Pound of Flesh
2011 · 97 MIN · IMDB 3.2 · 331 VOTES · DIR. Tamar Simon Hoffs
Overview
Noah Melville, a popular college professor and confirmed sensualist, provides scholarships for gorgeous college girls through an escort service, whose satisfied clients include the chairman of the school board, the chief of police, and even the mayor of their idyllic college town. When a young woman's dead body is found near the campus, the moralistic new detective in town, Patrick Kelly, investigates, leading him to the professor. Exposed, Noah must leave his devoted wife and daughter and flee the law. Kelly, for his own reasons, takes the law into his own hands to bring Noah to justice. Their deadly showdown has a surprising result.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,255 lines
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00:00:12 Sex - the world's oldest profession...
00:06:14 you may be a Detective, but I'm you're commanding officer.
00:09:19 ...why do you think Shakespeare is warning us of the dangers...
00:12:30 you don't wear shoes like that to church on Sunday.
00:15:13 Barden's Board of Directors elected me Chairman this year.
00:18:22 Well, then let's invite some of the girls to her birthday party.
00:21:46 Oh, don't worry about Dean Jean.
00:25:04 That's Dean Jean's? - No, no, no, she...
00:28:17 And you get one chance to do something with your life, one chance...
00:31:26 These were Barden girls, headed places.
00:34:48 Really? A woman, a young woman?
00:38:13 Well, as Lord Byron said, "Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure."
00:42:49 Dionesia, come to our party. It will do you good. How about it?
00:48:05 That doesn't matter now. This isn't going away, Noah.
00:52:26 You know who I like to scare, little girl?
00:57:19 You get coffee, Kelly. I want to finish this.
01:02:35 Peter Fucking Paul and...
01:06:10 Hey, you know what?
01:10:46 Unbelievable.
01:15:05 He's planning to offer Melville a deal.
01:20:31 ...to men of a certain level of je ne sais qua.
01:25:20 I fucked that girl, and how would I have known?
01:31:52 I think there's a clear difference between what we do and prostitution.
01:36:22 ...since my penitence comes after all imploring pardon."