Only You

Synopsis: Destiny. Faith (Marisa Tomei) believes that two soul-mates can be united if they find each other. From the Ouija board, she has found the name of her missing half, and it is D-A-M-O-N B-R-A-D-L-E-Y. Later, at the carnival, the fortune teller sees the name Damon Bradley in the Crystal Ball and Faith is convinced. She is told that "You make your own destiny,...don't wait for it to come to you", but she is looking for Damon. 14 years later, she is engaged to a dull podiatrist and plans to marry until she gets a call from one of his classmates who is on his way to Venice, Italy. The classmate is Damon Bradley. Rushing to the airport to see her soul-mate, she misses him and the plane, but decides, then and there, to go after him. So Faith and her sister-in-law Kate both board the next plane for Italy hoping to find her Damon.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Norman Jewison
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
48%
PG
Year:
1994
115 min
594 Views


SUPER:
1968

On a darkened living room, a huge summer moon spilling silver

through a window.

We move slowly across the mantelpiece where a pair of candles

glow, illuminating family photos. Weddings two, maybe three

generations back -- brides in white, their young grooms at

their sides, frozen in time. As we pan, we hear two VOICES

offscreen:
a BOY'S and a GIRL'S.

GIRL'S VOICE (O.S.)

Stop pushing it. You're not

supposed to force it. You're

supposed to just let it happen.

BOY'S VOICE (O.S.)

I'm not pushing it, you're pushing

it.

GIRL'S VOICE (O.S.)

I am not.

Silence. Until,

GIRL'S VOICE (O.S.)

You're pushing it again.

An exasperated sigh.

BOY'S VOICE (O.S.)

Well, hurry up. My foot's falling

asleep.

GIRL'S VOICE (O.S.)

Mo-mmm. Larry's pushing it.

Mom?

MOM (O.S.)

(from the next

room)

Larry, don't push it.

And now, we finally pan over to discover two KIDS playing with

a Ouija board. For future reference, the players are FAITH

(age eleven), and her brother LARRY (ten).

LARRY:

I'M NOT PUSHING IT.

FAITH:

Wait. I have to write this down.

A groan out of him. She grabs a piece of paper and starts

scrawling out a series of letters.

FAITH:

Grandma told me everybody has a

soul mate.

FAITH:

But most people never find theirs,

most people settle. I'm never

gonna settle.

She gazes up as the ripe summer moon slips behind a bank of

clouds.

FAITH:

This way I'll know the name of the

man I'm supposed to wait for.

The arrow continues to move around the board, stopping on

various letters which she copies down.

LARRY:

Yeah, but, what if this guy lived

a billion, trillion years ago?

Like, what if he was a cave man,

and now he's dead?

FAITH:

Don't be stupid, Larry. If he's

my destiny, then, obviously, he

has to be alive.

Another letter.

LARRY:

Yeah, but, what if he doesn't live

here? Like, what if he's a

cannibal in New Guinea or

something?

FAITH:

If I live here, then he lives here.

Fate wouldn't make a mistake like

that.

(beat)

And stop talking. You're gonna

ruin the spell.

Another pause. Another letter. Then... Ever the devil's

advocate,

LARRY:

(whispering)

Yeah, but... but, Faith, what if

he does live here, and one day you

just walk past him on the street?

I mean, you don't hear his name,

you don't get a chance to introduce

yourselves. You practically bump

straight into each other, but you

never even know it?

Right in his face,

FAITH:

We'll KNOW.

LARRY:

Okaaaaayyyy.

The arrow comes slowly to a halt. And she writes down the

final letter, as the moon again breaks through the clouds,

throwing a bright white beam of light directly onto the name

which reads:

FAITH (O.S.)

(a whisper)

Damon Bradley.

(she looks up,

spellbound)

He's the one.

Beat.

LARRY:

Goodie. Can I ask about the Series

now?

CUT TO:

EXT. CARNIVAL - NIGHT

A screaming face. Whirling lights. A local carnival. The

small-town traveling kind.

SUPER:
THREE YEARS LATER.

Up on the ferris wheel, a bunch of JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BOYS

are distinguishing themselves by hurling water balloons down

at carnival-goers. Among the participants is Faith's brother

Larry.

PULL DOWN from them to "MADAME DIVINA'S FORTUNE TELLING

BOOTH". "Know Your Fate". Clustered in front of it are a

bunch of JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS.

We should recognize Faith as one of them. Another girl,

LESLIE, is egging a friend on.

LESLIE:

Go on, go on...

(to the rest)

She wants to know if she's gonna

marry Alex.

GIRL #2

I do not. I'm not gonna marry

Alex.

(obviously)

He doesn't even have a car.

LESLIE:

But he's got pretty eyes. That

means your kids would have pretty

eyes. You can always get a car

later, but you can't always find

pretty eyes. You gotta think

ahead.

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Diane Drake

Diane Drake is an American screenwriter and teacher, and former Vice President of Creative Affairs for Sydney Pollack's production company, Mirage Enterprises. She lives in Los Angeles and is best known for the films Only You and What Women Want. more…

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