Entrapment

Synopsis: Insurance investigator Virginia "Gin" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones), looking into a stolen Rembrandt painting, suspects that accomplished thief Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery) is responsible. She decides to go undercover and help Mac steal an ancient artifact. When a suspicious Mac confronts Gin about her real intentions, she claims that she is, in fact, a thief and that the insurance job is a cover. To prove it, she proposes a new target that could net them $8 billion.
Genre: Action, Crime, Romance
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  4 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
38%
PG-13
Year:
1999
113 min
Website
1,054 Views


FADE IN:

EXT. NEW YORK - DECEMBER 1999 - LATE NIGHT

We are moving through a thicket of skyscrapers. In the dim

light we see one building, then its reflection against

another building. We swoop past the Empire State Building lit

in Christmas red and green, catch a glimpse of the Christmas

tree in Rockefeller Center.

On screen we see: NEW YORK CITY DECEMBER 15 1999. High atop a

tall glass building we find another Christmas tree.

We close on the Thief whose face is concealed behind a sleek

black-visored helmet with night-vision goggles. From a pack,

the Thief takes a climbing rope, clamps it with a carabiner

around a post, then dials a distance into the special ratchet

mechanism.

The Thief steps to the edge and LEAPS over, plunging past the

glass windows. After a terrifying free fall, suddenly the

rope gears down smoothly, bringing the Thief to a stop at a

window pane, a dizzying sixty floors above the street.

Through the glass, we see a CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS.

The Thief drills out bolts holding the window in place. Then

one is stuck! In a heartstopping move the Thief turns upside

down, torques on the recalcitrant bolt! Uhnnn! It comes free!

The Thief replaces the existing bolts with custom bolts

buffered with rollers, pries at the window corners and pops

the pane free. Then the Thief rolls the pane onto the

rollers, leaving just enough room to slip into...

INT. PETROTEX CORP - LATE NIGHT

The Board of Directors Suite of a large multinational

corporation, dominated by an obsidian table ringed with

leather chairs. An Alarm Box softly pulses.

The Thief points a Remote at the alarm. The Remote runs

possible codes at speed on display panel, until the right one

stops. The Thief clicks the Remote. Off.

The kind of art that gilds greed with taste lines the walls.

Ignoring it, the Thief picks up a VASE OF LILIES and carries

it across the room to a side table by the window. The Thief

carefully tilts the stems so that the lilies hang over the

lip of the vase, away from the window, then exits the Board

Room.

INT. RECEPTION AREA - LATE NIGHT

A Lichtenstein, some plants, a large map of the world with

tiny red lights indicating branch offices around the world. A

Christmas tree with some uniformly wrapped presents carefully

arranged beneath it. Keeping an eye on a set of double glass

entry doors, the Thief pauses behind a Henry Moore sculpture.

Through the doors we see a desk where sits a SECURITY GUARD,

his back to us.

INT. HALL/ INT. RECEPTION ROOM - INTERCUT

The Security Guard reads and half-watches the Monitors. On

one we see the Reception Area and the vaguest shadow of the

Thief. The Guard looks at his book, the Thief begins to move.

The Guard glances back at the Monitor, the Thief jumps back.

Then the Guard returns to the book. On the Monitor the Thief

darts across the room and into a door.

INT. BATHROOM - SAME

Which is a bathroom. Hmmm. But that is exactly where the

Thief wants to be. Out of the backpack the Thief takes a

small drill and begins to make a hole high on the wall.

INT. HALLWAY - SAME

Above the Security Guard, the drill pierces the wall, leaving

just a dusting of sheetrock on the floor.

INT. BATHROOM - SAME

The Thief feeds a tiny tube up to the edge of the just-

drilled hole. Turns a valve on a small canister.

INT. HALL - NIGHT

The Security guard yawns, tries to focus on his reading.

EXT. NEW YORK BUILDING - LATE NIGHT

From a distant perspective we see the shadowy Thief exit the

bathroom as the Security Guard puts his head down on the

desk. The Thief enters another room off the Reception area--

the Chairman's Office.

INT. CHAIRMAN'S OFFICE - NIGHT

Pictures of the Chairman with politicians and celebrities

line one wall. Across from the desk, a Jasper Johns map of

the United States. Above the desk, a SMALL PAINTING in an old

gilt frame. A REMBRANDT. The pride of the collection, a nude

woman reading a letter.

The Thief takes out a small periscope mirror and some right

angled cutters. Carefully slides the mirror behind the

painting, manipulates the mirror with one hand, the cutters

with another. Finds the alarm. Snips it.

Moving quickly now. The Thief rolls the canvas in acid-free

paper. Takes a cylindrical tube from the backpack, pulls out

another Canvas, fits it carefully into the stolen painting's

now-empty frame. The Thief stares at it through the opaque

helmet visor. Approves. Slips the rolled-up stolen canvas

into the empty tube. Leaves.

Before we follow the thief, we linger to see the replacement

canvas...ELVIS. On black velvet.

INT. HALLWAY - LATE NIGHT

With the Thief now, out the reception area and into the hall,

where the drugged guard sleeps, to a Mail Chute built into

the wall. As the Thief opens the chute we hold on the last

line of a mailing label: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes

Ronald Bass

Ronald Bass (born March 26, 1942), sometimes credited as Ron Bass, is an American screenwriter. Also a film producer, Bass's work is characterized as being highly in demand, and he is thought to be among the most highly paid writers in Hollywood. He is often called the "King of the Pitches".[citation needed] In 1988, he received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Rain Man, and films that Bass is associated with are regularly nominated for multiple motion picture awards. more…

All Ronald Bass scripts | Ronald Bass Scripts

0 fans

Submitted by aviv on November 02, 2016

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

    "Entrapment" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 29 Mar. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/entrapment_393>.

    We need you!

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

    Watch the movie trailer

    Entrapment

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

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