Orange County (2002) Edit

A legacy.

A straight A student...

A writer?

A year ago today, Lonny died.

A year ago, I was just another Orange County surfer

About growing up in Orange County.

Actually, I have an idea for a TV show.

After Lonny drowned, I did some heavy meditating.

Agreed?

All day and all night sometimes.

All I need are the people who inspire me...

All right, bro. Check it out.

All right!

All right? You knew this day was gonna come.

And

And Arthur is on the board, so

And every good writer has a conflicted relationship...

And he was the representative at our model UN.

And I finally realized what I wanted to do with my life.

And I get into my car and head home...

And I love the girlfriend the bleeding heart animal freak.

And I sent you one of my stories.

And I think you are a total genius.

And I want him to be happy.

And I want to be a writer.

And I woke up in the night. He was fondling my

And I worked really hard.

And little Arlo here decides to profess his undying love for me.

And lock me up, because I am horny!

And maybe it will change his life like it changed mine.

And me.

And my brother burns down a building.

And my family....

And no nervous breakdowns and no Meryl Streep impressions

And nobody was doing anything about it?

And prom night?

And some great movies are based on his plays.

And spending my nights around a bonfire partying.

And stupid and selfish...

And trying to get laid.

And we can be together.

And when all my friends were out having fun...

And wondering if he had left the South...

And you can add my name to the acceptance list...

And you get to keep living here...

And you.

And your S.A.T.s combined are 940.

Are you okay?

Are you okay?

Are you okay?

Are you on a violent rampage, dude?

Arguing with all the maids.

Arthur. Please. Call me Arthur.

As long as I have a breath in my body.

As the community service leader, we would be morally remiss...

As you read on, you see that there exists...

Ashley, come on!

Ashley, now! Now!

Be careful.

Because I want to leave you with something special a business...

Because you are a moron! Now listen to me, lady!

Because you wanted to study with Marcus Skinner.

Before that, you wanted to be a professional surfer...

Before you leave for Bali.

Beneath the surface, these very real connections.

Bob?

Bud is getting so fat.

Buddy, I light one match, and the building blows up.

But

But can you take him tonight?

But I just started feeling really guilty.

But I just started feeling really guilty.

But if you think going here...

But what about what I want?

But you promised.

Butt out, dude. Ashley, get in the car right now.

By setting the building on fire?

Call 911!

Can I score some of your piss?

Can you Give me that back.

Can you do this for me?

Can you help me?

Care of the English department, Stanford University.

Chad crashed at my house, right?

Check this out. You gotta help us out.

Checking out the fire.

Code red! Code red!

Come on, Ash.

Come on!

Come on.

Come on. Where is it? Where is the mail?

Come, my lady Come, come, my lady

Coming.

Cool.

Could I have one of those?

Could you just say what you just said just one more time?

Could you maybe just give us his phone number?

Dad, what

Dear God!

Dear Mr. Skinner, My name is Shaun Brumder...

Did I tell you he was a fruitcake or what?

Did something break?

Did you sleep with your ex wife?

Directory. You stay here.

Do I have to turn on your computer?

Do me a favor. Back that engine out. We got a knockdown.

Do you know who lives at my house?

Do you like John Grisham? I sure do.

Do you think I should apply to some safety schools?

Do you want me to call public safety?

Do you want me to get naked and start the revolution?

Does he get a lot of headaches, or what?

Don.

Drink your milk.

Drop what? What were you doing?

Dude, come on.

Dude, face the fear.

Dude, I see it on the floor.

Dude, Lonny would have wanted me to blow up his board, dude.

Dude, you will never believe who I just met.

Dude!

Dude...

Eighty two percent

Emotionally.

Even as a little boy, he was so smart.

Even if that means breaking a promise to you.

Every time I try to depend on you, you start acting like a total lunatic.

Excedrin are pain pills.

Excuse me for a minute.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Excuse me. Sorry.

Faulkner.

Fiction, poetry, screenplays, whatever, you know.

Fine, fine.

