18 to Party (2019) - full transcript

Are you being purposely stupid
The MAC is bullshit.

It has no software,
it has no memory,

it has no expansion.

No, I'm talking
about the MAC Plus.

It has a full megabyte of ram,

expandable to four
and a scuzzy interface.

Who cares,
what does that even mean?

It means peripherals, scanners,

modems, hard drives.
I will actually be computing

while you're playing Kings Quest
on your PCjr.

My PCjr with 16 color graphics



and built-in joystick boards?

You mean my PCjr with
a three-voice tone generator?

Hey! What the fuck
are you looking at?

Shit, it's Frankie.
We're never getting in tonight.

He's better than Rizzo,
that's what I think.

What grade are you in?

Eighth.

The back.

Eighth grade in the back.

Hey, get to the fucking back.

No one's getting in yet.

W-w-wait, you're talking about
my PCjr

with a wireless keyboard.
You mean, that PCjr?

Yeah, a wireless keyboard
and a 14-inch monitor.



I hope it comes with a sweet
pair of binoculars.

- What're you guys talking about?
- Don't worry about it.

I'm not worried.

Stuff the kids are onto
in like eight years.

Who else is here?

I don't know.
Just us from our grade.

- We better get in.
- We're gonna get in.

Not until the older kids get in,

but after that,
we're gonna get in.

But not definitely, it's gonna
be harder because of the kids.

Because of all the stuff
that happened.

It's not gonna be harder.

The stuff has nothing
to do with us getting in.

We're gonna get in.

Paybacks!

So, Lanky's coming.

What about Lanky?

- He's coming tonight.
- Yeah, right.

- Lanky can't...
- He's definitely not coming.

I know for a fact he's coming.

You can't do what Lanky did
and still go with things.

Well, Brian Tate's brother
works in Clearbrook,

and he said Lanky's coming.

And I don't care
if you believe me or not.

Why are you looking, Missy?

I'm not looking Kira, god.

- Looking for UFOs?
- What? No. No way, man.

There weren't any UFOs.
Don't believe that shit.

I don't believe it.

She's definitely getting us,
right, like, after?

Yeah, she's-she's getting us.

What if we don't get in,
can she get us then?

Look, we're getting in.

- If only you get in...
- No, we're both getting in.

Stop worrying about situations
that don't exist.

- Why do you do that?
- I don't know.

I-I don't know.

- It's-It's in there, right?
- Yeah.

- Don't tell anyone.
- I won't.

- Don't show anyone.
- I know.

- How'd you get here?
- Why?

Just asking.
There's no why to it.

My mom. She thinks Polo's
is different than it is.

And it's not far
from the UFO thing.

What, with the meeting?

God, it's so stupid.
Everyone here is so stupid.

My dad's at the meeting,
he says UFOs are real.

They're not real.
They were planes.

Derek Scropelli's father
filmed it.

It's like a NASA thing now.

It's bullshit. The entire thing.

How could it be planes
if the government's involved?

If the government's involved
then we're all fucked.

Fucking Reagan.

Yeah, uh,
Reagan's really really bad.

- Wait, you came alone?
- I came with Jody Fagan.

You don't even know
Jody Fagan.

Shut up, Kira.
I know her now, okay.

- Ninth grade Jody Fagan?
- Jody Amazing?

How many Jody Fagans
are there?

That's Jody Fagans?

Everybody calls her
Jody Amazing.

I'm just watching it.

I am Jody Amazing

from the planet hot.

What?

Wait, when did you start
hanging out with Jody Fagan?

None of your business.
Over the summer.

Where's Jody Fagan now?

She's talking to some
Belmont kids in Lye.

It's not like a big deal.

It's really not fair.

It's just one pop quiz.
It's not the end of the world.

Hey, Dean, who's at the door?
Is it Frankie or Rizzo?

It's Frankie tonight.

- That's cool, right?
- It's better than Rizzo.

That's exactly what I said,
Frankie's better than Rizzo.

Three out of five should be
more. It should be worth more.

Three out of five is 60 percent.

Shel, why do you have
a backpack?

It should be in 80 percent
at least.

Four out of five's 80.

Yeah, but four out of five
is almost perfect,

and three out of five,
that's next to almost perfect

and it's only 60 percent.

It's an F.

God! The school year just
started and I already have an F.

Why do you have
a giant backpack?

I'm staying over Brad's so...

So are you, like, moving there
permanently?

Are you running away
from home, Shel?

Are you a teen runaway?

It's one pop quiz it's nothing.

Yeah, but it counts now.
It's eighth grade.

It, like, counts.

No, eighth grade does not count.

Hey, do you guys know
that Lanky's coming?

Why are you saying
Lanky's coming

when two seconds ago,
you didn't believe it?

- Just saying it.
- Lanky's in jail, idiot.

It's not jail, Kira.

Brad's right about eighth grade.
It doesn't count.

How do you know?

'Cause I have two brothers
in college and...

and all that time,
nobody said anything

about eighth grade counting.

How did you get
five out of five?

If you pay attention in class,
it's impossible to mess up.

You don't even have
to take notes,

you just have to fucking listen.

Hey Brad, when do you think
Lanky's coming?

How the fuck should I know?

He never said he knew
when Lanky was coming.

Why don't you mind
your own business, Kira?

Why don't you go
jack off, Dean?

How's the other thing
where you read backwards?

Or like, a learning disability.

I don't have a learning
disability. I was all honors.

- Not anymore, you're not.
- But I was,

and if you were ever all honors,
you're still considered smart

even if you're not all honors
anymore.

You should do BOUNCE, Shel.

- I'm not doing BOUNCE.
- What's BOUNCE?

It's a program for dumb people

or kids
who are learning disabled.

I'm not learning disabled.

Or kids have to learn a trade,

like being an auto mechanic
that can't do anything real.

Bored of United Cooperative
Education. BOUNCE.

Bored of United

Cooperative Education.

They have this class
called "Life Skills".

So like, instead of doing
Cam or Trig or whatever,

you learn how to cook
or use a checkbook,

and you get high school credits
for it.

For doing a checkbook?

And for carpentry, plumbing...

BOUNCE is actually starting
to sound pretty good.

- Plumbing Missy?
- Yeah, plumbing and other stuff.

Why do you know so much
about plumbing?

