[Movie Script]Broadcast News

Broadcast News by James L. Brooks.

	FADE IN



	EXT. CITY STREET - DAY



A restaurant supply truck is curbside, near a small

restaurant.  GERALD GRUNICK, forty-one, is closing the back

door of his truck, feeling good about the world, a common

state for him.  He moves towards the cab of the truck and gets

inside as we SUPER:
		KANSAS CITY, MO. - 1963



	INT. TRUCK - DAY



As he sits down beaming over his recent good fortune... now we

REVEAL his twelve-year-old son, TOM, seated quietly beside him.

He seems a bit down.  Gerald glances at his son.
				GERALD

		I don't know a recent Saturday I've

sold more.  You didn't think I'd

sell that health restaurant, did you?
				TOM

		No.  Not even you.
				GERALD

		Why so glum?
				TOM

		I don't know.
				GERALD


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