The Four-Faced Liar Page #3

Synopsis: A story of love and lies for four twenty-somethings looking to find themselves in New York City. A pair of best friends and a seemingly perfect couple meet at a local Irish pub tucked in the winding streets of the West Village. Through their chance meeting, the four bond and over time all of their relationships with one another morph into love, betrayal and heartbreak for all.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Jacob Chase
Production: Wolfe Releasing
  4 wins.
 
IMDB:
5.8
NOT RATED
Year:
2010
87 min
Website
154 Views


but I hope you can

give me a second chance.

Second?

All right, 22nd, 34th, 42nd chance.

You have no idea

how you made me feel.

You're right.

I completely let you down.

I'm so sorry.

Ooh...

I-I got you this...

It's your favorite.

A cupcake and some candles,

and I'm supposed to forgive you?

Come on, Trip, it's our anniversary,

and I had to go

to the ballet with Bridget.

What are you doing?

A ballet... for you.

- Trip...

- Shhh.

[Swan Lake plays]

Trip!

I forgive you.

I forgive you.

Mmm... mmm... good.

I love you.

I'm sorry.

I know.

Are you wearing a dance belt?

Hot.

Look at me.

What?

Can we, uh, do this over there?

Yo, man.

What's up, a**hole?

Good.

Saved my ass last night.

Hey, man, you suck.

Huh?

I don't know.

She's pretty much perfect.

You should have gone.

Thank you.

And next time

I need relationship advice,

I'll ask your girlfriend.

?

Perfect.

? Everythings moving

from green to red ?

? If you ask me ?

? I want to stay in bed... ?

?

? The clock is screaming ?

? lts a quarter till ?

- Love you.

- Love you, too.

I'll be back in a few days.

? Ticks in rhythm ?

? With raindrops on the sill ?

? Try our best

to plan our future ?

? Try to believe ?

? Try to control the cycle ?

? And just cling to the trees ?

? And the leaves ?

? And we,

we want to stay green ?

? But it all goes around ?

? The seasons turn inevitably ?

? And we all fall down ?

? And down and down... ?

I'm sorry!

- I'm sorry!

- Let it go.

I just can't take

your parents for that long.

I just feel suffocated.

Yeah, I know the feeling.

What?

I just think it was

too stressful for us.

- That's all.

- Sure.

No. Not now.

No. Stop. You're drunk.

[Panting]

No.

Greg, stop!

[Panting]

[Moaning]

No, Greg. No, don't.

[Panting]

No! Stop!

Oh, God!

Greg, get off!

Hi, love.

Chloe...

Chloe.

Chloe!

Don't follow me!

F***.

I f***ed up.

Yeah.

[Cell phone ringing]

Hey.

I need to talk to someone.

Now?

Can you meet me?

Okay. Ill meet you halfway?

Yeah.

- Okay.

- Okay.

Bye.

You gonna talk?

No.

You call me at 3:00 in the morning,

you're not gonna tell me why?

No.

Classic.

I found a dance belt in

Trip's laundry the other day.

You know, a dance belt's

the thing that keeps his...

Balls.

Don't say balls.

I don't do balls.

Right.

- Once, though.

- Really?

Yeah, I was young.

I didn't know any better.

- He wore a sweatband.

- On his balls?

On his head!

It was a head sweatband.

Why?

To keep the product in his hair

from trickling down onto his face.

It was to prevent breakouts.

- Wow.

- I know.

You're fun.

Thank you.

Everything else just...

Goes away.

I need to stay with you

for a little while.

I fart in my sleep.

So, if that's okay, then...

Thank you.

There's that look again.

Hey.

So, we have milk

or $2 wine from the deli.

$2 wine.

Okay.

?

- She's just staying with you?

- Yeah.

- And you don't know why?

- No.

- Did you ask?

- No.

Did you sleep with her?

No!

Do you like her?

She's okay.

She has a boyfriend.

How you holdin' up?

I'm fine.

So you have seen her?

Yep.

Molly's definitely staying here.

Why would she stay here?

I don't know,

but I wouldn't let my girlfriend

stay with Bridget.

Molly's not gay.

Bridget is.

She's not a cheater.

You don't know that.

Why did you cheat on Chloe?

Honestly...

I didn't know she'd be home so early.

I thought I had another day.

? lm driving west ?

? Speeding too fast ?

? I keep on running ?

? The sleep is just not

coming to me ?

I had something to say...

I swear.

I just don't remember

what it was.

I'm...

I'm sorry.

I can't let you go.

I won't.

Give me another chance...

Please.

?

? Could a body

close the mind out ?

? Stitch a seam across the eye ?

? If you can be good,

youll live forever ?