I don't Kira, okay.

I'm just saying some of
the things they do at BOUNCE.

Oh, wow. Look at these clowns.

Some kids in line said
Brad and Steph are back here.

- Hey, Lanky.
- Lanky, what's going on?

Nothing man,
everything's excellent.

- Hi, we were just...
- ...waiting to get inside.

- Hoping to get inside.
- We're getting inside.

Holy wow, Brad.

Hey man, what's new?

What's up, Lanky?

Nothing man,
everything's really excellent.

Really, really excellent.

Yeah, cool, cool.

So...

when are you coming back
to school?

I can go back whenever. It's not
like a big deal or anything.

I haven't seen you clowns.

You guys heard about
the UFOs, right?

There aren't any UFOs.

Right on, man.

Just some crazy adults
smoking too much dope, right?

I mean, there might be UFOs.

Brad, hey, you're playing...
you're playing soccer

this year, right?
You're playing, right?

Yeah, I'm playing, Lanky.

Brad's playing select.
It's like the whole county.

It's like he's too good
just for Brighton.

God, you're such
a kiss-ass, Dean.

I'm just telling Lanky,
'cause...

'cause Brad's over there
and he's-he's doing something.

Yeah,
I'm going to be playing too.

Where I am, there's,
like, a field

and I'm definitely
gonna be playing.

When are you coming back?

I can come back whenever.
I already said that.

Yeah, right.

Holy wow, James.

I didn't recognize you.

- It's me, James.
- Oh, wow, you...

you really grew.

You really grew.

I grew.

What do you even
do there, Lanky?

Asshole, don't ask him.

It's just a question, Kira.

Now, you guys don't have
to be all weird or anything.

I'm not gonna like
freak out or anything.

No, it's all really excellent.

So what's it like?

It's not even what everybody
thinks, you know.

You kinda just sit around
and bullshit and stuff.

And everyone smokes,
and we're all really grateful.

And sometimes,
I talk to this doctor guy

about my-my brother
offing himself,

and he's pretty all right.

Uh, did you do
school stuff, like tests?

No. Man, no tests, no quizzes.

No quizzes.
Perfect for you, Shel.

Uh, how'd you get here, Lanky?

Oh, Billy Tate. He's a loon.

He's got these smokes and
they're dipped in this stuff.

He's selling them
for 10 bucks each.

He's a fucking loon.

Is that one?

Um, no, no.
I'm taking these pills

that they only give out
in Britain, England,

and the doctor said I can't
like, put stuff on top of it

because it'll like fuck up my
brain connections or some shit.

What kind of pills?

Uh, there's these things.
They're from Britain, England.

They're doing studies
or something, here.

So I get them as like a tester
for free.

Yeah, Billy Tate knows.
Frankie has got

like a bunch of these kids
who he wants to get in to the...

These kids are practically
begging to get in.

We're trying to get in.

Oh, Billy Tate will get you in.

They'll get all you clowns in,
all right?

I'll go back and get him
and I'll bring him back here.

He'll get all you clowns in,
all right.

I'll catch you clowns later.

We don't need Billy Tate
to get us in.

- Is he really coming back?
- He's a psycho.

- Shut up, Kira.
- He can't come back.

You can't do what Lanky did
and just come back.

Lanky was a psycho
before everything happened.

He said he's coming back.

Look, he's not coming back.

Stop talking about whether
or not he's coming back.

It's pissing me off.

Holy shit, what was that?

Probably an excavator
like a backhoe or something.

Will they ever go home?

They're behind
so they have to work

like 24 hours to finish.

- That's what Mark said.
- Who's Mark?

Uh, he's my stepfather.
He works there.

Well, not in there,
but at the IMT Headquarters

down county. You know, two
of the workers died in there.

Just one died.

No, it's two. One guy fell off
the thing, the other guy

got hit in the head and was fine
but died later. It's like...

no one knew anything was wrong
with him, then he just died.

But it's not death
because of the head thing.

Who gives a shit
what it was, man?

They're just dead.

Hey, you know, my parents,

they say it's jinxed 'cause of
all the kids that died.

It's jinxed because of
the kids that died

or kids died
because it's jinxed?

It's not jinxed.

Seven kids died last year.
That's jinxed.

It's not seven.
They say it's seven

with the Brighton seven thing,
but it's not.

It's seven, okay. Chris Murco
got hit by the speedboat.

Dave Starks died
on the motorcycle.

- And then the foreign exchanger.
- Yeah, the-the Belgian girl

who fell off the bridge
at Harmon Den.

- Eveline.
- Yeah.

And then, uh, Scott Murphy died
when he was standing on the car.

- So that's four.
- That's four.

Uh, and then the other guy
on the same day, from drugs.

The one who works
at the orchard.

No one really knew him, but he
still went to the high school.

Yeah, uh, Glen Barber.
Angel Dust.

I thought he went to BOUNCE,
Glen Barber.

Don't make fun of it, Dean.
God!

Well, I'm just saying maybe the
reason no one knew Glen Barber

is 'cause he went to BOUNCE.
I'm not making fun of it.

How weird is it that it was
the same day?

I mean what are the chances that
two kids die on the same day?

In this town,
they're pretty fucking good.

And then, Lanky's brother.

And Lanky's brother's
girlfriend.

But that's what I mean.

Lanky's brother's girlfriend
went to Belmont.

- She doesn't count.
- No, it still counts, asshole.

- Just not in the Brighton count.
- The death count.

I know,
but when you don't include

Lanky's brother's girlfriend,
it makes six, not seven.

It's like Friday
the fucking 13th here.

Everyone dies.

No, everyone doesn't die.

There's 326 kids in high school,

and seven of them died
last year.

- That's...
- It's a lot of people.

I mean,
it really is jinxed here.

It's just coincidence.
Things aren't jinxed.

You don't think things
are jinxed

but you think there are UFOs?

I didn't say there were UFOs.

What are you doing Kira?
It's garbage.

James, help me.

There is something seriously
wrong with you, Kira.

- It's 2.28 percent.
- What is?

2.28 percent of all the high
school kids died last year

and that's not including
Lanky's brother's girlfriend.

From the suicide pact.

It wasn't a pact, Dean.

It wasn't a suicide pact.

It was a pact. Lanky's brother,
Lanky's brother's girlfriend

was a suicide pact.

