BEGINNERS
Written by
Mike Mills
INT. HAL FIELDS HOME.
A single daisy stands in a vase in an empty kitchen.INT. HAL'S BEDROOM
OLIVER FIELDS clicks on the light to the closet. He looks at
the rack of his parents' clothes.
He begins to put some in a box marked "home", some in a box
marked "thrift".INT. HAL'S BATHROOM
Oliver enters the bathroom and flushes bottle after bottle of
pills and liquids down the toilet. Next he struggles as he
looks over the old toothbrush, hairbrush, all the bottles and
tubes besides the sink. He stares for a beat, then throws
them all away.INT/EXT. HAL'S TRASH AREA
Oliver hauls trash outside, adding it to a very large pile of
bags. An older Jack Russell Terrier, ARTHUR, follows him.INT. HAL'S OFFICE