Teeth (2007) - full transcript

Dawn grows up in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. In high school, while her biology class studies evolution, she realizes she may have a hidden curse, an "adaptation." She lives with her mom, step-father, and hard-edged step-brother. She likes Tobey, a guy at school, and he likes her. She takes a pledge to remain chaste until marriage, so they date in groups, watch G-rated films, and don't kiss, but the power of teen hormones is great, so temptation beckons. Dawn has an admirer in Ryan, and when when things have an unexpected twist with Tobey, she turns to Ryan for help. Will he be her mythical hero and rescue her? Or can she find her way as her own hero, turning the curse into an asset?

Hey, Brad,
don't splash your sister.

She ain't my sister.

Well, it's my sincere
hope that she will be.

No!

Hey, try to be friends, ok?

No, goddamn it!

Hey!

Bill.

Just... Cut him some slack.

Let's see yours now.

Kim.



Ow! Oh!

Son?

Ow!

What's wrong?

What happened?

Brad?

Bill, what is it?

What is it? Let me see.

Show your dad.

Let me see it.

Oh!

Oh, god.

That doesn't look good.

Dawn, honey, are you ok?



Dawn, are you all right?

Dawn? Dawn...

We have a gift...

A very precious gift,

and what do you do with this?

Do you go around giving them to
everyone you pass on the street?

No!

No. Those wouldn't be gifts.

They'd be like a handout.

So, what about the most
precious gift of all?

Are you gonna give that

to the first guy who buys you
a big bunch of roses?

No! No way!

No way.

And, um, I'm not just talking
to the, uh, girls.

You guys, you have
the same gift to give.

Are you gonna give that to some
girl who looks like

she just stepped out of
a music video?

No.

No. You're gonna hold on to it

and share it with
the mother of your children.

Yeah. Definitely.

I mean, that's what
the ring is all about.

The way it wraps
around your finger...

That's to remind you
to keep your gift wrapped.

Wrapped...

Until the day you trade it in
for that other ring...

That gold ring.

Get it?

...Because you know
that this goes

way beyond sex.

If you used your hand
on yourself,

do you think that's pure?

No way!

And is any of this
groping and touching ok?

I missed you. I missed you.

I've been calling and calling.

The job that I have.

Mine, too.

And my mom...

She's sick again, so...

I'm sorry, dawn.

Sorry.

There is no back door...

Hey, guys.

Hi, Tobey. Oh, Tobey!

This is our friend
dawn o'keefe.

Tobey Cobb.

Tobey just moved here.

We were best friends back home.

He starts school
with us tomorrow.

Hi.

Hey.

So I hear there's gonna be 27

pledges tonight so far.

No way. Phenomenal.

It's you, you know.

Oh, I don't know.

It is. People really
related to what you said,

but especially the way
you said it.

Hey, dawn!

Hi, Mrs. Kitchener.

Hi, baby. Come on in.

So how'd it go?

They asked me to come
back to the next one and speak.

Well, of course they did.

Hey, sweetheart.
Did you have fun?

Yeah. They had
awesome music and food, so...

Kim, you're warm, baby.

You have pain today?

Let's talk about
young people stuff.

Uh, Gwen and Phil say hi.

They are so adorable.

Wills of iron.

Well, things were
a little different

when we were growing up.

Honey.

It is different now.

Hey, honey, we're
not complaining.

You are a blessing.

Both our children are blessings.

Ohhh!

Brad!

I got you, bitch!
I got you so good!

Whoo!

♪ to know what it's like ♪

♪ to dance with him
in the shimmering light... ♪

♪ He's so close,
I can feel him ♪

♪ But I'll be strong,
won't give in to the feeling ♪

♪ 'cause love is worth
waiting for ♪

♪ Love is worth waiting for ♪

♪ Love is worth waiting... ♪

All right,
here's your chance.

Make a move, stud.

Give me that.

What?

Give me it.

Love is worth waiting for.

Wait. Yeah, I'll wait...

For a bitch to
get her panties off.

Hey, what kind of sodas
do you guys got, huh?

We got cherries.

Pop that cherry.

How's your...

Sorry.

Hey, Tobey. Hey, dawn.

Quite a welcome.

Damn it. Great.

You're not allowed
to actively thwart it.

