The Banger Sisters Page #2

Synopsis: In West Hollywood, Suzette, now on the far side of middle age, has always been a party girl, leading a life solely for the here and now. When the here and now leads to her without a job, no money and thus no sense of whether her partying life has gotten her anywhere, she decides to go into her distant past to visit in Phoenix an old friend, Vinnie, who she has not seen or talked to in twenty years. In their shared past, Suzette and Vinnie were Los Angeles groupies coined the Banger Sisters for their penchant to sleep with any and all rock musicians who came through Southern California. Suzette does know however that Vinnie's life has changed, she married to Raymond, a lawyer who has political aspirations, the two who have two teenaged daughters. It is in part the reason she decides to visit now well off Vinnie, to see if she will lend her some money. Suzette reconsiders when she finds out just how far Vinnie has changed. She now goes by her full given name Lavinia, and is not only the
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Bob Dolman
Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
47%
R
Year:
2002
98 min
$30,194,326
Website
676 Views


OK. 1, 2, 3.

Everybody this way.

Aw! All right.

In the car now.

OK, come on.

Hurry up. Hurry up.

Aw, that is so pretty.

Mom!

Over the shoulder...

I love that.

All right, guys. Have fun.

Don't forget your corsage.

Bye, Dad.

Bye!

Have fun!

See you guys.

Barkley! Barkley!

She wants to go to the prom.

There she goes.

She looks so pretty.

Aw, doesn't she?

Like a princess.

Mr. Harry Plummer

is registered here.

I'd like his room number,

please.

Your name?

Suzette.

Yes. This is

the front desk...

Mr. Plummer.

There is a Suzette here...

requesting your...

Oh, what is this dance

we're doing?

Harry? Yeah.

I need to talk to you.

Because I just need to.

Because I just do.

Hey, you want me

to tell the whole world...

what you're up to?

What's your room number?

Cough it up.

OK.

Thank you.

This is not appropriate.

You're invading my space.

I've created

my environment, Suzette.

I'm gonna f*** you, Harry.

OK.

Hey, what's the deal?

Whoa, whoa. Are you in some kind

of cult or something?

I'm calling security.

Hey, and what would

George Harrison be doing here?

Don't touch that.

Don't touch anything.

This is horrible.

Your eyes are looking

at everything.

You need

to get laid, Harry.

Please get out of my room.

You need to get laid,

and I need to get laid...

and I'm gonna have

a rum and Coke...

then I'm gonna

take a shower...

then I'm going to

you-know-what to you.

Lookee here. Ha ha ha!

I don't want to have sex.

I'll get you into it.

No. You've already

desanctified...

my environment.

I'm just standing here.

No, you're not.

You're more in the room

than I am.

Listen, Suzette...

I have a very carefully

delineated lifestyle.

This is the third room

I've been in...

since I got here.

The first one

was too close to the elevator...

the second one

was facing the neighborhood...

where I grew up.

If I don't do things

in a regimented way...

especially when I travel...

I develop physical problems.

I get terribly constipated...

for instance.

Like I needed to know that.

Well,

there are certain things...

I've discovered

that just don't serve me...

and sex is one of them.

You don't have sex?

That's correct.

How long has it been, Harry?

10 years.

10 years!

You're lying to me!

I found a way

of making my life work.

But it doesn't work.

I mean, you think it works...

because you line things up...

and you light candles...

so you can

have a bowel movement?

Harry,

let me give you a hand-job.

- No!

- Oh, come on.

Harry, I am such

a good hand-job giver.

No. Please.

Stay away from me.

I... I don't

do things suddenly.

I like to think first...

and you're too... too...

Too what?

Sudden.

All right.

I'll leave you alone.

But I got to sleep for a bit.

Sleep where?

In your environment.

What about your friend... Vinnie?

Oh, I don't know

what I was thinking.

You got enough vitamins,

Harry?

It looks like

a health food store in here.

Hello. This is Harry Plummer

in 419 again.

Is there any way I could move

to a room higher up?

Nothing at all?

Well, is there any way

you can stop this racket?

Aah!

What?

You can't hear that?

It's prom night out there.

Don't know how you can

sleep through it.

Oh.

My whole cycle

has been disrupted.

