The Horse Whisperer

      ANNIE
      I don't know. We'll figure it out.

 Pause. There is a lot unspoken but understood between them.
 Annie's other phone line rings. Robert hears it as well.

      ROBERT
      Okay. We'll see you later then.

      ANNIE
      Yeah. Bye.

 Annie picks up the other line and her manner brightens, her
 energy boosts...

      ANNIE
      DON! My love, how are you? Did you hear
      about Fiske?... No, suing is too
      civilized. Can't we get your friend at Le
      Cirque to serve him a fatal piece of
      poached salmon?... Ha, ha... That's even
      better...

 EXT. CONNECTICUT COUNTRYSIDE - MORNING

 Long Shot of the girls riding at an easy pacing, talking all
 the time. Grace is an elegant rider, quite self-assured for a
 13-year-old... We come into the scene at the moment the
 girls have just shared a secret or a fantasy. Judith is
 giggling uncontrollably. Grace laughs as she says:

      GRACE
      ...Oh, come on! You think the same thing!

      JUDITH
      I just could never say it!

 They stop at the end of the field, facing the woods.

      GRACE
      Do you want to go around by the
      old road?

      JUDITH
      Why don't we just cut through the
      woods?

 Grace nods. They ride into the woods, continuing their talk.

 EXT. WOODS - MORNING

 The girls ride down, along a stand of hickories and poplars
 to a RIVER. They stop the horses and their conversation, to
 listen to the sound of the water. Below them, off in the
 distance, they can just make out a two-lane country road.

      GRACE
      You want to go down or stay along
      the river?

      JUDITH
      We already did the river. Let's go down
      and across the old bridge. We can circle
      back.

 They begin to make their way.

 INT. ANNIE'S OFFICE - MORNING

 Annie's office is now crowded with a dozen or so employees;
 sitting on the couch, on the window sills, on the arms of
 chairs, against the walls... Paper bag emptied of bagels,
 cream cheese, orange juice, paper plates...

 Hand Held Camera captures the energy of the room as it
 follows overlapping lines, laughter, etc... yet, no matter how
 casual it all seems, Annie is very much at the center of
 control... We enter the scene of LAUGHTER, as Annie asks
 KEVIN, a feature writer:

      ANNIE
      ... So what did you say to her?

      KEVIN
      I said, thank you very much...
       (LAUGHTER, AD LIBS)
      I really should do the interview... But
      perhaps if you'd like to have dinner...

 LAUGHTER... Everyone starts Ad Libbing...

      VARIOUS CHARACTERS
      Dinner!!... He's so cute.... Why don't I
      get those kind of interviews?... Look,
      he has husband number eight written on
      his forehead...

      ANNIE
      All right, all right, all right... Kevin,
      good job. Write the interview. If I don't
      like it, you may have to sleep with her
      for a follow-up!
       (laughter)
      Now... I'm thinking about another fashion
      designer spread... Who's news out there?

 Characters shout out designer names and comments as the phone
 rings and LUCY picks up... speaking amdist the talking...

      LUCY
      Hold on.
       (presses hold)
      Gottschalk.