Things We Lost in the Fire Page #2

Synopsis: Grief, recovery, and human contact. Brian is a great guy - a sweet father, a good husband, and a loyal friend to his boyhood pal Jerry who's a junkie. When tragedy strikes, Jerry tries to help Brian's wife and children cope, and Audrey, Brian's widow, tries to help Jerry kick the habit. Loss and addiction are stubborn. The story starts on the day of the funeral, with Brian appearing in flashbacks. A neighbor's divorce, a dinner party that includes a young woman from the Narcotics Anonymous group Jerry attends, and thinking back to a fire in Brian and Audrey's garage give the story texture.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Susanne Bier
Production: Dreamworks/Paramount
  4 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
R
Year:
2007
118 min
$3,241,832
Website
931 Views


- Yes, but I have to leave.

Oh, was very pleasant to go out with you.

You know that I appreciate it

more than what you believe.

Seriously.

Happy Birthday.

It was good to see you.

It is well.

Not forget, don't forget that.

Not do forget what?

The food.

What?

You, pretty boy hear.

It was concerned that

you had passed a bad while.

Not you will be seeing the film

Lifetime another time. No?

No, it is this commercial one that we have seen.

Are they crying for a commercial one?

Not you have idea of what you/they happen

the seals babies in Alaska.

They are so pretty, dad.

Donate them a lot of money.

There is a place in lnternet

to make the donations.

It is well, Harper salt. It was.

We see each other then.

We see each other then.

Charmed of knowing you.

I will refresh.

How was he?

It is all jodido for their addiction.

It is very jodido.

He told me a thing...

... that I was thinking

while he/she returned to the house.

He/she asked me if the taxes

they had affected my business,

that doesn't have relevance

for Jerry and their world not?

He/she could have read it in

some place and to remember...

... because he/she has relevance for me.

I know that you think that I always give him/her

and I give him/her and him alone he/she receives, but...

... he is my friend, him you

it worries for me and I understand it.

He/she is my friend.

I forgot to put him/her those

switches to the lights.

I will discharge to these types

and I will hire some Poles.

- Can you take to the children to swim tomorrow?

- Yes.

Will they put the head this time?

That waits.

If they don't make it the I push.

Oh that would be well.

I told to Jerry that you were

putting to bed with Langdon Higgs.

Did you tell him/her what?

-Langdon Higgs?

-He knows that he/she was joking.

Why I would be

putting to bed with Langdon Higgs?

I don't know it.

If he/she will go to bed with somebody

it would not be Langdon... Higgs.

No? Why not?

Because the not even speaks, it is for that reason.

He will make it.

The gun of water.

The gun of water? Why?

Because...

Why the gun of water?

Because you remind me to a cowboy.

If Howard had a gun of

he/she is flooded he/she remembered to a cowboy.

Oh, yes.

Not ask if you don't want to know.

It shoots.

Alone you make it.

Do they need something?

Non thank you Howard. Won't you take a bath?.

He doesn't swim.

OK.

Who wears out 200 thousand dollars

in a pool if he/she doesn't swim?

It is well, it is enough.

Maybe next time you attempt

to build a mosque.

That was amusing.

I will return in a couple of hours.

We go.

Not I want.

The difficult one is making

so that they assist him, dad.

Thank you doctor, but him

the attention has been won.

Dory is well, only attempt it.

I already made it.

No, you didn't make it.

You owe enfrentartus fears.

Everybody has to make it.

OK, you are a man, you are almost 6 years old.

It is time, we will make it.

Not I have to make it,

you cannot put under an obligation.

Me yes I can put under an obligation.

Baby, joking.

- Am I joking?

- He are not?

Oh, yes. Were we joking not?

I leave you with mom. lr with your sister.

They come with mom. They come with mommy.

Your dad is a man very...

... abusive.

Hello.

He/she looks at what I have made with this.

I have bothered him completely.

I believe that it is well.

At some time you will give me

a honest answer,

or simply owners everything that makes.

