What Doesn't Kill You Page #2

Synopsis: An armored car is robbed by three men. A passing police officer and one of the robbers exchange fire. The robber is Paulie. In a flashback we follow him and his closest friend, Brian, as they grow up together in South Boston. They're tough guys, thugs, doing jobs for the local boss and chaffing to do more. Paulie's the leader. Brian drinks too much and free bases, ignoring his wife and two young boys. Life-changing events lead him to try to go straight, look for work, take what comes his way, and go to A.A. meetings. He struggles. Paulie shows him the plans for the armored car job. Will they do it? "I am who I am," Brian tells his wife. Is crime his only skill?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Brian Goodman
Production: Yari Film Group
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
R
Year:
2008
100 min
Website
146 Views


- I got this kid, Anthony, all right?

He's making a lot of money,

and he don't answer to anybody.

What about Pat?

We gotta start

making our own money.

That rat McGill is

giving up everyone.

No wonder, with the deals

they're giving today.

I should've killed that

prick when I had the chance.

- Yeah. Definitely.

- We took care of that.

Yeah, he called.

- Hey, Jackie.

- Hey, Jackie.

Here you go.

He said $5,000.

Yeah, that's your cut. You got

a problem with that, Paulie?

- Yeah, as a matter of fact, I do.

- You do?

Yeah, yeah. You know

what, Pat? Keep it.

Hey, come here.

Come here. Come here!

Who the f*** you think you're

talking to, some f***ing punk?

I've been lining your

pockets since you were a kid!

If it wasn't for me,

you wouldn't have sh*t!

That's not the point, Pat.

The point is it's supposed

to be getting easier.

You think you're the only one with

problems? I got heat up my ass,

and you've been moping around here

for months with this f***ing attitude,

and I'm tired of it.

You better work on that

because I'm telling you, we're gonna

have a f***ing problem! You got that?

You got that?

You better talk to him, Brian.

You see what I'm talking about? You

see what I'm f***ing talking about?

He treats us like we're a

couple of f***ing a**holes!

Okay, relax, Paul.

Come on. Let me in. Let me in!

What'd he say to you, huh?

Then we drive off with the truck.

That's it. It's that simple.

- Who is this guy?

- George Shea. I've known him for years.

He's solid.

He's not gonna try to

f*** us on the price?

- No?

- No.

We get paid that night,

and then we're on our way.

Does he have to

know who we are?

He doesn't care how the TVs get

there, as long as they get there.

All right, Anthony,

we'll see you tonight.

All right, cool. Call me.

Hey, Brian, why

don't you go home?

- Why don't you mind your business, Katie?

- You know, he's got a girl.

Hey, do me a favor, tell Paulie

to come over here, will you?

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah, and then go home.

Why don't you buy

me a f***ing drink?

- Hey, Paulie.

- Yeah, what?

Brian wants to talk to you.

Okay. All right. Two seconds.

So you got a place to...

- I gotta pay the bills.

- You gotta pay the bills?

I'll pay your bills.

You got a place to stay?

- You'll pay my bills?

- That's right, I'll pay your bills.

- All right, well, I'm on a couch right now.

- You're on a...

I'll go on the

couch, you go...

Why don't you stay at my

house? What's your name?

- How big is your couch?

- How big is my couch?

- My name is Lisa.

- My couch is big enough.

All right, Lisa, I'm

gonna go talk to my friend.

I'm gonna come back, and

I'm gonna talk to you.

We're gonna talk some more about my

couch, all right? Holy f***ing sh*t.

Deal me out.

Yeah, no problem.

- You know that kid Jay?

- What, the kid behind me?

Yeah. He's making a lot

of money with that coke.

- Yeah? How do you know?

- I just do.

- We should get some from him.

- Who's he with?

- Nobody, that's my point.

- Let's go.

- Hey, Jay, can we talk to you for a minute?

- Yeah, yeah.

- Hey, cute girl.

- Yeah, I know her.

- Hey, kid. Did you see Charlie?