But it wasn't like
an official pact.

Shut up, Shel.

It wasn't official,
you mean it wasn't sanctioned

by the
International Suicide Committee?

No, shut up. I mean,
Lanky's brother's girlfriend

did it in the bathroom
at the drive-in, okay?

And she only did it, because
there's a scene in the movie

where the guy
did the same thing.

No, everyone knows
what happened.

Lanky's brother did the same
thing a few weeks later.

So, that's not a pact.
He's just doing the same thing.

Ow! What the hell, man.

I said shut the fuck up
about it.

Lanky's brother's dead,

and Lanky's brother's
girlfriend's dead

so it doesn't matter
what it was.

So, shut the fuck up about it.

Hey Dean,
who's in line up front more?

Uh, I don't know most of them.

I think it's little
Belmont kids.

Tim Zito's there, Gico,
Holly Handley.

Hard rock Holly.

The new girl's there.

- Kate.
- Aw, the new girl, Kate, is hot.

New girl, Kate, is not hot.

Maybe, not hot,
but she's definitely pretty.

She's definitely pretty,
right Brad?

She's all right, I guess.
I don't know.

She's definitely,
at least, pretty.

- She's maybe even hot.
- No, she's new.

Okay, there's a big difference

between being pretty
and being new.

Who else is there?

Uh, Frank Borts,
Tanya and Tiffany.

- Tanya and Tiffany are here?
- Yeah.

What are you listening to?

- U2.
- War?

- Blood Red Sky.
- War's better.

How is it better?
It's like the same songs.

It just is.

- U2 sucks.
- What?

- U2, they suck.
- They do not. Go away.

They suck and they stole
their sound.

- From who?
- The Alarm.

- The Alarm?
- The Alarm.

Trust me, no one stole
their sound from The Alarm.

Leave me alone.

Yeah, well, in five years we'll
see who's still around, okay?

Shit, it's Rizzo. Now, we're
definitely not getting in.

5-liter V8 180 horsepower.

This thing kicks so much ass.

- Hey, Shelby!
- Oh, uh...

Hey, Amy!

I saw Brad in line and he said
you were back here, so...

Yeah, I'm just...

- Lanky's here.
- Uh, yeah, I know he's here.

- He was just...
- Yeah.

Everyone's telling everyone else
that Lanky's here.

Yeah. We-we talked to him.

You know,
he's coming back to school.

Can he really just come back?
I mean, after...

what he did?

Maybe, he can come back, right?

I'm here with Claudia.

Uh, yeah,
it-it's a really long line.

Yeah, but I heard
it's great inside.

Yeah I... I think it'll be
pretty cool.

It's not gonna be cool.

Have any of you poptarts
ever been inside before?

Why don't you leave if you think
it's going to suck so much Kira?

That's a really big backpack.

Uh, yeah...
I'm staying at Brad's tonight,

so it's just stuff
for staying over.

Brad was with Tanya and Tiffany.

I think they went up
to the construction site.

Uh, yeah,
Tanya and Tiffany are here.

- T and T.
- What?

T and T? Tanya and Tiffany.

Some of the drama guys
came up with the funniest names

for Tanya and Tiffany.

- Like Mike Grandy?
- Yeah.

He calls them T and T.
And Doffer, right?

Yeah, Doffer.

He came up with
"The Flying Velcro Twins".

I know those guys.

- We're doing Our Town.
- What about our town?

No, the play,
we're doing Our Town in drama.

Our Town? I mean, isn't that
a little old fashioned

you know, like,
hokey and all that?

I don't think so.
I may have thought that

because it seems like a play,
you know, that a...

bunch of little kids would do
or something.

But, it's really amazing
once you get into it. It's...

all of that how things
always change

and how people take life
for granted.

And a bunch of other stuff.

You should come back to drama.

It was so fun
when we did Pippin, remember?

I... You know, I can't
this year, because...

What are you guys talking about?

I'm trying to get Shelby
to do drama.

- We're doing Our Town.
- Great play. Great play.

You've seen it?

Nah, I just read it one night
while I was doing nothing.

Well, you should tell Shel to do
it, so he can really see it.

I was just telling him, it's
really not too late to join up.

Yeah, definitely, Shel man.
It's a good play.

I-I can't. I have soccer.

- Do both.
- I don't know.

I have to go wait in line
with Claudia,

but I'll come back after
for sure.

Okay.

I hope we get in tonight.

Yeah, we'll all get in.
Everyone gets in.

Shelby...

"You've gotta love life
to have life.

You've gotta have life
to love life."

It's my favorite line
from Our Town.

Really makes you think,
you know.

Why don't you do the play, man?
You like that kind of stuff.

Well, why don't you do it?

I have selects.

But you'd do it if you could?

I'll do it if I wanted to.

I don't know if I want to.

You know, she likes you. Amy.

I guess, maybe.

You should go out with her.

I don't know if I want to.

You know, why don't you just
fool around with her tonight?

Maybe.
I mean, she's cute, right?

- Yeah, sure.
- You don't think she's cute?

I think she's cute.

Would you go out with her?

If I wanted to, I would.

Would you fool around with her?

Yeah, if I wanted to, I would.

- Head's up, head's up!
- Hey!

Fucking watch it, dude.

How do you know if she'd
fool around with you?

Look, I don't... okay?

If I thought about it
and I decided I wanted

to fool around with her,
then I would.

Obviously, she'd have to wanna
fool around with me too,

but it's not like she asked me.

She'd fool around with you.
Everyone fools around with you.

Why don't you just
fool around with her tonight,

then after, see and really
fool around with her?

Yeah, she definitely means that,
I think.

Yeah, I should just
do it, right?

What's funny?

It's just you. I mean,

fooling around shouldn't feel
like it should.

All right.
I'm really gonna do that, okay?

I'm really gonna do that.

Move it back, please.

Back away.

Come on, I'm not kidding.

Back away
from the fucking door.

Or nobody's getting in.

I thought you said Frankie
was cool and that Rizzo was...

I said Frankie's the cooler one
not the cool one.

I knew we weren't getting in.

You guys should just shut up
for five minutes.

I don't even have
to wait out here.

I can get inside
whenever I want.

Yeah, right.

I can. There's another way in.

- What other way?
- There's no other way.

