The Singers (2025) Movie Script
[wind whistling]
[train horn blowing in distance]
[train bell ringing]
[train horn blowing]
[train horn blaring]
[train engine chugging]
[train horn blows]
[man 1] I'll blow your motherfucking life
into fucking shambles!
- [men grunting]
- ["Take Me to the River" playing]
I wanna know, can you help me?
[old man 1 chuckles]
I'd love to stay
That thing is so fucking stupid.
Take me to the river
[old man 1 chuckles]
- [old man 2 grunts]
- [man 2] How's it going, old boy?
- Take me to the river
- [indistinct conversation]
Put me in the water
[bottles clattering]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[man 3] A little duck walks into the bar,
jumps up on the bar.
He looks at the bartender.
He says, "You got any snails?"
[old man chuckles]
He said, "Snails?"
He said,
"I don't serve snails in this bar."
[old man 1] You was running patrol?
We used to sweep the road for landmines
Yeah, we call 'em IEDs now.
- Yeah.
- Improvised explosive devices.
We lost three guys in one whack.
It was a scout truck.
They were all the way out in front,
half a kilometer in front of us.
I seen a fucking mushroom cloud
and the doors flying
[softly] tell me
[man 4] No one lived, you know.
Just vapor.
I'd love to stay
- [wood creaking]
- [man 5 exhales]
- [man 4] My buddy Rick passed away.
- [man 5 clears throat]
[raspingly] Take me to the river
Drop me in the water
[man 6 chuckles]
[man 3] He said, "You got any snails?"
He said, "Look"
- How you doing, man?
- I'm good, thanks.
"We don't sell snails here."
But he said, "I'll tell you what."
He said, "You come back again."
And he said, "I'm gonna nail
your beak to the damn bar."
1969, lost nine partners on the ambush.
And, um
- So, um
- He said, "I don't have any snails."
He said, "No? You got any nails?"
He said, "No." "Well, you got any snails?"
[old man coughing]
Spare $100 to help fight
cocaine withdrawal today?
No.
- All right.
- [indistinct conversation]
How about a beer?
[man 4] A week later,
you're a fucking animal.
No.
[man 4] Then you're expected
to go back to being a young man.
- You have a good night.
- Thanks.
[man 4] You just don't feel
like a person anymore.
And you just wanna feel
like a person again.
[old man 1] Man,
I don't wanna talk about it no more.
[sighing] Oh boy.
[man 5] How you guys doing?
[man 3] Better than you
if you don't get on down there.
I tell you what, I got a good joke.
One beer, just one drink.
I guess you like riding in that little van
that's got all them fucking lights on it.
- [old man 1] How about that snow?
- Keeps coming down. It's still cold.
Yeah, it is. [Chuckles]
- Yeah. Keep coming and coming.
- [man 3] There's always one motherfucker
What's up, man?
How you doing? Doing all right?
- I cannot help you.
- [man 7] I got results from the doctor
All right.
My blood sugar level
and glucose level is all screwed up.
I've got way high glucose, way high.
Mr. Bartender there,
you think you could spare me a beer?
I'll pay you back.
I get paid tomorrow.
Eating too much sugar, uh
is the main cause of it.
That gets your glucose level up.
Drinking sodas gets your glucose level up.
Look, man, you're always welcome here.
But you have to stop
harassing my customers.
All right, I'm sorry. I, um
Dog died today.
My car broke down.
My girlfriend made me a cuck.
- [bartender] Hmm.
- [man 7] I got a girlfriend that's gonna
What if I sing you a song?
What makes you think
I wanna hear you sing?
[man 5] I don't know.
I think I'm pretty good.
Liven the place up a little bit.
It's kinda sad in here, you know?
[man 5 chuckles softly] Huh?
See that old man down there?
The one with the, uh, tubes?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
He used to sing every Friday night.
Tear the house down.
You think think he'd buy me a beer?
If you can beat that guy,
I'll give you a six-pack.
Oh, okay.
I can out sing anybody
in this fucking place.
I promise you that. If your wife was here,
her panties would hit the floor instantly.
- Maybe even yours too.
- [bartender] Hmm.
You know what?
Give me a minute.
[man 5 coughing]
I love this place. It's really nice.
I see why you come here.
See that guy down there?
[pool balls clacking]
Know what he said?
