NELSON ENTERTAINMENT presents

An ANTHONY SIMMONS Film

JOHN HURT

KAREN YOUNG

(A bucket of seawater is being hoisted from a docked boat. Thelma walks by, underneath the hoist. As she walks by she watches it being dumped into a bin, supervised by a man.)

 LITTLE
Sweetheart

Also Starring JOHN McMARTIN

         BARBARA BOSSON

(Thelma, bored, watches Little Billy load ice into a truck at the Happy Pelican. Little Billy performs a quick mime act of pulling something out of his mouth and throwing it to Thelma, who in turn unenthusiastically pretends to catch it.)

LITTLE BILLY: How you doin'?

         GUY BOYD

Introducing CASSIE BARASCH

         ELLIE RAAB

and JAMIE WATERSTON

(Robert Burger is renting a creme-colored Buick from an Isuzu dealer next to some railroad tracks. The notice in the car's passenger side window reads AS IS NO WARRANTY, NO WARRANTY. Dorothea tears the notice down from inside the car as Robert starts the car and the rental employee shuts Dorothea's door, and they leave as a train passes by.) [book excerpt].

with JACK GILPIN
     ANN McDONOUGH

ROSE PARRAH
CLAUDE BROOKS

GARY BASARABA

(Thelma is immersed in a rock video on TV at the counter of The Happy Pelican: "I Was Born to Cry" [music]. The barkeeper picks up a remote control and turns off the TV.)

BARKEEPER (waving her away): Off. Outa here.

THELMA: Oh, come on, I was watching.

BARKEEPER: When age you watch. Paying customers only. (Waves Thelma away. Thelma glares at him and backs away quietly.)

WOMAN IN BAR (entering): Almost forgettin'. It's the Lord's time. (Turns on the TV, blasting the rock video again.) Shoot. That's devil music. Little girls shouldn't be watchin' that.

BARKEEPER: Go home.

(Thelma backs out of the restaurant, glaring at the barkeeper, and gently bumping into a lady seated at a table.)

(TV: ...life and death matter with them. They were driven to their knees, they acknowledged their sins, and they confessed. And they said "Moses, we've sinned against God.")

(Thelma is buying a pink, single scoop ice cream on a cone from Mr. Manny at the downtown store.) [book excerpt] [note]

Based upon the Novel
"The Naughty Girls" by ARTHUR WISE

(Thelma pauses to stare at a Polaroid camera advertisement in the shop window, which reads: Put yourself in the picture. Next to the camera are a number of colored wigs. Scene of a coastal city.)

Casting by MEG SIMON and FRAN CUMIN CSA

(Robert Burger is buying a USA Today from a machine outside a store where two deputies are leaving. Robert watches them go by, then walks in.)

DEPUTY (to the store clerk): We'll see you later.

(When Robert gets inside he gives a cautious look over his shoulder at them, but the deputies didn't recognize him.)

          Designer GERRY SCOTT

(Dorothea is sitting on a round cement ring on the beach.)

          Editor JOHN STOTHART

          Director of Photography JOHN HOOPER

(Thelma is peeking in the exposed corner of awindow of a boat shed where her brother Richard is with Miss Marissa, who is stroking his face and begins taking his shirt off.)

Music by LAURENCE JUBER

Screenplay by ANTHONY SIMMONS

(Thelma takes her paper bag of groceries and leaves the window where she was spying, and goes into her house. Aerial view of Robert's car driving along an undeveloped coastline.)

         Producer LOUIS MARKS

         Directed by ANTHONY SIMMONS

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