The Key
2000 · 85 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 331 VOTES · DIR. Ebrahim Forouzesh
Overview
Calamity by four-year old might be another title for this tense, humorous drama. In the story, a four year old boy (Mohammed Aladpoush) is left at home with his baby brother while his mother goes out shopping. She has told him to give the baby his bottle while she is away. However, the boy has a different idea about what he should do, and consumes most of the bottle himself. The hungry baby's cries arouse the neighbors to try and get into the apartment, but it is locked, and the four-year old can't (or, more likely, won't) let them in. Despite a number of near-disasters, the enterprising young boy manages things just well enough (with the occasional help of shouted advice from frantic neighbors) so that serious calamities are avoided.
Dialogue Timeline — 292 lines
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00:01:04 The Key
00:02:50 Are you up, dear? I'm off to do the shopping.
00:21:05 The doors locked; I can't open it.
00:21:44 What?
00:22:52 Have you seen Mrs. Alyeh?
00:23:44 She could've left the door unlocked
00:24:47 - Do you have any change? - Yes, I think so.
00:34:33 Put the bottle in this basket.
00:40:14 Be very careful not to spill it.
00:41:38 What?
00:42:14 But the meal's burning!
00:43:02 Amir Mohammad, go into the kitchen...
00:43:49 Is that the one you turned?
00:44:28 But what did I do?
00:45:26 Tell them you're here.
00:46:04 What negligience! Where could she have gone, leaving them alone like that?
00:47:02 I haven't the foggiest.
00:47:59 there's a rubber tube. Close it.
00:49:18 or vegetables for rice?
00:50:50 It's too hard; I can't.
00:51:44 Open the kitchen window
00:52:55 I'm going to put you next to the radiator.
00:56:02 Vegetables for the stew