The film Heat shows what happens when 14-year old Maggie, out of pure innocence and lack of attention, seduces her mom's boyfriend.
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Maggie is on holiday with her mom, her 17-year old brother Jeff and moms much younger boyfriend, Juan. He has been living with them for over two years and thought it time to take the family on a trip to his island of birth. They are spending two weeks in the house he grew up in, right on the beach.
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It's hot.
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While mom is struggling through an early menopause and Juan nostalgically longs back to the innocence of his childhood, Maggie does not know how to deal with her too large breasts and that itchy urge to become an adult.
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3. EXT. BEACH/TERRACE DAY
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WHITE IN
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Bright light!
Sun...
Sea...
Beach...
Yes: paradise.
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On the right, sitting on some rocks, a well-build, tanned, natural-looking man. Barefoot and in swim shorts. Staring out over the ocean like in a commercial.
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Suddenly a weird, but human sound.
Paradise is tilting!
Arms, sand, wrestling, MAGGY (14) fighting and - eventually - being suffocated...
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P.o.v. MAGGY:
JEFFS (17) face: pale like hers, doesn't know yet what its standard adult expression should be, so remains with weird eyebrows, acne and an undefined mouth. Friendly though, in close up like this.
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JEFF is holding MAGGY in some sort of a judo-grip.
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MAGGY
Fuck off!
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JEFF lets go in complete disinterest.
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JEFF
You fuck off.
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He walks off into no distinct direction, it seems. He turns out to be in full soccer-outfit of a rather unknown team. Including shoes.
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MAGGY
Ass.
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JEFF
Cunt.
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JUAN (o.s.)
Hey-hey-hey!
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Both kids, in automatic response:
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MAGGY and JEFF
'Sorry.'
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P.o.v. MAGGY:
JEFF cluttering over some rocks with his soccer shoes, absurdly instable. Then, sitting down, reaching between some rocks, he pulls out a pile of National Geographics and starts reading in one, out loud, since he is moving his lips, but too far away to be heard.
After some time, he suddenly looks up, and mouths:
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JEFF
Fuck off.
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MAGGY
YOU fuck off.
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MOM (o.s.)
God.
This heat...
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JUAN (38), the well-build guy, looks back over his shoulder, towards the house. MOM (46) has left the building. Panting, she reaches one of the terrace-chairs under the parasol in front of the house, and leans on it, as if exhausted from the hike from one chair to the other. Her face red, hairline pearled with sweat.
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MAGGY
Mom?
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MOM
Menopause?! No.
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MAGGY
Mom.
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MOM
No darling, -
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MAGGY
Mom!
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MOM
- it's just extremely hot here.
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Now that she is sitting down, we discover that MOM is talking to someone on her ear plugged mobile phone:
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MOM
I’m all over the place!
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Adaptation of the original theater-play 'Warm', written for Het Syndicaat, which toured the Dutch theaters in 2007.
