Film Stories by Roemer Michael;

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 I’ll pay for the funeral—(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 Hanna’s 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 doctor’s whites, Tim Farrell.

TIM (to Hanna) Not again!

She makes a face at him.

TIM (to Lil, with a smile) You’re the new social worker—

Lil nods.

TIM Maybe you know why a girl with money keeps driving wrecks.

Hanna is on the phone, arranging for a towing service—

HANNA (into phone) Yeah, at Grace. (to Tim, whom she clearly knows well) Because it’s not my money! Where’re you headed?

TIM Judge Olson.

HANNA (into phone) Rear parking lot. (to Tim) How’s he doing?

TIM Not great. Need a lift?

HANNA (indicating Lil) I’m going with her. (into the phone) The key is on the floor.

TIM I mean it, Hanna—get a new car!

HANNA Yes, Daddy!

He drives off.

LIL (surprised) He’s your father?

HANNA Yeah, I adopt my relatives.

EXT. LIL’S 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 You’re 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 I’m 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 house—

NICKY Hey—I’m 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 Leland’s fine homes.

HANNA’S VOICE That’s it.

The car approaches the McKay home—a late 19th-century house clearly built to impress. One side is shrouded in scaffolding all the way to the high roof.

INT. LIL’S 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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