This screenplay follows Ruby, a 10-year-old girl, and explores her home life amidst the deteriorating relationship between her parents. Scenes show rising tension between Ruby's parents during family dinners, with her mother complaining about her father on the phone. Ruby sees another happy family in the park and looks on longingly. Her father struggles with reality after a shower. Both parents are shown eating awkwardly during separate restaurant outings. Ruby's mother begins dating another man, though Ruby seems uncomfortable learning to ride a bike with him. Ruby's father comes home drunk and aggressive one night. The screenplay ends with Ruby playing with dolls, reflecting on clips from her difficult home life.

1. Ruby
By
Cora Corre, Archie Leigh and Katie Moulder
An origional Screenplay
Fine Arts College 2015 07530951467

2. 1. EXT FLATS DAY
A young girl Ruby, aged 10, hair tied in plaits with a
rucksack on her back, wearing a bright pink dress and a long
coat, standing between two buildings. She looks at one,
standing in the middle of the road, then turns to look at
the other and then knocks on the door of it.
INT. PARENT KITCHEN EVENING
Ruby, Dad and Mum sitting around the dinner table having a
meal. Awkard edging of serving plates between the two in
more a less silence excluding the background noises of
cluttering and ruby eating and making the occasional
exxagerated noise whilst eating for attention as parents sit
looking disastisfied. The eye contact between the parents
differentiating when they look at ruby. Tension is told
through the expressions of the parents and the eery
atmosphere within this scene.
RUBY
Mmmmm (placing her cutlery loudly
on her plate)
Mum gives a strong angry look towards dad signalling for him
to say something
INT RUBY BATHROOM EVENING
Ruby is getting ready to go to bed and is brushing her
teeth. Through the crack of the door you see the mum on the
phone whilst folding washing. You can hear a muffled voice
and can faintly hear her spelling out words and shouting
down the phone. Ruby pauses brushing her teeth so that she
can try to hear what her mum is saying on the phone.
MUM
All this s-h-i-t about a-l-a-n is
driving me crazy....its not fair
Ruby finishes brushing her teeth and gets into bed and
stares at the ceiling with a concerned look on her face
4. INT RESTRAUNT EVENING
Mum and dad sat in restraunt awkwardly looking at each
other. The sound of clattering plates and cutlery alongside
the low level sound of people talking in the backgroudn
creates the atmosphere and tension between the two. With
there eye contact being clearly focused on alongside the
occasional sigh.

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5 EXT PARK DAY
Ruby playing on the swings in the park trying to entertain
herself and looks to her left too see another young girl who
is roughly the same age as her, being pushed on the swing by
both of her parents, laughing and having fun. Close up of
Rubys sighing in dissapointment and jealously looking
longingly at the happy family.
6 INT.DAD LIVING ROOM.DAY.
Ruby sitting on the sofa clutching her one present with the
reamining wrapping paper around her.
RUBY
Wheres my present from Santa?
DAD
Thats from me and Santa
Ruby looks puzzled but, picks up her new gift and begans to
distract herself with it. A phone then rings and and after a
few muffled words Dad brings the phone over to Ruby who
looks puzzled. She holds the phone to her ear smiling and
giggling and theres a sudden pause as a confused look
crosses her face.
RUBY
Well...i got a teddy from daddy and
santa (sounds like more of a
question than a statement as her
voice rises at the end)
Ruby ends the call abandoning the phone on the sofa, looks
up at her dad bewildered and moves off the sofa walking out
the room with her head hung low dragging the teddy along the
floor behind her.
INT DAD BATHROOM EVENING
Dad has just got out of the shower and the mirror and
windows are all steamed up. He lifts his hand up to wipe the
mirror so the he can see his reflection and just stares at
himself as he appears to be deep in thought and the struggle
of reality.

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INT RESTRAUNT EVENING
Mum and Dad sitting in restraunt, not saying a word to each
other. Mum is playing around with the food on her plate as
the Dad eats making no eye contact in contrast to the
festive music in the background and the emphasis on the
sound of knifes and scraping of glasses.
EXT PARK DAY
Ruby is being taught to ride her bike in the park by a man
who is shown to be a new fatherly figure as you see the mum
in the bakground laughing and smiling. Ruby gets in a strop
and begins to look uncomfortable and psychically appears
very defensive.
Wide shot of mums boyfriend trying to teach Ruby how to ride
a bike with Ruby getting frustrated and running off. Mum
runs to catch up with Ruby and crouches down to speak to
her. This is another wideshot as the low buzz of the parks
noises can be heard.
MS shot of Mum looking towards Richard with arm gestures
suggesting some sort of defeat or loss
INT MUM BATHROOM EVENING
Mum is taking off her make up, looking into the mirror in
the bathroom. She bends down to splash her face with water
in the sink, looks up allowing the water to drip down her
face for a few seconds in silence and then covers her face
with her hands.
INT RESTRAUNT EVENING
Mum and Dad out for dinner again. Montage sequence of Dad
ordering drink after drink looking emotionless and lost. As
it appears the mum is trying to interfere and talk. Their
conversation cannot be heard you just see the body language
and hostility between the two and contrasting festivitys are
taking place around them alongside festive music.
INT DAD HOUSE, GIRL BEDROOM EVENING
Ruby asleep in bed and is woken up by the noise of her dad
comjing through the front door being very agressive and
bumping into the walls. Also hear the clinking of beer
bottles as he begins to rummage through the fridge for yet
another drink. Exxagerating the sounds of fridge and

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cupoards opening and closing as he fails to find yet another
beer.
INT A&E EVENING
Ruby sat in the waiting room in A&E, looking very worried
and lonely. Dad approaches Ruby with black eye and arm in
sling and put his hand out for ruby but she looks at it
hesitantly before taking it to go home without a word.
INT DAD GIRL BEDROOM EVENING
Ruby sat in her room, playing mummys and daddys with her
doll. Montage sequence begings of clips from throughout.