AbstrakThis research aims at analyzing the directive speech acts which are advisivesand mandatives based on Tsui’s theories applied by the characters in a movie entitledThe Internship. The objectives of this research are: 1) to investigate the kinds ofdirectives used by the characters, 2) to describe how the characters employed thedirectives and 3) to find out the reasons why the characters employed the directives toinform his or her intention to the addressee.This research is a descriptive qualitative research. It uses pragmatic approachespecially speech acts theories in investigating the data. The source of data in thisresearch is The Internship movie. The data themselves are taken from the dialoguescontaining an advice, a warning, an instruction or a threat that are collected by usingpurposive sampling technique. The Internship movie is chosen as the source of databecause there are a number of dialogues containing directive speech acts in themovie. Therefore, a number of advices, warnings, instructions, and threats are foundin the movie.The results of this research show that there are 67 data found in the movie.They are classified into 28 advisives containing 19 advices and nine warnings, and 39mandatives containing 34 instructions and five threats. Thus, all types of the directivespeech acts are found in the movie.In this research, the researcher explores the verbal and non-verbalexpression. The verbal expression means that the speaker utters direct or indirectspeech acts, explicit or implicit statement, in high or low intonation. The non-verbalrealized through body movements or gesture.The research also shows the reasons why the characters employ directivespeech acts in certain situation. They are to know the status of the participants, toknow the relationship between the participants, to know the situation when theconversation happened, and to find out the purpose of the conversation.Based on the findings, students are expected to explore other types ofdirectives, such as prohibition or requirement. Moreover, they are expected to useother classifications of speech acts such as representatives, commisives, expressives,or declaratives in other movies. The researcher also suggests that other researcherstake other media besides movie such as novel, daily conversation or else.Keywords: pragmatics, advisives, mandatives