It is, oh... I believe that it is... ugly.

Thank you.

It is uneven, without form, faded.

I have a lifetime and alone

an opportunity to finish it.

Now I have bothered him and

everything has been disorganized.

Oh that bad. He/she had listened

that you liked to live in the water.

Dad!

I promise that I will transform into a stone.

Dad!

I will be contained.

OK?

To control.

Don't move, is it well?

Hello, baby.

The history of the strawberry bores.

- You already finished it.

- Yes.

What you mean with

what does the strawberry bore?

I will return in a moment.

- Good-bye.

- Good-bye.

Oh, Dory.

You seem a puppy,

that it is alone.

What are you saying?

- Apologize.

- Mom.

It is amusing. Not he/she responds.

Are you Brian's lady Burke?

You don't tell me that you love him. Do you hear me?

Curse.

- Don't lie me.

- No.

- Not make that again.

- Hold.

- This is my wife.

- To my I don't care it.

Hold, it is everything.

Man breathes, it counts up to 10.

- Am I breathing it is well?

- It counts up to 10...

- 1, 2,

- Likewise.

... 3, 4.

Yes, hello.

I Am in Southwest and Alm,

I have a woman here that...

... it has been hit,

it is too wornout.

No.

I have 2 children.

I have a girl of 10

years and a 6 year-old boy.

They are waiting to that

their father returns home.

Not I can scream.

I sit down it a lot.

What does it happen?

Jerry.

-Oh, I sit down it.

-He doesn't already live here.

It is well. You can me

to say where to find it.

lntente in clinical McKinley.

Ok Clinical McKinley.

- Hello.

- Hello.

What do you make here?

Not I know, alone I came to see how you were.

How good to see you.

Do you want coffee or does it dilute?

Yes.

We go.

- Then this it is a Clinic of Rehabilitation.

- Yes.

- You take metadona.

- No, not me.

Alone I help in the Clinic and them

they give me a place where to stay.

When was the last time that you used it?

I was about using it after the one

funeral, I had a relapse.

How are the children?

They are a disaster in the school...

... and Dory is having nightmares

in those that their dad is the monster.

- Do you want more?

- No.

I leave.

For, Harper.

Not I am making anything.

For already, Harper.

Mom.

Harper!

For! Not they can give me a rest?!

All that I requested them this morning

it was that they sat down here...

... and that they ate calm.

But they cannot even think in

that. Don't laugh Dory, it is not amusing.

Mom.

Can I sleep with you?

Yes, we go.

Curse.

He/she hears, this it is the treatment.

It is well,

We had a fire in our garage.

The good news are that

we begin to reconstruct it.

The bad news is that we never finish.

Then, now the only thing that there is

it is a room with a bathroom.

You cannot stay here, Jerry.

You are crazy.

Why?

Because it is free.

Not I need charity, Audrey.

Who is offering charity?

I am me the one that needs help.

Not you realize the

that I am telling you?

You can move, to make comfortable and with the one

time can obtain a work...

... and you can pay me the rent.

Why did Brian never mention you?

Because he/she was recovering

of my addiction.

I hate my wife.

I mean, that it is their butacn.

I hate all that has to do with her.

He/she leaves to ponerfuriosa when

discover that I gave you this sh*t.

It is well.

- Hello Dory.

- Hello.

Do you want to shake hands us?

Don't worry.

We have it.

Good work.

Yes?

It happens.

It is hour of eating.

Hour of eating?.

Yes, my mom told me

that he/she came to look for you.

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Allan Loeb

Allan Loeb (born July 25, 1969) is an American screenwriter and film and television producer. He wrote the 2007 film Things We Lost in the Fire and created the 2008 television series New Amsterdam. He wrote the film drama 21, which also was released in 2008. Among his other credits, he wrote and produced The Switch (2010). He also co-wrote Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), and wrote The Dilemma (2011), and Just Go with It (2011). He performed a rewrite for the musical Rock of Ages (2012), and the mixed martial arts comedy Here Comes the Boom (2012). more…

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