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
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
THELMA & LOUISE
??
by
Callie Khouri
FADE IN:
INT. RESTAURANT - MORNING (PRESENT DAY)
LOUISE is a waitress in a coffee shop. She is in her
early-thirties, but too old to be doing this. She is very
pretty and meticulously groomed, even at the end of her
shift. She is slamming dirty coffee cups from the counter
into a bus tray underneath the counter. It is making a
lot of RACKET, which she is oblivi
Come See the Paradise
SCENE 1
MINI
Why are we so early?
LILY
Its good to be early.
MINI
Do you ever worry that you wont recognize him, Mama?
LILY
You recognize me, dont you? Why shouldnt you recognize him?
MINI
Well, he might have grown a beard or a mustache or something, and
I was so little...I only think I remember him. Do you think
hell remember me?
LILY
Well, he has all your photographs and
As the C-130 coasts to a stop, the hatch rotating down on a hot, dusty lifeless airstrip somewhere in Vietnam. Nothing seems to live or move in the midday sun.
TITLES RUN
A DOZEN NEW RECRUITS step off the plane, unloading their duffel bags, looking around like only the new can look around, their hair regulation-clipped, crisp, new green fatigues fitting them like cardboard.
CHRIS TAYLOR is just a
BLACK RAIN
by Craig Bolotin & Warren Lewis
??
A BLACK SCREEN:
Various voices: "Big six"... "Thats six the hard way"...
"Seven or eleven"... "Play two"...
FADE IN:
EXT. UPPER EAST SIDE - NEW YORK CITY - NIGHT
One of the pristine blocks of brownstones where even the
garbage seems gift wrapped. The VOICES continue over as
we move in on a particular building where a DOORMAN is
holding open the door f
Under gloomy sky a huge fortress looms on a volcanic mountainside. From within WE HEAR the agonizing scream of a woman giving birth.
INT. NOCKMAAR CASTLE - DAY
The scream continues as WE MOVE THROUGH the grim corridors of the castle TOWARD stairs leading down to a dungeon.
INT. DUNGEON - DAY
Silhouetted in sadows, three Nockmaar MINIONS stand guard. In a jail cell, sex fully pregnant WOMEN watch
Memento Script
So where are you?
Youre in some motel room.
You just wake up and youre in...
... in a motel room. Theres the key.
It feels like maybe its the first time youve been here but...
... perhaps youve been there for a week...
... three months, its...
Its kind of hard to say, I... I dont know.
Its just an anonymous room.
This guy. Hes here already.
Lenny!
Its Leonard.
- Like I tol
CHARADE
FADE IN (BEFORE TITLES)
1. EXT. FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE -- DUSK
Silence -- complete silence for the urbanite, though the
oncoming darkness is punctuated by the sounds of farm
country -- a few birds, a distant rumble of thunder from
some heavy clouds on the horizon, a dogs barking.
CAMERA PANS the green, squared-off flatland, lit only by
a fine sunset in its final throes. Then, gradually,
start
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