Once in the Life Page #11

Synopsis: Once in the life (of drug dealing and organized crime), can anyone get out? During a brief jail stay, two half-brothers, who have rarely seen each other while growing up, connect. One of them, called 20/20 Mike because he can sense people nearby, concocts a scheme in which the two of them will steal some dope from young couriers. The heist goes awry when Billy, the junkie brother, shoots the victims of the theft. The brothers hole up in an abandoned building, and 20/20 Mike seeks help from an old cell mate, Tony, whom he thinks is out of the life. It turns out that they have stolen Tony's dope, and Tony's boss wants the two thieves dead. Is there any way out?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Laurence Fishburne
Production: Trimark
 
IMDB:
5.3
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
28%
R
Year:
2000
107 min
Website
89 Views


kill me, Tony. Tony. Tony,

don't kill me. No me mates, man.

No me mates. Tony. Get up. Huh? Get the f***

up, Mike. I don't even know

why I'm doing this, but... Because I'm your boy. Too much crime, too much time.

Too much time. Mike... What the f*** am I going

to say to Manny? Hey, hey.

Come on. Come on. Come on, Tony.

You'll think of something. You'll think

of something, man. You're smart. Are we going

to do this? Mm-hmm? We're going to do

this right now, Mike. Ok. Ok.

Do-or-die time, right? Right.

Ok. Do-or-die time. In all these years

I've known you, you ain't never

laughed at my sh*t, and my sh*t

is funny. According to you. That--that police,

po-lice... That's funny sh*t. Then why didn't

I laugh? You know, there's

funny, and there's... You. Oh, man. Yo, Mike. [Speaks spanish] Take care

of yourself, man. Hell, yeah. Listen, Tony,

you give precious a big hug

from Uncle Mikey, ok? Yeah. He was not funny.

I'm funny. Are--are we being

a little sensitive? No. Come on, now. Did he hurt your

feelings, ruffy? You hurt my feelings. I'm funny. You got a--

please. That sh*t was funny,

what I said. [Cell phone ringing] Come on, motherf***er.

Answer the phone. [Cell phone ringing] All right. Mike: Oh, sh*t! Mike? Yeah? You all right? Yeah, yeah.

I'm ok. What happened? I thought I saw

a f***ing rat, man. All aboard

for the night train. Mike, it's

do-or-die time, man. What are you

going to do? I'm going to try

to go out a back window

on another floor. Hold up a minute,

Mike. You almost forgot

your piece, man. Tony. Thanks a lot,

bro. Goddamn, man. [Gunshot] [Gunshot] Tony. Take that

with you, baby. Knock knock. Oh, isn't that

precious? First degree, baby. First degree. Tony on cell

phone:
Manny. Tony. You got it? Yeah. I got it. All of it? I said it's done. Very nice, Tony. Tony, voice-over:

And that's the tale that I tell from my prison cell, sitting here on my bed. Murder one, possession of a gun, and, yeah, I shot

that stinking b*tch dead. trimark pictures [rap music playing] Home is where we go to pick up the pieces once again home is where we go to pick up the pieces once again my eyes, softly they weep they have seen but one

too many days my heart is ever so weary though it would not

know love anyway anyway anyway home is where we go to pick up the pieces

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Laurence Fishburne

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor, playwright, producer, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for playing Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy, Jason "Furious" Styles in the 1991 drama film Boyz n the Hood and Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in the 1979 war film Apocalypse Now. For his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It, Fishburne was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992), and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in TriBeCa (1993). Fishburne became the first African American to portray Othello in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. Fishburne starred in several cult classics, including Deep Cover and King of New York. From 2008 to 2011, he starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and from 2013 to 2015 starred as Special Agent Jack Crawford in the NBC thriller series Hannibal. In 2013, he portrayed Perry White in the Zack Snyder-directed Superman reboot Man of Steel and in 2016 reprised his role in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Fishburne played Bill Foster/Goliath in the film Ant-Man and the Wasp, released in 2018 as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. more…

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