- [old man 3 grunts]
- He said he can out sing you.
[chuckles] He probably can.
[old man 3 coughing]
Man, I miss hearing you sing.
Yeah, well
How you doing, Mike?
[bartender] I'm okay, Captain.
Day by day.
It's cold as hell out there though.
- What do you say?
- [sniffles]
Can you put him in his place for me?
- [old man 3] Oh man.
- [bartender] Tell you what.
I'm probably the only person
in this world who knows this.
But if you look closely,
in all that sea of one-dollar bills
[old man 3] Hmm.
there's one $100 bill.
- [both chuckling]
- [inspirational music playing]
I thought about taking it
for myself more than a few times.
$100.
[softly] And a free beer.
[old man 3 chuckles softly]
Everybody, this is how it's going down.
Free beer and $100
to the best singer in the bar tonight.
[man 5] Damn.
[music fades]
[twangy] Amazing grace
- [old man 1] For the love of God.
- [both] How sweet the sound
[mumbling] That saved a wretch like me
[man 5 applauds, chuckles]
Lovely. Wow. That was fantastic.
- I don't know how I'm gonna follow that.
- Oh, fuck y'all.
Ain't none of y'all down there
can sing it any better.
Give it a fucking try.
You couldn't carry
a fucking tune in a bucket.
Fucking square-headed bastards,
every damn one of you.
Yo! Can y'all please shut up?
[man 5] You know, I think my friend
over here might wanna join, huh?
No, thanks. I'm I'm good.
- Smart decision.
- [man 3] I feel bad for y'all.
[man 5] There he goes.
Ain't none of you got any guts.
None of you.
- That goes for you too, old man.
- [old man 2] Yeah.
You got one foot in the grave
and the other on a damn banana peel.
- Go ahead and laugh down there.
- [old man 2 chuckling]
[man 3] I ain't afraid of nothing.
Do you hear me talking?
I hear a fucking slab of bacon
talking shit. That's what I hear.
You be the one talk
Hell, you couldn't pour piss out of a boot
if the instruction was
on the bottom of it. You understa...
[urinating]
[man 6] In the early morning rain
[urinating stops]
With a dollar in my hand
[pants zipping]
[toilet flushing]
With an aching in my heart
And my pockets full of sand
I'm a long way from home
And I miss my loved ones so
[door opening]
[man 3 in distance] Your mouth
looks like teeth in a horse's ass.
[man 6 breathing softly]
[footsteps approach]
[urinating]
I bet you
when you go down on your old lady,
you give her
a fucking hysterectomy at the same time.
- Bucktooth bastard.
- [bartender] Yo, Muffin. Shh.
[old man 3 humming]
There is a house
Down in New Orleans
They call it the Rising Sun
- [man 5] All right. All right.
- [bartender shushing]
Aw, it's been the ruin
Of many a poor boy
And dear God knows I'm one
[man whistles]
- [lively piano playing]
- [old man 2 applauding] Yeah!
[chuckles heartily]
[piano playing continues]
The only thing
That a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time
He's ever satisfied
- Is when he's old and drunk
- [softly] When he's all drunk
[door creaks open]
[muffled] You go tell
Tell my baby brother
Don't know what I have done
[man] Whoo!
Would you shun that house
Down in New Orleans
- [man whistles]
- That they call the Rising Sun
That they call the Rising Sun
[muffled cheering, applauding]
[door creaking]
[piano flourish plays]
[old man 2] Amen, brother.
[man 3] Ain't nobody in here
can sing but that old man right there.
So just hang your fucking heads
and go on home.
["It Hurts Me Too" playing]
[man chuckling softly]
[piano playing continues]
[man applauding]
[soulfully] Said you went crazy
You've lost your mind
Now the man you love
[man 2] Whoo!
Hurts you all the time
- When things go wrong
- [old man 3 chuckles]
So wrong with you
It hurts me too
Y'all hearing this?
I'll be damned.
The little bastard can sing.
You love him more
You should love him less
- [men clapping to beat]
- I'll come up behind him
Pick up all his mess
When things go wrong
So wrong with you
It hurts me too
[piano playing continues]
[men cheering, whistling]
[man 2] Yeah!
