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EXT. ROADSIDE - DUSK - PRESENT DAY [FRL]: I gotta go. [FRL]: jogs across the road. [MRL] sees traffic coming. [MRL]: Goddamnit [FRL]!! Pay attention!!! [FRL]: ...Hello?
EXT. CENTRAL PARK -- DAY [MRL]: You know, in this day and age it's not so outrageous a request. I mean, I don't know this kid. I don't know where he's been. [FRL]: You're worried about where he's been? Give me a break!
INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT [FRL]: is drying her hands in the bar's bathroom, staring into the mirror. No smile now. We see into her mind for a second. [FRL]: There you are. [FRL]: We thought you wouldn't show. Why you sitting here? [MRL]: I don't talk to a lot of people. Would you...? [FRL]: I didn't have a chance to thank...
INT. HOUSE [MRL]: What's she talking about? [EX5]: This is where other people get to call in and dump on what you said.
EXT. [FRL] AND [EX]'S HOUSE - NIGHT [EX22]: "Merry Christmas!" "Good luck at your dad's!" "See you at New Year's!" [EX7]: approaches [MRL] in the doorway. [MRL]: Have a good time at your mom's. [EX7]: Thanks. And [MRL]... since you were born on Christmas Eve, I figure you don't get a lot of birthday presents. So, I th...
EXT. FARMER'S MARKET - LATER [FRL]: runs through the market looking for [MRL]. [FRL]: [MRL]! [EX12]: turns around and sees [FRL] running. All belly and boobs bouncing towards him. Her gown starting falling off. [EX12]: Whoa. I've had nightmares that started like this. [FRL]: [MRL]! [MRL]: turns. [MRL]: [FRL]? [FRL]: [...
57 INT. HOSPITAL - NURSES' STATION - NIGHT [EX10]: is helping Mrs. Hobbs dispense medication into paper cups when Dr. Hirsch approaches. He is still wearing his overcoat. [EX10]: is not sure how to answer. [FRL]: has walked up and overheard the last. [FRL]: It's all right, Susan. Yes, Doctor, I have.
INT. CLINIC - WAITING ROOM - DAY - PRESENT DAY [FRL]: wearing scrubs, picks up the ringing phone. [FRL]: Mediplex... You are going to need to come in... We're going to need to see him... I can't diagnose over the phone... About 20- 30 minutes... Okay? ...okay, bye... [FRL]: hangs up. She holds a clipboard. [FRL]: [EX1...
INT. BEDROOM-- NIGHT [FRL]: What is this MUSIC?
INT. LOCKER ROOM - DUSK [EX28]: Hell yeah. [EX21]: looks at [FRL], standing in her shorts and sports bra. [EX21]: Oh damn, Mon. [FRL]: What? [EX21]: I think ol' girl took out your chi-chis with that charge. [FRL]: Kiss my ass. [EX27]: I don't want to go play overseas. [EX36]: I thought you were hyped about going to Po...
EXT. SNOW COVERED FOREST - DAY
AND EXTRAS. CU on the cookie plate.
INT. TRIPLE DOOR - CONTINUOUS [MRL]: slowly walks up to the stage. He stands there silently, looking at the audience. Then, finally... [MRL]: Have you guys heard of this new drug cocktail called cheese? Like that's the name of it, it's called cheese. I saw all these news reports, and they were like, there's a new drug...
EXT. TRAIN STATION - EVENING
INT. OUTER OFFICE BLDG. AND LOAN � DAY [EX7]: listening at the door. As [MRL] is about to enter his father's office, uncle Billy grabs him by the arm. [MRL]: Got to see [EX17], [EX7]. [EX7]: Some other time, [MRL]. [MRL]: It's important. [EX7]: There's a squall in there that's shapin' up into a storm. [EX8]: [EX7]... ...
INT. [EX2] MINTZ�S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS It�s [MRL]�s old office but you wouldn�t know it from the decor...lots of country pine, a fabric sofa, and a play pen where the bar used to be. [MRL] enters, immediately struck by the difference... [EX4] [EX2], this is [MRL] ...the one I was telling you about... Mintz, a confident...
