"SIDEWAYS"
Screenplay by
Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
Based on the novel by
Rex Pickett
May 29, 2003
UNDER THE STUDIO LOGO:
KNOCKING at a door and distant dog BARKING.
NOW UNDER BLACK, a CARD --
SATURDAY
The rapping, at first tentative and polite, grows insistent.
Then we hear someone get out of bed.
MILES (O.S.)
...the fuck...
A DOOR is opened, and the black gives way to BLINDING WHITE
LIGHT, the way one experiences the first glimpse of day amid,
say, a hangover.
A WORKER is there.
MILES (O.S.)
Yeah?
WORKER
Hi, Miles. Can you move your car,
please?
MILES (O.S.)
Why?
WORKER
The painters got to put the truck
in, and you didn't park too good.
MILES (O.S.)
(a sigh, then --)
Yeah, hold on.
He closes the door with a SLAM.
