INVENTING THE ABBOTTS - Daily Script

INVENTING THE ABBOTTS - Rev. 2/16/96 5.
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Yeah.
DOUG
HELEN
That they look, really, as though
you'd drawn them on?
Yeah.
DOUG
(swallows, then
shrugs)
She looks hard at Doug for a beat, then turns to Jacey.
HELEN
Well, darling, it seems he does
understand. Why don't you just go
on to the party and ignore Doug.
Just have a good time and pretend
you don't even...
Jacey curses under his breath and storms out the front
door before his mother can finish her sermon.
8EXT. ABBOTT HOME/TENT - STREET - LATER THAT NIGHT 8
The curb is lined with parked cars. We hear a dance band
playing "QUE SERA" and the sounds of the party as Doug
lopes up the sidewalk sporting his India ink sideburns
and smoking a cigarette. He flicks the cigarette into
the street with well-rehearsed ease as he turns and walks
up the long driveway towards the glowing "big-top" tent.
Doug trails his hand over Lloyd Abbott's Cadillac,
caressing it from hood-to-trunk as he ambles by.
9INT. ABBOTT HOME/TENT - NIGHT 9
Doug enters the tent and surveys the gathering -- a
tuxedoed ten-piece band plays on the bandstand.
Despite his mother's advice, a nauseated grimace falls
over Jacey's face when he sees that his younger brother
has arrived. He is dancing with Eleanor.
(CONTINUED)