It is now WINTER. The TRACK TEAM jogs in formation, leaving tracks in the snow. Those bastards never stop running.
INT. HALLWAY - WEST WING - DAY [EX3]: He's got the whole White House Press Corps asking each other how to spell "erudite." [EX3]: I know. Gotta rewrite the State of the Union. [EX3]: goes off in one direction. A.J. heads towards the Oval Office.
[FRL]: watches [MRL] drive away, perturbed by the exchange. She forces a smile and goes to greet the visitors. [EX5] sets up [EX4]'s wheelchair and [EX4] climbs into it as - [FRL]: Come to visit your truck? [EX5]: Looks good. You got that dent out. [EX5]: shoots his father an irritated look, just as the POLICE CRUISER ...
INT. REVEREND'S OFFICE [MRL]: doesn't sit. [MRL]: I'd like to take [FRL] to dinner on New Year's Eve. [MRL]: I'm sorry I haven't always treated [FRL] the way -- I should have. She deserves better. [MRL]: I care for her. [MRL]: I wouldn't do that -- [MRL]: Ever again.
EXT. DAY. THE FIELDS . [MRL]: She's completely different. [EX1]: How was she before? What's the story?... [MRL]: There isn't one. [EX1]: Come on. [MRL]: Was nothing. Decade ago. Just a teenage thing.
INT. KENWOOD HOUSE. GROUND FLOOR CORRIDORS - DAY.7 48 * [EX6] steps from the ladies' parlour - [FRL] from the drawing room, winded with emotion. As they fall into each other's arms, weeping... [EX6] I am sorry, [FRL]. So very sorry.
INT. CLASSROOM - DAY [FRL]: sits in class. [EX2] passes a note back to her. [FRL]: She wrote me a note in first period. [FRL]: reads it. It says: Hey girlie! You wanna hang out after school today? Kisses! [EX2] [EX2]: looks back and [FRL] gives her the thumbs up.
INT. [EX14]'S CAB � DAY [EX14]: If either of you two see a stranger around here, it's me. [EX14]: reaches over and hands [MRL] a bottle of champagne done up in gift wrappings. [FRL]: Good old [EX15]. [EX14]: By the way, where are you two going on this here now honeymoon? [MRL]: Where are we going? Look at this. There'...
INT. DAY. HADDITON - THE MARQUEE. [EX6]: It all runs very smoothly. I start a book in the summer, publish it the following spring. Bit of a factory, really.
INT. LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT [EX11]: Hi. [MRL]: Hi [EX11].
INT. DISPATCH - NIGHT [EX36]: sits at the mike. An Air Controller is standing next to him, but only his mid-section is in FRAME. [EX36]: All right. It's obvious you remember me. [EX36]: So what do you say you and I just forget about everything except what we have to do now? [EX36]: You and I are going to bring this pl...
INT. CHICAGO DISPATCH - NIGHT
[EX2]: AND [MRL] WALK INTO THE ATTIC. [MRL]: I looked in here, but this is all your sewing shit up here, for your sewing and everything. Did you put it up here? [MRL]: STEPS TO AN OPEN CLOSET. [EX2]: What about in your father's study?
INT. HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS
INT. O'SHEA APARTMENT BUILDING - LOBBY - DAY [MRL]: lies sleeping on a sofa in the lobby. The [EX13] taps him awake. [MRL]: What time is it? [EX13]: Eight o'clock. You got to go. [MRL]: Did she show up? [EX13]: Nope. [MRL]: Do you mind if I check upstairs? [EX13]: I can't have you do that, nor can I have you hanging a...
INT. [FRL]'S ROOM 84 Where [FRL] is frantically pulling the chord out of the back of her radio. [MRL] fades the phone out, the music up. [MRL] Don't be too proud of your five seconds of fame. More people would hear us if we shouted out the window. [FRL] My radio days are over, I'm now deaf. [MRL] Didn't I tell you not ...