Fine.

Fine.

Follow me.

For all your words of wisdom.

For an aspiring writer.

For an aspiring writer...

For the next few days, I read it from cover to cover.

Get in the car!

Gladiator, Chocolat.

Go get the Bronco, Shaun, and come back for me.

Go to the fridge, open it up and get yourself some.

God! My God! Puppy!

Goddamn it! Are you trying to ruin me?

Good luck.

Good.

Good.

Good. You love him. He loves you. Now get in...

Got your story here. Wow.

Great writer.

Guys, this is Shaun.

Hamlet, West Side Story...

Harsh.

Have you seen my piss?

He and his wife are gonna come by your house at 5:00.

He called me a drama queen, said I was trying to sabotage him.

He left me for a 20 year old he met at the gym.

He likes you. Yes. We found him on PCH.

He starts falling apart, and

He was beautiful and Serbian!

He wrote this great story...

Hello.

Hello.

Hello. Welcome.

Hey, before you do that

Hey, cutie.

Hey, guys, I got into Stanford.

Hey, I miss Lonny too.

Hey, what are you doing?

Hey!

Hey!

Hey! Hey!

Hey! Watch it.

Hey.

Hi, guys.

Hopefully, with your wisdom and guidance...

How do I look?

I am so sorry.

I applied as a joke, and they let me in.

I came by and was...

I can get you there in three hours.

I could die at any moment, but I keep plugging away day after day...

I did pretty well without trying too hard.

I even got 50 bonus points.

I feel so good.

I got into OCU, and maybe you can go to OCU.

I got into...

I got rejected from Stanford.

I got these ideas. I got so many ideas.

I got ya, buddy!

I gotta get out of Orange County.

I gotta get outta here.

I guess the old one burned down.

I had sex with Bob four times for you.

I hate my job! I’m gonna burn this mother down!

I have a burst blood vessel in my brain.

I have a confession.

I have a question for you. I got something to say.

I have the sneaking suspicion that my English teacher is illiterate.

I helped my former husband start his business.

I just feel awful.

I just like you.

I know how this looks, but I do everything I can for Bob.

I know I got it around here.

I know, but can we talk about it in the car, please?

I know, but, you see, this is an emergency.

I left it there by the water.

I like you.

I live in California...

I look forward to seeing you in the fall, Mr. Skinner.

I look like a pinata.

I looked down, and there, in the sand, was a copy of your book.

I love them so much.

I love you so much.

I love you.

I married Bob for you.

I mean, this family is heading for disaster, and then...

I mean...

I miss Lonny.

I miss those days.

I need a drink. Do you have any beer, coyote ugly?

I need to lie down.

I need to talk to the dean of admissions.

I need water or

I need you.

I never really thought about it that way.

I never went to college.

I noticed you used a lot of big words. Nice. Good for you.

I promise.

I propose a school sponsored fund raiser...

I read your book 52 times that month...

I really want to be a marine biologist...

I sacrificed a lot for you. I sacrificed Damian for you.

I should be happy.

I should go up to Stanford.

I should probably go.

I stayed in and I studied.

I think I inhaled some smoke.

I think I might just get the "Cliff Notes."

I think it could be a movie.

I thought we could share custody.

I tripped and

I walked in on them at a motel.

I want a divorce.

I want to be a good writer, Mr. Skinner...

I want to be a writer.

I want to try and make it up to you.

I was easily distracted.

I was just trying to help you, bro.

I was just up in my room thinking about Faulkner...

I was just up on the balcony...

I was sitting here thinking, whoa, my prayer was answered.

I was sitting on the beach, totally cogitating.

I was thinking that, you know...

I was too.

I will one day be a real writer.

If I talk with the dean of admissions and tell him my situation...

If we did nothing for these seagulls.

If you do this, I will eat your face!

If you need me just call me. And I think this is a great idea.

In a place called Orange County.

In some evil conspiracy to prevent me from getting anywhere.

Interesting.

Is Bob dead?

Is Grandpa there?

