Suburbia Play Script

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Director:Richard Linklater
Written by:Eric Bogosian (Theatre Play), Eric Bogosian (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
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EXT. ESTABLISHING - BURNFIELD - DAY

Over the variousimages of Burnfield's stripmalls and fast food

joints we hear GENEPITNEY singing.

GENE PITNEY (V.O.)

(singing)

'When your young and so in love as we

and bewildered by the world we see

why do people hurt us so

Only those in love know

What a town without pity can do

If we stop to gave upon a star

people talk about how bad we are

ours is not an easy age

we're like tigers in a cage

What a town without pity can do'

INT. JEFF'S ROOM - GARAGE - DAY

JEFF is talking on the telephoneinside of his tent which is has

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set up in his parents garage.

JEFF:

(into telephone)

Buff? Yeah, I'll see you down there later. I just gotta finish

some stuff I'm writing. Okay. 'Bye.

Jeff clicks over to the other line.

JEFF:

(into telephone)

SOOZE? Yeah, so did you tell him that we couldn't afford twenty

bucks a ticket and why didn't he put us on the comp list? No, no,

there's always a comp list. Alright. Well, so then, just get your

mother's car and maybe we'll all go do something. Yeah. I gotta

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get off. Okay. 'Bye.

CUT TO:

INT. PIZZAJOINT - DAY

BUFF is the one of the only people working. Pies are over cooking

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in the oven and Buff is trying to punch out of work as soon as he

can.

BUFF:

(into telephone)

Hey, Frankie! Hey, what are you doing? Sleeping? What, at six

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o'clock? Sleep when you are dead. Hey, man, I just got off work.

Why don't you meet me down at the corner. So? Put on some clothes

and come down, man, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I wanna see you, man.

Alright. Yeah. Hey, why don't you bring that pot you just bought?

What?! Yeah, f*** you man!

(to employee)

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Later.

CUT TO:

INT. SOOZE'S HOUSE. BEDROOM - DAY

Sooze's room is covered with a wide variety of artwork, most of

which she as done. She hangs up the phone and walks down the

hallway towards her MOTHERS room. She stops in her mother's

doorway,

SOOZE:

I'm going out later.

SOOZE'S MOM

No car.

SOOZE:

The f*** not?

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SOOZE'S MOM

You know the f*** not.

SOOZE:

F***.

SOOZE'S MOM

Don't swear it's impolite.

Sooze storms out of the room and back down the hall to her own

room. Sooze's mom is watching a shoppingchannel on the

television. We dolly into the television.

SHOPPING CHANNEL HOST

... suggest that you call immediately. We are trulythrilled to

bring you this next item and it's a Host Value Special. It's the

spiral relaxation lamp. I personallybought one of these for a

very good friend of mine and ended up falling in love with it, I

found myselfmesmerized by watching the balls. That's why I

suggest that if you're going to buy one, that you buy maybe two

or three...

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INT. CIRCLE A CONVENIENCESTORE - NIGHT

Two POLICEOFFICERS (CHIP and GARY) are at the counter buying

cigarettes. Jeff is also inside shopping. The convenience store

worker, NAZEER, is watching a cops-like TV show.

TV REPORTER (V.O.)

It started with a traffic argument, escalated to the firing of a

legally carried handgun, ending with the death of the man it was

aimed at. GORDONRIEDHALEclaimed he couldn't escape an attacker

who was punching him in the head. Concealedcarry instructors

say, 'It's that fear...'

CHIP:

Just depends on the filter capacity. What size is that pool?

GARY:

Fifty-five thousand.

(to Nazeer)

Marlboros, chief. Hard pack.

CHIP:

In that case you need a heavy-duty filter.

NAZEER:

Two-fifty.

GARY:

Two-fifty? They go up?

NAZEER:

Always two-fifty, my friend.

TV REPORTER (V.O.)

What that means is that everyarmedlicenseefaced with danger

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must make a splitsecondjudgment call.

Gary places two-fifty on the counter and him and Chip walk back

to theirpatrol car. As they leave the parking lot they see TIM

sitting on the side of the building.