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Feb. 15, 1987 "Delirious" By Josh Becker INT. LUNCH ROOM - DAY This is the lunch room of Wylie E. Groves High School and is presently full of students in a large study hall. Some people are talking, some studying. The teacher is discussing tennis with two jocks. In the seat beside he back door sits GERRIT REINHARDT, a tall 18 year old with short trim hair and sharply creased pants. He looks around anxiously, then ducks out the door. INT. HALLWAY Gerrit walks quickly up the empty hall, past cases and cases of sports trophies, to a door near the back of the school. He peers in through the small window in the door. IN. GYM - GERRIT'S POV In the gym 50 girls practice gymnastics. Gerrit scans the room, the balance beam, girls working out on the mats and stops on the uneven parallel bars where a beautiful lithe girl with long reddish blonde hair and wearing a tight sweaty gray leotard spins around with great dexterity. She is ANN DEBENHAM and Gerrit stares only at her, transfixed. Ann spots Gerrit, pauses in her routine and smiles at him and waves. Gerrit smiles and waves back, then moves away from the window in embarrassment. INT. HALLWAY Gerrit turns from the window and there stands a pleasant, though exceedingly plain young lady with mildly thick glasses. She is CHERYL. CHERYL
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He turns and looks back through the window. INT. GYM Ann sees him again and starts to walk over. INT. HALLWAY Gerrit begins panicking. CHERYL
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Gerrit starts to walk away slowly watching Cheryl to see her leave. CHERYL
She doesn't seem to be leaving, so Gerrit turns and stops. GERRIT
Cheryl takes one step away and then door opens, Ann pops her head out, sees Cheryl, then Gerrit. ANN
Ann pops her head back in and the door shuts. Gerrit makes a move for the door, stops, looks at Cheryl and moans. GERRIT
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Gerrit shakes his head and walks away. INT. ANOTHER HALLWAY As Gerrit wanders up the hall, the bell rings and a million students engulf him. Gerrit gets to his locker, does the combination and exchanges his books for some others. Three lockers down is a burnout named BRETT BUDSON with long blond hair. His locker is a mess, papers stick out of every crack. BUDSON
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Budson leaves. Gerrit shuts his locker, pauses for a moment of consideration, then takes off through the crowd. INT. ANOTHER HALLWAY Gerrit makes his way through the crowd and up to the side of Ann, whose hair is wet and pulled back. GERRIT
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Gerrit takes Ann's arm and stops her. GERRIT
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Ann pauses a moment to consider, then begins. ANN
GERRIT At that very moment Cheryl happens by. CHERYL
Ann looks at Gerrit and he is totally embarrassed. GERRIT
Cheryl reappears holding a book. CHERYL
Gerrit takes the book entirely at a loss for words and Cheryl leaves. GERRIT
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GERRIT It's now Ann's turn to get a little embarrassed. ANN
Gerrit shakes his head in defeat. GERRIT
ANN INT. YET ANOTHER HALLWAY The amount of people in the halls has diminished considerably. MR. BLACKWELL, the Principal, walks up the hall alert and ready for trouble. He arrives at the Men's Room door and is just about to open it when a fight breaks out further down the hall. BLACKWELL
Blackwell starts after the fighters and the bathroom door opens and a giant cloud of smoke billows out. Three burnouts stagger out, amongst them Brett Budson. They see Blackwell and quickly head in the other direction. INT. HALLWAY WITH CLASSROOM As Ann and Gerrit arrive at their next class they find the teacher, MR. MALL, a tall man with a black beard, standing in the doorway with his finger to his lips. MR.
MALL ANN Mr. Mall points into the classroom. INT. CLASSROOM In the far back corner seat near the window reposes a fellow with long stringy blond hair who is dead out asleep with his face on the desk. He breathes slowly and regularly flapping the edge of the test sheet his face rests on. He is JOHN QUADERER. MR.
MALL The students file past all being informed to keep quiet. Just as Mr. Mall is shutting the door Brett Budson arrives. MR.
MALL Mr. Mall hands a pile of test forms to the first person in each row. They each take one and pass them back. MR.
MALL With a few coughs and the rattling of paper the test begins. Gerrit reads the first question, poises his pencil over the test but makes no attempt to write anything. He glances over at Ann and she's not writing either. MR.
MALL Three seats behind Gerrit sits Budson who is trying to communicate with the fellow in the row next to him without attracting the teacher's attention. BUDSON Matt looks up annoyed and snaps loudly. MATT
Everyone in the class turns to look and Budson tries to shrink out of sight. MR.
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MALL A guy near the back wearing glasses looks down at the palm of his hand where the answers are written. He writes an answer on the test, refers back to his hand. Suddenly there is Mr. Mall looming over him crumbling up his test. MR.
MALL Mr. Mall pulls up Samara's sleeve. MR.
MALL Samara slides up his pant leg. SAMARA
Samara leaves and when he shuts the door the sound awakens the sleeping burnout in the corner. He sits up and his test paper is stuck to his face. QUADERER
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MALL QUADERER John Quaderer comes forward and hands in his test and starts to leave. MR.
MALL Quaderer puts his last name on the test and leaves. Mr. Mall holds John Quaderer's test out to his side. MR.
MALL He drops it in the trash can. A creepy egghead in the front row picks up his books and hands in his test. EGGHEAD
The class looks up at the creepy Egghead with deep hatred on their faces. SOMEONE
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MALL CLOSE UP - CLOCK The hands travel around from 11:15 to 12:05. INT. CLASSROOM One student after another hands in their tests and leaves. Finally, all that remain are Gerrit, Ann and Budson. All three appear to be having difficulty with the exam. Mr. Mall sits at his desk eating his lunch from a bag. MR.
MALL All three students dislike being treated like idiots. MR.
MALL The three slackers attempt to work on through the teacher's harangue. MR.
MALL He shakes his head in disgust and goes back to his tuna sandwich. Budson smells the food and his stomach begins to growl. That's it for him. He stands and suddenly Ann and Gerrit stand too and they all hand in their tests. MR.
MALL INT. HALLWAY WITH CLASSROOM When Ann, Gerrit and Budson get out into the hall they are pissed off. BUDSON
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They stand in silence contemplating the dismal future. BUDSON
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Ann turns to Gerrit. ANN GERRIT ANN Gerrit looks from Budson to Ann and puts his hands in his pockets. BUDSON
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Ann shoves her face directly into Gerrit's.. ANN
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Budson and Ann look at each other and burst out laughing and both say at the same time. BOTH
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She walks away still laughing. Gerrit shakes his head and blinks. GERRIT
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This is a novel idea. GERRIT BUDSON
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EXT. SUBURBAN STREET - DAY Gerrit and Budson drive up the sunny suburban street in Gerrit's black '66 mustang. BUDSON
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Gerrit's mind has wandered. GERRIT Budson points up ahead. BUDSON EXT. DEALER'S HOUSE - DAY The mustang comes around the curve and comes upon four police cars with their flashers on. Gerrit panics.
He slams it into reverse. BUDSON GERRIT BUDSON GERRIT They slowly cruise past the house with police cars as the cops are bringing a guy out. BUDSON GERRIT BUDSON GERRIT BUDSON
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EXT. HIGHWAY - DAY It's a warm sunny spring day on a woodsy stretch of I-275. Gerrit drives along at the speed limit and Budson goes through his wallet. BUDSON
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