Kicking and Screaming Page #3

Synopsis: After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Noah Baumbach
Production: Trimark
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
R
Year:
1995
96 min
1,992 Views


Don't you sometimes wish

there was another position in sex?

Just something else to do.

Hey, Grover.

Worst-case scenario after graduation.

Ding.

Jane dumps me to move to Prague.

I spend the rest of my life with you idiots.

That was more of a yield at that stop sign.

I broke. Thanks.

No. It was more of a yield.

Flight 368 to Chicago now boarding at Gate 7.

Look at him.

- What's in Milwaukee?

- Your graduate school.

Your, uh -What does he study?

- Uh, mechanical engineering, I think.

- Mechanical engineering. Right. Go.

- I hate readjusting my watch.

- Don't check your bags. They'll just lose them.

God! I hate fooling with the watch!

Oh, I can't change my habits.

I'll be sleeping all day, awake all night.

- It's Milwaukee.

- It's only an hour's difference, Otis. You won't even notice.

Yeah, I'll be hungry at 5:00.

I'll be ready for the local news at 4:00.

This is useless. We just have to walk away

like mothers in nursery school.

Bye, Otis.

Well, that settles Otis.

What I used to be able to pass off

as just another bad summer...

could now potentially

turn into a bad life.

Ah. The fan.

The trusty fan.

Everyone brings this to school,

uses it for about three or four days...

and then shoves it in the closet

for the remainder of the semester.

I use that fan all the time.

All the time.

Oh. Okay. Cool.

- Kudos, Miami!

- Hi, Friedrich.

Well, you are looking lovely

this semester.

More appropriate for a runway

than these environs.

- F***!

- What are you doing here?

Well, what is wrong with this picture?

Some explaining?

I thought you graduated.

Yeah, I did.

I'm just helping Miami move in.

- Uh-huh.

- Actually, I might be living around here.

- Mm-hmm. Oh, yes. Uh-huh.

- I haven't decided yet. I've got all these decisions.

Hey, Jacob. How are you?

Jesus.

God, I have that horrible song

stuck in my head.

Hum something

so I can get rid of it.

I don't know that.

Hum something else.

Who the hell bought black-eyed peas?

Hi, Grover. It's Dad. Call me.

I'm in Boston at the Greenbergs.

Did you see the Knicks/Bulls

exhibition on Saturday?

Call me there to discuss.

- I just spent my last 20 on groceries.

- You're poor.

Yeah. Since graduation,

I'm poor, you're rich.

- We are no longer equal.

- But my parents are rich.

- You know what I wish?

- Mmm.

- I wish we were just going off to war.

- Hmm.

Or retiring.

I wish I was just retiring...

after a lifetime of hard labor.

Mmm! Mmm!

- Get down.

- Why?

Get down! It's a cookie man.

The guy who goes door-to-door selling cookies.

I saw him earlier in the neighborhood.

He is so hard to say no to.

Just stay down.

I can't handle him.

Rate this script:4.0 / 1 vote

Noah Baumbach

Noah Baumbach is an American independent filmmaker. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Squid and the Whale and is known for making dramatic comedies. more…

All Noah Baumbach scripts | Noah Baumbach Scripts

1 fan

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "Kicking and Screaming" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 23 Apr. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/kicking_and_screaming_11725>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Watch the movie trailer

    Kicking and Screaming

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.