Two Boys (2010) - full transcript

Six days before Christmas. It's warm and sunny. Two recently transplanted New Yorkers are lugging a Christmas tree through the streets of Los Angeles. On one end of the tree is an irritated sixteen-year-old gay boy with quite a mouth on him. On the other end is his recently divorced mother, trying to be patient and positive. Then it's Christmas. Another bright day. However, the night before the boy learned that his best friend committed suicide. How will Mom and Son get through this day?

- This is such a cheesy idea

If I get a hernia I'll make your life miserable

- You already do

- You're not planning of trimming
this fucking thing tonight, are you ?

- Stop with that word!

Talk like that and I feel like a bad mother

- You should have bought something
bigger than that rag of a car

Why we didn't get the standing delivery?

- It would have cost us an extra 30 bucks

We're only a few blocks away

- I think if we're living in New York



we'll probably get arrested

I don't see why we need a damn tree anyway

- It we'll put us in the holiday spirit

- Oh yeah, like it did last year

- Hey I had few bad downs

- Crashed on the couch

Don't remind me

It was that lady mouse with the snow
on the sparckling gree

Give me a break

- No, I really liked that ornament

- I was new to this single shit

- Uhh, language....

- You know I tought you were dead

- You did ?



- I don't remember, probably

But, hey, at least we were still in New York

- Come on, you like it out here

- Yeah, you are right

- What the hell are you stopping ?

- To wait for the light. They do that out here

- I still don't know what we are gonna do
with the tree that nobody's gonna see

- What about your friend?

- What friends?
Abby and Dustin

- Well, Abby is in the south of Spain
with his rich parents

and Dustin, I don't know

I mean, that kid is weird

on some new meds

probably wouldn't notice if
the street is breaded with dicks

- Hey
- Sorry...Hello...! light change

- What meds?
- Zany depressants

He had them changed

saying they were killing
his sex drive or whatever

That should be the least of his worries

- That sounds homophobic to me

- What I meant was...

I don't think he should be on meds

cause his family cannot deal with who he is

- Like you can deal with who I am ?

- I try

- Ah, the drama of the gifted child...

- Are you talking about yourself?

- What? No, no

Just thinking about Dustin

He has a thing for Sean Reynolds

All the looser think that Sean is hot

I mean, I don't

He's just a lame, pretty boy

so white, white, white

- Is that you have superior taste ?

- I do, all right!

Listen up

A couple of weeks ago

Sean spit on Dustin
- What ?

- I'm ashamed to say I think he liked it

- Too much information

- It's my karma to be surrounded by masochists

- Are you also referring to me ?

- Oh...the hair shirt fits...

Oh, speaking of shirts

In gym class Dustin lifted Sean's T-shirt

- Oh wait...too much information

- You always want me to share
I mean I'm just sharing

that Dustin has a thing for the Sean animal

- Speaking of things,

do you have a thing for anybody?

- Nope

Pathetic right ?

- No, not at your age

- Come on, that's not true

I mean if I was straight you wouldn't think that

but you're just glad that

there's no special boy in my life

- I don't know how to talk
to you about this stuff

I'm sorry, I just don't

- Wow now it's all about you

- I wish you'd stayed in therapy

and got beyond these catchphrases

Come on

- Maybe you should have gone
with your father for the holidays

- To the Hawaii ?
- Yeah

- Ten days trapped on the beach with
dad and perky Marcy

- Eh, I'd drown myself

- We're lucky he let us move out here

- They were relieved

to get me out of the way

- Well, I'm glad we're out here

It's so much better!

- A healthy positive change for both of us

and I have a job I like

and you you've made a couple of friends

and, look around, my God, sunshine

- It sounds like one of those pod people

from that movie we watched

- Invasion of the body snatchers
- Yeah

- Did you put a pot in my closet

and am I gonna wake up straight tomorrow ?

- No, just nicer
- Oooh...ok

You know, I made Marcy hyper

and I have not even met most for her family,

she censors who I meet,

she calls me handsome

All because she can't remember my real name

When they call for Christmas and
they ask what's new

maybe I should tell them about my jock itch

- That's gross

You know how's gonna be like

when Marcy hatches?

Hey, can we put this down for a minute,

my hands're hurting
- Sure

- Please, watch it! I don't want any
broken branches

- Oh, yeah that would be tragic

- How do you feel about having a sister ?

- A half-sister

and I hope she turns out to be a dyke

like a super butch one

it runs in some family, right?

- They have a name for the baby ?

- Molly. Jealous ?

- That was mean...

- Sorry

- What did you tell your father
you want for Christmas ?

- A hustler

- That's not what you really want

- Ah, ah, hey, you would jumpstart me, right ?

- Can we get going ?
- Aahh

- I hope you'll like what I've got you

- You're goody..

you always keep the receipts and

if it's never anything
we have to send back anyways

Hey, bulletin from the spawn

How about this year

no presents for anybody, huh?

- You have six days,

six days till Christmas

and I wanna get....wait for me...
- How much I've to listen this old squaw?

- You don't have to spend a lot

- Hear me, all right? No gifts

- I just need a little something

- Yeah, you always do

- What ?
- He thinks

- I'm more and more self...

