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Lover Haters ClubA bold group of teens band together to form a unique and quickly growing movement against relationship games, that captures the attention of the teen icon, Hayley Kiyoko. |
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Violent DelightsA group of feisty, fed-up coworkers devise a plan to utilize their clientele privileges to potentially boost their lifestyle up a notch, by copying the MO of a group of infamous thieves. |
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Heartbreak HotelAfter discovering a bag of money, two down-on-their-luck men set about improving their lives, unaware that other people are on their trail, including a small-time crook who needs to pay off his debts and a pair of crooked cops who want the money for themselves. Script Excerpt |
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Blonde DoctorsTwo gorgeous, ambitious blonde doctors in training who hate each other out of jealousy, form an unlikely friendship when faced with the boss from hell! Script Excerpt |
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Cesar & MaxBetween getting into trouble at school and his disconnected relationship with his mother, Cesar, a Mexican American teenager feels out of place in this world. After getting expelled from school thanks to his delinquent, privileged best friend, Max, the two take off on a wild trip to Mexico in search of Cesar's father who he has never met. |
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Operation MomAn Indian-American teen conspires to become her mother's matchmaker instead of the other way around, but only to find love herself. Script Excerpt |
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GHOST TOWN, NMNEELAN PATEL (PITA), the obstinate Indian American father of AMISHA, insists his daughter marry the rich but foolish RAKISH LAGHARI. But AMISHA loves JUAN ARAVALO, a Mexican American boy. Soon illusion and reality, past and present, serious and absurd all mix when the young lovers escape to a New Mexico ghost town commune. They are pursued by her parents, RAKISH and a motley crew of amateur sleuths-cum-videographers. |
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JonesyAfter being unexpectedly killed by his cat, Tuna; a man's afterlife is tested when he's left to haunt his apartment and three misfit orphans move in. |
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Misfortune CookiesAccidentally killing an elderly Chinese chef during a botched robbery, an oafish redneck teenager and her misfit friends begin dying one by one when the chef's ghost returns from the grave, killing them in gruesome fortune cookie-themed ways. Script Excerpt |
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Children's Party WarA spurned stripclub bouncer goes into the children's party business to win back his stripper-turned-princess girlfriend but her territorial coked-out “Prince Charming” boss isn’t having it. *ROAD HOUSE meets BAD SANTA* |
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Improper DosageWhile driving through rural Pennsylvania with his fiancé, a young gay man survives a mysterious car accident. He reawakens later within the antiquated health clinic of a remote village. Completely immobilized from his injuries, and shut out from the outside world, the man begins to question the medical staff’s odd practices…and if his beloved fiancé is conspiring with them to do something sinister. |
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EVERY WEEKWhat happens when the vacuum cleaner quits; dust grows, develops limbs, speech, manners; and so Julie must battle to save her sanity, and her home, from a pair of six foot fuzz balls. Script Excerpt |
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Area 50When Rosie Spock Rodriguez sacrifices becoming a doctor to raise her daughters, she ends up nursing homeless persons in downtown Vegas... until she’s recruited to a Top Secret compound within the boundaries of Area 50 to “doctor” homeless aliens from another planet. |
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ESCALATOR!A spoof of disaster movies done in the vein of Airplane finds a fire chief must juggle battling a fire in the mall, romancing the architect, and handling the press as he recruits his retired ace rescuer, attempting to save a hundred people trapped on the Castle Mall’s four story express ESCALATOR! Script Excerpt |
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Cracked AcesAfter he accidentally defeats a mobster’s spoiled daughter in a high-stakes tournament, a lone-wolf poker player must go all-in with a fiery brothel madam, a septuagenarian showgirl, and an unhinged Girl Scout in a madcap gamble to win back his life. |
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Jail Break1895. A gang of corrupt Texas Rangers hunt down reformed and unlucky Jail Break escape-artist (now used-horse salesman) Roy and his fancy German-automobile wheeler-dealer nemesis for the reward money ... DEAD OR ALIVE! |
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I've Got Your Number1940s film noir satire, as hard-boiled, cynical private detective Vic Winslow wallows within the sordid, sleazy world of blackmail, murder, corruption, mobsters, and pure evil, all focused upon a lovely femme fatale. Script Excerpt |
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Phishing for PhoebeOnce homeless, a successful author at the end of his life searches for the woman who gave him his start; a woman consumed with guilt, hiding away and fiercely protected by a menagerie of colorful small-town characters who block all efforts to find her. Script Excerpt |
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So Long, FuzzyA grieving widow, tired of all the sympathy from her annoying friends, hatches a plot to drive them away. Script Excerpt |
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Catering EvilPete, a Hollywood actor turned caterer, is always staving off the Apocalypse but never getting a tip as his company does occult parties for the rich and clueless. *PARTY DOWN meets EVIL DEAD* |
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JIMMY AND JARA FROM OUTTA SPACEA twisted sci-fi road comedy with heart, a la “Little Miss Sunshine” with aliens, an interspecies romance and a spoof on classic sci-fi films and the American Southwest’s UFO subculture. JIMMY, a Venice Beach boardwalk hustler, discovers beautiful alien JARA and her two intergalactic circus performers stranded on Earth. He cons them into his “family” of misfit street performers and takes them to Las Vegas. Along the way, sweet-tempered aliens touch jaded human hearts. Ultimately Jimmy must save Jara and her E.T.’s from a ruthless Las Vegas casino kingpin, with the help of Nevada UFO buffs. Script Excerpt |
