Based on Virginia Hamilton's celebrated novel — this second draft adaptation carries the full weight of one of young adult literature's most distinctive voices. A scarce script from a film that found its audience slowly and keeps finding new ones. Certificate of Authenticity included.
*Guaranteed Vintage and Original as issued. Comes with COA from the Museum of Mom and Pop Culture!
*Stiff Production Covers with Hand-Printed Sticker Label - 126 White Pages - Screenplay by Kevin Sullivan - Second Draft - Sullivan is not listed on IMDB as one of the writers, so could well be an early alternate script - Based on the book by Virginia Hamilton. Lot includes a trimmed, 8 x 10" quriky illustration by Carles Bragg.
*Not Signed or Noted, but consignor states this script was the property of Sammy Davis, Jr., and wife, Altovise Davis.
*OVERALL CONDITION: See Photos - Very Fine!
*HISTORICAL INFORMATION: The Planet of Junior Brown, retitled Junior's Groove in some releases, is a 1997 Canadian drama film. Directed by Clement Virgo, the film was written by Virgo and Cameron Bailey as an adaptation of Virginia Hamilton's 1971 novel The Planet of Junior Brown. The adaptation changes the novel's setting from 1970s Harlem to 1997 Toronto, where Virgo grew up.
The film stars Martin Villafana as the titular Junior Brown, an overweight and schizophrenic child prodigy studying piano from music teacher Miss Peebs (Margot Kidder). The film's cast also includes Rainbow Sun Francks, Clark Johnson, Lynn Whitfield, Sarah Polley, Richard Chevolleau, Denis Akiyama and Dan Lett.
The film premiered at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 1997, but was distributed primarily as a CBC Television film airing in November of that year. The film aired on Showtime and Fox Family Channel in the United States in 1999, following which Whitfield won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special in 2000.
*STORYLINE: This is the story of an extremely obese, rather immature, yet very bright and talented young man, and of his world and the people in it... mostly homeless young adults... who refer to their lives and where they live as their individual "planets," and everyone else as "refugees." But there are problems in his world, where a talent for the piano has been reduced to playing Chopin on a piano that has had the strings cut by his mother out of frustration at his incessant practicing... the same mother who now requires him to be there to administer her insulin shots. Still, because he is a 'good boy', he plays on the soundless piano, and takes weekly lessons from a piano teacher so eccentric that she will only allow him to strum out the notes on her dining room table... until, like real planets when other bodies get too close, he finds himself pulled and moved in a different direction. (Stebbins / IMDB)
*SEE MORE CLASSIC PLAYS, MUSICALS AND SCREENPLAYS FROM THIS AMAZING 150K SCRIPT ARCHIVE IN OUR OTHER AUCTIONS - AND IN THE WEEKS TO COME!
PLEASE NOTE: Screen Grab of poster NOT INCLUDED - IMAGE ADDED AS VISUAL REFERENCE ONLY - THANKS!
*BID WITH CONFIDENCE AND ENJOY!
Payment:
Please send the payment for your item within 3 days of winning the item.