- Don't listen to her.
- Why're you waiting here with us

if you can get in
whenever you want?

Because I don't feel
like going in yet, Messy.

Seriously, what other way in?

I'm not telling.

You're not telling
because there isn't one.

Over there on the roof,
there's a door.

It goes into an office,
like it sort of opens up

and you walk down.

Well, feel free to go check.

Maybe I will. And James too,
right, James?

- On the roof?
- On the roof.

What time is your sister
getting us tonight,

like if we get in?

You're staying at my house,
so it doesn't matter.

And she's taking me home
in the morning, right?

Yeah, she can take you home
in the morning.

I mean I... I know she can
take me home in the morning,

but does she know
she has to take me home?

Why are you freaking out, Shel?

Look, she can take you home,
okay?

Yeah, uh... it's fine, um...

Yeah, it's just, uh, Mark.

He's coming home tonight
and I have a bunch of stuff

that I have to do around
the house this weekend

and then, if I'm not home
by like nine or ten,

tomorrow's really gonna suck.

You're an idiot.

Fuck off, Dean.
Why am I an idiot?

'Cause you already know
tomorrow's gonna suck

and you still wanna be
on time for it.

You're a sadist, Shel.

He's not a sadist,
he's a masochist.

- I meant masochist.
- A sadist gives all the torture,

- a masochist takes it.
- I know, I know.

- I just mixed it up.
- It's not torture, okay?

It's just stuff
around the house, okay?

I'm sorry, Pete, that we're not
all totally rich like you

and have to do
the yard work ourselves.

What yard work?
Do you live in a farm now,

like
Little House on the Prairie?

Are you Half Pint?

You're so fucking Half Pint,
Shel.

It's just like sweeping the
garage and weeding the steps,

and the solar panels,
they have to be clean.

There's a whole list.

Who the fuck has solar panels?

Mark. Mark has solar panels.

What the fuck are solar panels?

The only time
I've ever seen solar panels

was on 60 Minutes.

Who the fuck watches60 Minutes?

They save electricity,
solar panels.

I watch 60 Minutes.
Is that lame?

How much do they save, Shel?
The solar panels.

I don't know. I don't do
the bills when they come.

I don't sit there
and write the checks.

If, uh, Shel went to BOUNCE,

he'd know how to write
the checks.

Awesome.
That was fucking awesome, James.

What happens if you're late
tomorrow, Shel, for the chores?

I'll be grounded and I'll have
to do a bunch of shitty stuff

and not the stuff I wanna do.

What's funny?

You're already grounded.

You're already sweeping garages
and cleaning solar panels.

- That's grounded.
- I'm not grounded.

Yeah, I'm not grounded.

Hey, Shel, you're, um... you're
taking Spanish this year, right?

Uh, I mean, everyone says
it's easier to do French, so...

Yeah, I-I think French
is harder at first, but...

when you kinda get used to it...
It's like the way

you speak French is harder than
the actual French, you know.

Yeah, maybe that's true.

Are those Capezios?

No, uh,
they're just these things.

They're really, really white.

Uh, yeah,
they're pretty new, so...

Uh... Amy, maybe, uh,
do you wanna go to the...

- construction site, and...
- Yeah, sure.

I mean, we're just waiting
in line.

Yeah, uh,
we're just waiting in line.

- Okay.
- Yeah.

What happened, Kira,
in the newspaper?

- 21 killed.
- 21 what?

- 21 people, Messy.
- Fuck you, freak Kira..

Okay, I said
stop calling me that.

Who do you think I meant,
21 walruses?

How should I know?

Kira, you're so weird,
it could mean anything.

Oh, I'm weird?

I'm not the one who went to
Aaron Palmer's slumber party...

- Shut up, Kira.
- ...and made such a mess.

What mess?
What is she talking about?

Nothing, Dean!

Okay?
Just mind your own business.

21 people killed
at a McDonalds in California.

From what, the food?

No, from a fucking psycho
with guns.

21 people.

A four year old kid. I mean,
what the fuck, right?

What the fuck?

What the fuck?

Um, are your parents going
to that UFO meeting tonight?

Uh, I think so.

Well, I mean, not my dad
'cause he doesn't live here,

but my mom is.

And Mark.

My mother's not going.

She didn't think
the UFOs were real.

They definitely were not UFOs.

Why not? I mean...

something has to be out there,
right? I mean... somewhere.

We'd probably know about it
by now, right?

I guess. But, I-I feel it's...

more like something just...
you feel.

You know, like there's
something more.

I don't think I feel anything.

Do you still go to his house
every other weekends,

you know, your dad's?

Uh, mostly, yeah.

Except my dad sort of...
can't come to the house anymore

to pick me and my sister up.

Why not?

It's just this... thing...

that happened with my dad and
Mark, you know, my stepfather.

It's just this thing
that happened.

Yeah, but now he can't come
pick you up?

I mean, what happened?

Uh, it's not a big deal, but...
my dad, he came to pick us up

and when he pulled in
to the driveway

he sort of went close to Mark's
car with his van, by accident.

- Well, did he hit it?
- Well, not at first, but...

if he backed out,
his back bumper

would scrape Mark's bumper

or like the part next
to the bumper,

but my sister said to go get
Mark so he can move his car

even though
he'd be pissed about it.

Well, did you get him anyway?

No, my dad just backed out
and hit Mark's car pretty bad.

Not really bad, but pretty bad.

- Oh, no.
- Yeah.

And so, Mark came out, 'cause
he was watching from inside,

he was yelling.

And my dad got out of the van.
They got all face to face.

Oh, god... Shel, what happened?

It's not a big deal or anything,
but I was watching

and Mark, he was saying stuff
like my dad's a loser,

you know, stuff like that,
and then...

What?

Mark hit my dad.

Oh, my god, Shelby.

Mark hit my dad
and my sister yelled.

Well, what did your dad do?

I don't know. He did...

nothing.

He did this, like, smile,
like it didn't matter,

like it didn't hurt him.

Or like, like, he was above it,
you know.

Well, I guess that's good.

Yeah, it's cool he didn't do
anything back, you know.

Yeah, you know,
that-that was pretty cool.

Yeah. Yeah,
it was definitely cool.

So, anyway, my dad can't come
to the house anymore

so we just meet him over
in the Sears parking lot.

Why did he shoot everyone?

