Don't Look Up · written by Adam McKay · 2021

Kate and Phillip argue over his mother’s question about Kate and his proposed lunch timeline.

Scene 24 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Phillip
Kate

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Begins 18 min into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 24

After PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky discovers a comet on a direct collision course with Earth, she and Professor Randall Mindy try to persuade a politically distracted President, a media-saturated public, and a powerful technology company to stop it before impact.

Scenes 1–7
Kate and Randall work within the familiar routine of astronomy and university research.
Scene 8
Independent calculations agree the comet will hit Earth in six months and fourteen days.
Just before
Scene 21
Randall takes a phone call in his room while a cellphone commercial plays on television.
Scene 22
Randall’s wife, June, is introduced as earthy, sharp, and the rock of the family.
Scene 23
Randall congratulates Marshall on his LSAT score and checks in with Evan about his medication.
Scene 24
This scene

24INT. KATE’S ROOM - WASHINGTON, DC

Kate and Phillip are not in a full blown fight.

PHILLIP

--She asked if you were a lesbian.

She did not say that you WERE a

lesbian. It was a question-

KATE

Look, can I sit down to have lunch

with your mom in like....7 months?

PHILLIP

7 months?! That’s weirdly specific

and distant!

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