The Abridged Script
FADE IN:
INT. NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT
NICOLE KIDMAN takes off her dress. The audience gets to see her bare backside from a distance.
AUDIENCE
Ooooh, I can't wait to see you and Tom Cruise naked.
TOM CRUISE AND NICOLE KIDMAN
We promise, you will get to see plenty of us in the nude. Yep, you sure will. Mmm-hmmm.
STANLEY KUBRICK
It's funny that people will spend years obsessing over a rumor that says they get to watch two attractive stars have sex. I repeat..."a rumor."
AUDIENCE
Eh?
STANLEY
Anyway, on with the plot! Ha ha ha.
INT. REALLY NICE NYC APARTMENT.
Tom and Nicole enter together. It is obvious that they are at a really big party. It's a formal get-together with a Christmas theme. They talk about several things that have nothing to do with the "plot."
NICOLE
Isn't it funny how we know absolutely no one at these parties?
TOM
Yes, it is hilarious. Remember the Christmas party last year?
NICOLE
Yes, ha ha ha!
AUDIENCE
When are you two gonna do the nasty?
TOM AND NICOLE
Ha ha ha!
NICOLE meets an attractive older man and dances with him. The audience expects them to go somewhere and have sex. They don't. Meanwhile, Tom is being hit on by two extremely attractive women who want desperately to engage in a threesome. Tom is suddenly taken away and there is no action.
INT. TOM AND NICOLE'S APARTMENT
For ten seconds, Nicole's upper half is naked and Tom kisses and rubs her. "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing" blares in the background. This is as sexual as the two get with each other, little does the audience know.
AUDIENCE
I can't wait to watch you two REALLY get into it.
TOM AND NICOLE
Ha ha ha.
After they have supposedly done the bad deed, we are introduced to their annoying little daughter who has nothing to with the movie.
ANNOYING CHILD ACTRESS
Hi!
TOM and NICOLE sit in their bedroom. Both are clothed. Tom starts rubbing Nicole's breasts, but stops for no reason. NICOLE lights up a joint, the two get high, and Nicole confesses that she once wanted to have sex with another man while she was married to Tom.
TOM
I am depressed. I will go for a walk.
EXT. NYC STREETS LATE, LATE AT NIGHT
TOM walks around.
VINESSA SHAW
Hi, I am a prostitute. Would you like to come over to my house?
TOM
Sure.
AUDIENCE
Oh boy, now we're gonna get to watch people do it.
INT. VINESSA'S APARTMENT
VINESSA
Hi.
TOM
Hi.
VINESSA
See you later.
TOM
Bye.
AUDIENCE
What?? They didn't do a damned thing.
EXT. NYC BAR
TOM walks into the bar and sits down with A FRIEND.
FRIEND
I play the piano blindfolded at a club where everyone is having sex.
TOM
I want to come see this, as long as I can stay fully clothed.
FRIEND
Fine, but you have to come in a satanic-looking outfit complete with mask and hooded cloak.
TOM
No problem, I will go to a costume shop.
FRIEND
At three in the morning?
TOM
Sure.
EXT. "RAINBOW COSTUME SHOP" IN NYC
TOM
I have a lot of money because I am a doctor. Please open up your store.
RADE SHERBEDGIA
I am foreign. On that note, please find a costume that fits your needs. Oh yes, and I also pimp my 14 year old daughter if you would like to have sex with her.
LEELEE SOBIESKI
I spent two months working on this film for a one minute scene. Bye!
AUDIENCE
Yawn, where's the sex?
TOM
I'll take this satanic looking outfit.
RADE
It's a deal. Come back soon!
EXT. BIG SCARY MANSION
TOM
Hi. I'm here for the...uh...sex.
AUDIENCE
So are we.
SPOOKY GATEKEEPERS
Goooo through the gaaaaates.
INT. MANSION
TOM walks into a ceremony in which an enormous number of people are all wearing satanic-looking masks and hooded cloaks. While the satanic music is playing with the satanic chanting, the satanic beings take off their satanic clothing and have demonic sex with each other. Unfortunately, many objects block the nasty action, so very little is actually seen.
AUDIENCE
Sex...cool. Hey, what's with everything being covered up? They did that in Austin Powers.
HIGH PRIEST OF SATANIC SEXUAL SLUMBER PARTY
Tom, you do not belong here. Leave, or we will kill you.
TOM
Whatever.
INT. TOM AND NICOLE'S APARTMENT
NICOLE is wearing a sign that says "I'm in the movie, too."
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE SPOOKY SATANIC MANSION
TOM
This is really weird. I must leave before I have sex and allow the audience to see me naked.
HIGH PRIEST
But, I thought the movie centered on you being naked.
AUDIENCE
So did we.
TOM
Ha ha ha.
INT. TOM AND NICOLE'S APARTMENT
TOM
Hi honey. Look, I was briefly tempted to cheat on you, but it passed.
NICOLE
It's all right. Let's have sex.
STANLEY
Wait! Let me end the movie before that happens.
AUDIENCE
We paid roughly $10 to see hot nasty action, so where is it? Nicole was naked briefly, and Tom didn't show anything. We've been waiting for three years to watch them do it. Hello??? What the hell was all the hype about? This movie was...uneventful to say the least.
NICOLE AND TOM
Ha ha ha! You just don't understand Kubrick. The moral of the story: Don't go to a movie just to see sex.
END