Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
Life is a Comedy, Crime film released in 1999.
12 subtitle releases available in English. 6 releases include Hearing Impaired (HI) subtitles.
Movie Dialogue Sample
Get to work!
495
00:34:36,534 --> 00:34:39,287
Either one of you new fellas
know how to read?
496
00:34:39,454 --> 00:34:40,967
I know how to read. Why?
497
00:34:41,054 --> 00:34:43,249
I've been carrying this letter
for four months.
498
00:34:43,334 --> 00:34:45,245
You mean none of y'all can read?
499
00:34:45,334 --> 00:34:48,690
Last fella that could read
made parole around Christmas.
500
00:34:49,654 --> 00:34:51,963
I don't even know who this come from.
501
00:34:52,614 --> 00:34:54,013
Give me this.
502
00:34:54,774 --> 00:34:56,207
You can't read?
503
00:34:57,734 --> 00:35:00,123
Almost 60 years old,
motherfucker can't read.
504
00:35:01,214 --> 00:35:03,728
It's from your mama's neighbor,
Mrs. Tadwell.
505
00:35:03,814 --> 00:35:04,883
You know who?
506
00:35:04,974 --> 00:35:07,886
She thought you ought to know
your second cousin, Bo, died.
507
00:35:07,974 --> 00:35:12,411
Bo died. And your cousin,
Sally, on your daddy's side, she died.
508
00:35:13,454 --> 00:35:16,252
-And apparently your sister died too.
-Jenny?
509
00:35:16,574 --> 00:35:18,963
No, it say Marleen here. Marleen died.
510
00:35:19,054 --> 00:35:21,488
Oh, no. Jenny died too.
511
00:35:21,654 --> 00:35:23,531
Jenny and Marleen both dead.
512
00:35:23,614 --> 00:35:28,165
It goes on for a while about how the crop
didn't come in on account of the frost.
513
00:35:29,534 --> 00:35:32,731
She ends saying there was a big tornado...
514
00:35:32,814 --> 00:35:35,374
...in which your mama and daddy
were both killed.
515
00:35:35,614 --> 00:35:38,287
Don't worry,
'cause she gonna take care of the dog.
516
00:35:38,374 --> 00:35:41,446
That is, if he gets over the worms.
Dog had worms.
517
00:35:42,494 --> 00:35:45,850
-Appreciate it.
-Yeah, you know, anytime I can help out.
518
00:35:47,454 --> 00:35:50,048
Anybody else got something
they want read?
519
00:35:50,694 --> 00:35:52,127
Can't blame y'all.
520
00:35:57,254 --> 00:35:59,484
-How ya doin'?
-I'm fine, thanks.
521
00:35:59,974 --> 00:36:01,646
Good. First time in?
522
00:36:03,654 --> 00:36:04,882
Nah, not at all.
523
00:36:04,974 --> 00:36:07,693
I've been in and out of prison, mostly in.
524
00:36:09,134 --> 00:36:11,694
So you won't have no problem adjusting?
525
00:36:12,374 --> 00:36:14,490
Shouldn't have a problem, no.
526
00:36:14,614 --> 00:36:16,491
If you need anything...
527
00:36:17,134 --> 00:36:19,602
...of any kind, give me a holler.
528
00:36:20,414 --> 00:36:22,723
My name's Jangle Leg.
529
00:36:23,254 --> 00:36:26,803
-I appreciate it. Jangle Leg?
-Jangle Leg, Jangle Leg.
530
00:36:27,414 --> 00:36:29,803
-I'm Claude.
-Claude.
531
00:36:30,454 --> 00:36:33,014
Your hand nice and supple, like a lady.
532
00:36:35,494 --> 00:36:39,726
Jangle Leg! What the hell I tell you
about pitchin' woo on the job, boy?
533
00:36:43,614 --> 00:36:44,683
Sorry, Cap'n.
534
00:36:44,774 --> 00:36:48,608
Story time is over.
All you sissies get back to work right now.
535
00:36:55,454 --> 00:36:57,843
-He made a pass at me.
-Yeah, I see.
536
00:36:59,014 --> 00:37:01,733
Why do you think they call him Jangle Leg?
537
00:37:01,974 --> 00:37:04,204
You're gonna find out before me.
538
00:37:11,054 --> 00:37:13,522
-Eyes front, mister.
-Everybody doing that.
539
00:37:18,854 --> 00:37:20,173
I'm hungry.
540
00:37:35,134 --> 00:37:38,410
-See how you get that off?
-Eat and stop aggravating people.
541
00:37:38,494 --> 00:37:40,246
I ain't aggravating nobody.
542
00:37:40,334 --> 00:37:43,451
You got nerve, scraping toast and shit,
making excess noise.
543
00:37:43,534 --> 00:37:46,844
-You're making a lotta noise there.
-The spoon, it's filthy.
544
00:37:47,454 --> 00:37:50,207
-Filthy, ain't it?
-Fuck that spoon and just eat.
545
00:37:50,774 --> 00:37:53,686
-I'm Ray Gibson, this is Claude Banks.
-Willie Long.
546
00:37:55,654 --> 00:37:58,726
-You seem sensible. Why you in here?
-It's a long story.
547
00:37:58,814 --> 00:38:01,282
At 13, he killed a son of a bitch
with a claw hammer.
548
00:38:01,374 --> 00:38:03,365
-So they say.
-A lot of people say it.
549
00:38:03,454 --> 00:38:06,844
-Wait, you been in here since you were 13?
-That's right.
550
00:38:07,174 --> 00:38:09,085
How about you? How long you been here?
551
00:38:09,174 --> 00:38:12,405
-He chopped his sister with an axe.
-She was my half-sister...
552
00:38:12,494 --> 00:38:15,531
...so I cut her ass in half,
but I didn't poison my ma and pa.
553
00:38:15,614 --> 00:38:18,253
-Now tell that. Tell that.
-They deserved it, Radio.
554
00:38:18,334 --> 00:38:21,406
What you talkin' about?
You skinned your landlady alive...
555
00:38:21,494 --> 00:38:23,564
...and made a jacket out of her.
556
00:38:23,654 --> 00:38:25,804
Well, at least he didn't kill Santa Claus.
557
00:38:25,894 --> 00:38:27,725
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