Teeth Page #3

Synopsis: Dawn grows up in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. In high school, while her biology class studies evolution, she realizes she may have a hidden curse, an "adaptation." She lives with her mom, step-father, and hard-edged step-brother. She likes Tobey, a guy at school, and he likes her. She takes a pledge to remain chaste until marriage, so they date in groups, watch G-rated films, and don't kiss, but the power of teen hormones is great, so temptation beckons. Dawn has an admirer in Ryan, and when when things have an unexpected twist with Tobey, she turns to Ryan for help. Will he be her mythical hero and rescue her? Or can she find her way as her own hero, turning the curse into an asset?
Production: Roadside Attractions
  2 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
2007
94 min
$182,599
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1,268 Views


and get some rest.

She's gonna need you

chipper tomorrow, hmm?

You go.

Be careful.

Emergency room,

how may I help you?

I don't even feel

like I know you right now.

I don't know what's in the ass

that makes you so excited.

You know what?

Probably somebody's...

Get out of my f***ing room!

Are you serious?

What is wrong with you?

Why don't you

shut the f*** up!?

Shut up!

Mom?

Elliot?

- Hi.

- There's no one--

There's nobody else that I can talk to.

My mom is in the hospital.

I have to go to the police

and turn myself in.

Police?

I killed him.

You killed someone?

Almost two.

Dentata.

What?

It's Latin for "teeth."

A vagina that...

Uh, yeah, I know what that is.

I'm not following you.

What again?

Vagina dentata.

It's what's inside me.

The doctor said so.

A hero has to come and conquer them.

That's what they say.

Who?

The ancient Greeks and Egyptians

and early Christians and Jews

and Polynesians

and lots of Native Americans.

Shh, shh.

Ahem.

Uh, I'm not looking.

My mom takes these

for her nerves.

Good. Okay.

All right.

Where are my clothes?

Um...

I have to go to the police.

That pill might make you

a little fuzzy-headed.

I have to confess.

Yeah, but, uh,

tomorrow, tomorrow.

You want them

to take you seriously, don't you?

Come.

Have a seat.

Take it.

To the smartest, prettiest girl I know.

Oh.

This is how I always

dreamed it'd be.

Ooh!

Oh... oh.

Hey, hey, relax.

Relax. Just rest.

Just rest.

I'm right here.

Oh.

Oh.

You can't.

D-do you want me to stop?

No.

Oh. Good.

But-- they'll get you.

Who?

The teeth.

Oh, come on.

Seriously.

No, no, look.

I'm-- I'm conquering them.

See? Yeah.

I'm-- I'm-- I'm the hero.

We found this embedded

in the penile stump.

So what's it from?

Well, dentition is not an exact science.

The root design would have led me

to ascribe it to the selachii,

the sharks and the rays...

but the crown made me think

of the cyclostomes, the lamprey.

See the serration near the tip?

So this comes from a cross

between a shark and an eel,

something like that?

No. Our tests show that it's human.

Huh.

What?

Uh... noth-nothing.

I just-- just can't believe it.

I can't either.

I can't believe you're still alive.

Uh, right.

I got it. Thanks.

You sure you don't want

to tell us how this happened?

Where you going?

I do have to go to the police.

Mm, you are my hero.

Sweet.

Hey, loser.

As we speak.

Oh, yeah?

She's not there.

- Yeah?

- Prove it.

- Say something.

- What?

- There's nobody there, man.

- No!

- You hear that?

What?!

Yes.

- Mmm...

- What was that?

Oh, nothing.

We made a bet

that I could, uh, you know.

Unh-unh-unh.

So... you made a bet about me

when I had taken

a sacred vow of abstinence?

I had a hunch

that it wasn't all that sacred.

It was, though.

Your mouth is saying

one thing, babe,

but your sweet p*ssy

is saying something very...

different.

Uh, aah! Aah!

Oh... sh*t.

Some hero.

Mom?

You're the daughter?

Just a moment.

Have a seat, dear.

Son?

Son!

Oh, what the f***, Dad?

Jesus.

Would you excuse us,

miss, please?

Okay.

I want you out of here.

Out.

What?

Oh, right, so...

it's Kim, huh?

Old c*nt's making you kick me

to the curb, is that what's going on?

Ow!

When it rains, it pours.

I know, right?

There has got to be a story here.

He was in a delirium.

Hardly seems worth it.

You want me out of here,

you're gonna have to throw me out.