I was fair, dude.

Ok, dude.

So, questions?

That's it, then, for the penis.

Let's move on to the...

To the, ahem...

Uh, the next page.

The female...

Privates.

Um, there's something
weird in my book...

Leave it.

I have it, too. A sticker.

What's it hiding?

The state school board
has rightly ordered

it be concealed.

A detailed diagram of... of the...

vulva.

Why are they
covering that up?

That should be obvious.

They showed the penis picture.

That's different.

How so?

The sad thing is, Ryan,

you'll probably never know.

Dawn.

I think I can tell you
how it's different.

Girls have a natural modesty.

It's built into our
nature, so depicting...

I think, too.

Oh, great. I read
about that one.

Phil, that's rated "r."

Oh, I hear it's good.

Phil.

I'm not saying we should see it.

But you know what?

Even the pg-13 is gonna have

heavy making out.

Well, there's...

Sorry.

It's ok.

How did that happen?

I was a little kid.

No one ever told you?

I never figured it out.

What?

I think she bit it.

She who?

Dawn.

A baby bit the end
of your finger off?

Yeah. Hit this.

Hey, guys,
where are we going?

You'll see.

Isn't this
a big make out spot?

Only at night.

Do you think this
is a good idea?

We're in a group.

We'll police each other.

Right?

Private property?

Watch out
for the poison Ivy.

Hey, dawn, watch out for this.

Wow.

Is that a cave?

Yeah. People go there to...

You know.

You like that?

No. I do have
a perfectly good pussy.

I'm sure you do.

Other boys like it just fine.

Well, fuck them, then.

Hey, mother!

Hey, come on.
Get it. Go on, get it.

Oh, oh, oh.

That was a little too close.

You get what you deserve.

Really?

Yeah.

Get out. Ugh!

Brad!

No, never.

You know, it's never
even been a big deal.

I just...

Always knew I wanted
to wait until marriage.

So no one's ever
even touched your...

Absolutely not.

Gosh.

Why. Are...

Are you?

I'm a virgin.

That's great.

In his eyes.

Oh.

It was just once, about
a year and a half ago.

Right.

I'm still dealing
with the guilt.

Actually, you're
probably stronger now,

your resolve, because
you've been there.

I mean, you've seen
the dangers firsthand.

Where's the aurora bridge?

I'll show you.

What's happening
to you two next?

Keep quiet.

Alive?

I can't believe it...

life enduring
for centuries like this,

and under all that heat.

What is wrong with me?

Purity.

Purity.

Back then, these
snakes were born

into an environment
with very large mammals.

So the diamondbacks that
have developed a rattle

had a big advantage
over those that didn't.

They didn't get stepped on.

You mean suddenly
out of nowhere,

a baby snake was born
with a big rattle?

The prevailing theory is
that it would have been born

with an incipient... primitive.

Thank you, Ryan.

Rattle-like mutation
that would have developed

over thousands of years
of evolution,

but we don't know for sure.

Got that right.

It's also possible
that it happened

exactly as you said
and that one day,

a baby diamondback was
born with a fully formed mutation

that just happened to be
extremely beneficial to its survival.

Does this seem irrelevant
to all of you?

Because it's not.

Now, I know a lot of you
subscribe to other theories,

but however you think this was
all set in motion,

it's about your life.

It's about why you are
the way you are.

Dawn, this is about you,
and you missed it.

Tobey, listen.

I was really weird this morning.

I think I know why.

I had a really nice time.

Me, too.

My thoughts haven't
been so pure.

Look, I...

I think that we can't
go out together again...

I mean, even in a group...

Even in a big group.

I was thinking the same thing.

Just...

Didn't want it to be true.

We're so in sync.

What is wrong with you?

You know what?

Fucking bastard.

I know you're lying!

Fuck you!

I love you!

You love me?

Yes, and you love me,
too. You know you do.

I love you, too.
I love your ass.

Yo.

Are you alone?

Can I have a serious
talk with you?

About you and Melanie.

There's no me and any bitch.

Ok.

From what I heard last night...

Did that turn you on?

I know we've never been close.

We've never been
like sister and brother,

and I really don't
know why that is.

Sure you do.

You know.

I really don't,

but whatever it is,

I'd like for it to change.

