CHRISTMAS IN EAST LAKE
"This Christmas, It Will Snow In South Georgia"

Written and Directed by ERIC HIERS

Characters:

1. Matt Morris
2. Bruce Blanton
3. Gwen Summers
4. Karen Morris
5. Harry Owens

TREATMENT

It starts Christmas, 2018.  Matt (now thirty-three) and his daughter, Karen (now eight) sit in the living room of Matt's house.  Karen says this was her best christmas ever.  She asks Matt what his best Christmas was.  He says, other than the last one he spent with her mother (Barbara), it would have to be Christmas 2003, the one Christmas it snowed in East Lake, Georgia.  She asks him to tell her about it.

Matt starts the story- Matt was sitting in his room December 24, 2003, working on his Christmas present for Gwen.  Through narration, we learn Matt didn't have any money to buy her a real present, so he made her one.  He goes to the bathroom and starts shaving.  His cat, Ana, walks into the room and ends up destroying the present.  Matt walks into his room and yells at the cat.  The cat runs off and Matt tries to fix the present.  It is ruined.  He calls up his friend, Bruce and tells him they will have to go to the store and find Gwen another present.  Bruce is at the gas station and tells him he'll be at Matt's house in five minutes.  Matt hangs up and goes to Harry's room and asks him for some money.  Harry, being the little jerk brother he is, tells Matt he has to beg.  Matt slaps him in the back of the head and Harry gives him the money- $30.00.  Five minutes pass and Bruce drives up and drives off with Matt.

On the radio, they are playing nothing but Stevie Wonder songs.