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Synopsis: Back from a tour of duty, Kelli can't wait to rejoin her old life in the rust belt town she's always lived in. She's ready to experience the old feelings of everyday life- the carpet under her bare feet, a cold beer in front of the television, the smell of her baby's head. Slowly, though, she realizes that her everyday life doesn't resemble the one she left. Struggling to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes, what can she reclaim of her share of the way of life she's been fighting to protect?
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Liza Johnson
Production: Dada Films
  1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
97 min
$6,717
Website
188 Views


Mostly I saw a giant

amount of supplies.

Did you ever see

a plane full of rubber gloves?

Nope.

But, yeah...

there was

weird sh*t there.

Really, really weird sh*t.

There's like tons of dead

animals on the side of the road

and everybody knows somebody...

Anyway.

Now all the cups are where

the f***ing plates should go

and it's...

weird.

Did you have an affair?

No!

Jesus, you guys and your stupid

f***ing questions.

Some of... some of...

some of those

guys are hot.

Hey, party girl.

Hi, I made coffee.

Good for you.

- Yeah, I need it.

- Yeah.

Oh...

Did you sleep with

the kids again last night?

Mm-hmm.

Doesn't that hurt

your back?

Eh...

A little.

Well, you know,

the bed's nice.

You might like it.

Well, you better

snap to it, soldier.

Eh!

Mike.

Oh, you're killing me.

Rough night?

This is f***ing stupid.

What?

It's just

a giant waste of time.

I can't do it anymore.

- What do you mean?

- I just can't do it.

End of this month, it's gonna be

too late, you've gotta get...

Wait.

I can't.

What do you mean, what?

I can't.

What, Kelli?

What?

What, it can't even wait for me

to get off the phone?

- I just can't do it.

- What can't you do?

You can't do inventory,

or shipping?

What'd I do?

What, did Ed say

something wrong?

Suddenly you're

the sensitive type?

I didn't say anything.

Nah, it's not that.

I've kept your job

open for a year,

you've been

working for me for 12 years.

I would like to know

the reason.

You're just upset.

Whoo!

Hee-hee!

Finally, babe,

people in this town

need some goddamn

plumbing done.

Yeah!

Underground routing at

Goodwin's Car Wash.

Underground, baby.

It's leaking, it's all shot

to sh*t, and they know it.

They know it's

gonna cost them, too.

I tried to tell them about,

like, I'm sorry for 'em,

y'know, real serious,

like I was worried about 'em,

but they said yes!

All new pipes!

How was your day,

how's work?

Ahh... No, I got it.

- I took the day off.

- Yeah.

Oh, my God, oh, my God.

It's a whole...

it's a whole underground system.

I mean, it could take two weeks,

serious billable cash.

How come you

didn't go to work?

No reason.

Personal day.

Yeah.

Yeah, you could use it.

Yeah.

Goddamn,

I gotta get a beer.

Hey.

Finally got

the girls to sleep.

Boy.

You all right?

Can I ask you

some stuff?

Yeah.

Okay, what kind of stuff?

Well, you know, Shannon's been

real worried about you.

And...

Well, I just want you to

know that...

I don't know, if...

if you did do something

over there,

or saw something

or did something

of a personal nature...

A personal nature?

Well, I just would

rather know, okay?

I would rather know if you did,

I'm not saying you did.

Whatever.

I just... I know all kinds of

things can happen...

... like with your

unit or anything.

Well, Shannon, sure as sh*t,

wouldn't understand anything.

I can tell you that

right now.

What, Kel,

understand what?

Nothing.

So that's it?

Yeah.

All right.

All right, there is

this one thing

that I didn't tell you about

that I should have told you

about before.

I don't know,

I, uh, I just found...

I just... it's stupid, but I

just... I couldn't do it anymore,

so... I quit.

You quit what,

quit the Guard?

No, no, no, no, no,

I still have that.

I just...

At the warehouse.

I quit.

You quit your job?

Yeah, it's not

my fault, I...

How is it not your fault?

It just doesn't mean anything,

you know, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter?

- Really?

- No, that came out wrong.

Kel, listen.

I've been playing

Mr. Mom over here, okay,

covered in f***ing puke

and baby sh*t

and we can't sit around

and hope that some a**hole

gets enough hair in his shower

and needs me to come over

and snake it out.

It does matter.

I think it matters.

You have no plan, okay?

You need to

get a plan.

- Hey.

- Hi.

Come on.

A man can't

kiss his own wife?

- Come on.

- No...

No, I'm sorry,

this is not true.

This is not

even a topic anymore.

- We all agree on this...

- Yeah, we agree but we don't.

I'm actually just calling

to let you know about

a very special offer.

I'm in Ohio.

Uh-huh.

Oh, no, ma'am.

Yes, I do know where Bangalore

is, and I am not there.

I'm here in the USA.

And I'm just calling to let you

know about an excellent value

on deep carpet shampooing.

Build your new deck,

home addition,

whole building or garage

and we offer the largest

selection of

all colors and models of

garage doors and openers.

Call to arrange your free

estimate today

and receive free gutters and

downspouts with any building.

See you later.

Bye.

... Portage, Summit

and Stark Counties since 1995.

The most fantastic...

Come on, come on,

come on, come on.

Don't you think it's

a little much,

just hanging out

in the living room all day?

It's okay.

It might be fine to get a job

outside the house, you know?

Yeah, like where?

Hmm.

Stop.

No!

- Come on.

- Huh?

Whoo!

Stop!

Stop, Michael!

I don't like it.

You don't like it,

you don't like it?

Oh, yeah,

what about this?

Stop.

Stop it.

All right,

stop it, come on.

Stop.

- Stop!

- All right.

- God.

- Sorry.

- I'm sorry.

- No.

- I'm sorry.

- No.

Sorry.

I don't know.

Hello.

Looking pretty empty

in here.

Oh, yeah.

Hi, Kel, how are you?

I'd like to come back

and work for you, sir.

And I've been thinking very long

and hard about my behavior,

and I sincerely

do apologize for how I acted

and I can understand

if you're mad.

I really need a job.

Yeah, well...

Come here, I want to

show you something.

I didn't think it

would happen so fast.

We got a buyer for the land

and it's not a lot.

Pays better than

ventilators, so, uh...

so we're selling it off.

I mean, everything, too.

Everything's sold,

even the shelves.

I don't who, but...

So it's just down to

me and Ed now.

It's pretty far down.

Yeah.

There's something else

I want to show you.

Come on over here.

Well...

hopefully you could

sell those, too.

Are those yours?

Yeah, mm-hmm.

Yeah, my... my wife won't let me

have them at home.

Do people

even buy pigeons?

Yeah, well, you know, I...

I figured you can

figure it out.

All right.

What was

your technique?

Well, the first one,

I think I took two bites of

and I just was

eating as fast as I could

and then I remembered

about the dipping

because I had read online that

that's what they do in the...

The hot dog-eating

contest, right, right.

Well, the dipping makes

it more mushy,

like a pile of chocolate mush

so it's easier to just swallow,

so you just...

You can

almost drink it.

- Yeah.

- Well, Nancy...

Your... her name is

Nancy Cummings.

You still hold the record of

Congratulations.

- Yay!

- Why thank you very much.

So proud.

- All right.

- Okay.

You're a failure to...

Hey.

You left the door

wide open.

- I saw your van.

- What about it?

I saw your van today.

Hey, Kel,

we were just talking.

Really?

What are you

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Liza Johnson

Liza Johnson (born December 13, 1970) is an American film director, producer, and writer. more…

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