“Office Excitement” (short screenplay, check out excerpts)
Logline/Synopsis:
A somewhat frustrated realtor, disappointed cause of the lack of business as he deals with prospects over the phone. He drinks and gets a little crazy alone in his office. His secretary is challenged by an aggressive insurance agent. The agent gets impatient after waiting to see the realtor. He steals office supplies. He then tries selling insurance to her and after his crazy failing attempts, he literally gets kicked out of the office by both of them. And Larry, the realtor, ends the story in a strange way with a gun, scaring Judy, his secretary.
Excerpt:
LARRY
(politely)
Hi.
(smiles)
Is daddy home?…How ʼbout mommy..? OK. Go call her…I need to talk to her. . ..
JUDY
(looking through the file cabinet. He scares her at “Go” and she freezes, listening to him)
LARRY
(explodes)
Go! Get! Her!!
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LARRY
(swings a fly swatter one good time like a baseball bat with two hands, trying to swat a fly in midair, getting him a little pissed off for missing it)
(quietly to himself)
You little bastard!
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BATES
OK. I just simply wanted to present him a very good deal. Why donʼt you shut the fuck up and go in there and get him.
JUDY
(pissed off)
Who the hell you think youʼre talking to?!!
BATES
You talk too much. If youʼre not going to get him, sit down!!
(pushes her down in the chair)
JUDY
(canʼt believe it, as she gets up fast, loudly)
YOU BASTARD! WHAT THE FUCK YOU THINK YOUʼRE DOING?!!
BATES
(points at office door)
GET his ass the fuck OUT here or Iʼll mop you all over this fuckinʼ place!
JUDY
(backs away from him)
You sick bastard!
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Comedy / Satire, 23 pages, PDF copy via email attachment.
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