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Maria Full of Grace (part 3) Edited
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Maria Full of Grace Part 2

Maria Full of Grace Part 3

EXT. STREET . AFTERNOON

In town. Maria walks up the street.

JUANA (OS)
Maria!

Maria sees her mother at a small store buying fruits and vegetables. She crosses over to her.

Juana pays for the two bags of groceries and puts a few coins of change in her pocket. She picks up the bags and the two of them walk on in silence.




INT. PHARMACY . CONTINUOUS

It’s a small place with the drugs on the wall behind the counter. Diana watches as a WOMAN removes foil-wrapped TABLETS from a box and counts them out. Juana enters,trailed by Maria.

JUANA
Is everything OK?

DIANA
It’s 9,600. Do you have any money?

JUANA
(to Maria)
Lend your sister the money.

MARIA
Why do I have to pay for it?

DIANA
It’s for Pacho. He started vomiting.

MARIA
So? Where’s your money?

JUANA
Maria!

Maria Full of Grace (part 3)  Edited_e0075308_23454498.jpgMARIA
I give up practically all of what I make and Diana doesn’t put in any of hers. And now I’m supposed to pay for Pacho’s medicine too?

JUANA
Maria don’t start! Give your sister the money.

Juana glares at her daughter. Maria finally digs into her pocket and hands over the money.

JUANA (cont’d)
You can keep the extra nine-thousand six-hundred when you get paid at the end of the month. I don’t know why everything always has to be so difficult with you.

Maria watches Diana pay. And then, as if trying to get back at them, she says,

MARIA
Well, there’s not going to be a next paycheck...
Because I quit.

JUANA
What? When?

MARIA
Today.

JUANA
What happened?

MARIA
They wouldn’t let me go to the bathroom.

JUANA
At all?

MARIA
It’s not just that.
I don’t like the way they treat me. So I quit.

JUANA
What are you going to do?

The woman behind the counter looks very uncomfortable.

DIANA
You’re really fucking stupid.

MARIA
Why don’t you shut up.

DIANA
Don’t tell me to shut up!

MARIA
You don’t know how they treated me.

DIANA
You could have put up with it. You’re an idiot...

MARIA
(overlapping)
Why do I have to put up with it? Why am I always the one to put up with it all?

DIANA
(overlapping)
...Why don’t you think of the family for once.

JUANA
Enough! Quiet, both of you!
(beat)
Maria, you have to go back and ask for your job back.

MARIA
No. I’m not going back.

DIANA
Then what are you going to do?

MARIA
I’ll find something else.

JUANA
There’s nothing but flowers around here. At least it’s a decent job.

MARIA
Oh please, what’s decent about it?

JUANA
Maria! You have to go back!

MARIA
Didn’t you hear me? I’m not going back... I’m not!

With that, Maria storms out of the pharmacy and leaves them standing there.

EXT. PLAZA . EARLY EVENING

Maria sits by the plaza fountain with Juan and Blanca and a group of about five other girls and guys crowded around.
Juan’s got a BOTTLE of aguardiente and everyone is laughing, except Maria, who hasn’t shaken her bad mood.

BLANCA
(laughing)
You should have seen the look on the supervisor’s face... He was completely covered in it...

JUAN
This deserves a toast.

Juan pours a shot for Maria in a little plastic cup.

JUAN (CONT'D)
To Maria! Because she kicks ass!

She sips it, winces and then swallows the rest in one gulp.

SMASH CUT TO:


EXT. OUTDOOR FIESTA . NIGHT

A small rocket whizzes into the air and EXPLODES. On a side-street off the plaza, there’s a small fiesta going on - with a little band of a dozen local guys (in uniform) playing a slightly sloppy, but very energetic salsa - and a crowd of about forty people of all ages - some dancing, some watching.

Maria and Blanca dance up a storm together - Maria dancing lead. She’s a very good dancer, very lively and quite sexy. Most of all, she just has a good time - giggling and laughing with Blanca. Juan and the guys are sitting on the curb working their way steadily through the bottle of aguardiente.

The music stops and all the dancers fan themselves off - Juan walks among the band members pouring each a shot of liquor.

Maria Full of Grace (part 3)  Edited_e0075308_23474116.jpgMARIA
(to Blanca)
Hey there’s your boyfriend.

Blanca follows Maria’s gaze and sees the SMILING GUY from work talking with a FRIEND. Sure enough, he makes eye contact with Blanca and smiles.

BLANCA
(giggling and turning away)
Oh my god.

MARIA
You have to dance with him.

BLANCA
No way!

Hearing that, Maria grabs Blanca’s wrist and leads her right over to the Smiling Guy and his Friend.

MARIA
Hi.

SMILING GUY
Hi.

MARIA
I’m Maria. This is Blanca.

BLANCA
(beet red)
Oh my god.

SMILING GUY
I’m Felipe. This is my cousin Franklin.

FRANKLIN
Hi.

