Film Stories by Roemer Michael;
Author:Roemer, Michael; [Roemer, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Unlimited Model
Published: 2015-02-15T00:00:00+00:00
Film Stories Volume 4
FALLING ANGELS
For Stan and Charlotte
REAR ENTRANCE, GRACE HOSPITAL
Leland, Massachusetts, a mill town turned into a backwater. Summer.
Two Latino families come out of the rear door along with several men in work clothes, and huddle in an ambulance bay. Two of the women are weeping and the men try to comfort them.
Lil Schlesinger, a social worker in her 40s, emerges from the hospital and joins them. She speaks to them in Spanish.
Hanna McKay, a girl of 15, has followed her out, but remains at a tactful distance. When an ambulance pulls into the bay and forces the group into the driveway, Hanna joins them.
HANNA (to Lil) Please tell them Iâll pay for the funeralâ(to the women, genuinely distressed) I am so sorry.
One of the men translates what she has said as the group moves away, leaving Lil and Hanna.
HANNA I saw it happen.
LIL Want to get coffee?
Hanna nods gratefully.
GRACE PARKING LOT
The hood is up on Hannaâs dilapidated car and Hanna is bent over the engine. A gentle rain is falling, and Lil holds an umbrella over her.
HANNA (to Lil) Carburetor, brand new!
A car stops beside them. The driver is a man in his early 50s in doctorâs whites, Tim Farrell.
TIM (to Hanna) Not again!
She makes a face at him.
TIM (to Lil, with a smile) Youâre the new social workerâ
Lil nods.
TIM Maybe you know why a girl with money keeps driving wrecks.
Hanna is on the phone, arranging for a towing serviceâ
HANNA (into phone) Yeah, at Grace. (to Tim, whom she clearly knows well) Because itâs not my money! Whereâre you headed?
TIM Judge Olson.
HANNA (into phone) Rear parking lot. (to Tim) Howâs he doing?
TIM Not great. Need a lift?
HANNA (indicating Lil) Iâm going with her. (into the phone) The key is on the floor.
TIM I mean it, Hannaâget a new car!
HANNA Yes, Daddy!
He drives off.
LIL (surprised) Heâs your father?
HANNA Yeah, I adopt my relatives.
EXT. LILâS HOUSE
A modest home on a side street. The rain has stopped. Lil and Hanna are drinking red wine on the porch.
Hanna is stocky and not conventionally beautiful; her hair is a mess and she dresses down, but her face is open, alert, and kind.
Loud rock music is turned up inside the house.
LIL (with a smile) Nicky. 14.
HANNA Youâre married?
LIL Was.
She can see that Hanna is still affected by the accident.
LIL You live with your folks?
HANNA Boarding school, my grandma when Iâm here. You like Leland?
LIL After Jersey, sure.
HANNA All we have is fancy colleges and people on welfare.
A teenage boy appears in the open doorway to the houseâ
NICKY HeyâIâm starving!
HANNA (getting up) Gotta go.
LIL (joining her, to her son) Back in ten minutes.
EXT. STREET FROM MOVING CAR
We are driving along a street with Lelandâs fine homes.
HANNAâS VOICE Thatâs it.
The car approaches the McKay homeâa late 19th-century house clearly built to impress. One side is shrouded in scaffolding all the way to the high roof.
INT. LILâS CAR
LIL Some house!
HANNA (with a grimace) Yeah.
EXT. STREET AND McKAY HOUSE
Lil drives up and Hanna gets out of the car.
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