The King of Staten Island
The King of Staten Island is a 2020 American comedy-drama film directed by Judd Apatow, from a screenplay by Apatow, Pete Davidson, and Dave Sirus. It stars Davidson, Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr, Bel Powley, Maude Apatow, and Steve Buscemi, and follows a young man who must get his life together after his mother starts dating a new man who, like his deceased father, is a firefighter. The film was announced as Apatow's next project in early 2019, with the cast joining that April. Filming took place around New York City in June and July. The film has been called a "semi-biographical" take on the life of Davidson, whose father was a New York City firefighter who died in service during the September 11 attacks and who has had his own battles with mental illness. Originally intended to be theatrically released in the United States, the film was released digitally via Premium VOD on June 12, 2020, by Universal Pictures. It received generally positive reviews from critics.
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We get into Brooklyn. And sure-sure enough, there's cops. Like, uh, like they were waiting for us. Oh, shit. So now I'm like, "Oh, fuck. We're screwed." Stan gets off the car. He goes over to the cop. I'm thinking, "Oh, shit, he's gonna fucking clock this cop. He's gonna, you know..." And he goes right up to him, grabs his face, and he kisses him on the lips.
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They went to high school together. They went to fucking high school together. I'm like, "Only Stan could get away with that." I swear to God. Well, you know, the rumor is that he got the coke from the cops. Not that cop. There was another cop he knew in Manhattan. What? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! No. - Coke? What? No. - Guys, guys, guys. - Guys, it's his dad. - So? - I didn't know it was a secret. - It's his dad. You can't just tease me with that. - Please, guys, but... - It was... You don't understand. My mom, my mom tells me all these stories about how much he's like a saint and all that shit. Like, I-I would love to hear a coke story. - Please. - The PG-13 version. No, you don't... No, the real version. You don't understand the amount of pressure I'm under, - thinking this guy's perfect. - All right, fuck it, fuck it. All right, we were coked out of our minds. - Nice. - All right? We all were. We all... Well, I mean, uh, we were. - But that was a different time. I mean, we all did it. - Right. This guy was the cokehead. - You were the cokehead. - All right. I stopped four years ago. You know that. What are you talk... How do you think he stayed this skinny all these years? No, I have a high metabolism. They should have his face on a nickel in Bolivia.
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But playtime was playtime, all right? Like, you know, when he was at work, he was, he was all, you know, business. All right? And he was the guy you wanted by your side if-if you were going into a fire. Yeah, I mean, if they were gonna, like, build a fireman from scratch, he would've been, you know... - Prototype. - Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. You know, top to bottom... He's a fireman. You know? - You know, as brave as they come. - Yeah. You know, I was thinking about what you said at the game about, you know, like, firemen shouldn't have kids.
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Let me tell you something. You know, your dad, he didn't just die saving those two people that night. I mean, he did that a lot. You know, like, sometimes, he wouldn't even wait for the line. He'd just, he'd just go in, like, a fully involved room, and you're, like... I'm like, "What are you doing?" And because if-if he heard there was somebody in there, he'd just go in. That's the way, you know... He... That's who he was. That's how he was built, you know? He couldn't, he couldn't not be that way.
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And heroes are necessary. And they should be allowed to have families, all right? But I know it means, you know, that people suffer. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, but I'm sorry for being a dick. - There's-there's two sides to every story. - No. Thank you for sharing with me. Thanks for taking me here. - All right, we don't have to get all Oprah. - Yeah. - It's all right. - Hey, to Stan. - Yeah, Stan. - Yeah, Stan. - Stan. - Stan. - Stan.
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♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Come on, try a little ♪ ♪ Nothing is forever ♪ ♪ There's got to be something better than ♪ ♪ In the middle ♪ ♪ But me and Cinderella ♪ ♪ We put it all together ♪ ♪ We can drive it home ♪ ♪ With one headlight ♪ ♪ She said it's cold, it feels like... ♪ My head hurts. I... This-this is why I don't drink. I just, I just smoke weed.
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What? What-what? Come on, I don't have any tattoos. I'm a, I'm a blank slate, man. Put it on my back. Yeah, use it for practice. Well... well, you're just saying this 'cause you're drunk, right? You're not... - You're not actually... - Isn't everybody drunk when they get their first tattoo? Touché, Ray. Yeah. It's my back. I don't give a fuck. I'm never gonna see it. Plus, I got to tell you something, you know. I saw that drawing you did for Harold.
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I was kind of blown away by it, man. You... You're getting really good at it. I'm practicing a lot. Yeah. Like anything, you keep doing it, you get better at it. And I, you know... You know, I do want to see you do well, all right? I-I believe in you. Thanks, man. You... you must really love me. I love you, too.
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Uh, look... I would love to tattoo your back. Okay, cool. All right, but here's the deal. No unicorns. - No rainbows, all right? - Uh. None of that shit little girls like to color in. Okay. No body parts. No nudity. - Okay. - No Chinese letters. - All right. All right, fine. - I want, I... I want to be able to fucking read whatever you put back there. I don't need some o-order for orange chicken or some shit. All right. Here we go. You ready? Yep, let's do it. Let's get it over with. Yeah, I-I really appreciate this. This is... It's actually very nice. Good. All right.
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