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The AnklebiterFive years after the Zombie Apocalypse, a couple fighting about whether to start a family adopts a baby Zombie they don't have the heart to kill. |
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Violent DelightsA group of feisty, fed-up coworkers devise a plan to utilize their clientele privileges to potentially boost their lifestyle up a notch, by copying the MO of a group of infamous thieves. |
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FIVE WITH A BULLETTrapped in a Malibu mansion, a naive young vocal phenom must outwit a serial killer – either by joining forces with her hilariously immoral fellow rock stars, or staying true to the person she was before she topped the charts. Script Excerpt |
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Lover Haters ClubA bold group of teens band together to form a unique and quickly growing movement against relationship games, in this quirky, teen comedy, set to star Hayley Kiyoko and Anna Stadler. |
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In the Footsteps of Thaddeus ThackerayAward-winning buddy comedy set in 1943, where 14 year-old Pennsylvanian nerd Judson Conover dreams of sharing adventures with his newfound favorite movie hero, Dublin McGinn. But when he mysteriously switches bodies with McGinn’s comic sidekick, the diminutive English teenage genius Thaddeus Thackeray, Judson realizes that surviving animated serials is MUCH harder than it looks. Meanwhile, Thackeray – lost within an all-too-real world at war – must figure out how to set things right. And the only one who can possibly help him is Judson's best friend, Kenny, who isn't quick to believe Thaddeus' rather fantastical story. |
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Blonde DoctorsTwo gorgeous, ambitious blonde doctors in training who hate each other out of jealousy, form an unlikely friendship when faced with the boss from hell! Script Excerpt |
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High School LullabyFinding out she has just under two weeks before she has to pack up her entire life and move away, a high school junior balances delicate friendships, secrets, and what she feels she must leave behind. |
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Heartbreak HotelAfter discovering a bag of money, two down-on-their-luck men set about improving their lives, unaware that other people are on their trail, including a small-time crook who needs to pay off his debts and a pair of crooked cops who want the money for themselves. Script Excerpt |
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Hat TrickA retired police officer goes to the current-day Army/Navy football game with his two wacky friends intending to jump onto the field and score a touchdown he should’ve scored decades ago when he fumbled during the same football classic as time ran out, only this time dozens of security guards await him, and it’ll be a friggin’ miracle if he succeeds. Script Excerpt |
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The Mythical Golden TroutWhen a cash-strapped family camping in the Sierras discovers a huge nugget of gold, the local police chief rounds up a posse of clueless misfits and sets out to steal it from them. |
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Cesar & MaxBetween getting into trouble at school and his disconnected relationship with his mother, Cesar, a Mexican American teenager feels out of place in this world. After getting expelled from school thanks to his delinquent, privileged best friend, Max, the two take off on a wild trip to Mexico in search of Cesar's father who he has never met. |
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GHOST TOWN, NMNEELAN PATEL (PITA), the obstinate Indian American father of AMISHA, insists his daughter marry the rich but foolish RAKISH LAGHARI. But AMISHA loves JUAN ARAVALO, a Mexican American boy. Soon illusion and reality, past and present, serious and absurd all mix when the young lovers escape to a New Mexico ghost town commune. They are pursued by her parents, RAKISH and a motley crew of amateur sleuths-cum-videographers. |
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Children's Party WarA softhearted stripclub bouncer goes into the children's party business to win back his stripper-turned-princess girlfriend but her coked-out “Prince Charming” boss isn’t having it. |
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Misfortune CookiesAccidentally killing an elderly Chinese chef during a botched robbery, an oafish redneck teenager and her misfit friends begin dying one by one when the chef's ghost returns from the grave, killing them in gruesome fortune cookie-themed ways. Script Excerpt |
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Diplomatic Ammunity!A struggling Hollywood screenwriter recruits his former best friends to help him write a script about a series of pranks they pulled in high school, and they discover why their friendship fell apart (ADAPTATION meets IDIOCRACY). [12 awards/honors including, 1st in 2017 Los Angeles Screenplay Contestl] |
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ESCALATOR!Can a hundred people trapped on the Castle Mall’s four story express ESCALATOR possibly be rescued by the National Christmas Tree? Script Excerpt |
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Cracked AcesAfter he accidentally defeats a mobster’s spoiled daughter in a high-stakes tournament, a lone-wolf poker player must go all-in with a fiery brothel madam, a septuagenarian showgirl, and an unhinged Girl Scout in a madcap gamble to win back his life. |
