Beautiful-Kevin Murphy/Laurence O'Keefe

[00:00.37]:VERONICA: [00:00.84]September 1st, 1989. Dear Diary: I believe I'm a good person. [00:06.01]Ya know, I think there's good in everyone, but here we are first day of senior year. [00:12.30]And uh...I look around at all these kids I've known all my life and I ask myself: What happened? [00:17.68]KIDS: [00:17.85]Freak! Slut! Burnout! Bug-eyes! Poser! Lard-ass! [00:22.78]VERONICA: [00:22.88]We were so tiny, happy and shiny, playing tag and getting chased. [00:27.70]KIDS: [00:27.91]Freak! Slut! Loser! Shortbus! [00:30.55]VERONICA: [00:30.75]Singing and clapping, [00:31.84]laughing and napping, [00:33.24]baking cookies, eating paste. [00:35.80]KIDS: [00:35.83]Bull-dyke! Stuck-up! Hunchback! [00:38.33]VERONICA: [00:38.54]Then we got bigger. [00:39.59]That was the trigger, [00:41.03]Like the Huns invading Rome - [00:44.58]Oh sorry! [00:46.07]Welcome to my school, [00:47.07]This ain't no high school: [00:48.67]This is the Thunderdome. [00:50.22]Hold your breath [00:51.37]and count the days, [00:52.66]we're graduating soon. [00:53.87]KIDS: [00:54.07]White trash! [00:55.05]VERONICA: [00:55.07]College will be paradise [00:57.7]If I'm not dead by June! [01:01.11]But I know, I know, life can be beautiful. [01:06.50]I pray, I pray for a better way. [01:11.28]If we changed back then, [01:13.59]we could change again. [01:16.23]We can be beautiful... [01:19.00](A PREPPY STUD knocks a HIPSTER DORK to the floor.) [01:19.14]:HIPSTER DORK [Spoken]: [01:20.20]Ow! [01:20.89]VERONICA: [01:20.94]Just not today. [01:22.75] Hey, are you okay? [01:24.02]Get away, nerd. [01:25.51]Oh...Okay [01:26.51]Freak! Slut! Cripple! Homo! Homo! Homo! [01:31.32]VERONICA: [01:31.63]Things will get better [01:33.15]soon as my letter [01:34.59]comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown. [01:37.04]Wake from this coma, [01:38.35]take my diploma, [01:39.69]then I can blow this town. [01:41.57]Dream of my ivy-covered walls [01:43.76]and smoky French cafes... [01:45.10](VERONICA jostles RAM SWEENEY.) [01:45.20]:RAM [Spoken]: [01:45.40]Watch it! [01:46.81]VERONICA: [01:46.90]Fight the urge to strike a match and send this dump ablaze! [01:52.05](RAM upends VERONICA'S lunch tray.) [01:52.09]RAM: [01:52.15]Ooooops. [01:54.30]Ram Sweeney. Third year as linebacker. [01:56.00]And eighth year of smacking lunch trays and BEING A HUGE ****. [02:00.08]RAM: [02:00.13]What did you say to me skank? [02:01.94]VERONICA: [02:02.09]... Nothing. [02:04.03]VERONICA & KIDS: [02:04.18]But I know, I know, I know... [02:07.06]Life can be beautiful. [02:09.36]I pray, I pray, I pray [02:12.71]For a better way. [02:14.05]We were kind before; [02:16.45]we can be kind once more. [02:19.14]We can be beautiful... [02:22.08](MARTHA approaches.) [02:23.04]VERONICA: [02:23.24]Agh!... Hey Martha. [02:24.53]MARTHA: [02:24.60]Hey. [02:26.17](MARTHA helps VERONICA pick up her tray.) [02:26.47]VERONICA: [02:26.57]Martha Dunnstock. My best friend since diapers. [02:30.02]MARTHA: [02:30.15]We on for movie night? [02:31.06]VERONICA: [02:31.28]Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail. [02:33.58]MARTHA: [02:33.65]I rented "The Princess Bride." [02:36.20]VERONICA: [02:36.40]Again? Don't you have it memorized by now? [02:39.87]MARTHA: [02:40.02]What can I