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INT. COMMAND TENT. DAY
INT. LATE AFTERNOON. WINNARDS FARM - KITCHEN [FRL]: leads [EX14] to the kitchen. The hall has been stripped. [FRL]: Would you like a beer? [EX14]: Yep. Maureen Tucker. [FRL]: Who? [FRL] opens the fridge. [EX14] is inches away. He still hasn't kissed her and he's just about to. [EX14]: Moe Tucker, with the Velvets. Fiv...
INT. DRESS DEPARTMENT [EX4]: All right, we got your shoes. [FRL]: What do you think? [EX4]: Uh... good. [FRL]: Zip me up? [FRL]: Shoes? [EX4]: Right. [EX4]: puts the shoes down and [FRL] steps into them. [FRL]: They're tight. [EX4]: They're nines. [EX4]: You can buy new ones tomorrow. [EX4]: Don't worry. We'll take i...
INT. BANK.
INT. BATHROOM [EX4]: You recognized me. [MRL]: Just a lucky guess. [EX4]: So what do you think? [MRL]: Very realistic. [MRL]: looks in the mirror. [MRL]: Yeah.
EXT OUTDOOR MARKET - LATER
68 EXT. FOREST - DAY [FRL] stands amid the trees, waiting. Then the SOUNDS OF THE FOREST abruptly drop out. A predator is near. [MRL] appears behind her. She doesn't turn around. A beat. [FRL]: You're impossibly fast. And strong. Your skin is pale-white, ice-cold. Your eyes change color. And sometimes you speak like.....
INT. [EX13] AND [EX14]'S CONSERVATORY - NIGHT [EX14]: What do you think of the guinea fowl? [FRL]: I'm a vegetarian. [EX14]: Oh God.
INT. [MRL]'S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM [MRL]: opens the front door to [FRL]. [MRL]: Hey. She's a bit tentative, but she's here and happy. [FRL]: Hey. [MRL]: Come in, come in. [EX28] runs up and [FRL] bends down to greet him. They missed each other. [FRL] walks in and [MRL] follows. [FRL]: The living room. She heads to the d...
[EX55]: [EX54]'S OFFICE - DAY [EX54]: is walking on a treadmill while [EX3] stands by.
EXT. PORTOBELLO ROAD - DAY [MRL]: There's the market on weekdays, selling every fruit and vegetable known to man...
INT. [FRL]'S BEDROOM - NIGHT [EX9]: falling asleep. [FRL]: lying in bed, with her eyes open.
EXT. LAKE MICHIGAN WATERFRONT - MOS - THE PAST [MRL]: [EX17] and I didn't match. Marco and [EX17] matched. Me and [EX16], number four on the all time break- ups list, matched. She wore more or less the same clothes as mine, had an acceptable working knowledge of music, and she had been dumped by some asshole named Mic...
EXT. DAY. BACK OF WINNARDS. [MRL]: takes a key from under a flower pot.
INT. SCHOOL AUDITORIUM - TUESDAY EVENING [MRL]: opens a side door, peers in at the Drama Club. [MRL]: reacts -- this girl actually chooses to be in these places? Ms. Garber looks up from her papers. [MRL]: What's the play? [EX6]: The-the-there's this drought an' -- and a smooth t-t-alking guy comes and says he can m-m...
INT. [MRL]'S OFFICE - EARLY EVENING [MRL]: walks through the reception area. The office is almost empty except for him and the receptionist, [EX3]. [MRL] begins to scan each letter through a scanner on the front desk, then puts them in the outgoing mailbox. [EX3]: is sitting at a desk across the room, reading handwrit...
EXT. GYM - NIGHT [EX13]: Told you guys. Pay up. [EX15]: I thought she was going to take her clothes off.
EXT. PAXTON GUESTHOUSE - DAY [EX11]: I haven't told your mother about any of this, and I don't plan to. I was really beginning to like you. Sorry about this. [EX11] opens the door and goes inside. [MRL]: What did you do? [EX11] doesn't answer. He's not proud of himself. [MRL] What did you do, dad?! [EX11]: I called hi...