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Jail Break1895. A gang of corrupt Texas Rangers hunt down reformed and unlucky Jail Break escape-artist (now used-horse salesman) Roy and his fancy German-automobile wheeler-dealer nemesis for the reward money ... DEAD OR ALIVE! |
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CIGARETTE EMOJIS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDEWhen his hot, recently-out cousin wages a bet to steal his crush, flamboyant college senior Emmitt only has until Christmas break to defend his gay social throne. Script Excerpt |
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JIMMY AND JARA FROM OUTTA SPACEA twisted sci-fi road comedy with heart, a la “Little Miss Sunshine” with aliens, an interspecies romance and a spoof on classic sci-fi films and the American Southwest’s UFO subculture. JIMMY, a Venice Beach boardwalk hustler, discovers beautiful alien JARA and her two intergalactic circus performers stranded on Earth. He cons them into his “family” of misfit street performers and takes them to Las Vegas. Along the way, sweet-tempered aliens touch jaded human hearts. Ultimately Jimmy must save Jara and her E.T.’s from a ruthless Las Vegas casino kingpin, with the help of Nevada UFO buffs. Script Excerpt |
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Art of RevengeA struggling painter agrees a deal with his cat to create the artist’s next exhibition but after critics hail the show as genius the painter reneges on the deal, igniting a chain of betrayals. |
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Buck and the AngelA young boy, Buck Lynch, fatherless and living with his dying mother in his grandparent’s home, has a strong belief in the power of prayer. But his faith is tested when a mysterious stranger claiming to be an angel leads Buck to believe he has come to make his mother well when he has actually come for his mother’s life on Christmas Eve. Script Excerpt |
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The GateThe Gate is a fantasy action feature about two crusty bait and tackle guys who must stop eco-terrorists who have opened a time portal to the Pleistocene era and are about to wipe out humanity's ancestors to save the planet. Script Excerpt |
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The RebootA washed-up director attempts to relaunch his career through a dark and gritty reboot of the New Testament starring a black Jesus. The world responds. |
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Future TrippingThe suicidal Maddy shows up on her estranged father’s front doorstep dragging her own murdered body claiming she’s invented time travel. |
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Tales Of The BizarreAn anthology of four comedic tales of sci-fi/horror/fantasy. A mudered wife resurrects through her garden; a small space alien is mistaken for an action toy; A base commander dares to challenge a UFO; A young man makes a pact with a witch. Script Excerpt |
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A Time to RememberThe number one pop star in the world puts his blazing hot career on hold to attend his senior year of high school and play football - much to his record label's dismay. Script Excerpt |
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The Art and Beauty of Miserable BastardsLucille Ball Meets Jeffrey Dahmer. A wacky comedian with an unused PhD in psychology is forced to take a job in a maximum security prison with inmates who are even more damaged than she is. |
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IT'S A POPCORN WORLDWhen an overzealous government man tries to steal an inventor’s home using eminent domain, the inventor decides to provide alternative land by expanding the world like popping a kernel of popcorn, if his dance-clubbing hunchback lawyer can keep the inventor out of jail long enough to accomplish his task. Script Excerpt |
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Considering CatherineCatherine, the manager of a high end store, behaves outrageously to everyone, customers and employees alike. Can a mall maintenance worker and a customer’s little girl change her toxic behaviour and earn the love missing from her life? An edgy drama comedy in the vein of As Good As It Gets. Script Excerpt |
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HALL OF PRESIDENTSPrepared to deal with war and economic collapse, the new President faces the one crisis he had not expected: the White House is haunted by the ghosts of ex-Presidents and only he can set them free by righting the historical wrongs they have committed. |
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Hapless FuA happy-go-lucky Asian cop in LA loses his confidence, self-respect, job and girl after an embarrassing incident ruins him. Now this fool is mankind's only hope to stop World War III! Script Excerpt |
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Nothing in CommonWhen an unhappy couple with nothing in common win a bus trip to Niagara Falls in 1952 their romantic future changes when they encounter Marilyn Monroe filming on location. (Finalist, Cinequest under earlier title, "Wedding in Niagara Falls.") Feature screenplay developed from short play "Niagara 1952" successfully performed in Cambridge, England by The Blue Sky Theatre Company. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aalGAtjwE1o Script Excerpt |
