int. library - day

VERNON
Well...well. Here we are! I want
to congratulate you for being on
time...

CLAIRE
Excuse me, sir? I think there's
been a mistake. I know it's
detention, but...um...I don't think
I belong in here...

VERNON
It is now seven-oh-six. You have
exactly eight hours and fifty-four
minutes to think about why you're
here. To ponder the error of your
ways...

VERNON (CONT'D)
...and you may not talk. You will
not move from these seats.

VERNON (CONT'D)
...and you...


VERNON (CONT'D)
...will not sleep. Alright people,
we're gonna try something a little
different today. We are going to
write an essay--of no less than a
thousand words--describing to me
who you think you are.

BENDER
Is this a test?

VERNON
And when I say essay...I mean
essay. I do not mean a single word
repeated a thousand times. Is that
clear Mr. Bender?

BENDER
Crystal...

VERNON
Good. Maybe you'll learn a little
something about yourself. Maybe
you'll even--decide whether or not
you care to return.

BRIAN
You know, I can answer that right
now sir...That'd be "No", no for
me. 'cause...

VERNON
Sit down Johnson...

BRIAN
Thank you sir...

VERNON
My office...

VERNON (CONT'D)
...is right across that hall. Any
monkey business is ill-advised...

VERNON (CONT'D)
...any questions?

BENDER
Yeah...I got a question.

BENDER (CONT'D)
Does Barry Manilow know you raid
his wardrobe?

VERNON
I'll give you the answer to that
question, Mr. Bender, next
Saturday. Don't mess with the bull
young man, you'll get the horns.

BENDER
That man...is a brownie hound...

pretty in pink

boy's don't cry / lullaby

absolutely no one can come close to the cure in how they defined my sad, introverted and deeply awkward formative years.

moving

packing up and moving. i hate going through my junk drawer.

int. andrew's car - day

ANDREW'S FATHER
Hey, I screwed around...guys screw
around, there's nothing wrong with
that. Except you got caught,
Sport.

ANDREW
Yeah, Mom already reemed me,
alright?

ANDREW'S FATHER
(angry)
You wanna miss a match? You wanna
blow your ride? Now no school's gonna give a
scholarship to a discipline case.

int. brian's car - day

BRIAN'S MOTHER
Is this the first time or the last
time we do this?

BRIAN
(upset)
Last...

BRIAN'S MOTHER
Well get in there and use the time
to your advantage...

BRIAN
Mom, we're not supposed to study;
we just have to sit there and do
nothing.

BRIAN'S MOTHER
Well mister you figure out a way to
study.

BRIAN'S LITTLE SISTER
(annoyingly)
Yeah!

BRIAN'S MOTHER
Well go!

int. claire's car - day

CLAIRE
I can't believe you can't get me
out of this...I mean it's so absurd
I have to be here on a Saturday!
It's not like I'm a defective or
anything...

CLAIRE'S FATHER
I'll make it up to you...Honey,
ditching class to go shopping
doesn't make you a defective. Have
a good day.

ext. shermer high school - day

(it's sad when a movie or a piece of fiction defines a time in your life more than the things you actually did. i guess that makes me a sad person then.)

Saturday...March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois.

Dear Mr. Vernon...we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was that we did wrong, what we did was wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are, what do you care?

You see us as you want to see us...in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at seven o'clock this morning. We were brainwashed...

stigmata

stainless steel provider

And so it starts...

"I am angry, I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin
I don't know what keeps me alive and kicking
I know the meaning of life, it doesn't help me a bit
I know beauty and I know a good thing when I speak it"
-Morrissey