Goodfellas Page #14

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WE SEE KAREN propped up, awake, in a chair. Her FATHER is

seated on a sofa, asleep. KAREN'S MOTHER is looking out

the window.

KAREN'S MOTHER

He didn't call?

KAREN:

He's with his friends.

KAREN'S MOTHER

What kind of person doesn't call?

KAREN:

He's a grown man. Be doesn't have

to call every five minutes.

KAREN'S MOTHER

If he was so grown up he'd get you

two an apartment.

KAREN:

Don't bring that up. You're the

one who wanted us here.

KAREN'S MOTHER

(ignoring the charge)

Look. He's got the whole house in

an uproar.

CUT TO:

FATHER dozing on sofa.

KAREN'S MOTHER

He's got your father upset. Good

thing he doesn't have to go to

work in the morning. Is this what

he deserves?

KAREN:

Ma! Please! You're driving me

crazy.

KAREN'S MOTHER

Driving you crazy? Don't get me

started. You're here a month and

sometimes I know he doesn't come

home at all. What kind of people

are these?

KAREN:

Ma! Stop! What do you want me to

do?

KAREN'S MOTHER

Do? What can you do? What did

you expect? He wasn't Jewish. Did

you know bow they live? Your father

would never stay out this late

without calling. In thirty years

he never stayed out all night.

CUT TO:

FATHER SLEEPING ON SOFA

KAREN:

Stayed out? Daddy never went out

at all.

DISSOLVE TO:

TITLE UP - 6:
30 A.M.

We hear car door open in front of house.

CUT TO:

KAREN AND KAREN'S MOTHER

open the door together and WE SEE HENRY standing in doorway,

a little drunk.

Behind HENRY WE SEE a car with TOMMY DESIMONE still parked

at the curb.

KAREN is happy to see him. She smiles.

KAREN'S MOTHER

(angrily)

Where were you? Where have you

been? Why didn't you call? We were

all worried to death! A married

man doesn't stay out like this!

WE SEE HENRY look at KAREN, look at KAREN'S MOTHER and

turn around and get back in the car and drive away.

KAREN BEGINS TO CRY.

KAREN'S FATHER sleepily comes to the door.

KAREN'S MOTHER

(as Henry drives

away)

Normal people don't live this way.

INT. LIVING ROOM - JIMMY AND MICKEY'S ARCHIE-BUNKER HOUSE -

NIGHT:

KAREN and MOST of the WOMEN we saw at the wedding are at

MICKEY's cosmetic party. There are large cardboard posters

of glamorous models using the cosmetic's at MICKEY'S feet.

KAREN (V.O.)

We weren't married to nine-to-five

guys, but the first time I realized

how different was when Mickey had

a hostess party.

CUT TO:

MICKEY:

Brushing another woman, ANGIE's, hair while showing off a

new brush.

MICKEY:

(to Angie)

Angie, sweetheart, you want it

fluff?

CUT TO:

ANGIE'S TIRED FACE

black-ringed eyes and thin mouth.

ANGIE:

He's the one with the hands. I'd

like to smack his face.

WOMAN #1

The red-haired guy? He looks a

like a farmer?

ANGIE:

Sonofabitch. I swear. You can't

go through the gate without his

hands. I told him. Keep' your

f***ing hands off, you Sonofabitch,

or I'll cut them off.

WE SEE the WOMEN laugh.

ANGIE)

He don't know bow lucky he is. It

I just mentioned it to Vince, I

don't even want to know.

WOMAN #1

That's the problem. How can you

mention it? Vince 'd kill him.

ANGIE:

You think I don't know? You think

I like to keep this inside? But I

gotta, or he'll kill the miserable

bastard and he'll be there for

life. It's disgusting what you

have to put up with.

MICKEY:

(while fluffing

Angle's hair)

Look at Jeannie's kid.

ANGIE:

What? What happened?

MICKEY:

The oldest one. He was in an

argument. A lousy ten-dollar card

game. The kid pulls out a gun. It

goes off. The kid gets killed. The

grandmother hears it and finds out

he's been arrested. She has a heart

attack. She drops dead right on

the spot. Now Jeannie's got a

husband and son in jail and a mother

in the funeral parlor.

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