Tim /Howaey
EXT. THE DRIVEWAY - NIGHT
Tim paces back and forth in the driveway outside his older
brother HOWARD’s house. Howard stands there, in expensive
clothes outside his expensive home. Tim, as always, looks to
be just this side of drunk, while he smokes a cigarette.
Silence.
cr
He's in trouble. Don’t you know
about friendship, Howard?
HOWARD
Five hundred dollars.
TIM
Four hundred, three hundred,
whatever you can afford.
HOWARD
Maybe this is a lesson for you. If
you worked, you’d have some money
to lend him, huh?
TIM
Yeah I know. I’m irresponsible, I
dropped out of college, I won’t
work in the family business, I’m a
disgrace. That’s a good reason to
keep me out of your house, God
knows.
HOWARD
You're a bad example
‘TIM
Far be it from me to disagree. Give
me some money Howard.
HOWARD
You ever read a book?
TrM
Huh?
HOWARD
Read? Do you ever read?
TIM
Never.Tim grabs
Tim let's
HOWARD
You should read Dale Carnegie’s
“How to Win Friends and Influence
People.”
TIM
Give me some money Howard.
HOWARD
Where d'ya get this attitude?
TM
I borrowed it, I have to have it
back my midnight. Howard—
HOWARD
I should talk to Daddy about
stopping your Trust Fund. It’s
killing your initiative.
TIM
My big Trust Fund. A hundred
dollars a month, yeah, Granddad was
a real Rockefeller.
Howard's jacket, pushing him against the lamppost.
TIM (CONT'D)
Howard -- It's important. 1
wouldn't come otherwise. I don’t
like to see you, so you gotta know
it’s very important.
HOWARD
Get off.
TIM
I despise you and yet I’m here.
HOWARD
Get off.
him go and starts back down the driveway. And turns-
mM
It’s funny. Ye know when T was a
little kid, I always wanted a
brother and I told that to Mom
once, and she said, “You have a
brother." I said, “Oh, that's who
the asshole in the other bed is.”
And off Tim goes, leaving Howard standing in the driveway.