Treatment For My Romantic Film
The film opens with an establishing shot of Hardwick Hall, then cutting to a woman (Caitlin) who is a florist, with blonde hair, she is having a walk through the park, you see her get closer to the camera but she begins to look shocked. She sees her ex-best friend (Courtney) being proposed to by her ex-boyfriend (Carl)…

There is then a flashback to a year before this incident and the scene opens with knickers and bras on the floor, this then moves to a view of a bed and you see people under the covers giggling. There’s a bang of a door and everything goes quiet before you see Caitlin coming home. Carl and Courtney who have been in the bed together both jump up and quickly find a place for him to hide, the wardrobe being the obvious place. Caitlin finally enters the room but his boxers are still on the floor, with slight hesitation Courtney explains that she had someone to stay last night and just as Caitlin states she recognises the boxers Carl falls out of the wardrobe. Then the word ‘YOU’

… ‘BITCH’ is heard as it goes back to Hardwick Hall. Caitlin then runs away and goes back home. The title sequence is shown over an image of Caitlin crying and this then builds up to her singing the song in floods of tears, various images are shown of her eating ice-cream, watching films and crying to show the passage of time.

The next scene opens and Caitlin is in her bed looking depressed, there’s a knock at the door which she assumes is her take-away. However it is her best friend, Matt a brown haired muscular man. He walks in and takes control; taking care of Caitlin’s every need. He turns some music on and starts dancing around the room, he tells her to get in the shower and get ready (but still manages to fall over) he then persuades her they are going out. They both go down to the local pub in a taxi; she has one too many drinks and goes to sing on the karaoke. At the pub she bumps into an associate who organises weddings, she gives them her number in case they wish to use her services.
The film then cuts to the morning after, Caitlin has a hangover and she gets up to find Matt making her pancakes in the kitchen, he has drawn a smiley face on the pancake with chocolate sauce and has put orange juice and Caitlin’s toy dog that he brought her for her birthday on the table.
She goes up behind him and cuddles him, he tells her he had to bring her home last night because she was so drunk, they begin to laugh about the karaoke. Caitlin then gets a phone call from the wedding planner (Kate) who tells her she has mis-booked and needs some flowers urgently for a wedding in two days, she does not mind what type they are and wants her to be at the wedding for ten thirty in the morning. She tells Matt whilst rushing around he room and getting ready, she leaves him a spare set of keys and goes straight out to order the flowers, she has a new excitement for life, the trees are green and the sky is blue she picks white and red roses for the wedding to match the red cake.
She goes back home and notices a note under the door, it is from Matt telling her to be at the local pub at nine, she goes and finds out he has arranged for them to go to the cinema together, they are the only ones watching that film, so start laughing and joking about it and start running up and down the aisle and jumping on the seats. He then buys her an ice-cream and takes her home, he walks her back up to her front door, there is a silence as they decide whether to kiss each other or not. They then both turn away and laugh it off as if nothing happened, Matt gets in the car and drives away as Caitlin realises the feelings she has for him.
It’s the next morning and she has one more day to sort out the flowers she goes out to collect them from the shop. She travels home and begins to arrange the flowers there. Later there is a knock on the door and its Matt he sings her a song at the door and then she laughs and lets him in, one thing leads to another and they kiss… There’s slow love music played and she slowly giggles. She then drags him into the house and one thing leads to another.

It cuts to the morning after and she is lay in bed with him, she leaves the room quietly getting dressed and leaves the toy dog in her place. She has also left him orange juice on the bed side table. It’s the morning of the wedding so she drives to the church she puts the flowers out where they should be and then goes to see Kate; however she finds her talking to Carl, Caitlin’s ex-boyfriend. She hides behind some flowers and then realises that it is his wedding she has been arranging the flowers for. Kate eventually leaves the conversation and as Caitlin tries to move away she trips over a cable on the floor and falls straight on the floor in front of Carl. He then lifts her up laughing and says she has not changed a bit. She starts to feel relaxed as they have a cup of tea; however he then takes this too far and tries to kiss her. As he does this general flashbacks of their life together are shown before they get quicker and she pushes him away.

Whilst running away Caitlin notices Courtney her ex-best friend, who is also the bride. Without hesitation she tells her she should not marry Carl. Courtney is not willing to listen and confronts her about being at her wedding. She attempts to push her out and as she does this Caitlin explains that she can prove it. They stop fighting and Caitlin says that if she rings Carl without him knowing you are here he will say what he did. Courtney is unsure but she is willing to find out the truth so agrees. They go to use the church phone and with picking it up hear the voice of Carl arranging to go out with another girl who is whispering seductively back down the phone. Courtney puts the phone down.

After deliberation she sends Caitlin down to tell everyone the wedding is off, as Carl realises what has happened he goes to run away back down the aisle but is tripped up by someone’s foot at the end and falls into the cake. Matt then turns up with a cake and asks if she wishes to marry him. Without question she says yes! Later it is revealed that Matt learnt about the wedding being cancelled from Courtney as she passed him in her car (they had also been childhood friends but had lost contact).

It then cuts to the last scene where you see a year in the future, Caitlin and Matt are sat together laughing in an old country house. Courtney then walks in with her new husband Aaron announcing that dinner is ready.