INT. [EX1]'S BUNGALOW - DAY [EX1]: At Yale, I'd dreamed of being a writer. [EX1]: But I gave all that up.
INT. KENWOOD HOUSE. CORRIDORS/STUDIO. DAY. 7 36 * [MRL] moves through corridors - hat under his arm. [EX6] emerges from the studio, drawing his attention to... Through a half open doorway, his POV: [FRL] sits on stool before [EX14]. The sight draws [MRL] to a halt. He attempts to move off - but cant! He observes [FRL] ...
INT. MCCALL HOUSE - [MRL]'S ROOM - CONTINUOUS [MRL]: lies in bed, staring at the ceiling, as his parents continue to have it out.
INT. PARSONAGE ATTIC - MINUTE LATER [FRL]: opens a closet door. Pulls out a dress, a scarf, jewelry, a worn book -- her mother's belongings. She opens the book and starts to weep. Missing her mother.
INT. ABORTION CLINIC - DAY - 6 YEARS EARLIER [EX12]: You can put your clothes on the chair. [FRL]: does. [EX12]: How are you doing? [FRL]: Okay... [EX12]: I'm going to have you lie up here, and put your feet in the stirrups. [FRL]: gets on the table, looks over at a tray of instruments. The [EX12] pulls a mask up over...
INT. HELL'S KITCHEN WALK-UP FOYER -- NIGHT
INT. [EX17]'S APARTMENT - NIGHT [FRL]: I don't believe this. [EX17]: You want me to deal with him? [FRL]: No way. I may choke in front of [MRL], but Richard Reynolds I can handle. [FRL]: Hello? [MRL]: [FRL]? [FRL]: Are you learning-impaired?! [FRL]: What? [MRL]: Hang up the phone. Then dial 456- When you get the White...
EXT. RANCH HOUSE - DAY [FRL]: What's the matter, honey? Gonna miss Pilgrim? [EX2]: [MRL]'s gone. [EX2]: [EX17] told me he left last night to look at some horses in Sheriden. He won't be back for three days. I can't believe he didn't want to say goodbye. [FRL]: Well... honey... you know... that's just not his way. Mayb...
EXT. SUBURBAN PARK - DUSK - [MRL]: Which brings us to number one. Alison Ashworth. [MRL]: My relationship with Alison Ashworth lasted six hours. [MRL]: The two hours after school and before The Rockford Files, three days in a row. On the fourth afternoon. [MRL]: Kevin Bannister. [MRL]: It would be nice to think that s...
EXT. STREET - DUSK - 6 YEARS EARLIER
INT. PLANE - DAY
EXT. CORNER STORE - NIGHT [FRL]: lays on the hood of her Previa, contemplating her future. We push in close... when she gets an idea.
INT. CREEK HOUSE - DAY [FRL]: HAS UNPACKED HER COMPUTER AND HOOKED IT UP, SHOWING [MRL] HOW TO USE IT. HE PUSHES THE THRONG BUTTON AND MAKES A FRIGHTENED FACE... [FRL] SCREAMS, THEN LAUGHS AND HUGS HIM.
INT. HOTEL CORRIDOR - DAY [FRL]: Forget your tie, handsome ... [EX4]! [EX4]: You want to tell me what the hell's going on? [FRL]: Huh? [EX4]: I just saw a man walk out of your room. [FRL]: Uh ... [EX4]: In case you've forgotten, we're being paid to be here. So it might be nice if you conducted yourself with a certain...
EXT. BUILDING - CONTINUOUS ACTION
[MRL]: Why don't you stop judging people? You judge everybody. You're the one who has a messed up marriage. [EX7]: I'm just looking out for you, I'm just looking out for you. She's unstable. [EX7]: Nothing's wrong! [MRL]: You should have seen when I was at his house. It's like a circus over there.
INT. BUCHANAN MANSION - HALL OF CHAMPIONS - LATE AFTERNOON [EX3]: leads [EX1] down a grand hall lined with the trophies that chronicle [EX3]'s infinite sporting achievements. [EX3]: First team, all-American! [EX3]: admires his own achievements. [EX3]: You see? Made me who I am today. [EX3]: pulls his favorite trophy f...
