Philomena Page #4
PHILOMENA doesn’t respond.
JANE (cont’d)
Mum?
JANE sees her mother is looking down at something in her
hands.
PHILOMENA:
And I’d get myself a brand new
Nissan Micro automatic...
JANE:
Mother?
She sees PHILOMENA is clutching a small, old, black and white
photo with serrated edges. She is late for work but begins to
sense something is badly wrong.
JANE (cont’d)
What is it mum? What’s the matter?
PHILOMENA looks up at JANE, tears in her eyes. JANE nods to
the photo.
JANE (cont’d)
What’s that?
PHILOMENA’S hands start to shake as, slowly, she holds it up.
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PHILOMENA - Final Shooting Script 9.
PHILOMENA:
(Voice barely a whisper)
It’s his birthday. He would have
been fifty today...
JANE:
(Beat)
Who?
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5 INT. DELIVERY ROOM, ROSCREA - NIGHT 5
YOUNG PHILOMENA, her sweaty face contorted as she screams out
in agony. She lays back on a bed, legs in stirrups, in an
improvised delivery room above the chapel. She’s in the
advanced stages of labour - but there are complications.
As two OLDER NUNS look on impotently, wringing their hands,
she is attended by a younger nun just a few years older than
her. This is Sister ANUNCIATA, pale, red-haired, terrified.
She looks at a pair of forceps in a metal bowl and knows she
should attempt to use them - but they seem monstrous,
medieval. YOUNG PHILOMENA grabs ANUNCIATA’S hand as another
spasm grips her body.
YOUNG PHILOMENA:
Don’t let them put him in the
ground. It’s cold there... it’s
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dark there...
ANUNCIATA extricates her hand and hurries away from the bed,
leaving YOUNG PHILOMENA frightened, distraught...
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6 INT. DORMITORY, ROSCREA - NIGHT 6
Other inmates of Roscrea, ‘fallen’ YOUNG GIRLS like
Philomena, a couple of them obviously pregnant, kneel by
their beds in prayer. They are watched over by MOTHER
BARBARA, mid-50s, kind-faced, the most senior nun at Roscrea.
From upstairs they can hear PHILOMENA crying out in pain; we
see how frightened the YOUNG GIRLS are, some in tears.
MOTHER BARBARA:
(Soothing voice)
Pray girls. Pray for the Magdalen.
As they whisper their prayers ANUNCIATA enters the dormitory
and hurries up to MOTHER BARBARA.
ANUNCIATA:
Reverend Mother, please - we must
get a doctor. The baby is the wrong
way round, it’s breech.
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