[men chuckling]
[whistling]
[chuckling]
[piano playing continues]
You call me up
Down from El Paso
Said come back, Daddy
- [man 4 whoops]
- I need you so
- [old man 2 chuckles]
- When things go wrong
So wrong with you
It hurts me too
[music ending]
[man 2] Wow!
[men applauding]
- [man 2] Come on. His beer's on me.
- [man 7] Oh man.
I know I'm going to hell for this,
but I'm gonna say the young guy.
I can't believe I'm saying that,
because I love the old guy.
And I love the young guy.
I love them both. How can you
Give them a tie, you know.
Give them a drink, pat on the back,
and say, "You're the best."
That's what I'd do.
- [piano music playing]
- [men chuckling]
[man 7] It's just like, singing a song
is like telling a story about
Have you all got
any good titty bars around here?
[old man 2] Oh, hell yes.
We've got Illusions, Palominos.
[man 3] Would you like to go sometime?
Whoa
[piano music stops]
My, my love
My darling
I hunger for
Your touch
A long
Lonely time
[piano playing]
And time
Goes by
So slowly
And time
Can do so much
Are you
Still mine?
Mine
I need
Your love
I
I need
- Your love
- [piano fading]
Godspeed your love
To
[rattling]
To me
[train horn blowing in distance]
[bottles rattling gently]
[train horn blowing in distance]
[sniffles]
[sniffles]
[silence]
[man 8 clears throat]
[in Italian] I declaim
While taken with delirium
I do not know what I am saying
Or what I am doing
Yet it is necessary, I must force...
["Closing Time" by Leonard Cohen playing]
[in English] Ah, we're drinking
And we're dancing
And the band is really happening
And the Johnny Walker wisdom
Running high
And my very sweet companion
She's the Angel of Compassion
She's rubbing half the world
Against her thigh
And every drinker, every dancer
Lifts a happy face to thank her
The fiddler fiddles
Something so sublime
All the women tear their blouses off
And the men
They dance on the polka dots
And it's partner found
And it's partner lost
And it's hell to pay
When the fiddler stops
Closing time
Closing time
Closing time, closing time
Yeah, the women tear their blouses off
And the men
They dance on the polka dots
And it's partner found
And it's partner lost
And it's hell to pay
When the fiddler stops
It's closing time
[music fades]
[train horn blowing in distance]
[train bell ringing]
[train horn blowing]
[train horn blaring]
[train engine chugging]
[train horn blows]
[man 1] I'll blow your motherfucking life
into fucking shambles!
- [men grunting]
- ["Take Me to the River" playing]
I wanna know, can you help me?
[old man 1 chuckles]
I'd love to stay
That thing is so fucking stupid.
Take me to the river
[old man 1 chuckles]
- [old man 2 grunts]
- [man 2] How's it going, old boy?
- Take me to the river
- [indistinct conversation]
Put me in the water
[bottles clattering]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[man 3] A little duck walks into the bar,
jumps up on the bar.
He looks at the bartender.
He says, "You got any snails?"
[old man chuckles]
He said, "Snails?"
He said,
"I don't serve snails in this bar."
[old man 1] You was running patrol?
We used to sweep the road for landmines
Yeah, we call 'em IEDs now.
- Yeah.
- Improvised explosive devices.
We lost three guys in one whack.
It was a scout truck.
They were all the way out in front,
half a kilometer in front of us.
I seen a fucking mushroom cloud
and the doors flying
[softly] tell me
[man 4] No one lived, you know.
Just vapor.
I'd love to stay
- [wood creaking]
- [man 5 exhales]
- [man 4] My buddy Rick passed away.
- [man 5 clears throat]
[raspingly] Take me to the river
Drop me in the water
[man 6 chuckles]
[man 3] He said, "You got any snails?"
He said, "Look"
- How you doing, man?
- I'm good, thanks.
"We don't sell snails here."
But he said, "I'll tell you what."
He said, "You come back again."
And he said, "I'm gonna nail
your beak to the damn bar."
1969, lost nine partners on the ambush.
And, um
- So, um
- He said, "I don't have any snails."
He said, "No? You got any nails?"
He said, "No." "Well, you got any snails?"
[old man coughing]
Spare $100 to help fight
cocaine withdrawal today?
No.
- All right.
- [indistinct conversation]
How about a beer?
[man 4] A week later,
you're a fucking animal.
No.
[man 4] Then you're expected
to go back to being a young man.
