TERRY & THE REAL GIRLS
Screenplay by Alyssa Bell
Logline: Gabrielle Wyandanch is an awkward, single, middle-aged woman who finds love amidst the darkest moment of her best friend's life.
GABRIELLE WYANDANCH lurks over her vanity with an eye pencil in hand. The phone rings and she turns around to answer, revealing her sloppy and overdone make-up. She answers the phone in her thick Long Island accent. The voice on the other end is that of her long time friend from high school, TERRY SHWARTZ. Terry reveals that he, once again, is in a rehabilitation clinic for his addiction to antihistamines. Although Terry is living in Chicago to pursue his career in music, he is demanding that Gabrielle come to the midwest to "rescue him." Gabrielle is visibly upset and yet is determined to make it to Chicago as soon as possible. Because her career as a freelance poet and children's book author has not yet generated much of an income, she calls her "friend" BETSY BUGLE to help finance her trip to Chicago. Betsy insists on tagging along, despite the fact that Gabrielle and Betsy cannot stand one another.
Gabrielle and Betsy touch down at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago early the next morning. Both look visibly exhausted and dishelved. Gabrielle is expending what little energy that she has left in seeking out the attention of the teenage boy that she had been seated next to. He, completely mortified, flees the gate quickly. After renting a car and receiving another frantic call from Terry, they begin to make their way to Sunnyside Rehabilitation Hospital downtown. Upon arrival, they find Terry outside, smoking a cigarette, under the close supervision of two hospital security guards. Terry is in a bathrobe and hospital scrubs as he comes galloping towards the car, followed by the two security guards. Gabrielle, Betsy, and Terry head to the home where Terry had been staying prior to his hospital admission. He has been living with a local pastor's family while he pursues music. The trio spends the rest of the day catching up and playing cards until passing out in front of the television watching reruns of Full House.
Gabrielle and Betsy are awoken the next morning by a knock at the door. A police officer and a geeky pharmacy tech are standing outside. Terry is sitting in the back of the police cruiser. The office and pharmacy tech describe, in detail, Terry's failed attempt to steal Benadryl from behind the pharmacy counter at the local, small town pharmacy. Betsy is furious and vows to keep a close eye on Terry until his court date the following week. Gabrielle is love-struck and cannot help but gaze longly at the pharmacy tech, JUAN, who strangely enough seems to reciprocate. While the office and Betsy return to the patrol car to retrieve Terry, Gabrielle slips the young man her phone number and asks that he calls her...SOON. While Gabrielle and Betsy try to help Terry kick his addiction, Gabrielle's phone rings. The pharmacy tech is calling to ask Gabrielle to accompany him to a poetry slam at the local university. She is overjoyed. The night goes according to plan and Gabrielle and Juan's awkwardness compliment one another perfectly. The fall swiftly in love and vow to never leave one another's side. Juan reveals to Gabrielle that his grandfather is the owner of the pharmacy and that he has asked him to drop the charges against Terry. Gabrielle is overjoyed and vows to love Juan for the rest of her life. They marry and begin a new life together in the suburbs of Chicago. Terry remains clean and eventually ends up on American Idol as one of the famous rejects. Betsy finds her calling as a counselor and takes a job at Sunnyside Rehabilitation Hospital helping other addicts recover from their abuse of antihistamines.
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