While We're Young Page #14

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Leslie’s notes were awesome.

CORNELIA:

He’s smart that way.

JAMIE:

And he’s really chill to kick itwith.

She hesitates, she wipes a tear from her chin.

CORNELIA:

I’m sorry. Josh and I had a fightlast night and...he didn’t come home.

Cornelia starts to cry. Jamie hands her a napkin.

JAMIE:

Hey, hey, it’s going to be okay.

Joshy will come back.

CORNELIA:

(wipes her face)

Thank you. I’m sorry I’m like this.

JAMIE:

Hey, no worries.

(his eyes avert her)

I was thinking, maybe you and yourdad would want to work on my thingtogether.

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JAMIE (CONT'D)

He seems to want to get involved. It

might be kind of great, right?

A moment, Cornelia studies him. Jamie inspects his fork.

JAMIE:

I mean, you’re producing, but hecould bless it essentially...

CORNELIA:

Bless it? Like a sneeze?

JAMIE:

(smiles)

I was thinking more like the Pope.

CORNELIA:

He doesn’t do that kind of thing -

JAMIE:

I think if you asked him, he might.

Cornelia hesitates. She says, suddenly:

CORNELIA:

Did you ever see Power Elite?

Jamie gets up and exchanges his fork with one on anothertable.

JAMIE:

What’s that?

The corner of Cornelia’s mouth turns up.

JAMIE:

(catching himself)

Josh’s movie! Goddamn, yes. I told

him that. I loved that scene with

the dogs.

Jamie returns with the new fork.

CORNELIA:

When you went to Josh’s class, youknew Josh and I were married, didn’tyou? And that Leslie was my dad.

JAMIE:

(hesitates)

Hey, I admire lots of people, I wantlots of things. You know what I

mean. We all want stuff -- it

doesn’t mean we’re douche bags.

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JAMIE (CONT'D)

You’re a hip chick. You kissed me,

you’re married to my friend, but Iget it -

CORNELIA:

I thought you were Josh.

JAMIE:

The first time.

Cornelia stiffens.

JAMIE:

You know, but out of context, ifother people heard about it, it mightbe misconstrued.

Cornelia looks out the window. Josh is across the street.

57 EXT. JACKSON HOLE RESTAURANT. MORNING 57

Cornelia approaches Josh, he’s in the same clothes from lastnight. She’s furious.

CORNELIA:

Where were you last night?

JOSH:

I went dancing with Darby at an afterhours gay club.

(angry and suspicious)

Is this some kind of private meeting?

CORNELIA:

Did you follow me here?

JOSH:

I follow him on Twitter! You can’t

lie like we used to lie anymore.

Everything is reported. Nothing isprivate.

CORNELIA:

There’s nothing going on -

JOSH:

Don’t lie to me. You kissed him. I

know all about it.

CORNELIA:

I thought he was you, Joshy.

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JOSH:

Don’t call me Joshy! You don’t call

me Joshy.

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CORNELIA:

Sorry.

JOSH:

It’s all a pose...it’s like he oncesaw a sincere person and has beenimitating him ever since! And you’refalling for it.

CORNELIA:

(shakes her head)

I didn’t even like them! You

convinced me how awesome they were.

JOSH:

They’re entitled little brats.

And don’t you see, this is all aplan. He wants to destroy me.

Jamie appears across the street, he holds a small video

camera. He waves at Josh.

JOSH:

Go back inside!

Josh takes off his porkpie hat.

JOSH:

You and your father can have him.

You always wanted a more successfulme, so go for it.

CORNELIA:

What is wrong with you?

JOSH:

I didn’t know when we got marriedthat you also wanted to play kissyface with the twenty-five year olds.

I didn’t know you wouldn’t want tohave kids.

CORNELIA:

I didn’t know it either. I didn’t

know you’d never finish your movie.

JOSH:

I’ll finish it! I want to get itright.

CORNELIA:

It’s obsession. It’s fear. I don’t

know.

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CORNELIA (CONT'D)

It’s not really about makinganything. At least Jamie makes

something!

JOSH:

Do NOT compare what I do with him.

CORNELIA:

Why not? When you felt a part of it,

you loved it.

(Josh says nothing)

And you use your career as an excusenot to do anything. We don’t make

decisions, we don’t go on vacations,

we don’t have kids.

JOSH:

I want a kid.

CORNELIA:

You want it now that it’s impossible.

JOSH:

It’s not impossible.

CORNELIA:

No. It’s over. It’s done. I’m not

putting myself through that anymore.

(indicating her body)

This is closed.

Josh hesitates and then throws his hat into a garbage can.

He starts to walk away. He turns around, retrieves the hatfrom the garbage and walks away for real.

58 INT. FLETCHER/MARINA APT. - LIVING ROOM. NIGHT 58 *

Josh blows into an air mattress.

FLETCHER (O.S.)

Marina’s at a work dinner. *

Fletcher enters with a couple of old looking sheets. Willow,

the baby, sleeps in a moby wrapped around Fletcher’s torso.

FLETCHER:

They’re both top-sheets but...youknow...

JOSH:

Thanks.

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FLETCHER:

You might wake up when I come throughhere for Willow’s 2 AM feeding. And

then 5 AM. And then all the other

times she wakes up.

JOSH:

That’s okay.

Fletcher pours them both whiskeys. Josh picks up a cardboardsleeve from a Wilco CD off of a table. He smiles.

JOSH:

(re:
the baby)

How is she?

FLETCHER:

(looks down at her)

Pretty good. Cool baby. To be

honest, though, it’s a little hardfor me to relate to an infant.

JOSH:

It seems kind of cool though.

FLETCHER:

It’s like the pregnancy is its ownthing. You get so used to it. After

a while I just felt, we did this, wedon’t actually need the baby.

JOSH:

(nods)

I’m sorry if I’ve appeared crazyor...I don’t know...

FLETCHER:

I’m sorry we didn’t invite you to theparty.

JOSH:

(shrugs)

I think I’ve been jealous of you guyshaving a kid...

FLETCHER:

You know, before you have a kid,

everyone tells you, “It’s the bestthing you’ll ever do.” As soon as

you bring that baby back from thehospital, the same people say, “Don’tworry, it gets better.” It’s like,

what the f*** was that all about

before?

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JOSH:

Having Willow must have changed yourwhole perspective on life.

FLETCHER:

(pause)

Not as much as I hoped it would.

(lowering his voice)

I love my kid but I’m still the mostimportant person in my life.

Fletcher winces as he sits in a chair.

FLETCHER:

Did I tell you I have a herniateddisk, C5 or some sh*t... I’m gettingan epidurol on Monday.

JOSH:

(laughing)

I have arthritis in my knees.

FLETCHER:

What the f*** is happening to us?

59 INT. TIM’S APARTMENT BUILDING - HALLWAY, BROOKLYN. DAY 59

Josh waits outside an apartment door. A shirtless eight yearold boy opens the door. Josh nods at him.

Tim opens the door further.

JOSH:

Hey, man, I’m sorry about...notpaying you.

TIM:

Yeah...

JOSH:

I mean, I hoped the money would comein... It didn’t. I kind of fudgedthat.

TIM:

I just can’t work for nothing, youknow?

The kid shakes Josh’s hand.

TIM:

But thanks for hooking me up withJamie, I’ve been freelancing a bitfor him.

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JOSH:

If you’re not too busy there, I wantto hire you back for a couple ofweeks. I can pay you.

TIM:

Did the grant money come in?

JOSH:

No, I sold all my CD’s. And some

other things.

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