Pet Sematary Page #2
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- 1989
- 103 min
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ELLIE (raptuous voice)
Wheee!
LOUIS:
Ellie, you heard your m---
His eyes widen.
EXT. ELLIE
ELLIE:
Wh--
SOUND:
A heavy twang! as the rope breaks. The tire swing--withELLIE still inside it--goes crashing to the grass. ELLIE screams
and begins to cry--a little hurt and a lot surprised.
LOUIS and RACHEL run to her.
LOUISRACHEL:
Ellie! Are you all right?Honey? Are you okay?
EXT. ELLIE, RACHEL, LOUIS, A CLOSER SHOT
ELLIE'S parents reach the tangle of tire, rope, and six-year-old
girl.
ELLIE:
Hurrts! It hurrrrts!
LOUIS:
Anyone who can scream that loud isn't
ready for intensive care just yet--
looks like she just skinned her knee.
Nevertheless, he begins to rapidly disentangle his daughter from
the tire. RACHEL helps.
EXT. GAGE
He's standing in the driveway by the front of the car, utterly
forgotten in the heat of the moment. His diaper is sagging quite a
bit; the boy needs a change.
He stares toward the scene of the accident for a bit, then loses
interest. CAMERA FOLLOWS as he walks down the side of the station
wagon, little bare feet slapping on the asphalt. He stops for a
moment at the back, looking at the cat-carrier, which LOUIS never
got around to opening. CHURCH is staring hopefully out through the
mesh.
GAGE:
Hi-Durch!
CHURCH:
Waow!
GAGE bends down and tries to open the cat-carrier's door. No soap.
Either he can't solve the latch or his fingers don't have the
strength. Anyway, he stops trying after a moment.
SOUND:
Growing thunder of an approaching truck - a big one.A big tanker truck--silver body, ORINCO written on the side in
blue letters--blasts by.
The windlash if the passing truck blows GAGE'S hair back from his
forehead. We should be scared here--not by the truck, but by
GAGE'S lack of fear. He's smiling, happy.
GAGE:
Druck!
He starts down the driveway toward the road.
EXT. LOUIS, RACHEL, ELLIE (AT THE SWING)
ELLIE has been disentangled from the swing. She's sitting by the
wreckage at the end of the driveway, weeping hysterically (as much
from tiredness as from pain, I think) as LOUIS and RACHEL examine
her scraped knee. The wound doesn't look too serious.
LOUIS (to RACHEL)
Would you get the first aid kit?
ELLIE (screaming)
Not the stingy stuff! I don't want the
stingy stuff, daddy!
RACHEL suddenly looks around toward:
EXT. THE FRONT OF THE WAGON (RACHEL'S POV)
No one there.
EXT. RACHEL, ELLIE, LOUIS, BY THE SWING
RACHEL:
Gage's gone!
LOUIS:
Jesus, the road!
They get up together.
EXT. GAGE, AT THE EDGE OF THE ROAD
A truck is coming. A great big one.
The grille looks like a tombstone that's learned how to snarl.
EXT. GAGE
He takes a step into the road...and then big, gnarled hands grab
him.
GAGE looks rather surprised at this, but not worried--this kid is
used to being picked up and treated humanely. To GAGE strangers
are as interesting as...well, as interesting as Orinco trucks.
The fellow who has picked GAGE up is a man of about eighty in old
blue jeans, a faded Bruce Springsteen t-shirt. Over this he wears
a faded khaki vest with bright silver buttons. His face is deeply
wrinkled and kindly.
JUD CRANDALL (to GAGE)
No you don't, my friend--not in
that road.
But he softens this with a grin. GAGE grins back at him.
GAGE:
Drucks!
JUD (low)
No sh*t, Sherlock.
JUD carries him up the driveway to the station wagon. Here he's
joined by LOUIS and RACHEL, out of breath and really scared. ELLIE
brings up the rear. She's still sniffling.
RACHEL:
Gage!
JUD (hands him to her)
He was headed for the road, looked
like. I corralled him for you, missus.
RACHEL:
Thank you. Thank you so much.
LOUIS:
Yes--thanks. I'm Louis Creed.
He sticks out his hand and JUD shakes it. LOUIS takes it easy--no
crushing JayCees grip, or anything like that--the old guy looks as
if he might have arthritis.
JUD:
Jud Crandall. I live just across the road.
RACHEL:
I'm Rachel. Thanks again for saving
the wandering minstrel boy, here.
JUD:
No harm, no foul. But you want to watch
out for that road. Those damn trucks go
back and forth all day and most of the
night.
JUD:
Who might you be, little Miss?
ELLIE:
I'm Ellen Creed and I live at 642
Alden Lane, Dearborn, Michigan. (Pause)
At least, I used to.
JUD:
And now you live on Route 9 in Ludlow,
and your dad's gonna be the new doctor
up to the college, I hear, and I think
you're going to be just as happy as a
clam here, Ellen Creed.
ELLIE (to LOUIS)
They all laugh--even GAGE.
RACHEL:
Excuse me, Mr. Crandall--I've got to
change this kid. It's nice to meet you.
JUD:
Same here. Come over and visit when
you get the chance.
As RACHEL, carrying GAGE, moves away:
ELLIE (worries)
Daddy, do I really have to have the
stingy stuff?
LOUIS:
No-I guess not.
ELLIE:
Yayyy!
She goes belting off.
JUD (amused)
I guess your daughter there ain't
going to die after all.
LOUIS (also amused)
I guess not.
JUD:
House has stood empty for too long.
It's damn good to see people in it again.
SOUND:
A truck engine, gearing down.EXT. A MOVING VAN
It blinks and comes lumbering into the Creed's driveway.
LOUIS:
Hey--they actually found the place!
JUD:
Movin' in's mighty thirsty work. I
usually sit out on my porch of an evening
and pour a couple of beers over m'dinner.
Come on over and join me, if you want.
LOUIS:
Well, maybe I----
RACHEL (voice)
Louis, what's this?
GAGE has been changed, and RACHEL is following him as he explores
the nearest edges of the new homestead. They are fairly close to
the wreckage of the tire swing, and here is the head of the path
ELLIE has already glimpsed.
They cross to the van. The FIRST and SECOND MOVERS are just
climbing out of the van.
FIRST MOVER:
You Mr. Creed?
LOUIS:
Yes. Just a second.
EXT. RACHEL AND GAGE, AT THE HEAD OF THE PATH
She's holding GAGE on her hip now, and both of them are looking at
that strange (and oddly enticing) path which disappears into the
deepening twilight. LOUIS and JUD join them.
LOUIS:
The movers--
RACHEL:
Yes--I know. This path, Louis? Where does
it go?
LOUIS:
I don't have the slightest idea. When I saw
the house, this field was under four feet
of snow.
RACHEL (smiling)
I bet Mr. Crandall knows!
JUD nods. He smiles, too, but underneath the smile we sense that
he is serious.
JUD:
Oh, ayuh! I know. It's a good story, and
a good walk, too. I'll take you up there
sometime, and tell you the story, too--
after you get settled in.
He smiles at them and they smile back--it is a look of
understanding and real liking, in spite of the age difference
between the CREEDS and JUD.
SOUND:
Crickets. Ree--ree--ree-ree...There's one light upstairs, one downstairs. Perhaps we see the
path, glimmering away into the field? Either by virtue of it being
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