The Cure Page #3

Synopsis: Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Erik, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Erik also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their friendship upon learning of it. When they read that a doctor in distant New Orleans claims to have found a cure for AIDS, the boys leave home on their own, planning to float down the Mississippi river and find him.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Peter Horton
Production: Universal
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
PG-13
Year:
1995
97 min
1,277 Views


Look at that thing,

he's got all the look like a plant from the bayou,

then I don't know bayous.

This is the worse yet!

My grandma says, that the

worst it tastes, the better it works.

Your K-Mart clerk grandma?

Drink!

I need to talk to Erik,

some kind of leaf that he took in...

Erik has something to do with this?

Erik, Erik...

I need to know what you gave Dexter...

I need to know what kind

of leaves you gave him,

it's poisonous and he told me that

you have written it down in a notebook.

Here's one it this,

it's down by the river...

Where? Where the bridge crosses...

Back inside...

What were you thinking?

What!

Tell me!

Tell me!

Not measles, not chicken pox, aids!

What're you trying to do?

What are you trying to do!

F***ing kill us both?

There's gonna be some big changes around here!

Big changes!

I don't really care what do you think,

I don't want him over here,

I don't want my son over there!

I don't care that they're friends,

I don't want them

associating with each other.

Period!

He's gonna be fine. Thank god!

His mother is officially on notice,

she allows him to see you

I'm gonna have her ass

thrown in jail.

And for you,

on Monday morning your

ass are going to summer camp!

Hey Dad?

Sorry, we missed you. Cindy and I are in Lake Charleston

until Tuesday. Call you as soon as we get back...

When we're get down there,

where we're gonna sleep,

where we gonna eat...

We're not worry about that,

I already talked to my dad,

he said we could stay with him...

I might even be able to

talk him to take us fishing.

I can't.

You have to Dex!

Tomorrow morning I'm out of here.

And this time she would be

really really worried.

She's already worried because you're sick.

And you and I both know that the

only thing that's gonna make her happy,

is when we're going to New Orleans

and Dr. Fishburn has the cure...

Dear mom... I'm fine with Erik...

but I brought along the medicines

so there's no reason to worry.

We're planning to be careful

and sensible.

Whatever you do make sure you

remember to tape Star Wars

8 PM channel 5.

I love you very much, sincerely Dexter...

The biggest fish in the world,

he weights over 2000 pounds...

That's why they calling him

the General Steur.

What if he decides to take us over?

He wouldn't know that...

One time this kid,

he went swimming after eating,

and he got a stomach cramp,

and he started to dry on

but the General Steur grabbed him by shirt

and put him on the shore.

How fast do you think we're going?

3 miles an hour.

How far is this New Orleans?

About 12 hundred miles.

How long will it takes us to get there?

Hey, where you headed?

Hampton

Minneapolis

Memphis

Centralia

Peoria

How much you got?

What?

Wanna ride you gotta

pay for the gas, you know...

Where you headed?

New Orleans...

I can give you 20 dollars.

20 bugs?

You wanna go to New Orleans for 20 bugs?

I don't know, I think you're gonna

have to do better than that.

Forty, it's all I got.

Hey Pony, we ready to float, man!

What are you saying, we locked and loaded?

Alright.

162 dollars,

check my pockets.

Erik!

Shut up Dex!

Let me handle this.

No, look, look!

Please!

What do you say?

We really took this moron

Pony to the cleaners!

They money we gave him

will pay for half his gas!

This Pony is from New Orleans,

he's on his way home...

What makes you think that?

Sh*t!

Look how far we've gone.

Dex, are you awake?

Dex, are you awake?

Dex, are you awake?

Yeah, what?

I'm just saying how far we've gone...

about five or six days and we'll be down there

Maybe when we stop for gasses,

I should call my mom.

You can't. They trace the call.

We're probably in Iowa about

one tomorrow afternoon.

Dex?

Get up! Come up get up!

- I'm too tired.

- No you're not, you're just bored!

Come on!

They don't have battleship,

or have Monopoly,

they don't even have a deck of cards.

Wait a minute...

What is it?

Come on!

Are you sure these girls are real?

Of course they're real!

I never seen anyone look like this before.

My mom sure doesn't.

These aren't moms, these are women!

This is what they supposed to look like.

How do you know they're

not computer animation?

Do computer animations

like walks on the beach,

do computer animations

enjoy classical music.

She's born in 1975.

She doesn't look that old!

Holy sh*t...

It's gotta be 3,000 dollars here!

Just put it back!

Why?

They might think we're down here

trying to steal it.

They don't even know we're down here.

- Here!

- Don't give it to me!

Hey, where the hell have you been,

we've been waiting all day!

Oh my God!

- Who's this?

- A friend of mine.

- A friend?

Hey, be nice!

Put some of this on my back?

Are you a model?

No...

What's your name?

Angel...

You misspelled your tattoo,

it doesn't say Angel it says Angle.

I'm aware of that now...

Looks fun with two people, doesn't it?

You two make me sick.

- Man, I just want to get smashed.

- You know that!

Me too.

I was thinking maybe we could

just les bon temps roulez...

Les say what!?

Let the good times roll, man!

Couple of those cool ones?

Fire up that grill

- we got some of them steaks.

- Yeah, make mine a T-bone!

This sucks!

Hey boys, how are T-bones?

Sh*t!

This isn't fair!

What?

I said, this sucks!

We should set up the tent before it gets dark...

Hey,

this is me...

Oh sh*t, you pissed

all over your sleeping bag!

Sweat...

What?

You're shivering, how can you

be sweating when you're cold!

I don't know.

I just do...

Here, change clothes...

Here's my sleeping bag.

Thanks.

Were you having a nightmare or something?

No...

What's a matter?

It happens sometimes.

When I wake up, and it's dark...

Astronomers believe that the universe

is 18 billion light-years across.

So?

Suppose you could go in

the eighteen billion light-years.

What if there's nothing out there?

Suppose you kept going another

18 billion light-years,

so far I'd be see nothing...

Because the light from the universe would be

fainter than the faintest star.

Infinitely cold. Infinitely black.

Sometimes...

if I wake up, and it's dark,

I get really scared...

Like I'm up there now,

I'm never coming back.

Here...

Hold on to this while you sleep,

and if you wake up and you scared...

You say wait a minute...

I'm holding Erik's shoe.

Why the hell would I be holding

some smelly basketball shoe?

A trillion light-years from the universe,

I must be here on earth

safe in my sleeping bag...

Erik must be close by...

Guess it's worth to try...

You want me to leave the lantern on?

Come on, we gotta get out of here!

Go to sleep!

It's nine o'clock!

When I gave the money, you said

we're going straight to New Orleans!

hen you get there there was two days later,

it's not gonna kill you...

Shut up! Angle!

Hey, you shut up you little sh*t!

You want me to swim over there

and pound your ass?

How long before you run out of pills?

Three more days...

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