You know, all that
abstinence bullshit...

We all know who you've
been saving yourself for,

and I've been real patient.

Do you think I like living
here with these assholes?

Mom and dad?

So why don't you just
set that pretty ass down?

Aaah!

Dawn?

I need to see you.

I brought my bathing suit.

That's just how I
imagined you in my mind.

You're beautiful.

You imagined me?

That's ok. I did, too.

You. Except...

With less.

This does not feel wrong at all.

Purity.

Stay in there.

I'm freezing.

Uh, let's go back.

Ok.

Can I just...

We made a secret promise.

Get off.

You don't have to do anything.

No. No.

Damn it. Stop. Damn it, Tobey.

No!

I haven't even
jerked off since Easter!

I am saying no!

Tobey, don't!

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Dawn?

Dawn?

Oh.

What are you doing?

Oh, it's ok. It's ok.

You're still pure in his eyes.

Nooo! Aah!

Aah! Aah! Oh!

Aah!

What? What? What?

Aah! Aah!

Get off!

Aah!

Aah!

Aah!

Get away.

Aah!

Aah!

Tobey?

♪ throw out
the life line ♪

♪ throw out the life line ♪

♪ someone is drifting away ♪

♪ throw out the life line ♪

♪ throw out the life line ♪

♪ someone is sinking today ♪

♪ throw out the life line
across the dark wave ♪

♪ there is a brother
whom someone should save ♪

♪ somebody's brother ♪

♪ oh, who then will dare ♪

That you, honey?

It's me.

There's dinner
if you want a bite.

I ate.

Thanks.

♪ Throw out the life line ♪

♪ throw out the life line ♪

♪ someone is drifting away ♪

♪ throw out the life... ♪

Oh! Oh!

Just wing it, dawn.
You'll be fine.

Yeah. Speak
from the heart.

Huh?

Tobey will be there.

You've seen him?

He said he wanted to
come but he wouldn't if...

When?

A couple of days ago.

You know, if it would
make you nervous.

He said he wouldn't come, but
he really wants to support you.

Yay, dawn!

Mr. Vincent asked me
to talk about purity today.

Purity, yes!

Yeah?

And...

Yesterday...

I could have done that...

Because yesterday I was pure.

She shall be called woman

because she was
taken out of man.

Adam...

Right. I can't make sense of it.

Uh...

Is that it? Is...

Is it...

Is it the Adam inside? Inside?

Bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh.

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

But there is something...

There is something...

Inside of me...

That's lethal.

The serpent.

I don't know.
I don't know what it is.

The serpent
will be in.

I think what dawn is getting at

is so important, people.

Exile from the garden.

The serpent. The serpent.

Though it was not part
of god's original plan,

thanks to Eve
and the devil, we...

Hey, dawn!

What are you doing here?

Uh, you know, checking it out.

I thought if you
were so into it,

it must be pretty cool.

Did you drive?

Yeah. Yeah, my mom
lent me her car.

Let's go. Oh.

Uh, listen...

Um, do you want
to hang out sometime?

I mean, I know you're not
into, you know, whatever,

but, uh...

Like... like a date?

That's funny.

It's not you.

Mm-hmm.

No big deal.

What's so goddamn
funny about it?

Hey, Brad. I'm here for dawn.

You're out of your
league, pussy boy.

Excuse me?

Get the fuck off my property.

Uh, hey, uh, listen.

Aah!

If you want any more of that, you
can come by and see us again, yeah?

Aaah!

"The toothed vagina
appears in the mythology

"of many and diverse cultures
all over the world.

"In these myths, the story
is always the same...

"the hero must do battle
with the woman,

the toothed creature,
and break her power."

Kim, honey,
I'm gonna call...

"The myth springs from
a primitive masculine dread

"of the mysteries of women
in sexual union

"and fears of weakness,
impotence.

"It is a nightmare image...

"Power and horror...
Female sexuality...

"The myth imagines sexual
intercourse as an epic journey

"that every man must make
back to the womb,

the dark crucible
that hatched him."

Dawn, voice-over: Dark crucible.

All right, miss...
I can't read this.

Cobb.

What can I do
for you, miss Cobb?

Is this your first time?

Ok. Just lie down.

That's it.

