The Next Three Days Page #3

Synopsis: Life for John and Lara Brennan (Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks) is miserable after she is convicted of a murder she says she did not commit. Three years later while struggling with the demands of work and raising his son alone, John is still trying to establish her innocence. When her final appeal is rejected, Lara becomes suicidal, forcing John to exercise the only option he has left: Break her out of prison.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Production: Lionsgate
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
PG-13
Year:
2010
133 min
$21,100,000
Website
771 Views


WHITE 9-10-09 8.

11 CONTINUED:
11

JOHN:

Now she's driving a wedge between us.

I give up.

LARA:

JOHN:

And now she is abandoning you.

Lara grabs her raincoat and notices a stain on the back

shoulder. Irritated, she heads back to the bathroom.

12 INT. BRENNAN HOUSE - DOWNSTAIRS BATHROOM 12

Lara rinses the stain under the sink, surprised to see it

run red. She looks at her hands: blood. The doorbell rings.

13 INT. BRENNAN HOUSE - KITCHEN 13

John rises to answer the door.

14 INT. BRENNAN HOUSE - DOWNSTAIRS BATHROOM 14

Lara looks at her coat, wonders how the hell she got blood

on her shoulder. She rubs liquid soap into it.

15 INT. BRENNAN HOUSE - FOYER 15

As John opens the door, DETECTIVE QUINN shows his badge.

DETECTIVE COLLERO and a team of detectives push past. John

has no time to react.

Police.

DETECTIVE QUINN:

Mr. Brennan?

LUKE sees the police rush past him and gets scared.

DETECTIVE QUINN (CONT'D)

My name is Detective Quinn. This is

a search warrant for these premises.

John hears Luke cry and instinctively heads inside.

DETECTIVE QUINN (CONT'D)

(stops him)

Stay where you are.

Get your --

JOHN:

DETECTIVE QUINN:

Touch me again and you'll be arrested.

WHITE 9-10-09 9.

16 INT. BRENNAN HOUSE - DOWN THE HALL 16

Lara steps from the bathroom and is met by Detective Collero.

She sees the coat with the water spot; nods to a team member,

who takes it and bags it under:

DETECTIVE COLLERO

Lara Brennan?

LARA:

WHAT?!

DETECTIVE COLLERO

Lara Brennan, you are under arrest

for the murder of Elizabeth Gesas.

She takes her wrist and professionally turns and cuffs her.

LARA:

She's dead?? Elizabeth is dead??

17 INT. BRENNAN HOUSE - FOYER 17

JOHN:

(tries to push past)

She didn't do anything!

DETECTIVE QUINN:

I will only -JOHN

(tries again)

She didn't do anything!

DETECTIVE QUINN:

Put him in cuffs.

The uniform pushes him up against the wall and cuffs his

wrists. John watches as his child cries, his wife is led

out in handcuffs and the house is torn apart. Cut to BLACK.

18 INT. BRENNAN HOUSE -- NIGHT 18

LUKE (O.S.)

Daddy!... DADDY!!

A light comes on. John steps out of his bedroom and enters

his son's room.

JOHN (O.S.)

It's okay. Just a bad dream.

He comes back out carrying Luke, now SIX YEARS-OLD.

WHITE 9-10-09 10.

19 INT. JOHN'S BEDROOM -- NIGHT 19

John lays Luke on the bed and climbs in beside him.

You okay?

JOHN:

Luke nods.

JOHN (CONT'D)

Okay, you can sleep here as long as

you stay on this side of the bed.

Luke immediately scrambles over his father to take his side.

JOHN (CONT'D)

You're such a snake, I don't know why

I keep falling for the same trick.

John kisses Luke, who closes his eyes and snuggles his pillow.

John reaches for the lamp. Beside it sits the framed photo

that Lara snapped of the three of them that fateful morning.

He switches off the lamp, and the screen goes BLACK.

20 EXT. PITTSBURGH -- DAY 20

The "T," the city's fast-moving trolley, rises up from

underground and we CRANE UP to see the city.

JOHN (O.S.)

But Sam's your friend, right?

21 EXT. ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL -- DAY 21

Tilt down from a passing T-Train to find John and Luke,

walking toward the huge, modern Allegheny County Jail.

LUKE:

Not at lunch.

JOHN:

Does he take your food?

No.

LUKE:

JOHN:

Did he say something mean?

(Luke nods)

About Mommy?

(CONTINUED)

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Paul Haggis

Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners, 2004's Million Dollar Baby and 2005's Crash, the latter of which he also directed. more…

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