Free Ride (2013)

Ava Acres: Shell

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• [first lines] 

  Shell : [narrating]  Gas, grass, or ass. Nobody rides for free. At least that's what my mom says.

• [Christina picks her kids up from school to drive them to Florida] 

  Christina : Come on, get in. I'm going to need a co-pilot.

  [Christina holds the maps up to her oldest daughter MJ] 

  Christina : I'll be damned if I'm going to take any lame-asses across state line. We either do this together or not at all.

  Shell : I'm not a lame-ass.

  MJ : Why are we going to Florida?

  Christina : [Christina takes off her sunglasses and shows MJ the bruises her boyfriend gave her]  I called Sandy. She said she could get me a job. It's as simple as that.

  MJ : Does Grandma know?

  Christina : I'll tell her when we get there. I need to get down there and make some money first. I'm not going to sit here and listen to her tell me what a fucking loser I am for having to move us back in her house. You're either in or you're out.

  [MJ takes the maps] 

  Christina : Travellin' '77 south.

• [Christina and her daughters lay together for bed in the back seat of the car while on their way to Florida] 

  Christina : Lock your doors. We wouldn't want some trucker crawling in here looking for a warm bed full of ladies.

  MJ : Yeah, sure you wouldn't.

  Shell : Good night, John-Boy.

  Christina : It's not going to be forever.

  MJ : What if it sucks?

  Christina : Then we go back to Grandma's.

  Shell : Is it just going to be the three of us?

  Christina : Just the three of us.

  MJ : Do you promise?

  Christina : Yeah, I promise.

  Shell : Good night, John-Boy.

  MJ : Good night, Elizabeth.

  Christina : Good night, Mary Ellen.

• [MJ and Shell walk back to their motel room from the store] 

  MJ : Where did you get that?

  Shell : What?

  MJ : That gum in your mouth.

  Shell : Um... Back there.

  MJ : Back where?

  Shell : In the store.

  MJ : We didn't buy any gum, Shell.

  Shell : Well, I couldn't hold it, so I put it in my pocket and I forgot it was there.

  MJ : Spit it out.

  [MJ holds her hand out] 

  MJ : Spit it out.

  [Shell spits the gum into MJ's hand] 

  MJ : OK, we're going to go back, and you're going to tell the store lady you stole it. She'll probably make you give something back.

  Shell : Why?

  MJ : We're not trash, Shell. We don't steal.

  Shell : I didn't mean to.

  MJ : OK, but you did. Come on.

  Shell : This sucks.

  MJ : Sorry, bud.

• [MJ and Shell lay together on the back of the horse while looking up at the stars] 

  Shell : Why do some look bigger than others?

  MJ : I don't know.

  Shell : Why are some brighter?

  MJ : Maybe they were born that way.

  Shell : Why?

  MJ : God wanted it that way, I guess.

  Shell : I don't think so. I think they were all born bright, and then after a while, all the stuff around them, dust and stuff, covered them up. So you just can't see them. But they're still bright underneath. It's still there if you look closely.

  MJ : That's why you're going to be the doctor and I'm going to ride horses.

• [Shell reads an article out of a newspaper for show and tell in school] 

  Shell : Miss Milland was arrested in front of the house at 3:30 a.m., just one hour after the initial raid. They seized over 15,000 pounds of marijuana, with a street value over $3 million. It is the largest drug seizure in the county's history.

  Teacher : Well, thank you for sharing, Shell, and, uh, being at show and tell. Is the person in the article someone you know?

  Shell : She's my mom.

  [the teacher and class students look dumbfounded when the school bell rings]