The narrative
starts off with Rob Riler, the main character, pulling into the office of
his new therapist. He’s not real impressed with the building, located
(camera pan) right next to a fast cash and a white castle. When he finally
gets to talk to his psychologist he reviews all the things that went wrong
with him. The therapist notices that he can’t deal with his problems and
concludes Rob has developed an anger problem.
From this scene it fades
to how his wife kicked him out of the house. A voice over narrates that he
and his wife split the duties to pay the bills. He would organize all the
bills and his wife would write the checks and send them in (Series of close
ups and narrow shots). Unfortunately, his wife put the check in front of
the payment stubs and covered the window of the address for all of the
bills. A week later, they received collection notices and 15 return to
sender envelopes. He then narrates how he hated how they got cell phones.
He thought they would be nice to schedule things and keep in touch when
necessary. Oh, how he was wrong. His wife saw it as a personal tracking
device. Eventually he blew up (extreme close up and zoom) at his wife and
she kicked him out (widescreen shot with bags).
The next scene fades to a
voice over to where Riler works. He is a bathroom attendant at the local
hotel dining room. He emphasizes how he went out of his way to make
customers happy. He washed guest’s hands, flushed toilets for them, and
even shot them with squirt guns with soap to get people to wash their
hands. One of the guests complains to his manager and then the manager
explains that he has to fire him. He explains he was not that useful
anyway.
The narrative then shifts
gears to the other characters that he is eventually going to run into. Hank
and his brother Gilbert are at home. Gilbert is a giant nerd and Hank feels
bad for him. Hank gets one of the “easy” girls in town to come over to
enhance Gilbert’s confidence. Unfortunately all Gilbert can concentrate on
was trying to impress her with his horrible photo album, where he looks
asleep standing up in every shot. He then does a robot dance which makes it
even worse. Hank has to go to the grocery store and asks Gilbert if he
wants to come along. Gilbert says he’s out of orange soda and that he has
to go. He ditches the girl that comes over to see him and they leave to go
to grocery store.
As they pull out to leave
it fades to the voice over of Rob talking about the book store incident. He
went in to get books for school and had to spend a lot of money. Since he
was going to eat lunch after he went there, he brought his lunchbox into the
store. When leaving the store, the security guard comes up to him (which
looks like his therapist) and asks him if he paid for the lunchbox and to
open it up. Rob basically refuses and insults the security guard which
causes a big scene and got him banned from the bookstore.
The scene then fades to
the other characters going to the grocery store. Hank makes Gilbert ride in
the back seat and stay in the car. Gilbert is upset and pouting so Hank
gets him food. When Hank leaves Gilbert crawls up to the front seat and
acts like he is driving. As he pans to his left he sees a dog in the car
next to him watching him eat. Gilbert makes a face at the dog and it starts
barking like crazy. While this is going on, Hank is in the grocery store
U-scan aisle waiting to check out. He is being held up by imbeciles that
are older than time and don’t know how computers work, can’t see the screen,
a lady who forgot one thing, another lady who doesn’t understand how to scan
an avocado, and Denny who is arguing with the cashier that the store should
know that tomato is a fruit. While he is in line, rack focus and audio
editing will seamlessly transition from the people cashing out and Hank
getting impatient in line. Gilbert is now getting out of the car and
getting the dog all riled up. He is now eating it in the dogs face. Denny
enters the scene and sees someone making his dog go crazy. He yells at
Gilbert in the parking lot and threatens to hurt him. When Denny is about
to get in his car, he notices the dog urinated all over the car and is about
to hit Gilbert when Hank is coming back. He stops the fight and offers
Denny a drink.
The scene goes back to
the therapist office and he concludes that Rob has an anger problem because
he doesn’t do anything about his problems. Rob tells him that he doesn’t
see a diploma on the wall. The therapist then confides that he is not a
real psychologist. Rob is infuriated, but the “psychologist” cools him down
with his great idea- make revenge at the hotel. Since he was going to meet
Denny up at the hotel to eat, the psychologist comes along.
Denny, Hank, and Gilbert
show up and they get a table with Rob and the therapist. They talk about
get rich quick ideas, such as copyrighting the word “the” and becoming a
rapper. Denny suddenly gets neurotic about how long his food is taking and
then walks directly in the kitchen and causes a huge scene. Rob brings up
his problem with the place and they all shift their thoughts to all
revenging the hotel dining room together. Gilbert realizes he brought his
hamster and lets it go. The camera follows it around as people are
screaming. Hank just walks around screaming in the restaurant. Rob turns
off the whole computer system. The therapist takes all the crayons away
from the children to make them cry. The whole restaurant turns into chaos.
Rob then confides in a voice over how much better he feels, as a “closed for
awhile” on the dining room fades to black.
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