EXT./INT. STREET/BAR - LATER - DUSK [FRL]: This guy never stops.
EXT. BEACH - AFTERNOON [FRL]: I'm trying to write a piece of music that's about what it feels like to be on the beach with you right now. [MRL]: I think you captured it. [MRL]: listens to the music and drifts off to sleep.
INT. BEDROOM WINDOW � HATCH HOME � NIGHT [FRL]: is looking out the window, watching [MRL] walk back and forth. [FRL]: What are you doing, picketing? [MRL]: How's that? [FRL]: Have you made up your mind? [MRL]: About what? [FRL]: About coming in. Your mother just phoned and said you were on your way over to pay me a vi...
EXT. A ROAD ON THE MOORS - NIGHT - [MRL] AND [EX2] [MRL]: That was weird. I guess leaving was the best idea. [EX2]: I don't know. Now that we're out here and it's three degrees, I'm not so sure I wouldn't rather face a blood- thirsty mob. [EX2]: What do you think was wrong? [MRL]: I have no idea. [EX2]: Maybe that ...
EXT. [MRL]'S CASTLE - WHARF - NIGHT [EX1]: stumbles along the dock; the rain falling steadily now. [EX1]: The moon rose higher... And as I stood there, brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of [MRL]'s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of [FRL]'s dock. [EX1]: looks to the end of the doc...
EXT. HOLLYWOOD HILLS - NIGHT
INT. [MRL]'S CAR - MORNING [MRL]: wakes up in his filthy car the next morning to a text from [EX24]: "Please come right away".
INT. SMI OFFICE -- DAY
INT. HOTEL BALLROOM
INT. CRENSHAW GYM - NIGHT [FRL]: dribbles down court, bouncing with confidence as her opponent plays her tight. [FRL]: zips a no-look pass to a teammate, who lays it up. [MRL] punches one of his friends - "Oh shit!" She is having the game of her life. [EX10]: Reaching in, number thirty-two. One-and- one. [FRL]: No! [F...
EXT. DOUBLE DIVIDE - DAY [MRL]: Where did you get Pilgrim from? [EX2]: We bought him in Kentucky. My mother and I took a trip down there to see him. [MRL]: That must have been pretty special. [EX2]: nods. It is a pleasant memory. He motions for her to be quiet. An old ELK with a prodigious rack of antlers, has come do...
EXT. CLUB - NIGHT [FRL]: Where I've never been kissed. [EX10]: Are you in danger there? [FRL]: Go away. [EX10]: I was talking to him, Pogo. [MRL]: No thanks, [EX10]. Everything's code four. Go away. [FRL]: laughs aloud and walks to the police car, her joy overwhelming any embarrassment. She gestures behind them at the...
EXT. HOME - STREET - NIGHT [FRL]: rushes out of the house with her shoes in her hand. [MRL] chases after her in his bare feet. [MRL]: Hey... hold up! [FRL]: Why didn't you tell me? [FRL]: My God... what is she doing? [MRL]: Why is it okay for you to sneak around with me, but it's not all right for [EX9] to sneak arou...
INT. HOTEL RESTAURANT - DAY [FRL]: looks at another table by the elaborate buffet and sees the redhead [EX25] having breakfast with the rest of Sausalito. [FRL]: Hey look, it's Sausalito. [MRL]: I see them every morning.
INT. CAR - NIGHT [FRL]: But can't you see... I love you, Antoine. [MRL]: Don't call me Antoine. My name is Wally. [MRL]: They found us before. The plan didn't work. I don't know what to do now. [FRL]: Hide me somewhere deeper? Somewhere buried? [MRL]: grabs her. They run off just as the scene decays into a husk behind...
EXT. EWEDOWN. THE STREET NEAR THE BUS STOP. [EX7]: is walking up the road from the station in her high heels, carrying an overnight bag. She is weeping into her phone. [EX7]: Why not? You keep saying you want to be with me. [EX5] and [EX2] are all ears. [EX6]: I can't tell her just like that. It's twenty five years; a...
