After the Ball Page #7

Synopsis: After the Ball, a retail fairy tale set in the world of fashion. Kate's dream is to design for couturier houses. Although she is a bright new talent, Kate can't get a job. No one trusts the daughter of Lee Kassell, a retail guru who markets clothes "inspired" by the very designers Kate wants to work for. Who wants a spy among the sequins and stilettos? Reluctantly, Kate joins the family business where she must navigate around her duplicitous stepmother and two wicked stepsisters, but with help from a prince of a guy in the shoe department, a god-brotherly gay pal in the design office, her godmother's vintage clothes, and a shocking switch of identities, Kate exposes the evil trio, saves her father's company, and proves that everyone can wear a fabulous dress.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Sean Garrity
Production: Pacific Northwest Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
39
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
NOT RATED
Year:
2015
101 min
$160,165
Website
231 Views


Never heard of him.

Yes and then Stan called me back.

He's not registered with us.

There's no personal information.

We're not even paying him.

How can this be?

I told you no to...

I've been thinking.

This Nate Ganymede is a real find.

Where did he come from?

I don't know.

Well, his new fall line

up is absolutely stunning.

How do you know

about the fall line-up?

Oops.

Oh, honey.

I'm so sorry.

That little bastard.

Nate.

Lee. I have to tell you something.

Too late. I know everything.

I need to speak with you in private.

I know that you lied about your training.

I know that you lied

about your experience.

There is no Nate Ganymede.

None of that matters anymore.

It doesn't matter?

You've been working for

Colin Frost all along.

She's the one conspiring with Colin.

That is your defense?

Stop. Stop.

Both of you stop.

We're taking Colin's offer.

Enough.

You cannot sell Kassell.

He has our fall line.

Kassell's finished.

You, you're quite the actor.

You had me believing that

Kassell could be great again.

Oh, honey... I am so sorry.

Oh no you don't, boyfriend.

Sorry.

Ah.

Ow.

Kate.

Kate?

Kate.

Hey.

What's wrong, sweetheart?

They're showing my line.

The one you saw Elise give to Colin...

last night in the storage room.

Damn.

Bloody, thieving spies.

Oh my God.

Spies.

Spyware.

Yes, they're spies.

Kassell Clothing.

For not much longer.

Maurice speaking.

Yes.

Hello, Maurice.

It's Nate.

I need your help with something.

Security is just

insane around here today.

Right.

After The Ball.

Okay.

I'm on my way.

Where's the computer?

It's just in the back.

Um, I didn't see you leave last night.

I love the grand entrances but

I prefer to slip out unnoticed.

Um, I need your help with something.

Y'know, Daniel. I'm kinda

in the middle of something.

It won't take a moment.

Please sit.

Maybe I...

Sit down.

I'm experimenting with

the feeling of a shoe.

So don't look, okay?

All right.

All right.

I won't look.

I don't want you influenced by...

how you think it's going to feel.

Perfect fit.

Stand up.

How does it feel?

Uh, a little tight in the toe perhaps.

Good for a night out but

not a hike in the woods.

Precisely.

I... I, you know I haven't shaved and...

I thought you were into

girls... one particular...

Kate.

Hi.

What the...?

Daniel?

Hmm.

That's ridiculous.

No, Maurice.

It's Kate.

It's Kate.

Kate?

You know,

you're the first woman

I've been attracted to...

since Hilary Swank.

I'm sorry I lied to you.

Hey.

Oh.

Here we are.

Last night.

Elise.

Ow.

I don't see anyone. Do you?

Yeah.

The two of us.

This changes everything.

Lee has to see this before he

signs the merger papers today.

In half an hour.

Let's go show him right now.

Wait.

He won't talk to Nate.

Yeah but this is important.

What would I say? I mean,

he doesn't believe me.

Either one of me.

Just because you

assumed a fake identity...

and have been living a double life?

Put the video online and call him.

How will we know that

he's actually seen it?

No, we need to

physically show it to him.

He needs to know

that Elise is the reason why...

my designs were

leaked and it wasn't Nate.

I mean me.

Except those weren't your designs.

Maurice, I saw Elise hand over a drive.

Frost Apparel is doing the

preview at the press conference.

No one's touched your work.

They have the decoy; Alien Chic.

Genius.

I know.

Yes, hi.

It's Nate Ganymede speaking.

Nate, this is Tannis.

I am calling to tell you that

Lee is selling the company.

