The Next Three Days Page #2

WHITE 9-10-09 6.

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Luke puts it in his mouth.

JOHN (CONT'D)

No, no, no; you feed me.

(to Lara)

Your son is hopeless.

Lara grabs her phone and leans over them to take a photo.

LARA:

Squeeze in tight.

JOHN:

You can't do this every morning. It

is way too corny.

LARA:

Smile. It's just until he's eighteen.

It flashes. Lara kisses John, puts an alien-looking electric

toothbrush on the table & walks off to pour coffee to go.

LARA (CONT'D)

Present.

JOHN:

(examining it)

Sweetie, you have to stop believing

everything you read in a catalogue.

LARA:

You hate brushing your teeth; this

one brushes them in thirty seconds.

JOHN:

(as if stung)

I love brushing my teeth.

(to Luke)

The lies your mother tells.

LARA:

(ignoring him)

When's your last class?

JOHN:

Three, and I have papers to grade.

Can you pick up Luke?

LARA:

After yesterday I probably don't

have a job anyway. Do you think it

was wrong to call her a useless cow?

(CONTINUED)

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JOHN:

Bosses admire that kind of frank

exchange.

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LARA:

(pulls note off fridge)

Did you call your father?

When?

JOHN:

LARA:

(heading for bathroom)

"When?" Yesterday, for his birthday!

10 INT. BRENNAN HOUSE - BATHROOM 10

Lara puts her foot up and jabs herself with insulin.

JOHN (O.S.)

I sent him flowers and a handmade

card.

LARA:

You're completely impossible.

JOHN (O.S.)

Did you notice what I got for my

birthday this year? A grunt.

11 INT. BRENNAN HOUSE - KITCHEN 11

JOHN:

Mom said Happy Birthday and my father

went . Made me tear up.

Lara returns, trying hard not to smile.

LARA:

Ever think that someone has to be

the bigger person here?

JOHN:

(to Luke)

Remember this for the custody hearing:

how Mommy is always scolding Daddy.

LARA:

How are you going to feel if Luke

grows up and doesn't call you?

Lara can't keep a straight face and heads to the foyer.

(CONTINUED)

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