The Super Page #3

Synopsis: Louie is a New York slum landlord who is given 120 days to repair one of his apartment blocks. The problem for Louie is that he must live in the rundown block until the repairs are complete. Louie's father is the real boss, and he has no intention of paying for the repairs. This leaves Louie to live in the squalor his tenants endure all year round.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Rod Daniel
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
0%
R
Year:
1991
95 min
350 Views


- I know that.

- what do you mean, you know?

- I know. I know it's not gonna work.

why wouldn't it work? were you in here

while I was sleepin', goin' through my stuff?

- No! No!

- You weren't going through my...

- Did you touch this? what are you so nervous about?

- No!

- I'm not nervous!

- You're not ner... well, don't move. Don't move!

Stay here. This better work.

This better work.

- [Clicks On]

- " [Rock]

- You're lucky.

- [Bangs, Sizzles]

- " [Stops]

- And it doesn't work because you never fix...

the electrical in this building.

[Sighs]

I wasn't spyin' on you. I was just curious.

I wanted to get to know

more about you.

Let me tell you something, okay?

I'm not lookin' to make any friends.

I don't think that's

gonna be a big problem.

- [Hinges Creaking]

- Pain in the ass.

[Laughing And Talking

All Together]

what is it? what? what?

what? what?

Kritski, looks like your automobile

lost a little weight.

[Laughing Uncontrollably]

- [woman] He hasn't figured it out yet!

- [Men Continue Laughing]

- [Alarm warbling]

- [Laughing]

- The alarm works!

- [Alarm Continues]

- No tires, but the alarm works!

- Never see that!

[Alarm Continues, Very Loud]

A robber's market!

watch it.

Ah, sh*t!

You didn't see anything?

You didn't see anything.

You didn't hear that thing?

The alarm didn't go off?

- You didn't hear nothing?

Did you hear anything?

- No.

- I didn't hear anything either.

- I didn't hear anything either. "

[Laughs] Did ya...

I know you didn't hear anything.

[Laughing Continues]

- Ofay! Yo, white boy, what you doin' down here?

- white-ass motherf***er!

what are you,

the welcome wagon?

[Louie] Hey, nice outfits.

where's the rest of the band?

[Laughing]

what's the matter, no sense of humor?

Get out of my way!

Get! Get!

[Man]

we can double that bet.

- There. You make yours.

- Hey, where's the storekeeper?

- Let's give the shot.

- where's the storekeeper, guys?

- I'll take that bet.

- Oh! what do I look like, a mirage?

- I got the cue, and I'll take it.

- Go ahead. Cue ahead.

- what the hell do you want?

- You know what I want.

I want to get

fitted for a tuxedo.

Is this a grocery store,

or what?

You sell these groceries,

or you guys got 'em for snacks?

what do you need?

'Kay. Let me see. I got my girl comin' over.

I need some wine.

what kind of wine

do you have here? Boy!

You got...

what the f*** is that?

You expect me to drink

screw-top wine?

You want a buzz?

It's gonna have to come from this.

Maybe I'll just get some essentials,

so we don't starve to death.

- [Bangs]

- Holy sh*t.

Your bread is older than your f***in' wine!

[Laughing]

You get it? It's...

This is aged!

This is... See, this

should be aged, and...

You don't... You get it?

what a sense of humor!

[Laughing]

Am I on Candid Camera in this place or what?

Um, I'll have, uh, peanut butter.

Do you have any peanut butter?

- One kind only.

- One kind only.

Let me ask you a question.

why is that you have

- and you only have one kind of peanut butter?

- [Sighs, Clears Throat]

Because we don't get too many

fussy little white pricks in here.

Okay.

[Traffic, People Chattering]

- want me to carry that bag?

- Hey, don't sneak up on me like that, Tito.

- I wasn't sneaking up on you.

- Yes, you did. what are you doin' here?

- I work here!

- You work where?

Yeah, I beat out 70 other guys

for this job.

Get outta here. You were followin' me.

why'd you follow me?

'Cause I knew you were out of stale bread,

three-year-old peanut butter...

- and fifty-cent wine.

- Just get out of my bag, kid.

Yo, yo. You want me

to carry the bag, or what?

Hey yo, yo, no.

I don't want you to carry my bag.

I don't need you to carry my bag.

I don't need you to do nothin' for me.

You know why?

'Cause I ain't scared in this neighborhood.

And you know why I'm not scared?

'Cause I walk it like I talk it.

[Bang]

- what's the matter with you?

- [Laughing, Catcalls]

what do you mean,

what's the matter with me?

- Nothing's wrong with me.

- [Sighing] God!

- Didn't you hear me yell, Dive? "

- Oh.

I said, Dive. "

what do you mean, Come on"?

I only did that 'cause you were here.

I was worried about you.

- Oh, right.

- You know that was a gunshot?

You could have got hit.

