At the Blockbuster
INT. VIDEO STORE. EVENING GIRL, late teens, exploding into womanhood, denim skirt and handbag covered in Rolling Stones pins. MAN, salt and pepper hair, fortyish, tired, business casual. The line to rent videos wraps around the candy counter-- they're at the end. Girl bounds up to man clutching a used DVD copy of Win a Date with Tad Hamilton. GIRL Dad, Dad! Can you lend me 10 dollars so I can buy this? Man squints, scrunches down eyebrows MAN Hmph. GIRL It's like the best movie ever. MAN What if it's scratched or something? Girl looks at sticker on case GIRL It says it's fully guaranteed. Please? It can be part of my graduation present. Nicole will be so excited. MAN (affirmatively) Hmph. GIRL (breathless) Thank you! This is the best movie ever. Okay, maybe it's the second best movie ever after Dirty Dancing. When I slept over at Casey's we watched all of Dirty Dancing and then we like watched the ending two more times. It was soooo good. Girl pauses and ponders vacant expression on man's face. GIRL Did you like Dirty Dancing, Dad? MAN I don't think so. GIRL (oblivious) We should watch it.
Posted by Gene Smith on May 29, 2004