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Buck and the AngelA young boy, Buck Lynch, fatherless and living with his dying mother in his grandparent’s home, has a strong belief in the power of prayer. But his faith is tested when a mysterious stranger claiming to be an angel leads Buck to believe he has come to make his mother well when he has actually come for his mother’s life on Christmas Eve. Script Excerpt |
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The GateTwo crusty bait and tackle guys fall through a black hole, landing in Pleistocene America armed only with fishing poles and a boat. Script Excerpt |
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Sheep's ClothingAfter thoughtlessly killing his handsome brother, whom he would use to get female victims, an unkempt basement bound serial-killer hires a life coach to become a dashing go-getter. *Psycho meets I Love You, Man* |
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THE FAT LADY SINGSWhen a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate. Script Excerpt |
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Tales Of The BizarreAn anthology of four comedic tales of sci-fi/horror/fantasy. A mudered wife resurrects through her garden; a small space alien is mistaken for an action toy; A base commander dares to challenge a UFO; A young man makes a pact with a witch. Script Excerpt |
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The SpotlightsSadie Springer, head of a traveling educational theatre company, must deal with insensitive public school principals, overly sensitive actors, and highly sensitive tween audiences, while she maintains a successful tour across Arkansas to keep her funding. *WAITING FOR GUFFMAN meets ABBOTT ELEMENTARY* |
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A Time to RememberThe number one pop star in the world puts his blazing hot career on hold to attend his senior year of high school and play football - much to his record label's dismay. Script Excerpt |
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Free Sports RadioTwo Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious, younger sister has bigger plans for herself and the station. Script Excerpt |
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Off GuardO.T., a carefree, but dedicated, corrections officer, in a Federal Prison, appears to have all the answers. When a practical joke backfires, O.T. has to decide what's more important; his career or his best friend. Script Excerpt |
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DEAD CELEBRITIESWhen her manager fakes her death to steal her fortune, a Popstar finds herself trapped on an island of supposedly "dead" celebrities and must figure a way out- or be stuck there forever. |
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Shooter on the Grassy Knoll (new as of 6-7-22) new excerpt 1-17-23A man suffering from schizophrenia and lack of self-esteem fires one of the fatal shots into President Kennedy from a grassy knoll then finds the conscience he never knew he had lost in a New Mexico desert with two disabled sisters: one blind and one a deaf-mute. Script Excerpt |
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IT'S A POPCORN WORLD: When an overzealous government man tries to steal an inventor’s home using eminent domain, the inventor decides to provide alternative land by expanding the world like a kernel of popcorn, if his dance-clubbing hunchback lawyer can keep the inventor out of jail to accomplish his task. Script Excerpt |
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Hapless FuA happy-go-lucky Asian cop in LA loses his confidence, self-respect, job and girl after an embarrassing incident ruins him. Now this fool is mankind's only hope to stop World War III! Script Excerpt |
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T&T PowerA tenacious female detective used to working alone teams up with a wise-cracking out of shape meter maid to track down a kidnapped child held for ransom. Script Excerpt |
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583A suburban couple’s only crime is not mowing their lawn (buried under snow) in December, as per ordinance 583; the story follows their travails trying to save their home from being demolished by a monster we created: Government! Script Excerpt |
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Sally 'n NormaIn a Nancy Drew meets Thelma & Louise buddy comedy series... Two retired middle school teachers, not ready to hang up their hats, self-righteously confront societal ills from crime to manners & more. Meanwhile... Family & friends inhibit, applaud, and/ or aid the ladies in their quests and attempt to keep them out of harm's way and out of jail. |
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Spruce Up the HolidaysAn animated adventure about a pair of forest squirrels whose tree is cut down and taken to the city to be used as an elaborate Christmas display. Lost within a bustling Metropolis, and desperate to find their way back home, the squirrels come to understand the true spirit of Christmas and their love for each other. |
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DIBBLE AND DABBLEAn idealistic FBI Agent is directed by J Edgar Hoover to investigate some dangerous radicals... The Marx Brothers. |
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A Family's AffairsA thoroughly mixed, mixed-up family, navigates through life one day at a time, knowing a bigger bite of the apple is just too much to swallow. |
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StuffedA petite Chinese girl turned competitive eater fears she'll lose her new found love if he discovers her gluttonous career. |
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Rat's Bait ShopA Bar. A Bait Shop. A Roadside Diner. Run by a bartender, fishing guide, sharpshooter, marine, cook. In this small town, everything is something else and nobody is who they seem. |
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LA NightsThe year is 1973, and Quick runs an upscale after-hours spot in West Los Angeles with his socialite son, Dizzy. After a New York detective searching for Quick gets tipped off by his southside rival, he and his band of misfits devises a plan for one last score before skipping town. Script Excerpt |
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Funny BoneyardA young entrepreneur plugs his last dime into Heaven-Wise Acres, a cemetery-of-the-absurd theme park. To everyone's surprise it's a huge hit...until things go horribly wrong. Script Excerpt |
