The Town screenplay - Movie Cultists
The Town screenplay - Movie Cultists
The Town screenplay - Movie Cultists
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THE TOWN - Rev. 5/20/10 (Buff Reshoots) 51.<br />
63 EXT. CHARLESTOWN COMMUNITY GARDENS - DAY<br />
63<br />
<strong>The</strong> sun shines across the garden. We see the New <strong>Town</strong><br />
projects behind Doug across the water and a soccer field<br />
populated by immigrants mid-game behind Claire. She digs<br />
in the dirt as Doug watches her, sitting on a wood beam.<br />
Doug laughs.<br />
DOUG<br />
So how’s work now, all right?<br />
CLAIRE<br />
It’s okay. It’s a routine.<br />
That’s what I liked about working<br />
there. It’s ordered. Or it was.<br />
My childhood was kind of chaotic.<br />
Really?<br />
DOUG<br />
CLAIRE<br />
My mother has personality<br />
disorder. Do you know what that<br />
is?<br />
DOUG<br />
Never heard of it.<br />
CLAIRE<br />
<strong>The</strong> primary clinical symptom of<br />
personality disorder is that you<br />
are irritating and crazy.<br />
DOUG<br />
I got some friends with that.<br />
CLAIRE<br />
My father wasn’t very good at<br />
handling it. I wasn’t very good<br />
at becoming an only child and she<br />
was... basically a lunatic -- but<br />
maybe a lot of people would say<br />
that about their mother.<br />
We see some miles traveled in her eyes. Shrink’s offices<br />
and a hard-won forgiveness of herself and her parents.<br />
CLAIRE<br />
What about yours?<br />
DOUG<br />
I couldn’t tell you. She left<br />
when I was six.<br />
(CONTINUED)
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