Other People's Money Page #5

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and this town...

...to enrich some son of a b*tch

who's trying to destroy me?

I can't play with him

in the courts forever.

He'll get the injunction lifted

and buy more shares.

Don't be a pigheaded fool.

He deserves to lose this company.

- Good night, Mr. Jorgenson.

- Good night, Gus.

Everything going along okay,

Mr. Jorgenson?

Everything's moving right along, Gus.

Everything's gonna be okay,

isn't it, at the plant?

- I mean, at the plant and everything?

- Everything's gonna be just fine.

We'll be making wire and cable

for a long time.

- Yes, sir. Good night, sir.

- Good night.

Jorgy?

- Have you got a minute?

- Sure, Bill.

Do you mind if I speak frankly

to you, Jorgy?

You always have, haven't you?

You know...

...I'm trained to think in contingency.

You know I've spent my life

managing businesses, and...

And...

Bill, you're in a panic.

Well, you know how it is

with business, Jorgy.

When things don't work out quite right...

...and people have invested a lot of time,

a lot of their energy, a lot of themselves...

...management takes care of its own, Jorgy.

It happens all the time.

And given the uncertainty

surrounding us these days...

...and the fact that you haven't set up

any financial guarantees for us, Jorgy...

Lord, I hate...

Hate giving this speech.

When I retire in two years, I've told you,

you're taking over the business.

I promised you that.

There won't be any business

in two years, Jorgy.

There won't be any business in one year.

You're holding on to a dream.

Go home, Bill. Have a drink.

Give my best to Jeanette.

I don't want the rug pulled out

from under me so close to the finish line.

Good night.

Jorgy, I've been here 15 years.

I have a family. Something's due me.

Now, I've worked my ass off

for 15 years...

...and you're gonna let that man come in

and take over the company. It's not right.

I'm sorry, Bill.

Up here we don't plan the funeral

until the body is dead.

Sounds like everybody's hungry.

Well, let's eat.

- Sit down, darling.

- Happy Thanksgiving.

Thank thee, Father, for thy care,

for thy bounty everywhere.

For this and every other gift,

our grateful hearts to thee we lift.

Amen.

Second down and 10, Lions at their 49--

I don't know why you watch this.

It's so stupid!

Maybe if you'd watch, you'd see.

See, he's going right now.

Yes. Go, go, go!

I told you.

My money was on Detroit.

Have to admit,

we still have fresh air up here.

Feels good, all right.

I'm awfully glad you came, Kate.

It means a hell of a lot to your mother.

I love your mother.

I can't say I'm sorry for that,

but I am sorry for whatever it is...

...that it's done to you

in the last 21-odd years.

I'm okay, Jorgy.

Good.

Now let's talk a little business.

Let's quit talking about what I won't do.

Let's talk about what I will do.

I have a problem.

I'm a good lawyer.

I'm a lousy mind reader.

I wanna put it to a vote.

Annual meeting in four weeks.

Wanna put it in the hands

of the stockholders.

Can't do that. It's too risky.

We could lose everything.

- You're a fighter. I'm a fighter.

- It's too dangerous.

There's no other choice

that I can live with.

This 30 percent,

this faithful 30 percent...

...can you absolutely count on them?

They haven't let me down so far.

Awful lot of Ozzies on our side.

Don't trust Ozzie. He's a banker.

I have to trust my friends, Kate.

This is gonna be tough.

I have to get Garfield to buy this.

He won't want to.

It's not to his advantage.

Talk nice.

Give him your best smile.

Come on, Kate.

Let's take on the little son of a b*tch.

Let's kick his ass

all the way back to Wall Street.

It's a quiet place.

I thought it would be a good idea

if we calmed down a bit.

Do you like Japanese?

I'd like to have Sony.

Could you bring me a knife and fork?

So, what do you say?

A proxy fight? I'd have to be nuts.

I could sit on my ass and wait

for the injunction to lift...

...buy all the shares I need.

Anybody else,

I wouldn't even come to lunch.

You look very nice today.

But if you win, Lawrence,

it speeds up the process.

You get what you want in three months

instead of a year, maybe two.

I love it when you call me Lawrence.

Say it again.

There's a lot can stand

in your way, Lawrence.

Anti-takeover legislation's

in the works.

Drexel's gone under. Milken's in jail.

Trump's waiting tables.

Don't threaten me.

And just maybe you're over-leveraged,

and you can't afford to wait.

- Thank you. You got any bread?

- No bread.

No bread.

They got no bread.

They wanna run the world,

they got no bread.

In three weeks, you present your own slate.

If you win, you buy everybody out at 20.

If you lose, you sell us back

your shares at 15.

Worst-case scenario,

you still make a couple million.

Amazing people, the Japanese.

We blow the hell out of them.

They go back to school, learn English

and start to run the world.

What do we do?

We get bigheaded,

start living the good life.

Forget about schools.

People can't read. People can't write.

Country's full of dropouts.

Education.

Who needs education as long

as you can blow up the world?

Meanwhile, I got everybody

in my office learning Japanese.

I've never seen such a beautiful lawyer.

Come on, Lawrence.

This is your game.

Winner takes all.

Rumor has it, you got balls.

I've been trying to show you for weeks.

Well, here's your opportunity.

All right.

I can always use

a good proxy bloodbath.

After all, I wanna give you

a fighting chance.

I love you.

Of course you do.

Because we're the same.

We are not the same, Lawrence.

Now, don't go spreading that around.

You know what makes us the same...

...what sets us apart?

We care more about the game

than we do the players.

Oh, is that so?

Yeah...

...that's so.

I'm gonna nail you, Lawrence...

...and everybody

on Wall Street's gonna know...

...some broad did you in.

You're so perfect for me.

- I have to go.

- Don't go.

Lunch is on me, baby-poo.

Where you going?

I have to go back to the office.

Don't go back to the office.

Come and work for me.

Lady said to say, "We have no doughnuts."

Here's your coffee, boss.

You make me feel like a dirty crook.

Sneaking off to Jersey is not my style.

Can we speak frankly?

No. Lie to me.

Tell me how thrilled you are

to know me.

I always speak frankly. I hate people

who say, "Can we speak frankly?"

It means they're bullshitting me

the rest of the time.

I'm listening.

Now...

...as you know, I had 60,000 shares

of New England stock when we first met.

What am I getting, a history lesson here?

Get to the point.

Since becoming aware

of your investments...

...I bought an additional 40,000 shares.

I now have 100,000 shares.

Congratulations.

I'm prepared...

...to sell you the right...

...to vote those shares

at the annual meeting.

How much?

- A million.

- Too much.

You need a million shares

more than you already own.

Now, I can get you 10 percent

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