• Letters from Rosemary

  • Nick Yarborough
  • Set Up
  • Drama
  • 2016
  • Black List
  • 91
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Market: Mon, 21 Mar 2016
Actor: Emma Stone
Producer: Steve Golin, Doug Wald, Jarrod Murray, Allard Cantor
AgentSImon Faber, Tanya Cohen (WME)
ManagerAllard Cantor, Jarrod Murray (Epicenter)
ProductionAnonymous Content
Tells the true story of Rose Marie “Rosemary” Kennedy, who received one of the first prefrontal lobotomies which left her permanently incapacitated.
In the days leading up to her lobotomy, Rosemary Kennedy reminisces and writes letters to her family members.
Rosemary Kennedy uses her last chance for acceptance to write heartfelt letters to the members of her family before her father takes her away from them for good.
A young woman writes letters to her family days before she is lobotomized by her father.
Film
Non-Fiction, Female Protagonist, Biopic, Drama, Medical, Political, Handicapped, Disability, Historical, Doctor, Father/Daughter, Siblings, True Story
110
PG-13
Medium
F
White / European
23
Average
Flowers for Algernon, The Miracle Worker, Jackie, Darkest Hour
1941, Over Several Days
A convent school, hotel, hospital, bar, the Kennedy Compound in Bronxville, Washington Times Herald offices, an apartment, ballroom, and the Oval Office.
ROSEMARY KENNEDY (23) sits in an empty classroom and introduces herself as the slowest of the Kennedy children. She begins to write a letter to SISTER MARGARET (65), one of the nuns who runs the school she goes to, asking for help from her father's disappointment in her.

In the headmaster's office of The Sacred Heart Convent, JOE KENNEDY SR. (53) and Sister Margaret discuss Rosemary running away for a second time.

Rosemary and GLORIA (23) plan on how to sneak out again to meet boys, and Rosemary begins to write a letter to her mother, Rose, asking for help, as she thinks her father is very upset with her.

In St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Joe Kennedy Sr. meets with DR. WALTER FREEMAN (adult) who talks to him about lobotomizing Rosemary.

In the Tombs bar, Gloria dances with a boy while Rosemary talks to a British man named ALAN (young adult). When police men arrive, Rosemary abruptly runs out of the bar with Gloria.

Rose calls her daughter, KATHLEEN "KICK" KENNEDY (20’s) at her office at the Washington Times. She asks Kick to look into the lobotomy procedure because Joe Kennedy Sr. wants Rosemary to get one and Rose is concerned.

From her dorm room...