Somewhere

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EXT. RACE TRACK - DAY 1

It's overcast, as a black Ferrari speeds around an empty

track in the foggy haze. It does lap after lap, getting

nowhere.

It slows down and stops. JOHNNY gets out and stands there.

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2 INT. CHATEAU MARMONT - NIGHT 2

JOHNNY, a bad boy actor in his early thirties, comes down the

stairs flanked by some pretty party girls, wasted and

laughing. He trips and falls down the stairs out of frame.

JOHNNY (O.S.)

Ow....f***.

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3 INT. JOHNNY’S BEDROOM - NIGHT 3

Johnny reclines on pillows on a bed in the Chateau Marmont.

He has a bruise on his face and a cast on his wrist.

Prescription bottles line the night table next to a bottle of

Petrus.

He stares blankly ahead. An out-of-focus girl's body comes

into frame.

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4 Johnny's P.O.V. - THE TWINS, dressed in candy-striper mini 4

dresses, cheerfully do a get-well dance for him at a strip

pole.

A get-well bouquet of metallic balloons are starting to sag

behind them; a little boom box plays music for their routine.

Johnny leaves them to go in the bathroom. He passes a table

with some books on it - Proust and Dostoevsky.

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5 INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT 5

Johnny looks in the mirror at his bruised face and how much

more his hair is thinning. He takes some Propecia and Vicodin

and goes back to bed.

6 INT. JOHNNY’S ROOM - NIGHT 6

He watches the twins from bed...his eyelids are heavy, and he

passes out.

The twins pack it up - folding up their travel strip-pole

like a telescope, and taking their boom box on their way out.

FADE OUT.

7 EXT. CHATEAU MARMONT PATIO - AFTERNOON 7

It’s a sunny day in Los Angeles. Johnny sits alone on a

bench, with sunglasses on, smoking.

A familiar waiter asks him if he needs anything.

Two LA girls at another table look over at him with inviting

smiles.

His phone makes a beep and with heavy eyelids, he looks down

at a text message on the screen:

Why are you such an a**hole?

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8 EXT. L.A. STREETS - DAY 8

Johnny drives aimlessly through LA, down Mulholland.

A sandy blonde in a Porsche smiles at him, and he follows her

for a while, then loses her in the traffic.

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9 INT. CHATEAU MARMONT HALLWAY - EVENING 9

He walks down the hall, as Amazon girls dressed as vampires,

smoking cigarettes pass him.

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They all check him out and step into a room where a photo

shoot is going on.

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10 INT. JOHNNY’S SUITE - NIGHT 10

He smokes a cigarette and waits for something, what to do

next. In real time we watch him smoke and wait.

When his cigarette is done, he throws some pills in his mouth

and has a beer.

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11 Johnny’s P.O.V. - Power-rock tennis routine: 11

The twins wear short white tennis outfits while they do a

dance at the pole for him, spinning around with their tennis

racquets.

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12 After their routine, one of the twins passes by Johnny and he

grabs her and throws her on the bed. She shoves him off-12

CINDY:

I’m Cindy, you moron.

and keeps going on her way.

JOHNNY:

Oh, sorry, Cindy.

The other twin, Bambi, leans down for a passionate kiss.

BAMBI:

I’m the other one.

E.C.U. She kisses him, then blows her gum into a bubble, it

pops in his face.

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We hear Layla’s voice over black.

LAYLA (O.S.)

Johnny...Johnny...

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13 INT. JOHNNY’S BEDROOM -DAY 13

Bright afternoon sun floods his room. The twins and pole are

gone.

Johnny wakes up to see CLEO, a skinny 11 year old with messy

hair, in an over-sized t-shirt, next to him on the bed,

signing his cast.

He wakes up to her radiant kid smile.

Hi, Dad.

CLEO:

LAYLA, late-thirties, stands in the doorway looking at him

like "nice one".

LAYLA:

What happened to you?

JOHNNY:

Oh, some stunt work.

stunt...

We had a big

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14 INT. JOHNNY’S CAR - DAY 14

They drive down the bright sunny streets of L.A., as Johnny

takes Cleo to her ice-skating lesson.

Johnny looks in his rear view mirror.

JOHNNY:

Do you see that?

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What?

CLEO:

JOHNNY:

That black SUV. I think they’re

following us. Do you see cameras?

She looks back.

CLEO:

It just looks like a car.

He blows it off. They pull up and park at a Mall in the

Valley.

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15 INT. ICE-SKATING RINK 15

Johnny sits in the bleachers and watches her.

Cleo, in light blue, with her hair pulled back glides over

the ice in a routine to dreamy music.

He watches her - her face in peaceful concentration, she

looks like a pixie on the edge of adulthood.

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16 INT. CAR- EVENING 16

Johnny drives Cleo home.

JOHNNY:

You’re really good, when did you

learn how to ice-skate?

CLEO:

I’ve been going for 3 years.

JOHNNY:

Oh. Really...

She nods. He looks in rear-view mirror.

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JOHNNY:

Is that the same SUV?

Cleo looks back.

CLEO:

There’s kind of a lot of those in

LA.

JOHNNY:

Yeah, but I think that’s the same

one.

Cleo looks back and writes something on her iPhone.

JOHNNY:

What are you doing?

CLEO:

I’m taking down the plates.

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17 EXT. LAYLA’S HOUSE - DUSK 17

Johnny pulls up at a nice house in Hancock Park, dropping

Cleo at home.

CLEO:

Bye, see you later.

He hugs her and kisses her on the top of her head.

JOHNNY:

Bye, Kiddo.

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