EXT. DANCING ELK SCHOOL - TRACK - MORNING [FRL]: waddles toward the field. The guys on the track team, ridiculously arrayed as usual, are doing hurdler stretches. They stare at her quizzically. [MRL] spots [FRL] approaching and jogs up to the chainlink fence. [MRL]: Did you put like a hundred things of Tic Tacs in my ...
INT/EXT. [MRL]'S CAR - LATER [MRL]: drives in the middle of the night, empty streets. [EX5]: She's still in the ER. Could you just go and sit with her? I was there for as long as I could, but it's a crazy time for all of us...
EXT. STREET - AFTERNOON [FRL]: walks down a little street in a quiet neighborhood.
INT. [MRL]'S LIVING ROOM/CORRIDOR - EVENING [MRL]: Thanks for your help on the glasses thing. [EX1]: You're welcome. Did you find them? [MRL]: Sort of.
INT. [MRL]'S BEDROOM - DUSK [MRL]: looks at the new bottle of prescription Wellbutrin. He puts a pill in his mouth and washes it down with RC cola.
EXT. SIDEWALK - EVENING [FRL]: WALKS DOWN THE STREET, ALONE. [FRL]: LOOKS OVER HER SHOULDER, TAKES OFF RUNNING. [MRL] RUNS AFTER HER. They turn a corner. He is chasing her, a reverse of their previous runs together. HE GRABS HER ARM AND SHE [MRL]: Wait a second! [MRL]: I have one more letter for you to read, okay? [MR...
RECORDING OF HIM READING HOWL FADES UP AND OVER THE NEXT
INT. [MRL]'S APARTMENT. KREUZ. DAY [EX29]: I have no-one else to ask. If you don't take responsibility for her, then [FRL] has no future at all. [MRL]: It's kind of you. Thank you for letting me know. [MRL]: puts the phone down. He looks as if he has just been handed a sentence. He gets up and stares at the wall which...
EXT. AIRPLANE - NIGHT
They exit the car and stand in the street, looking up, scanning the dark buildings -- but the sound is hard to track, a FAINT BALLAD on a skillful HORN. [FRL]: Wow. [EX1]: Got 'im? [FRL]: Look at that moon. [EX1]: Full moon, man. Hey! [EX5]: This guy's crazy! BAT-[EX14]: This asshole side-swiped me! [FRL]: Are you McG...
EXT. NOTTING HILL GARDEN - NIGHT [FRL]: What's in there? [MRL]: Gardens. [EX28] these streets round here have these mysterious communal gardens in the middle of them. They're like little villages. [FRL]: Let's go in. [MRL]: Ah no -- that's the point -- they're private villages -- only the people who live round the edg...
EXT. ROAD
EXT. STREET - DUSK [FRL]: Dungarees.
IN THE KITCHEN: We see 10-year-old [MRL] watching his mother [EX5] and father kiss quickly, politely, and then his father leaves quickly. [EX2] remains in silhouette through the shot. DIFFERENT DAY, IN [MRL]'S BEDROOM: [MRL] watches [EX2] and [EX5] kiss, and [EX2] leave - more like a performance than anything real. DIF...
EXT. STREET - DAY [EX2]: Don't tou-...
EXT. RANCH - DAY [EX2]: waits in the truck as [MRL] leads [EX3] through the cows and cowshit, climbs up and hops over a wood fence. [EX3] follows suit -- not as gracefully -- and gets a splinter...
INT. [MRL]'S LIVING ROOM - EVENING [MRL]: in a towel rushes downstairs, having just had a shower. He shoots past [EX1]. [MRL]: Bollocks. This happens every time I go to the cinema. Average day, my glasses are everywhere -- everywhere I look, glasses. But the moment I need them they disappear. It's one of life's real c...
INT. SHOWERS - DAY
INTERCUT BETWEEN [FRL] AND THE COMPUTER SCREEN
EXT. PASTURE - ANOTHER DAY
INT. STATION WAGON. NIGHT [EX8]: pans a spot-light back and forth in the darkness while he steers the car. The lamp has a short in it [EX13]: How can we help her? She's got so many problems. It's getting worse. [EX13]: looks strangely to [EX8]. He asks: [EX13]: Whose fault is it? [EX8]: I don't know, but just for the ...
