(500) DAYS OF SUMMER by Scott Neustadter Michael H. Weber

(500) DAYS OF SUMMER by

Scott Neustadter &

Michael H. Weber

First Draft 2006

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS A WORK OF FICTION. ANY RESEMBLANCE TO PERSONS LIVING OR DEAD IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL.

1. ESPECIALLY YOU JENNY BECKMAN.

2. BITCH.

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SIMPLE BLACK ON WHITE CREDITS ROLL TO BIG STAR'S "I'M IN LOVE WITH A GIRL." When all is said and done, up comes a single number in parenthesis, like so:

(478)

EXT. PARK - DAY

For a few seconds we watch A MAN (20s) and a WOMAN (20s) on a park bench. Their names are TOM and SUMMER. Neither one says a word.

CLOSE ON her HAND, covering his. Notice the wedding ring. No words are spoken. Tom looks at her the way every woman wants to be looked at.

A DISTINGUISHED VOICE begins to speak to us.

NARRATOR This is a story of boy meets girl.

CUT TO:

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INT CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY

The boy is TOM HANSEN. He sits at a very long rectangular conference table. The walls are lined with framed blow-up sized greeting cards. Tom, dark hair and blue eyes, wears a tshirt under his sports coat and Adidas tennis shoes to balance out the corporate dress code. He looks pretty bored.

NARRATOR The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met his... "soulmate."

CUT TO:

INT LIVING ROOM - 1989

PRE-TEEN TOM sits alone on his bed engrossed in a movie. His walls are covered in posters of obscure bands. From the TV, we hear: "Elaine! Elaine!"

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