Plenty Page #4
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- Year:
- 1985
- 121 min
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And I couldn't let Mr Medlicott down.
I know how you hate the winter crossings.
- High seas.
- Please don't patronise me, Susan
Anyway, perhaps in the spring
it would be nice to meet.
Please... don't insult my intelligence.
I know you better than you think.
When you start talking longingly about
the war some deception usually follows.
Goodbye.
The Coronation's rather a special affair
- I do apologise.
- Good morning.
I have the whole thing here, lunch
for six hundred. Tomorrow's menu.
I've checked titles in Debrett and
the precedence, as we discussed.
We were just talking about
the order of toasts.
Ah, well, I've suggested the
loyal toast before the pudding
and leave all the others
till after the cheese.
I wonder, does anyone have any suggestions?
- Hello, how are you?
- Have I missed anything?
Nothing.
I was going to make the rather unconventional
suggestion that we split the toasts up.
Perhaps offer just one before we have our pudding,
then leave the others until the end of the meal.
An excellent suggestion
from Viscount Tampan.
- I trust we all agree.
- Yes, yes
Now, there is the
question of police routing
Gosh, I mean, didn't
that take the bally biscuit!
Oh, it was nothing. Honestly.
I was wondering... Susan, do you
have somewhere to watch tomorrow?
I was hoping you might be able to
come and watch the whole thing with me.
Mater and Pater have a house
right bang on the route.
- You'd get a really first-class view.
- Oh, Ashley, how nice. I'd really like it.
- I'll ring you tomorrow, all right?
- Super.
Five hundred cheese graters?
I've got five hundred cheese graters
parked round the side. Interested?
No, I'm afraid you're too late.
- We took a consignment a week ago.
- Oh.
But we are using your spoons
tomorrow, at our banquet.
- I wish I could see it.
- Yes. Yes, I wish you could, too.
Be out of a job after this, then?
Yes... well, I am. Ah, but I'm
thinking of going into advertising.
- Nice.
- Yes, I met some people on the Coronation Committee.
I doubt if it'll stretch me but it
might be a way of having some fun.
So, you'd better tell me how I can help.
Well, I'm looking for a father.
I, erm, I want to have a child.
Look... it really is much
easier than it sounds. I mean,
marriage is not involved
or even looking after it. Er
you don't even have to see the
pregnancy through. I mean
conception would be the end of the job.
You don't want to.
No... no, I'd be delighted.
I'm lucky to be asked.
Not at all.
It's just, um your own people.
Friends... you must have friends?
- Yes, it's, um
- I mean no go on, say.
Well I'm afraid I'm quite
strong-minded, as you know
and so with the men that I've met at
work, or my friends, as you'd say
I usually feel that I'm holding myself in for
fear of literally blowing them out of the room.
I mean they are kind they are able, but I
don't see why I should have to compromise.
I don't see why I should have to make some sad
and decorous marriage, just to have a child.
I don't think any woman
should have to do that.
- You don't have to get married.
- Ah, well
You just go off with 'em.
You don't tell 'em.
Yes, I did think that.
But then I thought it would be dishonest
and so I had the idea of asking
someone whom I barely knew.
- I'd really like to know
- Yes?
why you chose me. I mean,
how often have you met me?
Yes that's the whole point.
With Alice a few times?
Alice says what? I'm clean
obedient haven't got any
morons in the family
- It's not as calculated as that.
- Not as calculated as that?
Several hundred of us, was there?
All got notes, did we?
No
Saying "Come and meet me at the
Embankment tell no-one bring no friends"
I thought with all this secrecy
you must at least be after nylons.
Oh, I'll buy nylons,
if that's what you want.
Why me?
- I like you.
- And?
I love you. I chose you because
I don't see you very much...
barely ever see you. We live at opposite
ends of town. It's different worlds.
- Different class.
- Yes. That comes into it.
- Five hundred cheese graters.
- How much?
Something over the odds.
Bit over the odds. Not much.
Done.
Don't worry.
The Coronation will pay.
- Great sky.
- Yes it's a mackerel sky.
That's what they call it.
A mackerel sky
It can't be what you want.
Not deep down.
No
I didn't think so.
No deep down, I'd do the
whole damn thing myself.
But there you are. You're second best.
The hour of eleven is approaching, not only
in London but in every corner of the world.
The prayers and thoughts of the people
are centred onto this young Queen of England.
This gracious lady, upon whom such
burdens of responsibility are to rest,
and who bears them with such royal grace.
The Queen.
Oh... sorry.
You all right?
Has your latest chum left you?
Yes, as they all do.
He went back to his wife.
I suppose if they didn't,
I'd stop wanting them.
I had this idea that lust
that lust was very good.
And could be made simple
and cheering and light.
Perhaps I'm simply out of my time.
We ought to do something.
Why don't we go out?
Mm.
What about you?
Oh, I need to move on.
Is that for you?
No. He's at home.
Mm. Well, there are other people, you know.
I've got so much work to do.
- Who was it?
- Nobody. Wrong house.
What do you think?
I wish she were more, um ordinary.
- Who?
- Well, that woman.
Dog's ordinary.
Oh, God, yes the dog's ordinary,
no question. I'm just worried
will the audience identify?
Well, that depends, of course, how
ordinary they are, really.
Does the dog bowl have to be pink?
yes, the airbrushed ones
Lovely lunch come on
It's good for you
All right, five minutes everybody.
Get that bloody dog back!!
Can't something be
done about that dog?
- Please... can you stay?
- What do you mean?
You can't just walk out.
I've put sirloin steak in the bowl
but the dog still won't go near it.
- You always walk out.
- What do you mean?
Look, if we just took
them out for a drink.
Do you have any idea of the
effort I've had to put into this?
The price I have to pay for sitting
here pretending to be stupid all day.
For God's sake, Roland... look at that
reconstituted yuck. What's it made from?
Account executives' brains?
Is that how they make it?
I have tried. I have. I have tried for months
to sink to the level of this enterprise.
Well, forget it.
The dog has taste.
I'm going to go home.
Hullo, Alice.
Mick... hello!
Gosh, how are you?
I haven't seen you for ages.
No.
No, well, actually, I
I was looking for Susan.
Susan?
Hello, Susan.
I thought I'd come and
say Happy New Year.
I'll pay for this later.
Come on.
Susan.
Please let me talk to you.
What possible good could it do?
I asked Mick to father a child,
that's what we're talking about.
Oh, Christ!
Well, we have tried for over
eighteen months is that right?
- Right.
- And we have failed
which leaves us both feeling pretty stupid.
Pretty wretched, I should say speaking
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