The Cider House Rules Page #2

Synopsis: Homer is an orphan in remote St. Cloud, Maine. Never adopted, he becomes the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch, who imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. When Wally and pregnant Candy visit the orphanage Dr. Larch provides medically safe, albeit illegal, abortions Homer leaves with them to work on Wally's family apple farm. Wally goes off to war, leaving Homer and Candy alone together. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Lasse Hallström
Production: Miramax
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 29 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
PG-13
Year:
1999
126 min
Website
524 Views


EXT. ORPHANAGE - DAY

Angela and Edna call and wave good-bye to a two-year-old

Homer, leaving with COUPLE #2. Larch stands on the porch and

watches the family head down the hill.

LARCH (V.O.)

The second family has an unfortunate

gift for getting sounds out of Homer.

INT. COUPLE #2'S HOME - DAY

Larch bursts into the home of the second couple and lifts a

crying and bruised Homer out of his bed. There is rage in

Larch's eyes as he looks at the couple.

LARCH (V.O.)

The rumor was true. They beat him.

He couldn't stop crying.

EXT. HILL, ST. CLOUD'S - DAY

Larch carries Homer up the orphanage hill.

LARCH (V.O.)

Here is St. Cloud's, I try to

consider, with each rule I make or

break, that my first priority is an

orphan's future.

INT. DELIVERY ROOM - DAY

The naked belly of a VERY PREGNANT WOMAN.

LARCH (V.O.)

Easier said than done.

A tiny hand comes in with a stethoscope and puts it on the

big belly. Young Homer's head, with the stethoscope around

his neck, pops up behind the belly; he closes his eyes as he

concentrates on listening to the sounds of the unborn child.

Larch stops in the doorway, catching sight of Homer. He smiles

faintly.

EXT. COUPLE #3'S HOME - DAY

The door opens to a THIRD COUPLE smiling at us, welcoming

and embracing a sixteen-year-old Homer. Behind them waits

the would-be STEPSISTER--an attractive girl, a little older

then Homer.

LARCH (V.O.)

I told the third family to take good

care--this was a special boy.

INT. STEPSISTER'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

Homer and the stepsister are in bed together. The parents

burst in on them--the father chasing Homer around and around

the bed, the mother beating her daughter, who covers herself

with a pillow.

LARCH (V.O.)

It was Homer who took too much good

care of himself.

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John Irving

ohn Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. more…

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