A Real Pain: Screenplay Pdf

JUNE (43) sits beside a bed where an elderly man, GENE, breathes shallowly. She holds his hand without sentimentality — more like a mechanic checking a pulse.

LEO Eight and a half if you don’t drive like a hospice nurse. a real pain screenplay pdf

Leo grins — sharp, wolfish.

JUNE Where?

She types back: “Bathroom. Bleeding. Call you in 20.” JUNE (43) sits beside a bed where an

June uncaps the needle.

DRAFT: [Date] A disillusioned hospice nurse faking her own terminal illness to escape a suffocating marriage is forced to team up with a reckless former patient — the one person who knows she’s lying — on a darkly comedic road trip to outrun her husband, the IRS, and her own crumbling conscience. 3. Synopsis (2-page version) Act One JUNE (40s), a meticulous but exhausted nurse, spends her days comforting dying patients while secretly forging medical documents to fake a stage-4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis. She uses the “illness” to manipulate her controlling husband, DALE, into giving her space and access to their joint savings. Her only real joy is stealing morphine vials for a private stash — a safety net she calls “Plan Z.” Leo grins — sharp, wolfish