INVENTING THE ABBOTTS - Daily Script

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INVENTING THE ABBOTTS
1EXT. ABBOTT HOME - STREET (HALEY, ILLINOIS) - DAY 1
(LATE SPRING, 1957)
OPENING CREDITS ROLL over a TENT MONTAGE -- ASSORTED
ANGLES of a group of men hard at work erecting a large
striped "big-top" style canvas tent, INCLUDING: The long
steel stakes being sledge-hammered into the lawn,
practiced hands rapidly rigging the lines, the tall
center poles being leveraged upright, the heavy rolled-up
sections of canvas being maneuvered into position, and
ENDING WITH the canvas being hoisted up the poles as the
tent assumes its full and finished form.
NEW ANGLE - TENT
-- on the front yard of the Abbott mansion. The
residence is on Main Street, four blocks from where the
commercial district begins. The mature, over-arching
trees makes this street of prosperous houses a grand
promenade.
2EXT. ABBOTT HOME - STREET - DAY 2
JACEY HOLT and DOUG HOLT walk along the sidewalk on their
way to school. Jacey is seventeen; he's as handsome and
seemingly self-confident as his younger brother is
rumpled and impulsive. Doug is fifteen, a popular
culture chameleon who takes on the colors and
affectations of whomever his "hero" is at the moment
(which presently happens to be Elvis Presley).
Jacey stops and stares with open-faced misery at the tent
on the Abbott's front yard (the installation of the tent
indicates that the Abbott's are having yet another of the
many parties they throw every year).
DOUG
Didn't get invited, huh?
Go to hell.
JACEY
DOUG
Who cares? I'm not going and I
got invited.
JACEY
Who invited you?
(CONTINUED)