- You have a good night.
- Thanks.
[man 4] You just don't feel
like a person anymore.
And you just wanna feel
like a person again.
[old man 1] Man,
I don't wanna talk about it no more.
[sighing] Oh boy.
[man 5] How you guys doing?
[man 3] Better than you
if you don't get on down there.
I tell you what, I got a good joke.
One beer, just one drink.
I guess you like riding in that little van
that's got all them fucking lights on it.
- [old man 1] How about that snow?
- Keeps coming down. It's still cold.
Yeah, it is. [Chuckles]
- Yeah. Keep coming and coming.
- [man 3] There's always one motherfucker
What's up, man?
How you doing? Doing all right?
- I cannot help you.
- [man 7] I got results from the doctor
All right.
My blood sugar level
and glucose level is all screwed up.
I've got way high glucose, way high.
Mr. Bartender there,
you think you could spare me a beer?
I'll pay you back.
I get paid tomorrow.
Eating too much sugar, uh
is the main cause of it.
That gets your glucose level up.
Drinking sodas gets your glucose level up.
Look, man, you're always welcome here.
But you have to stop
harassing my customers.
All right, I'm sorry. I, um
Dog died today.
My car broke down.
My girlfriend made me a cuck.
- [bartender] Hmm.
- [man 7] I got a girlfriend that's gonna
What if I sing you a song?
What makes you think
I wanna hear you sing?
[man 5] I don't know.
I think I'm pretty good.
Liven the place up a little bit.
It's kinda sad in here, you know?
[man 5 chuckles softly] Huh?
See that old man down there?
The one with the, uh, tubes?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
He used to sing every Friday night.
Tear the house down.
You think think he'd buy me a beer?
If you can beat that guy,
I'll give you a six-pack.
Oh, okay.
I can out sing anybody
in this fucking place.
I promise you that. If your wife was here,
her panties would hit the floor instantly.
- Maybe even yours too.
- [bartender] Hmm.
You know what?
Give me a minute.
[man 5 coughing]
I love this place. It's really nice.
I see why you come here.
See that guy down there?
[pool balls clacking]
Know what he said?
- [old man 3 grunts]
- He said he can out sing you.
[chuckles] He probably can.
[old man 3 coughing]
Man, I miss hearing you sing.
Yeah, well
How you doing, Mike?
[bartender] I'm okay, Captain.
Day by day.
It's cold as hell out there though.
- What do you say?
- [sniffles]
Can you put him in his place for me?
- [old man 3] Oh man.
- [bartender] Tell you what.
I'm probably the only person
in this world who knows this.
But if you look closely,
in all that sea of one-dollar bills
[old man 3] Hmm.
there's one $100 bill.
- [both chuckling]
- [inspirational music playing]
I thought about taking it
for myself more than a few times.
$100.
[softly] And a free beer.
[old man 3 chuckles softly]
Everybody, this is how it's going down.
Free beer and $100
to the best singer in the bar tonight.
[man 5] Damn.
[music fades]
[twangy] Amazing grace
- [old man 1] For the love of God.
- [both] How sweet the sound
[mumbling] That saved a wretch like me
[man 5 applauds, chuckles]
Lovely. Wow. That was fantastic.
- I don't know how I'm gonna follow that.
- Oh, fuck y'all.
Ain't none of y'all down there
can sing it any better.
Give it a fucking try.
You couldn't carry
a fucking tune in a bucket.
Fucking square-headed bastards,
every damn one of you.
Yo! Can y'all please shut up?
[man 5] You know, I think my friend
over here might wanna join, huh?
No, thanks. I'm I'm good.
- Smart decision.
- [man 3] I feel bad for y'all.
[man 5] There he goes.
Ain't none of you got any guts.
None of you.
- That goes for you too, old man.
- [old man 2] Yeah.
You got one foot in the grave
and the other on a damn banana peel.
- Go ahead and laugh down there.
- [old man 2 chuckling]
[man 3] I ain't afraid of nothing.
Do you hear me talking?
I hear a fucking slab of bacon
talking shit. That's what I hear.
You be the one talk
Hell, you couldn't pour piss out of a boot
if the instruction was
on the bottom of it. You understa...
