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All the Best Poets Sit in the Smoking Section:19
INT – LIVING ROOM - DAY
TITLE: MORALES HOUSE.
‘No Tengo Dinero’ by Los Umbrellos plays.
Two beautiful three-year-old BABY TWIN BOY’S sit on the floor in a modestly furnished, but clean suburban home, in front of the TV tuned to Telemundo.
JAVIER (O.C.)
Mi familia está allí. Nunca han visto a sus nietos.
[Subtitled: My family is there. They've not even seen their own grandchildren.]
Grandsons!
[Subtitled: Nietos!]
THERESA (O.C.)
But you have a good job here.
[Subtitled: Usted tiene un buen trabajo aquí]
Empleo.
[Subtitled: Employment]
JAVIER (O.C.)
Theresa, si ahorro tres meses de salarios podemos vivir un año en México.
[Subtitled: Theresa, if I save up even three months wages we can live a year in Mexico.]
JEFF (V.O.)
He’s talking to Theresa!
JAVIER (O.C.)
Millionaires!
[Subtitled: Millonario!]
JEFF (V.O.)
He’s talking to my Theresa!
THERESA (V.O)
I, I, What about my family?
[Subtitled: ¿Qué sobre mi familia?]
Familia.
[Subtitled: Family]
They want to see their grandchildren too.
[Subtitled: Desean ver a sus nietos también]
The TWINS start fighting over a Taco Bell talking Chihuahua toy.
THERESA runs to the living room to break up the skirmish. She’s aged poorly, gained thirty pounds and looks nothing like Jeff’s vision in the restaurant.
THERESA picks up BABY TWIN BOY #1.
THERESA (CONT’D)
You be a good boy.
[Subtitled: Sea un buen muchacho]
(to BABY TWIN BOY #2)
Sea un buen muchacho.
[Subtitled: Be a good boy]
