{"id":509,"date":"2021-06-28T21:40:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T21:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptharmony\/?p=509"},"modified":"2021-06-28T21:40:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T21:40:01","slug":"shes-leaving-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/2021\/06\/28\/shes-leaving-home\/","title":{"rendered":"She’s Leaving Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
Written by Dimitri Keogh<\/a>. \u00a0Genre: Coming of Age Dramedy.<\/div>\n
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In the Swinging Sixties, a headstrong adopted teen, alongside her best friend, runaway to England in hopes of finding her birth mother.<\/div>\n
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BEATRICE WALKER is a normal girl growing up in the sixties \u2013 she\nloves music, hates her parents, and hopes to one day leave her\nPodunk hometown of Moscow, Idaho. One day when rummaging through\nthe attic, she finds adoption papers. She\u2019s thrown for a loop \u2013\nhow could this be? Her real mother is OLIVIA SMITH? She\nquestions her parents \u2013 FRANK and EMILY WALKER - but they keep\nmum. She confides in her best friend LOLA \u2013 what should she do?\nThe two come up with a plan to runaway to England and find\nBeatrice\u2019s birth mother.\n<\/pre>\n
The two girls fly the coop and arrive in London! The center\nBeatrice was adopted from is in Aberdeen, but our girls have no\nway to get from one end of the U.K. to the other. Luckily, they\nmeet HUGH, who\u2019s going that way. They strike up a friendship and\nhead off. Meanwhile, Frank and Emily discover that Bea is\nmissing! The two set off to England and follow her tracks.\n<\/pre>\n
On the road, our trio gets into all sorts of shenanigans \u2013 going\nhead-to-head with bikers, sneaking into dressing rooms, meeting\ntalk show hosts \u2013 but Beatrice just wants to find her mom. The\nmood turns sour as they make their final push towards Aberdeen.\nOn the outskirts of town, their car breaks down! Beatrice leaves\nher friends behind and walks, making it, only to be told at the\nadoption center that Olivia\u2019s not from here. She lives in a\nsmall town a few kilometers out.\n<\/pre>\n
When Bea arrives in Oldmeldrum, she finds her mother\u2019s address\nand summons the courage to knock. The door opens to reveal...\nVIOLET. Very much not Olivia. She sits Beatrice down and breaks\nthe news \u2013 Olivia passed away. It\u2019s been a few years now.\nBeatrice reels \u2013 what does she do now? She visits Olivia\u2019s grave\nand tells all. She\u2019s sad, angry, resentful \u2013 lets it all out.\nAfterwards, Beatrice loiters around town. She knows she\u2019s made a\nmistake, left people behind who loved and cared for her. But\nit\u2019s too late to make amends... that\u2019s when Frank and Emily\narrive, with Lola and Hugh in tow! Frank and Emily apologize for\nkeeping the secret from her and not being the best they could be\n\u2013 and Beatrice apologizes for running off, taking them for\ngranted. It doesn\u2019t matter who her birth parents are \u2013 Frank and\nEmily Walker are all she wants and needs. They return home,\nBeatrice now recognizing the love she has in her life.\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Please contact the writer to read the full script. keogh@chapman.edu<\/a><\/div>\n
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