Movie Opens on Roller Coaster |
Act 1, Scene 1
Sound track: Roller Coaster - Red Hot Chili Peppers We are on the roller coaster and there is screaming. We are looking at 200 feet in air, nothing below us. Someone pukes, slop hits the lens and we are immediately taken to black. It is Monday morning. The alarm is going off and Mattie is trying to find the alarm clock out of a deep sleep. She makes 3 groping attempts and finally knocks the clock off the night table. It goes into snooze mode. Fade to Black Scene 1A A;arm clock is ringing again on the wooden floor. Mattie drags her weary bones into a dreary Monday morning. She puts on her doggy slippers with big ears and a full-length terry cloth robe. She sashays downstairs to the kitchen. |
Typical MorningScene
Mom and Dad are going to work. Mattie is fixing lunch for her little brother. She does some kind of pet chore. When she drinks Fl. brand OJ and eats a pop tart, she under goes
a complete change. She goes from being a comatose sleepy head
to a girl with a mission. She tells her mother she is going to let the pet out. She goes across the way to a neighbor's house and gets the Little Rascals ( LR) ready for school. She has a furious burst of activity. She finishes in exactly 11 minutes. She looks at a clock when she enters the LR's house and when she leaves because she is on a tight time frame. |
We see the LR getting on the bus. Mattie is jogging to get back home and she takes the pet in with her. Her mom says "I swaer child, what are you doing out there?" She knows something is going on but can't see out the window. |
Mattie is in the care with her parents because they drop her off at school |