I should've done that

a long time ago.

Yeah, you should have.

Sh*t!

Mother!

No, Brad, don't!

Aaahhhh!

Uhh.

Uhh!

- Brad, you're a f***ing--

Yeah!

Yeah, who's kicking

who out now, old man?

Aah!

Please.

Please, son.

Why'd you have to marry her?

Look, I know you loved your mother.

- I did too--

- My mother?

I don't even remember that b*tch.

What?

You made her my sister.

I loved her, Dad.

She loves you too...

So very much.

She does.

Mother, shut up.

Hey, get back in your cage!

Get!

Dr. Sanchez,

please report to the nurses' station.

Dr. Sanchez...

Oh... mm.

Ohhh.

Hey.

I'm sorry.

She was screaming,

but Brad said just to ignore it,

that she did that all the time.

I'm so sorry.

Why are you doing this now?.

Are you afraid?

Ooh.

This is too f***ing weird.

Just wait.

Wait.

Pshew. Okay.

Ow. What are you--

- All right, that's it.

- No, no. Stop it.

Aw, God!

Why did you

want to come here?

Mm, mm, babe...

No one dares

come near the Castle Borski.

Yeah.

Mm.

Yeah.

Ohh...

Mmm.

Yeah. You see

what we've been missing?

We... always knew

it'd play out this way eventually,

didn't we?

Ever since we were little kids.

Unh!

Aah!

Unh!

Uh, aah! Aah!

Where--?

If you would be

good enough to tell me where you're going.

Mother, get her!

Drop it.

No! No!

Wait.

Don't-- don't leave me.

...life... from non-life.

These evolutionists

will try to persuade you...

These evolutionists

will try to tell you...

# I got a letter this morning #

# I got a letter this morning #

# Who put the "bomp"

in the bomp-shooby-dooby-bomp? #

# Who put the "ram"

in the rama-lama-ding-dong? #

# You did #

# I got a letter this morning #

# Who put the "bomp"

in the bomp-shooby-dooby-bomp? #

# Who put the "ram"

in the rama-lama-ding-dong? #

# You did #

# You did #

# I got a letter this morning #

# Wake me up

if I should drift away #

# I don't wanna miss a thing #

# Take my hand

and lead me all around #

# I don't care #

# Where we're going #

# Who dug the crude

and made it flow? #

# Who proved that

anything was possible? #

# You did #

# I got a letter this morning #

# Who built the house

and brought it down? #

# Who raised the roof

and never made a sound? #

# You did #

# You did #

# I got a letter this morning #

# Wake me up

if I should drift away #

# I don't wanna miss a thing #

# Take my hand

and lead me all around #

# I don't care #

# Where we're going #

# I got a letter this morning #

# I got a letter this morning #

# Who rose right out

of the morning mist #

# Opened my heart

like a baby's fist? #

# You did #

# I got a letter this morning #

# Who cleared the static

and made it sing? #

# Who put the wheel

on the gravy train? #

# You did #

- # I got a letter this morning #

- # You did #

# Wake me up

if I should drift away #

# I don't wanna miss a thing #

# I got a letter this morning #

# Take my hand

and lead me all around #

# I don't care #

# Where we're going #

# I got a letter this morning #

# Who put the "bomp"

in the bomp-shooby-dooby-bomp? #

# Who put the "ram"

in the rama-lama-ding-dong? #

# Who put the "wang"

in the wang-dang-noo, baby? #

# You did #

# I got a letter this morning #

# I got a letter this morning #

# I got a letter this morning #

# I got a letter this morning #

# I got #

# I got a letter this morning #

# Who put the "flip"

in the flippity-flop? #

# Who put the "hip"

in the hippity-hop? #

# Who put the "boom"

in the boom-boom-shaka-laka? #

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Mitchell Lichtenstein

Mitchell Wilson Lichtenstein (born March 10, 1956) is an American actor, writer, producer and director. The son of Isabel (née Wilson) and Roy Lichtenstein, he studied acting at Bennington College in Vermont.In Ang Lee's film The Wedding Banquet (1993), Lichtenstein played the partner of a gay Taiwanese man living in the United States who is forced to marry by his parents. Other credits include Streamers (1983). He produced, wrote, and directed the 2007 black comedy horror film Teeth, about the pitfalls and power of a girl as a living example of the vagina dentata myth. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews.His film Happy Tears premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009. His film Angelica has been selected to be screened in the Panorama section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.He is openly gay. more…

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