JANIE LOVES BOLLYWOOD!!
An updated heartwarming and relatable take on "It's a Wonderful Life!" - but Bollywood style with a Goth girl and a hot Bollywood actor "angel" instead of old-fashioned George Bailey and Clarence.
Janie's Bollywood "angel" is only visible to her and her brother, Melvin, a disabled person. This invisibility to others outside the family makes for some comic, even slapstick moments.
Janie is a dynamic, yet oddly dressed telemarketer. She holds her office together as well as her many friends and family members. She has an affinity for Bollywood movies and actors. Janie is also instrumental in fostering and finding homes for stray animals for her local humane society.
One night, Janie dresses up and prepares for a lovely night out with her boyfriend, Kevin, an Army officer whom Janie nursed backed to health after he was injured in Afghanistan. She is ready for him to propose to her. Instead, he dumps her and she goes on a drinking spree, winding up at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD. She wakes with the worst hangover of her life and a good looking Bollywood actor practically glued to her side monitoring her mental state. The actor, Hrithik, loves American movies and television.
Soon, Janies receives a call from her alcoholic mother, Linda Fields. Linda says she is moving to Texas, thus abandoning her son, Melvin, a special needs young man. Janies takes on the responsibility of her younger brother as she tries to bounce back from Kevin's rejection of her. Her angel, Hrithik, enlists the help of his wife, Suzanne, and the lovely Bollywood actress, Shilpa Shetty in Janie's transformation to a more ladylike, stylish woman - who no longer cusses like a sailor.
Janie seems to bounce back from the breakup with Kevin until she runs into him and his new fiancee' while jogging with Susan. Janie sinks into depression once more and vocalizes how she wishes she had never been born. She wakes the next morning to find a world where she never existed - and that her wish has come true. Worst of all, she discovers that her brother was never born, Kevin never recovered from his coma and her best friend, Trish, is a hopeless drug dealer. Janie's workplace is also defunct. Hrithik arrives and explains that every person is important and has an impact on those around them. Janie promises to no longer take those around her for granted and Hrithik's divine boss restores her to her normal life. Janie lives out her own big Bollywood movie ending on the D.C. Metro. She even has a new love interest - Sam, her neighbor who walked her dogs and loved her from afar, demonstrating that "All's Well That Ends Well".
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It's A Wonderful Life
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Justine Cowan has been a writer, in various capacities, for 25 years. Her first screenplay "A Grunt's Tale" was awarded Honorable Mention in the 77th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition(out of 17,000 entries). "A Grunt's Tale" was also recognized as a top winner in the SkyFest I 2008 Script Competition.
Justine's other completed screenplays include "The Octopus Charmer"(which was also recognized as a top winner in the SkyFest I 2008 Script Competition)and "Flashdrive", a romantic comedy set in Washington, D.
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