The McDonald's guy?

Because he's a fucking psycho.

Yeah, but why?

There's gotta be a better reason
than just he's a psycho.

Here, he left a note.

"Fear of international bankers
that break down society.

Fear of soviet aggression."

Well, he's worried
about the Russians.

The arm's talk is just a trap.
They're gonna bomb us.

You can't trust Russians.

Why is that funny, James?

We-we can't hug our children
with nuclear arms.

War is not healthy for children
or other living things.

What if they gave a war
and nobody cared?

What is that?
What are you saying?

James' mother has all these
magnets that say all the...

like, "No amnesty for Nixon."

The kind of shit
nobody cares about anymore.

She was a hippie, and now,
she's just normal.

God, you guys are so weird.

Read something else, Kira.
Like, what else happened?

A large pile of bullshit.

- Holly Handley's here.
- Hardrock Holly.

It's so funny,

she always wears those shirts.

Yeah, she wore
a "Hardrock London" yesterday.

Right? That's something
in music.

And Lanky, and I just...

I can't believe he's coming back
after, you know, what happened.

His brother.

Well, yeah, and the other stuff.

It's just weird.
He's here with everyone.

Brad knew Lanky's brother.
Like, knew him a lot.

He did?

Brad's sister is friends
with Lanky's brother,

- but Brad knew him too.
- Hm.

Uh, what happened with your dad?

He died, Shelby.

I'm just messing with you.

I know you know,
and that everyone knows.

You should've seen your face
just now.

It's okay, you don't have to,
you know, not talk about it

or pretend it didn't happen.

Did he have cancer?

It wasn't cancer.
It was a lot of things.

And he drank too.

But we didn't really know
about that until after.

I mean, I sort of knew,

I just didn't know
it meant anything.

And I was pretty much a kid
for all that time so...

- Yeah.
- ...what's a kid gonna do?

- You were just a kid then.
- Yeah.

You know, it was just, um,
things Laura and I was used to.

And like, my father, he...

never really knew how he was
gonna be. It's like he...

wasn't even my father anymore.

He was just this thing. I don't
really know how to explain it.

Yeah.

So when he died, it sort of
felt like it was a relief.

You know,
like it already happened.

It was better without him.

I know that sounds weird,

but I mean, it was true.

I've been doing
more things in school.

I'm even doing drama again
and it's so much fun.

It's really not too late
to join up.

I know, but I have soccer.

Oh, you play with Brad, right?

Uh, well no. Brad is...
playing select

with some of the kids he's only
been going to prep with.

What does that mean? Select.

It means Brad's
really good at soccer.

Wow, that's weird,

'cause he's such a great
artist too, you know.

I'm aware.

You know, I-I might be going
to a different school

next year, too.

But it's definitely not like
a prep school

or anything like that.

You're moving, like...

you're not going
to the high school next year?

No, I mean, it's not for sure
but I think...

last year really freaked
my mom out with all the...

deaths and suicides
and everything.

Do you think Brighton's jinxed?

I mean, Pete said we have
a 2.28 percent chances of dying

when we get to the high school
next year.

No, I don't think
Brighton's jinxed.

I just think that's what people
wanna believe.

But why would they
wanna believe that?

I don't know.

Maybe, so they don't have
to believe anything else.

Vanessa Williams nude.

Hey! Yeah!

She can't be
Miss America anymore

because she was in Penthouse.

I saw it in school,
the Penthouse.

Pat Skilly brought it in.

"Pageant officials deemed
that Miss Williams

displayed behavior
unbecoming to the crown."

So she was naked BFD.

What else, Kira?

Nothing. A thing about
that preschool

where the teacher used to
do it with the little kids.

Gross. That is so gross.

There's some bullshit about
that phony fucker Springsteen.

Bruce Springsteen isn't a phony,
Kira. Why'd you say that?

- Because Messy...
- Stop calling me that.

Because he let Reagan use
his song and Reagan sucks.

So that means,
he's just like Reagan

except worse, because he
pretends he's not like Reagan

- which means he's a phony.
- You're so stupid.

Okay, Springsteen told Reagan
he can't use his song,

because he doesn't mean
what he's using it to mean.

He was just on yesterday.

She's right.
Pete, tell your freak girlfriend

- that Springsteen's cool.
- Shut up, Dean.

You shut up. Do another, Kira.

Don't. Shut up.

No one cares about
your current events.

No, you poptarts need
to know stuff.

Everything is crazy,
and everyone is crazy,

and no one's paying attention.

Christ, Kira, can
you just relax?

You're a shithead, Dean.

You think you're smart,
but you're not even smart.

You just read stuff, hear stuff,
repeat it all.

You're a repeater.

That's so stupid, Kira.

Why are you so weird?
Why do you dress like that

and act so weird?

- She's not weird.
- She is.

And so are you, James,

because you're drawing faces
and taping them to a wall.

That's not weird?

It's the Brighton seven.

Brighton seven.
Are you kidding me?

God, you guys are so freaky.

Why are you like that, Kira?

She thinks she's too good
for everyone.

- Maybe I am.
- No.

She thinks she's
too bad for everyone.

That's the real problem.

It's like you guys couldn't
be normal so you become this

and you pretend like you
wanna be this way all along.

No one thinks like this
because you wanna be.

- Dean, cut it out.
- No.

She pretends she's not friends

with anyone anymore
out of choice.

It's not out of choice, Kira.

I'm not friends with you all
anymore

'cause you're all poptarts.
All of you.

You're all fucking poptarts!

You ever just shut the fuck up?

Where's the beef?

That's the big
goddamn question, James.

Where is the beef?

What's in the backpack?

Um, I'm staying
at Brad's tonight

so it's just stuff
for staying over.

Yeah, but there's so much.
What's in it?

- No way.
- Oh, yeah?

- Nice try.
- Come on.

Stop bro. Stop being so...
weird about it.

I've seen guys' underwear
before, Shelby.

So, BFD.

- Big fucking deal.
- Mm.

- It's gonna be cold later, so...
- Oh, yeah.

Be prepared. Cub scouts.

Boy scouts, but...

Got it.

All right, let's see.

You've got clothes,
a flashlight,

toothbrush, mag...

Whoa...

- Shel.
- Okay, those aren't mine.

- Magazines.
- My stepfather has them,

and Brad.
He wanted me to bring them.