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Married With FriendsOn Mother's Day, on the eve of their silver wedding anniversary, life for Roy and Margaret Fox turns upside down when their adult children learn their parents have each acquired a friend of the opposite sex. The kids are apposed until they discover the new friends are rich. Then things get complicated. PITCH: Is "When Harry Met Sally" wrong? Script Excerpt |
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THE FAT LADY SINGSWhen a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate. Script Excerpt |
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T&T PowerA tenacious female detective used to working alone teams up with a wise-cracking out of shape meter maid to track down a kidnapped child held for ransom. Script Excerpt |
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All Sarah's Things I Found In My PocketWhen his fiancé abruptly cancels their wedding, a man evaluates his own past behaviour, triggered by items -sunglasses, wine cork, fortune cookie, cloth rabbit- that he finds in his jacket that establish the film's structure like"Four Weddings and a Funeral" . Family friendly. Diversity roles. Script Excerpt |
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FrankieFrankie, an angry, out-of-control boy, teams up with the Frankenstein monster to bring Frankie’s estranged father home for Christmas. Script Excerpt |
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LEAPAn underachiever, at the end of his rope, learns the secret of traveling into parallel universes and uses it to improve his personal and professional life. Unfortunately, he breaks all the rules and loses his way home; And if he can’t fix it, it may cost him his life. |
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Burning Old ManA group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration. |
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Phishing for PhoebeOnce homeless, a successful author searches for the woman who gave him his start; a woman consumed with guilt, hiding away and fiercely protected by a a menagerie of colorful small-town characters who block all efforts to find her. |
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DIBBLE AND DABBLEAn idealistic FBI Agent is directed by J Edgar Hoover to investigate some dangerous radicals... The Marx Brothers. |
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Marley's ChainsMarley and the Ghosts have been using Christmas Eve to torment someone into a better life for the past 150 years. They’ve been successful every time…until now. |
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Unbrotherly LoveTwin twenty-year-old brothers are tasked to transport a half-million-dollar car across Europe. Can incompetent brothers that despise each other get along well enough to deliver the vehicle in one piece? |
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THE GO TO GUYWhen he accidentally kills his entire family, a failed science fiction writer does the only thing possible: he impersonates them all until he can figure out how to get away cleanly. |
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Shooter on the Grassy Knoll (new as of 6-7-22) new excerpt 1-17-23A man suffering from schizophrenia and lack of self-esteem fires one of the fatal shots into President Kennedy from a grassy knoll then finds the conscience he never knew he had lost in a New Mexico desert with two disabled sisters: one blind and one a deaf-mute. Script Excerpt |
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A Mother's Christmas GiftMom has been dead for 11 months and shows up at her family's house for Christmas, as a ghost, with a mission, and like Clarence in “It’s A Wonderful Life,” has to accomplish this mission to earn her wings. Script Excerpt |
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SWING VOTEOne man gets the unprecedented opportunity to recast his damaged and uncountable absentee ballot and single-handedly decide the outcome of an electorally deadlocked presidential election. The candidates, PACs and powerbrokers try everything to get him to vote their way...or stop the vote entirely. (NOTE: written in ’95. Scriptapalooza 2001 - 2nd place. NOT Costner and Stern's "Swing Vote," which was written in 2007. Script was sent to Stern's first producer in 9/00. This producer also worked on earlier Costner films.) |
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The Man with the PackageOne mysterious agent, a package that has to be mailed back to his boss. What could go wrong? Everything! |
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Alien AbductionJanitor kidnaps alien from air force |
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Everything I Have Is YoursThirteen-year-old Haylee stumbles on her father's affair with her mother's friend, who has come to stay after her home was burglarized. Script Excerpt |
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Haunt for HireAfter a family enlists the help of a ghost to save themselves from a vindictive neighbor, they start a haunt for hire business and learn that even ghosts can be haunted. |
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A Fading Finish LineFour lifelong middle aged men deal with the challenges of starting over in employment, relationships, parenting and health when they are so close to reaching their goals. Script Excerpt |
