Page One: “Pitch Perfect” (2012)

Screenplay by Kay Cannon, book by Mickey Rapkin

The movie version of the opening:

The movie has more cross-cutting between the The Treblemakers and Chloe as she races to get to the stage on time, but the script establishes the dynamic pretty clearly in its pages.

Download the script here.

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