FADE IN:
EXT. FRONT OF HOUSE - 8:30 PM
PULL AWAY from the window through which you can see Dianne
and Russell sitting on the couch laughing and talking past
her car in the driveway.
CUT TO:
EXT. MONICA'S POOL - 8:30 PM
Monica is sitting on the side of the pool with her clothes
still on but with her feet hanging in the water.
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She is contemplating her conversation with her dad from
earlier and thinking about Derrick as she rest with her
arms stretched behind her propping her up.
CUT TO:
EXT. STABLES - 8:30 PM
Derrick is filing the blade on the chain saw on the tail
gate of the truck.
His mind keeps drifting to Monica.
He finally pauses for a moment.
He walks outside the stable into the light shining down
above his head.
He is swinging his arms while he thinks and looking up at
the night sky.
CUT TO:
EXT. EDGE OF ROAD MONICA'S HOUSE - 8:35 PM
Monica decides to walk to the front of her house out on to
the road toward the tree line to see if there was any sign
of Derrick outside.
As soon as she walks past the tree line in the darkness
from the road she can see him standing their swinging his
arms and looking up in the light.
She pauses for a moment as she watches him.
She reaches down to swat away a mosquito that just bit her
on her leg.
She starts walking back to the house, then she stops.
She makes a U-turn and starts walking on the road toward
his drive way.
She stops halfway, then she starts again.
She see's him walk back into the stables.
CUT TO:
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INT. STABLES - 8:38 PM
Derrick has gone back to sharpening the blade on the
tailgate again.
Monica walks up to the edge of the door slowly not to catch
his attention.
She leans against the entry way and watches him work.
She crosses her arms while she smiles at the sight of him.
He turns to grab the blade oil off of the shelf behind him
when he catches a glimpse of her out of his eye.
He comes back around to see what he saw.
It was her.
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HEART'S COMPASS - Screenplay (Movie)
RomanceBlack Father and Son Cowboys move to N.C. and both find the loves of their lives. But the Son's love happens to be the white girl next door and his father and her father are not having it. The dead mother reaches through space and time to communic...
