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Fast FadeBiopic of the 1950s film noir starlet Barbara Payton. The dazzlingly beautiful and talented blonde bombshell quickly ascended to leading roles in Hollywood. But her wild partying ways, alcoholism, and scandalous romances brought her career crashing down to back alley prostitution and death by age 39. Script Excerpt |
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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. Haylee develops an unlikely friendship with the woman who is betraying her mother. 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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The Dressmaker's DaughterAdapted from my Young Adult novel published by Santa Monica Press in 2022. Romania 1940: A Jewish teenage girl studying to become a doctor, falls into a forbidden affair with her tutor. As war erupts, the Nazis invade and her family is killed, but a Romanian Iron Guard officer takes her as his concubine and sends her to nurse enemy soldiers in a field hospital. When her lover shows up with a group of Jewish partisans, she leads them through headquarters to kill two high-ranking Nazi guests of the officer. But her lover dies in the action. She escapes with the partisans and spends the rest of the war sabotaging German supply lines. Script Excerpt |
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A Season of TurbulenceA college girl flying to Anchorage to join her boyfriend in the Public Defender office is pulled into the crisis of a woman she meets who is being stalked by a former lover. She is also involved with her boyfriend's high-octane law cases which involve a level of drama and risk she has never encountered before. Script Excerpt |
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The RemnantSupernatural thriller: Young newlywed Dar Beaumont struggles to hold her life and marriage together amid her growing terror that a prehistoric man has taken up residence in her mind and may be directing her behavior. Script Excerpt |
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Twisted FateA new variant of "mad cow" brain disease strikes the U.S. --- turning victims gradually into psychopaths. As science races to identify the infected and stop the pandemic, a young woman tries to rescue her lover, held hostage in a lab testing radical treatments. Adapted from my novel published in December 2022 by the Champagne Book Group and showcased online in The Write Launch: https://thewritelaunch.com/2019/09/twisted-fate/ recently showcased Script Excerpt |
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IMPERVOSAn eccentric billionaire and his family struggle to escape from their subterranean luxury bunker when they are stalked by monsters that evolved during the Permian extinction and were set loose by the building of the bunker two miles underground. The monsters hunt the fleeing humans using "blindsight." Script Excerpt |
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Light FingersLonely quirky teen, uprooted from Minnesota to Santa Monica, falls for her lab partner in biology class, who happens to be the world's best shoplifter and begins to learn his ways. Script Excerpt |
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Fair WarningThriller based on the true stalking murder of Berkeley student Tanya Tarasoff in 1969 by an obsessed graduate student, and the legal case that changed doctor-patient confidentiality laws across the country. Script Excerpt |
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Dead LineThe ghost of a beautiful young woman, murdered by a serial killer, enters a young man's life, bringing chaos with her. Script Excerpt |
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Redwood TombA married, ambitious young assistant D.A. in Santa Cruz falls for a beautiful bohemian artist, unaware that she is also involved with a charismatic killer. Neo noir based on a true crime in 1982. Adapted from my short story published in UK crime magazine, Close to the Bone and in Half Hour to Kill: https://halfhourtokill.com/home/saturday-night-off-by-linda-boroff. Script Excerpt |
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Cherry HillIn 1870s Kansas, after her husband and infant die of fever in their cabin during a blizzard, a desperate young widow goes to work in a Cimarron brothel, where she is drawn into the intrigues and passions of the ruthless, fast-growing power structure. Script Excerpt |
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Vengeance IslandA law student interning with the Public Defender office and his visiting girlfriend are stranded with their pilot on a remote Alaskan island outside Angoon in a winter storm. Soon, they realize they are being stalked --- not just by wolves but by spirits seeking retribution for a lie the young man told native people while investigating a crime against their daughter. |
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MalleusAmid the European famine of 1315, a handsome, cheating husband must burn at the stake when his jealous wife denounces him as a "wolf by night" and a heretic. But a demon transports him to modern day California, where he discovers new powers for both love and murder. Script Excerpt |
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White CatA lonely woman, attacked by a feral cat she tried to befriend, finds her way back to a lost love. Adapted from short story published in Thoughtful Dog Magazine https://www.thoughtfuldogmag.com/white-cat/ Script Excerpt |
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Angie Gets a JobIn 1968, a rebellious young girl leaves home and finds a job in an Oakland typing pool, where she struggles against life's temptations, with uneven success. Adapted from short story published in Crack the Spine Literary Magazine https://pub.lucidpress.com/crackthespine227/#-nUzgKu47Il. Script Excerpt |
