Lanford Still Stands
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This one the second film, it would make another film post-Roseanne and would be titled Lanford Still Stands...Lanford is hit by small riots caused by a whole group of ppl. and many buildings and houses and stores are badly damaged and some are burned.
Lips Gay Bar and the Lodge are severely damaged and need extensive rebuilding; maybe the Lodge is burned down; they might not have the money to re-build. Some of the Lunch Boxes and Dinner Pails are also hit as well.
The Wellmans' son, Gary, Arnie, Fred, Lonnie and his wife, Samantha and several others that Roseanne and Jackie know are involved. Those involved are arrested, most of them are jailed. Their excuse? They work for the city and had been goofing off on the job and falsifying time sign-and check-ins and were suspended and felt it was "unfair," so they decided to strike out.
It's heartbreaking for almost everyone in Lanford. Roseanne and Jackie are esp. shocked; so are their friends. There's a lot of crying in the next few days, including from Roseanne and Jackie.
Some scenes would be maybe Roseanne and Jackie surveying the damage to any of their diners and walking around with tears in their eyes, just dazed.
Then on the way home, they'd pass the remains of the Lodge and both of them would start crying and have to pull over and they see others over there, maybe Anne-Marie, Chuck, Nancy, and Bonnie to name a few. They also are devastated and Nancy and Bonnie also are crying and they cling to each other for support.
Later, Roseanne calls Crystal and she's devastated that her son could do this; they cry a bit more over the phone.
Jackie also can't believe that Fred could do this also; one heartrending scene, Jackie visits Fred in jail; Fred's rather sullen and complains about his life.
Just as Jackie's leaving, Crystal comes in to visit Lonnie and Crystal and Jackie talk some and maybe they get the idea to help Lanford rebuild and Jackie promises to run it by Roseanne, then they hug and offer each other support.
Then the Conners/Harris/Healys go ahead with their plan to help the Lanford ppl. band together to re-build the town, raise money to help the damaged businesses re-build and restore ppl.'s sense of safety. They organize fundraisers over the next few months to raise money for rebuilding.
Meanwhile, DJ and his wife Lian, have a daughter in addition to the son that they have. One of Harris' friends' parents is involved in the riot.
Darlene and David open up a section of their magazine to let Lanford residents vent and express their feelings about the riot.
Andy by then has started high school and is often teased and has the same severe acne that Jackie had at fourteen.
Fred has re-married and Andy sees him every once in a while and his new wife, Jennifer, has two sons from a previous marriage and the two sons are rather out-of-control and often tease and bully poor Andy when he visits and bicker between themselves.
Fred and Jennifer also bicker often also and Andy often lopes around his stepfamily, sometimes feeling kind of like a male Cinderella and the stepsibs from it all and is mostly quiet around them.
I don't have Fred appear in my first film, but he does appear in the second when he and the others get in trouble for trashing Lanford.
Maybe the second film will have one of the opening scenes with Andy's stepbrothers fighting and screaming and trying to push each other down mall steps and Fred and Jennifer bickering and Andy just trailing along and hoping Sunday will come fast so he can get back to Jackie's and the rest of his family, since he feels closer to them.
Bev has a cancer scare, but makes it through. Jackie is especially affected by it, since she's very afraid of losing her mom, despite her mom sometimes driving her crazy.
I picture one scene where Bev's about to go into surgery and Jackie and Roseanne are both there and Jackie's struggling against tears and her brows slant and she tries to relax them, but can't keep them relaxed. Roseanne holds a crying Jackie as Bev's wheeled into surgery.
This second film starts the August before Andy starts high school and spans until the following March. The riots happen in either late September or early October and Bev's cancer scare happens in maybe February. Most of Lanford is re-built by March; the Lodge is still in the process of being rebuilt.
Or maybe there could be a brief epilogue that takes place in November that has the Lodge being re-opened and a big ribbon-cutting ceremony and celebration! Hey, that'd be a neat ending!
Still have to iron out a lot of details of this one.