Shadow Dancer Screenplay - Raindance Film Festival

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27. EXT. COLLETTE’S STREET - DAY COLLETTE rounds the corner and slows to a walk. She passes a group of kids playing football in the street and struggles with her key in the lock. She hesitates for a beat and then walks into... INT. COLLETTE’S HOME - CONTINUOUS. The house is quiet. COLLETTE’S MOTHER is hunched over the stove. As she turns, the suffering of the years of war is etched indelibly into her face. MA conducts herself with unbearable dignity. They embrace. COLLETTE’S P.O.V. through to... EXT. BACK YARD - CONTINUOUS. She stands in the doorway. Her five-year-old son MARK is pushing his sister on a swing. His manner is aggressive and testing; he’s a boy with issues. The little girl CATHERINE catches sight of COLLETTE. Mammy! CATHERINE She comes running. COLLETTE wraps her up tight as MARK watches from behind the swing. COLLETTE pulls out a present from her rucksack and CATHERINE unwraps it. It’s a doll. They snuggle tighter. COLLETTE gently places her daughter on the step and approaches MARK. COLLETTE Hello, my love. She hands him another parcel. He unwraps it suspiciously. It’s a London double decker bus, which he examines for a moment before hurling the toy at her head and fleeing through a garden gate. COLLETTE catches him down the ALLEY. Go away! MARK She wrestles with him. After a few moments, he begins to sob and clings to her. He holds on like he’s never going to let go.
28. INT. COLLETTE’S HOME - KITCHEN - EVENING An ordinary family scene. The kids are finishing their tea, whilst COLLETTE and her MOTHER wash up. The door opens and in walk COLLETTE’S two brothers, GERRY and PADDY. GERRY is taller and older. He is brooding and handsome, with cropped hair; naturally a leader. But PADDY got all the emotional intelligence. He is shorter and bulkier with long, unkempt hair and a moustache. PADDY We heard a rumour our girl was back... He hugs his sister and then kisses his mother. He is obviously the favorite son. GERRY takes a hunk of bread off the side and wipes some of the left-over gravy from MARK’s plate. GERRY (with his mouth full) You all right, Collette? She nods. GERRY switches on the TV. The British and Irish Prime Ministers are giving a press conference GERRY (CONT’D) You heard about this? Yeah. COLLETTE He looks at her. GERRY We’re busting their balls and they want us to settle for a piece of fucking paper. MA. Mind your language in front of the children please, Gerard. MA. (CONT’D) And who’s to say it isn’t something. Irritated, Gerry turns up the volume. The British Prime Minister, John Major, is answering a question. MAJOR. Of course the document entertains the possibility of a united Ireland. But it also very clearly recognises the right of the people of Northern Ireland to determine their own future. (MORE)
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Page 3 and 4: 2. As we follow her down the hill,
Page 5 and 6: 4. COLLETTE moves to the toilet, lo
Page 7 and 8: 6. No answer. The cop flips open a
Page 9 and 10: 8. INT. OBSERVATION ROOM OUTSIDE TH
Page 11 and 12: 10. LONG Don’t play games, Gingy.
Page 13 and 14: 12. She looks furious. RYAN (CONT
Page 15 and 16: 14. No answer. RYAN (CONT’D) You
Page 17 and 18: 16. RYAN We haven’t lost an agent
Page 19 and 20: 18. He glances at a photograph of a
Page 21 and 22: 20. She nods. She stares out of the
Page 23 and 24: 22. BUCHANAN You’re not going to
Page 25 and 26: 24. MULGREW. Who signed you up, Gin
Page 27: 26. INT. A TRAIN APPROACHING BELFAS
Page 31 and 32: 30. PADDY Aaagh! You little bugger.
Page 33 and 34: 32. COLLETTE kisses her daughter an
Page 35 and 36: 34. A soldier suddenly blocks her w
Page 37 and 38: 36. She breaks away, staggers. She
Page 39 and 40: 38. HEADTEACHER (CONT’D) I know t
Page 41 and 42: 40. MULGREW. We need to talk about
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Page 45 and 46: 44. MARK What is it, Mam? COLLETTE
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Page 49 and 50: 48. RYAN Of course. COLLETTE I don
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Page 53 and 54: 52. A beat. ALLEN shrugs. RYAN (CON
Page 55 and 56: 54. Yes. COLLETTE The driver pulls
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Page 59 and 60: 58. EXT. STREET - CONTINUOUS. It al
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Page 63 and 64: 62. She glances up. She has no idea
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Page 67 and 68: 66. MULGREW. (CONT'D) Or did one of
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Page 75 and 76: 74. We’re CLOSE again on Gerry. H
Page 77 and 78: 76. He stares at her. And he turns
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78. GIRL Wolf Tone called. The pass
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80. RYAN doesn’t answer. No point
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82. ALLEN (CONT'D) Maybe that’s w
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84. INT. COLLETTE’S HOME - LIVING
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86. EXT. A SNOWY HILLTOP FIELD IN S
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88. No answer. He stops the car. GE
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90. A long silence. GERRY You want
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92. COLLETTE (agitated) I’ve made
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94. COLLETTE I don’t know... RYAN
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96. ALLEN What in the hell are you
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98. DELAVINE (CONT’D) We have a r
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100. PADDY What do you want? MULGRE
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102. We follow her out... INT. LAND
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104. INT. FLIGHT TO PARIS - DAY GER
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106. He takes out the pistol and pl
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108. GERRY (CONT’D) Everything we
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110. PADDY’S head sags. Collette.
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112. A telephone is on the desk bet
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114. COLLETTE (CONT’D) Who did yo
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116. INT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - DAY GE
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118. EXT. STREET OUTSIDE THE HOUSE
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120. EXT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - UNDERN
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