American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest
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(1 thru 25 of 25 records)
Searching for: All formats, All genres, American Zoetrope, 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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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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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 07/03/2005; Updated: 04/07/2010 ) [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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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 06/30/2005; Updated: 11/07/2009 ) [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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(Posted: 12/30/2010; Updated: 04/19/2013 ) [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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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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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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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 07/09/2010; Updated: 07/02/2012 ) [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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Two young men test their values and lifetime friendship through the crucible of war, and each is forced to change--for the better and worse.
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(Posted: 10/11/2010; Updated: 01/12/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When a handsome young man divulges tribal secrets to gain acceptance to an affluent white family, the Spirit unleashes a horrific wrath on all. The young man must regain his Indian soul to save the white family, the town, and the girl he loves since failure leads to total devastation.
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(Posted: 09/05/2005; Updated: 06/18/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A Secret Service agent, on trial for assassinating the President, realizes on the witness stand that before answering to the jury or the American people he must first answer to himself: Was firing the fatal bullet a crime or an act of conscience?
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(Posted: 05/21/2012; Updated: 05/21/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Branded a scapegoat by his agency, an Israeli Mossad operative goes AWOL and becomes a freelance assassin, only to be torn between his conscience and a paycheck when he discovers his inaugural client's immoral political ideology.
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(Posted: 08/01/2009; Updated: 05/15/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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In 1870's Missouri, a young Belle Starr turns to crime in order to re-unite with the father of her child, discovers her true calling, and is forced to choose between the love of her life and the life she loves. She goes on to become the most notorious female outlaw in U.S. History.
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(Posted: 10/21/2010; Updated: 09/23/2011 ) [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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Matt Wakefield is a career soldier who worships his hero father.
His mother committed suicide to keep him from being deployed in the first Gulf War.
His teenage daughter is an outspoken war critic.
His government thinks he's the one to cripple the insurgency in Iraq.
And so does he.
That is until his combat experiences start to collide with his long-held values and beliefs.
His experiences open his eyes not only to the horrific realities of war, but also to the lies and religious myths created by all sides to spur its citizens to fight.
Based largely on actual incidents and battle accounts, the script follows the journey of this highly regarded and highly publicized soldier as he follows a path that takes him from being a hero Commanding Officer to requesting a very different kind of C.O. status.
And it shows the lengths his government will go to in order to keep him quiet.
The script creates vivid imagery, compelling scenarios and intriguing moral dilemmas.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 05/31/2011; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The world's first ninja strives against an evil samurai warlord to save Japan's first democracy
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(Posted: 10/06/2011; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The true story of an up-and-coming young artist in 1870's Paris -- Berthe Morisot -- her ill-fated love affair with the renowned Edouard Manet, and her eventual emergence as one of the leaders of the rebellious French Impressionist movement.
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(Posted: 08/05/2008; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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During the summer of 1968, at her grandmother's Northern California resort cottage, 13-year-old Charley McKinnon learns about friendship, sex, love and forgiveness against the backdrop of America's growing social and political unrest.
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(Posted: 08/05/2008; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A frosty researcher -- determined to climb the career ladder with her brains not her body -- discovers data that suggests executives who have frequent sex are healthier and more successful. Her coveted promotion hinges on proving the theory by using herself and the boss's protege as guinea pigs.
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(Posted: 01/11/2006; Updated: 08/31/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Need a sophomoric romp with sex, drugs, and rock and roll full of juvenile humor and a little bit of melodrama? The 16 to 24 market will love this. It's full of quotes and characters they will chat up with their peers.
Members of struggling rock band Karmageddon become pawns in a bet between bored rich men, but discover when "dreams come true," their loyalty and love are tested. Frontman Jet Starr takes the offer but wealthy Mack Wheeler changes the rules of the game when his daughter Darla falls for Jet.
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(Posted: 10/19/2003; Updated: 08/31/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Recently widowed, young, mother, is caught stealing a valuable necklace from a hotel guest where she works and must help the police catch an illusive fence while dealing with her wealthy in-laws who want control of their newly discovered and only grand daughter.
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(Posted: 01/30/2013; Updated: 01/30/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When his sister dies from an overdose, a drop-out seminary student embarks on a quixotic quest for justice; but corrupt politicians, the bad guys, and his own brother want him dead...justice has a price.
SEMIFINALIST AMERICAN ZOETROPE 2005
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 04/25/2012; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When two college coeds are brutally murdered, SFPD Homicide Inspector Meg McCafferty's sense of deduction is unwittingly compromised, leaving an elusive perpetrator free to strategize a third unlikely victim.
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(Posted: 12/09/2010; Updated: 09/01/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Beautiful and idealistic Assistant DA Lisa Savitch and her street-wise FBI agent sidekick, Mike Muldoon, have been assigned to collar ''The Sunday Macaroni Club,'' a contentedly sleazy old-time South Philly political machine.
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(Posted: 05/31/2010; Updated: 05/31/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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