Is it me, or is it, like, hotter than hell in here?

Is that what you think?

Is the only way you can be the person you want to be...

Is this your boyfriend?

It says 940.

It took me a while, but I finally realized...

It turned out he was right.

It was a great story. I really enjoyed it.

It was a total electrical fire. It was, like...

It was like a sign, like your book was calling out to me.

It was nice meeting you.

It was okay.

Jake.

Jesus. You look like a beast.

Joe John.

Johnston, Joe.

Joyce, Faulkner, Tolstoy.

Just come back with an offer.

Just go hang with your little VIPs.

Just go to Stanford anyway. Go there and take the classes.

Just go to the front door.

Just keep your eyes on the road.

Just look in there.

Just one hour where you act like a normal, loving parent.

Just your writing.

Kip, it was really nice to meet you.

Lance, are you okay?

Last night we were at this party...

Last time I played, actually, I threw down the word "mazer."

Later, Mr. Skinner.

Like a light. Come on.

Like my friends...

Like Stussy. Do you know what?

Listen to me, all right?

Listen, Mom, when the mail comes, will you call me on my cell?

Listen...

Lonny always said he wanted to die eating foam in a massive wipeout...

Look, we drove all the way here from Orange County.

Look.

Look. This is my last chance to get into Stanford.

Looks here like your GPA is What, 2.5?

Lupe, did you give Bob his pills?

Man!

Maybe another mixed up kid will stumble upon it.

Maybe I can help you.

Maybe we should do something in his memory.

Me too.

Mom, get a grip.

Mom, this is the most decisive day of my life...

Mom, what is going on?

Mom, you might want to put on something more, you know.

Mom?

Mom?

Mom. Hey, Mom.

More what? More what?

Mr. Burke, as you know, my boyfriend drowned in a surfing accident.

Mr. Marcus Skinner...

Mr. Skinner

Mr. Skinner?

Mrs. Gantner. Thank you for coming.

My boyfriend wants to be a writer too.

My brother wants to go here next year.

My brother, Lance, is perpetually recovering from the night before.

My college counsellor sent you the wrong transcript.

My father goes ballistic, my mother gets plastered...

My goodness.

My grandfather is not gonna bend over backwards for just anyone.

My lady

My only criticism

My parole officer called. He wants that piss.

My parole officer wants to give me a drug test, and I need your urine.

No big drunken scenes, okay?

No! I was

Not I. All right.

Not in a sexual way or romantic way or anything like that.

Now tell her you love her.

Now when I say Romeo and Juliet, who comes to mind?

Now, people, June is just around the corner.

Now!

Nowhere. Not even a safety school?

Nowhere. You told me I was a shoo in.

Oh, come on.

Oh, God.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God! This is our song!

Oh, okay.

Oh, yes. Yeah. It was a great story.

Okay, and are you a student here?

Okay.

Okay.

Okay. Great.

Okay. Stanford University was my first choice.

Okay. Thanks.

Okay. You have five minutes. Go.

One more. Last one.

Or what if James Joyce had left Ireland?

Orange County is the perfect environment...

Other times, I cried.

Over here.

People have written me off, like Dad for one.

People have written me off. Do you know that?

Pills!

Playing volleyball...

Please come in.

Please, you guys, cut me some slack.

Principal Harbert, as you may know...

Promise me, dude.

Puppy!

Push him.

Put that out, man.

Read me.

Really?

Really?

Really?

Really? What about Jake?

Reconnoiter. 15.

Remember when the sea lions beached themselves in Corona Del Mar...

Right now! Please?

Righteous.

Rosa, take Jake upstairs and give him some Ritalin.

Said that you two were in the building when the fire started.

School was always a walk for me.

Scrabble? I love Scrabble.

Shame on you for abusing an old man.

Shame on you for abusing an old man.

Shaun has been a wonderful son...

Shaun, pick up the phone!

Shaun, so psychedelic.

She started it, all right? Because she was, like...

She was my favorite.

Show me your transcript.

