Bag of Bones Page #2

Synopsis: Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to cope after his wife's sudden death, returns to the couple's lakeside retreat in Maine, where he becomes involved in a custody battle between a young widow and her child's enormously wealthy grandfather. Mike inexplicably receives mysterious ghostly visitations, escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
  2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
163 min
132 Views


[Swallows]

[Melancholy music]

[grunts]

[Sobbing]

[Phone rings]

Hi, this is Jo Noonan.

Leave me a message,

and I'll call you back...

If you're very, very good.

[Voicemail beeps]

[Phone rings]

Hi, this is Jo Noonan.

Leave me a message,

and I'll call you back...

If you're very, very good.

[Voicemail beeps]

[Keypad tone]

[Phone rings]

Hi, this is Jo Noonan.

Leave me a message,

and I'll call you back...

If you're very, very good.

[Voicemail beeps]

[Ominous music]

[phone ringing]

[Rings]

Jo!

Jo!

[Screams]

[Distant sirens wail]

[Groans]

"Driving home...

[Cell phone chimes]

[Clears throat] Sorry.

Shut off the phone.

So...

[Clears throat]

"Driving home, I thought

of an old saying about...

"How one person can never really

truly know another.

"It's easy to give

that idea lip service,

"but it's a jolt

as horrible and unexpected

"as severe air turbulence...

"On a previously calm

airline flight to discover

it's a literal fact

in one's own life."

And I can't do this.

It's...

I'm sorry.

[Indistinct]

[Dramatic music]

hmm.

Always said I couldn't write

without you.

Jo...

Are you there?

Can you give me a sign?

Once for "yes,"

twice for "no."

[Cell phone rings once]

Jo...

Jo, is that you?

Hey.

Once for "yes,"

twice for "no."

[Telephone rings once]

Hello?

Mike, Mike!

I'm sorry about that.

I'm going through the tunnel.

[Sighs]

Marty.

Hey.

[Laughs] What's up?

We just got our hands on the

spring fiction list.

And?

And it's...

Looking a little bit crowded.

What do you mean?

How... how crowded?

Like, with some unexpected names.

Names like who?

Patterson. Grisham.

There's even talk of a newly

discovered Bachman book.

All those authors,

they don't publish in the spring.

I mean, they...

Those are summer, fall guys.

What can I tell ya?

Maybe they got some extra ideas

this year.

Some might've stockpiled novels

like squirrels.

Hey, what did you used to call

those books you used to write

when you were young and hungry,

and were writing books faster

than they could print them?

Trunk novels.

That's right.

Trunk novels.

Maybe those guys

dug up a few trunk novels

and dusted them off.

Figured, "what the hell," right?

What are you asking me, Marty?

Scribner wants to publish

a novel late winter.

What does that mean?

Pages with your name on them

by the end of the summer.

You're asking me to write

a novel in three months, Marty?

No, no, no.

You wouldn't have

to turn in the manuscript

until end of September

or early October.

'Course that means they'd really

have to crash their production,

but they can do it.

The question is whether

or not you can do it.

So what do you say?

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