Unlike Felipe, Franklin is dressed stylishly, with a hip shirt, designer jeans and a gold chain. Next to him, Felipe looks downright meek.

MARIA
Blanca wants you to ask her to dance.

FRANKLIN
Go for it.

FELIPE
(smiling)
Do you want to dance?

BLANCA
...OK.

Felipe leads Blanca out into the dance area as the band strikes up. Maria watches them dance and then walks over to Juan.

MARIA
Juan, I want to dance.

Juan is clearly too drunk to dance and more interested in his guy friends. He takes her in his arms and mock dances drunkenly in a circle, laughing. She breaks away annoyed.

MARIA (cont’d)
What’s wrong with you.

JUAN
(drunk)
What... why?

She walks away and stands watching Blanca and Felipe.

FRANKLIN
(out of nowhere)
Wanna dance?

Maria considers it, glances toward Juan...

FRANKLIN (cont’d)
What do you say?

MARIA
...Sure.

Franklin leads her out and the two of them dance. The more she dances, the more into it Maria gets - looking over at Juan occasionally - as if she were dancing to spite him.


INT. CHURCH . DAY

Maria Full of Grace (part 3)  Edited_e0075308_23492579.jpgMaria comes into the Catholic CHURCH where a couple of older women talk quietly in the pews. She kneels down, crosses herself, mutters a Hail Mary, and then adds her own, silent request.

EXT. MOTORBIKE REPAIR SHOP . LATER

Maria and Blanca walk up to an outdoor garage that is packed with mopeds and motorcycles. JUAN is squatting next to a mechanic watching him work.

MARIA
Juan.

JUAN
(looks up)
In a minute.

MARIA
Come on.
(to Blanca)
I’ll see you later.

Blanca kisses Maria’s cheek and leaves as Juan finally crosses to the front and gets his bicycle. He and Maria cross the street to...

EXT. SAUSAGE STAND / PARK . LATER

A small stand serving arepas across from a park. Maria and Juan each take an arepa and a Coca-cola. Juan pays and takes the change.

They walk over to the park and sit on the grass and eat. They don’t have any conversation at all while they eat - they just chew in silence. At a certain point Maria stops and watches Juan take another bite - he’s absorbed in chewing.

MARIA
I have something to tell you.

JUAN
What?

Maria Full of Grace (part 3)  Edited_e0075308_23494691.jpgMARIA
...I think I’m pregnant.

He looks at her.

JUAN
You’re not fucking with me, right?

MARIA
I missed my last two periods and I’ve been feeling sick.

JUAN
What are you going to do?

MARIA
I don’t know.

JUAN
Who else knows?

MARIA
Only you.

JUAN
No-one else?

MARIA
Who else do you think I told? The whole world?

JUAN
I don’t know. Maybe Blanca, since she seems to know everything before me...

MARIA
(cutting him off)
No Juan, Blanca doesn’t know.

Long silence... Very long silence.

JUAN
Maria... Do you want to get married?

MARIA
(laughs nervously)
Are you joking?

JUAN
Why?

MARIA
Where would we live?

JUAN
In my house. Where else?

MARIA
There are like ten people living in your house. You share your bedroom with your brother.

JUAN
What do you suggest?

MARIA
My house would be better.

JUAN
Right, a lot better! A guy living in his girlfriend’s house? No way, not that Maria.

MARIA
You’re really fucking stupid, you know that?

JUAN
Stupid? Your family hates me. How do you expect me to live there? We can live at my house.

(beat)
I don’t see why you don’t want to getmarried. I’m stepping up to this...

Maria takes a beat - stares at him.

MARIA
Juan, do you love me?

JUAN
(groans)
Not this again.

MARIA
Look me in the eye and tell me you love me... What kind of person are you? You want to marry a woman you don’t love?
A woman who doesn’t love you? What kind of marriage is that?
How long’s it gonna be before you’re sleeping with some other girl? A month?

JUAN
You know that’s not gonna happen.

MARIA
I don’t want the same thing to happen to me that happened to my sister.

JUAN
(attacking)
I hate to break it to you but your sister was a fucking idiot who slept with the first guy that walked by...

MARIA
Shut up!

JUAN
...and left her with a kid.

MARIA
You can’t talk about my sister like that.

JUAN
You know I’m not going anywhere.

MARIA
That doesn’t change anything. I’m not marrying you.

JUAN
Well you’re gonna have to.

MARIA
No, Juan. I don’t have to do anything.

JUAN
See how you are? You’re stubborn.

MARIA
And you’re an idiot. A loser.
(beat)
I’m not even in love with you.

JUAN
...Me neither.

MARIA
(stares at him)
Perfect.

Maria gets up and walks off through the park.


INT. MARIA'S BEDROOM . MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

Maria Full of Grace (part 3)  Edited_e0075308_2350329.jpgMaria sits up in bed playing with one of Pacho’s stuffed animals. She rolls on her side and stares over at her sister, asleep with Pacho. Maria grips at her sheet - angry, frustrated, frightened.


                            continues. Coming soon.
 
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