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Cleopatra's RevengeA snake's on the loose in Mike Turner's new home and his wife is really freaking out!!! Script Excerpt |
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Burning Old ManA group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration. |
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ShabadoodahA cartoon creator gets gunned downed in a convenience store robbery and goes to cartoon heaven. He is met by one of his creations, a black gnome with magical powers and plenty of bad attitude, who makes him an offer he should refuse. |
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THE GO TO GUYWhen he accidentally kills his entire family, a failed science fiction writer does the only thing possible: he impersonates them all until he can figure out how to get away cleanly. |
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Bless & ReleaseWhen a frustrated empty nester embarks on a journey of self-discovery, her Script Excerpt |
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Inn BermudaA wealthy executive couple loses everything to the IRS and is forced to start all over again... in the heart of The Bermuda Triangle! Submersed in the "Devil's Triangle's" eerie influences, bizarre Voodoo rituals, cultural conflicts and many a web of deceit, their marriage, fortitude and happiness are put to the test in this non-stop, what could possibly happen next (?) TV comedy. |
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Get The Hell On/OffA mother's dim-wit, a child's mischievous behavior, and a father's blasé attitude on child rearing clash in a harrowing experience that has the mother close to a nervous breakdown. |
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The Biglaws KingdomAfter his wife was wounded by his brother while trying to rape her, an unhappy King who could not have a son to be the heir to his throne passes on strict laws unto his people to make sure that no one is happy. |
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SWING VOTEOne man gets the unprecedented opportunity to recast his damaged and uncountable absentee ballot and single-handedly decide the outcome of an electorally deadlocked presidential election. The candidates, PACs and powerbrokers try everything to get him to vote their way...or stop the vote entirely. (NOTE: written in ’95. Scriptapalooza 2001 - 2nd place. NOT Costner and Stern's "Swing Vote," which was written in 2007. Script was sent to Stern's first producer in 9/00. This producer also worked on earlier Costner films.) |
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The Simpsons: Homie Makes The World Go 'RoundHomer receives a windfall (out of pure dumb luck) and promptly sets up shop as a financial guru. |
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The Man with the PackageOne mysterious agent, a package that has to be mailed back to his boss. What could go wrong? Everything! |
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Schwinn VarsitySummer 1977 - two 14-year old boys undertake an epic, two-day bicycle trek across a city on a dangerous quest for a legendary dumpster in a downtown alley packed with adult magazines. |
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Cafe EarthIn a future where interstellar travel has all the glamor of an interstate highway road trip to Nebraska, an optimistic single mom opens a greasy spoon cafe at a run down truck stop in space - Stuckey's meets Star Wars. |
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Alien AbductionJanitor kidnaps alien from air force |
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Mangas DamHampered by his Fifth Avenue spiked-heeled wife, a business failure with no common sense and desperate to succeed inherits a run-down lodge in a rural town populated by eccentric residents and visited by fanatic fly fishermen, hunters, and UFO chasers who make bets how long they will last. Script Excerpt |
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Uncle JakeJake Evans, 36, a fun-loving former rock musician, moves in with his older sister, Sophia Livingston, 38, an Environmental Attorney, to help take care of her two kids, Corey, 11, and Violet, 16, after losing her husband a year prior. Script Excerpt |
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Faithful Wife and HookerAn outraged, prudish wife avenges her frustrated husband’s "intentional adultery” by disguising as a hooker and blackmailing him for cheating (!), which sets off a series of mutual deceptions that upon discovery ironically amends the couple’s mutual failings and restores their marriage. Think War of the Roses with a happy outcome! |
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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. Script Excerpt |
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Childhood IssuesA fun-loving bachelor crippled with anxiety over his upcoming wedding resorts to a wild whirlwind series of hypnotic therapy sessions to confront the issues of his youth that keeps him from saying, “I do.” |
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Haunt for HireAfter a family enlists the help of a ghost to save themselves from a vindictive neighbor, they start a haunt for hire business and learn that even ghosts can be haunted. |
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A Fading Finish LineFour lifelong middle aged men deal with the challenges of starting over in employment, relationships, parenting and health when they are so close to reaching their goals. Script Excerpt |
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MAN OUT OF THE COUNTRYThe series premise : An Iranian classical guitar teacher navigates life in his music-loving intercultural family in a suburban California town. Pilot log line: When an Iranian father, in despair over his family drifting apart in a demanding Western world, tries to bring them together for a nightly family dinner, one thing after another sabotages his plan, including his teens’ busy schedules and his eccentric American mother-in-law’s shenanigans. |
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GUMBOTOWNOut of work and out of luck, a failed accountant takes a job at a run-down amusement park full of racist clowns, creepy carneys... and cannibals. |
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Rod KnockWhile comical mishaps in his work and social life give rise to ridicule, this newly single man finally proves himself worthy to his deriding buddies and Latino lady friend. Script Excerpt |