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Rod KnockWhile comical mishaps in his work and social life give rise to ridicule, this newly single man finally proves his worthiness to his deriding buddies and Latino lady friend. Script Excerpt |
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Lil B-EasyAfter a Voodoo Priest cast a spell on ventriloquist doll, Lil B-Easy, he comes to life and grows with his human big brother, pulling pranks and causing mischief along the way. Script Excerpt |
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The King's CadillacSelected as a quarter-finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest 2017. LOGLINE: Two lovable, quirky, bumbling bubbas inadvertently steal Elvis’ Gold Cadillac during the Great Nashville Flood, disguise it as a hearse so they can take it on adventures, and end up saving it, a die-hard Elvis fan, and themselves. |
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Turf WarAs Florida neighbors fall in love, their rival lawn ornaments start a war. Script Excerpt |
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Who's There?A bizarre comedy within which a cynical, middle-aged woman is charged with caring for her eccentric mother and goofy sister who hold daily memorial services for husband/daddy's amputated leg. When he recovers, he comes to reclaim his family and his life in a combination wedding and funeral for the leg and meter reader's bag of wife, and life moves forward for all. |
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A Nice Family GatheringA story about a man who loved his wife so much, he almost told her. Script Excerpt |
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Man(ny) Versus MachineWhen an awkward ad exec named Manny beats up a coffee maker, every mechanical device goes after him thwarting his chances of winning a CLIO advertising award and destroying his relationship with the woman he loves. Script Excerpt |
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Home Like a ShadowCollege girl accompanies her new boyfriend to his decaying San Joaquin Valley home town for his mother's birthday and is pulled into family conflicts and lost dreams dating back to the Civil War. Script Excerpt |
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MOWOODBY PRODUCED WRITER - 10 FEATURES. And 20 novels. Out-of-work auto-workers try to make money and rekindle their marriages by making a movie. English language/Chinese version of the script also available. |
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Vacation BurnoutA couple have twenty four hours to cash it in a lottery ticket stashed away in a wallet. The problem is they’re out of the country and are held up at the border and time is not on their side. Script Excerpt |
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Memory LaneA woman gets told the date she first meets her soul mate by a psychic. One problem though - the date she met him was 27 years ago, when she was eight. |
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RediscoveryTwo simple-minded brothers work part time for a university and science lab, and find machinery in an unauthorized work area that unknowingly transports them to Spain years before their time—and now they must figure out where they are, how they got there, and how to get back home. |
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The Blonde SurferA young boy becomes infatuated with a beautiful Blonde Surfer Script Excerpt |
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Where Angels Fear To LaughSet in the dystopian DTLA amidst the global epidemic, the story follows the very unusual itinerary of Meonji, a reckless & misfortunate South Korean female backpacker who has lost everything over night and ends up living in a tent with a local street musician named Shame. Despite being dirt poor, they manage to enjoy the honeymoon phase until they realize that poverty is not the most sinister thing they face. ? |
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LEZ BEAUSTwo LGBTQ classical musicians accidentally see a motorcycle gang murder and must flee the state disguised as male rockers by joining a terrible rock-n-roll band. |
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HOLY FRIJOLESTwo 17-year-old buddies decide the perfect summer job is driving a hot food lunch wagon .. until they discover their route runs through the most dangerous gang banger territory in town. |
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BAD TO THE BONEA K-9 Rottweiler taken too soon to doggie heaven, escapes and returns to earth in the body of a 17-year-old kid to find his hit-and-run killer and save his family. |
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The Neutral Zone Bar & GrillA superhero and supervillain duo decide to put their differences aside and open a bar exclusively for those with superpowers, although it turns out to be much more difficult than they imagine. Script Excerpt |
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Parenting 101When a successful hair stylist and her goal-oriented husband determine they need to make a decision about starting a family, they struggle with a year-long parenting experiment starting with houseplants, then pets, and finally other people's children. Script Excerpt |
