hi.
like your tie.
greaser.
of course. he's one of the atlas steel vanlaninghams. pittsburgh. he's a bully.
because my parents want her to and alice is afraid of my parents. it's practically an arranged marriage. they think alice has peanut shells for brains or something, so they sort of suggested that maybe it was time to tie the old knot and they sort of suggested that peter was the one to do it with.
look, alice is the good daughter, eleanor is the bad one, and i'm the one who sort of gets off the hook. that's just the way it works. which one are you?
come on, eleanor -- dad's waiting.
how's your chin?
you want a ride?
you can drive.
i don't care.
how come you never ask me out?
for like a date, block-head.
i don't mean hanging out.
you scared of me or something?
then forget it.
i said forget it, so forget it.
jesus.  what do you want?
i don't believe you. you're crazy. i'm baby-sitting. my folks went out to dinner with peter and alice and i got tricked into watching the baby.
i thought you came over to ask me out?
good, 'cause eleanor isn't here.
no.
because, you know, my parents aren't here.
oh, hell. okay, but just for a little while.
you're not like jacey.
he's so.  so trig and polished.
you know.  handsome, sexy, sophisticated. pipe-smokers.
well, you don't have to smoke a pipe to be trig.
you think i'm.  different than eleanor?
like.  how?
yeah, real smart, that's why i'm baby-sitting and she's out having fun. eleanor's smart.
well, you're no albert einstein.
doesn't mean you know my sister.
about what? what? what?
i didn't bring her up.
both.
doug.
do you love me, doug? do you?
jesus.
stop it.  stop it!
i'm not eleanor.  i can't go so fast.
get out of here! get out!
the baby's crying.
how come you're going to summer school?
how did you manage to do that?
why do you do things like that?
are you coming to the party?
it's my birthday, you know?
everybody's going to be here.
just come, okay? please.
how long have you been here?
are you okay?
yes, i am. come on, dance with me.
just one dance and we'll be even. i won't have to be mad at you anymore and you won't have to be so sorry.
oh, you're not sorry?
sorry about what?
you said you weren't sorry and now you say you are. so maybe i'm not sure what you're sorry about?
you're sorry for feeling me up?
i accept your apology. let's dance.
hi.
is jacey home for the summer or is he just here for a visit?
you're not poor, are you?
they're just separated.
i don't know, you'll have to ask them.
eleanor's.  just not here.
no! who said that?
why do you hate me so much?
hi, mrs. holt. it's so darn hot the stupid jack just keeps sinking into the pavement.
what thing?
oh, i thought that was just the 'spare-tire-holder-on-er.'
sure, mrs. holt, i'll drive him home. thanks for stopping.
you think you'll finish sometime today? i'm getting sun stroke.
stop acting like jacey. what makes you think you're so.  cool?
god, i can't even talk to you.
name one bad thing i've ever done to you.
go on, name one bad thing.
you tell me, because i don't get it! look, i'm not rich, my father is. and i didn't pick my father. and if i had a choice between having tons of money or having another father, i'd be absolutely delighted to be poor! but unfortunately life is not a cafeteria!
you know what i mean!
well, am i supposed to feel sorry for you 'cause you're so poor?
so then just stop it!
stop treating me like an abbott!
like you used to. like just plain pam.
and you don't have to say you're sorry, and you don't have to look like somebody just ran over your dog. you just make me want to scream sometimes.
what are you looking at?
who do you look like more, your father or your mother?
well, what did your father look like?
he died in a car wreck, right?
about what?
mud island's in the middle of the lake.
jesus, that's pretty stupid. sorry.
one time eleanor and i snuck out and walked around the yard naked.
yeah. it was sort of a dare, too. she dared me, i dared her, so we both did it.
night.
i don't remember.
we just walked around the yard.
back yard.
does it matter?
okay.
hi.
really?
how long is your mom gone?
eleanor lives in chicago.
yeah. she's going to stewardess school.
i don't know. how to wiggle your bottom.
sorry.
it was an accident. don't be crabby.
no.
i'm not tired of kissing. are you?
we are touching.
doug!
no, i know what i look like without any clothes on -- i look naked.
jesus.
no. you can kiss me. i like lips.
