Film Script

Script
SCENE ONE


EXT. OUTSIDE SCHOOL - AFTERNOON


JOHN walking outside of school not paying any attention to anything around him. He bumps into a girl. She looks up and curses him. He stops and he sees his brother COLIN who casually laughs at him and walks past as if they’re strangers. He stops as he begins to think about all the abuse he receives at school.


INT. HOME - AFTERNOON
LINDA picks up a handful of letters, and browses through them until she comes across one that catches her eye labelled NHS. She hears someone come into the house, quickly hiding the letter she shouts out john? But then sees it is her eldest son COLIN, he can see through her eyes that she has something to tell him and ask what’s wrong she sits him down and tells him of the letter she received and how she is in desperate need of a kidney.
JOHN then comes home from school, he hears the conversation taking place in the living room and quietly approaches the doorway, he is unheard.


LINDA
(CRYING)
Kidney Transplant


COLIN
(SHOCKED/CONFUSED)
Who Me?


COLIN then storms out the room heading for the front door, barging JOHN on the way he leaves.
LINDA drops into the sofa chair and begins to weep, COLIN then slowly walks in and tries to console mother but she politely brushes him off and instead asks what he wants for dinner.



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SCENE TWO.
(THE NEXT DAY)
EXT. UPNEY WALK IN CLINIC – MORNING


JOHN walks in.


(2 WEEKS LATER)



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SCENE THREE
INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY




LINDA is at home watching TV, the phone rings and she goes to pick it up without any interest, After 30 seconds of conversation she drops the phone in excitement and calls down JOHN.


INT. JOHNS BEDROOM. DAY


JOHN hears his mother call and casually walks downstairs.


INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY


LINDA embraces JOHN and tell him she had a kidney donor.


LINDA
(CRYING TEARS OF JOY)
I wonder who was man enough to do this.




LINDA hurries off to inform family and friends, leaving JOHN to smile to h mimself.