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Scrubs: My NicheJ.D. gets the writing bug but he doesn’t see that it’s getting in the way of his day job. |
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Supernatural - I Got You, BabeWhen a John Lennon impersonator gets killed by the doppelganger of Mark David Chapman, Sam and Dean step in to find out why on a cruise ship full of celebrity impersonators heading for Bermuda. Script Excerpt |
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Sunny SpringsResidents in a retirement home rebel after budget cuts take away their chocolate pudding snacks. |
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Will & Grace: The Tween Drama Of Dorian GrayWill’s training Jack to behave like a breeder for a potential role on a primetime TV drama. The girls reckon they make a couple of dire straights. |
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Lil B-EasyAfter a Voodoo Priest cast a spell on ventriloquist doll, Lil B-Easy, he comes to life and grows with his human big brother, pulling pranks and causing mischief along the way. Script Excerpt |
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Dooda and Rayford, The Alabaster BoysTwo bumbling brothers from the deep Alabaster, Alabama backwoods win a sightseeing weekend in New York City and unknowingly get caught up in a police investigation involving two jewel thieves and the Detectives trying to apprehend them. |
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Turf WarAs Florida neighbors fall in love, their rival lawn ornaments start a war. Script Excerpt |
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Promises, PromisesLife crisis. Mid-life crisis. And, after life crisis. A middle-aged newlywed couple handles their careers while dealing with his annoying ex-wife, her eccentric thirteen year old love child, and the frighteningly obnoxious, very dead ex-husband. Script Excerpt |
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GentrifiedA White gay male couple move into a predominantly African American neighborhood and invite their new neighbors to their adopted African American daughter’s first elementary school science fair. |
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Who's There?A bizarre comedy within which a cynical, middle-aged woman is charged with caring for her eccentric mother and goofy sister who hold daily memorial services for husband/daddy's amputated leg. When he recovers, he comes to reclaim his family and his life in a combination wedding and funeral for the leg and meter reader's bag of wife, and life moves forward for all. |
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Script PitchA new writer gets the opportunity to pitch her first script to a Hollywood bigwig. |
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When Doves CryIn 1991, fraternal twins navigate the treachery of young adulthood, dealing with bullies, racists, homophobes, and abusive authority figures while seeking the ultimate Minneapolis experience; seeing the legendary Prince perform live at First Avenue on Halloween night but a freak blizzard threatens their plans. Script Excerpt |
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THE OLDEST CADDIESThree friends save a wealthy country club owner after a fiery car crash and are awarded jobs as caddies for life at his exclusive course. Decades later, the three must fight to protect their livelihoods and pensions against the owner’s estranged greedy son who now wants to sell the club to real estate developers after his father’s death. |
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Man(ny) Versus MachineWhen an awkward ad exec named Manny beats up a coffee maker, every mechanical device goes after him thwarting his chances of winning a CLIO advertising award and destroying his relationship with the woman he loves. 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 Body and BloodA priest who is losing his faith attempts to renew the faith of others at the dawn of the zombie apocalypse. |
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The TattooA stringy looking guy sits inside a tattoo parlor to get his girlfriend’s name and graphic heart tattooed on his chest. Unfortunately the heart is upside down and looks like a butt. Then he happens to look up and sees her making out with a guy in front of the window. Script Excerpt |
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Go To HealthSix lovable, diverse characters working in a West LA health club endure day-to-day zany antics as they aspire to get anywhere in life. |
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Spice TradersWhen a group of socially awkward men go through a rip in time to trade modern spices for antiques, they end up fighting an old friend-turned-nemesis back in Medieval Times. |
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From da Big IslandNew York defined her - Hawaii changed her, is the tagline. How could Hawaii change New Yorker? From da Big Island is a baby boomer coming of age, fish out of water, woman-centric comedy about Ruth, a famous New York syndicated television personality, whose life is in peril. Needing solitude and change, leaves the Big Apple for the Big Island of Hawaii and discovers life is vastly different than what she expected. Deals with the customs of the islands, her unusual neighbors, marijuana, pigs, and more. Is this the change she expected? Think Barbara Walters meets the Clampetts. Read the book: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Island-Bill-Hutchinson-ebook/dp/B076QKMDV9 |
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Betrayal at the WeddingA young couple gets married only to find that their single, dating parents, have their own agendas when attending their wedding reception. Script Excerpt |
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BlindsidedA man goes on a blind date with a blind woman only to find the woman is not what she seems. |
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Vacation BurnoutA couple have twenty four hours to cash it in a lottery ticket stashed away in a wallet. The problem is they’re out of the country and are held up at the border and time is not on their side. Script Excerpt |
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STOLEN CRIMESIn this quirky black comedy, a woman’s scheme to steal a celebrity’s identity backfires when she is arrested for her victim’s past crimes. Script Excerpt |
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Louis A. Runs-AlongSTEALING SOBRIETY Louis has been sober for many years until he hops on a bus for a much-needed vacation where he meets a woman who steals his heart, and eventually his sobriety. |
