American Accolades Screenwriting Competition
[Inactive Contest]
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(1 thru 25 of 32 records)
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Three grumps pursue personal goals, one of which is a retired cops 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: 01/29/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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She's a classical pianist, nude art school model, and has insane visions of the future. She's probably right about everything.
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(Posted: 02/06/2004; Updated: 12/08/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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2009 British Film Festival Los Angeles Best Screennplay. 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: 06/21/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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"This Boy's Life" meets "Stand By Me", a teenager must choose between taking a one-time chance to escape his oppressive family, or staying forever to protect his younger brother.
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(Posted: ; Updated: 10/30/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A cynical auditor 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: 01/25/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Due to a hanging chad in the Afterlife's archaic computer system, an ORDINARY GUY is prematurely yanked out of his life and sent to Heaven, which turns out to be a dump resembling Van Nuys.
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(Posted: 01/22/2001; Updated: 09/03/2008 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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After his mother dies, a timid Scots farmer realizes that his only friend is his sheep dog, so if he wants to find a wife he'd better study up on the fine arts of courtship and socializing.
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(Posted: 04/19/2007; Updated: 06/12/2008 ) [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: 07/16/2009 ) [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: 12/19/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A deserter from the war in Iraq is given a chance to prove his patriotism, redeem himself for other past failures, and return home.
FIRST PLACE FOR ORIGINAL DRAMA, HOUSTON WORLDFEST'S SCREENWRITING COMPETITION.
FIRST PLACE, HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRITING INSTITUTE
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(Posted: 05/26/2006; Updated: 12/06/2009 ) [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 fathers 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: 01/09/2010 ) [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: 10/15/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A spirited, good-humored woman who possesses the gift of serendipity and who believes there are special places that have a year-round Christmas atmosphere, discovers a village she feels is quintessentially Christmas.
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Format: Short Screenplay
(Posted: 10/18/2003; Updated: 05/09/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An American journalist on the trail of a story becomes an accomplice in a terrorist plot that weaves together the lives of an Israeli war hero, Palestinian farmer, and Arab-Christian grocer.
GRAND PRIZE, RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL'S SCREENWRITING COMPETITION
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(Posted: 10/22/2006; Updated: 07/28/2009 ) [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: 01/09/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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After a failed publicity stunt turns into a near-death experience, a gangsta rapper vows to go "easy listening" and be a father for his 4 boys... and their mothers
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(Posted: 10/25/2007; Updated: 11/03/2008 ) [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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Players on a high school football team, about to set the record for most consecutive losses, discover losing makes them more popular than winning. But their devil-may-care attitude leads to growing success and they soon find themselves in position to end the school's decade-long losing streak. But is that really what they want? (THE LONGEST YARD meets SCARY MOVIE.)
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(Posted: 09/27/2008; Updated: 03/22/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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It's the end of the world as we know it, and the only one who can save us is Homer Simpson.
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Format: TV Episode
(Posted: 01/08/2009; Updated: 01/08/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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One man may be able to block Satan's claim to final supremacy. A mysterious young woman tells him what he must do...but whose side is she on?
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(Posted: 09/06/2007; Updated: 08/06/2008 ) [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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Caught up in the hysteria of Super Bowl party madness Zeke, an uninspired Green Bay Packer fan decides maybe he can keep up with the Jones' across the street. Unfortunately, he forgot to buy the peanut oil for his crowd-pleasing deep fried turkeys, but he won't let a little peanut oil heist get in the way of being a winner.
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(Posted: 07/24/2007; Updated: 07/16/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Horrible, plaid pants, big smile, bald head, hand buzzer, slapstick. And if he has a boutonniere that sprays water, well, thats the best. If your uncle isnt like this you can order one through WhosYourWackyUncle.com.
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(Posted: 11/11/2005; Updated: 08/26/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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