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CAMERA pushes in towards the MOTHER as she screams and screams and the

officer's fight to regain control of her -- in the scuffle, the

apartment door is shut directly in the face of the CAMERA.

CUT TO BLACK.

NARRATOR:

Ohhhh. These strange things happen all the time.

Main title que begins, then carries over following until noted:

TitIe Card:
New Line Cinema presents

Title Card:
a Joanne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production

Title Card:
a P.T. Anderson picture

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CAMERA DOLLIES IN Super Quick on a flower.(time lapse,bud blooms)

Freeze Frame, continue w/optical Zoom and rotate 360 degrees;total blur.

Flash title card:

M a g n o l i a

CAMERA keeps moving in further and farther until the image

gets incredibly blurry, then:

CUT TO:

INT. SUBURBAN HOME - DAY (Present Day, 1998) Sequence A

CAMERA DOLLIES IN QUICK towards a TELEVISION in a living

room. It is playing an infomercial, shot on video with a

hot shot guy FRANK T.J. MACKEY (30s) looking into the LENS.

FRANK:

In this big game that we play it is

not what you find and it's not what

you deserve - It's What You Take.

I'm Frank T.J. Mackey, Master of the Muffin

and author of the Seduce and Destroy System

of audio and videocassettes that will

teach you the techniques to have any

hard-body blonde dripping to wet your dock!

CAMERA moves INTO THE TELEVISION, QUICK DISSOLVE TO:

INT. BAR SET/LOCATION - THAT MOMENT

We are in the video (paneled 1.33) sales pitch/infomercial.

Various settings: The bar, a supermarket, a bedroom, a parked car.

Each has a few semi-geeks talking to a bunch of sexy young girls.

FRANK (contd.)

Bottom line? Language. The magical key

to unlocking any woman's analytical ability

and tap directly into her hopes, wants,

fears, desires and panties.

"Seduce and Destroy," creates an immediate

sexual attraction in any muffin you meet.

Learn how to make that lady - "friend" your

sex-starving-servant. Create an instant,

money-back guaranteed trance-like state

that'll have any little so and so just

begging for it.

I don't care about how you look, what car

you drive or what your last bank statement

says:
"Seduce and Destroy," is gonna teach

you how to get that naughty sauce you want - fast!

(dramatic stop, then:)

Hey -- how many more times do you need

to here the all too famous line of:

"I just don't feel that way about you."

CUT TO:

INT. SMILING PEANUT BAR - NIGHT

CAMERA moves in on a young woman CLAUDIA (20s) sitting alone, bit drunk.

A vaguely creepy looking MIDDLE AGED GUY (40s) takes a seat next to her:

MIDDLE AGED GUY:

Hey.

CLAUDIA:

Hi.

CUT TO:

INT. CLAUDIA'S APARTMENT - LATER

A series of quick shots where the following happens; CLAUDIA and the

MIDDLE AGED GUY stumble into her apartment. CAMERA DOLLIES in quick as

she ~norts a line of coke from her coffee table....TILT up and PAN over

to him....

MIDDLE AGED GUY:

So?

CUT TO:

INT. CLAUDIA'S BEDROOM - MOMENTS LATER

CAMERA DOLLIES in quick as they're having sex. He's on top of her,

she's below, CAMERA lands in a CLOSE UP of her face as she gets through

the experience...CAMERA moves up and past her, finds the reflection of

the TELEVISON in a picture frame on her wall....

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. TELEVISION IMAGE - CLIP - THAT MOMENT

This is a promo for a game show called, "WHAT DO KIDS KNOW?" featuring

the host JIMMY GATOR (60s) We see various clips of him over the years,

hosting the show, at various clebrity events, etc. (Director's Note)

PROMO ANNOUNCER:

For over thirty years, America has hung

out and answered questions with Jimmy Gator.

An American Legend and a true television icon,

Jimmy celebrates his 200,000th hour of

broadcast this week --

CLIP OF JIMMY speaking to an INTERVIEWER.

JIMMY:

God, have I been around that long?

INT. JIMMY GATOR'S OFFICE - DAY

Blind's closed, door locked. Jimmy and a YOUNG SHOWGIRL from some

other show are having sex on his couch. CAMERA DOLLIES IN FAST.

PROMO ANNOUNCER:

He's a family man who's been married

for over forty years -- with two children

and one grandchild on the way --

CU. PHOTOGRAPH.

A family photo of JIMMY, his wife ROSE, his son JIM, JR. and CLAUDIA.

This photo is circa 1987. OPTICAL ZOOM INTO photo that isolates Jimmy

and Claudia in the picture.

CUT TO:

INT. CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER - HALLWAY - PRESENT DAY

JIMMY and ROSE (50s) walk down a hallway towards a door.

PROMO ANNOUNCER (contd.)

We've tuned in each day to see the

human interaction between Jimmy and

some very special kids over the years --

CUT TO:

INT. DOCTOR'S OFFICE - MOMENTS LATER

CAMERA pushes in on JIMMY and ROSE as they enter, WHIPS over to

a NURSE who looks up, smiles says "hello."

PROMO ANNOUNCER (contd.)

-- and we hope there's thirty more years

of watching that happen.

JIMMY (to Nurse)

...Jimmy Gator...

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INT. SUBURBAN HOME - DAY

CAMERA DOLLIES in towards the televison again. A quick highlight

clip shows a ten year old kid named STANLEY SPECTOR answering question

after question on the show, "What Do Kids Know?" in a series of

dissolves;

STANLEY:

...Donald W. Winnicott....1911...North America....

...South America....the answer is four....

...the answer is 22...the answer is gravity....

the answer is "The Life of Samuel Johnson."

CUT TO:

INT. SPECTOR HOUSE - DAY

CAMERA is HAND HELD and moving around a small apartment, watching a

ten year old kid STANLEY SPECTOR (dressed in a suit) as he dumps dog

food into two bowls for two dogs yapping around his legs while

he simultaneously tries to gather his backpacks -- His father enters:

RICK SPECTOR (late 30s) starts barking directions;

RICK:

Let's go,let's go, let's go, you shoulda

done that ten minutes ago --

STANLEY:

We need more dog food --

RICK:

-- talk in the car, talk in the car,

moves your ass, c'mon --

Stanley grabs two BACKPACKS and puts them over each arm. Rick grabs

another bag....heads for the door....Stanley is about to fall over with

these two full packs, but reaches for another bag on the floor...

RICK:

Cmon,cmon,cmon, that one to?

STANLEY:

I need this one.

RICK:

Why the hell do you need all four

bags of books to go to school each day?

STANLEY:

I can't carry all of them.

I need them. I need my books.

I need them to go to school.

CUT TO:

EXT. SPECTOR HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER

CAMERA pushes in quick as Rick sits in the car, engine running, watching

Stanley struggle to get himself and the backpacks in;

RICK:

There's no reason for this many backpacks.

CAMERA LANDS IN CLOSE UP of STANLEY as he slams the car door.

CUT TO:

EXT. SCHOOL - MOMENTS LATER

CAMERA PULLS BACK from the parked car in a new location as Stanley gets

out of the car with his backpacks, Rick watches from the driver's seat;

RICK:

Be ready at two --

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