Suburbia Play Script

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Directed by Richard Linklater and written by Eric Bogosian, SubUrbia is an extraordinary blend of the disparate visions of two celebrated observers of pop culture and disaffected youth. From the opening credits of strip malls and tract homes to the more eclectic images, like a new television set perched on top of the old console because it is too big or someone is too apatnetic to remove it, SubUrbia seduces you with a cinematic style that captures the dark heart of middle America.
In this case it's personified by a group of kids, who converge at the local convenience store. Jeff is the poet and thinker and Sooze his artsy punk girlfriend anxious to get to New York and make her mark. Her friend Bee-Bee is fresh from rehab, as opposed to Buff who will smoke and drink anything with adolescent gusto.Then there is Tim, the tattooed, guick-tempe red brooder who actually made it out, as far as the army, but is now back and bittetAs if under a magnifying glass, things are beginning to heat up in the florescent lights of the parking lot when a stretch limo announces the triumphant return of Pony, one of the gang who is now a neophyte rock star. They may seem stereotypical at first, but skewed by the detail of their characterizations, combined with the strength of the performances from an outstanding cast, this group is actually a microcosm of modern alienated youth.
Eric Bogosian's words mesh flawlessly with Richard Linklater's detailed hypervision of suburban America. Based on Bogosian's play SubUrbia, the film soars over the common pitfalls of play-to-screen hybrids. Using the same eye he turned on a small Texas town in Dazed and Confused, Linklater is still comic and insightful, but Bogosian's story and near-poetic language take this view of suburban angst to a new level. Love, fear, loss, even racism, but mostly their dreams are all subjects of scrutiny by these young people as they try to figure out the lives they are leading without guidance but not without hope. SubUrbia is a superb film that should become a classic.
- John Cooper

Directed by:Richard Linklater
Written by:Eric Bogosian
Starring:Parker Posey,Giovanni Ribisi,Ajay Naidu,Steve Zahn,Samia Shoaib,Jayce Bartok,Amie Carey,Nicky Katt,Dina Spybey
Produced by:Anne Walker-McBay
Original Music by:Thurston Moore,Kim Gordon

EXT. ESTABLISHING - BURNFIELD - DAY

Over the variousimages of Burnfield's stripmalls and fast food

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joints we hear GENEPITNEY singing.

GENE PITNEY (V.O.)

(singing)

'When your young and so in love as we

and bewildered by the world we see

why do people hurt us so

Only those in love know

What a town without pity can do

If we stop to gave upon a star

people talk about how bad we are

ours is not an easy age

we're like tigers in a cage

What a town without pity can do'

INT. JEFF'S ROOM - GARAGE - DAY

JEFF is talking on the telephoneinside of his tent which is has

set up in his parents garage.

JEFF:

(into telephone)

Buff? Yeah, I'll see you down there later. I just gotta finish

some stuff I'm writing. Okay. 'Bye.

Jeff clicks over to the other line.

JEFF:

(into telephone)

SOOZE? Yeah, so did you tell him that we couldn't afford twenty

bucks a ticket and why didn't he put us on the comp list? No, no,

there's always a comp list. Alright. Well, so then, just get your

mother's car and maybe we'll all go do something. Yeah. I gotta

get off. Okay. 'Bye.

CUT TO:

INT. PIZZAJOINT - DAY

BUFF is the one of the only people working. Pies are over cooking

in the oven and Buff is trying to punch out of work as soon as he

can.

BUFF:

(into telephone)

Hey, Frankie! Hey, what are you doing? Sleeping? What, at six

o'clock? Sleep when you are dead. Hey, man, I just got off work.

Why don't you meet me down at the corner. So? Put on some clothes

and come down, man, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I wanna see you, man.

Alright. Yeah. Hey, why don't you bring that pot you just bought?

What?! Yeah, f*** you man!

(to employee)

Later.

CUT TO:

INT. SOOZE'S HOUSE. BEDROOM - DAY

Sooze's room is covered with a wide variety of artwork, most of

which she as done. She hangs up the phone and walks down the

hallway towards her MOTHERS room. She stops in her mother's

doorway,

SOOZE:

I'm going out later.

SOOZE'S MOM

No car.

SOOZE:

The f*** not?

SOOZE'S MOM

You know the f*** not.

SOOZE:

F***.

SOOZE'S MOM

Don't swear it's impolite.

Sooze storms out of the room and back down the hall to her own

room. Sooze's mom is watching a shoppingchannel on the

television. We dolly into the television.

SHOPPING CHANNEL HOST

... suggest that you call immediately. We are trulythrilled to

bring you this next item and it's a Host Value Special. It's the

spiral relaxation lamp. I personallybought one of these for a

very good friend of mine and ended up falling in love with it, I

found myselfmesmerized by watching the balls. That's why I

suggest that if you're going to buy one, that you buy maybe two

or three...

CUT TO:

INT. CIRCLE A CONVENIENCESTORE - NIGHT

Two POLICEOFFICERS (CHIP and GARY) are at the counter buying

cigarettes. Jeff is also inside shopping. The convenience store

worker, NAZEER, is watching a cops-like TV show.

TV REPORTER (V.O.)

It started with a traffic argument, escalated to the firing of a

legally carried handgun, ending with the death of the man it was

aimed at. GORDONRIEDHALEclaimed he couldn't escape an attacker

who was punching him in the head. Concealedcarry instructors

say, 'It's that fear...'

CHIP:

Just depends on the filter capacity. What size is that pool?

GARY:

Fifty-five thousand.

(to Nazeer)

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