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Synopsis: A spoiled young woman, desperate for attention from her millionaire father (Jack Thompson), Emily Hope (Alicia Silverstone) fakes her own abduction to shift his focus her way. The so-called kidnapping turns real, however, when auto thief Vincent Roche (Benicio Del Toro) makes off with a car and discovers Emily, who had locked herself inside the trunk. As Vincent tries to figure out what to do with his unexpected guest, Emily begins to fall for the charming felon.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.3
Metacritic:
34
Rotten Tomatoes:
32%
PG-13
Year:
1997
101 min
680 Views


EXT. RIVER BARGE - DAY

B.g., a helicopter drones. The barge MATE steps out of thewheelhouse, notices the briefcase on the aft deck, frowns, walks to it,picks it up, shakes it, opens it -- and ogles a million bucks, cash.

MATE:

Holy sh*t!

He spins back to the wheelhouse -- a plea for help.

MATE (CONT'D)

Larry! Larry! You gotta come see this!

The PILOT (let's take a wild guess and assume this is Larry)sticks his head out the wheelhouse cabin's door -- just as a helicopterzooms down and a SHARP SHOOTER aims a high powered rifle straight at themate. A HELICOPTER COP leans out with a megaphone.

HELICOPTER COP (MEGAPHONED)

This is the Portland Police Department. You withthe briefcase, set it down and put your hands on your head.

MATE:

What the -- ?

HELICOPTER COP (MEGAPHONED)

You in the cockpit, pull over immediately.

The mate drops the briefcase and money starts flutteringall the hell over.

INT. POLICE HELICOPTER - DAY

The sharp shooter smirks at the helicopter cop in a superiorway --

SHARP SHOOTER:

It's not a car, John, it's a boat. You don't pullover --

-- when he sees the money take wind --

SHARP SHOOTER (CONT'D)

-- Oh sh*t, the money!

The helicopter cop pales -- still yelling through the megaphone--

HELICOPTER COP (MEGAPHONED)

-- Oh f***, the money. You! Pick the briefcase backup!

Below, the mate wants nothing more to do with that briefcaseand has gotten down on his knees to say a few Hail Marys.

HELICOPTER COP (CONT'D) (MEGAPHONED)

You with your hands over your head, pick that briefcaseup immediately!

EXT. RIVER BARGE - DAY

The pilot abandons the wheelhouse to try to stop the money'spell mell trail into the sky --

He stops dead when the sharp shooter brings the rifle tobear on him -- going after the money is threatening behavior --

The helicopter cop is still yelling through his megaphone--

HELICOPTER COP (MEGAPHONED)

Pick up that briefcase! You moron! Pick it up!

The mate is staring up at the helicopter, eyes big, shakinghis head back and forth -- no way is he touching that brief case --

The barge, minus its pilot, hits bottom, the jolt spinningthe briefcase out along the deck --

INT. UNDERCOVER CAR - DAY

Dan Sims wrestles his seat belt, struggling to snap it intoa mechanism that just doesn't want to work, riding shot gun as the undercovercar careens around the corner and down the street toward the parking structure--

EXT. PARKING GARAGE - DAY

The gray Mercedes slips out the structure's exit -- as miscellaneousundercover cars careen past it on their way in -- and turns down the streettowards Sims' car.

INT. UNDERCOVER CAR - DAY

Dan, cursing his seat belt, glances up in time to see theMercedes pass, does a double take and turns to read the license plate --

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Max D. Adams

Max Adams is an author and screenwriter. Winner of a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting and an Austin Film Festival screenwriting award, Adams went on to be dubbed “Red Hot Adams” by Daily Variety and has worked with Columbia Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, and Tri-Star Pictures — among others. Adams is the founder of two international online screenwriting workshops, The Left Door and 5150, is the author of The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide, is a University of Utah adjunct professor, is a former WGA online mentor, and is the founder of The Academy of Film Writing. Her produced feature films include Excess Baggage, The Ladykillers, One For the Money and she most recently appeared in Tony Tarantino’s Underbelly Blues. more…

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