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Blue Valentine screenplay - Movie Cultists

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EXT. RURAL SUBURBAN STREET - DAWN - PRESENT DAY<br />

A 5-year old girl wanders alone, lost in her neighborhood.<br />

FRANKIE<br />

(barely audible)<br />

Me-gan!<br />

INT. PERIERA HOME - PRESENT DAY<br />

FRANKIE crawls through a dog door. She walks into the living<br />

room where...<br />

DEAN PERIERA, 30 years old, hefty, sleeps in a lazyboy.<br />

FRANKIE<br />

(hushed)<br />

Get up, Get up.<br />

Frankie uses the footrest to crawl up onto her dad's belly.<br />

FRANKIE (cont’d)<br />

We have to go outside.<br />

DEAN (waking)<br />

What’s the matter baby?<br />

She sniffles. He notices.<br />

EXT. PERIERA HOME - BACK/FRONT YARDS - PRESENT DAY<br />

The back door opens and Dean carries Frankie to the yard. The<br />

first yellow rays of sunlight hit their faces.<br />

He looks over the lawn, an empty bowl, water tin and a<br />

doghouse posting the name MEGAN. The gate has been left OPEN.<br />

DEAN<br />

Okay sweetheart go check in the house,<br />

see if she’s in there.<br />

He lets Frankie down on the ground. She crawls inside the<br />

doghouse. There's no one home.<br />

Megan!<br />

DEAN (cont’d)<br />

(CONTINUED)

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