play 9
IN THE KITCHEN
JASON
(while eating cereal and reading the paper) Hey honey, how are you doing this morning?
MARISSA Oh you know... More or less the same.
JASON Oh that is just great.
MARISSA Jesus, Jace. What crawled up your ass this morning?
JASON I'll tell you what. The Internship...
MARISSA Oh Jesus fucking Christ.
JASON Don't "Jesus Christ" me. The Internship fucking flopped this weekend. It got crushed... It got crushed by some piece of shit horror flick "The Purge." What the hell...
MARISSA Oh who cares! Its no big deal.
JASON It is a big deal. It is important to me. A lot more important than you could ever know.
MARISSA Why? I don't understand! Why do you care so much about this movie?
JASON It matters, Marissa! This movie is all I've had going. And now its all gone. Its all fucked up, like my pathetic excuse for a goddamn life.
MARISSA Don't talk like that in front of our son. JASON
He doesn't fucking care. Look at the little bastard. He can barely keep his head up. The kid is empty upstairs.
Their son's head is sagging down
MARISSA Still, it is not good for him to hear that kind of talk.
JASON How many times did you see The Internship this weekend?
MARISSA You know I've been busy.
JASON How many times?
MARISSA Once.
JASON JUST ONCE! I saw it eleven times this weekend. I put my heart into this picture, and you ripped it out and shit all over it!
MARISSA
(crying) It doesn't make any sense. Why do you care about this movie? It has been completely destroying our marriage.
She knocks her purse off the counter. The items scatter over the floor, including a love-note from another guy and a ticket to The Purge.
JASON What is that?
MARISSA What is what?
JASON On the floor... What is that? 3.
MARISSA Jason, I'm sorry. There has been no love here in this marriage. I felt like I needed affection. I'm lonely!!
JASON No, not that. I don't give a shit. The ticket! What does it say?
MARISSA 8:30 showing of The Purge.
JASON An 8:30 showing of The Purge.
SON Dad... I'm going to be late for school
JASON
(mocking) I'm going to be late for... SHUT UP! Marissa, I have to take my son to school now, but I want you to pack your bag. I have tried to reason with you. I have tried to explain the importance of this film, since they announced it. But you don't understand. This is a household of American values. We're a baseball family. We're an apple pie family. God dammit, we are a Vince Vaughn-Owen Wilson family. How hard is that to understand? Are you stupid, or just too much of a selfish bitch to realize this?