Search Engines Page #7

Synopsis: Sanity and relationships are put to the test when mysterious circumstances force a family to survive the annual American Thanksgiving holiday without their cell phones.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Director(s): Russell Brown
  18 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.4
NOT RATED
Year:
2016
98 min
87 Views


Oh my gosh, what?

I have like zero bars.

Hmm.

I usually have at least two.

You broke it.

No I didn't.

You broke your phone.

Oh. Come on.

Hey, come over here. I

thought we agreed no phones

on the holiday.

Yeah, I know. But, uh, I don't

know these people that well.

They're your friends. So

what am I supposed to do?

What are you talking about?

You've got Kimmy, she's your

sports buddy. You

love Kimmy.

Yes, yes, I, I love Kimmy,

she's great and she's so much

fun to talk to about sports. And

that lasts five to ten minutes.

And then what am I

supposed to do?

Rick, we made an agreement.

Okay.

Okay? Okay. Okay.

I'm sorry, the phone

is in my pocket.

Okay. Now. So what's up?

Will you please

make me a mojito?

That's it? That's, that's

why you called me over here,

so I could be your manservant

and make you drinks?

You know I

love the way you make them.

Oh boy,

Oh.

Yeah, okay.

I guess I'll make a mojito.

You know what,

don't trouble yourself.

You know what, why don't you

make me a mojito. Yeah. I mean

I'm at your friend's house, I'm

here for you. I'm being a good

boy. Why should I put

on a display? I mean

it's the holidays, I should be

able to be myself, yes?

Yes, and why does being yourself

always mean being by yourself?

Okay that conversation.

No, stop it.

Will you just, Georgia, I will

make you your drink.

Now you have to stop nagging me.

I just thought that my husband

would want to spend five minutes

with me on Thanksgiving. You

know what I mean?

Muddle a little mint, engage

with some people. Forget it.

Georgia. Come here.

You really take that give

right out of Thanksgiving.

Just so you know.

Good to know.

You okay playing

your game, honey?

Yeah, daddy.

Okay.

Fox playing break-up songs

and he's taking bar stools...

cigarette smoke and name tags.

All right, are those boiled?

Did you just see me

take them off the stove?

I don't know

if they're done yet.

They're boiling hot.

Okay. Yeah, but I

didn't peel them.

Oh.

Because I wasn't sure if you

were supposed to peel them first.

Oh no, no, no, no.

Peeling sounds like so much work.

Or peel them-

And besides, no, but the... And

now they're hot so I don't

skin has like amino acid and

fiber know if I can get

Gets you nice and regular

Thanksgiving is not about amino

acids and fiber and

keeping regular.

It should be about keeping regular.

It's not.

It's about creamy,

white perfection

Excuse me, creamy

white perfection?

What if I want chunky black?

That's yummy.

Well when you do

Thanksgiving you can

do chunky black.

No, see I'm not gonna do

Thanksgiving for this

very reason.

I mean look-

Holy sh*t.

I totally forgot. What?

A cookbook.

I have one Oh.

Actual book with pages and

here it is right-oh, holy sh*t.

What? Classic French cooking.

Oh honey the word Thanksgiving's

not even in the

French vocabulary.

- No, no, no, no, no, no, it's okay.

- Well-

We're gonna change it up. we

are gonna have a thanksgiving

with a, with a European flair.

Okay but there is

no mashed potatoes in-

What's the word for-French

cooking they gratine them or-

or gratan them potato.

Well then, we will gratine

them. Whatever. I mean-Okay.

They're gone.

Come on! viva la France.

No you're right,

you're absolutely right.

How do you say potato in French?

Potato? Pomme, pomme.

I think it's a pomme frites.

Yeah, we are gonna

have a Parisian Thanksgiving.

He was so wound up.

Yeah, it's just Bert's

way of coping with life

as a rarely employed

Los Angeles actor.

Oh great.

If you ask me that's

a very sad way to live.

He's always on a leash, paranoid

he's gonna miss something.

Mm, there are worse

ways to make a living.

Yeah, try public school

teaching when the Republicans

are in charge.

Hey.

Except for the

great communicator.

Right. I was a substitute

school teacher. Thirty years.

I went home for the

day, my work was over.

The constancy of the iPhone

age must be, uh, very different

from your generation, hmm?

Oh my generation. Are

you implying my generation

is so far from yours?

I didn't mean

it in a negative way.

You never say

generation to a woman.

I was just trying

to get your goat.

Mom's still quick as a wit.

Better mind the gap.

About most things.

Not everything.

Uh I think the mind

blossoms with age. You know, uh,

the insight from a lifetime of

experience must be invaluable?

Yes. Although some

70 year olds are just as

clueless as 20 years olds.

So uh, so how is

your online love life.

Excuse Me? KATE:
Oh.

If this trumps mine I'm

switching to a quadruple

martini. How's your

love life, mom?

I, uh, I really

haven't signed up yet.

Why not?

'Cause I don't like

the Internet.

I don't trust it. It's better

for younger people I think.

How so? Do you

mind if I record this?

Record? Why?

Well it's, uh, it's for a

little project. You can approve it

before I post it, I promise.

Oh, better get

that in writing mom.

Does Judy know about this?

Uh, she's totally on board.

Okay.

Okay?

So? How is the Internet

from your perspective?

Well I do try to keep up

with everything. I, I want to be

savvy about the Internet, about

all this new technology coming

around. But it is so much and

it, it's, it's too fast.

It comes flying at you, it makes

my head spin.

I, I am afraid I am one click

away from somebody

having all of my information.

I was watching 20/20.

You, you ever see that?

Mm-hmm.

"20/20".

And they said that

if anybody ever gets your

information, you, your life is

never the same. They ruin

your credit. And even the

credit guys, they cannot fix it.

So-I'm not for that.

Besides it's very isolating. You

know, to sit there for hours all

by yourself. Trying to figure

things out. I like people. I,

I like to talk. I, I like to go

to the store. This probably

doesn't make much sense to you,

being younger-how old are you?

Thirty.

Oh lord. God.

I was probably at a Bangles

concert when you were born.

You grew up with

computers, didn't you?

I have.

Well how would you like it

if you spent your whole life

and all of a sudden a computer

comes along and it's in charge

of everything.

But do you feel things

have got better as a whole?

One hundred percent worse.

"She listened to every

sound, sprang up with a start,

wondered that it did not

come. And then at sunset,

always more saddened,

she longed for the morrow.

Me love you long time.

This is supposed to be sports.

No, I, I understand I'm not

supposed to take-

Okay. Hello? Hello? F***.

Hey man.

Hey.

You know where the John is?

I got to drain the lizard.

Yeah I think the, uh,

I think the main bathroom is

on the other end of the house.

This everything here seems to be

connected to a bedroom. So.

Yeah, thanks. Haven't

I seen you before?

No-I don't think so.

Maybe it wasn't in person

or your, your whole person.

I'm sorry what's that?

Maybe we met in the cyberspace?

I don't think so, I-are you in

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