Ripples
Four unrelated characters, two women, and two men, find themselves in an abandoned home outside the city during the end of the coronavirus, and they must find a new way to survive together as the world tries to sort itself out.
Synopsis
Ripples is a comedy about four people who come together several years after the Coronavirus was coming to an end. In an empty housing track where families once lived, certain houses have been taken over by squatters who claim some right to the property from just living there for long periods of time.
Leonard, a seventy plus year old man has been living in one of the houses for over two years as the Coronavirus slowly wound down to its apparent end. He lives in a house that has piles of junk and trash, some three feet to two feet high, forming trails between the other rooms. Eventually others arrive and try and stake a claim on a room or just some space to hide.
Shar, a man in his late twenties, shows up next and Leonard allows Shar to carve out some tiny cave in the junk piles as a living space. Shar is a man with very female ` qualities and verbally advocates his need for a sex change operation.
Following Shar is Harley, a woman in her late twenties to early thirties who is very male aggressive under her blonde female illusive personality. Leonard and Shar both agree to allow Harley some space behind the completely junk covered sofa in the living-room.
Caroline is the last member to arrive and is the actual owner, now, of the house. Caroline is in her mid-twenties, carries a 357 Magnum pistol for protection and has a very, very bad attitude toward the people she thinks junked out her house.
Ripples tells the story of how these four, completely different people, come together in a house during one of the worlds worst pandemics called Covid-19. As their relations try to find some fit, a mysterious story about Leonard and Caroline’s parents begins to surface. Caroline’s parents died of the virus in the same hospital that Leonard claims he worked in as an LVN. Somehow none of what Leonard relates about that experience does not explain why Caroline’s parent’s car ended up in their driveway shortly after they both died.
In the end, the four characters begin to form relations that seem totally crazy from an outside point of view, but crazy things happen in crazy times, and this crazy time started with just one little ripple in another country that finally hit America as a tidal wave.
Four characters, one living-room set in a 1940’s house, a new story in the coronavirus era with great dialogue and a mystery to solve along the way.
Emily Blunt
Michael Fastbinder
Mr. Mc Quown has won many writing awards including the following; “The Rocking Horse Christmas”, first place in the animation genre at The Santa Clarita International Film Festival in 1997, Quarter Finalist in The Chesterfield Screenplay Fellowship in 1997 with “Pier 21”, Semi Finalist in The Chesterfield in 1998 with “The China Tiger”, Quarter Finalist in 2000 in Scriptapalooza with, “Jane The Legend of Mountain Charley”, Finalist in The International Family Film Festival 2005 with the animated feature, “The Cat and The Rat” (co screenwriter), Quarter Finalist in The Fade In Magazine Screenplay Contest in 2005 with, “The Missing Link” and Quarter Finalist in The Zoetrope contest in 2007 with “The Sudan”.
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