• Out of State

  • Eric Pearson
  • 2012
  • Available
  • Black List
  • No Manager
  • Drama
  • 81.4
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Market: Mon, 17 Dec 2012
AgentDoug Maclaren (ICM)
While driving his regular interstate bus route, an emotionally fractured ex-convict finds himself acting as a father figure to a forsaken young boy from the Philadelphia ghetto, even though he knows that the boy is smuggling drugs.
A bus driver and a young drug trafficker form a bond that strengthens both their failing lives.
A precocious young black street kid and an apathetic greyhound driver with a sordid past are brought together inadvertently and come to develop an unlikely relationship that will change their lives forever.
A lonely bus driver and a young boy with similar backgrounds form an unlikely bond as they travel together on the open road.
A world weary bus driver and a desperate youth find redemption through an unlikely friendship.
A young boy, wanting to pay for his mother's overdue apartment rent, takes a Greyhound bus driven by a friendly ex-con from Philadelphia to Charleston in order to transport drugs.
Film
Film, Crime, Drama, Coming of Age, Drugs, Gangs, Road Movies, Troubled Youth, Travel, Social Commentary
102
PG-13
Low
M
Black / African
10
Average
“The Wire,” "The Corner", "Changing Lanes", "A Perfect World"
Present. A few days.
40% Philadelphia which includes apartments, a street corner and a school. 30% in Lexington, 10% Charleston (VA) and 10% Rest stops along the route between Philadeplhia and Lexington. Locations in Lexington and Charleston include bus terminals, strip clubs, motels and homes. Remaining 10% takes place in a Greyhound bus.
At a Philadelphia Greyhound bus terminal, TERRY FULKER (40s, white, bus driver, ex-con) drives his bus full of passengers to Northern Philadelphia. Just another day in the life of Terry Fulker.

Not so far away, JASPER (10, black, look-out kid) stands on a street corner with his friends CINCH (20s, "corner boss", drug dealer) and RIFT (19, Cinch's #2). There, the group sells drugs to customers. However, today the cops bust them. Jasper escapes, but Cinch and Rift are taken into custody.

The State Troopers pull Terry's bus aside for routine investigation. The passengers file out and in walks ROPINSKI (40s, hard-bitten Sergeant). Ropinski and Terry say their hellos before Terry reveals that one of his passengers is holding drugs. He identifies the drug dealer as SHAMIS (19, pretty black girl) and gets paid 200 dollars by Ropinski. Outside the bus, Ropinski searches Shamis's belongings and finds a teddy bear filled with cocaine. She is arrested. Terry has an obvious eye for drug traffickers.

Jasper returns to his small apartment home. There, he meets DESIREE (29, Jasper's mom, pothead) and falls asleep on the couch. He goes to school the next day, receiving an "A" on a test.

Terry spends some of...