While We're Young Page #5

FLETCHER:

I decided, with Marina going back to *

work, I’m taking a leave of absencefrom the firm and am going to takecare of Willow.

JOSH:

Oh...cool. How long?

FLETCHER:

Indefinite.

MARINA *

It’s such a load off and I’m makingenough -

FLETCHER:

Yeah, it’s really just my ego atstake.

JOSH FLETCHER:

Time to rewatch Mr. Mom. Already Netflixed it. I gotsome laughs.

MARINA *

We’re the boring couple with thebaby. What have you guys been doing?

Tell us something fun!

JOSH:

Well, we met this interesting couple.

Jamie and Darby. He’s a youngdocumentarian and she makes ice

cream.

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CORNELIA:

I don’t know what to make of them

honestly. I like her.

JOSH:

They make everything. It’s

infectious. For about twelve hours I

thought I could build my own desk.

CORNELIA:

There is something about being aroundthem that...that energizes you. You

know?

MARINA *

How old are they?

CORNELIA JOSH:

(looks to Josh)26 or 27.

I think around 26.

MARINA *

They’re children!

FLETCHER:

Nine years ago, they couldn’t vote.

CORNELIA:

But they’re married.

FLETCHER:

Why?

Josh squints at his menu. He picks up a candle and holds itclose to the menu in order to read.

JOSH:

You should see this guy’s recordcollection. It’s Jay-Z, it’s ThinLizzy, it’s Mozart. Their taste is

democratic. It’s The Goonies and

Citizen Kane. They don’t distinguishbetween high and low, it’s wonderful.

FLETCHER:

When did The Goonies become a goodmovie?

CORNELIA:

It’s like their apartment is full ofeverything we once threw out but itlooks so good the way they have it.

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Silence. Josh feels his phone vibrate. He starts texting.

Everyone else takes this opportunity to text as well.

Fletcher looks up.

FLETCHER:

(re:
texting)

Why is it once one person goes ontheir phone everyone else has to.

CORNELIA:

(distracted, on herphone)

I just have a quick thing-MARINA

(distracted, on herphone)

I’m not on my phone. I’m

just... The baby. *

FLETCHER:

Each of us is so certain that we’ve

got the most important thing to doright now...

CORNELIA:

(texting)

I know, it’s rude.

FLETCHER:

(texting)

It’s not anymore. It used to be but

now it’s accepted. It’s like showingyour ankles in the 1800’s.

Josh gets a text. He lights up.

JOSH:

The almond tasting pigs and fruitsare made of...

CLOSE:
Marzipan!

He and Cornelia both exclaim, laughing:

Marzipan!

JOSH/CORNELIA

11 EXT. SMITH STREET, BROOKLYN. LATE DAY 11

It’s still light out. They emerge from the restaurant.

JOSH:

(to Fletcher and Marina)

You guys want to hit this streetbeach with us?

*

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FLETCHER:

I don’t know what you’re saying.

JOSH:

Something Jamie and Darby are doing.

FLETCHER:

Since when do you guys do two things

in an evening? You never go anywhere.

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JOSH:

(defensive)

We go anywhere.

MARINA:

We have to get back for thesitter...Scratch that, we want to get

back.

*

FLETCHER:

I hate being away from her!

JOSH:

The sitter?

FLETCHER:

Yeah!

(beat)

No, Willow.

MARINA:

You should see how much he

cries when he has to leave

her.

It’s true.

FLETCHER:

*

CORNELIA:

Oh, we’ve lost you to the baby!

MARINA:

You guys have to come see heragain! She’s already adifferent person.

FLETCHER:

We’re always home so juststop by! *

They kiss and hug goodbye. They part ways.

CORNELIA:

(now to Josh)

We have lost them to the baby.

JOSH:

We go anywhere. Right?

CORNELIA:

We never go anywhere.

TIPPER (V.O.)

High kick contest!

12 EXT. BUSHWICK. LATE DAY 12

CLOSE on an open fire hydrant hemorrhaging water.

30.

Tipper, in a a home-made, totally unofficial t-shirt thatsays I’ve Been To A Lot of Hard Rock Cafes, kicks her leghigh in the air. Guys in vintage plaid shorts and porkpiehats and beards and bare feet try to kick higher. Most

everyone is filming everyone. Young women in swim suits tossa beach ball.

Jamie, with an apron that says Kiss the Chef, finisheskicking and sees Josh and Cornelia approaching. He brightensand waves.

JAMIE:

What’s the rumpus, Srebnicks?

Darby hands Cornelia a pinkish drink in a clear plastic cup.

DARBY:

Have you tried this? Someone at

college figured out that if you putJolly Ranchers in vodka for twenty-

four hours -- it’s awesome.

(nods to herself)

Some kind of date rape genius.

Cornelia drinks, she nods.

CORNELIA:

I’d rape me.

DARBY:

You want to take a dance class with

me?

BENNY (O.S.)

Ow f***!

Benny, a bearded white kid in an afro, sits at the curb,

wincing and pulling a piece of glass out of his foot. Jamie

and Josh wade through the bathers to a hibachi grill.

JAMIE:

Can I run an idea by you?

JOSH:

Sure, what?

JAMIE:

It’s a project I want to shoot.

JOSH:

Okay.

31.

JAMIE:

I’ve never done Facebook, it’s not mything, see -

JOSH:

Oh, really? I was against it atfirst...but it’s actually quite auseful tool. It makes me feel like

I’m really connected. And there’s

pictures-

A beach-ball hits Josh in the head.

JOSH:

What the sh*t? Watch it!

He realizes very quickly that he over-reacted, tries to be agood sport and tosses the ball back with a forced laugh.

JOSH:

Ha! Back atcha!

JAMIE:

It’s lame, yeah. That’s why I’mdoing this new thing with it: I’mgoing to start a profile and wait forpeople to contact me.

JOSH:

Well, that part’s normal, that’s

Facebook.

Josh is doused with water from some splashing partiers. He

tries to continue unfettered. He wrings out his shirt sleeves.

JAMIE:

And whoever the first person is frommy childhood -- someone I’m no longerin touch with -- who contacts

me...instead of responding onFacebook, see. I’m going to go findthem in person. With my camera.

JOSH:

Okay.

JAMIE:

Like make Facebook real. It’s like

you want to talk to me, let’s talk.

JOSH:

Kind of just like real life?

32.

JAMIE:

Exactly.

JOSH:

Well, real was there before Facebook.

JAMIE:

Right!

JOSH:

It sounds interesting. I’m not sure

it’s enough -

JAMIE:

What do you mean?

JOSH:

Well, think about what you want to

say. I mean, what are you hoping tofind?

JAMIE:

I’ll know when I get there. You

said, we should be open to surprises,

right?

JOSH:

It’s a nice beginning. But it mightnot be a full enough meal yet, youknow? Keep digging.

Jamie nods, trying to mask his disappointment.

SCHOLAR (V.O.)

When I criticize quantitativeanalysis, it’s not because statisticsdon’t tell us anything.

13 INT. IRA’S LIVING ROOM. DAY 13

Books and papers and yapping dogs. Tim holds a boom. Josh

looks through the eye piece of a digital camera on a tripod.

Ira, the scholar, older than we saw him on the Avid, nowsports a mostly gray goatee. He has stained khakis, cheaprunning sneakers and a band-aid on his forehead.

SCHOLAR:

On the contrary, I’d say that theyare often very revealing. Indeed,

they are often most revealing when -

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