INT. [EX1]'S BUNGALOW - HALL - CONTINUOUS [EX1]: opens the door. [EX1]: What are you doing?
EXT. RANCH HOUSE - DAY [EX18]: is being introduced to [EX3], as [EX2] hugs him from the side, never letting go of him. [EX15], [EX16] -- who introduce their kids, then [MRL] and [EX3] shake hands... [FRL]: This is Mr. , [EX3]. [MRL]: [MRL]. [EX3]: Hi. It's a pleasure. I'm very grateful for the way you took in my girls...
[EX2]: Mrs. Chapil. State flower of Virginia. [MRL]: AT HIS DESK [EX2]: The dogwood, sir. [MRL]: Thank you. It's the dogwood. What? Hold on please. [EX2], the dogwood is a tree, not a flower. [EX6]: It's a tree and a flower. [EX2]: Are you sure? [EX6]: Yes. What's going on? [MRL]: The dogwood is both a tree and a flowe...
EXT. CAFE. DAY [EX7]: So what would you like to have? [MRL]: What are you having? [FRL]: You order. I'll have what you have. [MRL]: starts giving the order. Next to them are a group of BOY SCOUTS, who are laughing among themselves. [EX8]: There's sausages, sausages or sausages. Give it to me, come on, give it here. Le...
INT. BROOKLYN KITCHEN -- SAME [EX9]: wipes down the table which is littered with bits of apple. [EX9]: You know, in my day, you bobbed for the apple, and, sure, maybe there was a nickel inside it and that was sweet -- but you ate the god damn apple! These little animals grab the coin and they're out the door! [FRL]: -...
EXT. COMMERCIAL SET/TAYLOR CHEVROLET/ARIZONA -- DAY [EX15]: The sponsor wants a camel -- [EX21]: waves his arms, spooking the camel, who spits and stormps. Several crew members scatter in various directions. [MRL]: Airight. Enough. I'm pulling him out of this. This isn't what I had in mind anyway. [EX15]: Then you sho...
INT. [EX6]'S RESTAURANT - DAY [EX1]: finishing a plate of eggs, bacon and sausage with his plastic knife and fork. [EX6] looks totally beat as she sets down a cup of coffee. [EX1] is craning periodically to keep an eye of his dog. [EX6]: So what are you doing with a dog? [EX1]: Suckered in. Set up. Pushed around. [EX6...
INT. [EX3]'S BEDROOM IN INDIA - A NIGHT REMEMBERED
EXT. MAIN STREET BEDFORD FALLS � NIGHT [MRL]: sees that the "POTTERSVILLE" sign is now replaced by the original "YOU ARE NOW IN BEDFORD FALLS" sign. [MRL]: Merry Christmas! [EX57]: Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas, [MRL]!
INT. LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT [FRL]: enters to find [EX28] watching t.v. The house is now quiet, the remains of the Divorced Women's group is still in evidence. [FRL]: He's asleep, right? [FRL]: Still going. [EX28]: raises his eyebrows. [FRL]: Shhh.
EXT. CENTENNIAL LANE - CONTINUED [FRL]: This is the most magnificent discarded living room set I've ever seen. [FRL]: marching down various street, pumping her arms like a jogger and chugging intermittently from the huge carton of juice. We watch her breathlessly navigate suburbia, clearly on a mission.
INT. ROMANTASUITES - MOON ROOM - NIGHT - PRESENT DAY [MRL]: We have neighbors. [FRL]: Grump. Grump. [FRL]: Why don't you put some music on [MRL]? [MRL]: Thanks. [MRL]: Coming!
INT. BLOOMSBURY SQUARE. BREAKFAST ROOM. DAY.15 71 * Informal breakfast. [EX3] approaches in a bustle of importance and sits. [EX4] and [EX2] exchange tense glances. [FRL] considers whether to speak, then... [FRL] Papaa. He looks up. [FRL] is sincere. [FRL] Thank you. [EX3] nods. Tension is relieved. [EX4] We are to mak...
