American Accolades Screenwriting Competition
[Inactive Contest]
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Three grumps pursue personal goals, one of which is a retired cop's dream of streaking naked down the field during the Orange Bowl to atone for a fumble he made years ago in a college championship game and, while planning for this wacky gridiron adventure, the codgers take us on an endearing journey and prove that retirement is no place for the slow pokes or the timid.
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(Posted: 08/19/2003; Updated: 08/16/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Featured in upcoming April/June 2010 Script magazine. The greatest race in Olympic history retold as Cuban mailman Felix Carvajal runs the 1904 Olympic Marathon remembering his 1200 mile super-run up the Mississippi River to battle the world's best marathoners attacking him with racism, cheating, and drugs, to become the champion for all small national athletes who dare to dream of victory.
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(Posted: 07/03/2005; Updated: 04/07/2010 ) [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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(Posted: 02/06/2004; Updated: 05/27/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A teenager must choose between taking a one-time chance to escape his oppressive family and impoverished town, or staying forever to protect his younger brother.
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(Posted: ; Updated: 04/12/2010 ) [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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In the not-too-distant future, a young intern discovers a government conspiracy regarding a worldwide epidemic, and must race against time to find a cure, inform the public, and protect his wife and unborn child from a sadistic and omnipresent government security organization.
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(Posted: 05/06/2010; Updated: 05/06/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An Army sharpshooter, threatened with court martial, takes part in a CIA-backed coup to redeem himself so he can go home.
GRAND PRIZE, WRITEMOVIES 2010
FIRST PLACE FOR ORIGINAL DRAMA, HOUSTON WORLDFEST
FIRST PLACE, HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRITING INSTITUTE
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(Posted: 05/26/2006; Updated: 08/29/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A woman in purgatory will earn her way to heaven if she can prevent a small-town politician from committing a sin during election week. Trouble is, her devious ex-husband wants her down in hell with him, so he returns to earth in mortal form with her to make sure the politician commits a sin.
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(Posted: 02/07/2001; Updated: 08/26/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Mozart's sister tries to hide her identity and her family heirlooms from a French battalion who have engulfed her city on their way to join Napoleon at Austerlitz.
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(Posted: 04/17/2001; Updated: 09/24/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Logline: In 1888 France, an asylum warden accepts Vincent Van Gogh into his care and learns, through their difficult friendship, to see beyond the confines of his own tragic life.
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(Posted: 02/14/2005; Updated: 05/21/2010 ) [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: 07/11/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A U.S. Army interrogator in Afghanistan uncovers details of an al-Qaeda plot to detonate a nuclear device in Washington, DC during the President's State of the Union Address. But, in the process of interrogation, SHE bonds with her prisoner and fights to save him from the death sentence brought on by his own disclosures
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(Posted: 08/11/2003; Updated: 05/24/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The race to stop a terrorist attack planned for Easter Sunday in Jerusalem weaves together the lives of an American journalist, Israeli war hero, and Palestinian farmer.
GRAND PRIZE, RHODE ISLAND INT'L FILM FESTIVAL'S SCREENWRITING COMPETITION
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(Posted: 10/22/2006; Updated: 08/29/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Joey uses his Grandpa Joe as part of a governor's campaign for a school project. But when the campaign is mistaken for the real thing, Grandpa becomes an overnight sensation and finds himself running for Governor, with the help of Joey and his buddies.
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(Posted: 11/19/2006; Updated: 07/27/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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William Clark recalls the perilous Lewis & Clark Expedition and its aftermath, casting a startling new perspective on the impetuous life and mysterious death of fellow explorer Meriwether Lewis.
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(Posted: 03/04/2009; Updated: 02/04/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Hoyt Reever, good father and loving husband has been chosen to light Union's Christmas tree, a great honor and lifelong dream. But his joy doesn't last long as he discovers that all of his children might be gay.
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(Posted: 06/06/2008; Updated: 08/24/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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In the year 2065, government goes too far when the
Bill of Rights is suspended to facilitate the quest for oil and the capture of terrorists. A disillusioned store manager becomes an unlikely revolutionary after the tragic death of his slave.
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(Posted: 08/23/2007; Updated: 01/24/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Smuggling concealed photos of Stalin's prison camp atrocities, a Russian ballet teacher arrives in Washington. She finds an unexpected ally and the KGB in pursuit.
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(Posted: 06/25/2004; Updated: 08/17/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A portrait photographer acquires a computerized photo touch-up program with the power to change a person’s real-life appearance. Initially, he uses it to help the maimed and disfigured. But, his services soon grow in demand among inner-city gangstas - and bugs in the program appear, forcing him to use the program in horrifying new ways.
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(Posted: 06/11/2005; Updated: 05/24/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A mutated form of Bubonic Plague spreads through London, causing the government to quarantine the entire city, while the nation's top epidemiologist races to the find the source of the disease.
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(Posted: 04/27/2009; Updated: 09/16/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A neurosurgeon plays God when he begins experimenting with the memory center of the brain leading his patients and himself to question perceived reality.
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(Posted: 08/21/2008; Updated: 12/07/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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