- Uh-huh.

- [Trains Screeching]

You walkin' funny, man.

Did you sh*t in your pants?

- No!

- You mean, that's the way you always walk?

- Oh, hey. Tito! How's it goin', man?

- Hey.

- who was that, your dealer?

- My father.

- Your father?

- Yeah.

Boy, your mother

must like 'em young.

- My mother?

- Yeah, that lady you live with.

That's my grandmother.

- I don't know where my mother is.

- Oh.

How much they pay you

on this job you have?

- I work for tips.

- Oh, yeah?

All right, take this.

You run it up to the house.

- There you go. There's a fin.

- Thank you.

Thank you?

That's it?

- That's five dollars I gave ya.

- Thank you, massa. Thank you, massa.

- Thank y... F*** you, kid.

- F*** you, too.

F*** me.

- Follow the bee. Follow the bee.

where's the bee? Buz-z-z...

- well...

[Crowd Chattering]

[Marlon] Thank you for giving me the

opportunity to have this little workshop here.

while I go there and get...

and hit the big time.

Okay, I won't forget you

when I hit the big time.

- Follow the bee. where's the bee?

- [Groaning, Laughing]

[Chattering Continues]

- Bee-z-z-z... -

- [Laughing]

It's just like lovemaking.

Follow the bee.

- You're looking for the bee.

- There you go, man. I know what you're saying.

- Come on, man.

- which one is it?

- That's it. I'll take that money now.

- You sure?

That's it, man.

I got it. Yeah!

- Forty. Get me 80, man. Forty get me 80.

- I hope you keep that smile...

- when you lose... wait a second.

- Your rent money!

wait a minute, man.

I'm fumbling all over here.

- Look at this guy. He beat me already, you know?

- You're doin' okay.

- I've been watchin' you. Let me have the rent money.

- I'm not doin' okay.

Just hold on a second,

I'll give you all your rent money.

- You wanna play some rounds?

- I don't wanna play!

Nobody wants to play for fun anymore.

Everything has to be for money.

For money, you know?

That's what ruined the Olympics.

[Player]

Yeah. You're right.

- That's the bee.

- That's $20 minimum bet.

- Okay. Fine with me.

- where's the money?

- which one is it? This one?

- Right there. Uh-huh.

[Groans]

So sorry. See what happens?

we're lookin' for the bee, my man.

That's where the honey is.

See, that's where the money...

You get the king, you get the sting. Sorry.

I was lucky.

I don't know if I have the nerves for this.

There's a lot of nerves in this game,

you know what I'm sayin'?

Hey, ain't you gonna give me

a chance to win my money back?

what, are you crazy? No.

Fifty dollars, minimum bet, now.

- Okay.

- Okay. where's your money?

- Show me.

- Excuse me, excuse me. I been hangin' around.

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Sam Simon

Samuel Michael Simon (June 6, 1955 – March 8, 2015) was an American director, producer, writer, animal rights activist and philanthropist, who co-developed the television series The Simpsons. While at Stanford University, Simon worked as a newspaper cartoonist and after graduating became a storyboard artist at Filmation Studios. Simon submitted a spec script for the sitcom Taxi, which was produced, and he later became the series' showrunner. Over the next few years, Simon wrote and produced for Cheers, It's Garry Shandling's Show and other programs, as well as writing the 1991 film The Super. In 1989, Simon developed the animated sitcom The Simpsons with Matt Groening and James L. Brooks. Simon assembled the show's first writing team, co-wrote eight episodes and has been credited with "developing [the show's] sensibility". Simon's relationship with Groening was strained and he left the show in 1993, negotiating a pay-off which saw him receive tens of millions of dollars from the show's revenue each year. The following year Simon co-created The George Carlin Show, before later working as a director on shows such as The Drew Carey Show. Simon won nine Primetime Emmy Awards for his television work. Simon turned to fields outside television in his later years. Simon regularly appeared on Howard Stern's radio shows, managed boxer Lamon Brewster and helped guide Lamon to the World Boxing Organization Heavyweight Championship in 2004 and was a regular poker player and six-time in the money finisher at the World Series of Poker. Simon founded the Sam Simon Foundation, which consists of a mobile veterinary clinic that goes into low-income neighborhoods offering free surgeries for cats and dogs several days per week, as well as a program that rescues and trains shelter dogs. He also funded the self-christened Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel the MY Sam Simon. Simon was engaged at the time of his death, having been previously twice married, including to the actress Jennifer Tilly. Following a profile of Simon on 60 Minutes in 2007, CBS writer Daniel Schorn wrote in an online article that Simon was "perhaps the Renaissance man of the baffling, uncertain age we live in."Simon was diagnosed with terminal colorectal cancer in 2012 and given only three to six months to live. Simon died on March 8, 2015. He bequeathed his $100 million estate to various charities which he actively supported during his lifetime. more…

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