Beetlejuice Page #20

CATHY:

What?

CHARLES:

I just did a four-book

contract with lay-backs

to hard cover, with

eight and ten breaking

at a hundred and fifty.

You know what that means?

CATHY:

No.

CHARLES:

You're going to be the only

girl in the fourth grade

with your own Limited

Partnership Real Estate

Tax Shelter.

TELEPHONE rings, and CHARLES instantly puts CATHY down and

answers the telephone. CATHY rungs out.

CHARLES:

Hello?

INT:
ATTIC -- DAY

ADAM and CATHY are poring over the model. ADAM is looking at a

series of Polaroid photographs that CATHY has brought in.

CATHY:

When people asked why I was

taking pictures of everything,

I told them it was a school

project.

BARBARA comes up.

ADAM:

Here's a headline for you.

A friend of Cathy's mother

just bought our appliance store,

and turned it into a Jello

stand.

CATHY:

Not jello. Gelloto.

BARBARA:

What's gelloto?

CATHY:

Well, it tastes just like ice

cream, but it costs about three

times as much. Beverly says

she's filling a need and will

make a fortune.

BARBARA starts looking through the Polaroids.

BARBARA:

Beverly is your mother's friend?

CATHY:

She just moved here, and

Beverly's ex-husband and his

Chinese boyfriend are moving up

next month. They bought the

old Baptist Church and are going

to set up an Academy of Aerobic

Self-Defense.

ADAM:

Defense against what?

CATHY:

Muggers.

BARBARA:

Nobody has ever been mugged in

Winter River.

CATHY:

Beverly was. But Mommy says

Beverly has a victim complex.

ADAM and BARBARA are getting insight into a world they never knew

existed.

ADAM:

There certainly have been

a lot of changes recently.

CATHY:

Mommy wanted me to remind

you about her party on the

thirtieth.

BARBARA:

We haven't forgotten.

ADAM and BARBARA exchange troubled glances.

CATHY:

I think it's really great

that all you guys are working

together now. I feel like

I've got two families. I just

wish they could see you the

way I can.

ADAM:

Honey, could you go downstairs?

Barbara and I need to talk for

a few minutes. But come back

up in a little while and visit

us.

CATHY:

Sure.

She leaves.

BARBARA:

I hope we're doing the right

thing.

ADAM:

There was nothing else --

NOISE OF A MOTORCYCLE --

turns their attention towards the model town. They peer down

into --

MODEL TOWN --

BEETLE JUICE is riding down Main Street on a Mo-Ped. ADAM and

BARBARA hover above him like titans in the sky.

BEETLE JUICE does wheelies, and comes to an abrupt halt.

BEETLE JUICE:

Real cute kid, hunh?

He drags down the length of the street.

BEETLE JUICE:

I'm gonna use my imagination

on that one.

BARBARA'S HAND reaches down into the model, and plucks BEETLE

JUICE off the Mo-Ped. The Mo-Ped spins forward and crashes

through a doorway in one of the model buildings.

BARBARA lifts him up towards her squeezing him slightly.

BARBARA:

I don't know what you've

got in mind for their party

but leave her out of it.

CU:
BEETLE JUICE IN BARBARA'S HAND

BEETLE JUICE grins. Suddenly large spikes shoot out all over his

body, piercing the skin of BARBARA's palm and fingers. BARBARA's

blood is a rich pink.

She releases the evil spirit and he plummets. BEETLE JUICE

parachutes to a soft landing on the town common.

BEETLE JUICE:

Watch it. I can work

against you, too.

BEETLE JUICE suddenly lightens up.

BEETLE JUICE (cont)

But don't worry about that

little girl. I'm more

interested in her sister.

INT:
EVELYN'S APARTMENT -- NIGHT

EVELYN is CHARLES's agent and ex-wife; she is also LYDIA's

mother. Her apartment is in a section of Queens recently become

fashionable.

EVELYN is on the phone to CHARLES. LYDIA stands by, wearing an

outfit even more outrageous than before, impatient.

EVELYN:

(Into telephone) She

promises she'll be home

by six in the morning,

Charles. But I told her

I had to check with you

first.

EVELYN listens for a moment.

EVELYN:

Fine. I'll talk to you

tomorrow.

She turns to LYDIA.

EVELYN:

All right. You can go.

If you promise to take

taxis, and not use any

drugs you didn't bring

from home.

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