The Maid's Room Page #3

Synopsis: Set entirely on the posh east end of Long Island (where it was filmed), THE MAID'S ROOM centers around Drina, an attractive, intelligent immigrant who takes a job for the season as live-in maid to the Crawfords, a privileged New York family who maintain a splendid home in the Hamptons. The job could be worse, since Mr. and Mrs. Crawford spend most of their time in the city, but their teenage son, Brandon, who is starting Princeton in the fall, is summering at the beach, and Drina must look after him and his spoiled friends. Since the maid's room is next to the garage, Drina can't help noticing when Brandon returns late one night, noisily and obviously drunk. The next day, she sees that Brandon's car is battered and bloodied and, when she reads in the local paper that there has been a fatal hit and run, it's clear who's responsible. Knowing the Crawford's will do anything to protect their precious son, Drina realizes that, for once, she has some power over her employers. Though the situ
Genre: Thriller
Director(s): Michael Walker
Production: Paladin Films
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
4.5
Metacritic:
39
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
98 min
Website
102 Views


They don't need me.

Maybe they will.

But we're willing

to take that risk.

I could take the money

and still call the police.

You could.

But you wouldn't, would you?

Think about it.

Sleep on it.

Consider this a down payment,

hm?

Tomorrow I'll get you the rest and

take you wherever you want to go.

This money could change your life.

Hey. Drina.

Dude, I need to talk to you.

I'm really in a bind right now.

I'm just trying to figure

out what I should do.

You know what you have to do.

You just don't want to do it.

Turn yourself in.

Nothing good can come of this.

Trust me.

Look, you will have a good lawyer.

You have money.

Okay, maybe you won't go

to Princeton this year,

but you will still have

your life, Brandon.

No, I... I don't see how

turning myself in helps anything.

I don't know you very well.

But I think you're very nice.

I think you're a good person.

I don't think you're the type

of person who could live

with something like this.

This man's life...

it will live inside of you.

And he will haunt you for

the rest of your life.

I just... I really don't

want to go to jail.

There are worse things.

Are there?

Don't move.

You ought to be

ashamed of yourself.

Pretty girl like you.

You have a future.

You know what your problem is?

You're young and you think

you know everything.

What makes you think you're

so much better than us?

You never made a

mistake in your life?

You never...

Messed up once or broke the law?

Huh?

You're not supposed to be in this country.

You're breaking the law right now.

My son is a good boy.

And you are gonna ruin

everything for him.

If you had seen him struggle

the way that I did,

you would understand.

He didn't have an easy childhood.

And you are gonna destroy him?

For what?

For someone who's already dead.

You know, he was drunk that guy.

Said so in the paper.

What did he think was gonna happen

standing in the middle of the road?

Did you know him?

Is that what this is?

Is this a little set

up to blackmail us?

Whatever it is you're trying

to do to my son,

it's not gonna work.

I won't let it happen, and

neither will my husband.

You know what you are?

You're dirt.

You're not even a person.

You make me sick.

You and your self-righteousness.

- What's going on?

- She set off the alarm.

Sh*t. What are you doing down here?

They're gonna call and make sure

that it wasn't a false alarm.

I disconnected the phone.

Where's your cellphone?

- In my bag.

- Where is it?

Right over there!

Hi, this is Oliver Crawford.

My wife, she just

set off the alarm.

No, our phone is not working.

Yes, 060787.

Okay.

No, she hit the wrong

button and panicked.

Hello? Help!

Help!

Ow!

I'm sorry.

That was my son.

He's just messing around.

Yes.

Police are already on their way.

Get in your room, Drina,

right now. Right now!

Aah!

Good.

You stay in there,

and I don't want to hear a

f***ing word out of you.

Okay.

Drina, wait. Wait. Calm down.

The gate is not gonna open.

I changed the code.

Drina, your working

yourself up for no reason!

Drina wait, please.

Drina, wait.

Please.

Just let me leave. Calm down.

I'm not going to hurt you.