Put your feet right
in here in Mr. Sockie.

There and Mr. Sockie... Ok.

Ok.

So I imagine you
have no idea what to expect.

Not really.

Well, don't worry.

I'm not gonna bite you.

Scoot down.

Scoot, scoot, scoot.

Scoot down. Scoot down.

Come on. Scoot down.

Scoot, scoot, scoot.

Ok.

Let me guess.

You'd like to start
on birth control.

No. I just...

Want to be checked out...

you know, make sure
that there are no...

Adaptations or anything.

I think there might be
something weird going on inside.

Indeed there is.

What you're probably adapting to

is womanhood.

Your body is going through
so many changes now.

This might be a little cold.

I have a hunch...

You are perfectly healthy.

Are you sexually active?

No.

Yeah. Yes.

In this room,

there are no judgments made.

Deal?

Ok, then.

How's this?

Shouldn't you tell me?

That's good.

Ok.

So...

Let's test your flexibility.

Ow.

Lie back and relax.

Just breathe.

Breathe through the pain.

Ah! I can't!

Oh!

My goodness. You're tight.

Ah!

♪ Relax ♪

ah!

Yes. Now, there we go.

What? What's...

what have you put in here?

Aah! Aah!

Aah! Aah! Aah!

Aaaah!

It's true! Vagina dentata!

Vagina dentata!

Uh! Uh! Vagina dentata!

This is the police.
Pull over now.

Pull over now.

Tobey?

Mom?

Dad. Mom!

Aah! Oh!

Mom! Mom! No!

Help!

Help!

Oh, god, honey.

Sweetheart, you've
got to get home

and get some rest.

She's gonna need you
chipper tomorrow, hmm?

Go on.

Be careful.

What is wrong with you?

Shut the fuck up.

Shut up!

Mom?

I'll get it!

Hi.

There's no one.

There's nobody else
that I can talk to.

My mom is in the hospital.

I have to go to the police

and turn myself in.

Police?

I killed him.

You killed someone?

Almost two.

Uh! Uh, I'm sorry,

but, I mean, you?

Dentata.

What?

It's Latin for teeth...

A vagina that...

uh, yeah. I know what that is.

I'm not following you.

What again?

Vagina dentata.

It's what's inside me.

The doctor said so.

A hero has to come
and conquer them.

That's what they say.

Who?

The ancient Greeks and Egyptians

and early Christians and Jews

and Polynesians and lots
of native Americans.

Shh.

Ahem. Uh, I'm not looking.

M-my mom takes these
for her nerves.

Ok.

Where are my clothes?

I have to go to the police.

That pill might make you
a little fuzzy.

I have to confess.

Yeah, but tomorrow. Tomorrow.

You want them to take
you seriously, don't you?

Come on.

Have a seat.

Take it.

To the smartest,
prettiest girl I know.

This is how I always
dreamed it would be.

Oop. Oh.

Oh. Oh.

Hey. Hey, relax. Relax.

Just rest.

Just rest. I'm right here.

Hmm.

Oh.

You can't.

D-do you want me to stop?

No.

Oh. Good.

But they'll get you.

Who?

The teeth.

Come on.

Seriously.

No. No, look.

I'm... I'm conquering them.

See? Yeah. I'm...
I'm... I'm the hero.

We found this embedded
in the penile stump.

So, what's it from?

Well, dentition is
not an exact science.

The root design would have
led me to ascribe it

to the selachi...
The sharks and the rays.

But the crown made me
thing of the cyclostomes...

The lamprey.

See the serration near the tip?

So this comes from
a cross between

a shark and an eel,
something like that?

No. Our tests show
that it's human.

Ha ha!

What?

Uh, nothing.

I just...

I just can't believe it.

I can't either.

I can't believe
you're still alive.

Ha! Right.

Grr!

I got it. Thanks.

You sure you don't want
to tell us how this happened?

Where you going?

I do have to go to the police.

Maybe you are my hero.

Sweet.

Hey, loser.

As we speak.

Oh, yeah?

She's not there.

Yeah? Say something.

Dawn?

What?

No. You hear that?

Awesome.

Ha ha ha!

Yeah.

Mmm.

What was that?

Oh, nothing.

We made a bet

that I could... you know.

Uh, uh, uh.