INT. CAFETERIA - DAY [EX9]: You were right. She's still pissed. [EX10]: Sweet love, renew thy force! [EX9]: Man -- don't say shit like that to me. People can hear you. [EX8]: You humiliated the woman! Sacrifice yourself on the altar of dignity and even the score. [EX10]: Best case scenario, you're back on the payroll ...
INT. CARTER KITCHEN - DAWN [MRL]: quietly shuts the back door. Exhausted. Starts making coffee. [EX4] appears. [EX4]: Your father called. [EX4]: [FRL]'s a patient at his hospital. He's having a colleague look at her chart this morning. [EX4]: I'm sorry. I didn't know. [MRL]: I didn't know either.
INT. PASSENGER CABIN - ANOTHER AREA - NIGHT [EX25]: I happened to be passing, and I thought you might like some corfee. [EX26]: That's very nice of you. Thank you. [EX25]: Thank you. Cream? [EX25]: Were you vacationing in Los Angeles? [EX25]: No. I'm from Washington, D.C. I'm a lobbyist for the Small Businessmen's Ass...
EXT. MRS. PORTER'S HOUSE - DAY [EX3] sits in a lawn chair in the back yard wearing a large straw hat and reading a book. [MRL] and [EX1] are repairing and painting the fence. [EX3] looks up from her book: [EX3]: That board doesn't look straight, [EX1]. Come on, [MRL], you've been painting the same spot for the last fi...
INT. CLUB FOYER - NIGHT [EX9]: walks up to [EX22], who's frisking a badly mowhawked PIERCED EYEBROW [EX5]. [EX22] pulls a SWITCHBLADE out of the boy's inside pocket. [EX22]: Next time, leave the Bic at home, [EX23]. [EX23]: It's a bottle opener. [EX22]: pushes him inside the club, then sees [EX9]. [EX9]: Always a plea...
INT. [MRL]'S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT [FRL]: The thing that's so irritating is that now I'm so totally fierce when it comes to nudity clauses. [MRL]: You actually have clauses in your contact about nudity? [FRL]: Definitely. 'You may show the dent at the top of the artist's buttocks -- but neither cheek. In the event of a ...
20 INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - DAY [FRL]: Has the patient in twenty-one gotten his tray yet? [EX14]: The American? Yes, duck. [FRL]: How did he look? [EX14]: What do you mean, `how did he look'? [FRL]: You know, did he seem depressed? Do you think he'll eat the food? [EX14]: I'm an orderly, not a bleeding psychiatrist!...
INT. DAY. WINNARDS FARM - [FRL]'S BEDROOM. [EX2]: You are so fit I wanna shag you. Love from [EX14] pfwoor!!! [EX5] takes another swig with a wicked grin, she sits at [FRL]'s PC. We hear [EX2] knock three times on the back door.
INT. [MRL]'S BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS ...impeccably decorated and obsessively neat. Close in on the bed where [MRL] , now 35, sans mustache and long hair, opens his eyes. A FLASH of bright morning light from the window. [MRL] shields his eyes, turning his head toward the bathroom where he sees... A WOMAN'S BACK...draped in...
INT. BUCHANAN MANSION - [FRL]'S BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS
EXT. SCHOOL PARKING LOT - SAME TIME
INT. BEAUTY PARLOR - LATER [MRL]: sits with a towel over his head as [EX6] blow-dries the back of his head. His back is to the mirror, his body faces [FRL]. [EX10] does her own nails as Mrs. Pressman scratches off lottery tickets. The dog, Sprout, sits in is basket. [FRL]: In another one... [MRL]: peeks out from under...
