The Diary of a Teenage Girl Movie Script

1 INT. MINNIE’S HOUSE - BEDROOM - DAY 1 Close up on a cat’s face - not pleased.

Hand-written title card:

DOMINO VS. THE CITY - a film by Minnie Goetze A cardboard San Francisco: skyscrapers and the Golden Gate Bridge. Domino, the cat, peeks out above the buildings.

Title card:

It’s a CAT-ASTROPHE! Everybody run!

Domino stomps, destroying the little cars and buildings in his wake. He claws at one of the tallest buildings, lies down right in the middle of the set, licks his butt, and looks at the camera like “Yeah? What?”.

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The Diary of a Teenage Girl) 2 EXT. SAN FRANCISCO - YERBA BUENA PARK - AFTERNOON 2 MINNIE GOETZE, an intensely smart fifteen-year-old, curious and strong but not jaded, walks through the seedy sprawling park.

Minnie’s voice-over, recorded onto a cassette tape: MINNIE (V.O.) I had sex today. HOLY SHIIIITTTTT!

Music kicks in - something with a beat. Minnie walks seriously down the path, until the chorus chimes in, then she shimmies, or swishes her hips, in time to the music.

Minnie’s POV:

A boy with blond feathered hair takes a long slow puff off of a joint. Smoke wafts up around his face, dancing with his curls almost magically.

Minnie bounds through the park, past old strung-out hippies lounging in the grass. One of the women doesn’t have a shirt on. This is the 70s in San Francisco - it’s just how it is.

A young woman jogs by in a skimpy seventies jogging outfit.

Her unharnessed breasts bounce happily along. Comic stars appear on her nipples and bounce away. Minnie looks down and takes a quick peek at her own less ample breasts.

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She struts to the music. She leaves animated footsteps in her path.

Minnie does a little skip, and the music swells and cuts out.

3 EXT. MINNIE’S HOUSE - STREET 3 Minnie runs up and into a Victorian style apartment building.

5 INT. MINNIE’S HOUSE - THE LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS 5 Minnie enters, startled to find her mom, CHARLOTTE, a hip woman of 34 who wishes she were 25, and GRETEL, 13 and a mini- Charlotte, pretty and girly, glued to the TV. Charlotte is still beautiful, though she wears her mistakes on her body.

She sips a gin and tonic. On the TV, news coverage of the trial of Patty Hearst.

TV ANCHOR:

Patty Hearst, the kidnapped heiress whose story has riveted the world, appeared in court again today. She was described as pallid, dull in complexion and lacking in energy.

One court reporter described her demeanor as “zombie-like”.

Minnie tries to sneak past unnoticed. The room is complete with shag carpeting wall-to-wall, hanging ferns, and colorful afghans. The picture of Patty Hearst with a gun is on the TV.

TV ANCHOR(CONT’D) When Ms. Hearst was asked to describe the closet that her captors held her in...

CHARLOTTE:

Oh Minnie. Come watch with us.

GRETEL:

(trying to sound grown-up) Yeah. It’s history in the making.

Charlotte doesn’t take her eyes off the TV.

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