Name: Little Fish, Strange Pond
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Released: 2009-10-23
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 3.7
Cast: Matthew Modine, Callum Blue, Adam Baldwin, Paul Adelstein, Zach Galifianakis

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Little Fish, Strange Pond

Questioning Identity in Stephanie Sinclair's Apartment

Norma Gee, if you're not Stephanie Sinclair, and I'm not Stephanie Sinclair, and this is Stephanie Sinclair's apartment, then what the fuck are we all doing here?

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Little Fish, Strange Pond

Conversation About Nationality and Identity

Sweet Stephan Hey, you're not from England you know.

Mr. Jack No, I'm not.

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Little Fish, Strange Pond

Unexpected Purchases at the Store

Bucky $9.95.

Customer And a jar of vaseline.

Bucky Big night planned, do ya?

Customer I guess so.

Bucky The vaseline's on the house.

Sweet Stephen You ever notice there's three types of porn?

Mr. Jack Strangely enough, I've never given it a thought.

Sweet Stephen You've got your old-school smut- ], ], ]. This was before ] and ], so they really had to know how to fuck.

Customer Thank you, Bucky.

Sweet Stephen Then you've got your next wave of porn, okay? ], ]- ]. Oh, I have yet to mention... ah! ]. The plotlines got weaker but ] go bigger.

Mr. Jack Fascinating.

Sweet Stephen Which leads me to our third kind: a montage- no plotline at all.

Mr. Jack What a wonderful dissertation.

Sweet Stephen But through it all, I've seen one common denominator.

Mr. Jack Cheesy music?

Sweet Stephen No, one consistent factor.

Mr. Jack Is this your conclusion?

Sweet Stephen ].

[[w:Ron Jeremy|Ron Jeremy]

Mr. Jack Excuse me?

Sweet Stephen Ron fucking Jeremy, the ] of ].

[[w:Cary Grant|Cary Grant; [w:Human penis|penises]

Mr. Jack A poet, that's what you are.

Sweet Stephen Why, thank you. Of course, now with the internet, the girls are-

Mr. Jack Oy! Aren't you a little young to be in here?!

Customer I'm a midget.

Mr. Jack Midgets! We were just talking about you people! Stephen heel. Come her. Ha, nice lad. Have fun. Ah, youth.

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Little Fish, Strange Pond

Conscience and Guilt in Everyday Life

Song lyrics In this life, you just need something to go right...

Sweet Stephen Maybe it's conscience-driven.

Mr. Jack Are you guilty?

Sweet Stephen Yeah, I fucking am.

Mr. Jack What do you feel guilty about?

Sweet Stephen I'm not sure. Evil begat evil, so... Where the fuck do I come from?

Mr. Jack What?! You- I asked you why Philly was sent to the porn store. You said you hadn't thought that far in advance. Any fucking ideas?!

Sweet Stephen Doesn't much matter.

Mr. Jack Yes, it does. Well, millions of people pray to God up above to protect them.

Sweet Stephen From who?

Mr. Jack I- I don't- If there's a God above, there must be something else for balance. It's obvious that there's two choices. Some choose one, some choose the other. Some choose both. Those that choose both are probably smarter.

Sweet Stephen What if it seems like somebody has made a choice. Can he change his mind?

Mr. Jack That would depende on how far down the path he's gone. Could be too late. Or it could be fate. It's the endless possibilities of fate, not the idea itself, that scares the shit out of everyone.

Sweet Stephen Ah! I told you I don't believe in fucking fate.

Mr. Jack You said you believe in God. What makes you think he doesn't have reason, purpose? That's what fate does- in ensures that everything that's supposed to happen, happens. And everyone does what they're supposed to do.

[''Voices echoes'']

Sweet Stephen Fuck. Sorry.

[''Exhales deeply'']

Mr. Jack Hey mate, it's alright. Pretend you're on one of those roller coasters. Sit back, relax, try not to throw up, and if you feel like screaming, feel free.

Sweet Stephen Shut the fuck up. Get away from me.

Song lyrics Open up our eyes...

Mr. Jack Nobody can control death.

[''Sweet Stephen grunts and gags'']

Song lyrics So we can see more...

Sweet Stephen Fucker!

[''Screams'']

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Little Fish, Strange Pond

Reflections on a Memorable Day

Mr. Jack You know what? Today was a great day.

Sweet Stephan It was a day.