I just want to talk to you, okay?

Please just let me

leave. I want to go.

I can't do that without

some assurance.

Aah!

Stop shouting!

Aaah! Help!

Please stop.

Aah!

Aah!

Aah!

He looks pretty bad.

Look, we just need to

get him on the gurney.

I-is he gonna be all right?

We've seen worse.

It was an accident.

Of course. Of course it was.

You did the right thing calling us.

You okay? Are you hurt bad?

No, I'm not. I'm fine.

- You're shaking.

- I'm just a little bit shaky.

Don't worry about it now.

We'll take good care of him.

Brandon.

Yeah, what's going on?

Need your help.

She started screaming.

I had to stop her.

She fell.

We have to call an ambulance.

Brandon, this wasn't an accident.

But she fell. Y-you

said that she fell.

I didn't know what to do. I had

to stop her from screaming.

She got herself so worked up.

There was no talking

to her. You saw her.

She was gonna call the police.

If you don't want any part of

this, I don't know what I'll do.

You can't see this spot from the

house or the road or from the water.

We can bury her here.

Tomorrow I'll have it

covered over with sod.

No, someone's gonna

come looking for her.

By the time anyone

comes looking for her,

this will look just like

the rest of the lawn.

And as far as we're concerned,

she went back to Colombia.

What can they say about that?

We don't even know

where she came from.

It's all wet here.

It'll have to do.

Sun's coming up, anyway.

Hey.

I-I... I can't.

I can't do this.

Okay.

I'll do the rest.

You go inside, clean yourself off.

Leave your shoes outside.

Sit down.

My father never told me

much worth remembering,

but there was one thing he said

that always stuck with me.

Never come clean.

They might have some

suspicions or some evidence...

But there's no reason to

help them dig your grave.

Never come clean.

Unless you spill your guts,

they don't know anything.

Confession is for church.

By the way, you better not confess

about this at church, either.

Don't think father Kovaks will listen to

this story without telling the police.

That guy.

Can't tell your friends,

your girlfriends... nobody.

If you want to talk

about it, talk with me.

You'll feel guilty.

That's fine. That's good.

I understand that.

But keep it to yourself.

I'm not saying...

That I wouldn't have done

the same thing as you,

driving away from that accident,

but what you did you

did out of fear.

And that fear has been with you your whole

life, like a disability holding you back.

If you want something good

to come out of this...

That part of you, that cowardice...

excise it from your

character right now.

Do something good with

the rest of your life.

Something I can be proud of.

Something you can be proud of.

Maybe you'll save somebody's

life one day.

Do some good in the world.

Come here.

I don't know what I'd do if

anything ever happened to you.

I'm sorry I got us into this...

Hello. Drina?

Hello. Is Drina here?

Uh, Drina no aqui.

Drina... she come back.

No, no, she left.

She's not here anymore.

She doesn't work here.

When?

Yesterday.

Uh, sh-she's not here.

She work here?

Y-yes, she did, but, uh, no more.

Uh, uh...

No mas trabaja.

What were you thinking?

That she didn't have friends?

What? That guy? What do

you think he's gonna do?

Call the police?

Well, what about her family?

What happens when they

come looking for her?

You think her mother can just

get on a plane from Colombia

and fly up here? Hire a lawyer?

You think if she had that kind

of money she would let her

daughter come up here

illegally to work as a maid?

All they have to do is come

in here and see the car.

Look at this.

It says they don't know anything.

How would they?

Paint chip, piece of glass

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Michael Walker

Michael Walker (born 1945, in Corner Brook, Newfoundland) is a Canadian economist. He is best known as the founder of The Fraser Institute. He is a journalist, broadcaster and consultant. He earned a BA from St. Francis Xavier University, and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He worked at the Bank of Canada and the Federal Department of Finance. He then taught at the University of Western Ontario and Carleton University. Under his leadership, a series of conferences were started in the mid-1980s to measure economic freedom and rank countries accordingly. more…

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