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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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Written by:
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Robert Gately
[Contact Author]
Interviews
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Format:
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Screenplay
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Budget:
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Low
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Starring Roles For:
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Robert Duvall
Dustin Hoffman
James Earl Jones
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In the Vein Of:
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Grumpy Old Men
Rudy
Three Musketeers
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Posted:
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08/19/2003
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Updated:
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09/03/2012
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Author Bio:
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Robert retired early from a lucrative job in '98 to follow a life's dream to write full time. Since then his 10 screenplays, 3 stage plays, 2 novels and 1 non-fiction book finished as finalist or better in close to one hundred festival, stage, book and screenplay competitions around the world since he retired early in 1998. These placements include novel successes in Faulkner/Wisdom Creative Writing contest, Norumbego Fiction Award, Chesterfield, Writer's Network, Dana Awards, Frontiers in Writing, SFWP (Santa Fe), etc. The screenplays alone have won 15 competitions such as Spirit Quest, Garden State, Woodshole and Queens FFs, Fade In Magazine, Telluride, etc., and finished 2nd place in 13 others. His stage plays have won reading series promotions at Abingdon Theatre in NYC and Ohio State University. He teaches screenwriting 101 at the local community college and is one of the Temple University judges for the Freese Award screenwriting competition. Website: rgately.com
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Contest Results:
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Fade In (First Place, comedy)
Telluride Indie (First Place, "Winner")
Breckenridge (Second Place)
Hollywood Scriptwriting (Second Place)
New Century (Finalist, Stage and screenplay)
scriptrep.com (Semifinalist)
Barrier Magazine (Semifinalist)
Winner Take All (Semifinalist)
WriteMovies (Semifinalist, stage play version)
New Pro. Theater (Semifinalist, Stage play version)
Screenwriting Expo (Quarterfinalist, "top 25")
American Accolades (Quarterfinalist, "top 30")
Writer's Digest (Honorable Mention, 72nd Annual Compet'n top 15%)
Chesterfield (Semifinalist)
American Screenwriting (Semifinalist)
Writers Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition (Semifinalist)
Screenplay Festival (Semifinalist)
Anything But Hollywood (Semifinalist)
Worldfest - Houston (Finalist, (2004))
Split-Screenplay (First Place)
Impractical Venture (Finalist)
Project Greenlight (Quarterfinalist)
PAGE International (Semifinalist)
Get Initiative (Honorable Mention)
Expose It! (Quarterfinalist)
Woods Hole (First Place)
ZoieFest (First Place)
Arizona (Second Place)
Queens (Finalist)
Contest of Contest Winners (Finalist)
Great American (Finalist)
Nevada Film Office (Semifinalist)
Wildsound (Finalist)
New Jersey (Finalist, final four)
A/Exposure (First Place, March 2007)
Seventh Dimension (First Place, never paid prize)
GAFFERS (Second Place, 2007)
Landlocked (Semifinalist)
Sound Heritage (Finalist)
River City (Finalist)
Tennessee (Semifinalist)
Extreme Feature (Semifinalist)
Blazing Quill (Finalist)
Writer's Desk (Finalist)
Progress Writers (Finalist)
Garden State (First Place)
Red Inkworks (Finalist)
Pocono (Second Place, 2003)
Script Savvy (Finalist, in the top five )
AAA (Quarterfinalist)
Moondance (Finalist)
Acclaim Film (Quarterfinalist)
Austin (Quarterfinalist)
Movie Script/Feature (Finalist)
Open Curtain (Finalist)
StoryPros International (Semifinalist)
Bare Bones (Semifinalist)
Indie Gathering (First Place, drama/comedy)
Twin Rivers (Third Place)
The-GreenLight.com Monthly (First Place)
Back in the Box (Quarterfinalist)
Mountain Fest (Semifinalist)
All Sports (Semifinalist, aka codgertown)
SCRIPTOID Feature (Semifinalist, aka codgertown)
Filmshift (Semifinalist, 2010 top 15 aka codgertown)
The-GreenLight.com (Semifinalist, 2010 aka codgertown)
California (Finalist, aka codgertown)
British Feature (Semifinalist)
American Zoetrope (Quarterfinalist, aka codgertown)
Reel Authors (Quarterfinalist)
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