The Night Listener

[last lines]

[we see the back of Donna as she walks down the sidewalk, leading away from the condo she just looked at purchasing]

Gabriel Noone:
As for Pete, there's a line in the Velveteen Rabbit that reads... Real isn't how you were made. It's the thing that happens to you. I'm Gabriel Noone. Goodnight.

[last title card 1]

Title Card:
This film was inspired by a telephone friendship with what was believed to be a 14-year-old boy.

[last title card 2]

Title Card:
To this day the existence of that boy has never been conclusively proven.

[last title card 3]

Title Card:
He would be 28 years old today.

[first lines]

Gabriel Noone:
[Black screen. Sounds of squeaking chair as someone sits down, microphone squealing, paper rustling, and a thump] Ready?

[Sound of one breath blown into microphone]

[Unknown woman mumbles]

Gabriel Noone:
Yeah, let's try it like that.

[Paper rustling]

[Unknown woman mumbles again]

Donna D. Logand:
The hell of it is,is you're only as loved as you think you are

Gabriel Noone:
Charles Dickens wrote Pete Logand was only 12 when his parents sent him to make boot polish in a factory by the docks. This screwed him up forever and made him a writer. I think we've all got a blacking factory, some terrible something that makes us lose our baby heart as surely as we lose our baby teeth.

Pap Noone:
Just say goodbye to the little prick

Darlie Noone:
What? Little prick?

Pap Noone:
He can handle that.

Gabriel Noone:
I can handle big ones, actually.

Gabriel Noone:
Listen, you ruined what we had. You're the f***ing one who can't see the reality.