CHERRY FALLS
SCREENPLAY BY KEN SELDEN
FIRST DRAFT
FEBRUARY 14, 1998
FADE IN:
EXT. TOWN - NIGHT
The hanging sign says Entering Cherry Falls, Ohio
We see Cherry Falls - A small town in rural Northeastern Ohio. This is
Norman Rockwell land, red barns on dirt roads, a square in the center of
town. But things are hidden here. The barns are locked, the shades are
drawn.
Dissolve to:
EXT. LOVERS LANE
A
Bull Durham
In baseball, you dont know nothing.
--Yogi Berra
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Whoever wants to know the heart and
mind of America had better learn
baseball.
--Jacques Barzun
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You could look it up.
--Casey Stengel
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Titles over--
FADE IN:
A series of still photos. Black and white. Ancient.
BABE RUTH SWINGS -- An icon of American history. His giant
upper body balanced delicately on tiny ankles and feet. Th
Mother Night Script
MOTHER NIGHT
"Police"
"Haifa, Israel 1961"
Do you prefer German or English?
English.
You are to write down your memoirs
for the Haifa Institute...
for the documentation
of war criminals.
You have three weeks to complete
your memoirs before your trial begins.
Do you have any questions?
No. This is great.
Thanks for everything.
"Jews, Negroes...
Mongrel"
You are the only man I k
Just Like Heaven Script
Elizabeth.
- How long was I out?
- About six minutes.
Thanks.
- OK. Ill be right there.
- OK, Ill be outside. Hey, Fran.
What are you still doin here?
- How long you been on?
- Twenty-three.
Twenty-three?
Time to go, Elizabeth.
Thats not gonna get me
an attending slot.
Adams? She needs to know
how to redress her sutures,
but then she can be discharged.
No, no. Ellis needs
1492: CONQUEST OF PARADISE
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by
Roselyne Bosch
REVISED
September 23, 1991
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FADE IN:
CREDITS AND MUSIC OVER:
INT. AUDIENCE ROOM - GRANADA - DAY
We start on a mans elegant slipper. He is seated in a
splendid chair. Moving up the stocking leg, we pass the
garter of Castile, coming to rest on a pair of delicate
hands. His fore finger impatiently plays with a large
topaz ring. Over this, we hear
The camera is moving toward an Indian city. We are high and far away, only the sound of the wind as we grow nearer and nearer, and through the passing clouds these words appear:
No mans life can be encompassed in one telling. There is no way to give each year its allotted weight, to include each event, each person who helped to shape a lifetime. What can be done is to be faithful in spirit to the
Luther Script
Help me: Dont let me die
like a dog on this road:
Dont let me die:
Ill become a monk:
Ill become a monk:
Ill give myself to God:
Ill give myself to God:
Ill give myself to You:
Ill give myself to You:
Just spare me: Spare me:
Just help me:
Your fathers here.
Hes brought
the whole family.
Hes leaving.
Father, please stay for supper:
Father:
Your first Mass,
and you crap yourself:
I h
AND REVEALS THE inside of a domed city honeycombed with fantastic arches. The city is inhabited by young beautiful people in luxurious but simple costumes.
THE CAMERA ROAMS through the City, observing some people seated at a kind of cafe sipping drinks and relaxing; other people are in some kind of exercise class doing beautiful graceful movement; and finally a class of five year old children lis
In black, we hear a chain-gang chant, many voices together, spaced around the unison strike of picks against rock. A title burns in:
O muse!
Sing in me, and through me tell the story
Of that man skilled in all the ways of contending...
A wanderer, harried for years on end...
On the sound of an impact we cut to:
A PICK
splitting a rock.
As the chant continues, wider angles show the chain-gang at w
REINDEER GAMES
by Ehren Kruger
FADE IN:
A FIGURE IN A SANTA CLAUS SUIT
lies face-down in a nighttime expanse of snow. One of the bodys
red-sleeved arms is twisted at a sickening angle. The white snow
beneath the figure is spreading with red.
REVEAL EXT. SNOWY ROAD - NIGHT
The figure in the suit lies motionless. Snowflakes drift.
INT. HALLWAY - NIGHT
Dark, rustic wood, an office with broken window