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THE LIBRARIANadapted from the screenplay T H E L I B R A R I A N love stories Peter loves Maggie. Maggie loves Peter. Alice loves Peter, too. Mary, Maggie’s mum loves her daughter. Maggie loves her mum and Louisa also loves Maggie’s mum. And Brandon, he loves money even if it isn’t his. It got tangled! J U S T I N S W I N G L E BOOK COVER BLURB London, 1948. The city is putting itself together again after the Second World War, and people and families are trying to find a way forward. It’s a struggle for all. Peter is a young man who works at the library. He has hopes and dreams of one day being a novelist. His dreams and fantasies help him escape his day to day life where his sober habits inhabit his ways with women. But then he meets the woman with the bright red lips like a movie star. Maggie is a young woman of prominent cheekbones and startling ambition, who wants to be a film star – or, failing that, a novelist. She’s about as predictable as a thunderstorm. Alice is the girl next door and works for a literary agent. She loves Peter’s writing – and Peter too. But will she find the courage to tell him so? In a slippery tale of stolen hearts and purloined novels, secret loves and hidden ambitions, these lives become irretrievably tangled. Who will end up with whom? Who will end up rich and celebrated? And will art – and love – win out in the end? Justin Swingle is an award-winning screenwriter. The Librarian was adapted from the screenplay of the same title JUSTINSWINGLE.com Script Excerpt |
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DOUGHBOY"DOUGHBOY" is the true story of a washed-up journeyman boxer, thrust into the national spotlight as a last-minute replacement fighter against reigning champion Tommy Morrison for the Heavyweight Championship of the World. |
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Lucky in Long IslandMarco Marino known as “Lucky “in the underground world of organized crime is about to get an early release from prison. Jack Jones is down to his last resort Are cracking down on Long Island most notorious mob boss, Johnny the joker. Unexpectedly he makes a plea deal with Marco to clear his name. He assigns new agent Ava Marie to work her firsr undercover operation with Lucky As a unlike they do a pose as a newly engaged couple in a posh Long Island home. Soon enough the undercover becomes a matter of life and death as one mobster is about to make the hit of his life . Will he be lucky in Long Island Or will lucky set his eyes on something bigger such as running the North American mafia? |
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Why 21?A young man tries to survive his 21st birthday with getting fired, attacked by a squirrel, car dies, bad sexual encounters, wanted by the police, and then some. |
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All-American JoeJoe Wannamaker is a sports loving live at home forty year-old millionaire who only wants to be good at something just once in his bumbling life. Script Excerpt |
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SHOPLIFTING FROM THE DEVIL'S MARKETPLACEA dysfunctional Southern California dad is shocked when his teenaged son shows up—exactly 13 years after he went missing as a baby—and now the dad learns he has just two days to infiltrate a horrendous child trafficking cult and rescue his son, or never see his boy again. Script Excerpt |
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ATTACK OF THE ZOMBIE PIGS!THEY WANT YOU FOR BREAKFAST. |
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TEXT MEMAN'S BEST FRIEND IS NOT A DOG, IT'S A CELL PHONE. |
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Neighbors and StrangersNEIGHBORS AND STRANGERS - As the world spirals downward into a major recession, a diverse cast of neighbors and strangers struggle to survive. Now they must join hands and overcome their biases and distrust. |
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To Catch a FishLanny Flank and his band of misfits overcome disaster after disaster to take fishing competition to a whole new level with eccentric and creative madness to win the ultimate prize needed to win the girls of their dreams. |
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Paula Bunyan: A Taller TalePaula Bunyan is a story about Paul Bunyan's twin sister, by 14 seconds, the greatest Lumberjill in all the land who did all the work and gave her brother, Paul, all the credit. |
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Bad DogIn order to win back the ambitious girlfriend who dumped him, an unemployed thirty-year-old takes the only job he can get as a dogwalker for an old lady’s troubled rescue dog, only to discover his new furry frenemy will put him through the wringer before becoming man’s best friend. |
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Sioux FallsSioux Falls is based on a true story about four small town Minnesota kids ages 13 to 15, who plan to sneak out, “borrow” a parent’s car, drive all night to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to buy illegal fireworks, and get home before their parents wake up. |
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The Perfect ProposalA competitive real estate broker loses his long-time girlfriend to his office rival, and the only way to get her back is to come up with the perfect proposal to take her to a romantic island paradise where everything goes wrong. |
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Heat of the MomentA former comedian and out-of-work chef gets invited to cook for some old friends, and he soon realizes you can't stop the heart's utmost desire in a weekend filled with love, drama, and betrayal. Script Excerpt |