So you made a bet about me

when I had taken a
sacred vow of abstinence?

I had a hunch that it
wasn't all that sacred.

It was, though.

Your mouth is saying
one thing, babe,

but your sweet pussy
is saying something

very... Different.

Ah!

Aah! Aah! Aah!

Oh, shit.

Aah! Aah!

Aah! Aah!

Oh! Oh! Oooh! Aah!

Some hero.

Ma?

You're the daughter?

Just a moment.

Have a seat, dear.

Son?

Son! Huh?

Uh-uh. We're fucked. Jesus.

Would you excuse us,
miss, please?

I want you out of here.

Out.

What?

Yup.

All right. So it's Kim, huh?

The old cunt's making
me kick you to the curb,

is that what's going...

Oh!

When it rains, it pours.

I know, right?

There has got to be
a story here.

He was in a delirium.

Hardly seems worth it.

You want me out of here,

you're gonna have
to throw me out.

I should have done that
a long time ago.

Yeah, you should have.

Mother!

Uh!

Brad!

Yeah, who's kicking
who out now, old man?

Aah!

Please.

Please, son.

Why'd you have to marry her?

Oh, god. I know
you loved your mother.

My mother? I don't
even remember that bitch.

What?

You made her my sister.

I loved her, dad.

She loves you, too.

So very much.

She does.

Mother, shut up.

Hey! Get back in your cage!

Get!

Oh.

I'm sorry.

She was screaming, but
Brad said just to ignore it,

that she did that all the time.

I'm so sorry.

Why are you doing this now?

Are you afraid?

Whoo. This is too fucking weird.

Just wait.

Wait.

Ow.

What are you...

No. No. Stop it.

Oh, god.

Yeah.

Uh.

Oh.

You see what we've been missing?

We always knew it would
play out this way

eventually, didn't we?

Ever since we
were little kids...

Uh.

Uh.

Aah!

Aah!

Where...

Oh...

Mother, get her!

Drop it.

No!

No-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!

Wait.

Dawn, don't leave me!

♪ I got a letter
this morning ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ who put the bomp
in the bomp shooby Dooby bomp? ♪

♪ Who put the ram in
the Rama lama ding dong? ♪

♪ You did ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ who put the bomp in the bomp
shooby Dooby bomp? ♪

♪ Who put the ram in the
Rama lama ding dong? ♪

♪ You did ♪

♪ You did ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ wake me up if
I should drift away, I ♪

♪ don't want to miss a thing ♪

♪ take my hand and lead me
all around ♪

♪ I don't care ♪

♪ where we're going ♪

♪ who got the groove
and made it flow? ♪

♪ Who proved that anything
was possible? ♪

♪ You did ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ who built the house
and brought it down? ♪

♪ Who raised the roof
and never made a sound? ♪

♪ You did ♪

♪ you did ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ wake me up if I should
drift away, I ♪

♪ don't want to miss a thing ♪

♪ take my hand and lead me
all around ♪

♪ I don't care ♪

♪ where we're going ♪

♪ I got a ♪

♪ I got a letter ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ who rose right out
of the morning mist? ♪

♪ Opened my heart
like a baby's fist ♪

♪ you did ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ who cleared the static
and made it sing? ♪

♪ Who put the wheel
on the gravy train? ♪

♪ You did ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ you did ♪

♪ wake me up if I should
drift away, I ♪

♪ don't want to miss a thing ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ take my hand and lead me
all around ♪

♪ I don't care ♪

♪ where we're going ♪

♪ who put the flip
in the flippity flop? ♪

♪ Who put the hip
in the hippity hop? ♪

♪ Who put the boom
in the boom boom Shaka laka ♪

♪ you did ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ who put the bomp in
the bomp shooby Dooby bomp? ♪

♪ Who put the ram
in the Rama lama ding dong? ♪

♪ Who put the Wang
in the Wang dang do? ♪

♪ Baby, you did ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ I got, I got a letter
this morning ♪

♪ who put the flip
in the flippity flop? ♪

♪ Who put the hip
in the hippity hop? ♪

♪ Who put the boom
in the boom boom Shaka laka? ♪

♪ You did ♪

♪ I got a letter this morning ♪

♪ who put the bomp in the... ♪

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