Get Initiative - The Writing Initiative's Screenwriting Contest
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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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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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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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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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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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A warehouse worker escapes the boredom of everyday life through women, booze, and ping pong.
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(Posted: 09/26/2010; Updated: 11/30/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When an American military hero suspects the President of conspiring with enemies of the United States, he decides the only patriotic solution is to commit treason himself. (Inspired by Shakespeare's "Coriolanus.")
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(Posted: 05/08/2008; Updated: 09/10/2012 ) [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. (A vampire/werewolf piece with a big twist and a Latino theme.)
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(Posted: 10/05/2004; Updated: 05/24/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Police track down a psychotic man who hunts unfaithful women. Who's the hero? It depends on who you ask.
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(Posted: 10/11/2010; Updated: 11/30/2011 ) [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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(Posted: 01/15/2006; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [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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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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After a bonfire in the Arizona desert, a young man with more enemies than friends is dead, while the seven friends who remain struggle with the realization that one of them is a killer. As the bonds of their relationships are tried, and with detectives and a scandal-hungry blogger on their heels, secrets are revealed that will test the friends and change their lives forever.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 04/11/2013; Updated: 04/11/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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