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FAT TARES AND RACIN CARSTwo fun-loving country boys work the pits for their famous car racing cousin and get fired. They work through the bad times and evolve from hardcore dirt trackers to the NASCAR circuit. A product placement dream. |
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Time Travel: Many Happy ReturnsTwo simple-minded brothers work part time for a university and science lab and find machinery in an unauthorized work area that unknowingly transports them to Spain years before their time. |
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Daddy's Man CaveDADDY'S MAN CAVE is a modern comedic retelling of the Frankenstein story. She's alive! All hell breaks loose when the sex-starved female holograph, created by a down-on-his-luck husband and dad, steps into the real world during the big family Thanksgiving disaster. Oh, and she's a hologram so he's not really cheating. Logline: She's alive! All hell breaks loose when the sex-starved female holograph, created by a lonely, down-on-his-luck husband and dad, steps into reality during the big family Thanksgiving gathering. |
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Homo For The HolidaysTwo football players try to escape the freezing spring in Minnesota by booking a cruise to the Caribbean unaware that it’s an LGBTQ |
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Protect & ServeWhen a drug kingpin and soul food restaurateur frames his chef for the murder of a rival, the desperate chef convinces an unstable, trigger-happy cop to help clear his name and save his life. Script Excerpt |
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Confessions of a Horny TeenagerA high school swimmer needs has to overcome his obsession with sex (or lack of it) in order to succeed personally and athletically. With the help of his friends and a psychiatrist, he tries to find his sexual identity on his journey to winning a swimming scholarship at an upper crust school. |
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The Salvation of RussellA man hides out posing as a vicar in a small coastal town |
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THE GLAMOROUS LIFEA model whose career is fading gets a much-needed vacation and a new outlook on life when she hides out at a Florida beach house with an “odd couple” of twenty-something brothers who are 100% convinced she's a hooker. Script Excerpt |
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DOWN WITH DADA 3 time Man of the Year dad Dave McNabb tries to teach his teen son Lincoln a life lesson -- “do good things, good things happen.” But much to Lincoln's delight and wonder, while things seem to improve for him they suddenly go south for dear old dad when bad things happen... very bad things. Script Excerpt |
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SanctuaryA hapless and socially detached attorney's life changes dramatically when he executes a will stipulating that a substantial fortune will be shared by all who attend the deceased's funeral mass. But no one shows up... except one mysterious homeless man seeking shelter from a raging storm. Script Excerpt |
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The LA ProjectParallel worlds collide in this comedic thriller when an unwitting conspiracy podcaster and the determined, crime-fighting woman he falls for are framed for a double murder on Wall Street. Time is running out as they discover the only way to prove their innocence is to solve a layered mystery that links the real villains to the murky underworld of corporate and government crime. |
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THE GEPETTO PROTOCOLTo stay "real" in the real world after their last creator dies, an action figure, fashion doll, superhero, anime girl, and crash dummy—now real flesh and blood—must find new believers in ten days or be forgotten forever, and get help from two kids and their dad at a cosplay convention. |
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Light FingersLonely teen, uprooted from Minnesota to Santa Monica, falls for her lab partner in biology class, who happens to be the world's best shoplifter. Script Excerpt |
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ACCIDENTAL ALIENFictionalized autobiographical dark comedy about a UFO fanatic turned screenwriter on a rollercoaster ride of Hollywood success, failure and a nightmarish marriage that nearly destroys his career. The existential journey of an "alien" stranded on earth, from his teenage years raised by lesbians in the 50's to his adult struggles to survive in the film industry of the 70's through the 90's, to his globetrotting adventures as a miniseries writer from London to Morocco. All based on true events. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. Script Excerpt |
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Halo & HornsTwo centuries old enemies – a male angel and a female demon – compete to guide the relationship of a new young couple only to wind up falling in love with each other. A forbidden love. Script Excerpt |
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NOT ANOTHER VAMPIRE STORYAn embarrassment-prone middle school girl's life gets risky when she suspects her pretty older sister's good-looking boyfriend is really a vampire, and sets out to prove it. |
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Municipal AuthorityWhen B.J loses his job as a reporter, he is forced to take a job registering the cognitively compromised to vote; or face the new government Municipal Authority camps for non-producers. This was a semi-finalist in American Gem Screenwriting Competition as Sign on the Bloody Line. |
