Downtown

Richard Benjamin (director)
Nat Mauldin (screenwriter)
Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, Penelope Ann Miller, Joe Pantoliano (starring)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. Revised Sixth Draft script for the 1990 film.

A police officer working in a rich suburb of Philadelphia pulls over a wealthy business owner and messed with the wrong guy, as he is reassigned to downtown Philadelphia. Everyone is sure he will get himself and his partner killed so Sergeant Curren (Whitaker) is assigned to babysit him. He flails until his best friend, fellow officer, is killed investigating a stolen car. After that, the rule book goes out the window.

Set in Philadelphia, shot on location there, as well as Claremont and Los Angeles, CA.

Red titled wrappers, dated March 13, 1989. Title page present, dated June 28, 1989, noted as Revised Sixth Draft, with credits for screenwriter Mauldin. 117 leaves, with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographically duplicated, first generation photocopy, with no copied punch holes, with yellow, blue, green, pink, and goldenrod revision pages throughout, dated variously between March 28, 1989 and June 28, 1989. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.


[Book #140694]