Thursday (1998 film)
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| Thursday | |
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 DVD cover for Thursday |
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| Directed by | Skip Woods |
| Produced by | Alan Poul Christine Sheaks Skip Woods |
| Written by | Skip Woods |
| Starring | Thomas Jane Aaron Eckhart Paulina Porizkova Mickey Rourke |
| Music by | Luna |
| Cinematography | Denis Lenoir |
| Editing by | Peter Schink Paul Trejo |
| Distributed by | Legacy Releasing Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 1998 |
| Running time | 83 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
| Gross revenue | $1,971 (USA) |
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Thursday is a 1998 American movie written and directed by Skip Woods. In reviews, the movie has been said to resemble Quentin Tarantino works, particularly Pulp Fiction, but the similarities are very superficial.
The film came out on DVD in 2002, by Polygram/USA films. A week after it came out, Polygram/USA Films went bankrupt, and no more than 1000 copies of the DVD were made. This wasn't the only film that got hurt by Polygram's bankruptcy. The Last Days of Disco, Topsy Turvy and No Looking Back are also Polygram/USA DVDs that are rare and hard to find because of this. The only film that was shielded from the Polygram bankruptcy was The Big Lebowski, because the Coen Brothers own the American distribution rights to all their films.
Due to this movie no longer being produced, the DVD can routinely be found selling for several hundred US dollars in new or like new condition. The film is notable for its unconventional rape scene (non statutory female on male rape).
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[edit] Plot
[edit] The Introduction
Casey Wells (Thomas Jane) has cleaned up his life. He is now a married architect and is looking to adopt a child with his wife when Nick (Aaron Eckhart), an old partner from his days as a drug dealer in Los Angeles, shows up on his doorstep. Nick wants him to hold onto some heroin for him. Casey is reluctantly forced to do so, but when Nick leaves he decides to dump it down the drain. Throughout the day more unwelcome visitors come looking to collect the heroin, and the movie is divided into segments by their visits.
[edit] The Rasta hitman
Ice (Glenn Plummer), a Jamaican Rasta hitman, enters Casey's house and is about to kill him, but Casey manages to persuade him to have a last smoke. They smoke a whole bag of reefer, and Ice is about to kill Casey when the Ice's cell phone rings. Ice begins to rap over the phone in an effort to clench a record deal, and Casey seizes the moment and knocks him out. Casey then ties him up and leaves him in his garage.
[edit] The adoption agency's representative
A representative from the adoption agency then comes and interviews him about his fitness to be a father. The representative's only lingering doubt concerns Casey's years out East from which there are no records.
[edit] Casey's rape by Nick's ex-lover Dallas
During the interview, Dallas (Paulina Porizkova), Nick's ex-lover who wants the money that she belives Nick left with Casey along with the heroin, shows up. She scares away the representative from the adoption agency by telling a story about Casey's drug-dealing and murdering past.
When left alone with Casey, Dallas questions him about the money's whereabouts. Angry that he can't help her, she decides to kill him. But not before she ties him up to a chair, gets naked and proceeds to mount and rape him. She tells him she plans to go on until she makes him get an orgasm. Delivering on her word, she reaches multiple orgasms, but gets no results from him.
[edit] Billy Hill aka HillBilly
While Dallas reaches yet another orgasm, another guy who wants the heroin, Billy Hill (James LeGros) aka HillBilly, breaks in and shoots her, splattering her blood all over Casey, his walls and his floor.
Billy believes that Casey has the heroin despite Casey' protests, and begins to torture him with a saw and a blow torch. He brags about his prowess and technique of cauterization as he sets to work. Hill is interrupted by cops ironically raiding the house next door. As Billy checks on it Casey is able to loosen the tape around his wrists and grabs a frying pan and sits back down. He quietly berates himself for passing up the gun in the fridge. Billy returns and tells Casey the cops got the "Wong" house. As he is about to proceed, he notices something is wrong. But catching Billy off guard, Casey overpowers him, and leaves him in the garage.
[edit] Nick's demise
Nick calls Casey from a pay phone, apologizes for everything and admits he had stolen the heroin and money from the police. After he hangs up, it is revealed to us that Nick has been shot, and is bleeding severely, seemingly about to die.
[edit] The bad cop
Finally, a corrupted cop (Mickey Rourke) arrives with a bag which contains Nick's head. He gives Casey until 7 PM to find the money but tells him that he does not care about the heroin. The cop then sees the garage with Ice and Billy tied up and Dallas dead and unloads a clip into Ice and Billy. He then tells Nick to throw them out as it is garbage day.
[edit] The End
In the end, Casey calls Ice's boss and tells him that the heroin is being auctioned off at 7 PM at his house. He recalls Nick's earlier words which promptly lead him to find the money and a wedding present in the spare tire of his car. He takes them, puts them in Dallas' Lamborghini Diablo car and goes to pick his wife up at the airport to presumably escape the country. The movie ends as we see the cops and the Jamaicans, both armed, about to meet each other at the house.
[edit] Cast
- Thomas Jane as Casey Wells
- Aaron Eckhart as Nick
- Paulina Porizkova as Dallas
- Mickey Rourke as Kasarov
- James LeGros as Billy Hill
- Paula Marshall as Christine
- Michael Jeter as Dr. Jarvis
- Glenn Plummer as Ice
[edit] Awards
- It won the 1999 special jury prize at Cognac Festival du Film Policier.
- It tied with A Simple Plan.
- It was nominated for the Artios award for best casting of an independent feature film.