Mr. Jack The perfect mix of intrigue, danger, tragedy, love, sex, violence and plain old American fun.

Sweet Stephan You're not from England, you know.

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Little Fish, Strange Pond

Questioning the Nature of Good and Evil

Dennis Rivers Sweet Stephen, are you evil?

Sweet Stephan Isn't everybody?

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Little Fish, Strange Pond

The Nature of Evil Explained

Sweet Stephan So, he-hey, do you know why Philly robbed the porno store or not?

Mr. Jack The answer is yes. And if you gave it some thought, you'd know too.

Sweet Stephan I don't like thinking, you just tell me.

Mr. Jack The answer is elementary my dear Stephen. Evil, begets evil.

Sweet Stephan And what the fuck is that supposed to mean?

Mr. Jack It means, that there is a logical, and natural force in the world. It preserves things spherically. Everything that goes around comes around. What goes up, must come down. You with me?

Sweet Stephan I'm with you so far.

Mr. Jack Good work and hard effort will undoubtedly reap reward. Do something good, something good will come from it. Right?

Sweet Stephan Right.

Mr. Jack Well, the opposite is true. Do something wicked, something wicked, this way comes.

Sweet Stephan Equate this to the fucking porno store.

Mr. Jack Well, contrary to popular belief, the selling of sex in any form is wrong. I'm not saying I agree with it, but check your bible, they're not going for it.

Sweet Stephan Is-masturbation evil?

Mr. Jack According to my mother yes. Thank god she's dead.

Sweet Stephan So the very existence of the porno store-was conceived in evil.

Mr. Jack Wickedness, yes.

Sweet Stephan And Bucky had something coming to him because he satisfied my desire to see other people fucking.

Mr. Jack Voyeurism, correct. Gentlemen!

[''To passerbys'']

Sweet Stephan So, Philly was sent in to even things out an eye for an eye-why would he get his head blown off by Tommy the cop?

Mr. Jack There are various levels, of evil. Selling porno in a crappy Los Angeles hellhole is not as evil as robbing that same place and shooting an innocent clerk. There's an unbalance there and the-forces of nature don't allow for that kind of thing.

Sweet Stephan So... Because the evil committed by Philly far outweighed the evil committed by Bucky, an arbitrator had to be brought in.

Mr. Jack An interloper.

Sweet Stephan Tommy the cop.

Mr. Jack Precisely.

Sweet Stephan And evil begets evil.

Mr. Jack By George, I think you've got it.

Sweet Stephan What makes you so sure he wouldn't-turn our lights out?

Mr. Jack You said it yourself in the porno store. Wasn't in his nature. Really Stephen. You don't give yourself enough credit.

Sweet Stephan I could've been wrong. You know? If that cop had come in two seconds later-.

Mr. Jack It was fate then.

Sweet Stephan Fate's what people believe in when it's the last choice they've got.

Mr. Jack Oh my, I disagree. I think fate had everything to do with it. It was fate that we were in the store to begin with. It was fate that there was a clerk behind the counter, and it was his fate to die today. I believe in fate as much as I believe in love.

Sweet Stephan I know you do. But that doesn't make a difference. You didn't know.

Mr. Jack Well I'll tell you this I go by two things, intuition, and assumption. Intuition tells me what to think and how to act. And assumption rules out the rest.

Sweet Stephan And you'd risk your life based on that line of shit?

Mr. Jack If we stop assuming, we'll lose something important. An assumption, is a leap of faith to believe that, something that we really want to believe is actually true. If we stop making assumptions, we might just lose our faith.

Sweet Stephan I was scared.

Mr. Jack And that's okay.

Sweet Stephan Uh, what if uh-my intuition tells me-that we're both gonna die-soon?

Mr. Jack Sweet Stephen, everything dies. The world is a circle, and everything dies.

Little Fish, Strange Pond

The Pressure of Being Strong in Public

Dennis Rivers Please, please, please, excuse me. I'm- I don't- I don't like losing it like this in front of you people, you know? Sometimes it's hard to be the rock, the one that takes it on the chin, the strong on, the one that presses through, some tough guy to be the father, mother, brother and friend of every guest on this stage. Do if I- if I lost it every now and then, then that's the price of a live TV show, okay? You know? And it's about you, ma'am.

[''Voice breaks'']

Woman Oh my god!

Dennis Rivers And it's about you. And you, sir. And you. And about you, Kenny Edwards.

[''Applause fades out'']

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