Smother
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2008
- 92 min
- 139 Views
Hi, you've reached Noah and Clare.
Leave a message at the-
Hi, it's Mom.
I hope I'm not bothering you.
Happy Halloween.
You probably work now so you can
just call me when you get home.
I mean you actually don't
have to call me and tell,
you know it's obviously
not important,
But if you want to call me,
please feel free to.
I just wanted to ask you... Sh*t...
I can't remember why I called now.
Anyway, I'm sleeping so much
better with this new prescription
and my jaw only clicks now
when I yawn or chew.
And I, You know what.
Do you have my VCR manual in...
Hang on a second.
My toast just popped.
Hold on, Sammi.
Who's on the phone now?
What's that, uh?!
Who's on the phone?!
What do you mean?
Somebody's on the phone?!
Hello? Hello? There's nobody
on the phone, Gene.
I think your mom's messages
are kidding shorter.
You know how people worry about
their mothers dying?
I worry mine's gonna live forever.
There must be another
exercise I can do...
Who's the physical therapist,
Bob, you or me?
You...
All right! Keep those knees up!
We'll see some high step in!
Work that ACL!
Noah, your mom's on line one.
Tell her I'm busy, would you?
Doing great, Bob.
You look like an antelope here.
Cooper, I need you
in my office. Now
Technically, Dana, it's
your dad's office, not yours.
Yeah? That's what he thinks.
Today, Cooper.
That's good, Bob.
Take a rest.
Thank god...
Dad, I have Cooper here.
We need to take your ticket,
then I have me
first class on the website.
Didn't I tell you five
Dana! What time are we doing
the Cooper thing?
He's here now.
Put him on.
He is.
Hello, Ralph.
All right, no small talk.
I've asked Dana to meet with you
to discuss the mission you have. Dana.
We've been watching you as
Head PT now for several months,
and it's become increasingly clear
that you're not
meeting company standards.
Show personae case of number.
These are the billing guidelines
that have been established for you.
And these are the actual totals
that you've billed out.
Quite a discrepancy,
wouldn't you say?
Oh, I would say these goals are
completely unrealistic.
You're the boss now.
I didn't get the memo.
Look, I told you before, Ralph,
I'm not going to over
bill patients for you.
It's unethical.
Are you calling me a fraud?
The bottom line is this.
We've given you plenty of chances
to get with the program
and you failed.
I'm sorry to say this,
but-Actually, I'm not-
We're gonna have to let you go.
You're firing me?
You're just one germen, genius
It's not a reflection of you
as a person.
How is that not a reflect on me
as a person?
Have your testicles
even descended yet?
Did he just say testicles?
Every doctor that refers patients
to us is because of me!
Every supplier connection
is because of me!
Christ, I hit the bang winning home run
against Silverman's
Orthopedic All-Stars
and won a championship for you!
Only because I got
a two-out hit in the ninth
and kept the inning alive!
Yeah, I guess the shortstop
had a prosthetic leg!
You hit it to his weak side!
That's no pride.
Go to hell, Cooper!
I never want to see you
in my office again.
Dana, call security.
Gladly.
Calm Down.
What's that noise?
Are you all right?
Don't let him take the spin!
not going to do that in a hurry.
"No, I'll look first," she said,
for she had read several
nice little stories
about children who had got burnt,
and eaten up by wild beasts,
and other unpleasant things,
Sorry guys. Sorry! Sit tight! OK?
Mrs. Cooper's class.
Hello, Mrs. Cooper, it's me.
Hi me.
So I have some good news
and somebad news.
What happened?
The bad news is I got fired.
But the good news is I'm gonna
start my own practice
two years ahead of schedule.
Ralph fired you?
No, Dana did.
Ralph was on speakerphone.
Oh my God!
What an a**hole.
Look, honey, I'm really sorry,
but I'm in the middle of class
right now.
Can we talk it later?
Yeah, try not to get fired, OK?
One of us should have a job,
I think.
Happy Halloween.
Goodbye.
Oh, how's it going?
Pretty good.
Great. Who are you?
Myron Stubbs.
You know I'm Clare's cousin
from Indianapolis?
She said I could stay
here a few days
for this writing seminar
I'm going to.
Oh, right.
I thought
that was a couple of weeks.
Yeah, it got moved up.
So I called her from the airport
to find out where the spare key was.
I never would've guessed.
I'm Noah.
Nice to finally meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Can I ask you a question?
Is that my toothbrush next
to your toenail clippings?
Is it? Oh man, I'm sorry.
I forgot mine at home.
So I just Yeah, it's a simple mistake.
You know what.
I'll just go buy one.
That's okay.
You know what.
Keep it and think it as
a Welcome to our Home gift.
Really? Right on.
Thanks.
Trick or treat!
Who is this?
Oh, look at these.
Straight from Villa Villekulla.
There's my unemployed man.
Hi.
Does my cousin get here okay?
Yeah, he went out for a while.
He said He'd be back
in a minute.
So are you serious about
what you said
about starting
Yeah. I mean what have
I got to lose, right?
I've got experience, I'm clearly
executive management material.
So, what do you think?
Can we go to the Honesty Zone?
I would love to.
great running your own practice,
you know that.
But you haven't had
the most stable job history.
This is a lot responsibility.
Wow, I haven't thought that.
Thank you.
Maybe that's
because you were too busy
trying to avoid accountability
by making a joke of everything.
Does it feel like
the HonestyZone's not quite
as constructive as it used to be?
You know, look,
I just want you to be sure
this is the right time.
something great with this.
And it'll only take a few months
to get started,
so in the meantime, honey,
I can call Donnie to get my
old job back so we don't starve.
Ewww, Donnie?
Are you sure?
He said I could come back
if I wanted to,
the pay's not terrible.
Okay, and that's the plan.
I like you.
Trick or treat!
Mom?
Marilyn, what's the matter?
I'm fine, I...
You know I'm probably happy,
I don't wanna bother you.
Hey, where's Dad?
Oh, him. He's at home.
We had a really big fight
because I'm absolutely fine.
I'm just going to a motel room.
I'll find one.
Maybe you should stay here tonight.
Or come in for some coffee and
we'll call around for vacancies
And somehow the night's... No...
I don't really want to
intrude you, darling.
I just stopped
by to say hello to you.
Just sort of to give you
the thumps up of everything.
You know what I'm saying.
It's no big deal and come on in
and use the phone.
Check hotel for vacancies.
We're not taking no for an answer,
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