
There's Something About Mary
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- Year:
- 1998
- 119 min
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FADE IN:
EXT. CUMBERLAND, RHODE ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL - MORNING
It's the early 1980's and everyone is arriving at school. We push
through the parking lot crowd to a nervous, lanky kid, TED
PELOQUIN.
MAN'S VOICE (V.O.)
When I was sixteen years old I fell in
love...
CLOSE ON - RENISE, a tough girl with stringy brown hair and a
shiny forehead, as she turns toward the camera.
TED:
Hey, Renise.
She barely looks at him as he approaches, just drags on her smoke.
RENISE:
Hey.
TED:
So what's up?
RENISE:
Eh.
TED:
Great. Great.
(beat)
So listen, uh, I was wondering if maybe you
wanted to go to the prom you know, with
me.
Renise looks unenthused.
TED (cont'd)
It's no big deal, whatever I mean, if you
want.
RENISE:
See, the thing is, I heard a rumor that
this guy I like was gonna ask me.
TED:
Uh-huh.
RENISE:
Yeah, so...I'm gonna wait and see what
happens there...But that sounds great,
yeah.
Ted nods, confused.
TED:
Okay.
(beat)
So is that a yes or a no?
RENISE:
I think I was very clear, Ted. If
everything else falls apart, maybe.
Renise throws down her butt and storms off.
TED:
I'm gonna hold you to that.
CUT TO:
EXT. ANOTHER PART OF THE SCHOOL PARKING LOT
ANGLE ON - a pretty girl, MARY, climbing off a ten-speed in the
school parking lot. She's athletic and tanned and doesn't have a
bad bone in her body.
MAN'S VOICE (V.O.)
Her name was Mary. She'd moved to our
little Rhode Island town from Minnesota two
years earlier.
She locks up the bike and starts walking toward the school.
MAN'S VOICE (V.O.)
Mary was very smart, and very cool, and she
had a faceful of eyes that promised you a
better life if you could only know her.
As she approaches the camera, we PAN to see Ted watching her. He's
sitting on a picnic table with two FRIENDS.
FRIEND #1
Hey, dirtbud, who you going to the prom
with?
Finally Ted takes his eyes off Mary.
TED:
Ah, I don't know if I'm even gonna. You
know, not my style.
FRIEND #2
You have a style?
FRIEND #1
Why don't you be a gentleman and ask Rosey?
TED:
(perks up)
Who?
Friend #1 makes a jerk-off motion.
FRIEND #1
Rosey Palm, your girlfriend. God knows you
spend enough fucking time with her.
The guys LAUGH.
TED:
(out of ammo but doesn't
know it)
Yeah, and who are you gonna take, your own
palm?
FRIEND #1
Clever. I like the way you just spun that
around on me.
Friend #2 notices Mary talking to her FRIENDS.
FRIEND #2
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