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Jack's HeadTeenage Bonnie was a mantrap -— envied, respected, and hated like poison. Adapted from short story published in Parhelion Magazine https://parhelionliterary.com/linda-boroff/ Script Excerpt |
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Dinner at the Bigelows'Teen girl from a poor family is hired to babysit the children of a wealthy studio executive and is drawn into a world of lies, scandal, forbidden love and violence. (Published in Nikki Finke's fiction site "Hollywood Dementia) Script Excerpt |
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DoctorsIn 1969, Berkeley freshman Katie, 17, takes a part-time job at a doctor's office and learns about life and love --- and the end of both. Script Excerpt |
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The Hundred Thousand Dollar SuitA father and son running an unprofitable tile store let a fraudster shirttail relative talk them into investing in his scam to import counterfeit Italian designer suits. Based on my published short story. Script Excerpt |
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AvianaIn 30 million years birds have become the uber species, living in fortified villages amid a landscape teeming with rat-predators, giant insects, intelligent reptiles and other terrifying life forms. Young soldier, WAGAR, loves LANITRA, the ruler’s daughter. Enemy raptor prince THOTOR is a secret lover of Lanitra’s sister BARI. When Bari betrays the village to Thotor, the inhabitants are banished to the wilderness. Script Excerpt |
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The Virgin EffectDaughter of a middle-eastern oil billionaire, drugged and raped at a UCLA frat party, contacts a young Beverly Hills surgeon to restore her physical virginity for her upcoming arranged marriage. When the surgeon's receptionist learns of the plan, she and her boyfriend devise a plot to blackmail the surgeon, threatening to put confidential information and a video of the procedure on the Internet. Script Excerpt |
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GrizzlyAging hacker gets out of prison and plots an act of millitary sabotage to impress a Dutch hacker chick and reclaim his status as the ruling terror of the Internet. Script Excerpt |
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Riviera DriveThree Latino felons on the run invade the home of a prosperous Latino insurance executive, who must reconnect with his own violent past to save his family. The tensions heightens when his rebellious 17-year-old daughter falls for one of the felons. Script Excerpt |
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JessGhost of a young gambler hanged in 1884 takes up residence in an old gold mill near Lake Tahoe and raises hell in the life of the tour guide, a Stanford student. Script Excerpt |
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Sawney BeanAdulterous young husband facing criminal punishment in medieval Scotland flees into the hideout of the notorious cannibal family. 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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Space ReservedSlick, successful young ad executive thoughtlessly appropriates somebody's "reserved" space in a parking garage when bringing his date home and ends up taken hostage by three women bent on revenge for a long-suppressed middle school prank gone bad. Script Excerpt |
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WrenchedAmbitious young Wall Street wannabe travels to take an internship with a hot crypto firm. He idolizes Sam Bankman-Fried like a rock star. But the company turns out to be a floundering home repair business whose owner faked a requisition to get a financial whiz aboard. About to leave in disgust, the wannabe falls for the receptionist, a runaway who dreams of becoming a cabaret singer. He joins the rough team of under-rated outcasts and learns how to repair things, including his mercenary sense of values. Script Excerpt |
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Post Your Script Here!AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
In the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised.
The March of the 18th
In 1864 the Veteran Reserve Corps was formed to allow disabled Union army men to continue to perform their duty for God and Country.
ELECTRIC
After being electrocuted on the job, a woman has the power to make everyone around her fall in love.
OVERPASS
When a cement truck driver avoids slamming into a Lexus, only to lose his own life, he haunts the Lexus driver and teaches him a powerful life lesson in the process.
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
L.A. Detective Owen Murphy is on a mission to clear his name on a murder he didn't commit.
HARBINGER
Detective Sandy Marone feels the weight of the world come crashing down on her shoulders as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of another senior citizen, one of several over the past few months.
THE TEST
On an anniversary trip to San Fran Debbie sets up seemingly disinterested husband Jim to test his fidelity, but things spin wildly out of control when Jim instead falls into a trap set by a team of dangerous con-artists ready to take him for a ride and everything he's worth.
THE GLAMOROUS LIFE
A 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.
DOWN WITH DAD
A 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.
TAKEN AWAY
Two 16 year-olds, one a foul-mouthed cutter, the other a church boy, become unlikely allies when they are snatched from separate states and brought to a remote hideaway by an inexperienced kidnapper and his mother who's fresh out of prison and terminal.
