13 Days

David Self 2000

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146309/

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

	13 Days

	by

	David Self


	DARKNESS.  As the MAIN TITLES BEGIN, the theater thrums with
	a subsonic HISS which mounts in all the rattling power of
	THX, and we...

	BURN IN, BRIGHT LIVING COLOR:

	EXT. STRATOSPHERE - DAY

	The glory of stratospheric dawn.  The engines of a silver
	Lockheed U-2F rasp upon the trace oxygen here at 72,500 feet. 
	Scattered cloud formations hang over the blue brilliance of
	sea far, far below.  In the haze, the looming edge of land.

	SUPER: FLIGHT G-3101. OCTOBER 14TH, 1962. OVER CUBA.

	The spy plane's CAMERA DOORS whine open.  The glassy eye of
	the 36-inch camera focuses.  And then with a
	BANGBANGBANGBANG, its high-speed motor kicks in, shutter
	flying.

							MATCH CUT TO:

	INT. O'DONNELL BEDROOM - DAY

	A simple CAMERA, snapping away furiously in the hands of a
	giggling MARK O'DONNELL, 4.  He's straddling and in the face
	of his dad, KENNY O'DONNELL, 30's, tough, Boston-Irish, with
	a prodigious case of morning hair.  Kenny awakens, red-eyed.

				HELEN (O.S.)
		Mark, get off your father!

	Kenny sits up to the morning bedlam of the O'Donnell house.

	KIDS screech, doors bang all over.  Kenny pushes Mark over,
	rolls out of bed, snatches up the corners of the blanket and
	hoists Mark over his shoulder in a screaming, kicking bundle.

	INT. O'DONNELL HALLWAY - DAY

	Kenny, with Mark in the bundle on his shoulder, meets his
	wife HELEN going the other way in the hall with LITTLE HELEN,