.

Yeah?

I don't know.

I just...

Neil.

I'm sorry.

You're supposed to

put your hands around my waist.

Hi, derf.

Hey.

Hi, I'm penny.

Um, Bridget.

Congrats.

On what?

We made it.

Oh yeah, right.

I have to pee.

Oh, ok.

Where are you going?

We're going to grandma's.

Today?

You're going to

miss my graduation.

Can I go?

Sweetie, we're not

going to the graduation,

we're going to grandma's.

Honey, your dad's

going to be there,

we can't be in the same room.

You know that.

Hugsies?

Come on.

Oh, wow not even

when I'm going, huh?

Come on, good day.

Keep the smiles on.

Hey baby, put this out for mama.

Take car of your dad, ok?

Smiles up!

Did you hide the keys?

No.

Got them!

Bye honey!

Bye Jeff.

Bye Dave.

Love you, baby!

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Congratulations.

Oh and Jeff...

she's all yours now.

I'm proud of you kid.

Hey.

Mom, I got to go to the grocery

store and pick some stuff up.

Well, honey, I'm about to put

your favorite Hawaiian chicken

in the oven.

Oh.

Well I've got to pick

up my last paycheck.

All right, well

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Marc Meyers

Marc Meyers is an American feature film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his fourth feature film My Friend Dahmer and the previous How He Fell in Love. His first feature film was Approaching Union Square. Based on his stage monologues, this debut is a collage of eleven tales capturing thirty-something New Yorkers struggling to find love and connection in the big city. Among the elegantly drawn characters whose lives briefly intersect on a New York City bus are a tourist, an immigrant, a sex addict, and a woman who is newly awakened to her own psychic powers and senses imminent tragedy. The film had its International Premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival. Variety wrote, "thought-provoking... touches with skilled insight. Based on his stage work 'Love & Sex: Tales From the Trenches', reps a fine calling card for a clear, even voice in urban angst." It aired on Sundance Channel. Meyers then went on to write and direct the New York Times Critics Pick Harvest, starring Robert Loggia, Barbara Barrie, Jack Carpenter, Victoria Clark, Arye Gross, and Peter Friedman. The film portrays three generations of the Italian-American Monopoli family who come together one summer around the eventual passing of their patriarch, a WWII veteran. Gathered at the family home and around their beautiful shoreline town in Madison, Connecticut, years of resentment and betrayal within the family surface, and the grandson, a college-aged student, does his part to hold them all together, growing up in the process. Winner of the Best Narrative Feature Award at various American film festivals, it had a limited theatrical release in 2011. Then it aired on Showtime. Meyers's third feature How He Fell in Love premiered at the LA Film Fest in 2015. The film revolves around Travis, a young struggling musician, who crosses paths with Ellen at a wedding. She's an older married yoga teacher who is trying to adopt a child with her husband. Travis and Ellen begin an affair that slowly deepens into something more intimate and profound. As their encounters continue, Ellen is confronted with her failing marriage while Travis must face the consequences of his actions. The film stars Matt McGorry, Amy Hargreaves, Britne Oldford, and Mark Blum. It was theatrically released by Orion Pictures and Monument Releasing in the summer of 2016. Meyers's fourth film, My Friend Dahmer, is based on the 2012 graphic novel of the same name by cartoonist John "Derf" Backderf, who had been friends with Jeffrey Dahmer in high school in the 1970s, soon before Dahmer began his killing spree. Dahmer is played by Ross Lynch, while Derf is played by Alex Wolff. The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. It's to be theatrically released in the fall of 2017 in North America by FilmRise, followed by Altitude Films in UK, and other territories. Meyers is a 1994 graduate of Franklin & Marshall College, where he majored in English and studied abroad at Oxford University. more…

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