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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. 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. 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 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. When her lover shows up with a group of partisans, she leads them through headquarters to kill two high-ranking Nazi guests of the officer. Her lover dies in the action but she escapes with the partisans 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 her boyfriend's high-octane law cases which involve a level of drama and risk she has never encountered before. Also published online in Eclectica: https://www.eclectica.org/v21n3/boroff.html Script Excerpt |
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The RemnantYoung newlywed struggles with a growing sense that a prehistoric spirit has taken over her brain. Adapted from my novella. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81pPgAcY-IL._SL1500_.jpg Script Excerpt |
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Twisted FateA new mutation of brain disease strikes the U.S. --- turning victims gradually into psychopaths. As science races to stop the pandemic, a young woman tries to rescue her infected lover, held hostage in a lab testing radical treatments. Adapted from my novel published in 2022 and showcased online in The Write Launch: https://thewritelaunch.com/2019/09/twisted-fate/ recently showcased Script Excerpt |
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IMPERVOS ONEEccentric billionaire, convinced that nuclear war is imminent, locks his family and workers into a subterranean luxury bunker. But his builders released a life form living underground for 280 milion years to hunt the humans. Script Excerpt |
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Light FingersLonely quirky teen 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 TombMarried assistant DA falls for a free-spirited Santa Cruz artist who is unknowingly entangled with a charismatic serial killer. Neo noir based on a true crime in 1982. Adapted from my short story published in UK crime magazine, Close to the Bone https://www.close2thebone.co.uk/wp/saturday-night-off-2/ 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 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 by spirits seeking retribution for a lie the young man had told native people. |
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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." 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 Hollywood studio executive and is drawn into a world of forbidden love. (Published in Nikki Finke's fiction site "Hollywood Dementia) http://www.storyglossia.com/seven/lb_dinner.html 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, 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 shirttail relative talk them into investing in his scam. Based on my published short story. https://adelaidemagazine.org/2017/06/17/the-hundred-thousand-dollar-suit-by-linda-boroff/ Script Excerpt |
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AvianaIn 30 million years birds have become the uber species, living in a landscape teeming with rat-predators, giant insects, intelligent reptiles and other scary life forms. When the village is attacked, the inhabitants are banished to the wilderness. Script Excerpt |
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The Virgin EffectDaughter of an oil billionaire, raped at a frat party, contacts a surgeon to restore her physical virginity. When the surgeon's receptionist learns of the plan, she and her boyfriend blackmail her threatening to put confidential information on the Internet. Script Excerpt |
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GrizzlyAging hacker gets out of prison and plots an act of sabotage to reclaim his status as the 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. Script Excerpt |
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JessGhost of a young gambler hanged in 1884 takes up residence in a gold mill near Lake Tahoe and raises mischief in the life of the tour guide. Script Excerpt |
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Sawney BeanHeretic young man facing the stake in medieval Scotland flees to the hideout of the notorious cannibal family. Script Excerpt |
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SunnysideYoung woman gets drunk on her high-tech job and enters a crazy rehab . Script Excerpt |
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Space ReservedLow budget erotic vengeance thriller: one room, four characters, no escape. Young ad exec driving his date home takes a space reserved for another unit and is taken captive by two women. Script Excerpt |
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WrenchedAmbitious young Wall Street wannabe travels to take an internship with a hot crypto firm. 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!Hope Away
A former U.S. Congressman from Compton, sent to a federal prison camp for bribery, encounters stiff opposition from the Camp Administrator, as he seeks to salvage his marriage and establish a prison ministry.
Hope Away
A young, charismatic, Christian congressman from Compton, sent to a federal prison camp for bribery, is determined to save his marriage and souls in prison, but first, he must overcome stiff opposition from the camp administrator.
BOOM!Town
After a bloody car bombing, a blown-off human foot lands on the roof of a retired, cash-poor mob cleaner who schemes to extort the Mafia Don that ordered the hit, unaware his wacky plan may help the FBI catch the cut-throat gangster.
WIZ KID
An 11 year old boy with a 180 IQ graduates from High School in Georgia, reluctantly leaves behind his wheelchair-bound mom, and heads off to a prominent university where he leaves his mark on the school, inside and outside the classroom.
A LITTLE FAVOR
A washed-out fighter pilot is asked/forced to work with long odds and a resentful younger, more experienced female co-pilot to save the earth by retrieving the doomsday bombs from the backside of the sun before next Wednesday when they’ll explode, nudging the sun, causing major global warming.
Xanadu Shores: (PoC) The Super Spy Series
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
All That Glitters (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
The Xanadu Team become deceptively embroiled in an island gem heist, hosted by a nefarious jeweler operating a criminal enterprise, lured by a beautiful woman escalating to international espionage.
Screenplay Pilot for Xanadu Shores: The Super Spy Series
Two ex-pilots become entangled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping.
Lolita
A Puerto Rican seamstress becomes firebrand revolutionary Dolores ¨Lolita Lebrón¨, masterminds the 1954 U.
She Curses Like a Sailor
The perception of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
