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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
175 Views


or you wouldn't be here.

You got to be squeaky clean

for the custody stuff.

You know, you walk in,

you file your thing,

you walk out.

You go to family court, I want

to see you walking in there.

Don't want to get

arrested before that.

You got to stay in

the present, babe!

Hi.

Okay, it's $12

for processing

and I need to see

your license.

Can you tell me

where the office

for family court is, please?

It's upstairs and to

your right.

Okay.

You've completed your

alternative to incarceration.

You're eligible to get your

license back in six months,

provided you have

no further offenses.

And since you can't drive,

you shouldn't have

any more offenses.

Are you okay?

We got mobilization orders.

I beg your pardon?

I have to go back.

All right, so...

be real good for

your mom, okay?

She's had a rough time.

Okay?

All right.

All right then.

I love you.

I love you, too.

- Bye.

- Bye.

Bye.

I love you.

Hi!

Hey, guys.

Come in.

Your hair looks brighter.

Yeah, yeah.

Are you okay?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm okay.

Are you okay?

Yeah.

Look at you.

Let's make a mummy.

First, let you out, Jackie.

Come on,

we don't want to be late.

Close this one, lock it.

All right, away we go.

Okay.

- Wanna play a game?

- Sure.

What do you want to play?

Let's walk like

Frankenstein.

Walk like Frankenstein?

All right.

Ready?

Friend...

Okay, now how about

like a hunchie?

Na, na, na.

Okay, how about like

a ballerina?

- A ballerina?

- Yeah.

Five, six, seven, eight,

lean, one, two,

shake,

three, four, turn,

five, six,

step, seven, head whip.

Hold it... eight.

All right, you guys look

awesome, good job.

What's with the sheet?

She's a mummy.

Hey, little mummy.

Hi!

Come here, little mummy.

Come on, honey,

get in the car.

Can I stay with Mom?

No, it's not her day.

I'll see you on

Friday, okay?

You did good today.

F*** you!

Sorry, babe.

No, I...

Sorry.

I was gonna

give you a ride.

You live downtown?

Uh... yeah.

Come on.

All right.

How'd you get

your license back?

Look at that bullshit.

Taking that lady's money

for nothing.

What a f***ing racket.

Look at those two.

They're obviously pigging out

on some...

doughnuts or cheap sh*t.

Skinny ones going home

and throwing it up.

The fat one maybe should.

Then they got to

eventually come back there

spend even more money

to work it off.

Yeah, that's f***ed up.

Well, you must have gotten some

perspective

while we were there anyway

about whether you can fit your

ass into a pair of pants or not.

Oh, I fit my ass

in a pair of pants.

Yeah, I actually noticed

that before.

You don't mind my saying so.

Jesus Christ,

it must suck coming home

with all these f***ing Oprah

a**holes up your ass.

You know when I came back,

nobody gave a sh*t.

Nobody said a word...

which sucked,

in its own way,

but at least there wasn't

anybody up my ass,

trying to get me to tell 'em

what was it over there that

happened that made

you the kind of person

who would walk his f***ing cat

on a leash.

Hmm, wow.

I'm called back.

Oh, sh*t.

Before my custody hearing.

Oh, f***.

That sucks.

My uncle used to know

some Quakers.

Word was, back in the day,

they could

run you up to Canada.

I don't know but that's

what they say.

Hey, you like, uh, venison?

'Cause I got about

two freezers full of it.

I got a blind about a mile

from my house.

What do you say?

Why the f*** not?

The john's outside.

How do you get

electricity in here?

I stole a line from the county.

I run the fridge

and the deep freeze

and pretty much everything

off that.

No plumbing, however.

- Wow.

- Yeah.

Thank you.

I used to have a solar panel,

for a while.

Some days you have

juice, some days you don't.

Cloudy days I'd be reading

by the fridge light.

Bunch of meth heads

down there.

That sh*t will f*** you up.

Yeah, well, I know you're

into the pure living.

You hungry?

And then they do this...

Oh, they do

this move...

and I gotta, I got to put

that down, it's like...

And it's just like a bunch of

six-year-old little kids

doing it,

and it's ridiculous.

It's like...

Yes, but then

you turn around...

- Terrible.

- ... and it's, like, two girls

doing it like this

to each other.

And it's so...

Oh...

Were you a cheerleader?

No, God no.

I...

Well, I like to dance

or whatever,

but not for the whole town.

You want to

show me some cheers?

- What?

- Mm-hmm.

No!

Come on,

show me some cheers.

Show me some cheers.

You show me

some cheers.

I will show you one more thing

that she did.

She...

And the woman

who teaches them is hilarious

because she loves it so much.

And at the end of the cheer,

at the end of like every cheer,

they do this...

And they look real serious.

Aw, she's cute, though,

she is really cute.

So you joined 'cause...

so they'd pay for college?

Yeah, college,

but also, when I was

a little kid, my aunt,

she lived in Adams County

and they had this huge tornado

and they sent the Guard in,

and they were so cool.

That's why

you went in?

Yes, originally.

Tornadoes.

Yeah, a lot of people in my unit

joined for stuff like that.

That's rainwater.

That's gross.

It's clean.

If you boil it.

- Really.

- All right, if you say so.

Anyway, and then I never

finished college.

So...

Oh...

- Ooh.

- Mm-hmm.

What about you?

My, uh, lawn mower

ran out of gas.

Come on, seriously.

It was one of those loud

pull-start lawn mowers

and it ran out of gas,

so the engine cut out...

and if it had kept going,

I would have kept mowing.

But it shut down, and I heard

the phone ring.

Plus, the glass door was open

and the air conditioning

wasn't on.

So because of all those things,

I went inside

and answered the phone.

And?

And...

it was the army recruiter.

I can pull out.

No, no, no, don't.

- I can do it.

- Don't.

Don't, don't, don't.

I want it, I want it.

I want it!

I like your coffee thing,

it's cool.

Thanks, babe.

- Do you want some?

- Mm-hmm.

Here you go.

What is that?

Oxy.

You have a bad back

or something?

Eh, not so much.

These are...

just the pinks.

You can eat them,

but you got to

eat a lot of these.

Crushing them is better.

Turns your snot pink

but it's worth it.

I gotta... get home.

Think I can

walk from here?

Uh, I can take you.

You can just wait

a little while.

I'll be good in like a...

like an hour?

Hey, Travis.

I thought you

and Mike broke up.

Just give me my

f***ing change.

You seeing anyone?

Not yet.

Take care.

"Pointing downward,

replace over cap

and lay stick on a flat surface

with result window facing up."

Okay, I did that.

You gotta let the hormones

build up in there, Kel.

It takes a second.

Okay, so one line is pregnant

and two lines is

not pregnant, right?

Ew, your pee is all over

that thing.

Oh, f***, Shannon.

I can't believe you have

two kids already.

Yeah, well, if I want to

keep them, then I gotta be here,

I can't be in some

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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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