I'm pretty sure
everybody's stepfather

has these type of magazines.

Do you like these women?

I mean, I like them as friends.

No, but I mean like...

do you like them like the way
they look?

I don't know. I don't really...

I mean, I guess
they're pretty okay.

All right.

What else do you have?

You've got some snacks.

Um, music and tapes

which is ZZ Top and The Fixx.
Hm.

- Wait, no.
- Shelby...

- This is a gun.
- No, it's not.

I know what a gun looks like.

It's not like a gun gun.

Why do you have a gun?

Wait, okay. I don't.
It's Mark's.

He has this den
with stuff in it,

and he locks it, but you know,
just like one of those locks

- you know, you just like...
- Yeah, but I mean,

why do you have it? It's a gun.

Wait, just 'cause Brad has
one too, we were just gonna...

mess around, okay?

His mom's in the Bahamas,
we could just do whatever.

Looks really scary.

It's just a BB gun, okay,
and pellets

like you-you just pump it once
and shoot it.

It just stings a little.

Some guys in my neighborhood
do it.

they have one-pump wars

and I don't really do that,
but they do, and it's fine.

Okay, well, what does
two pumps do?

Yeah, these are the pellets.

Two pumps could break
the skin probably.

Okay.

Just point her there
and shoot the thing.

That was... that was awesome.
What does three pumps do?

Uh, well, three pumps
will break the skin

especially with the pellets.

Here.

Okay. Do-do four. Do four.
Come on, do four.

That was awesome.

I guess I'm pretty good at it.

I should probably go see
if Claudia's, you know, talking

- to anyone.
- Yeah, yeah, sure.

I... I should have to clean up
all this so I probably

- should go back too, so...
- Yeah, no, I'll-I'll come back

and...
'cause it's fun with you guys.

Yeah, okay. Sure.

- Bye.
- See you, Amy.

I'm trying. I'm trying.
It's too high.

No, it's not.
You're right there.

Just grab the fucking ladder.

Too high. Let me down.

What the fuck
is wrong with them?

- Shut up. Shut up.
- Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

If they're gonna let us in
they should just let us in.

They will.
They pretty much have to.

- What?
- What happened?

- How was it?
- It was okay. I don't know.

Did you fool around?

I don't know.
I mean, not really.

What do you mean? You either
fooled around or you didn't.

I don't know, okay?
I don't know.

Why didn't you fool around?

We just didn't.

Just like, we didn't.

But she went to the construction
site to fool around with you,

- what the fuck happened?
- Nothing happened, okay?

Nothing happened.

Dean, do your parents know
you're here tonight

trying to get in to Polo's?

Do any of our parents
know we're here?

They're all at the UFO meeting.

It's so stupid. UFOs.

There aren't any UFOs.

I'm the one who doesn't think
there are UFOs.

I don't think there are either.

How do you know?

The news said, 9,000 adults
saw the same thing.

The same lights, the same shape.

Derek Scropelli's father
filmed it.

You said that already.
Who cares who filmed it?

Derek Scropelli's father
is like the vice president

- of the computer firm.
- And that makes him an expert

on what's a UFO
and what's not a UFO?

It was like plane formations.

How do you know?

My uncle's friends.
They did the whole thing.

Bullshit. Uncle's friends...

They flew planes with grid
lights all over the place

just to freak everyone out.

It was a hoax, the entire thing.

They also filmed the hoax.

- That's what's weird.
- And you could hear the engines

of the plane and when it flew
under the moon

you could still see the moon.

- So?
- So it wasn't solid.

The film that Derek Scropelli's
dad has is solid

and there were not
any engine sounds.

It's bullshit.

- It's bullshit.
- 9,000 adults saw it.

He's right, Dean.
9,000 adults can't all be crazy.

Where does your mother
think you are, Shel, tonight?

She just thinks I'm at Brad's

so I can't be in trouble
for being here.

Why not?

'Cause I'm just doing
what Brad's doing.

I mean it doesn't count
like it would

if this was a normal day.

What about you, James?
What did you tell your parents?

He didn't tell them anything.

They don't really ask.

He lives in the apartment
above the garage all by himself.

You live in an apartment, James?

God, that's so excellent.
You're so lucky.

Missy, where are you
supposed to be right now?

I'm with Jody Fagan...

Jody Amazing.

...at a place called Polo's
that's like a birthday place.

My parents think I'm eating

Tootsie Rolls
and ice cream cake right now.

Where is Jody Fagan?
She living here?

- I told you she is up in...
- You're such an idiot, Missy.

Jody Fagan isn't hanging out
with you.

She is. She just knows a lot
of Belmont kids...

Jody Fagan used you
for a fucking ride.

Holy shit, when did you get
this stupid?

- Kira, lay off.
- Go to hell, Kira.

We used to make fun
of Jody Fagan, remember?

The "slippery slut"
we called her

because of the Halloween thing.

Hey wait, Jody Fagan's
a "slippery slut"?

I mean, do you actually think
Jody Fagan

would ever wanna be friends
with someone so...

messy?

Why do you keep saying messy?

Yeah, what does that mean?

Yeah, why do you keep
calling her...

Because I peed
in my sleeping bag.

Okay, everyone?
Are you satisfied, Kira?

Is it like the biggest deal
in the world?

I was 12 and I peed
in my sleeping bag

at Aaron Palmer's slumber party.

Is everyone happy now?

Why did you pee
in your sleeping bag?

I don't know.
Why does anyone do anything?

I just did.

That's why Kira calls me Messy.

Get it? 'Cause my name's Missy.

You're such a loser, Kira.

But you know what?
I'm not even mad,

and I don't even care.

I just feel sorry for you.

It really is getting cold.

Kira came with us to the lake
last summer.

I didn't want her to come,
but...

My mom said it seemed like Kira
never did anything fun.

I wasn't really friends
with her anymore

so I hated bringing her.

But, that weekend I realized
I was never friends with her.

That she was just the same age

and around the neighborhood
so we do things together,

like automatically.

But at the lakehouse,

all the summer kids could tell
you were a loser.

And I sort of saw you

for the first time from like
someone else's eyes.

And it was so obvious, god.

I couldn't wait
for that weekend to end,

couldn't wait for you
to go home.

I couldn't wait.