INT. BROWNSTONE LIVING ROOM -- AFTERNOON [MRL]: sits across from [EX10] who strokes [EX11]'s back as she weeps -- [EX11]: It just didn't seem real and now that it is, I hate it! It's so unfair! [EX13]: Fare is what you pay on the train to Jersey. Fair is the place that smells like manure where, if you're real lucky, y...
INT HOTEL ROOM - SAME Where [FRL] excitedly paces through the room. [EX1]: I really don't get that shirt. [FRL] wears a screen print t-shirt of Magritte's "Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe." [FRL] [EX23] will get it. Trust me. There are like fifty Magritte references in "Imperial Affliction." [FRL]: Exactly. [EX1]: But it is a...
EXT. [EX1]'S BUNGALOW - LATE AFTERNOON [EX1]: She lived across the bay...
INT. [MRL]'S APARTMENT. EVE [MRL]: gets out a tape machine.
EXT. THE WOODS - DAY [FRL]: I was more afraid of the hole in my chest than I was of bears. Without [EX6], I needed [MRL] more than ever... [FRL]: tries a trail; it doesn't look familiar. Backtracks. Tries another. [FRL]: ... I needed to know he existed. There was only one place I might find him, or the feeling of him....
INT. [EX]'S CLASSROOM - MORNING [EX9]: Thank you for such a great year. I had a blast. I hope you did, too. And I hope you have a great time this summer on your vacations. Now, who here is going to be reading for pleasure this summer? [MRL]: looks to see if anyone is watching... then, decides to raise his hand anyway....
EXT. RUNWAY - NIGHT
EXT. MANHATTAN STREET - A LITTLE LATER [MRL]'s walking down the nearly empty street, snow falling down on him, a bounce in his step, looking at the windows of the closed shops along the way. He gets to the end of the block spots the Wong Brothers' 24 Hour Deli across the street... He heads toward it...
INT. EVENING. STONEFIELD - DOWNSTAIRS. [EX3]: But I'm ready. Come on. She's on her way to join him. [EX6]: Is that - I mean - are you wearing that? [EX3]: Oh. [EX6]: Just looks a bit... hot. Now [EX3] knows she is right. She takes her jacket off, gutted. [EX6]: You know, Haddition's always packed with pissed Londonite...
EXT. ANOTHER ROAD, MID-WEST - DAY
INT. SEATTLE RESTAURANT - DAY [EX25]: When's the latest time you were out there? [MRL]: Seventy... eight. [EX25]: Well. Things are different. First, you have to be friends. You have to like each other. Then you neck. This can go on for years. Then you have tests. Then you get to do it with a condom. The good news is,...
INT. HOTEL HALLWAY - MORNING [MRL]: It's open.
EXT. CAR.
INT. [MRL]'S APARTMENT [MRL]: Take it easy, will ya? You're becoming a regular Johhny Appleseed the way you're dropping teeth around here. [MRL]: hangs his tie on the phone booth and walks over to an old phonograph stacked six deep with discs. He lifts the records back up the post and clicks ON the MACHINE. As Bill E...
COURTYARD - DAY
INT. [EX6]'S OFFICE [EX4]: Born and bred. [EX6]: Lucky for you. Well, there you go, guys. Don't spend it all in one place. Oh ... you want to count it, [MRL]? [EX4]: We trust you, [EX6]. You know that. [EX4]: takes the envelope and begins to leave. [EX4]: glances at [MRL], giving it to him. [MRL]'s eyes go cold. [MRL...
INT. KITCHEN - DAY [MRL]: enters the kitchen. His parents, [EX19] and [EX18] look up expectantly, as if about to meet their new daughter-in- law. [EX18]: Oh. It's just you. [MRL]: She's taking a nap. [EX19]: A nap? Now? She just got here. [EX19]: How can I be judgemental? We haven't even met her yet. [EX19]: What the ...