- Doesn't mommy get a goodnight kiss...
you didn't say goodbye to me this morning...

- All right, all right...
- Love me...love me

- I still don't know what we gonna do
with this Christmas tree

that nobody's gonna see

- At night we will have the Christmas tree lights on

- It will be cozy

- It will be lonely

- Hey come honey, you gotta help me

I'm busy

- Doing what ?

- Okay

I'm glad I had our ornament shipped

It's gonna look nice

[music]

- Would you like a cup of tea
- Why not ?

[music]

- Merry fucking Christmas

- Right...

Would you like like to open your gift ?

- No, I don't think so

- Sorry it's a stupid suggestion

[phone ringing]

- Don't get it

- It might be Dustin's parents

- No, they totally hate me,

never gonna want to talk to me again

I'm not here right ?

- Hi ma

yeah, merry Christmas to you

We are fine

Really ?

Ah you just missed him

yeah he went out with some friends

No, no I'm not at all lonely

It's a beautiful day here

I'm not even gonna tell you
what the temperature is

cause you'd just be jealous...

Ah, later

Yeah, we're gonna have Christmas dinner

at a friend of mine

a nice woman from work

Really ?

I....Why?

I...I will

yeah I'll tell him you called

I'll tell him you said hi

okay, okay, love you, okay, bye

They'd never abode your voice

- And trying to think about something else

- Like what ?

- What a sweet kid he was

- You were the only one who even thought so

I don't think his parents even liked him

I wonder if I did

- Of course you did. He was your best buddy

- He was my only buddy

- I'd wished you didn't call last night

I would have found out anyways

- Not on Christmas eve

- I was just checking in on him, right ?

I should call Abby, shouldn't just text her

- But in Spain? Wait

- What's with you in this holiday ?

- I don't know I just want to postpone

all bad news, like forever

Is there gonna be a funeral ?

- Probably

I mean the Larson's aren't gonna
want me to be there

- You don't know that

- I know them

[Telephone ringing]

- It's your father

- Don't answer it please

[telephone ringing]

- No, I think Dustin really wanted
to mess up that bathroom

I mean that's why he used a knife,

could have just used pills

there's nothing in that house
to stop to start a pharmacy

His sister she's on CN Axl

that's her prescribed medication,

the other ones are just a special treats

and the mothers is on Valium and Paxil,

the father's on Barbuturin and Xanax well

and a lot buy Viagra to please
his business associates

- How do you know all of this ?

- What? I mean, I have hands and eyes,

they can look into a medicine cabinet

- Did you ever take any of those pills ?

- Only a couple of xanax

- Don't start taking pills

- Look it's not a big deal, all right ?

And their bathroom was a cloud area

pink, pink and more pink

and the toilet paper

it was pink with

these little titty blue clouds all over

Ah, I hated using it when I took a shit

- I get the idea

- I mean you know how much of
a style queen Dustin was ?

I bet that bathroom embarrassed him,

that's why he used it for his final checkout

he was giving this mother a good tick

- Poor family

- I'm not as evolved as you

I could give a rat's ass about them

- We can't begin to imagine the pain they're in

- I hope Sean doesn't think that
Dustin did it because of him

- Oh Christ

The guilt that kid would feel

- Are you kidding ?

He'd probably jack off to the thought of it

- Did he do it because of this Sean boy ?

- No way

I mean

Dustin was up for Sean
in a kind of crushy, girly get away

I don't think you would have done it
if you actually love somebody

anybody

[music]

- I hate these candle trees

Dustin probably did the deed
when we were trimming it

- So we take it down ?

- Nooo... too much work

How do you know if you're a bad person ?

- Why are you asking ?

- Because I think I'm a sleazoid

- Are you sweet

- Only a self-centered prick

would have had the dream I had last night

- What was it ?

It's too sexual

I can't tell you

- I didn't know you're having sexual dreams

I mean I'm not a corpse like Dustin

What kind of person has that type of dream

after they just found out
their friend off themselves

- A very normal boy

when trying to get back to life

- Don't you think it's a little early
to be getting back to life ?

Here, how about you open your present ?

- If you open yours

- Not now

Here

- That you said you weren't doing
presents this year ?

- Yeah, I'm cooler than you know

- Did you wrap this yourself ?

- Noo..the lady in the store wrapped it

- This is wonderful

- The girl in the store said it was the best

The book is new

I told her about your Japanese movie fetish

but I didn't tell her is
that's all you watch

after daddy dumped you
- He didn't dump me

- Denial... amazing...

- It helps

Tokyo Story is my favorite

Hey let's watch it together sometime

- Oh no no

I look through the book, read about it,

the movies's about old people

they bum me out

- Oh it's about so much more than that

it's very...
- Boring yeah

I wonder what Dustin's parents
are gone for Christmas

but his gifts are still under the tree

- Hey mom

- Hi

" Here's where you stand

oh here's where you fall

here's where you landed

here's where you cry

you can take my hand

oh nothing it's hard

take my hand

don't let go

take my hand

we're almost home

if you take my hand

there'll be nothing to fear

if you had taken my hand

you would still be here

heeeeee....