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Lovers and FriendsDre's heart led him down a path of bisexual lust, love, and secrets. He didn't think exposing himself to any of them would lead to his demise. |
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Second ChancesA once commitment phobic man finds himself in a race with his male biological clock when he’s told his first true love is back in town. |
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Bad Influence¿They will make it to the weekend without going to jail? Summary : Roger is a private detective with a quiet life until Valerie shows up. Valerie is his old classmate who will get him into trouble. laughs guaranteed with this sitcom. |
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BatShitA mental health specialist struggles to keep everyone on their rocker, without losing her own marbles first. "Nurse Jackie meets Shrinking" |
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Popcorn DeliriumWhen a 14 year old boy’s popcorn business was chosen by a famous entrepreneur who’s interested in investing in an exciting new food product, it’s up to Grey to think big and evolve his business without any financial mishap. |
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Me and the O.G. Genghis KhanWithin a madcap weekend, a misfit pacifist must prove to his father that he has value for Genghis Khan, or else he must fight in the Mongol army. |
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SwallowA young man called Wayne has a sore headache, he goes to the pharmacy to buy medicine, but he meets a stranger who gives him a drug that will heal his headache, Wayne takes the pills to his surprise it heals him, and his mood is enlightened, and his laughter attracts another stranger who is interested in the medicine. |
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Escape the tension.A fresh teacher and his wife struggle to have kids, after tense marriage period, his wife left him. The teacher got fired because of a troubled student find out about his consume to alcohol in the school, the student takes it as a leverage, kept landing at his teacher's life, causes bizarre, funny situations, making the teacher be drag to a big mess. |
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Amitié AmoureuseWhile writing an inspiring biography of her Aunt, a novelist discovers her childhood diary and love letters that force her to investigate if she uncovered a romantic love story or a cold case of sexual abuse. Script Excerpt |
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We Need To Talk Before You DieA quirky teacher with a fantasy-prone personality, and his therapist wife, get more than they bargained for in their whimsical quest to get closure with people before they die. |
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IkiryoA young black female detective is teamed up with an old-school Irish male cop as they struggle to solve the murders made by the Ikiryo, a ghost of vengeance, which draws her into the exploits of this mystical phenomenon. Script Excerpt |
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Trans SpottingAn avid rail fan gets it way wrong. |
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The Scarlet #MeTooA bestselling female author avenges her sexual abuser by reversing the #me-too dynamic to make the abuser feel the degradation and lifelong shame he dished out to others. Script Excerpt |
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Sibling CousinsA quirky contained dramedy about an agoraphobic writer who unknowingly fathers three daughters with three sisters in the same year, thus producing sibling cousins. Script Excerpt |
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Boo's CruiseAfter his fiancee cancels their plans, Austin, the next big name in stand-up comedy, reluctantly takes a job on a week-long cruise that his selfish manager arranged, only to find his bride to be on board the same ship with another man. Script Excerpt |
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Kill the CompetitionAndrew Brooks is a recent college grad who's desperate to break into the entertainment industry but struggles to land his first job. Over the course of three critical days, Andrew comes to realize what he must do to obtain his dream job. |
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A Thought Experiment: Not Wishful ThinkingA short film that takes place in a world identical to ours, except for one crucial difference: where women can impregnate other women. How does this new biological reality affect relationships between LGBTQ women? Who is responsible for birth control and how does that change the sexual politics between women? Script Excerpt |
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Memory LaneA woman gets told the date she first meets her soul mate by a psychic. One problem though - the date she met him was 27 years ago, when she was eight. |
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Jake's CrewJake’s Crew follows 4 friends living in NYC and the antics they get into. Jake is a musician, Tyler, Jakes old college roommate who lives next door, David who is self-loathing, and Hannah, a smart no-nonsense type. |
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RediscoveryTwo simple-minded brothers work part time science lab and find machinery in an unauthorized area that unknowingly transports them to Spain years before their time—and now they must figure out where they are, how they got there, and how to get back home. |
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Pencils DownA disillusioned teacher, a stoner janitor, and a semi-professional wrestler must save a class of SAT students who have been taken hostage by three female teachers. |
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Oh My DarlingThree lifelong female friends compete to marry their high school crush––the rich, handsome, recently-widowed Beau Darling. |
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The Granny ShotA washed-up NBA center stages a comeback with the help of a women’s basketball legend, who teaches him the secrets of her underhanded “granny shot.” |
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The CrossoverAfter a naked video leaks online, a former NBA superstar tries to capitalize on his misfortune by performing in an adult film with a legendary porn star. |
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The Candlestick MakerA gifted chandler finds a permanent home and family when she befriends a distressed, adolescent boy and accepts the mental illness of her mother. |
