Walking Tall Page #8

Synopsis: After eight years serving the U.S. Army Special Forces, Sergeant Chris Vaughn returns to his hometown seeking for a job in the local mill. He is informed by Sheriff Stan Watkins that the mill was closed three years ago and now the Wild Cherry Casino, owned by his former high school friend Jay Hamilton, is the major source of jobs and income to the town. Chris goes home, and meets his best-friend Ray Templeton, who organized a football game with their friends. After the game, Jay invites Chris and his friends to spend the night in his casino on him, but when Chris finds that the casino crabs dealer is cheating with loaded dice, he fights against the security men and is almost killed by them. When his nephew Pete overdosed on crystal meth sold by the security men at the casino, Chris realizes that the town is dominated by the mobsters and the corrupt sheriff and with a huge piece of wood, he breaks the casino and the criminals. He is prosecuted and in the trial, he promises to the jury a
Genre: Action, Crime
Director(s): Kevin Bray
Production: MGM
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
44
Rotten Tomatoes:
26%
PG-13
Year:
2004
86 min
$45,860,039
Website
537 Views


INT. FAMILY HOUSE

RAY:

Pete, somethin's burnin.

INT. POLICE STATION

Men with machine guns are still firing at the police station.

Deni's screaming, Booth is cheering.

CHRIS:

Take that and get in there.

Chris gives Deni a pistol.

INT. FAMILY HOUSE

RAY:

Pete?

Ray steps into the kitchen but gunmen have infiltrated the home.

A fight breaks out and Pete flees. Ray jumps onto the back of

a gunman.

INT. POLICE STATION

Chris shoots up the floor with a shotgun and breaks a hole in

it.

INT. FAMILY HOUSE

Ray stabs the gunman with a potato peeler and knocks him out

with a frying pan.

INT. POLICE STATION

CHRIS:

(To Deni) Come here.

They get down into the hole in the floor.

CHRIS:

When I say 'now' start shooting, over

there. Stay low.

Booth is now under fire and is scared.

BOOTH:

Vaughn you gotta get me outta here!

INT. FAMILY HOUSE

Two other gunmen in stocking masks are holding the family hostage

upstairs.

DAD:

I know who you are.

GUNMAN:

Oh yeah?

The gunman takes off his mask and hits him with a pistol.

GUNMAN:

(Calling downstairs) Burke?

GUNMAN 2

Check it out.

He goes downstairs to find Burke dead on the kitchen floor. He

follows traces of blood across the floor.

INT. POLICE STATION

Chris is making his way towards Booth under fire.

BOOTH:

C'mon! Get me outta here man!

CHRIS:

What's it worth to you? Where's the

lab?

BOOTH:

Screw you!

Gunshots hit near booth.

BOOTH:

Ok! Ok! Hamilton's operation is at the

mill ok! It's at the mill now get me

outta here.

INT. FAMILY HOUSE

The gunman enters a room, Ray is there pointing a shotgun at

him.

RAY:

Drop it!

INT. POLICE STATION

CHRIS:

Stay down!

Booth is standing and gets shot dead.

INT. FAMILY HOUSE

Ray shoots the gunman, who falls to the floor.

UPSTAIRS:

MICHELLE:

Ray!

GUNMAN 2

Stay down!

INT. POLICE STATION

Booth is dead so Chris leaves him there.

INT. FAMILY HOUSE

RAY:

(To gunman's body on the floor) Hey..

you okay?

UPSTAIRS:

Gunman 2 looks away for a second and Michelle kicks him down

the stairs. As he tumbles down Ray reloads his shotgun. The two

begin firing at each other, taking cover behind the furniture.

INT. POLICE STATION

WATKINS:

Tried to warn ya Chris. Didn't want

this to happen.

One of the men outside has a canister. Watkins gives him the

nod and he begins walking towards the station. Chris is beneath

the floor and shoots him in the legs. The two remaining men outside

open fire again. Another gunman tries to approach but he's shot

in the legs as well. Watkins enters the station and fires repeatedly

at the floor.

WATKINS:

Come get some! WOOOOOOOOO!

CHRIS:

Deni! Now!

Deni fires off some shots. Watkins is distracted by the shots,

Chris appears in the floor hole and blasts Watkins at close range

with a shotgun.

CHRIS:

Deni.... Deni.

Chris climbs out of the hole and they hug.

INT. FAMILY HOUSE

Shots are still being fired in the lounge. Ray and the gunman

begin to wrestle. Ray wins and punches the man repeatedly. Chris

has come back to the house and tries to pull Ray off the man,

Ray mistakenly hits Chris in the face.

RAY:

I'm sorry!

Chris helps Ray over to a chair, Ray has taken a shot to the

leg.

The injured gunman from the kitchen appears brandishing a pistol.

GUNMAN:

You stabbed me... with a potato peeler??

Chris and Ray hold up their hands. He aims at Ray but he's shot

in the back of the head by Dad who is approaching down the stairs.

CHRIS:

You gonna be ok?

Dad nods.

EXT. THE MILL

Chris is in a police car driving at speed. He approaches the

mill and busts through the locked gates.

INT. THE MILL

The mill is dark, Chris is finding his way around using a torch.

He finds Jay sitting.

JAY:

Hey Chris.

CHRIS:

Get up Jay.

JAY:

Just a sec. Remember we used to play

hide n seek up here?

Jay hits a metal saw which resonates making a metallic sound.

JAY:

That was my favourite sound.

CHRIS:

Get up!

Jay stands up and holds up his hands.

JAY:

Look... Chris... just...

Jay hits a switch on the floor which opens a hatch. Chris falls

into the hatch but hangs onto the saw which is swinging over

it.

Jay hits more switches, powering up the machinery.

JAY:

You wanna know what my new favourite

sound's gonna be? The sound of you screaming

like a little b*tch.

Jay hits Chris in the stomach with a pole a few times. Chris

grabs the pole and they both fall. Chris has hurt his leg. Chris

stumbles off into the woods. Jay grabs an axe and goes after

him, he swings the axe but misses and they both fall down a large

earthy embankment. At the bottom they come to their senses and

begin fighting again, Jay with his axe and Chris with a log he's

ripped off a tree. Chris knocks Jay out by hitting him hard in

the legs.

CHRIS:

You're right Jay, this does change our

relationship. This is my town, you're

under arrest.

INT. WILD CHERRY CASINO

Chris and Ray are packing everything, the place is boarded up.

CHRIS:

That oughta do it. WHAT are you doin?

RAY:

Gettin some souvenirs, I'm gonna miss

the place!

CHRIS:

That's how it starts. Next you'll be

accepting bribes, setting speed traps

all over town, cuttin up trucks. Not

to mention the cavity searches.

RAY:

Speakin of which, do you think Jay's

got a casino in the pen?

CHRIS:

Could be.

RAY:

Runnin the shower tower with the felons.

He's probably blowin on somebody's dice

right now.

They laugh as they drive off. The mill makes a horn noise.

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David Klass

David Klass is an American screenwriter and novelist. He has written more than 40 screenplays for Hollywood studios and published 14 young adult novels. His screenplays are primarily character-based thrillers for adults, while his novels often tell the stories of teenagers in crisis. more…

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