Collateral Beauty Page #2
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2016
- 97 min
- $30,982,955
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CLAIRE:
Letters? What kind of letters?SALLY:
This might be the strangest thingI have ever come across.
- You got the letters?
- Oh, yeah.
SIMON:
Can we ask you how?Cost me $800
to get this cut.
And just so you know,
it's a federal offense
to steal mail directly from a mailbox.
- You could...
- Yeah.
- So, three letters.
- Who are they to?
- Oh, not who.
- What do you mean?
Howard doesn't write letters to people.
He writes to things.
- WHIT:
What kind of things?- Time.
Love.
Death.
The three abstractions.
CLAIRE:
"Time,"they say you heal all wounds,
"but they don't talk about how you destroy
"all that's good in the world.
"How you turn beauty into ash.
"Well, you're nothing more
than petrified wood to me.
"You're a dead tissue
that won't decompose.
"You're nothing."
That doesn't prove anything.
We can't use that, right?
No. I mean,
kids write letters to Santa Claus,
it doesn't mean they're crazy.
No. This is therapeutic.
It's so sad.
Yeah. Anything else?
Usually after work,
he goes to a small dog park in Brooklyn,
even though he doesn't own a dog.
Just sits there for hours.
Does he write letters to the dogs?
Are you serious?
Well, that would be
like the home run, right?
I mean, that's what we need.
- Does he?
- Not that I saw.
- Okay. What else?
- That's it, really.
Goes home to his apartment.
No Wi-Fi, cable, phone. Nothing.
"You're a dead tissue
that won't decompose."
(HORNS HONKING)
(SIREN WAILING)
Howard?
Hey, it's Claire.
I swung by that place down the street
and got you some dinner.
It's that shrimp thing you like.
Okay, I'm gonna leave it right here,
in case you haven't eaten.
Hey, don't keep leaving the food there.
He doesn't eat it.
Oh, I'm... I'm sorry.
And he's late on his rent again.
He doesn't answer his door,
and I don't have a working number for him.
Yeah, he doesn't have a phone anymore.
(SIGHS) Um, how much does he owe?
I'll write you a check.
SUPER:
If that's what you want to do.And, uh, if you're not doing anything
with that shrimp...
Broccoli rabe last week was delicious.
(HORN HONKING)
(HORN HONKING)
(FESTIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
Here he is.
Hey, where's your stuff?
I wanted to text you,
but Mom said I had to call.
Text me about what?
But then Barry said
I had to tell you in person.
Are we taking life advice from Barry now?
What are...
What are you trying to tell me?
I'm not coming to stay with you.
to the Bahamas.
No, no. Wait, wait, wait.
Hi.
How you doing?
Can I get, like, five minutes,
maybe a couple feet
just to have this conversation
with my daughter?
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