The Ice Storm Page #4
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- 1997
- 112 min
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BEN (CONT'D)
Come on!
She gets up sullenly and goes to the phone.
WENDY:
Charles.
PAUL:
Charles. Have you been keeping out
of my sh*t? Have you refrained from
entering the sacred precincts of my
room?
WENDY:
I have not touched your sh--
(looks at father)
Stuff. You watching this?
PAUL:
Watching what?
WENDY:
Nixon, doofus! It's incredible. He
should be shot.
BEN:
(overhearing)
Hey, that's the president of the
goddam United States you're talking
about, Wendy!
From the kitchen, Elena overhears. She's dressed to go out,
but in the process of making a Kraft macaroni and cheese
dinner for Wendy.
WENDY:
He's a liar!
(still talking more to her
father than into the
phone)
Dean told him on March 21st about
Kalmback and Hunt, all about the
payoffs to the Watergate burglars,
so you tell me where the so-called
"Dean Report" is, but you can't
because it doesn't exist, because
Erlichman and the April 17 tape,
that's why! Liar!
Ben retreats, going to the wet bar to pour another drink.
BEN:
(muttering)
OK, OK, the defense rests.
(to Elena in the kitchen)
Want another?
ELENA (O.S.)
No thank you. We should be off.
BEN:
Gotcha.
He puts the bottle back down without pouring.
PAUL:
(on the phone)
Hey Charles. Charles, calm down --
I wasn't in on it.
Elena, putting on her coat, comes into the den and gives
Wendy a kiss on the forehead as Wendy mumbles her good-byes
to Paul on the phone.
ELENA:
Dinner's on the counter. We'll be
at the Williams's -- you know the
number.
(takes the phone from
Wendy)
Paul. Hi. Is there anything you'll
want, any particular kind of food
or snack or anything we can stock
up on?... You're all right? ... OK.
See you next week. I love you.
Back to Nixon on the TV.
NIXON:
We must recognize that one excess
begets another, and that the
extremes of violence in the 1960s
contributed to the extremes of
Watergate...
On Wendy as she regards the TV, hearing her parents'
farewells as they leave through the front door.
EXT. WILLIAMS HOUSE. NIGHT
A large New England Colonial, with a few modern additions and
touches. We hear the sound of dinner chatter.
INT. WILLIAMS DINING ROOM. NIGHT
The kitchen door swings open into the dining room, and Mikey
and Sandy Williams emerge, each holding platters of food.
Mikey, 15-and-a-half, lost in space, and Sandy, 14, a sullen
and barely pubescent boy, each have towels draped over their
forearms -- they are the evening's "waiters".
They move unsteadily to the table, at which sit their parents
Janey (38, a hard-edged, sharp-witted beauty) and Jim (43,
large and a bit goofy, a genius inventor), together with
their guests, Ben and Elena Hood, and neighbors Dorothy and
Ted Franklin.
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