Holy shit, no way, look.

Look, another UFO. I mean,
what are the chances.

We should alert the authorities
for being invaded by aliens.

We've come to get in to Polo's

and we will not wait in line.

Why do you keep doing
robot voice for aliens?

They're aliens.

Ever talked
to an alien before?

How do you know they talk like
robots? They're from the future.

Space isn't the future, idiot.

And robots already exist.

It really is getting cold.

Yeah, sometimes it feels like
there's no fall anymore.

It just goes from summer
to winter here, you know.

It's how it goes every year.

I mean like,
it skips the fall weather.

Like, I fully understand
winter comes after summer...

So fucking annoying.

Arguing about every fucking
thing. You're pissing me off.

It's cold now.
It'll be really cold sooner.

Then there'll be of an
opportunity for snow days.

It's nothing to do with snow,
how cold it is.

It has to be cold to snow.

I-I meant, being cold now
has nothing to do

with whether or not it's gonna
snow more in the winter.

But if it's cold now, then it's
gonna be really cold sooner...

Jesus Christ, shut the fuck up.

You guys are fucking annoying
and I'm sick of it.

Keep fooling around, Dean? Huh?

If you guys are gonna fight
all the time, then do it.

You fucking hate each other.

Yeah, right. I'm...

...not, not gonna fight, not...

They shouldn't hit
each other, Brad.

Come on, Dean.

I don't like to listen
to your fucking bullshit.

- Quit it, Brad.
- Look, shut up, Missy.

I'm fucking tired of these two.

Come on, Pete, fight Dean.

Hey, cut it out.
I don't wanna...

I don't wanna do this.

Goddammit!
Fucking hit each other.

- I'm not...
- Stop it.

- Man, calm down.
- Hey, fuck you too, Shel.

I'm tired of you, too.

Not just fucking
push each other.

There you go.

- Haven't you had enough?
- Guys, stop it, please.

- Brad, stop it!
- Guys, stop!

- Dean, stop. Dean, stop.
- You're crazy, Brad!

Get off me!

Come on, guys.

Hurry up.

What, you all hear that?

My god, we're getting in.

- We're finally getting in.
- Getting in.

You fuckers. We're getting in.

Yeah, they're gonna start
letting in the younger kids now.

Yeah, Billy Tate.
He said that...

all you faggots back here
are gonna get in.

- Fuck you, Lanky.
- Kira, shut up.

- We're getting in.
- I'm just kidding around.

I'm just kidding around.

See, he's just kidding,
Kira. Shut up.

Yeah, Billy Tate.
He's a loon, man.

He gave me these smokes
and said they were regular,

but they're not, they're dipped.

Dipped and dusted,
that's what Billy said.

Lanky, are you all right?

Yeah, I'm doing excellent.
I told you that before.

You-you gotta go back tonight?

I just gotta show up

to show them that I didn't
jump in front of a train,

or smash someone's head in
with a bat. Ha.

No, I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.

No one else is coming...

Does anybody wanna smoke
this fatty?

Me and Billy rolled
with this fatty.

Shel, man, you want this.
Right, so...

Uh, no. I don't think so.

Come on, man.

Do you want to?

Hey, shut up Lanky.

Ah, how about you, Brad?
You wanna...

No, Lanky.

Come on, man. You used to
get high with my brother, right?

That's uh, pretty cool, Lanky,
you know, to go back.

I don't have to do anything.

I said that before. I can do
whatever the fuck I want.

Okay, okay.

It's the best thing
that ever happened to me.

My stupid brother
stringing himself up

in the fucking bathroom.

Seriously, man, you've got this
pain in the ass brother,

always beating
the shit out of you

and stealing your fucking dough,

and think about it.

Your brother hangs himself
with your fucking belt.

And you have to find him
because your parents are out

doing whatever the fuck it is
they do.

Looking for spaceships
or some shit.

It's excellent from that day on.

It's like you go in there
and he's just there.

You know,
like hanging in the shower.

And you try to get him down,
but the fucker's so heavy.

You can't move him.

His feet are still
touching the ground.

Like that's not what hanging is.
How can the fucker be dead

if his feet are still
touching the ground?

Seriously, man.

I mean, his girlfriend
strings herself up

and everyone said
my brother could too.

And my parents,
they had to watch him.

But they didn't.

So now I do
whatever the fuck I want,

when I want,
get whatever I want.

My dad bought me a truck.

I can't even drive that shit
for two fucking more years.

No, Lanky, your
brother was cool.

Dean, man, you like trucks
and shit, right?

This truck is fucking mint.

What kind of truck is it?

SR5 '84 fucking loaded, man,
loaded.

Oh, fuck it.

What do you do with it
if you can't drive it?

I go in there and I just
fire it up.

Listen to some tunes, you know,
some fucking Maiden,

some fucking Priest.
It's got five speakers.

Sounds like you're in Hartford
fucking Civic Center, man.

I sit in there and I think about
how I'm gonna be driving

- that badass all over town...
- You hear me, Lanky?

- You hear what I said?
- You don't even...

No, man. You don't even know.

Your brother was cool.

He'd come over and he'd
hang out and he was cool.

Come on, who wants to get high?

Any of you faggots?

Shel, man, Jew
want to, right Shel?

Shut up, Lanky!

Jew, why you're...
why aren't you getting mad?

Fuck off, Lanky.
You're being a psycho.

What about you, James?
You're like a freak now, right?

Why don't you look at my face?

Look at my face.

Look at my face!

Fucking stop, asshole!

I'm just kidding around.

What? None of you faggots
wanna get high?

I'm letting you get high
for free and nobody wants to?

I will. Yeah, I want to, Lanky.

Ah, see...

at least someone's
not a fucking faggot.

Let's go to the construction
site. I'll take you there.

Okay, come on, let's go.

You fucking fags, man.

He's such a psycho, holy fuck.

- Kira, Lanky's brother.
- Lanky was an asshole

before that happened.

The only reason anyone
gives a shit about Lanky

is because his brother
killed himself.

We were friends with Lanky.

We were all friends with Lanky.

I mean, it's so stupid.

I'm not even Jewish,
I'm only half.

W-was your mother
or your father Jewish?

What? My mom is.

Well then, you're Jewish
automatically.

What do you mean?
That makes no sense.

You can't be a religion
just because of someone else.