INT. [EX21] LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT
INT/EXT. PERIERA HOME - CONTINUOUS
INT. MAGUMBA BAR - NIGHT [MRL]: is seated at bar in a smoke-filled room. An assortment of unsavory characters are hanging around the bar. [MRL]: I was in the Air Force, stationed in Drambuie, on the Barbary Coast. I used to hang out in the Magumba Bar. [MRL]: It was a rough place. You would count on a fight breaking o...
[EX8]: I looked for you back at the party, but you always seemed to be "occupied". [EX3]: I was? [EX8]: You never wanted to go out with 'me, did you? [EX3]: bites her lip. [EX3]: Well, no... [EX8]: Then that's all you had to say. [EX3]: But [EX8]: You always been this selfish? [EX3]: thinks a minute [EX8]: Just because...
INT. BROWNSTONE KITCHEN -- SAME
INT. APARTMENT BUILDING HALLWAY - NIGHT [EX10]: [FRL]. [FRL]: turns some "tough" on him. [EX10]: Rent. You're late. [FRL]: Don't give me that. [EX16] gave it to you yesterday, cash. [EX10]: [EX16] give me nothin'. [FRL]: You bullshittin' me? [EX10]: Of rent I do not bullshit. [FRL]: hurries at a run back down the hall...
EXT. PIONEER BAR - DAY [EX8]: Work it [EX15]! [EX14]: Is that a salmon down your pants? The room laughs as [EX15] works his crotch millimeters away from [FRL]'s face. [FRL] remains straight faced. [FRL]: Definitely not a salmon. The women encourage [EX15] on as he moves [FRL]'s hands to his wiggling ass and gives her ...
EXT. CENTRAL PARK WEST -- DAY [FRL]: And I honestly think I have a right not to tell you. [MRL]: You're being unreasonable. [FRL]: You're being nosy.
EXT. LATE AFTERNOON. WINNARDS FARM.
EXT. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE DOOR - NIGHT CLOSE SHOT [EX21] [EX21]: What's the idea of locking this?
INT. PHILADELPHIA PRESS BOX -- DAY
EXT. DAY. EWEDOWN . [EX6]: drives through a huge puddle in his 4X4, splashing [EX2]. He roars on, oblivious. [EX2]: Right. Wanker.
INT. KITCHEN � NIGHT [MRL]: Excuse you for what? [EX45]: I burped! [FRL]: All right, darling, you're excused. Now go upstairs and see what little [EX46] wants. [MRL]: [EX46]! What's the matter with [EX46]? [MRL]: What is it, a sore throat or what? [FRL]: Just a cold. The doctor says it's nothing serious. [MRL]: The do...
INT. ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL -- NIGHT
EXT. EQUESTRIAN CENTER - ANOTHER ANGLE - LATE AFTERNOON [MRL]: I'm sure that's true for some of them. [FRL]: I thought I was the pro. These women make me feel like an amateur. [MRL]: Ready to stomp sod?
INT. HALLWAY [MRL]'S HOUSE � NIGHT [MRL]: [FRL]! [FRL]! [EX45]! [EX43]! [EX44]! [EX46]! Where are you? [EX51]: suddenly appears leaning against a wall. [EX51]: They're not here, [MRL]. You have no children. [MRL]: Where are you? What have you done with them?
INT. HOUSE - DAY [EX2]: "Undulating with desire, Adrienne removes her crimson cape, revealing her creamy --" [EX18]: In the microwave. [EX17]: Make anyone cry today? [EX3]: walks in. [EX2]: Where've you been? [EX3]: Nowhere... Hi, Daddy. [EX17]: kisses [EX3] back as [EX2] heads up the stairs [EX2]: How touching. [EX...
INT. [EX21] KITCHEN/HOUSE -- DAY [EX20]: "How am I doing?" I'll tell you. I'm sweatin, dude! That's how I'm "doin." I'm sweatin my contract. I'm sweatin' Bob [EX16] calling and telling me I'm blowing the big endorsements if I stay with you. I'm sweatin'. You hear what I'm saying? [MRL]: I hear what you're saying... [E...
EXT. STORE. AT THE EDGE OF TOWN. DAY. [MRL]: [MRL] Barrow.