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Bad MotivesWhen a reclusive little person gets dragged into her friend's botched scheme to blackmail a famous director, she realizes it's a way to further her own secret agenda. |
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Attila and The PopeAs Attila and the Hun army approach Rome, the bumbling Pope Leo must rely on his self-serving cardinals or pray that the angels Peter and Paul can whip up some much-needed divine intervention. |
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The Blonde SurferA young boy becomes infatuated with a beautiful Blonde Surfer Script Excerpt |
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Where Angels Fear To LaughSet in the dystopian DTLA amidst the global epidemic, the story follows the very unusual itinerary of Meonji, a reckless & misfortunate South Korean female backpacker who has lost everything over night and ends up living in a tent with a local street musician named Shame. Despite being dirt poor, they manage to enjoy the honeymoon phase until they realize that poverty is not the most sinister thing they face. ? |
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LEZ BEAUSTwo LGBTQ classical musicians accidentally see a motorcycle gang murder and must flee the state disguised as male rockers by joining a terrible rock-n-roll band. |
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HOLY FRIJOLESTwo 17-year-old buddies decide the perfect summer job is driving a hot food lunch wagon .. until they discover their route runs through the most dangerous gang banger territory in town. |
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BAD TO THE BONEA K-9 Rottweiler taken too soon to doggie heaven, escapes and returns to earth in the body of a 17-year-old kid to find his hit-and-run killer and save his family. |
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The Neutral Zone Bar & GrillA superhero and supervillain duo decide to put their differences aside and open a bar exclusively for those with superpowers, although it turns out to be much more difficult than they imagine. Script Excerpt |
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Parenting 101When a successful hair stylist and her goal-oriented husband determine they need to make a decision about starting a family, they struggle with a year-long parenting experiment starting with houseplants, then pets, and finally other people's children. Script Excerpt |
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GETTING IT WRONG (Formerly The Librarian - From the Noveladapted from the screenplay GETTING IT WRONG Peter loves Maggie. Maggie loves Peter. Alice loves Peter, too. Mary, Maggie’s mum loves her daughter. Maggie loves her mum and Louisa also loves Maggie’s mum. And Brandon, he loves money even if it isn’t his. It got tangled! J U S T I N S W I N G L E BOOK COVER BLURB London, 1948. The city is putting itself together again after the Second World War, and people and families are trying to find a way forward. It’s a struggle for all. Peter is a young man who works at the library. He has hopes and dreams of one day being a novelist. His dreams and fantasies help him escape his day to day life where his sober habits inhabit his ways with women. But then he meets the woman with the bright red lips like a movie star. Maggie is a young woman of prominent cheekbones and startling ambition, who wants to be a film star – or, failing that, a novelist. She’s about as predictable as a thunderstorm. Alice is the girl next door and works for a literary agent. She loves Peter’s writing – and Peter too. But will she find the courage to tell him so? In a slippery tale of stolen hearts and purloined novels, secret loves and hidden ambitions, these lives become irretrievably tangled. Who will end up with whom? Who will end up rich and celebrated? And will art – and love – win out in the end? Justin Swingle is an award-winning screenwriter. The Librarian was adapted from the screenplay of the same title JUSTINSWINGLE.com Script Excerpt |
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DOUGHBOY"DOUGHBOY" is the true story of a washed-up journeyman boxer, thrust into the national spotlight as a last-minute replacement fighter against reigning champion Tommy Morrison for the Heavyweight Championship of the World. |
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GERIATRIC PARKA young man with a dark past finds a job as a Handyman in a nursing home. He plans to turn over a new leaf, when he meets the girl of his dreams. But the treacherous dealings of a corrupt administrator make it almost impossible for him to stay out of prison when he becomes involved in a diabolical scheme to murder the residents of the home. |
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All-American JoeJoe Wannamaker is a sports loving live at home forty year-old millionaire who only wants to be good at something just once in his bumbling life. Script Excerpt |
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George and Matty's Lunch Date from HellA couple meet on Facebook and make a lunch date that quickly becomes a nightmare for both. Script Excerpt |
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ATTACK OF THE ZOMBIE PIGS!THEY WANT YOU FOR BREAKFAST. |
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TEXT MEMAN'S BEST FRIEND IS NOT A DOG, IT'S A CELL PHONE. |
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Heat of the MomentA former comedian and out-of-work chef gets invited to cook for some old friends, and he soon realizes you can't stop the heart's utmost desire in a weekend filled with love, drama, and betrayal. Script Excerpt |
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Time Travel: Many Happy ReturnsTwo 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—and now they must figure out where they are, how they got there, and how to get back home. |
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ELECTRICAfter being electrocuted on the job, a woman has the power to make everyone around her fall in love... everyone, it seems, except the man of her dreams. Script Excerpt |
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OVERPASSWhen 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. Script Excerpt |
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Homo For The HolidaysTwo football players try to escape the freezing spring in Minnesota by booking a cruise to the Caribbean unaware that it’s an LGBTQ |
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SuperRep!5 Salespeople balance the stress of a sales goal and family life while entertaining raucous customers and working for a wild business owner. |