Shut up.

Sit down. Sit down, okay?

Smarter and saner...

So do you like Faulkner?

So let me walk you through this.

So we divorced. I remarried.

So whatever she says is a lie.

So you have my pager number and my cell phone number.

So, tell us about yourself.

Some little chumps eat roast beef. Some little chumps have none.

Some little chumps go to college. Some little chumps stay home.

Some very important people are coming over.

Something happened last night.

Sometimes I laughed so hard, I thought I was going to puke and die.

Sometimes I leave the office at the end of the day...

Sometimes it takes decades to recover from a tragedy like this.

Soon as he gets a little money, he starts screwing around on me.

Sorry we intruded on your tea party.

Sorry.

Sounds good.

Spending my days at the beach with my buddies...

Spike it, Shaun!

Stanford is for the best and the brightest

Stanford sucks!

Stanford!

Stanford.

Stop it!

Stussy got started out making hats and shirts for surfers in Hawaii.

Take two or three.

Talented Mr. Ripley, Waterworld...

Tanya has Arthur wrapped around her little finger.

Tanya, Lonny died a year ago.

Tell her you love her.

Thank you, Mom.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. My head is killing me.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank

Thanks, Bud.

Thanks, but...

Thanks, man.

Thanks.

Thanks.

That even in a world where people can be superficial...

That he abandoned our family, and, if he wants to make it up to me...

That is such crap. Screw her.

That your application to Stanford University was not accepted."

The brother always passing out everywhere.

The characters are unique

The damn Bronco!

The excitement, the confusion, the horniness.

The future leaders of America.

The house is a mess, and Bob is bleeding.

The last few years have been really hard.

The lights are, like, vivid.

The mail would be in the mailbox.

The mother drunk...

The one day I need my family to come through for me...

The other night, I prayed for something too.

The question is...

The switches had sparks coming out,

The writer. He liked my story!

Then he can start now by making a massive donation to Stanford.

Then I counter with a lowball offer, like $2,000 for a medicine ball.

Then I just feel sorry for you.

Then last April, me and my crew drove out to Emerald Cove...

Then this new one, Bob...

There are some serious cuties at this party.

There was an oil spill last week off the coast of Redondo.

They end up doing what they always do.

They rejected him, the jerks.

This is an excellent transcript.

This is Excedrin.

This is intense!

This is it, Ashley.

This is it.

This is my future right here in this envelope.

This is not your fault.

This is the life I want for you.

Those would sell.

Three people in the history of literature.

To catch some major tsunami waves.

Today I went down to the beach with a copy of your book.

Toni Morrison.

Twenty footers?

Unkempt, portly.

Very handsome.

Wait a second.

Wait. Please. Where are you going?

Wait. What?

Wait. Yellow are not painkillers.

Want another beer?

Was that the message you were trying for?

Watch it, man.

Watch the road, dumb ass!

Watch your fingers.

We could take his board and push it out into the ocean.

We got you into Stanford, Shaun.

We heard you tried to kill Mrs. Cobb.

We just gave the dean of admissions three hits of

We met in Maui.

We need to have a little chat.

We should pull a killer prank. We should go jump off something.

We will go and get her. But you gotta follow me...

Well

Well drawn.

Well, I mean, he did leave Ireland, but not in his heart.

Well, I was high.

Well, Mr. Durkett, to me...

Well, thank you.

Well, that lady, Mona...

Well...

What

What about you?

What are you doing lying here?

What are you reading?

What are you, like, spying on me?

What did you just do?

What do you call that thing?

What do you want?

What do you want?

What do you want?

What else am I supposed to think?

What happened?

What I took from your story is this

What is that smell? What am I sitting in?

What is the big deal?

What promise?

What the

What?

What?

What?

What?

What? His phone number?

When I started out, I had nothing. Now look at me.

When I was little, I was a total pyro.

When your father left, I almost married him.

Where are you going?

Where else did you apply?

Where is it?

Where were we?

Which ones were they?

