Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition
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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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She's a French artist's model. He's a New York artist. Together they vibrate in harmonic insanity. Explosive love. Ludicrous sex. Preposterous adventures.
Edgy. Against the grain. Against the world. But right.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 02/06/2004; Updated: 05/27/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A murder mystery presented in three genres -- gritty film noir when the brilliant detective who solved the case recalls it, lush Hollywood glamour when his starry-eyed wife starts writing a novel about it, and lurid pulp when her meddlesome editor rewrites her. Their comic battle for creative control of the manuscript turns serious when the novelist realizes her husband missed a key clue, and the race is on to see who can re-solve the case first.
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(Posted: 02/07/2001; Updated: 12/14/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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His name is 'Harmless' and he sculpts with tornadoes. Harmless accidently blows away his own high school -- twice.
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(Posted: 02/03/2005; Updated: 05/27/2010 ) [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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Alex and Thea, two soulmates who fall magically in love as children, are tragically separated after an accident kills their parents and leaves Alex locked in a coma. Years later, reunited as adults, the two fall in love again, but tragedy separates them once more -- seemingly forever -- until they rediscover how to meet again . . . in their dreams.
Debbi K. Swanson, President, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, wrote of DREAM TRUE, "This script has a strong female character who takes the lead even though the male is the protagonist. Marvis creates an imaginary romantic place for lovers to meet when all else is doomed, though getting there is often impossible. This is the kind of story that keeps you glued."
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 02/02/2001; Updated: 09/11/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An agoraphobic works from home with two middle-aged, love-starved friends, and the sudden arrival of her estranged daughter, who has a dark secret, becomes the mother’s motivation to end her 30-year self-exile and travel into the dark, scary bustle of NYC. Although this journey takes a heart-rending detour with an itinerant bag lady from hell, or possibly heaven, the ensemble shows us we are never too old to dream and never too young to forgive.
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Format: Stageplay
(Posted: 08/19/2003; Updated: 09/03/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When a handsome young man divulges tribal secrets to gain acceptance to an affluent white family, the Spirit unleashes a horrific wrath on all. The young man must regain his Indian soul to save the white family, the town, and the girl he loves since failure leads to total devastation.
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(Posted: 09/05/2005; Updated: 06/18/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Imagine going around the world under the sea onboard the world's most advanced submarine. It sounds like "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," but it really happened. In this dramatic true story, an American nuclear submarine captain announces to his new, untested crew that their maiden voyage is now a far more dangerous top-secret mission - to make the first submerged circumnavigation of the Earth.
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(Posted: 07/03/2006; Updated: 05/01/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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It’s not your mother’s buddy movie. It’s a Combo Meal. It’s a little bit of LETHAL WEAPON, THE SOCIAL NETWORK with a SIDE of TAKEN. Experienced FBI Agent hires and befriends a young INTERNET ENTREPRENEUR to help rescue a six year old girl taken Hostage in a FALL OUT SHELTER by a Ruthless Psychopath.
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(Posted: 03/01/2013; Updated: 04/25/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A woman stuck in purgatory tries to win her way into Heaven by returning to Earth to save an honest politician's soul by preventing him from committing a sin during an election. When her devious ex-husband realizes he still loves her and wants her in Hell with him, he comes up to make sure the politician commits a sin.
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(Posted: 02/07/2001; Updated: 03/27/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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During a weekend book tour, a bestselling author of vampire novels fears the residents of Hallow's Point are blending her fiction with reality. With the help of her feisty publicist and a photographer, she uncovers a forgotten past and a power within that may be her only hope to survive.
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(Posted: 03/20/2011; Updated: 01/30/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A sex-starved man's plans to murder his frigid wife go dangerously off-track when a couple they both intimately know shows up on their private island.
Low Budget: 1 location, 2 couples, 2 small roles
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(Posted: 09/05/2005; Updated: 06/18/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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For four-time divorcee Zucker and barely legal (and very wealthy) Alexa, it was love at first sight. But after Zucker panics and runs off to Mexico with two million dollars of her father’s cash (also leaving Alexa deep in debt), Zucker realizes just how important she is to him and hatches a plan to escape Mexico and return to his true love.
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(Posted: 01/27/2007; Updated: 01/11/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Homer receives a windfall (out of pure dumb luck) and promptly sets up shop as a financial guru.
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Format: TV Episode
(Posted: 06/02/2005; Updated: 01/19/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The place we are about to visit could be anywhere, the corner of a street, a mall, a pizza parlor, or a field in Kansas. The inhabitants are children who come in every shape, size and color. It is a place kept eternally alive by a lack of love, understanding, or self esteem. This is a little story about leaving it. In flashback we look into the lives of two sisters, ten year old SKEETER and sixteen year old DARCYLEE, as they grow up in the projects and shows us how Darcylee proves to be a positive role model for your younger sister by finding pride and beauty against all odds in her life as a young, unwed, teenage mother.
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Format: Short Screenplay
(Posted: 11/23/2011; Updated: 01/03/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When a logical-thinking high school senior discovers that he is the son of mythological gods, he and his three pals go on a fantastical journey of Olympian trials.
Live action or animation
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(Posted: 09/05/2005; Updated: 07/27/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When a burned-out forensic psychiatrist takes on one last case involving a serial killer who targets mentally handicapped children, she struggles with her own personal demons as she finds herself in the middle of a disturbing connection to the suspect.
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(Posted: 03/08/2013; Updated: 05/14/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A female superhero tries on an "alter-ego" for the first time, trying to meet Mr. Right as just herself, but ends up involved with a man who's day job just might be as her newest arch-enemy.
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(Posted: 03/28/2008; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A college professor accused of Holocaust denial tries to clear his name and repair the strained relationship with both his teenage daughter and former lover before the scandal can widen the chasm between them all.
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(Posted: 07/11/2012; Updated: 08/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Alice Ramsey is on a mission to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States, but a vengeful bank president, whose wife becomes a suffragette, isn't about to let that happen.
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(Posted: 04/30/2011; Updated: 01/26/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An artist who gets in a car accident with a "soon to be bride" living next door. He gets stuck with her in physical therapy, they drives each other crazy, but reluctantly fall in love.
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(Posted: 08/06/2010; Updated: 12/19/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Experiment with computer generated worlds and societies backfires when actual contact is created with a warrior world that plans to use the connection to invade and conquer the earth. Only their own Prophet/Prince stands between their unsavory pursuits and that of Humanity's survival.
At 181 pages, I'm looking at this now as a three movie script (or miniseries) that I will break out as such.
First script would be earth side.
Second other planet side.
Third, final situation.
This is on hold as I am currently too busy with other projects.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 04/14/2009; Updated: 08/31/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When a female dolphin is kidnapped by a herd of bachelors, all hopes of her returning to her pod are lost when five low-ranking males are called upon to rescue her from her captors.
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(Posted: 06/20/2011; Updated: 12/16/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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