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One Nation Under ParA gambling talk show host places a million dollar bet that an honest pro golfer, sided by his exotic hooker wife and her pornographic pet parrot, will beat an unscrupulous congressman in the upcoming presidential election. |
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Rock RaceA quirky, middle-aged rock band battles Columbian drug lords, psycho girlfriends, the FBI, and amnesia while racing against time to win a record contract. Script Excerpt |
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Credit By BobFraud & Greed are no match for the Five C's of Credit. When an overly zealous credit manager, is deemed unnecessary by his boss, he walks a tightrope between logic and the art of drowning to be respected. Script Excerpt |
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GOBLINHorror comedy in the 80's retro style of "Gremlins". Two young, naive newlyweds move into a Victorian house that's in serious need of supernatural pest control. The new bride discovers and befriends a E.T.-type creature who may be a monster but is the key to an ancient mystery that may save their marriage...if they don't kill each other first. Script Excerpt |
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SunnysideQuirky young woman gets drunk on her high-tech job and ends up in a strange rehab where she must come to terms with her choices and history. Adapted from my published short story. Script Excerpt |
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Flush"Wharton" business student with grandiose Wall Street ambitions is phished into taking a summer job at a failing home repair company staffed with ex-cons and colorful "losers." When he falls for the receptionist, a hard-luck runaway who dreams of becoming a cabaret singer, he must confront what's really important in life. Script Excerpt |
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Millions to BurnOn the verge of financial ruin, a spendthrift real estate agent wins millions of dollars on the lottery; but when he spends everything that he won trying to win back his estranged family, he finds that he needs to confront his extravagant ways to prevent his life from again spiralling out of control. |
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LIFE WITHOUT FATHERGhost dramedy with family values, a la "Ghost" meets "Parenthood". An acclaimed news cameraman who's been neglecting his family for his career dies suddenly under mystical circumstances and returns home as a ghost to haunt his 12-year-old son a week before his 13th birthday. He only has a short time to teach his son life lessons and to learn how to be, and to redeem himself as, a once-absentee dad. Script Excerpt |
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D.E.T.E.C.T.I.V.E.STwo rival detectives join to solve a case whereby ten San Francisco detectives are being murdered by the Chinese Mafia. Little do they know, they're also on the hit list until... "And Then There Were None." |
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Apple BarrelHave you ever seen a talking apple? How about a barrel of them who want to live? Apple Barrel is a fun filled story about a bunch of apples learning to survive with style. |
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Post Your Script Here!AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A 14 year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter.
THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIR
A will leaves half of California to someone, if a lone wolf San Francisco private investigator can keep any of the heirs alive.
CONNECTING FLIGHT
A cutthroat salesman must confront faces from his past, present, and future in a busy airport, where he's forced to reconcile prior misdeeds and reforge alliances, as he races to thwart a catastrophic time-space anomaly.
The AWNING
Troubled commuters take shelter from a sudden downpour on a Chinatown street corner, only to be tormented by the elderly man in their midst selling unique umbrellas and dispensing cryptic wisdom.
CREATURES of HABIT
After changing therapists, a man with OCD sheds his repetitive routines, but when monsters emerge from the woods and abduct his friends, he suspects his compulsive behaviors may actually be rituals intended to ward off an ancient supernatural force.
Ayden: Rise of the Divine Beings
After the mythical oval, the Heart of Saros detects Ayden 'The Exceptional,' who was hidden among humans as a child by his mother, four divine beings with superhuman abilities from the planet Memnon are ordered to earth by their Lord to execute the vigilante crime fighter.
Heat of the Moment
A former comedian and out-of-work chef gets invited to cook for some old friends, and he soon realizes you can't stop the heart's utmost desire in a weekend filled with love, drama, and betrayal.
Uncle Jake
Jake Evans, 36, a fun-loving former rock musician, moves in with his older sister, Sophia Livingston, 38, an Environmental Attorney, to help take care of her two kids, Corey, 11, and Violet, 16, after losing her husband a year prior.
Ayden: The Exceptional
A brilliant young geneticist who believes superhumans exist in our modern society makes the ultimate discovery after he is led to a man with exceptional abilities.
Duplicitous
A father takes his young disabled son to the country to reconnect in an old Victorian, but their stay becomes one of regret after a malevolent presence is awakened.