[urinating]
[man 6] In the early morning rain
[urinating stops]
With a dollar in my hand
[pants zipping]
[toilet flushing]
With an aching in my heart
And my pockets full of sand
I'm a long way from home
And I miss my loved ones so
[door opening]
[man 3 in distance] Your mouth
looks like teeth in a horse's ass.
[man 6 breathing softly]
[footsteps approach]
[urinating]
I bet you
when you go down on your old lady,
you give her
a fucking hysterectomy at the same time.
- Bucktooth bastard.
- [bartender] Yo, Muffin. Shh.
[old man 3 humming]
There is a house
Down in New Orleans
They call it the Rising Sun
- [man 5] All right. All right.
- [bartender shushing]
Aw, it's been the ruin
Of many a poor boy
And dear God knows I'm one
[man whistles]
- [lively piano playing]
- [old man 2 applauding] Yeah!
[chuckles heartily]
[piano playing continues]
The only thing
That a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time
He's ever satisfied
- Is when he's old and drunk
- [softly] When he's all drunk
[door creaks open]
[muffled] You go tell
Tell my baby brother
Don't know what I have done
[man] Whoo!
Would you shun that house
Down in New Orleans
- [man whistles]
- That they call the Rising Sun
That they call the Rising Sun
[muffled cheering, applauding]
[door creaking]
[piano flourish plays]
[old man 2] Amen, brother.
[man 3] Ain't nobody in here
can sing but that old man right there.
So just hang your fucking heads
and go on home.
["It Hurts Me Too" playing]
[man chuckling softly]
[piano playing continues]
[man applauding]
[soulfully] Said you went crazy
You've lost your mind
Now the man you love
[man 2] Whoo!
Hurts you all the time
- When things go wrong
- [old man 3 chuckles]
So wrong with you
It hurts me too
Y'all hearing this?
I'll be damned.
The little bastard can sing.
You love him more
You should love him less
- [men clapping to beat]
- I'll come up behind him
Pick up all his mess
When things go wrong
So wrong with you
It hurts me too
[piano playing continues]
[men cheering, whistling]
[man 2] Yeah!
[men chuckling]
[whistling]
[chuckling]
[piano playing continues]
You call me up
Down from El Paso
Said come back, Daddy
- [man 4 whoops]
- I need you so
- [old man 2 chuckles]
- When things go wrong
So wrong with you
It hurts me too
[music ending]
[man 2] Wow!
[men applauding]
- [man 2] Come on. His beer's on me.
- [man 7] Oh man.
I know I'm going to hell for this,
but I'm gonna say the young guy.
I can't believe I'm saying that,
because I love the old guy.
And I love the young guy.
I love them both. How can you
Give them a tie, you know.
Give them a drink, pat on the back,
and say, "You're the best."
That's what I'd do.
- [piano music playing]
- [men chuckling]
[man 7] It's just like, singing a song
is like telling a story about
Have you all got
any good titty bars around here?
[old man 2] Oh, hell yes.
We've got Illusions, Palominos.
[man 3] Would you like to go sometime?
Whoa
[piano music stops]
My, my love
My darling
I hunger for
Your touch
A long
Lonely time
[piano playing]
And time
Goes by
So slowly
And time
Can do so much
Are you
Still mine?
Mine
I need
Your love
I
I need
- Your love
- [piano fading]
Godspeed your love
To
[rattling]
To me
[train horn blowing in distance]
[bottles rattling gently]
[train horn blowing in distance]
[sniffles]
[sniffles]
[silence]
[man 8 clears throat]
[in Italian] I declaim
While taken with delirium
I do not know what I am saying
Or what I am doing
Yet it is necessary, I must force...
["Closing Time" by Leonard Cohen playing]
[in English] Ah, we're drinking
And we're dancing
And the band is really happening
And the Johnny Walker wisdom
Running high
And my very sweet companion
She's the Angel of Compassion
She's rubbing half the world
Against her thigh
And every drinker, every dancer
Lifts a happy face to thank her
The fiddler fiddles
Something so sublime
All the women tear their blouses off
And the men
They dance on the polka dots
And it's partner found
And it's partner lost
And it's hell to pay
When the fiddler stops
Closing time
Closing time
Closing time, closing time
Yeah, the women tear their blouses off
And the men
They dance on the polka dots
And it's partner found
And it's partner lost
And it's hell to pay
When the fiddler stops
It's closing time
[music fades]