INT. PUB - NIGHT
EXT. [FRL]'S HOUSE - DAY [FRL]: walks [EX1] to his cruiser. He wears a dark, ill- fitting funeral suit. At the car, [FRL] adjusts his tie -- [EX1]: Thanks for understanding, Bells. They wanted to keep the service small. [FRL]: Don't worry about me. Are you gonna be okay? [EX1]: Yeah... but Sue, and those kids -- Leah'...
INT. APARTMENT BUILDING HALLYWAY - CONTINUOUS [MRL]: So what did he say? [FRL]: He's checking in again to see if you're ready to sign your divorce papers and he sounded very aggravated. Do you want me to read them to you? [MRL]: seems lost in thought. We see the following images under the rest of the conversation: [MR...
INT. [EX1]'S APARTMENT - BEDROOM - NIGHT [EX2]: Where is my big hairy boy? [EX1]: is alarmed. He stops breathing as his gay houseguest approaches. [EX1]: breathes again. [EX2] enters the room. [EX2]: Should I get it? [EX1]: nods. [EX2] walks into the next room... several beats as he finds the phone. We hear him pick i...
INT. CENTRAL PARK WENT APARTMENT - NIGHT
INT. CONVENIENCE STORE - NIGHT On [MRL]...crouched down in an aisle of this local convenience store...checking out the bags of rock salt... He looks at the price tag on one of the bags... [MRL] Four ninety nine?! It�s just salt for god�s sake... On the entrance to the store...the door opens, a YOUNG GIRL, 17, enters, a...
EXT. TEXACO STATION - THAT NIGHT [MRL]: pulls the Plymouth up to the pumps. He's neatly dressed in a jacket and tie. [EX1] comes out of the office and leans in the car window. [MRL]: Fill 'er up. [EX1]: Nice tie. [MRL]: Oh -- mind if I borrow it? [EX1]: puts the nozzle in the car as [MRL] climbs out. [EX1]: I thought ...
EXT. CRONIN'S GRILL -- AFTERNOON [MRL]: Gimme a second here... [EX21]... Arizona contract... new glass cabinet... [EX16]: You okay? [MRL]: I'm fine. What's up? [EX16]: I came here to let you go. [MRL]: Pardon me? [EX16]: Came here to fire you, [MRL]. [EX16]: It's real, [MRL]. You... you should say something. [MRL]: Aw...
INT. [MRL]'S APARTMENT ELEVATOR - LATE AFTERNOON
INT BATHROOM - 1994 [EX2]: Since the disintegration of her parents' marriage, she'd only loved two things. The first was her long blonde hair. [EX2]: The second was how easily she could cut it off... And feel nothing.
31 INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - DAY [FRL]: rushing down hospital corridor.
INT CHINESE RESTAURANT - NIGHT [MRL]: Check them out. [FRL]: sees. She has no reaction. [MRL]: That is hot. [FRL]: keeps eating. [MRL]: I am very turned on right now. [FRL]: Sometimes you can be so judgmental. [MRL]: Huh? [FRL]: I mean, who are you? They're happy. Just mind your own business. [FRL]: goes back to eatin...
INT. TAXI - DAY [EX3]: Why so nervous? [MRL]: I've never done this before. [EX3]: How have you dumped girls in the past? [MRL]: Screening calls. Any suggestions? [EX3]: I knew this guy last summer in the Hamptons. He and his girlfriend at the time were madly in love with each other. But she had this huge weight proble...
INTERCUT: The phone RINGS, wakes up [MRL], he turns on the light, answers the phone. PRE-CANCER [EX2] talks excitedly. [MRL]: Hello? [EX2]: [MRL]? [MRL]: Yeah. [EX2]: I'm not sorry I woke you! I went to Akbar tonight. [MRL]: You did?
EXT. THE STADIUM PARKING LOT -- DAY [FRL]: GREETS [EX24] -- They head for her Volvo.. [EX13]: STARTS ACROSS THE LOT on foot, dragging his luggage, when [EX5] pulls up in her car. [EX13]: Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior? [EX5]: No. [EX13]: Can I give you my testimony? [EX5]: You can do anything y...
