Split-Screenplay Contest
[Inactive Contest]
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(1 thru 25 of 49 records)
Searching for: All formats, All genres, Split-Screenplay, Any budget, Sort by RANK
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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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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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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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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 10/23/2007; Updated: 09/20/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A black correctional officer in personal turmoil coaches a prison basketball team and finds the strength and motivation he needs, in life and on the job, in Boo Hoo Flanagan, an aging, white, crippled inmate who shoots 3-point baskets better than anyone has ever seen.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 08/19/2003; Updated: 09/03/2012 ) [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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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 09/05/2005; Updated: 06/18/2010 ) [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.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 10/05/2004; Updated: 04/04/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Against all odds, the first female quarterback drafted into the NFL battles prejudices and personal tragedy as she attempts to lead her longtime losing team in the quest for a playoff berth.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 01/15/2006; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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In 1975, a white aspiring missionary student risks being ostracized, threatened, and expelled to dismantle the school's racial policies
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 12/11/2008; Updated: 10/08/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A devout virgin haphazardly loses her innocence to an amateur hitman and vows to get it back.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 11/15/2009; Updated: 11/16/2009 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Ed always wanted to act or direct in theatre. Infant epilepsy, a lifelong battle with booze, or the bizarre hallucinations of van Gogh, Barrymore and spiders the size of dogs were not going to stop him. Living in reality was another matter. This is a physiological journey where a man struggles to find peace between the worlds of the real and the imaginary.
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(Posted: 04/26/2004; Updated: 09/03/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An offbeat dark action-comedy following the events and antics of two young bank-robbing vampires and their hostage as they head cross-country for the Mexican border with an ambitious FBI agent on their trail.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 06/08/2006; Updated: 04/20/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Greedy executives of a large corporation implement an illegal downsizing process, and they would've gotten away with it, but they didn’t count on a desperate employee whose courage and family loyalty proves much stronger than any of their corporate policies.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 08/19/2003; Updated: 09/03/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Female driven psychological thriller, titled, "Pieces from the Past" about a young woman that must deal with her husband, the abusive ex-stepfather who lives only in her own mind because she killed him fifteen years ago. *Sixth Sense* ending.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 01/05/2005; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Hi-jinx on campus ala "Legally Blonde" College comes late and early for three women...the DAUGHTER waiting for a scholarship...her MOTHER who works as a make-up artist for ...the TEENAGE ACTRESS who needs to experience college for her breakthrough starring role.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 10/07/2002; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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"Cinderella Man" meets "Raging Bull"
This 1933 depression era tale tells about the difficult rise to the top of a young Jewish kid from the East Side and his even more tumultuous relationship with a beautiful chorus girl.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 10/15/2008; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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"Fargo" meets "A Simple Plan" A mother risks her own life and that of her two children in order to reach what she believes is her badly injured husband. (low budget, mostly confined to a car)
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 07/23/2008; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Unihorny-coming of age teen comedy. Guys are still wanting it, while girls are still dreaming of the impossible. Well, two impossibles: a decent guy or a one night stand with a rock star.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 02/23/2006; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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In the vein of "Liar, Liar" and "Bruce Almighty," meek mannered Calvin's dilemma begins when a copy machine falls into his lap. It helps him breakup with his controlling girlfriend. It helps him fall in love. It brings back people from the past. .. a supernatural comedy with a surprise twist ending ala "The Sixth Sense."
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 09/17/2004; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A modern day "Bonnie and Clyde" meet "Oliver Twist" in a rural town when a boy searching for his unknown father instead finds a heist belonging to a gang of petty thieves.
What makes some people chase their own tails to get what they want? Greed? Selfishness? In the pecking order of rural. small-time thieves, Cas is a King, but everything he does, he screws up one way or the other as he leads his pitiful gang of misfits around in circles, back to the miserable town that gave him birth, deciding one good score will help him escape this maze, forever.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 07/25/2004; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When a woman finds a dead body and her three-year-old son holding a gun, she’ll do anything to protect him. But, whom is she really protecting? “Double Jeopardy” meets “Erin Brockovich.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 04/21/2002; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A young woman with a weight problem has trouble connecting with any and everything, blaming it all on her poundage until she takes the step to bring her everything she's always wanted. Or so she thinks.
Belinda is a woman who undergoes surgery for weight loss and is ecstatic when her initial results are positive, but finds it even harder than before to cope when her new life disappoints her time and time again.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 07/23/2008; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A man leading a mundane existence goes about his day haunted everywhere by Christmas Carols that don't apply to him or his life until he meets a needy woman along with some very unusual people that convince him in more than one way that holidays apply to everyone.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 07/23/2008; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Two sisters decide to leave the CIA when one is almost killed, only to find that civilian life doesn’t bring any respite from danger. "Charlie's Angels" meet "Lara Croft” in this female driven action/adventure with thriller elements.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 08/22/2005; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A female ex-CIA Agent goes into hiding when a surgeon is mysteriously murdered after performing laser eye surgery on her. A little "Fugitive," a touch of "Charlie's Angels" and a bit of "Lara Croft” in this female driven action/adventure with thriller elements.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 08/09/2005; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Never judge a book writer by her cover. Julia, the pretty author of Petey the Pooch and Charlie’s Chihuahua, kicks and karate chops her way across the United States when her life is threatened by a notorious Asian named Mr. Ming and his nemesis, Mr. Lee.
The adventure starts when a valuable vase is mistakenly delivered to her front door in the guise of a wedding present. Everyone wants the vase, but Julia can’t deliver when a petty thief steals the Ming dynasty artifact without knowing its value. Getting the vase back and getting the criminals off her back bring out the best of Julia, but threaten her impending marriage as the handsome intended recipient of the vase joins her in the adventure of her life
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 07/13/2005; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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