The Square Page #4

Synopsis: Lovers Ray and Carla plan to burn down her house at Christmas, to run off with her husband's drug money. Ray has a side scheme going too, taking kickbacks on the love hotel project whose construction he's managing. The suburban Aussie marrieds live across a river from each other, the much older, domesticated Ray in a upper middle-class neighborhood, Carla on the wrong side of the water. The cheaters will lure their families to the same Christmas picnic celebration, to provide alibis while still being able to sneak off and chat about the arson. Carla's tow-truck owner hubby, Smithy, is a fearsome tough to cross, so will the philanderers' holiday gifts come through, or explode in their lying faces?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Nash Edgerton
Production: Apparition
  2 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
R
Year:
2008
105 min
$404,898
Website
683 Views


F***, Smithy!

Where is he?

F***! Okay, okay, all right, all right, all right,

I'm gonna tell you! I'm gonna tell you.

All right.

I told him we had something going,

but there is no way

he had any idea where you'd stashed it.

Mate, I didn't know where you'd kept it

and half of it was mine.

I thought you were keeping it at your depot.

So, who was it then, eh?

Who else might have known about it?

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Come on, mate.

I know you've thought about it.

Ray.

Can you be ready to leave tonight?

Well, I don't know. Maybe. Well, yes.

I need you to be ready. Just wait for my call.

Jesus. Greg.

You frightened me.

Working late?

Yeah, I was just leaving.

So, I'll see you at home?

I've got to ask you something.

Is there something you want to tell me?

About Leonard?

I don't know what you're talking about.

- Don't lie to me!

- I'm not!

- Come here.

- Greg!

You stole from me.

You burned down our house

with my f***ing mother in it!

You f***ing b*tch!

F***!

You f***ing...

- Jesus, Greg, what are you...

- Open the bag.

- Greg, it's...

- Open the bag.

Open it!

Come on, Greg!

No, Greg!

No, Greg.

Jake.

What are you doing?

Mate, it's not what you're thinking.

It was an accident.

What's in here, Ray?

I can explain it.

Come on, Jake. Just...

Let's just go sort this out.

- You're the one who f***ed up the grid.

- Please, just put the shovel down.

Come on, Jake, talk to me.

I'll talk. I'll talk to the cops.

Jake!

Jake, it was an accident.

Jake!

Jake! Come on, Jake.

Come on, mate. Pull over!

Wait, Jake!

Jake!

It was an accident! I didn't mean to...

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

Hey, what is this?

What's all that about?

- What'd he do to you?

- Nothing.

- Are you telling me the truth?

- He didn't do anything.

- All right, when was he here?

- He didn't hurt me.

I didn't ask you that.

Just tell me when.

The day he didn't show up.

- I'm sorry.

- Just you stay here

and pack your stuff, okay?

He called, Billy!

He called.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

The baby's fine, Mr. Yale.

I'm so sorry about your friend, but listen.

You're a real hero, you know that?

She's going to be okay.

- Carla, where are you?

- Ray, are you here?

No, I won't be long.

I just have one more thing I have to do.

Come down the side, there's nobody here.

Okay.

- Raymond f***ing Yale.

- Gil, you're back.

You're like a deer in the headlights,

you stupid f***ing monkey.

Go ahead, answer it.

- Are you listening?

- Yeah.

Room 16.

Carss Park Motel. You've got 10 minutes.

Right, let's go.

One man points his dick

in the wrong direction and here we are.

Now I know why you were in such a hurry

to cement over that square.

Money. Hey! Money.

- Gary.

- Ray.

He's alone. I handcuffed him to the sink.

Who? Who's in there?

Jesus, are you serious? Get in there!

Barney.

His ute's out back.

His wife Lauren dobbed him in.

Cooking the books, eh, Ray?

That's no great invention.

Sh*t, I've done it myself.

Trouble with blokes like this is,

they get greedy.

Suck blokes like you in, the kickbacks.

Then they blackmail you for your share.

Him and his wife have been doing it

for a while.

Then she discovered

he's been nailing his secretary.

Thank Christ for infidelity, I say.

Now, Ray,

this whole affair has really hurt me.

You've been a decent worker

for me in the past,

and for the most part,

you've saved me money.

But if you f*** me again,

I'll f*** you even harder!

You understand? Right.

Now get out of my f***ing sight

before I change me f***ing mind.

I'm sorry.

He says someone else knows.

It's got nothing to do with this.

It's been sorted out.

Has it?

- I swear to you on my life.

- Your life isn't worth much to me.

Let's start this again. Who else knows?

- Nobody.

- Just tell him.

Hey, point the gun at me.

Point the gun at me.

- One.

- She's got nothing to do with this.

- Two.

- She's got nothing to do with this.

Hey, you've got the wrong idea!

Then what the f*** were you doing

at my place?

It's about something else.

It's about a kickback at work.

Look, I made a big mistake.

I did the wrong thing and I'm sorry.

I'm really sorry.

But please, nobody else knows.

I swear to you.

Please let her go.

Please.

I want the money you owe me.

Okay, okay. Yeah.

Okay, so where is it?

- It's in there.

- Go get it.

- Take it. Please, just let us go.

- Hey!

You, it's okay. Go get it.

Down there. Wait. Open it.

Get on your knees. Turn around.

- Why? What... What...

- You just shut up, mate.

- Do what I'm telling you.

- You've got the money.

- Nobody else knows...

- What are you, a f***ing idiot?

It's okay. It'll be okay.

We're going to be all right.

What the f***!

No, Ray!

Ray!

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Joel Edgerton

Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor, director, writer, producer and filmmaker. He has starred in numerous Hollywood films, such as Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), Warrior (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), Black Mass (2015), Bright (2017), It Comes at Night (2017), and Red Sparrow (2018).In Australia, Edgerton portrayed Will McGill in the drama series The Secret Life of Us (2001–02), for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama. He has also appeared in several Australian films, such as The Square (2008), Animal Kingdom (2010), for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Wish You Were Here (2012), and Felony (2013). In 2015, Edgerton received a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film for The Gift, a psychological horror-thriller film Edgerton wrote, directed, co-produced, and in which he co-starred. Edgerton garnered further critical acclaim for his performance as Richard Loving in the 2016 historical drama Loving, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. more…

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