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Equity
Are you in or out? The year is 1919. Your name is Frank Bacon, and you’re the author and lead actor of the most successful play in Broadway history. Your fellow actors are about to go on strike in support of their union, the Actors Equity Association. You’ve spent your life fighting for the rights your friends are hitting the bricks to protect. If you go out on strike with them, you risk losing everything you’ve achieved. Your wife doesn’t want you to go out. The managers will fire you and take away the rights to your play if you don’t cross the line. What about it, Frank — which side are you on? Are you in or out?
Carol Burnett
Drew Barrymore
My parents were animators who met on the picket line at Disney Studios in 1941, and I spent almost thirty-five years in the labor movement as an officer of the Animation Guild Local 839 IATSE. About fifteen years ago I started taking classes with Joe Bratcher and the late Judy Farrell at the Twin Bridges Screenwriting Salon.
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Thérèse
Raised in silence and submission, Thérèse awakens to desire in the arms of her husband’s friend—only to be driven from timid housewife to calculating accomplice in murder, and finally to a woman destroyed by guilt, ghosts, and forbidden passion.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
THE MONGREL, pilot for THE COMING MORROW series
A virus is decimating the male population making most impotent.
PIRANDELLO'S WIFE
Quiet, passive, obedient, a wonderful mother to her children and perfect wife to her Nobel Prize winning husband.
Many Happy Returns
Two simple-minded brothers work part time at a science lab and find machinery in an unauthorized area that unknowingly transports them to Spain years before their time.
THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIR
It is a mismatched battle between the high-tech resources available to Charlene, the power behind the throne of a large corporation, and Stram, a lone wolf San Francisco private investigator using tried and true low-tech methods as they race to find the final heir, and chase across California, with Stram straining to keep the last heir safe.
THE BEAUTY OF THE RODEO
A former rodeo queen returns home after thirty years, but her attempt to fit back in is further complicated by the arrival of the daughter she secretly placed for adoption.
Eternal Blessings
A dying woman must break the spell of her former Indian guru -- or risk having him follow her into the afterlife.
583
A couple may lose their home for failing to follow a local ordinance: lawns be mowed every two weeks; even when it’s under two feet of snow!
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest shot in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
