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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


SIMS:

Holy sh*t, that's her car!

Barnaby, at the wheel, speeds along in the opposite direction.

BARNABY:

What?

Sims, still clutching his seat belt, grabs for the sirenas they hit a bump, drops the siren, grabs it again.

BARNABY (CONT'D)

I thought you said no sirens.

SIMS:

Turn around! That's her god damned car!

INT. MERCEDES - DAY

Will, whistling casually, hears tires squeal behind himand checks the rear view mirror -- in time to see Sims slap the SIREN atopthe undercover car.

WILL:

Holy sh*t!

Will steps on it, sliding between two more unmarked carsthat screech around corners to cut him off -- he cranks the wheel and avoidsa third --

Will drives better than well -- but he's sweating, cursingunder his breath, fighting to outdistance cop cars converging behind him,to dodge incoming cars that keep adding up --

WILL (CONT'D)

Jesus Christ, all this for a lousy grand theft auto?

EXT. RIVER BANK - DAY

Life is not looking good here. Money scattered all overthe ground, all over the water, the barge pilot and mate shaking in theirshoes, the barge grounded in mud at an awkward angle -- and glum undercovercops milling to and fro. The helicopter cop talks into a radio mike.

HELICOPTER COP:

Dan, we lost the money.

INT. UNDERCOVER CAR - DAY

Dan Sims, rocking around each curve, hangs onto his swingingseat belt for dear life and yells into his radio.

SIMS:

What do you mean, you lost the money? It's on abarge! How hard could it be to keep track of a barge?

HELICOPTER COP (V.O.)

We didn't lose the barge. We lost the money.

SIMS:

For Christ's sake, where'd it go?

INT. RIVER BANK - DAY

The helicopter cop stares glumly up at all those flutteringbills in the sky. . . down at all those floating bills on the water. . ..

HELICOPTER COP:

Half is air borne, and the other half sank.

INT. UNDERCOVER CAR - DAY

Dan's about three shades of purple, still clinging to hisdysfunctional seat belt, yelling into the radio --

SIMS:

Well fish it out! --

When the car slows. Dan rounds on Barnaby, the driver.

SIMS (CONT'D)

What are you slowing down for!

BARNABY:

We lost him.

Sims looks up from the radio at the abandoned street.

SIMS:

God damn it, where are the helicopters.

BARNABY:

They lost him too.

Sims slumps.

SIMS:

I don't believe this.

Barnaby shrugs.

BARNABY:

He can't have gone far. They'll pick him up.

INT. WILL'S WAREHOUSE - DAY

The warehouse is large, immaculate, and dark -- ground levelwindows are painted black and barred. Shelves hold engine parts. An oldbeat up Porsche Speedster sits in a corner. Loft steps lead to living quartersabove.

An electric garage door slides open, triggering a ceilinglight, and Emily's Mercedes glides in. The garage door shuts behind it andWill climbs from the car to run a shaky hand through his hair.

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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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