The House Page #3

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(CROWD CHEERING)

- DEALER:
It's 11! Eleven!

- Yes! Yes!

DEALER:
Gentleman needs some chips.

Guys, what are you waiting for?

Get in on this! I'm hitting every

single number over and over again.

Let's do this!

DEALER:
Dice are out!

- Eleven!

- (ALL CHEERING)

- MAN:
This dude is on fire!

- You guys need money?

I am literally making every

single person at this table money.

I don't know, we said

we weren't gonna gamble.

Come on. What's the

worst that could happen?

Maybe we put a few dollars on four.

DEALER:
Hot shooter.

I mean, yeah, the fourth

is Alex's birthday.

- Right?

- We'll just do one bet.

I kind of can't lose at

this point, so let's do this.

DEALER:
Welcome to the Wynn, sir.

Number four, please.

- No, no, not all 500.

- Hey-oh!

(ALL EXCLAIMING)

- Yeah! F*** yeah, four!

- Yes! Yes!

Four! Four!

I should tell you, the probability

of hitting four again, very unlikely.

But if we do, you guys are gonna

double that and it's gonna pay out big.

And, plus, it's for baby Alex!

- (CHANTING) Alex! Alex! Alex!

- ALL:
Alex! Alex! Alex!

DEALER:
That's a four.

(ALL CHEERING)

Come on, Frank! Frank, look at me!

- We're gonna do this, Frank!

- Here we go, Kate!

- Do this!

- Let's do this!

To my brothers and sisters

Mom, Pops, and my daughter

Nieces and nephews, salute

all y'all to those I can't get to

To my dogs on lock down

Block hustlers from all around

I pray you make it

This world is yours...

DEALER:
Four!

(CHEERING)

Amazing, amazing,

amazing, so damn amazing

FRANK:
Okay, guys...

If I roll another four, that's

Alex going to college, all right?

I feel very lucky right now.

- We believe in you, Frank.

- All right.

Whatever you do, don't roll a seven!

(DISTORTED) Why would you say that?

(DISTORTED) I didn't know!

- No!

- No!

(DISTORTED) F*** you, a**hole!

ALL:
No!

SCOTT:
(DISTORTED) Yeah! Oh, yeah!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

- KATE:
(DISTORTED) Oh, no!

- FRANK:
(DISTORTED) God damn it!

DEALER:
Seven out,

there was no four.

- Hey, that money's my daughter's college tuition.

- DEALER:
Yeah?

Well, she just got accepted

to the School of Hard Knocks.

Misroll! It's a misroll!

- Scotty, no!

- I said not a seven!

Give me that stick! Give it to me!

FRANK:
"Whatever you

do, don't roll a seven"?

Thanks a lot, a**hole. You

basically jinxed us all.

I was merely trying to make you

aware of what number not to roll,

which, by the way, for

the record, was seven.

- (GROANS)

- MAN:
F*** you, a**hole!

That guy gets it!

- Why is that guy following me?

- Why?

Because he hates you.

I hate you, too, right now.

This place makes you crazy.

You know, we came in hell-bent on

not gambling, and what did we do?

We gambled and we lost all our money.

You know what I say?

House always wins.

What if we were the house?

FRANK:
Are you guys

familiar with the cliche,

"It's a cliche because it's true"?

Well, that cliche about cliches

being true has never been more true

than right now with the cliche,

"The house always wins."

- What?

- FRANK:
Okay?

Now, we stand to make

four years' tuition in one month.

One month, guys. Think about that.

This is the most impressive

thing you've ever done, Frank.

- KATE:
Um...

- Thanks, Scott.

- I'm very wary to go into business with you.

- Noted.

- However, we know why we need the money.

- Yes.

What's in it for you?

Well, full disclosure, the

bank has foreclosed on my home.

- Oh, Frank.

- Ah. There we go.

So, this money would

help me get that back.

That's pretty much why Raina left me.

KATE:
No, that's not why Raina left you.

It's because you started

gambling on golf...

- Yeah.

- True. Well, not just golf, but okay.

And you developed an online porn addiction.

Okay, it's not an addiction if you can

quit any time you want, which I can.

- Then stop.

- I don't want to right now.

Listen, I know I'm throwing a lot of

numbers at you guys, lot of financials.

But let's not take away from the

fact that this is gonna be fun.

Okay, but we're not

doing it for fun, right?

- Eh...

- No, we aren't. No.

- It's work.

- I think we're saying the same thing, all of us.

Work hard, play hard. Everybody has fun.

I think this slide will explain it.

FRANK:
Hey-oh! (LAUGHS)

- FRANK:
Look at that!

- Well, it just says "fun."

- FRANK:
It's fun.

- SCOTT:
But it just says "fun."

Yeah, it's gonna be a great time,

probably the best time of our lives.

And we're gonna make crazy money.

The graphics are great, but

it doesn't help us. It doesn't.

I have one last slide to show you,

and I think it's the most important.

Check this out.

Look at Alex, right? Here she is.

She's gone to college, Bucknell,

top of her class,

built her own company.

If she doesn't go to college,

boom! She's a homeless prostitute.

She's a runaway on the streets,

selling her tiny body for money.

I don't like this. This is

very emotionally manipulative.

Yeah, exactly.

- May I speak with you privately, please?

- Right now?

Yes, I'd love to talk to you

in the kitchen, if I could.

Okay.

Well?

Thumbs up, right?

I mean, the math. It seems to check out.

Do this math.

You're 40 years old and

you go to jail for 20 years.

How old are you when you get out?

- Ninety. Hundred.

- No. Honey...

- If I have some scratch paper, I can figure it out.

- Really f***ing old!

Besides, I don't wanna start

an illegal operation with...

- SCOTT:
Frank?

- KATE:
Yes!

- He's our best friend!

- No, he's your best friend.

He's my long friend. We haven't

been friends since college.

Besides, we promised Alex

that we would spend time with

her before she went to college.

But if we don't have the

money, she can't go to college.

And then she's living

with us until she's 40,

working as a banged-up cocktail waitress.

She's gonna have tattoos with

weird guys' names on them.

- She's gonna get a neck tattoo.

- KATE:
Oh, my God.

Of a hand trying to choke her.

- That's gonna be Alex!

- I know. You don't think I know that?

We need to figure this sh*t out!

Can we pull this off? I

mean, can we run a casino?

It's a shady business

with criminals, mobsters,

you know, with shady people.

Look, we tried to play it safe,

we've tried to play by the

rules, and it got us nowhere.

What do we have to lose?

- (SIGHS)

- Nothing.

So, what do you guys think?

Let's take a risk for Alex.

All right, f*** it, I'm in.

- Yes!

- Yeah!

(ALL EXCLAIM EXCITEDLY)

FRANK:
We'll do it here, my house.

My hedges are crazy

high, so it's private.

Plus, Raina took a

lot of the furniture,

so we've got plenty

of room for tables.

We need players. That's easy.

There's Martha. Her

husband left her last year,

and now she runs book club

and tries to suppress the rage

bubbling just beneath the surface.

There's Joe, retired at

30, taking care of his mom

and bored out of his f***ing mind.

Then there's Reggie,

who just made partner

at his law firm,

which means he's got cash to

burn, but he's super stressed out.

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