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Temperature's Rising- The Other COVID StoryA hostess' COVID-19 precautions threaten to spoil dinner for her guests. Script Excerpt |
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A Holy Cow! ConfessionA middle-aged Irish priest listens to the confession of a young American priest, who, though devout in his beliefs, seeks to make a radical change in the manner of his expressing his devotions. Script Excerpt |
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THE TESTDebbie sets up seemingly disinterested husband Jim to test his fidelity, but things spin out wildly 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. Script Excerpt |
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THE GLAMOROUS LIFEA 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. Script Excerpt |
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DOWN WITH DADA 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.” But much to Lincoln's delight and wonder, while things seem to improve for him they suddenly go south for dear old dad and bad things happen... very bad things. Script Excerpt |
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SanctuaryA hapless and socially detached attorney's life changes dramatically when he executes a will stipulating that a substantial fortune will be shared by all who attend the deceased's funeral mass. But no one shows up... except one mysterious homeless man seeking shelter from a raging storm. Script Excerpt |
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Pale MaleAn Airbnb holiday turns into a nightmare for a young couple visiting the Big Apple for the first time. Script Excerpt |
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THE GEPETTO PROTOCOLTo stay "real" in the real world after their last creator dies, an action figure, fashion doll, superhero, anime girl, and crash dummy—now real flesh and blood—must find new believers in ten days or be forgotten forever, and get help from two kids and their dad at a cosplay convention. |
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Incidental MusicAt a party, a famous director is the only one that hears a variety of film scores that goes with his actions. Script Excerpt |
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Gay West, Young Man, Gay WestA gay cabaret back in the day. Script Excerpt |
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Adult Sitcom Mini-Series: Nothing Sacred: Fate vs DestinyThe family must contend with severe water restrictions, fending off a desperate neighbor, while using son Bobby's position as a DWP stormtrooper to turn the situation to their advantage. Script Excerpt |
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The Divine SquadThree no-nonsense Nuns and a former Israeli Commando turned Rabbi inadvertently foil a crime and disband a known mob that leads them to become crime-solving experts. |
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Light FingersLonely teen, uprooted from Minnesota to Santa Monica, falls for her lab partner in biology class, who happens to be the world's best shoplifter. Script Excerpt |
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SoapThe bar is full but no one speaks or looks up from their texting, instead they stare down at their phones like zombies, until Jasper walks in and provides words for a muted soap opera on the large TV screen. Script Excerpt |
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ACCIDENTAL ALIENFictionalized autobiographical dark comedy about a UFO fanatic turned screenwriter on a rollercoaster ride of Hollywood success, failure and a nightmarish marriage that nearly destroys his career. The existential journey of an "alien" stranded on earth, from his teenage years raised by lesbians in the 50's to his adult struggles to survive in the film industry of the 70's through the 90's, to his globetrotting adventures as a miniseries writer from London to Morocco. All based on true events. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. Script Excerpt |
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Halo & HornsTwo centuries old enemies – a male angel and a female demon – compete to guide the relationship of a new young couple only to wind up falling in love with each other. A forbidden love. Script Excerpt |
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NOT ANOTHER VAMPIRE STORY: Stripping by the PoolThirteen year old Sylvia meets Julia's new boyfriend Terry during a wardrobe malfunction; over dinner, Sylvia suspects there's something dark and maybe sinister in Terry's nature -- something best kept in the dark of night. With fangs. |
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NOT ANOTHER VAMPIRE STORYAn embarrassment-prone middle school girl's life gets risky when she suspects her pretty older sister's good-looking boyfriend is really a vampire, and sets out to prove it. |
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Adult Sitcom Mini-Series: Nothing Sacred: Fast FoodFast Food (Episode 7) Gerbilmania reigns pandemic as Sis takes a nymph neighbor to a sex clinic reunion, little Brother watches porno at home, Mom gets fleeced at a fast food drive-thru, and Dad experiences true "family dining" Aussie Style. One of 7 completed 22-minute tape live/film formatted episodes for limited production. Think "Married ... With Children" if done as "South Park." Script Excerpt |
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Municipal AuthorityWhen B.J loses his job as a reporter, he is forced to take a job registering the cognitively compromised to vote; or face the new government Municipal Authority camps for non-producers. This was a semi-finalist in American Gem Screenwriting Competition as Sign on the Bloody Line. Script Excerpt |
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Your Secrets Will Get You HighWhen a loud woman on a bus inadvertently starts a full-fledged AA meeting, she gets more than she bargained for. When the bus stops for a dinner break, all hell breaks loose. Script Excerpt |
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Jesus CalledThree women, one of whom is seeking what lies beyond death, live on a chicken farm in the rural South and attend a funeral for their neighbor who was eaten by a hog. While no clear answer is provided, two of the three come to a somewhat better, although humorous, understanding of life. |
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RoommatesWhen two roommates find their third roommate dead in his room they panic, realizing they could be suspects, then spend hours getting drunk letting their imagination go wild, until the authorities show up. Script Excerpt |
