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- Film: As Chance Would Have It
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screenplay - As Chance Would Have It
Feb 12, 2007 07:19PM
Two construction workers find a 1932 Chance Lewinski Yankee baseball card, and an old Andy Frain uniform in a closet under the ramps at old Comiskey Park, just before its demolished in 1991. The relics take you back to 1932, to share some tragic events with the Albert family. Andy Albert, the Chief Andy Frain, surprises his son Jimmy (a wheelchair ridden polio victim), on his birthday with baseball cards and a pair of tickets for him and his lovely sister, Emily. Jimmy gets his complete set of baseball cards signed by the visiting Yankees (Murderers Row) and Emily meets Yankee rookie Chance Lewinski in the process. The famous Eddie Cantor invites Jimmy to sing the National Anthem. The crowd generously donates thousands of dollars in coins, after a heartfelt speech about polio by the celebrity. The very next day, the donations are heisted by a mobster at the same time Andy is getting fired, by the old grumpy club owner (Comiskey), for giving out free-bees to his kids. Comiskey is angry because he feels the contributions should have been spent at the ballpark. During a dramatic phone call from Andy’s mom to the dime store, Emily overhears that Jimmy’s health is desperate. She runs to her dad at the speakeasy where he is drowning his sorrows from being let go. Emily reaches her dad and they go running home only to find that sadly, Jimmy has passed away from lung failure. An investigation is led by Detective Gates and none other than Eliot Ness for the federal crime of steeling the donations. The evidence is leaning towards Andy at the police station, while Chance Lewinski, an eye witness, looks after Emily as a favor to Andy. Chance, who always seems to say the right things and be in the right place at the right time, convinces Emily that her father will be fine. The two of them end up seeing the sites of Chicago and having dinner at the Chicago Club. Her nurturing ways and her sheltered life is blossomed by Chance’s charm. A slow dance and a passionate kiss in the cab draw them towards true love. The witty F.B.I. Agent Ness doesn’t take long to track the culprits that stole the coins. The caper ends up at the speakeasy. Andy and Bobby Nelson, the soon to be announcer for the White Sox, are on their way to the speakeasy, because they’re concerned about one of Andy’s young ushers that may be involved in the crime. Chance and Emily just happen to be driving by, on their way back from the Club, when Chance conspicuously asks the cabby to let him out. Ness is in a stand off with the mobster as Andy makes his way in the speakeasy. Andy and the mobster end up in a surprise struggle and the gun fires through the front door when they hit the floor. Chance Lewinski takes a bullet in the leg for Bobby who is waiting outside. Emily visits Chance in the hospital, eager for his company, only to find that he believes they can’t be together. After Emily’s display of unconditional love, Chance offers her two tickets to the Cubs verse Yankees World Series, so she and Bobby can go together. As the story reverts back to the two construction workers in 1991, they cash in on their find at a baseball card shop. An old man with a cane picks up the Chance Lewinski baseball card from the floor, where the one construction worker dropped it, unnoticed. The old man ends up on a bus with a lady and her two boys. He gives the card to the younger boy to keep him from crying and exits the bus. The lady and her two boys end up at a hospital where an old woman is bedside an old man while her family congregates. You learn the old woman is Emily when the doctor is about to pull the plug on her husband Bobby Nelson, the White Sox announcer. She finds Chance’s baseball card that the boy put on the night stand and is astounded. She runs to the waiting room where the boys are playing. That’s when she finds that Jimmy left the set of Yankees baseball cards in the backrest of his old wheelchair and they’ve been there ever since 1932. Then, just as Chance would have it, him and Emily end up on a last adventure in their old age.
1 Comments about fasha
Feb 12, 2007 07:02PM
hi, looking for a break. i have screeenplay ready to be optioned. please contact reedmarcotte@comcast.net
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