say? I'm a sucker for a happy ending. [02:43.00]KURT: [02:43.06]Martha Dumptruck! Wide load! Honnnnnk! [02:47.01](KURT KELLY knocks the tray from MARTHA'S hands.) [02:47.76]VERONICA: [02:47.86]Kurt Kelly. Quarterback. He is the smartest guy on the football team. [02:52.59]Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf. [02:57.03](Furious, to KURT) Hey! Pick that up right now! [02:59.03]KURT: [02:59.14]I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me? [03:01.07]VERONICA: [03:01.21]Yes, I am. I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend. [03:04.57]You're a high school has-been waiting to happen. A future gas station attendant. [03:09.50]KURT: [03:09.79]... You have a zit right there... [03:11.95]VERONICA & KIDS: [03:12.15](Variously) [03:14.61]Dear diary: why.... [03:16.50]Why do they hate me? [03:17.65]Why don't I fight back? [03:18.85]Why do I act like such a creep? (VERONICA: Why....) [03:20.95]Why won't he date me? [03:22.34]Why did I hit him? [03:23.70]Why do I cry myself to sleep? (VERONICA: Why....) [03:25.96]Somebody hug me! [03:27.40]Somebody fix me! [03:28.61]Somebody save me! [03:30.03]Send me a sign, God! [03:31.37]Give me some hope here! [03:32.51]Something to live for! [03:38.87](The three HEATHERS enter.) [03:53.01]KIDS: [03:53.31]Ah!... Heather, Heather, and Heather! [04:00.00]VERONICA: [04:00.15] Then there's the Heathers. They float above it all. [04:02.80]KIDS: [04:03.10](Repeating.) I love Heather, Heather, and Heather. [04:09.73]VERONICA: [04:09.93]Heather McNamara. Head cheerleader. Her dad's loaded - he sells engagement rings. [04:17.38]Heather Duke. Runs the yearbook. No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants. [04:24.59]And Heather Chandler. The Almighty. [04:28.59]She is a mythic *****. They are solid Teflon - never bothered, never harassed. [04:37.23]I would give anything to be like that. [04:41.32]HIPSTER DORK: [04:41.42]I'd like to be their boyfriend. [04:43.00]KIDS: [04:43.12]That would be beautiful... [04:45.01]STONER CHICK: [04:45.22]If I sat at their table, guys would notice me. [04:48.11]KIDS: [04:48.16]So beautiful... [04:50.35]MARTHA: [04:50.46]I'd like them to be nicer. [04:52.31]KIDS: [04:52.52]That would be beautiful... [04:54.52]BELEAGUERED GEEK: [04:54.87]I'd like to kidnap a Heather and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse [04:58.06]and leave her tied up for the rats! [05:00.57](VERONICA enters the girls' bathroom. [05:02.46]HEATHER CHANDLER and MCNAMARA are watching HEATHER DUKE vomit into a toilet.) [05:05.02]HEATHER CHANDLER: [05:05.34]Grow up, Heather. Bulimia is so '87. [05:07.94]HEATHER MCNAMARA: [05:08.08]Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather. [05:09.49]HEATHER DUKE: [05:09.53]Yeah, Heather. Maybe I should. [05:11.58]MS. FLEMING: [05:11.79]Ah, Heather and Heather. [05:13.59](HEATHER DUKE vomits.) [05:15.08]... and Heather. Perhaps you didn't hear the bell over all the vomiting. You're late for class. [05:20.56](VERONICA scribbles on a piece of paper.) [05:20.81]HEATHER CHANDLER: [05:20.96]Heather wasn't feeling well. We're helping her. [05:24.00]MS. FLEMING: [05:24.19]Not without a hall pass you're not. A week's detention. [05:26.89]VERONICA: [05:27.04]Actually, Ms. