Bull Durham Page #20

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ANNIE AND JACKSON POP OPEN THEIR UMBRELLAS and walk out of

the ballpark towards home.

CUT TO:

EXT. DURHAM NEIGHBORHOOD -- DAY

ANNIE AND JACKSON UNDER UMBRELLAS -- He turns down one street,

she heads toward home.

CUT TO:

EXT. ANNIE'S HOUSE -- DAY

AS SHE APPROACHES -- She stops. Looks up. Crash's beat up

car in the driveway.

P.O.V. CRASH SITTING ON THE PORCH SWING Still raining.

CLOSE ON ANNIE -- She hesitates, and smiles.

ANNIE:

Oh my...

ANNIE SITS DOWN on the porch owing next to Crash.

ANNIE:

What happened?

CRASH:

I quit. Hit my dinger and hung

'em up.

A moment of silence over the significance of him quitting.

ANNIE:

I'm quitting too. Boys, not

baseball.

CRASH:

There might be an opening for a

manager at Salem next spring.

ANNIE:

Salem, Massachusetts? Where all

the witches were?

CRASH:

Yeah...you a witch?

ANNIE:

Not yet. It takes years of

practice...

He smiles slightly and takes her hand.

CRASH:

You think I could make it to the

Show as a manager?

ANNIE:

You'd be great, just great...

(rattling quickly)

'Cause you understand non-linear

thinking even though it seems

like baseball is a linear game

'cause of the lines and the box

scores an' all--but the fact is

that there's a spacious-"non-time

kind of time" to it...

CRASH:

(interrupting)

Annie---

ANNIE:

What?

CRASH:

I got a lotta time to hear your

theories and I wanta hear every

damn one of 'em...but right now

I'm tired and I don't wanta think

about baseball and I don't wanta

think about Quantum Physics... I

don't wanta think about nothing...

(beat)

I just wanta be.

ANNIE:

I can do that, too.

He rises, takes her hand, and they head inside.

And as the rains fall on Durham...

CUT TO:

INT. ANNIE'S HOUSE -- DAY

THE SHRINE GLOWS -- Candles everywhere. Rain pours down on

the windows outside. And...

ANNIE AND CRASH SIT ON THE COUCH together, in silence.

ANNIE:

Walt Whitman once said--"I see

great things in baseball. It's

our game--the American game

(beat)

He said "it will repair our losses

and be a blessing to us"...

(beat)

You could look it up....

The music--Dave Frishberg sings "Van Lingle Mungo".

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