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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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(Posted: 08/19/2003; Updated: 09/03/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A paralyzed young man's broken spirit and intellectual pride is challenged as a live-in supervisor in a halfway house for the mentally disabled.
Winner of 12 'Best Screenplay' awards. #1 on the MovieBytes.com feature Drama & Family 'Winning Lists.'
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(Posted: 05/16/2011; Updated: 02/03/2013 ) [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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A teenager must choose whether to take a one-time chance to escape his oppressive family and impoverished town, or stay forever to protect his younger brother.
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(Posted: ; Updated: 08/21/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A powerful, charismatic coal mine owner becomes obsessed with the local schoolteacher, and plots to kill her husband in a deliberate mine disaster.
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(Posted: 06/30/2005; Updated: 11/07/2009 ) [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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(Posted: 03/27/2008; Updated: 03/18/2013 ) [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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“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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(Posted: 10/22/2009; Updated: 04/09/2013 ) [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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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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(Previously titled "Toucans of the Amazon") A flock of rowdy, fun-loving toucans must rally around an outcast female when they're banished from the treetops and threatened by Night Creatures.
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(Posted: 12/06/2008; Updated: 05/08/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A young conjurer sets out to discover why his father was killed, and uncovers secrets about his past, about the death of his mother, and about his father's brothers who are steeped in the dark arts, tortured by betrayals, and bent on deadly revenge. Before his journey is done, he will be called upon to overcome an army of demons, ghosts, witches, and miscreants, to avenge his father's death and assume his place as a leader of men and a conjurer with the utmost of power. 43 award nominations and accolades at U.S. and international film festivals and screenwriting competitions.
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(Posted: 07/10/2008; Updated: 01/01/2011 ) [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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(Posted: 10/23/2007; Updated: 09/20/2012 ) [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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When a California mudslide unearths a mass grave filled with hundreds of headless, spineless corpses, an FBI psychologist risks everything to uncover the sanity-shattering secret that unites the victims.
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(Posted: 05/07/2008; Updated: 09/10/2012 ) [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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An American slave joins Mexico's struggle for independence led by a village priest who writes the first law against slavery in North America. Based on the true story of the birth of the Republic of Mexico.
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(Posted: 05/11/2007; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A shy Scots farmer asks God to teach him about ladies so he can find a good woman and marry her, not knowing that this will propel him onto a wild, coming-of-age roller coaster ride at the ripe old age of 38.
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(Posted: 03/18/2013; Updated: 03/18/2013 ) [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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(Posted: 08/19/2003; Updated: 09/03/2012 ) [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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Greece, 1974: In the waning days of the military junta, and as tensions rise in the Aegean, a traumatized veteran collides with a brilliant classicist over a terrorist plot to incite final war between East and West.
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(Posted: 07/09/2010; Updated: 07/02/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A star-struck widow is given a second chance at love with a former teen heartthrob, but it is not the fairy tale she always dreamed.
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(Posted: 08/01/2006; Updated: 10/09/2010 ) [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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A boy who's afraid of the dark joins forces with other misfit kids to find a hidden treasure on a Caribbean island, but they'll have to overcome their phobias to triumph.
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(Posted: 07/14/2008; Updated: 08/01/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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