script

One Can Dream

INT. MODEST MIDWEST AMERICAN HOME, LIVING ROOM

A five year old boy comes running through the living room screaming, his 3 year old sister following behind doing the same, pulling a toy dog that makes a squeaking sound.  Mark is lying on the couch with a beer in one hand, the remote in the other. 

Mark

Will you kids please go be loud somewhere

else? I’m trying to watch the game!

The kids continue running around and yelling, Beth enters from the kitchen drying her hands on a towel.

Beth

Don’t yell at them they’re just kids!

Mark

Whining

But I’m trying to watch the game!

Beth

God, you big baby I’ll have them

go play in the basement.

Beth leaves the room with the kids, enter Katie and her friend Matt.

Katie

Hey what’s up?

Mark

Just watching the game.

Your sister is downstairs with the kids.

Katie

Oh, ok I’m gonna go say hi to her.

This is my friend Matt by the way.

Matt is well dressed but covered with tattoos and looks like he’s spent a few too many nights out drinking with the boys.

Matt

How’s it goin’?

Mark

Grab a beer and a piece of couch

Katie exits, Matt grabs a beer and sits on the other side of the sectional couch.  He opens the beer and chugs, then lets out a huge burp.

Mark

Nice one!

Matt

I guess. I had way better ones last night.

Mark

Why? What were you drinking last night?

Matt

What wasn’t I drinking?

Mark

Man, I remember doing that kind of

stuff all the time back in the day.

Don’t have kids man.

Matt

Ha ha! None that I know of at least.

Katie re-enters the room with Beth.

Katie

Alright dude, you ready to go?

Matt

Sure

Mark

Awe man so soon? We should hang out sometime

Matt

Right on

Katie and Matt exit, Beth sits on the couch by Mark.

Beth

Why on earth would you want to hang out with that guy?

You would end up in jail.

Mark

I like him. He reminds me of how

I would be if I wasn’t married.

Beth rolls her eyes and walks back into the kitchen, Mark chugs the rest of his beer, spilling most of it and coughing.

5 quotes

5 quotes

“I like him, he reminds me of what I could’ve been if I never got married.” – said by my brother-in-law to my sister about one of my friends.

“That f****** b**** I don’t want anything to do with her crazy ass!” – said by my friend Maxwell about a girl he was seeing when asked why he wasn’t seeing her anymore.

“I just want you to know that Max is a liar, I never loved him and I never stalked his a**.”- said by the girl Maxwell was seeing to me as a text at 2:15 in the morning.

“I made an appointment for Thursday to get the rest of my hair shaved off because I’m sick of it falling out.” – said by my mom to me (she has cancer for the second time, so she’s knows it will fall out anyway).

“Sis just peed all over the bathroom floor while she was on the toilet! Don’t ask me how that happened!”- said by me about my 3 year old niece when my sister asked how the kids where doing while I was babysitting.

This is Ryan Panos.  He is a local musician that plays at bars in LaPorte and the surrounding area.  His dream is to play music for a living.  I think it would be interesting to do a documentary about his struggle to fulfill his dream and the challenges of juggling family, job, and his music.

This is Thaddeus Cutler.  He is an artist and gallery owner.  He is an IUSB alumni.  He has lead an interesting life; from attending art school in New York City to owning an art gallery in a very uncultured town.  This documentary would be an overview of his life, his successes, and his struggles.

This is Theo Kilgore.  He works with the mentally challenged to pay the bills, but he would really like to make movies.  His current side job is making rap videos.  He doesn't like rap music and he doesn't make much money, but he loves being able to use his creative voice.  This documentary would be a behind the scenes of making an underground rap video (the creative process, creative disagreements, and creative ways to film with no budget).

Production still from SJRMC shoot

People were setting up cameras for the first part of the finale while the nurses practice their dance moves