INT. FOSSIL FUEL WAR ROOM - DAY [EX41]: [FRL] , the political strategist who accompanied President [MRL] to last week's state dinner, reportedly spent the night at the White House as a guest of--
EXT. STREET - NIGHT
EXT. AIRPLANE
EXT. ICHICAN SUSHI RESTAURANT - DAY [FRL]: You can't get sushi anywhere in Japan after 2 o'clock. Did you know that?
EXT. RUNWAY - NIGHT [EX11]: The forklift? It's over there by the baggage loader.
EXT. LATE AFTERNOON. EWEDOWN - BUS SHELTER. [EX5]: They should let us in free. [EX18]: Too right. They come here, drink our water, use our fields, they leave all their crap in our drains - [FRL]'s car sweeps past with the roof down. It is closely followed by a bright yellow Porsche. [EX14] is driving and his boxer dog...
EXT. [MRL]'S TRUCK - TRAVELING
EXT. SUBURBAN HOUSE - LATE AFTERNOON
INT. CAR. DAY. [MRL]: We got $98 and you're laughin'.
EXT. WINDOW -- ESTABLISHING -- MORNING
INT. A TAXICAB [EX43]: What are you gonna do there, spit off the top? [EX5]: No. I'm gonna meet... my mother.
59 INT. DR. HIRSCH'S OFFICE - NIGHT [FRL]: sits and Dr. Hirsch leans against his desk. [FRL]: looks confused. Dr. Hirsch realizes the cause of her concern. [FRL]: At my flat. I'm off at midnight and....
EXT. [MRL]'S CASTLE - FRONT GATES - DAY [MRL]: I had the gates brought in from a castle in Normandy. [MRL]: Do you like it? [FRL]: I love it...! But how do you live here all alone? [MRL]: I don't. I keep it always full of interesting, celebrated people... [MRL]: My house looks well doesn't it? See how the whole front ...
INT. THE POOL ROOM - NIGHT [MRL]: Richard Reynolds' district office. She's thinking of running his campaign. Four in the corner. [MRL]: gets down over the ball-- [MRL]: Hartford. The insurance capital of the world. Have a good time, Syd. [MRL]: smacks the ball, BULL'S-EYE. [MRL]: You handling me, A.J.? [MRL]: Good. 14...
INT. DANCING ELK SCHOOL - CAFETERIA - DAY [FRL]: Almost eight. You wouldn't believe how weird I look naked. [EX3]: I wish my funbags would get bigger. [FRL]: Trust me, you don't. I actually have to wear a bra now. And I have to rub this nasty cocoa butter stuff all over myself or my skin could get stretched too far an...
INT. CAR - NIGHT [MRL]: in his parked car next to a fence surrounding a drive-in movie closed for the season. He weeps. The windows fog up until the outside is completely obscured.
INT. HOSPITAL - PATIENT ROOM - ANOTHER AFTERNOON [FRL]: [EX15]? [EX15]: Hi. [EX15]: comes in. [MRL] offers her the book. She takes it and keeps going from where [MRL] left off. Stumbling but reading. [FRL] grins. [FRL]: Who's been working with you? [EX15]: looks shyly at [MRL]. [FRL] shakes her head, amazed. [MRL] nod...
INT. LOBBY/ATLANTIC HOTEL - DAY [MRL]: has checked into the Atlantic Hotel. The clerk, [EX18], hands him his key. [MRL] asks about room service and the restaurant. An OLDER [EX3] asks him if he plays bridge as he goes up the stairs to his room.
INT. EQUINOX STEAM ROOM - DAY [FRL]: Tonight. [EX2]: And then we'll have to do a paternity test. Is it the cheese farmer or the red-pubed bandit? [FRL]: I'm not going to have sex with him tonight. It's too soon. I'm not a slut. [FRL]: Very funny. [EX2]: I'm not joking. [FRL]: I'm really not a slut.
INT. CAFE - DAY [MRL]: ...so we didn't have those terrible, strained sentences, that seemed to characterized most of my relationships. And she liked me. She liked me. She liked me. [EX17]: gives [MRL] a quick kiss and keeps talking...