- How you been?

- You know Paulie, right?

- Yeah.

- How's it going?

- Good.

Hey, Jay, we want to talk to

you tomorrow. Is that all right?

- What about? Everything okay?

- Yeah, yeah, everything's fine.

You want to meet us at the

Heights at 2:
00 tomorrow?

- All right.

- Don't worry. Have a good time tonight.

Hey, Pat.

- How you doing?

- All right.

- Busy, huh?

- Yeah.

Hey, you two haven't heard of a truck

full of TVs disappearing, did you?

- No.

- Nothing?

- You sure?

- Yeah, we're sure.

It's funny, I

got a call from...

Well, anyway, you keep your ears open.

Let me know if you hear anything, will you?

Yeah. No problem.

All right.

Greedy prick.

Hey. Hey, guys.

- Sh*t.

- All right, let's go.

Sean, help your

brother. Here's your bag.

- Why don't you go wait in the kitchen?

- All right, be good. Learn a lot.

That's great. Here, Sean,

help him put on his jacket.

I can't get the zipper.

It's 8:
00 in the morning.

Where the hell have you been?

- Out. Out.

- Where?

- Where?

- I don't want to hear it. Here.

Like this solves everything.

Come on.

Come on.

- Brian, this has gotta stop.

- Yeah, okay.

All right, yeah, whatever

you say. I won't do it again.

For the last time, just

let me get some sleep.

- Yeah?

- Hey, it's me.

- Jackie wants to see us.

- For what?

I don't know. He

didn't say anything.

All right. I'll be there.

Feds got Pat.

For what?

They're trying to pin some

old bullshit murder rap on him.

For when? Who?

- You know that prick, Mickey Gills?

- Yeah.

He's been flipping on

everybody from years ago,

trying to get his

sentence cut in half.

What's he looking at?

If he pleads out to

manslaughter, eight.

Hey, don't worry about it,

though. It'll be all right.

- Nothing changes.

- Yeah, sure.

- Of course.

- Nothing.

- I can't f***ing believe it.

- What do you think?

I think it's time

to go see that kid.

She's not going to mind doing

it, you know, coming to tell me...

Hey, Jay.

Hey. Sorry I'm late.

No problem. Nice car.

Thanks.

You're making good money

with that coke, huh?

I'm doing all right.

Personally, I don't care

how you make your money.

You don't sell it

to the kids, right?

- No.

- Let's cut to the chase, all right?

You're making a lot of money

with that, and we want some.

All right. So you

got two choices.

You can either come up with

a little something each week,

or, better yet, you can set up some

dealers, we'll rob them and cut you in.

- You want me to set up my connections?

- Yeah.

I can't do that. They know me.

- They know where the f*** I live.

- Yeah, but so do we.

Brian, are you gonna

put me on the spot?

I known you how long? We're

from the same neighborhood.

- What am I supposed to do?

- Jay, f*** them.

So if this goes good, they say they

might need 50 pounds every 10 days.

- I got all you need, man.

- Yeah, I bet.

- I'll go get them.

- All right, I'll be here.

Hey, what's going on?

- Oh, God.

- Relax, Tommy, you're gonna be okay.

- Jay, what's going on?

- Bad day for you, Tommy.

Just chalk it up as a loss, Tommy.

You'll make it back in a couple of weeks.

I'll take this. Thank you.

Okay. In case you get

stupid, that look familiar?

Jay, stuff in the back?

- Trunk open, Tommy?

- Yeah.

Tommy, I'm gonna

take the keys.

I'm gonna throw them in

the alley around the corner.

Give yourself a few minutes

to pull yourself together.

When you go back to Braintree, you

don't mention any of this to anybody.

- Got it?

- Yeah.

- Try these out.

- They're too big. I'm a seven.

- What?

- These are big.

All right, just put another pair

of socks on. They'll be fine.

- Don't worry, I'll get you another pair.

- That won't work.

Hey, you got it on

the wrong foot, boss.

Hey, you want to help your brother

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