Adult Life Skills Page #7

Synopsis: Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Rachel Tunnard
Production: Pico Pictures
  5 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
Year:
2016
96 min
512 Views


- I'm not being weird.

- Why are you being weird?

- Oh my God, do you like her?

- No!

- Oh my God, you do !

- I definitely don't.

- I thought you were...

You thought I was what?

Why does everyone think I'm gay?!

I've got a soft voice and I

wore pink shorts once

(? on a Frantic Stage ?)

- and that's all anyone ever remembers.

- Hey Anna!

- See ya later.

- Nice to see ya.

Take it easy.

We're goin' out to a pub on Saturday,

you should come!

Oh my God, I just had the weirdest

conversation with Brendan.

Umph, nuthin' new there.

It's like "The Wicker Man" in there.

It can't be worse than bein' at home.

Honestly, I can really see why

you stay around here, I mean...

it's such a cultured place.

You know, there's so much goin' on.

It's what dreams are all about.

I dream about makin' the perfect lasagna.

Well, that's quite an

achievable dream for like...

seven quid.

- Should have come to Thailand.

- Oh please don't.

- Honestly, I did a Thai cooking class

- Shhhhh!

I can make a Thai curry from scratch.

- Wow.

- Pad Thai.

Egg Fried Rice.

Egg Fried Rice is Chinese.

It was a really

cheap cooking class.

Anna.

Anna?

Anna.

Hello.

Hello?

You kept all the things I threw away

A leaf I picked, a birthday card I made

Holding on to memories of you and me

We didn't last a year

oh

We're just a box of souvenirs

cause

Maybe

I pulled the panic cord

And maybe

you were happy, I was bored

Maybe I wanted you to change

Maybe I'm the one to blame

Maybe

you were just too nice to me

Maybe

it took me way too long to leave

Maybe once we felt the same

Maybe I'm the one to blame

Maybe I'm the one to blame

Maybe I'm the one to blame

How long have we been doing this?

567 days.

We're just doin' the same thng

everyday

all the time and then we'll die.

F***in' 'ell, cheer up.

Do you think this makes us like

John McClane in the "Die Hard" films?

- Sisyphus

- Who?

He was condemned to repeat

the same meaningless task.

Pushin' a rock up a mountain,

only to see it roll down again.

- Forever.

- Wot?

We have to imagine he's

bigger than his fate.

Blowin' up this spaceship would mean

that we're bigger than our fate.

- Wot?

- I 'ave no idea wot you're on about.

Albert Camus' "Myth of Sisyphus".

- Is he a goalkeeper?

- Wot?

You need to lighten up.

I think you need to stop listenin'

to that depressing hippie music

and start listenin' to Whitesnake.

"Here I go again on my oooownnn!"

Here ya go, sweetheart.

What?

Clint's stayin' here tonight.

- You're kiddin'!

- His Mum's in hospital.

Oh, look at the state of it.

Can we tidy up please?

Why can't he sleep in the 'ouse?

You don't.

Is this clean?

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes

Rachel Tunnard

All Rachel Tunnard scripts | Rachel Tunnard Scripts

0 fans

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

    "Adult Life Skills" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 9 May 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/adult_life_skills_2240>.

    We need you!

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

    Watch the movie trailer

    Adult Life Skills

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

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