Still Alice Page #7

INT. ALICE’S HOME--OFFICE

Alice continues making the recording.

ALICE:

So this it the next logical step.

I’m sure of it.

INT. ALICE’S HOME - MASTER BEDROOM

Alice writes a note to herself.

ALICE (V.O.)

In your bedroom is a dresser with a

blue lamp. Open the top drawer.

In the back of the drawer there is

a bottle with pills in it. It says

take all pills with water.

(MORE)

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ALICE (V.O.) (cont'd)

Now there are a lot of pills in

that bottle. But it’s very

important that you swallow them

all.

Alice attaches a label to the bottle of prescription pills.

She puts them at the back of her dressing table drawer,

behind bits and pieces of jewelry and accessories.

Then something catches her eye: an old pendant of a smallenamel butterfly, brightly colored, a bit gaudy. She takes

it out and weighs it in her hand.

INT. ALICE’S HOME -- OFFICE

Alice finishes up the video and drags it to a folder on her

desktop labelled ‘Butterfly.’

ALICE (V.O.)

Okay? And then lie down, and go tosleep...And don’t tell anyone whatyou’re doing.

ON THE WHITE SCREEN

WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS GO TO A FILE ON

YOUR COMPUTER LABELLED BUTTERFLY

INT. LIDO BEACH HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - EVENING

Suddenly, Alice awakens. She’s been napping, curled up on abig old sofa. There’s the sound of waves. She looks around -

a little disoriented.

She sees a BOWL OF SHELLS on the table in front of her and a

MEMORY IMPAIRED bracelet on her wrist.

Slowly, she gets up and wanders towards the french doors.

Stepping out on the balcony, she sees the ocean.

EXT. LIDO BEACH - LATE AFTERNOON

Alice walks along the virtually abandoned beach. Down by thewater’s edge, she takes in the massive beautiful landscape.

MOMENTS LATER she is sitting on a rock. A hundred yards

away, John comes running.

JOHN:

Ali!

He joins her on the rock. They sit for a moment looking out

at the sea.

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JOHN:

I love it here.

ALICE:

I know. I love it too.

They move in for a tender kiss. The song, “If I had a Boat,”

comes up on the soundtrack.

INT. LIDO BEACH HOUSE - BEDROOM - NIGHT

Alice and John are in the bedroom, laughing together.

ALICE:

Remember Santorini?

JOHN:

Can you believe that was 30 yearsago?

ALICE:

Don’t do that to me - oh my god.

Oh that was a complicated time,

huh?

JOHN:

What was it - about a year after?

ALICE:

Yeah. Something like that.

JOHN:

I know I’ve said this to you

before, but I am sorry I never got

to meet your mother and your

sister.

ALICE:

Me too.

(she sighs)

We had a great time though.

JOHN:

Yeah.

She shifts a little and looks up at him.

ALICE:

Don’t you ever wish we’d had more

of that?

JOHN:

If you mean blow jobs on the beach,

yes I do wish we had more of that.

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ALICE:

You know, yeah all of it. It all

happened so fast, you know. Anna

was born, our careers.

JOHN:

You were pretty relentless. You

wanted everything and all at once.

ALICE:

That’s how I am. That’s how I like

it. Anna’s the same way, right.

JOHN:

I like the way you are. I like

everything about you.

She comes to kiss him and they roll over together.

ALICE:

This is so great you know. I kind

of like it, being liberated fromColumbia. Why don’t you take asabbatical next year?

JOHN:

And we’re going to do what, tour

around the country in an R.V?

ALICE:

Sure. I don’t know. Spend moretime here. Go to Bhutan.

JOHN:

I think our summer on the Island is

all the excitement I can handle

right now.

ALICE:

Well, you know what, this might bethe last year that I’m myself, youknow...

This brings John up short.

JOHN:

Please don’t say that.

INT. LIDO BEACH HOUSE--LIVING ROOM

Alice answers the questions on her phone.

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82

IPHONE SCREEN 82

1) WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE STREET YOU LIVE ON?

The answer 1 - 1 - 2 - T - H

Then WHAT MONTH WERE YOU BORN IN?

O - C - T - O - B - E - R

INT. LIDO BEACH HOUSE - LIVING AREA - MORNING

Alice finishes up her daily memory-check on her iPhone.

Then, gets up and walks out of the door.

EXT. LIDO BEACH HOUSE - GARAGE - MORNING

It’s a foggy, overcast morning.

ALICE:

John...

JOHN (O.S.)

I’m over here.

John, down below, planting some shrubs in the garden.

ALICE:

Hey when do you leave for theconference?

JOHN:

On Monday.

ALICE:

And when is Lydia coming?

JOHN:

Lydia comes on Sunday.

ALICE:

She doesn’t have to come all that

way to baby-sit me.

JOHN:

Well shes’s coming to do the Chekhovplay at the Saugatuck, remember?

She looks around at the misty morning.

ALICE:

...Right.

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JOHN:

When I get finished are we still

going to go for a run?

ALICE:

Yeah, I just need to grab another

layer.

She heads inside.

INT. LIDO BEACH HOUSE - MASTER BEDROOM

Entering the master bedroom, she goes over to a largedresser. She opens a drawer, digs around and finds what sheis looking for - a lightweight top. It’s a bit more colorful

than her taste usually runs.

She puts it on over her T-shirt, turns, and noticessomething.

It’s a photo album of her childhood, with fading photos andPolaroids, held in place by yellowing cellophane.

EXT. LIDO BEACH HOUSE - UPSTAIRS BALCONY - MINUTES LATER

Alice sits, studying the photo album.

In one photo, her MOTHER, a woman in her thirties, and hersister ANNE, mid-teens, are on the beach, smiling for the

camera. Turn a page, and there is young Alice eating dinner,

her mouth full of spaghetti.

Another page and there is her FATHER, giving the camera aslightly askew smile. Alice ponders him for a moment.

JOHN (O.S.)

Hey, are we still going running?

He appears from inside.

ALICE:

I’m sorry. Hey look I found thisphoto album with these pictures ofmy mother and my sister.

(John nods patiently)

Hey, when are you going to the

conference?

JOHN:

Monday.

ALICE:

And when is Lydia coming?

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JOHN:

Lydia is coming Sunday.

ALICE:

Ok.

JOHN:

Are we going running?

ALICE:

Yes we are, I just have to go pee.

I’ll be right back.

INT. LIDO BEACH HOUSE - UPSTAIRS

Alice walks in but feels disoriented, suddenly unsure ofwhere she is.

INT. LIDO BEACH HOUSE - HALLWAY/LIVING AREA

She comes downstairs, looks into the kitchen, then makes herway to the hallway, trying doors but not finding thebathroom. There’s a closet. Then Lydia’s room. Then an

office.

Hurrying towards the living room again, she becomes more andmore anxious. She tries the door to her right -- the closetagain.

CLOSE ON ALICE:

Her skin is flushed, reddening with humiliation.

John rushes down the stairs.

JOHN:

Alice!

She is standing by the hallway, her sweat pants soaked inurine.

JOHN:

Ali...

ALICE:

I couldn’t find the bathroom.

JOHN:

It’s okay, baby. Come on, let’s getyou cleaned up.

ALICE:

...I don’t know where I am.

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She starts to cry. John puts his arm round her and they goupstairs.

EXT. LIDO BEACH - DAY

A wide shot of the empty beach. Small in the frame, thefigures of Alice and Lydia walk along the shoreline.

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