Table Read My Screenplay Contest
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(1 thru 25 of 35 records)
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The true story of Richard Bong, a rookie WWII pilot who makes a brazen bet to beat the kill record of America's top-scoring ace.
But as the deadly competition spirals out of control, he's forced to confront the bitter realities of war and what it means to be a real hero.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 03/27/2008; Updated: 03/18/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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“Get Shorty” meets “Tootsie”...
When a desperate, down-and-out actor crosses paths with a hitman searching for redemption, he drunkenly improvises a plan to win the role of a lifetime - but hiring a hitman to eliminate the competition can have deadly consequences...
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 10/22/2009; Updated: 04/09/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An army deserter adrift in a war-torn African country vows to save a girl who's been trafficked to redeem himself for another promise he couldn't keep. GRAND PRIZE STORYPROS INT'L, FINALIST PAGE INT'L
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(Posted: 05/26/2006; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A Kurdish escapee from an honor killing is sent to a detention center, from which she must find the strength to resist her captors and gain freedom--forcing a confrontation with the brother that still wants her dead.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 12/30/2010; Updated: 04/19/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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“CAPRICORN ONE” meets “THANK YOU FOR SMOKING”
What on Earth were the Russians up to when the U.S. was hours away from being the first to land on the moon? ...Faking it there first of course!
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Format: Short Screenplay
(Posted: 08/21/2010; Updated: 12/28/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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(Romantic Comedy/Black Comedy) Two near-death survivors join together to kill themselves in order to return to heaven -- but suicide proves more difficult than anticipated, especially when they fall in love.
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(Posted: 11/27/2011; Updated: 06/01/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Based on the true story of the Buddha: The battles of a Prince who rejects riches and power, risking insanity and death, in a quest to find ultimate freedom.
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(Posted: 11/23/2007; Updated: 08/27/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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"Dexter" meets "Basic Instinct"...
When a lonely, guilt-ridden werewolf falls hard for one of his beautiful redheaded victims, he must conquer his own murderous instincts to win her love. But a second mysterious killer with his same m.o. may literally kill his only chance at happiness.
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(Posted: 11/10/2012; Updated: 04/09/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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''Some Conspiracies Never Die! - When five victims of JACK THE RIPPER turn up in a swamp a century after their deaths and thousands of miles from the crime scene, an English Detective and a Louisiana Sheriff form an unlikely duo to unravel the ultimate conspiracy and reveal the Rippers true identity.''
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 10/16/2009; Updated: 01/02/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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“Home Alone” meets “The Burbs”...
A trailer-park family who inherits a house in LA struggle to go unnoticed when they hide out in their basement to prove to posh new neighbors they too can afford a vacation abroad, and are worthy of their friendship and social status.
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(Posted: 11/10/2012; Updated: 04/09/2013 ) [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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A young Korean-American secret agent is trained by an older, sophisticated agent who doesn't like him or respect. Surprise, he's engaged to the older spy's daughter.
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(Posted: 05/30/2012; Updated: 05/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A distraught teen discovers tranquility with a former train engineer until a revelation ends it all.
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(Posted: 08/24/2007; Updated: 02/01/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A computer expert helps a corporation secretly monitor his uncannily average -- and blissfully unaware -- brother-in-law. When they both end up in the clutches of inept government operatives, the pair must rely on their unique skills and the help of friends to hatch an escape plan.
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(Posted: 11/19/2010; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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To reunite her divorced parents, a young girl who has missed Christmas for the third straight year, enlists the help of her goofy uncle to persuade Santa's people to recreate Christmas for her in the summer.
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(Posted: 08/12/2009; Updated: 08/01/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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In 1890 a young Hawaiian sailor buys a hellish bottle that grants wishes. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, the hero finds wealth, love, despair, and a scorching countdown to his worst nightmare.
[Tagline(s): (1) "A penny for your soul?"
(2) "Evil brings power ... for a price."
(3) "The Imp Rules!"]
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(Posted: 06/10/2010; Updated: 01/26/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Amidst the backdrop of the American civil rights movement, Canadian Willie O'Ree overcomes racial prejudice and a career-threatening injury to become "the Jackie Robinson of hockey," the first black man to play in the National Hockey League.
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(Posted: 08/26/2004; Updated: 02/11/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Based on an inspiring true story, a tenacious ski instructor goes from womanizing ski bum to a life-altering pioneer when he’s asked to do the impossible by teaching a small group of disabled children to ski.
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(Posted: 02/06/2012; Updated: 04/02/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Based on true events- Lieutenant Mary Quinn is a psychic CIA spie who can locate remote targets, interrogate people from miles away, but has a hard time balancing work and family, especially when the Pentagon decides to get rid of her.
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(Posted: 03/16/2013; Updated: 05/02/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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That quarter in your pocket...ever wonder where it's been, who''s life it might of changed? Maybe it made the phone call that saved a life or maybe an unfortunate toss lost somebody one. Four extra-ordinary tales of one ordinary quarter. (18 pgs)
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Format: Short Screenplay
(Posted: 10/22/2009; Updated: 12/28/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Andrew has lost faith in the goodness of human kind and decides to go on a funny, quirky journey of self-discovery, where he encounters more reasons to give up on people, as well as a reason to believe in them.
*(Winner of the Comedy Feature Category - Tableread My Screenplay 2010)
*(Kristi Barnett: Comedy winner at L.A Comedy Shorts Festival 2010)
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(Posted: 07/31/2010; Updated: 07/31/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Based on the true story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the dream of brilliant engineer John Roebling. After John suffers a tragic accident and his son is injured from the dangerous work, Emily Roebling struggles to complete the project, despite incredible technical challenges, corruption, tragic injuries and deaths. Torn between two worlds and two men, she blazes a path forward, but ultimately faces panic and disaster when her enemies sabotage the project.
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(Posted: 05/06/2010; Updated: 01/07/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A young widow with two children pursues her dream of opening a custom upholstery shop in defiance of her critical mother—and finds unexpected support from the brother-in-law she blames for her husband's death.
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(Posted: 05/15/2013; Updated: 05/15/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The almost true story of a young woman’s struggle up the ranks in the male dominated world of baseball to become the first female umpire in the major leagues.
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(Posted: 12/29/2012; Updated: 12/29/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Take a deep breath ... just hope it doesn't kill you.
A vast area of Central America is sealed off, its inhabitants evacuated and villages razed. Offshore, an American fishing vessel is attacked without explanation. Together these scenarios set in motion a horrifying trail that begins in a biological research station in 1990s Libya and leads to a race to save humanity from a looming pandemic.
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(Posted: 06/19/2006; Updated: 02/11/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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