The Parent Trap Page #3

Hallie charges but Annie side-steps and Hallie runs past her. Hallie stops and whips around to find Annie lunging toward her. ..Hallie steps back, loses her balance and falls butt-first into a WATER TROUGH, landing with a huge splash. The Campers explode with laughter.

Annie reaches out to help Hallie but Hallie grabs Annie's hand and yanks her into the trough. The Campers crack-up as the two Girls sit soaking, side-by-side. They climb out together and angrily pull off their masks. Annie tosses her long hair as Hallie shakes her short hair dry.

MARVA JR.

Looks like we got ourselves a new camp champ. Miss Annie James! Let's'shake hands, girls.

Neither girl turns around.

MARVA JR.

Girls!

Annie and Hallie turn, hands extended. And for the first

time, THEY LOOK INTO EACH OTHER'S FACES. They freeze.

Speechless. it's like looking into a mirror. Hallie extends

her hand...Annie reaches for it.

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CLOSE ANGLE - THEIR HANDS

as they touch, something electric again passes between them.

Annie AND Hallie

look down at their hands, then up at each other... not knowing what to say. Just then, their friends join them and they immediately slip their hands into their pockets - at the same time. Their friends stop in their tracks and look from Annie to Hallie - stunned at the resemblance. The lunch bell RINGS and everyone else on the lawn runs toward the Mess Hall.

Hallie

Why's everyone staring?

Annie

Don't you see it?

Hallie

See what?

Annie

The resemblance between us.

Hallie

Between you and me?! A resemblance? Let

me see, turn sideways ...

(Annie turns)

Now the other way...

(Annie does)

well, your eyes are much closer together than mine. Your ears stick out, your teeth are crooked and that nose... well, don't worry, those things can be fixed.

Zoe and Nicole laugh.

CROSBY:

(to Annie)

Want me to deck her for you?

Hallie

Hold on, I'm not quite finished. You want

to )mow the real difference between us?

Annie

I have class and you don't? Or I know how

to fence and you don't? Take your pick.

Hallie angrily steps forward but Marva steps between them.

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MARVA JR:

Okay, ladies, time to break-up this

little love fest. Annie... Hallie...

(notices how they look alike)

I mean, Hallie... Annie...

The lunch bell RINGS again. Jackie and Crosby pull Annie away, as Zoe and Nicole pull Hallie in the other direction.

ZOE:

That girl is a major loser.

NICOLE:

Yeah. Too bad you couldn't look like somebody cooler.

ANGLE - Annie AND HER PALS - TRACKING

Annie

Do we really look as much alike as I think we do?.

CROSBY:

It's just a weird freak of nature. (slaps her on the back)

Please accept my condolences.

Annie looks back at Hallie, who is sneaking a look at her. She quickly turns away.

INT. ANNIE'S BUNK - THE NAVAJOS - NIGHT

CLOSE on a PILE of CHANGE, crumpled DOLLAR BILLS, CANDY BARS. ANGLE BACK to see a Crowd of Girls watching a poker game Annie, with a Tootsie Pop dangling from the side of her mouth, is playing with Four Older Girls and winning big-time.

Annie

Sorry, ladies, read ‘em and weep.

Annie spreads out a full house. The Older Girls groan and toss in their hands, as Annie rakes in the pot.

Annie

So... that's-it... no other takers?

LITTLE KID:

You've already tooken everybody...

A CRISP NEW FIVE DOLLAR BILL floats on to the cot.

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HALLIE'S VOICE

Not everybody.

ANGLE - Hallie

standing over Annie, a smile on her face.

CUT TO:

HALLIE'S HANDSS - SKILLFULLY-SHUFFLING A DECK OF CARDS

As she deals, we see A SERIES OF QUICK CUTS of Annie and Hallie, going one-on-one... shuffling, dealing, drawing, bluffing... First Annie rakes in the pot... then Hallie... then Annie... it's back and forth... until finally the entire pot sits in front of Hallie and Annie is down to her last dollar.

Hallie

(tossing in her bet)

Three bucks.

Annie checks her hand... she's holding a straight. She bites her lip... knowing she's holding a winning hand.

Hallie

Tell you what I'm gonna do, since you're almost tapped out... I'll make you a deal. Loser jumps into the lake after the game.

Annie

Excellent.

Nude.

Annie

Even more excellent.

(revealing her hand)

Queen high straight.

Hallie

(spreads-a full house across

the blanket)

Start unzipping, Princess... full-house.

EXT. LAKE - NIGHT

CAMERA IS CLOSE on Annie's CAMP UNIFORM as it falls to the sand. Annie's BARE FEET step away from the clothes.

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ANGLE - THE GIRLS FROM THE POKER GAME

huddled on the shore holding candles. Hallie stands in the center of the group, a content smile on her face.

ZOE:

(watching Annie walk to lake)

That girl's butt looks awfully familiar.

(off Hallie's look)

It does!

CLOSE - Annie

She reaches the dock, teeth chattering. She turns back, looks at the Girls. Hallie and her friends wave. Annie salutes them.

THE LAKE:

as ANNIE'S LEGS gracefully slice through the water, in a perfect dive. Annie pops up in the water, looks out at the Girls but THEY ARE GONE!

ANNIE'S WET FEET hurry across the sand and arrive at where her clothes were but all that's left are her sneakers.

ANGLE - ANNIE'S WET AND SHIVERING FACE

Annie

(catching on)

Let the games begin.

EXT. CAMP WALDEN - THE FOLLOWING I)AY

Hallie and her friends are trudging home after a hike. They're hot, sweaty and tired.

Annie

I swear I heard that girl sneezing all the

way across the mess hall this morning.

(the others laugh, Hallie

yawns)

I'm so tired. I'm crawling back into bed

and sleeping until lunch.

NICOLE:

(stops, looking up at the roof

of their bunk)

That does not seem like a possibility.

Hallie

Why not?

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NICOLE:

(pointing)

That's 'why not'.

Hallie stops in her tracks, her eyes rising to THE ROOF OF THE BUNK where every single COT is now perched.

Hallie

No way.

EXT. CAMP WALDEN - NIGHT

Lights are out. Everything is quiet and peaceful. Suddenly, THREE SHADOWY FIGURES run silently toward Annie's bunk.

INT. ANNIE'S BUNK - NIGHT

CAMERA PANS past a sleeping Jackie, Crosby and Annie. The door squeaks open and Hallie steps inside. She signals the coast is clear" and Nicole and Zoe tip-toe in carrying strange,

unidentifiable objects. They all quickly go to work and we SEE: A jar of HONEY is opened and poured into a pair of Addidas. A can of SHAVING CREAM is squirted onto a pillow-case.

A ball of TWINE is wound around a bedpost, then zigzagged across the room.

An industrial-size can of CHOCOLATE M UP is emptied into a bucket.

WESSON OIL is poured all over the floor.

CUT TO:

MORNING - A SLEEPY SEVEN YEAR-OLD WITH A BUGLE

plays reveille... badly.

INT ANNIE'S BLINK - FOLLOWING MORNING

The bunk looks like one giant spider web. Mazes of string everywhere. The sound of EMILLE reverberates through the room as the Girls get out of bed, slide in the Wesson Oil, get stuck in the honey, trip over the string... lots of yelling and screaming. Annie stands dripping in shaving cream.

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