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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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LiftersLonely 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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Home Like a Shadow (AKA "The Spirit Upwelling")College 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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PESTILENCEZoe Ohrbach and Brian Snyder are Silicon Valley techies struggling through a pandemic of a new variant of Mad Cow affecting deer, moose, elk, etc. Despite warnings, people continue hunting and eating toxic venison. It was only a matter of time before the disease jumped to humans—a zoonotic “spillover.” Like all prion diseases, it is incurable, untreatable and unpreventable. The new disease, called “Acquired Prion Sociopathy Syndrome (APSS) causes first psychopathy and, inevitably, death. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/20/chronic-wasting-disease-spread-zombie-deer-global-us-aoe Adapted from my novel, Twisted Fate, showcased online pre-publication: https://thewritelaunch.com/2019/09/twisted-fate/ Script Excerpt |
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IMPERVIOUSEccentric billionaire, convinced that nuclear war is imminent, lures his family and workers into a subterranean bunker. But his builders released a life form living underground for 280 milion years to hunt the humans. 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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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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Riviera DriveThree felons on the run invade the home of a prosperous insurance executive, who must reconnect with his own violent gang-banging past to save his 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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FlushedAmbitious 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!ALTA CALIFORNIA
In 1780s California, a mixed-blood scout, torn between his native heritage and Spanish conquerors, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates oppressive mission life and brutal colonizers.
The Cajun
When a notorious pirate, made immortal by the curse of a Voodoo Queen, is invited to a mysterious poker game in modern day New Orleans, he discovers a clue to find the treasure that can set him free.
SUGAR GREEN
SUGAR GREEN (Action / Espionage, 91 pages) When an environmental activist with extreme mountaineering skills, known for her spectacular protests, is recruited by a shadowy "committee" to infiltrate a remote meeting of oil company mercenaries, she discovers an assassination plot, and must risk her life to stop it.
BRAVE EARS
BRAVE EARS (Rom-Dramedy, 110 pages)? When a big-city schoolgirl, obsessed with being a broadcast DJ, must move to a tiny town, she lies to win a radio license - by claiming to be Native American.
THE CHECKERED
THE CHECKERED (Action / Drama, 112 pages) In 1970s Indianapolis, a 2nd-generation hot rodder finagles a way to stay out of the Army (and the County Jail) so he can keep doing what he loves - RACING - but a cop with a grudge is obsessed with wrecking his life, and making him pay for ALL his family's crimes.
CHEAP ACTION
CHEAP ACTION (Crime Thriller / Action, 110 pages) A bottoming-out Chicago bartender is the sole survivor of a botched gangland ripoff, and he skates with a cool two million.
THE FIRST GENTLEMAN
THE FIRST GENTLEMAN (Action / Romance, 107 pages) When President Rosa Cortez's secret Camp David peace summit is taken hostage by brutal commandos, her scandalous ex-jock husband Will slips through the cracks.
PLAY THE FOOL
PLAY THE FOOL (Action / Comedy) An eccentric musician recruits his old band to help steal a legendary guitar, unaware that competing military teams from Russia and the US Air Force - both trying to avert WWIII - are after his bass-player's rare, vintage gear.
NIGHTBREAK
After the Earth stops turning, a UN Weapons Inspector (who's also the US President’s daughter) fights to get her husband, a Chinese geophysicist in Beijing, across the Nightside’s empty Pacific-Ocean bed and the chaotic, sun-burned Dayside America to get to Washington - with a plan to save the world.
THE SWORD AND THE SERPENT
When their quiet fishing village is attacked by Viking marauders, the scattered members of one Scottish family must fight for survival.