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THE CALL CENTERLocusts invade the building, the adherence schedules are off kilter, and one of the night managers is watching TV and preaching the word. Meet the staff of the Call Center where "the prisoners run the prison". But it's just a cup of coffee, for the merry go round of Managers in this wacky environment |
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THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINEA disgruntled Manager at the Unemployment office is having a really bad day. First there's the dirty Geese, then the slobs in the parking lot...and to top it off? One of his employee's is feeding them! It's a comedy expressso. A bold blend of "The Office and Seinfield with a shot of "How I met Your Mother." |
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Third FiddleThe Holy Spirit, who is frustrated with getting third billing all the time and has become jealous of God and Jesus, seeks therapy from a psychiatrist that has troubles of his own. Script Excerpt |
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Credit By BobFraud & Greed are no match for the Five C's of Credit. When an overly zealous credit manager, is deemed unnecessary by his boss, he walks a tightrope between logic and the art of drowning to be respected. 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 JobYoung girl away from home and working at her first job 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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DoctorsKatie, age 17, takes a job at a doctor's office and learns about life and love --- and the end of both. Script Excerpt |
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Sandwich GenerationA white woman and her longtime Korean boyfriend have to take in their fathers, hers because he’s a broke compulsive gambler, and his, because his fifth wife just threw him out while a third generation gets added, when they decide to foster an at-risk African American boy who keeps breaking into their garage to raid a box of porn magazines. Script Excerpt |
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The Hundred Thousand Dollar SuitA father and son invest everything in a business selling upscale Italian suits to the nerds of Silicon Valley. Based on my published short story. Script Excerpt |
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GOBLINHorror comedy in the 80's retro style of "Gremlins". Two young, naive newlyweds move into a Victorian house that's in serious need of supernatural pest control. The new bride discovers and befriends a E.T.-type creature who may be a monster but is the key to an ancient mystery that may save their marriage...if they don't kill each other first. 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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Flush"Wharton" business student with grandiose Wall Street ambitions is phished into taking a summer job at a failing home repair company staffed with ex-cons and colorful "losers." When he falls for the receptionist, a hard-luck runaway who dreams of becoming a cabaret singer, he must confront what's really important in life. Script Excerpt |
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Millions to BurnOn the verge of financial ruin, a spendthrift real estate agent wins millions of dollars on the lottery; but when he spends everything that he won trying to win back his estranged family, he finds that he needs to confront his extravagant ways to prevent his life from again spiralling out of control. |
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LIFE WITHOUT FATHERGhost dramedy with family values, a la "Ghost" meets "Parenthood". An acclaimed news cameraman who's been neglecting his family for his career dies suddenly under mystical circumstances and returns home as a ghost to haunt his 12-year-old son a week before his 13th birthday. He only has a short time to teach his son life lessons and to learn how to be, and to redeem himself as, a once-absentee dad. Script Excerpt |
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A Killer PartyOn Christmas Eve., a psychotic eccentric woman matches wits with two thugs as they uncover her victims from her "laced" eggnog, unaware that they are soon to be "next." |
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San FranciscoA serio-comic soap (AKA- "Dramedy") with diverse and colorful characters and their "issues." |
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D.E.T.E.C.T.I.V.E.STwo rival detectives join to solve a case whereby ten San Francisco detectives are being murdered by the Chinese Mafia. Little do they know, they're also on the hit list until... "And Then There Were None." |
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Murder We QuoteA New Year's Eve birthday party turns into a "whodunnit" when a guest is murdered in this comedy farce. A major hurricane impedes contacting help. To add salt to the wounds, four of the guests had a motive. |
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Apple BarrelHave you ever seen a talking apple? How about a barrel of them who want to live? Apple Barrel is a fun filled story about a bunch of apples learning to survive with style. |
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THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media.
ALONE!
ALL THAT WE KNOW IS AT AN END.
Kuga's Way (pilot)
A dog sees its human mentor kidnapped and goes on a journey to find him, along the way meeting humans in dire need of help.
CIRQUE D' ETOILES
*** Russian astronaut, thrown out of the space program, hijacks a space taxi going to the International Space Station.
Price of Oil
When a British nurse fights to save the life of a Persian teen - who is sentenced to death for the brutal murder of an American diplomat in 1924 Tehran - she encounters a British spy’s cover-up in an elaborate web of international espionage, pitting British against Russian against American operatives in a game of political power.
The SOMMELIER
At his family's secluded vineyard, a restaurateur must outwit a sociopathic wine expert, solve his father's murder, and rescue his fellow guests, after a tasting event turns into a deadly game of revenge.
Child of the Disappeared
Maria Waite is dying and has little time left to come to terms with a tragic past and to find the child that was stolen from her at birth.
Only Human
Only human is about a homeless man that doesn't know he's really a Dog.
PITTSBURGH PHIL
Biopic of Pittsburgh Phil, a notorious mafia hitman in the 1930’s, who juggles love, the law and life, while lusting to be at the top of his profession.