SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
By Jeff Arch
Rewritten: Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron
May 10, 1992
FADE IN:
CLOSE ON SAM BALDWIN
A card: Chicago.
Hes in his thirties. His neck is pinched into a crisp
dress shirt and tie. His expression is vacant, faraway.
A breeze blows but he doesnt react to it. In the
distance the architecture of the Chicago skyline.
SAM
Mommy got sick and it happened
just like that an
STEPMOM
Ronald Bass
Second Revised Draft
Previous Drafts by:
Gigi Levangie
Elizabeth Chandler
Jessie Nelson &
Steven Rogers
INT. RACHELS BEDROOM - EARLY MORNING
A billowy white screen. An alarm clock BLARES. As MAIN TITLES
BEGIN, the lovely sleeping face of RACHEL KELLY rolls into frame.
Then out of it. Alarm keeps BLASTING. Back she comes, pulling the
sheets OVER her head. Motionless now, as we
Alright so this is the world and there are five billion people on it. When I was a kid there were three. Its hard to keep up.
AMERICA FROM SPACE
The great continent through mist and swirling skies. (Satellites and other pieces of skycasting equipment float by.)
JERRYS VOICE
Thats better. Thats america. See, America still sets the tone for the world...
KID ON BASKETBALL COURT
A puberty-ravaged kid
Its magnified and deeply revealed. Flecks of green and yellow in a field of milky blue. Icy filaments surround the undulating center.
The eye is brown in a tiny screen. On the metallic surface below, the words VOIGHT-KAMPFF are finely etched. Theres a touch-light panel across the top and on the side of the screen, a dial that registers fluctuations of the iris.
The instrument is no bigger than a
THE SAME SCENE; THE SAME SHOTS. Suddenly time RUSHES FORWARD. Als voice squeaks, the action accellerates.
LEADER (VO)
Run past this stuff.
THE VISUALS SPEED EVEN FASTER. SOMEBODY is running the tapes of
the EXPERIMENT right before the attack...FAST FORWARD.
INTRUDER
You wont believe this.
INT. LAB - The INTRUDERS SLOW the tape and watch with interest.
CU.- THE BEAKER on the pedestal surrounded by
WHITE SQUALL
by
Todd Robinson
FADE IN:
SUPER: A TRUE STORY - MYSTIC HARBOR CONNECTICUT 1994
CREDITS OVER
Wind on the water. Soaring gulls and sand pipers glide
over the pilings and sagging bulkheads.
OLDER CHUCK (V.O.)
Though I hadnt seen or spoken to
Sheldrake in over thirty years, it
seemed impossible that his heart was
the thing that had finally failed
him...
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INT. LATE MODEL CAR - SAME
CHUC
Then huge CLOSEUP of EYES opening, gazing into mirror, HAND applying makeup, sudden BLACKNESS, then -
PRINCE (CONTD)
Thats right... a world of never-ending happiness,
You can always see the sun -
Day or night.
BURN IN MAIN TITLE: "PURPLE RAIN"
PRINCE (CONTD)
So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills,
You know the one - Doctor
Everythingll Be Alright -
NAPOLEON
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A
Screenplay
by
Stanley Kubrick
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FADE IN:
INT. BEDROOM CORSICA - NIGHT
A well worn teddy-bear is cradled in the arms of Napoleon,
age 4, who dreamily sucks his thumb, listening to a
bedtime story told by his young mother, Letizia. His 5-
year old brother, Joseph, is already asleep, beside him.
NARRATOR
Napoleon was born at Ajaccio in
Corsica on August 15th, 1769. He
had not be
Shawshank Redemption, The
- By Frank Darabont.
1 INT -- CABIN -- NIGHT (1946)
A dark, empty room.
The door bursts open. A MAN and WOMAN enter, drunk and
giggling, horny as hell. No sooner is the door shut than
theyre all over each other, ripping at clothes, pawing at
flesh, mouths locked together.
He gropes for a lamp, tries to turn it on, knocks it over
instead. Hell with it. Hes got mor
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
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by
Howard Franklin
Danilo Bach
David Seltzer
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Revisions by Danilo Bach
FADE IN:
INT. MIKES HOUSE - QUEENS - EARLY EVENING
Winter. A celebration. Close friends, cop friends,
family all here to celebrate patrolman MIKE KEEGANS
promotion to detective, NYPD.
The party spills through the house -- front room, dining
room, kitchen, with a small fenced backyard visible be