It's a fact. If your mom
is Jewish then you're Jewish.

It's religion, it's not a thing.

What does that mean?

It means, a religion is a belief
and a belief is an action.

You have to practice it
to be it. You can't just

biologically inherit something
that you practice.

I'm not Jewish, okay?

- My dad's Catholic.
- Okay, my mother plays tennis.

Doesn't make me
a tennis player, does it?

So stupid.

No, it's not.

She plays tennis.
She doesn't believe in tennis.

My mother believes
in Peach Schnapps.

My mother believes
in Neil Diamond.

My mother believes
in not being with my father.

My mother believes
in Zimmermann.

My father believes
in other kids' mothers.

And the point is,
it's all the same thing.

If you're parents are black
then you're black,

that's genetics. You don't have
to practice being black.

Shel, do you say the prayers
and do the Hanukkah stuff?

Um, sort of. But I also
celebrate Christmas

so it cancels out.

But if you go to a temple one
day, you go to church the next,

they cancel each other out.

No, if you sorta celebrate
Hanukkah, you're Jewish.

How can he be more
Jewish than Catholic

if he still does
the Christmas stuff?

Because being Jewish
is less common

so if you're a little Jewish,
it counts more.

All right, get in
a straight line everyone.

Don't fuck around,
I'm not kidding here.

They're letting everyone in.

To come in, kid,
you gotta stay in line.

Fucking hurry, okay?

Let's go inside, man.
Everyone's going inside.

I don't care.

- What do you mean?
- I don't care.

I don't want to.

Okay, don't worry about that,

about Amy. Look, she's okay.

I don't want to.
I don't want to.

Wait, you don't wanna
go in to Polo's?

What are you talking about?

I don't wanna do
those Mark chores tomorrow.

I don't wanna do it
every other weekend.

I miss soccer games
every time I go.

I don't wanna be like that.

Shel, it's okay. Just go inside.

I got three out of five
on that quiz.

I don't wanna do that.
I mean, I was all honors.

- Now, I got three out of five.
- Shel!

You're going in.

- Shel!
- You told me about this.

- Lanky, stop it. Get off him.
- What are you doing?

Fuck off.

No, no, stop! Lanky!

- Fuck, no!
- You fucking asshole!

- Fuck you, Lanky!
- Lanky, stop!

- Give it back!
- No!

- No.
- Don't.

Don't.

- Do you want me to stop?
- Come on, Lanky, cut it out.

You want me to stop? Oh, sure.

Here, I'll stop right now.

No!

You fucking asshole!

Brad, stop!

It's Lanky, Brad. It's Lanky.

Oh, wow.

Fuck.

Wait.

Kira, you're going inside?

After all that? I thought
you said it was stupid and lame?

Poptarts.

That we were all poptarts
waiting to get inside.

I don't know. I mean,
what else are we going to do?

What are we gonna do, Missy?

I mean, there's really
nothing else to do.

Shel.

- Shel!
- What happened?

- Where did you go with Lanky?
- Look, it's okay.

I just talked to him. I just...

- tried to...
- Where did you go with him?

I just tried to make him calm,
that's all.

What are you talking about?

We talked about
his brother's funeral.

They played a song called,

"Wildland" or "Wild World"
it was,

and, his girlfriend wrote a note

that she wanted the song
to be played over and over.

And, his brother,
he wanted the same thing.

"Wild World". That was
definitely a "Wild World".

Amy, you shouldn't have gone.

And then we smoked
some of his pot.

And, he saw the thing
where you put the gun

and he-he asked and I told him
'cause we were just talking.

And it was sort of okay
until then, and I...

I don't know. I shouldn't have
told him about the gun.

The gun.

- Stupid gun.
- I'm really okay.

Shelby, I... I don't know.

I probably shouldn't have gone,
but I did.

Sometimes, we just do things,
and...

I'm glad you did that.

I wanted to. I really wanted to.

Me too... i-it felt important.

Do you wanna go inside?
Everyone went inside.

I want to, okay? I really do.

Me too.

I wanna do everything.

Okay, I wanna do drama
and be in Our Town,

and I wanna do soc...
I wanna do everything.

I don't wanna get three
out of five anymore.

I'm not gonna do that.

I don't care what time
I get home tomorrow morning.

I don't care what Mark says.

I'm really gonna do everything.

You should do it.

Do you wanna go inside?
Everyone else did.

No... well, I mean, yeah, but,
I wanna find Brad.

I mean, I'm sure he's okay.
He's Brad, you know.

I'll see you inside.

Oh, shit.

Brad?

Go away.

What are you doing?

Go fucking away.

There are pellets in there.

If you want me to beat
the shit out of you,

I'll beat the shit out of you.
I swear to God.

Leave.

I said fucking leave.
I'm not kidding.

Leave.

Brad.

Man, I saw it.

I liked Lanky's brother.

I liked him.

He used to come over
and hang out with my sister.

He was so cool.

She knew his girlfriend too.

He used to come into my room
and talk to me about stuff.

Talk to me about high schoolers,
and some of the crazy stuff.

He talked to me about girls,
the stuff he did with them.

Boy, he was cool.

So one time, he...

he came to my room and I was...
I was reading something.

It's a book. I forget... but...

He had read it too, uh...
a long time ago.

Watership Down.

He just started telling me
all these stuff about this book.

Stuff you would only know
if somebody told you,

because it-it...
it wasn't in the book, it was...

it was like deeper
than the book.

He was full of that kind
of stuff.

Deeper stuff.

Everything was cool.

He gave me this record,
Frank Zappa,

and a bunch of funny songs on
there about eating yellow snow.

We'd memorize the lyrics
and we'd laugh.

He was cool.

So cool.

Lanky's brother was cool.

I saw it, Brad.
Okay, I saw it, man.

I saw it.

- What?
- The thing. It's real.

It's really real.

W-what? What the fuck
are you talking about?

Y-you can see it, the UFO.
I swear to God, I just saw it.

There's no UFO, man. You sound
like Pete and those assholes.

Okay, it's real.
And it's not planes

because it was solid
under the moon

and it didn't make any noise.

Bullshit. There's nothing
out there, man.

Just come on, you'll see.

You mean the fucking UFO?

Dude, there's no UFO.

There is, come on!

It's awesome.
It's totally awesome.