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass. Yearbook committee. [05:32.87]MS. FLEMING: [05:32.98]... I see you're all listed. Hurry up and get where you're going. [05:39.52]HEATHER CHANDLER: [05:39.56]This is an excellent forgery. Who are you? [05:43.01]VERONICA: [05:43.17]Veronica Sawyer. I crave a boon. [05:46.00]HEATHER CHANDLER: [05:46.12]What boon? [05:48.50]VERONICA: [05:48.64]Let me sit at your table at lunch. Just once. No talking necessary. [05:52.52]If people think you guys tolerate me, they'll leave me alone.... [05:55.07]Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips and absence notes. [05:59.60]HEATHER DUKE: [05:59.72]How about prescriptions? [06:00.71]HEATHER CHANDLER: [06:00.86]Shut up, Heather. [06:01.30]HEATHER DUKE: [06:01.31]Sorry, Heather. [06:02.66](HEATHER CHANDLER inspects VERONICA'S face.) [06:02.82]HEATHER CHANDLER: [06:03.02]For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure. [06:06.80]HEATHER MCNAMARA: [06:06.96]And a symmetrical face. If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, [06:11.30]I'd have matching halves. That's very important. [06:13.99]HEATHER DUKE: [06:14.03]Of course, you could stand to lose a few pounds. [06:16.87]HEATHER CHANDLER: [06:16.88]And ya know, ya know, ya know? [06:19.97]This could be beautiful. [06:22.21]Mascara, maybe some lip gloss, [06:24.82]and we're on our way. [06:26.61]Get this girl some blush; [06:28.35]And Heather, I need your brush. [06:30.64]Let's make her beautiful. [06:32.36]HEATHER MCNAMARA: [06:32.48]Let's make her beautiful... [06:34.02]HEATHER DUKE: [06:34.08] Let's make her beautiful... [06:35.18]HEATHER CHANDLER: [06:35.22]Make her beautiful... [06:38.56]Okay? [06:38.91]VERONICA: [06:39.07]Okay! [06:40.22](Another day, another hellish lunch.) [06:41.80]KURT: [06:41.96]Out of my way geek! [06:43.43]BELEAGUERED GEEK: [06:43.53]I don't want any trouble - [06:44.57]RAM: [06:44.77]You're gonna die at 3pm! [06:46.53]REPUBLICANETTE & NEW WAVE GIRL: [06:46.74]Don't you dare touch me! Get away, pervert! [06:49.09]BELEAGUERED GEEK: [06:49.19]What'd I ever do to them? [06:51.20]KIDS: [06:51.32]Who could survive this? [06:52.72]I can't escape this! [06:53.91]I think I'm dying! [06:54.91]MS. FLEMING: [06:54.99]Who's that with Heather? [06:56.90](THE HEATHERS enter again...) [06:57.00]KIDS: [06:57.15]Whoa. Heather, Heather, Heather... [07:03.77]NEW WAVE GIRL: [07:04.07]And... someone! [07:06.22]KIDS: [07:06.42]Heather, Heather, Heather... [07:11.06]GOWAN & COACH: [07:11.16]And a babe! [07:12.60]KIDS: [07:12.65]Heather, Heather, Heather... [07:16.65]MARTHA: [07:16.79]Veronica?! [07:17.80]KIDS: [07:17.96]Veronica? Veronica? Veronica?! [07:22.95](THE HEATHER part, revealing a smoking hot VERONICA who has been given a make-over.) [07:24.04]VERONICA & KIDS: [07:24.14](Variously.) And ya know, [07:25.28]ya know, ya know [07:27.72]life can be beautiful. [07:29.97]You hope, you dream, you pray, [07:33.02]and you get your way! [07:34.96]Ask me how it feels [07:37.40]looking like hell on wheels... [07:40.68]My God, it's beautiful! [07:43.98]I might be beautiful [07:47.51]And when you're beautiful... [07:52.24]It's a beautiful frickin' day! [07:54.09]KIDS: [07:54.35]Heather... Veronica! [07:58.08]Heather! Heather! [08:00.26]Heather... Veronica! [08:03.10]Veronica! Veronica! [08:05.30]Veronica! Veronica!