Little Odessa (1994)
Tim Roth: Joshua Shapira
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Quotes
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Joshua Shapira : [Joshua is about to execute Pahlevi] Hey, do you believe in God?
Pahlevi : [sobbing] Yes!
Joshua Shapira : Good. We'll wait ten seconds and see if he comes to save you.
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Reuben Shapira : I haven't been to school in like, months.
Joshua Shapira : Why not?
Reuben Shapira : It's boring. Rather be smoking bud in a museum. Let's go see the snakes.
Reuben Shapira : [after a pause] I'm fucked up.
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[first lines]
Joshua Shapira : It's done.
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[Joshua has returned home with Reuben. He faces his father for the first time in years]
Arkady Shapira : [to Reuben] Did you let him in?
Reuben Shapira : [shrugs. Arkady slaps him, and Joshua punches his father in retaliation]
Joshua Shapira : He gets what I got, is that it?
Reuben Shapira : Josh...
Joshua Shapira : Don't you fuckin' hit him!
Arkady Shapira : Get out of my house.
Reuben Shapira : Josh, come on...
Arkady Shapira : Get out of my house, or I swear to you, you get belt.
Arkady Shapira : [brandishing his belt] Get out of my house! Get OUT of my house!
[they start to fight]
Joshua Shapira : Fuck you!
Arkady Shapira : Get out of my house!
Joshua Shapira : I'll fucking kill you! You fucking lay a hand on me!
Arkady Shapira : Get out.
[Reuben pulls Joshua away]
Arkady Shapira : Get out, I said! Get out! Murderer! Out!
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Reuben Shapira : Josh. Josh, hey. It's me.
Joshua Shapira : Get outta here.
Reuben Shapira : Can't we meet later?
Joshua Shapira : It's not safe.
Reuben Shapira : Then we'll meet later somewhere else.
Joshua Shapira : Can't do that. I'm sorry. You look good, though. You're growing.
Reuben Shapira : Mom's gonna die. She got a brain tumor.
Joshua Shapira : Pop still work at the stand?
Reuben Shapira : Yeah.
Joshua Shapira : Be under the boardwalk. Near Nathan's, tomorrow at four.
Reuben Shapira : Okay.
Joshua Shapira : C'mere. How'd you know I was here? I won't do anything, just tell me.
Reuben Shapira : Sacha Ronov told me.
Joshua Shapira : Nobody can know I'm here. Not your friends, not their relatives, nobody. Don't discuss it with Sacha or anybody else. Okay? See you tomorrow.
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Joshua Shapira : [preparing to kill his father] Aren't you gonna say anything? You're a big man, is that it? You're a big man?
Arkady Shapira : I don't need a gun to be a man.
[Joshua angrily points his gun against the back of Arkady's head and forces him face down on the ground; Arkady speaks slowly and painfully]
Arkady Shapira : I don't know what made you what you are. All I ask you is to leave Reuben alone. Please. Even you must know there's nowhere you can go anymore. You have destroyed us. You've destroyed our family.
[Joshua finds he does not have it in him and simply walks away and back to his car, leaving his father lying down on the ground calling his name]
Arkady Shapira : Joshua... Joshua...