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Synopsis: A documentary about the lengthy development of the Don DeLillo screenplay "Game 6" and how this period-piece dramedy, set in New York City in 1986, was finally brought to the screen as an independent film for $500,000 in 2004.
Year:
2006
15 min
422 Views


NICKY:

The Red Sox blow a chance to win

their first World Series since

1918. You expect me to miss that

for an opening night?

Joanna emerges from the closet in her nightdress and gets

into bed.

JOANNA:

It makes me so mad. Steven

Schwimmer ready to strike. The

exterminating angel.

NICKY:

It's all worked out. They'll lose

tonight. Then they'll lose

tomorrow. I see it with stunning

clarity.

JOANNA:

It's your best play, Nicky.

NICKY:

They'll lose because they're my

team.

JOANNA:

He will absolutely hate it.

INT. STEVEN SCHWIMMER'S LOFT

Steven is just waking up. The radio plays soft music.

He reaches over and hits the off button, then activates the

cassette player. He struggles out of bed and Sufi music

begins to fill the room.

He stands at the foot of the bed, a man in his mid-twenties,

hollow-chested, slightly potbellied, wearing rumpled pajama

bottoms and a Mostly Mozart T-shirt.

He does not remove the sleep mask.

The music has a sensuous, driving beat. Voices begin to

chant.

Steven holds his arms parallel to the floor. Slowly he begins

to turn, clockwise. The beat picks up and he whirls more

quickly, his mouth coming open.

Now he begins to whirl about the room. The chanting grows in

intensity. Although he is blindfolded, Steve deftly avoids

running into furniture and other objects.

Steven stops whirling at the precise moment the music stops

playing. He is back at the foot of the bed, arms stretched

wide.

INT. TAXI

Creeping along. Nicky leaning toward the driver.

NICKY:

I wrapped my sandwiches in tinfoil.

I ate and drove. I had one of those

big checkered cabs.

DRIVER:

You are going where?

NICKY:

Crosstown.

DRIVER:

Very bad today.

Driver's nameplate --

CHOUDHURY:

RAMASWAMY:

NICKY:

I cleaned out the ashtrays

religiously.

DRIVER:

I am sitting here five years in

traffic. It is one continuous

traffic since I arrive. Why must it

be?

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Don DeLillo

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism. more…

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