I doubt that's why you're

actually calling me...

and I'm kind of in the

middle of something, girls.

Hello, Nate.

Hello, Kate.

Huh, I have to admit I

never imagined you two...

would be the ones to figure this out.

Well, we did and you aren't.

Right.

Well, good for you.

I'm actually...

Don't you want to

know what we want?

Want?

To stop us revealing to Lee...

that his daughter is actually a boy.

Uh, okay, yeah sure.

What do you want?

Well, Nate has to ensure that we

become head designers at Frost.

By turning down the job

when Colin offers it to you.

Publicly.

At the press conference.

Yeah and recommending us and

saying that we're awesome.

Yeah, cause we are.

Nate can't get into

the press conference.

Don't worry.

We can get you in.

Did you make samples of Alien Chic?

Yes.

It keeps me up at night.

To get the fall line designs

for the press conference.

Let's go.

You gonna change into Nate?

Or do you need a phonebook?

It's a phone-phone booth.

I need Maurice.

Finally.

All right. I'll be quick.

I'm getting pretty good at this.

Wait. What are those?

It's Nate's fall line designs.

There are samples?

Just two.

I've gotta be quick to

make the announcement.

No, no, no.

You're not gonna wear them.

We should wear them.

We should wear them.

We're gonna wear those.

Why would you wear those?

Don't try and trick us

and take all the credit, Kate.

We're smarter than that.

Give those to me.

Excuse me.

We will wear them.

Okay.

Shh.

Help me. Help me.

Okay, here.

The fourth largest apparel

concern in North America.

I'd now like to invite Lee

Kassell to say a few words.

Mmm.

Yeah. How many? 'Kay, coming.

I built Kassell to last.

When my first wife, Amanda died...

Stop.

How'd you get in here?

I need you to know,

Colin, before you sign...

that I have no intention

of joining you at Frost.

Furthermore, I

recommend Kassell's power duo,

Tannis and Simone would be far better...

to head the Frost design department.

They are awesome.

Don't laugh, peasants.

This is the new fall line.

That is not the new fall line.

I dunno what the hell is going on here...

but that is not the new fall line.

It isn't?

It isn't but Elise thought it was.

Security.

Please escort this man out.

Maurice, the video.

Get out of my way.

Don't. Don't.

Don't touch me.

My Colin is gonna

have to have design files...

if we're gonna get a

jump on production.

Oh, there it is.

The early fall line.

This is even better

than how we got Kate.

You should really consider bangs.

It would be really cute.

This is our ticket to better, girls.

You would turn me

against my own daughter?

Lee, no.

Lee, you misunderstand.

Just stop.

You've hurt my dad long enough, Elise.

Oh my God.

Is that you, Katie?

Only my mother called me Katie.

The name is Kate.

Ohhh.

Kate?

Oh.

We figured that out already.

Like a long time ago.

It all makes sense.

You see, Katie the traitor

came back as Nate the traitor.

That's-that's what happened.

I would stop talking unless...

you want us to play the next video?

A little number I like to

call 'Storage Room with Colin.'

What?

I-I...

It was me that you heard in there.

Remember.

You wicked, wicked girl.

No, it's not true.

It's not true.

Maurice, the video.

Wait.

Stop.

I think it's time for these two

gentlemen to escort you out.

Goodbye.

You'll regret it.

I've ordered 10,000

units of that monstrosity.

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Jason Sherman

Jason Sherman (born July 28, 1962 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. After graduating from the creative writing program at York University in 1985, Sherman co-founded What Publishing with Kevin Connolly, which produced what, a literary magazine that he edited from 1985 to 1990. Before establishing himself as a dramatist, Sherman's journalistic works such as reviews, essays, and interviews appeared in various publications, including The Globe and Mail, Canadian Theatre Review and Theatrum. He edited two anthologies for Coach House Press, Canadian Brash (1991) and Solo (1993), and was playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre from 1992-99. Sherman's first professional productions were A Place Like Pamela (1991) and To Cry is Not So (1991), followed by The League of Nathans (1992, published in book form in 1996), which won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1993), and was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English language drama. Among his many other plays is Three in the Back, Two in the Head, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama (1995), and Reading Hebron, which had its most recent production at London's Orange Tree Theatre in March 2011. In the November 2007 issue of This Magazine, Sherman wrote an article explaining why he would no longer be writing stage plays. Since then, he has written extensively for television and radio, including the CBC Radio series Afghanada and the television series Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures and The Best Laid Plans. more…

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