Things Change Page #6

Synopsis: Gino, an Italian-American shoe-shiner with a remarkable similarity to a certain mafia don, is paid to take the rap for a murder. Jerry, a two-bit gangster on probation, is given a chance for redemption by guarding Gino for the weekend. But instead of sitting around a dingy hotel room, Jerry decides to give Gino a weekend to remember, taking him to Lake Tahoe. Jerry's bragging to his friends of his important charge, as well as Gino's dignified, quiet demeanor, soon result in much complication for them both.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): David Mamet
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
PG
Year:
1988
100 min
431 Views


That's right.

Then I get out. And you

come-a and see me in my boat.

Yeah, I'll come see you in your boat.

Sun a-come up, and we fish.

Sun a-go down, and we drink.

We talk about old times.

We talk about number 12.

Yeah. Okay.

Not such a long-a time.

No.

What's-a the big deal?

That's right.

Well?

What do you think time it is?

5:
00, 5:15.

We got about five hours.

What do you wanna do?

I... Hey. Hey, I...

I wish you didn't have to go.

Don't go.

I gotta go.

You know I gotta go.

No, you could...

A deal, it's a deal.

The hell with the deal!

They're buying three years

of your life for pocket change.

You come out an old man,

money don't mean sh*t.

Jerry... What ""?

I got a deal.

Three years in-a prison.

I get out, I go back, I buy my boat.

You buy your boat!

You know what your money's

gonna buy in three years?

It won't buy a toothbrush.

What... Three years of your life!

You... No, this is not a deal.

It's a hustle.

They hustled you.

Three years for three days.

I give my word.

No.

You walk.

You could walk!

I go in the bathroom.

I slip in the tub.

Jerry...

You walk. Who's gonna know?

Who's gonna know?

Who's gonna find you? No one.

Who's gonna look for you?

Go on. Go on!

Go on, get outta here.

Get outta here! Get the hell

outta here! Get outta here!

What the hell do you want?

We have a good time in lake Tahoe.?

We drink-a champagne...

with the girls.

The guy on stage say,

"Mr. Johnson, take a bow."

They'd break their word to you.

Maybe yes and maybe no.

What they do, no matter.

I give my word.

I gonna miss you.

You stupid son of a b*tch.

You gonna miss me too?

I ain't missing no dummy

don't know when to run.

Know what I mean?

No.

Yeah. I'll miss you

all my life.

Get outta here, you stupid lame.

Where are you goin'?

I gonna shave.

What?

Hey, can I come in?

Wha... Yeah, yeah.

What are you doing here?

Come to walk you guys over.

We got till 10:
00.

They want you there at 8:00.

So what've you guys been

doing in here three days?

Playin' gin.

The guy's here to take us over.

We're goin' over early.

Where're we goin'?

I thought we'd take a walk by the lake,

give him some air in his lungs.

Did you guys have a nice weekend?

Yeah.

Does he know his confession?

Yeah.

Frankie, what's goin' on?

I told you.

We're takin' a walk.

We gotta get to court.

Jer... he ain't goin' to court.

He knows his stuff.

He's gonna keep his word.

He's gonna keep his word!

Jerry... No, no.

Jerry! Our guy needed

two days to get out of town.

This doesn't work. The whole

thing was, set this guy up.

Get his prints on the gun,

get a confession.

Later he gets remorse, the murder he did.

He kills himself.

We stick the confession

in his pocket. Life goes on.

It's cleaner this way.

The don said,

"Tell him to be at the 28th

district, 10:
00 Monday."

Right. Tell him to be the 28th.

He didn't say take him there.

Nobody told me this was

going to be the thing.

He had a deal!

Things change.

You son of a b*tch.

What the...

Who are you, all of you?

You make a deal with the man.

You set the guy up,

promise him this, do the thing.

He does it, stands up.

Hey, Jerry!

Come on, come on!

You're telling me the things

you promised, you lied to him.

You're gonna turn around and kill him?

I'm not gonna kill him.

You're gonna kill him.

You're gonna kill him, pal.

You wanted to square yourself,

get off probation.

You think sittin' in a hotel three days,

order room service,

that's gonna get you back in?

That's not the job.

This is the job.

You come up to his head, you

shoot him right above the eye.

Put the gun in his hand, let it fall.

You've got two minutes.

Hey, man, you can't make me do this.

I'm not making you do anything.

You turn it down, you turn it down.

You can't handle it, I handle it.

Gino...

What?

Something happened.

What?

We got a different situation.

I don't even know how to say it.

I see.

Didn't I tell you to run?

I told you to run.

I threw you out of the hotel,

and you came back.

I told you to go.

I told you.

Why didn't you go?

I give my word.

You gave your word.

You gave your word!

Hey, Jerry.

Fantastic! You gave your word!

Jerry.

I said I'm gonna do it!

I gave my word! Everybody

gave their goddamn word!

God!

What are you gonna do?

What are you gonna do?

Shoot me? You gonna shoot me?

Shoot yourself. Shoot yourself.

You're dead.

Great.

Now I'm dead.

You're dead.

We're all dead.

You got the keys to the car?

I...

You got the keys to the car?

I only... I just-a keep...

What?

What?

I gotta make a phone call.

What phone call?

What phone call?

Don Giuseppe say, "If you ever

need my friendship..."

Are you nuts?

Yes, I make a collect call

to Mr. Joseph Vincent...

from Gino Gaddo in Chicago.

Great.

Gino Gaddo, collect

to Mr. Joseph Vincent.

Thank you.

The defendant having pled guilty

to murder in the first degree,

and in the absence of

extenuating circumstances,

we have no alternative but

to sentence the defendant...

to the maximum allowed by law.

The term of imprisonment

of 20 years to life.

You have anything you wanna say?

The car comes on the corner

at 4:
00 p.m.

I shot the son of a b*tch

three times in the heart.

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David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. As a playwright, Mamet has won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. more…

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