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Runaway BalloonOriginal Screenplay by Mikael Thakur
 Based on true events. Please comment if you enjoy the screenplay. Help makeRunaway Balloonmake it on the big screen! 
FIRST DRAFT72 PAGES.
 
JUNE 1999.
 
 
 
©1999 Mikael Thakur, All rights reserved.
 
Title credits.Over an aerial shot of downtown New York City.Fade out:FADE IN:
 
EXT. Apartment building. Day.A typical apartment building in New York City, nothing fancy, crowded by similarbuildings.CUT TO:
 
INT. Apartment building. Michael’s Bedroom. DAY.The father, MICHAEL, is sleeping. A beat. A child, HENRY, of about ten years of agebursts into the room and jumps on the bed, straddling the father.HENRYFather! Father! get up, its Saturday!The FATHER, confused and startled, slightly shifts from his position in the bed.HENRYFather, the carnival, you promised.FATHER opens his eyes, looks at an old analog clock on the right side of the bedand notes it's only 6:00am.FATHERMy God Henry, it's only six o'clock, the carnivaldoesn't open 'till nine.The FATHER pulls the sheets over his head and goes back to sleep, HENRY, however,is still on top. Henry motions his father to wake up.HENRY
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