Who are these people? Get rid of them.

Who are you?

Who, in some ways, is as famous as Leonardo DiCaprio.

Why not?

Why?

Will you excuse me one second?

With all the proceeds going to the seagull rehabilitation fund.

With Lance and Bob...

With the place where he grew up

Would he have ever written a Light in August?

Would you just get out of here!

Yale.

Yeah, bro, or blow something up.

Yeah, Shaun.

Yeah, wait. Did you read it?

Yeah, where is my dad?

Yeah!

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Best friends.

Yeah. Sure.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yellow are painkillers. They go in the Excedrin.

Yes, I can.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir, Mr. Gantner.

Yes, we came together.

Yes?

Yes. Okay.

Yes. Yes, I can.

Yo, bro.

You are a shoo in.

You are so awesome.

You are!

You banged Mom?

You can have the house.

You can just have the whole bottle.

You can study creative writing, and I can study marine biology...

You did. Admit it.

You gotta remember to feed him his pills.

You have no idea what that means to me.

You have your people, I have my people.

You know what? Screw her.

You know, I really appreciate this.

You know, I really believed that you wanted to go to Stanford...

You know, someone else was involved in that movie...

You look great. Just remember what I said.

You must be Shaun.

You need an ending.

You only went out with him for two weeks.

You owe me one, buddy.

You people are sick.

You really filled out your arms and your chest.

You really love your characters. It comes through in the writing.

You remember the night we all went golfing and I paid for everyone?

You said shoo in.

You sent in the wrong transcript?

You should be very proud, but what can I tell you?

You should figure that out.

You should really talk to him.

You wanna maybe come check it out?

You wanna tell me what happened here?

You want a new gymnasium

You want to be a writer?

You want to be free of everybody.

You want to run away.

You went for a ride.

Your boyfriend?

Your greatest admirer, Shaun Brumder.

Your mother and I donated the money for a new admissions building.

Your mother and I, we

Your son was being a real brat today, a real pain in the ass.

Your tennis instructor.

Yours truly, Shaun Brumder. "

940? I had a 1 520.

And you are? Shaun Brumder.

Are you serious? Guess what else we did?

But, hey, we should go. Yeah.

Can you get him out of here? Okay, okay.

Dad, Stephanie stole my flip flops. So deal with it, Gina. Go.

Dana? Claire Danes.

Did you apply to Stanford, or No, no.

Do you guys want to come in? All right.

Everyone knows about that. Maybe.

Excedrin? Excedrin. Okay.

God! Sorry.

He liked my story! Shut up!

Hey, Bob. How was your trip?

Hi. Hi.

Hurry up! Come on!

I have something to confess. What?

I have to go to college. Why?

I love Bob. Hey!

I love you, dude. I love you too.

I met Marcus Skinner! What? Who?

I need to focus on my writing. What?

I want my poody! Hey, pal, control yourself.

Lance. Okay!

Later. Later.

Leonardo DiCaprio. Right. Who else?

Let us in! Hurry up!

More important than Lonny? Of course not.

More important than us, huh? No.

My house? Yeah.

My son. He said I was selfish.

Naked. Huh?

Nice to meet you. Hello.

Now just just be yourself. Okay.

Okay. Dude?

Or blow it up. Right.

Pain pills. Oh, my God!

Put it out. Whoa!

She said it was an electrical fire. It was.

Sorry. Ow!

Stay in your room. Why?

That is absurd and offensive. What?

This is his birthday, man. Yeah, man.

This is my girlfriend Ashley. Hi.

We want him to learn some limits. Come on.

What about next period? Twenty footers. Screw your period.

What are you doing here? Hello, everybody.

What are you sucking on? My poody.

What? Some cops are right on my ass.

What? Where are our bathing suits?

Who? Marcus Skinner.

Yeah. Awesome, man.

Yes? Liar!

Yes? Mr. Durkett?

You cold? Want my jacket? Thank you.

You did that for me? Yeah.

Joe John. What is it?

"Orange County."

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