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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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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 10/22/2009; Updated: 04/09/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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An army deserter adrift in a war-torn African country vows to save a girl who's been trafficked to redeem himself for another promise he couldn't keep. GRAND PRIZE STORYPROS INT'L, FINALIST PAGE INT'L
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 05/26/2006; Updated: 09/05/2012 ) [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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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 12/30/2010; Updated: 04/19/2013 ) [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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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 05/07/2008; Updated: 09/10/2012 ) [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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Format: Screenplay
(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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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 07/09/2010; Updated: 07/02/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A lawyer defends a young girl against a ruthless DA who charges her with murdering her parents, except the girl says she didn't kill her parents - God did! What if she's telling the truth?
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 03/14/2012; Updated: 02/15/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The new waitress, Jenna, is missing, the only clue is horse tracks leading into the desert, and lifelong friends, an untried deputy and an exceptional hunting guide, track after her both suspecting the other of a role in her disappearance.
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(Posted: 03/15/2010; Updated: 05/03/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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''Some Conspiracies Never Die! - When five victims of JACK THE RIPPER turn up in a swamp a century after their deaths and thousands of miles from the crime scene, an English Detective and a Louisiana Sheriff form an unlikely duo to unravel the ultimate conspiracy and reveal the Rippers true identity.''
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 10/16/2009; Updated: 01/02/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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When a professor's wife, who suffers a panic disorder, disappears mysteriously during Mardi Gras, the professor obsesses on one of his students who's writing a play with a character eerily similar to his wife and may be in on the disappearance. Winner, Writers on the Storm; Top 16 scripts, Slamdance. Previously optioned to an LA production company.
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(Posted: 07/17/2006; Updated: 01/05/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A good Samaritan stops to help a woman injured in an terrible accident, but his life is turned upside down when he ends up being charged with not only causing the accident, but also the murder of a former lover. He goes on the run with a sexy, suspicious detective who helps him reconstruct some memories he’d rather forget, and in the process, expose the real killer..
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(Posted: 01/19/2007; Updated: 07/06/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A tormented defense attorney, corrupted by the criminals he represents, flees the FBI and his most notorious client, but when he washes up on a Mexican penal colony (a real place), he finds himself compelled to help an innocent woman and her son who are about to be separated by the insane colony commandante. Along the way, the lawyer solves questions about how his own father died when the mobster and the lawyer's FBI pal converge on the island for a stunning climax...
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(Posted: 08/28/2003; Updated: 07/06/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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A by-the-book bioweapons expert is deployed to the war-torn Congo to investigate a suspicious outbreak of disease only to discover that it may be of supernatural origin.
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(Posted: 09/05/2007; Updated: 09/22/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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Deep in the Texas hill country, police search for and capture an unusual serial killer; a woman who kills her pedophile victims with barbed wire and then draws a happy face on their bodies.
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(Posted: 10/13/2010; Updated: 09/24/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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The crew of a fishing trawler become embroiled in a war or survival after winching a sea monster into the hold from the oceans Dark Zone.
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(Posted: 07/12/2010; Updated: 10/09/2010 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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[First Place, Fantastic Planet Sci-Fi and Fantasy Festival screenplay competition, Sydney, Australia] : It's a dangerous combination: a ruthless politician and a machine that lets her see into the past of anyone, anywhere. She won't discover just how dangerous until it's too late.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 08/08/2010; Updated: 03/20/2013 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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If God wanted to make peace in the Middle East, how would He do it? A modern fable about two families - one Israeli, one Palestinian - and their struggle to escape the cycle of violence.
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(Posted: 08/08/2010; Updated: 06/13/2012 ) [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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Back door political dealings and a comedy of errors follow a geologist who must take on a high-ranking politician to prevent him from tampering with Mother Nature.
1st Place, StoryPros Awards Screenwriting Contest, Action Adventure Thriller genre. 2nd Place, Woods Hole Film Festival 2011, Mystery-Thriller; and multiple other placements.
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(Posted: 09/24/2010; Updated: 03/06/2012 ) [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 as the President delivers his 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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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 08/11/2003; Updated: 09/29/2011 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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It’s not your mother’s buddy movie. It’s a Combo Meal. It’s a little bit of LETHAL WEAPON, THE SOCIAL NETWORK with a SIDE of TAKEN. Experienced FBI Agent hires and befriends a young INTERNET ENTREPRENEUR to help rescue a six year old girl taken Hostage in a FALL OUT SHELTER by a Ruthless Psychopath.
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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 03/01/2013; Updated: 04/25/2013 ) [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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Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 05/08/2008; Updated: 09/10/2012 ) [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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Following in the footsteps of their famous pulp-era ancestors, a team of young adventurers uncovers the secret history of the world and races against time to stop a global conspiracy — or the planet will end in five years.
Fast action and hip, contemporary humor: Indiana Jones and Jonny Quest meets The Da Vinci Code by way of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for fun, globe-trotting, four-quadrant entertainment that's designed for transmedia.
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Format: TV Pilot
(Posted: 06/01/2011; Updated: 08/30/2012 ) [Detailed Script Listing]
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