Carol Page #2

Synopsis: Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) spots the beautiful, elegant Carol (Cate Blanchett) perusing the doll displays in a 1950s Manhattan department store. The two women develop a fast bond that becomes a love with complicated consequences.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Production: The Weinstein Company
  Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 75 wins & 238 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
95
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
R
Year:
2015
118 min
$8,518,148
Website
15,442 Views


The room is sparsely furnished, and much of the wall space istaken up with THERESE’S B&W photos, mostly NY CITY STREETSCENES and URBAN LANDSCAPES. THERESE is brushing her teethwhen the doorbell rings. Once. Twice. Three times. She shedsher blankets and goes to the window, opens it, leans out.

EXT. THERESE’S APARTMENT BUILDING. CONTINUOUS.

THERESE’S boyfriend, RICHARD SEMCO, looks up at her from the

street, striding his bicycle. He’s well-bundled in scarf andhat.

THERESE:

I like your scribbles.

RICHARD looks around to the street behind him covered in

children’s chalk scribblings.

RICHARD:

Yeah - I’ve been busy! (grinning ather): I don’t know how you look amillion bucks first thing in themorning.

THERESE:

I won’t be a minute.

EXT. CENTRAL PARK. NY CITY. MORNING.

RICHARD rides THERESE to work through the park. She sits withher arms wrapped around his hips while he stands pumping awayat the pedals.

RICHARD:

So I got the schedules. In the

mail. You listening to me?

THERESE:

I’m listening! You got the

schedules.

RICHARD:

And there are two sailings to

France in June, one in July.

THERESE:

Wow.

RICHARD:

So whaddya think?

THERESE:

I think... I think it’s so cold I

can’t think straight.

RICHARD:

Oh yeah? Well let’s get you warmedup.

RICHARD accelerates. THERESE laughs, holds on tighter.

RICHARD begins to sing: “I love Paris in the... summer-time!”

as they speed away.

EXT. FRANKENBERG’S DEPARTMENT STORE. MORNING.

Outside the employee’s entrance, RICHARD and THERESE stand ina longish line of MOSTLY YOUNG STAFF waiting to begin theirwork day. Everyone looks exactly the same: a lot cold, alittle Soviet-factory-worker glum.

RICHARD:

Anyway she wants to make it for you

so there’s no use fighting it, once

she gets an idea in her head...

She’s just going crazy with no

girls in the family but Esther-

A SECURITY GUARD has opened the door and the line has begunto move.

Upon entering, each employee is handed a Santa Cap, whichthey dutifully put on. RICHARD reaches the door, takes hiscap, wordlessly puts it on, moves inside. He holds out a capto THERESE.

SECURITY GUARD:

Compliments of the season from themanagement.

THERESE takes her cap, doesn’t put it on, moves inside.

RICHARD:

I gotta open the floor.

INT. FRANKENBERG’S. EMPLOYEE CAFETERIA. MORNING.

From a table in the corner, THERESE sips at a cup of coffeeand watches a sea of Santa-capped and uniform-smocked STAFFmove wordlessly along the breakfast line, accepting gooeyeggs and cups of coffee. THERESE looks down at aFrankenberg’s employee handbook. We glimpse bits and piecesof information: ...2 weeks vacation after 5 years, 4 weeksvacation after 15 years... full pension, benefits...” She

turns a page:
“Are YOU Frankenberg Material?”

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Phyllis Nagy

Phyllis Nagy is an American theatre and film director, screenwriter and playwright. In 2006, Nagy was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for writing and directing Mrs. Harris, her screen debut. more…

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