? If youre bad,

youll die when you die ?

? Hearing only one true note ?

? lm the one and only sound ?

? Unzip my body,

take my heart out ?

? Cause I need a beat

to give this tune... ?

?

Hey, it's just like old times.

Not really, no.

Oh, God,

I'm glad this year's over.

Right?

I had a great year, actually.

I had the worst year of my life.

That's why my

New Year's resolution

is to drink as much

as humanly possible

so I can forget it.

Great, Greg.

? Hearing only

one root note ?

? Planted firmly

in the ground ?

? Undo my heart,

unzip my body ?

? And lend to my ear ?

? A clear and

a deafening sound ?

?

? Unzip my heart ?

?

? And if I need a rhythm ?

? ltll be to my heart I listen ?

? If it dont put me

too far wrong ?

Oh, so, let's hear it.

I don't know yet.

Never have I ever been

thrown up against a wall

and kissed hard.

Bridget.

Never have I ever

been turned down.

Bridget!

Bridget!!

What?

What's your

New Year's resolution?

Stop smoking.

Really?

No.

Hey, Trip! Where's Chloe?

?

- Okay?

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

- Uh huh.

[Crowd chattering]

?

Greg, Greg, Greg, Greg...

- They're gonna miss the countdown.

- Dude, f*** 'em.

[Moaning]

? You can go back ?

? You can crawl back

into your shell ?

? With your holy ideas ?

? You can concentrate

on someone else ?

? Like the pictures

that block your walls ?

? Like the frame thats

around your scene ?

Happy New Year, man.

Yeah, you too.

Come home with me.

What?

No.

Please.

I can't.

Sh*t.

Please come home with me.

We should get back out there.

You missed everything.

- We did?

- Yeah.

Happy New Year.

Stop f***ing his girlfriend.

I don't know what

you're talking about.

Trip! Trip!

?

[intercom buzzes]

Trip?

F***er.

Hi.

Hi.

I put him to bed.

Come here.

I want to see you.

Okay.

Never have I ever.

Bye.

?

Are you coming to bed?

Bridge, you want to

come out with me today?

- I can't.

- Great.

?

? She will make it

a better tomorrow ?

? Better tomorrow, better tomorrow ?

? I can tell ?

? lts just as well ?

? She knows how

to shut my mouth up ?

? Shut my mouth up,

shut my mouth up ?

? She knows

why things will look up ?

? Things will look up ?

? lts gonna get better now... ?

What did you

think about that, though?

[Laughs]

[Cell phone ringing]

I can't reach anything.

I think it's in here.

So disorganized.

Oh, sh*t...

Hi, Mom.

I'm great.

Greg's great.

We're great, Mom.

What's going on?

I'm just doing a final

sweep-through for my stuff.

- I don't have anything in here.

- I can't find my hair straightener.

- I can just drop it off...

- Why can't I just look for it now?

I'm just in the middle of something.

I'm sorry, but I can be totally quiet.

- No, can you just...

- What, honey?

Oh, my God.

I knew it. I f***ing knew it.

You're an idiot.

You know that?

It's all my fault.

You're right.

It is all your fault.

You have a boyfriend.

This is absurd.

Please tell me you

were drunk last night.

Oh! This is a sober brilliant idea!

- What is wrong with you?

- I don't know.

Did you know

that Chloe's coming?

Great...

This has been

a wonderful morning.

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Marja-Lewis Ryan

Marja-Lewis Ryan is an American writer, director, producer, and actress. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 19 March 1985. She received an honors BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at The Atlantic Theatre Company's Acting School. She is best known for writing and co-starring in the LGBT drama film, The Four-Faced Liar, which won multiple awards, including Outstanding First Narrative Feature at L.A. Outfest. She also co-produced that film. In the early 2000s, she was a member of a theater company in Los Angeles, Theater of NOTE, where she received positive critical reviews as a writer and director. She earned the Maverick Award from the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival in 2016.In an interview, she described her interest in writing as stemming from her time at NYU. She and her friends figured that "you have to make your own work." And so she wrote her first script for them to workshop as actors. As for her thematic interests, she recounts what happened after The Four-Faced Liar got released: "I had the opportunity to go into meetings with crazy big people. The one question that came up repeatedly was 'what kind of work do you want to do for the rest of your life?' The first time someone asked me that, I answered it so truthfully that I shocked myself. I said, 'I just want to write dark comedies for women that don't ostracize a male audience.'"Ryan wrote and directed the film 6 Balloons, released in March 2018, and is drafting the reboot of Splash starring Channing Tatum and Jillian Bell. She has been tapped to spearhead the sequel to The L Word, currently in development at Showtime, as executive producer and showrunner. more…

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