Lost in America Page #3
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- Year:
- 1985
- 91 min
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DAVID:
Okay.
(thinking aloud)
Ten-thirty, eleven, eleven-fifteen
... okay. Susan, don't let any
calls in. I don't want to be
bothered. I don't want to do any
business. I just want to prepare.
David walks into his office. After a beat, he sticks
his head out.
DAVID:
(continuing)
Oh yes. Get me Valley Mercedes,
will you?
CUT TO:
7INT. ROBINSON'S DEPARTMENT STORE
We FOLLOW Nancy as she's walking through the department
store. She comes to her office. Her office is on the
third floor in the corner with the other business offi-
ces. Her friend, PATTY, who works with her, is in the
office next door. All offices are separated by glass
partitions. Nancy comes in and sits down. Patty sees
her and enters.
PATTY:
Hi.
Nancy looks up from her desk.
NANCY:
Hi.
PATTY:
Is it beautiful?
NANCY:
What?
PATTY:
The kitchen. What does it look
like?
NANCY:
(half-heartedly)
PATTY:
Orange?
NANCY:
A burnt orange.
PATTY:
Sounds pretty.
NANCY:
Patty, close the door.
Patty closes the door and sits down.
PATTY:
What's the matter?
NANCY:
I'm going to hate this house.
PATTY:
What are you talking about?
NANCY:
When the contractor left this
morning, I was all alone there
and I sat in the middle of the
living room and I got so sad. I
got this preview of the next ten
years, I just started shaking.
Patty just stares at her. She knows that Nancy is
serious.
NANCY:
(continuing)
I'm so unhappy. I don't like
anything anymore. I don't like
my job. I don't like my life.
I don't like anything. I feel
dead.
PATTY:
What do you mean?
NANCY:
Nothing's changing. I'm not
growing. David's not growing.
We've just stopped. Life is
passing us by.
PATTY:
Listen, you've had a tough week.
With the moving and everything
you're very tired. When you get
tired you feel bad. Things seem
worse.
NANCY:
I'm not that tired.
Do you know I've been hiring
girls who are nineteen years
old, who've already had more
experience out of life than I
have?
PATTY:
You don't know that. You
can't tell what a person has
experienced just by interviewing
them.
NANCY:
Okay. Let's forget it. I
really haven't thought this
through enough. I don't want
to discuss it now. Let's get
to work.
PATTY:
No. I'm sorry. I didn't mean
to say the wrong thing. Have
you talked this over with
David?
NANCY:
Of course not. That's the
problem. I can't talk anything
over with him. It's hopeless.
PATTY:
Are you thinking of splitting
up?
NANCY:
Well, that's not my first choice
but what's the alternative? And
I'm not blaming David. I know
he genuinely believes that being
made Vice President is going to
change things. But he genuinely
believed that every promotion
would change things. It never
does. Maybe for a few days, but
that's it. Then things are
always the same.
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