Prelude to a Kiss

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1990. Draft script for the 1992 film.

Based on the 1988 play of the same name, also by Craig Lucas. A young pessimistic woman who is a communist also works as a bartender and gets married to a conservative young man who works at a Chicago publishing house. At their wedding, an old man asks to kiss Rita and when he does, his soul changes places with her and now Peter must see beyond the physical to the beautiful soul underneath for the old man to kiss Rita again and return to his own cancer-ridden body.

Set in New York, shot on location in Chicago, and Highland Park, Illinois and Jamaica.

Green titled wrappers. Title page present, dated September 18, 1990, with credits for screenwriter Craig Lucas. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.

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