i like your lips, block-head. i like being here like this. but i'm not taking my clothes off, 'cause if we do that, you know what we'll do. and i'm too.  i don't want to be like my sisters. not if i can help it.
who is it?
with eleanor?
why didn't you tell me?
my god.  what is she doing?
because i'm not alice! and you're not jacey! alice is.  is like my mom, they both get hurt so easy, they're like turtles without shells.
you don't know my father. you don't know how he is about jacey. he blames him for everything that happened with eleanor.
oh, jesus! he didn't kick her out, he put her in a nut house! he shipped her off to this clinic in wisconsin.
she is now. they let her out a month ago.
yeah. shit.
she's talking to me, daddy.
just girl talk.
hi.
i've been thinking -- maybe we shouldn't see each other right now.
well.  if my father.  i don't really care what would happen to me if he found out i was seeing you, but i have to take care of alice and my mother and eleanor, and.  well, it would be hard for me to do that if i were in the doghouse, too. you know?
no one else will.
i need to talk to.
alice took some pills, some of my mother's pills.
she's all right, we took her to the hospital.
no!
no. that's why she sent me, she doesn't want you to come, she was afraid you would if you heard from someone else. she's all right.
they just want her to rest tonight, they said they might let her come home in a day or two. she just needs to rest. i've got to go, i'm supposed to be on my way home from the hospital.
dammit, no! i'm warning you, just wait! i'll let you know just as soon as she can see you. please, don't make things worse. don't.
she's all right.
at the boathouse -- at the lake.
i had to.  for alice's sake.
tell jacey i'm sorry.
hi.
i come down to use the library sometimes or go shopping.
very.  bryn. i got to catch the bus back.
i can't. sorry.
you seem taller.
i can't. i have to go to this party.
just a party i got roped into going. maybe some other time, okay? i mean it, really.
okay. bye.
i'm cold.
i'm sorry, doug.
oh jesus.  did we?
did we.  do it?
i.  don't.  remember.
doug? hey!
doug! open the window! come on, i'm freezing. doug!
i'm sorry. i am so sorry. i was embarrassed. i didn't know where i was when i woke up. i felt like i was dying, so, i just.  i was going to call you.
i don't know.  i was blotto. i mean, i was so happy to see you. then i just got sad. i got sad. and stupid. it happens, you know?
what?
i love you. but it's too late.
everything's too screwed up.
how can you be in love with me?
'cause i've always have been. you.  block-head.
hi.
what?
what are we doing here?
doug!
oh, doug, it's beautiful.
what scene is it for? what play?
you're really good at this.
you know, they tore that old farmhouse down?
yeah.
oh, jesus, i missed you -- so much.
no.
he doesn't care what i do, as long as i don't do it in haley.
i can't.  do this.
no, i did.
i'm on probation. they pulled a bed-check the night i was here. i have to be back in the dorm by ten. gotta go.
no! it's just too late. it's all messed up. i can't seem to make things all right. the more i try the worse everything gets. i'm sorry.
hi.
i forgot.
didn't have any nickels.
sure.
how can you?
ever.  forgive me?
yeah.
but.  oh, jesus.  how do we start all over again?
doing what?
you're crazy.
hi.
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inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 2.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 3.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 5.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 7.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 8.
as jacey turns up the driveway, a light snaps on in the garage. the garage doors are open, doug sits on the edge of the ping-pong table smoking a cigarette with his hand still on the light fixture pull chain.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 12.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 17.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 18.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 20.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 24.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 26.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 26a.
doug sneaks down the back stairs and enters the kitchen as lloyd and joan enter from the garage pulling off their coats. doug ducks back into the stair landing unseen.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 31.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 36.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 38.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 42.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 48.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 54.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 55.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 56.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 56a.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 58.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 59.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 65. 66.
the station is closed and locked up for the night. jacey and alice are naked in the back seat of a car parked inside the dark service bay. it is a hot and humid night. they are slippery with sweat.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 76.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 77.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 79.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 80.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 81.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 82.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 83.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 85.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 86.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 88.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 93.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 94.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 95.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 97.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 98.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 100.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 101.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 102.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 2. 16. 96 104.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 107.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 110.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 114.
inventing the abbotts - rev. 3. 20. 96 115.
pamela comes out of the store via the revolving door and finds doug waiting for her on the sidewalk.