Princess and the pea.

Hey, man. Hey, guys.

Come on. Cool it.

Hey, hey!

Come on, man.

People are trying to sleep.

Whoa!

Oh! Hannah...

Oh, Hannah. Hannah?

Hannah?

Uh-oh. What's she on?

Nothing.

We just had champagne.

Don't bullshit me.

She's on acid.

OK. Just breathe.

Harry, get out of the way.

Out of the way.

Somebody get a wet towel, please.

Is she going to be OK?

Yeah. Just get the towel.

Come on, honey.

Just breathe.

Oh, when did she drop it?

2 hours, maybe.

2 hours.

Man, she's going to be...

really messed up.

You guys should take off.

No way. Leave her here?

Like, we don't

even know you.

I'm a friend

of her mother's.

Ha! Yeah, right.

Yeah. Hannah's mother?

Are you kidding me?

Lavinia Kingsley, handsome.

Now scram.

Go on. Get out of here!

It's OK.

She looks really sick.

Her mother is Vinnie?

Yeah.

Oh.

I know. Just breathe.

Ooh, all right. That's OK.

That's OK.

Oh, boy! That's it. Let it go.

Let it go.

Just let it go, sweetie.

Just let it go.

Ohh, there's another one!

Oh, Harry.

You may never sh*t again.

OK. All right.

Good girl.

Here.

It's all right now.

Just think

of a nice blue sky.

Mom.

I'll get you home.

Don't worry.

Just relax.

You're going

to feel better now.

Come on. Let's go.

Come on! Let's go!

Down here,

to the kids' wing.

What?

The kids' wing.

Wing?

Mm-hmm.

Barkley.

Ha ha ha! OK.

Barkley.

Hannah. The dog...

Take the dog.

The dog.

Um...

have you talked

to my mother?

Hey. It's between you and her.

Come on, Barkley.

Get in there.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

May I help you?

Hey, Vin.

Suzette?

Yep.

Oh, my God.

Is that really you?

Yeah.

Well, no. I mean,

the tits aren't me.

They, um... They're fake...

but in here somewhere,

it's me!

What are you doing here?

I... I brought Hannah home.

My daughter?

Yeah. She's OK.

She's in bed.

No, she is not.

She is not in bed.

It's her prom night...

and she was going

to spend the night...

with Carol Bishop.

No, Vin.

She's in bed. Go look.

Why would you be

bringing her home?

'Cause they were partying...

you know, at the hotel

that I'm staying at...

and she needed

a ride home, so...

I gave her one.

That doesn't make sense.

You're leaving something out...

Like what about the...

Jules, her date?

I don't know. I mean,

they kind of went off...

I guess,

with the other kids or something.

You know, you're making me

really nervous, Vin.

I mean, I'm just, like...

I'm freaking out here, man.

I mean, aren't you,

like, glad to see me?

Suzette,

what is it that you want?

Who said

I wanted anything?

You just show up

here out of the blue...

in Phoenix,

16 years later?

Or 20.

You want money.

Who told you that?

I'm asking you.

That I want money?

That is so f***ed up!

Shh!

I mean, my being in Phoenix

has nothing to do with you.

Are you

telling me the truth?

No. Sh*t.

OK, Vinnie. Hold on.

I got fired from my job.

What did you tell my daughter?

I named every guy

you ever rattled.

That is not funny,

Suzette.

She didn't even know

who I was, Vinnie.

Of course not.

My husband, my children,

my community...

They don't know anything

about that period...

when you and I were... friends.

The people that

I associated with then...

yourself included, they're...

they're...

no longer a part

of my current reality.

Oh, f*** your current reality.

I mean,

look at you with your pools...

and your fountains.

I mean, come on, Vinnie.

Don't call me Vinnie.

Nobody calls me that.

My name is Lavinia.

Vinnie.

All right.

I will give you $5,000...

to get out of my life.

I didn't come here

to harangue you.

- Harass.

- Whatever.

You are so uptight.

So uptight.

I'm not uptight.

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Bob Dolman

Robert "Bob" Dolman is a Canadian screenwriter, actor, director and producer. His work in television includes SCTV, SCTV Network 90, and WKRP in Cincinnati. more…

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