[Movie Script]Inventing the Abbotts

INVENTING THE ABBOTTS


Screenplay by


Ken Hixon


From the Short Story by


Sue Miller


March 21, 1996 DRAFT


 FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY



                          INVENTING THE ABBOTTS




       FADE IN:




1EXT. ABBOTT HOME - STREET (HALEY, ILLINOIS) - DAY                 1

       (LATE SPRING, 1957)



OPENING CREDITS ROLL over a TENT MONTAGE -- ASSORTED

ANGLES of a group of men hard at work erecting a large

striped "big-top" style canvas tent, INCLUDING: The long

steel stakes being sledge-hammered into the lawn,

practiced hands rapidly rigging the lines, the tall

center poles being leveraged upright, the heavy rolled-up

sections of canvas being maneuvered into position, and

ENDING WITH the canvas being hoisted up the poles as the

tent assumes its full and finished form.


NEW ANGLE - TENT




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[Movie Script]Intolerable Cruelty

"INTOLERABLE CRUELTY"


Screenplay by


Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone


Ethan Coen & Joel Coen


Based on a story by


Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone


and John Romano


                                       FIRST DRAFT



                                         3/25/97







               BEVERLY HILLS STREET - NIGHT



It is late night, and deserted. Engine noise approaches;

headlights appear; as the car draws closer we hear singing.


It is a Mercedes convertible and as it roars by, the singing --

a sloppy baritone and a giggling soprano -- whooshes by with

it.


We hold as another car approaches. This one is a conservative

sedan, whose occupant does not sing.


               INSIDE THE CONVERTIBLE




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