White Irish Drinkers Page #2

Synopsis: It's early autumn of 1975 in Brooklyn and 18-year-old Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) is killing time, pulling off petty crimes with his street tough older brother Danny (Geoff Wigdor), whom he both idolizes and fears. He doesn't really want to be a criminal, but he doesn't share the dreams of his old friends from their working class neighborhood either. They all yearn for the culturally approved 9-to-5 Civil Service jobs with benefit packages that will carry them through weekends of beer into lazy retirement. Brian doesn't want to end up in a soul-numbing job like his buddies, but he's sure he doesn't want to be like his best friend Todd (Zachary Booth) either. Todd has betrayed their blue-collar roots by accepting a scholarship to college. But Brian has a secret -- he's a talented artist. In the basement of the bagel shop beneath his parent's apartment, he creates impressionistic charcoal and watercolor images of the stifling city that surrounds him. When he puts on his headphones and pa
Genre: Drama
Director(s): John Gray
Production: Screen Media Films
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
R
Year:
2010
109 min
Website
51 Views


- Who'd buy them with all

the people out of focus?

What is that?

- I don't know.

Maybe I need glasses.

- Maybe you need a kick

in the balls.

- You've already given me

one of those, thanks.

- Come on; I haven't kicked you

in the balls in years.

- Yet somehow, that feels like

it was just yesterday.

- You're too easy on them,

the both of them.

They walk all over you.

- I can't talk to you

when you're like this.

- Sounds like a seven.

- He broke something before.

- Make it a nine.

Hey, I got an idea I want

to talk to you about.

- You know what?

I've actually got to go.

'Cause I'm gonna meet

my friend todd.

He just got back from college.

We're gonna go meet him

at the kill car.

- What was he doing at college

during the summer?

Must not be that smart.

- Yeah,

I'll ask him for you.

- I got a friend coming back too

next week... From prison.

Oh, yeah, well, I mean,

that's, you know,

that's cool too.

- Look, I got something new

in the works.

It could make us

some real money.

- Danny, listen, I don't want

to sound like I'm being-

- all right,

go if you've got to go.

I'll talk to you about it later,

all right?

- When I applied, they said,

"at this school,

"you're not just a number.

You're a person. "

I get there.

All they ask is, "what's

your social security number?

"What's your I.D. Number?

What's your course number?"

- That's a heartbreaking story,

todd.

- Seriously.

Wake me when it's over.

- I don't know why

you want to go

to four more years

of school anyway.

Get a f***ing job.

- Civil service.

That's what it's all about, man.

Look at me; I'm pulling down

9 gs with the transit authority.

I got bennies up the ass,

major medical, major dental.

The best part is that

they can't even fire me.

- That is just great news

for subway riders everywhere.

- There's more to life

than getting

your root canal paid for,

ya hump.

- F*** you, hump.

My old man says college means

you're haunted for life.

You're afraid to go out there

and work.

- Your old man must be

a f***in' phd, then.

F*** you, flanagan.

The best part of you

is still dripping down

your old man's leg.

- Here's the other thing.

He's studying, like, technology

and computers and sh*t.

- See,

trade school I understand,

you know, car repair,

refrigerator repair, like that.

I mean, how the f***

are you gonna make a living

off of computers?

- I've got one word

for you guys.

I want you to try hard

to understand.

The future.

- That's two words,

you hump.

So much for college.

- I need more beer.

I'm actually losing

small chunks of my brain

from this conversation.

- I don't get it.

I'm not getting it.

It's not registering.

- Hey.

Hey.

We don't serve your kind

in here.

- No disco in here.

Disco sucks.

Move back to bensonhurst,

you disco fucks.

Get the f*** out of here.

- So how's it feel

having just wasted

your whole f***ing summer

with that college?

- I had to.

I'm so f***ing over my head.

They let me take

these prep courses

just to get a jump start.

I must be the dumbest f***

on that campus.

- Why do it?

- Gets me out of here.

They got this computer.

The f***ing thing is so small,

it fits in one room.

The sh*t that...

Look, I know I'm the a**hole

of the hour because I'm leaving.

You know, we always said college

was bullshit.

- You always said college

was bullshit.

- Well,

I was wrong.

I got a chance,

and I f***ing took it.

- Oh,

you want a f***ing cookie?

- Here,

I got this for you.

Just to check it out.

- Oh, no, no.

- It's not just

a technology school.

They've got a kick-ass

fine arts program.

Andy warhol went there.

I hear they even got

naked chicks

that pose in the art classes.

It's a great place.

You'll love it.

They even got scholarships

for underprivileged kids.

- Who's underprivileged?

- Me and you and every other

numbnuts we know.

That's who.

- Hey, I'm not some

f***ing charity case over here.

- Look,

it's just a way in.

How do you think I got accepted?

- Just always assumed

there was a blow job involved.

Nice.

Look, they got

an early admissions program.

You could come back with me

at the end of the month.

- Look,

I'm saving up my money.

I'm trying to get an apartment

of my own,

maybe over on 75th street.

- Different perch,

same cage.

- Hey, I'm not gonna make

believe I belong somewhere else.

- Which one of us

is making believe, brian?

- Hey, what's going on?

Hey, buddy.

Hey, there is a broad

standing over by the bar

who is just checking you out

with her provincial vision.

- Do you mean peripheral?

- Yeah, that too.

- Wow.

Do you know her?

- So do you.

She went to bishop clancy.

She's a couple years

ahead of us.

Shauna somebody.

- Well, then, go over there.

- Oh,

get the f***.

- Oh, here,

have another bottle of balls,

and go over there,

ya hump.

- She didn't talk to me then.

She's not gonna talk to me now.

- All right, well...

Don't say I didn't give you

the first shot.

Hey,

how you doing?

My name's manny.

Okay.

- Manny your dreams.

- Oh, wow.

It's good to meet you finally.

- It's nice to meet you too.

- Yeah, this is...

- Really?

Yeah, hi. I'm todd.

Shauna.

That's a very unique name.

Okay.

- Wow,

your skin's so soft.

- # There is no love #

# she was sent from above #

# and I need her #

# I love her

every day of my life #

# there is no love

like my baby's love #

# when I call her

I know she will answer #

# I don't have to worry

because she's always there #

# early in the morning

or late after midnight #

# I know that my baby

will make it all right #

# she will make it all right #

# and there is no love

like my baby's love #

# there is no love #

# she was sent from above #

# and I need her #

# I want her

every day of my life #

# there is no love

like my baby's love #

# I know that there is no love

like my baby's love #

- You win.

- # There is no love

like my baby's love #

# I know that there is no love

like my baby's love #

# there is no love #

- F***ing knock.

- What's the matter?

You afraid I'm gonna catch you

stretching the old duke?

- What do you want?

- Where's the old man?

- The bar, I guess.

Where else?

He's pissed you didn't come home

again last night.

- F*** him.

I want you to hold on

to this for me.

- New slippers?

- Just hide it somewhere and

keep your mouth shut about it.

- What is this?

You giving me a f***ing gun?

- I'm not giving you sh*t.

It's mine.

I just want you

to hold on to it.

Nobody will think twice

about anything

mr. Goody-f***ing-two-shoes has.

- You hide it.

- Don't be a p*ssy, brian.

Help me out.

I think the old lady

goes through my stuff.

Just for a couple weeks

until we need it.

- What's with this "we" sh*t?

- I told you.

I got something new.

- No, dan, that's too much.

You do something with a gun,

that's some serious

f***ing time.

- Are you kidding me?

First offense.

Besides, I'm not even

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