Script Savvy's Monthly Screenplay Contest
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(1 thru 25 of 37 records)
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A retired cop streaks naked down the field during the present-day Army/Navy game believing his heroics will atone for a fumble he made years ago during the same football classic and, while planning for this wacky gridiron adventure, he takes his two codger friends on an endearing journey proving retirement is no place for the slow pokes or the timid.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 08/19/2003; Updated: 09/03/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A teenager must choose whether to take a one-time chance to escape his oppressive family and impoverished town, or stay forever to protect his younger brother.
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(Posted: ; Updated: 08/21/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A powerful, charismatic coal mine owner becomes obsessed with the local schoolteacher, and plots to kill her husband in a deliberate mine disaster.
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(Posted: 06/30/2005; Updated: 11/07/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A cynical fraud investigator risks his career when he falls in love with his chief suspect and learns that every smiler is not a liar.
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(Posted: 01/13/2006; Updated: 08/30/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Two feuding sisters battle the mafioso in Guatemala for a suave Latin bailjumper. If they fail their hated Mother will be killed, or worse have to move in with one of THEM.
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(Posted: 12/01/2012; Updated: 12/22/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An obscure minor leaguer battles the effects of his war injuries to become a rookie sensation when he knuckleballs Cleveland to the 1948 World Series. Based on the true story of Gene "Lefty" Bearden.
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(Posted: 10/23/2007; Updated: 09/20/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When a California mudslide unearths a mass grave filled with hundreds of headless, spineless corpses, an FBI psychologist risks everything to uncover the sanity-shattering secret that unites the victims.
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(Posted: 05/07/2008; Updated: 09/10/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Kidnapped and confined to a Bangkok brothel, an American girl falls in love with her mysterious rescuer and marries him, only to discover he was the drug lord responsible for her kidnapping.
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(Posted: 03/01/2009; Updated: 09/02/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A black lawyer risks his life to save twelve black sharecroppers from Death Row when they are wrongfully convicted of killing two white men. Based on the true story of Scipio Africanus Jones and the Elaine Twelve.
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(Posted: 05/28/2009; Updated: 09/20/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A former champion in the unlikely sport of horseshoes fights to defeat the rival who stole his fame and his girl.
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(Posted: 02/03/2010; Updated: 05/21/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A teenage outsider on a remote Canadian lake must overcome his fear of water to battle newly hatched plesiosaurs and prevent them from terrorizing the world.
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(Posted: 09/23/2001; Updated: 01/28/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When an infection originates in a NJ landfill, the Garden State is quickly overrun with zombies. Now the survivors must evacute before the state is bombed by a ruthless Army General.
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(Posted: 11/01/2009; Updated: 01/11/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An emotionally challenged dad, who most believe suffers from Post Traumatic Stress, or worse, suddenly must prove he's 'normal' when his care-taker wife dies and his delinquent daughter sues for financial control of the estate.
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(Posted: 12/14/2003; Updated: 10/14/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A disgraced manager attempts to reunite his 40 year old boy band, only to find they're woefully past their prime.
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(Posted: 06/22/2009; Updated: 08/01/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Back door political dealings and a comedy of errors follow a geologist who must take on a high-ranking politician to prevent him from tampering with Mother Nature.
1st Place, StoryPros Awards Screenwriting Contest, Action Adventure Thriller genre. 2nd Place, Woods Hole Film Festival 2011, Mystery-Thriller; and multiple other placements.
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(Posted: 09/24/2010; Updated: 03/06/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When a girl's visions of her high school classmates' murders start coming true, she suspects her own father is the killer.
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(Posted: 08/06/2004; Updated: 06/27/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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In a world where clowns are a racial minority, a father with amnesia must remember his past before a clown-mafia leader claims his family and puts him six feet under.
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(Posted: 04/03/2009; Updated: 01/25/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Two NYC detectives must unravel a string of murders or the world will live ancient terrors far worse. (A vampire/werewolf piece with a big twist and a Latino theme.)
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(Posted: 10/05/2004; Updated: 05/24/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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2010 NICHOLL QUARTERFINALIST!!!! With the holidays fast approaching, twelve year old Barnaby is under pressure from his father to discover his sexuality after his three siblings have recently announced that they are gay.
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(Posted: 06/06/2008; Updated: 02/01/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An "investigator" in 1883 journeys across the Western frontier in search of an elusive and mysterious killer who enters brothels late at night and shoots selected customers.
Debbi K. Swanson, President, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle writes, "Marvis makes his central character dimensional, full of pain and goodness, and his central female character stronger than most of the men. You suspect a twist, but can't quite see it coming when it does."
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(Posted: 02/02/2001; Updated: 09/11/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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After Lt. Oscar "Sammy" Sampson lands his B-17 in neutral Switzerland, he feels honor-bound to return to the war, but his new Swiss girlfriend wants him to stay, and his only way home is through Nazi-occupied France. It's an easy decision for Sammy -- after he steals Hitler's swastika. Based on a true story.
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(Posted: 02/20/2011; Updated: 02/08/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A Brooklyn teenager deals with a tragic mistake while trying not to let the guilt destroy his life.
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(Posted: 05/04/2009; Updated: 08/01/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An ancient evil awakens. If two ex NYC cops and a homeless vet can't stop it, things are going to get bad. Fast. (Winner of International Latino Sceenwriter's Contest. A great opportunity for franchise.)
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(Posted: 05/23/2005; Updated: 05/24/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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