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Best Comedy Screenplays
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RICH KID$When an imaginative 12-year-old and his friends discover buried cash from a decades-old crime, their secret attempt to live like Rich Kid$ spirals into chaos when newly released convicts come looking for their dough — and the kids must decide what all that money is really worth. Script Excerpt |
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WIZ KIDAn 11-year-old farm boy with a genius-level IQ leaves his wheelchair-bound mother and abusive home to attend a Big Ten university—where he finds friendship, first love, and an unlikely place on the football field, proving that greatness comes in all sizes. Script Excerpt |
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A HAPPY LIFEA gentle, hard-workiing man with a gift for communication with pelicans and talking smiley-face balloons reaches a breaking point when a houseful of freeloaders consumes his life—and his lifelong dream of opening a one-of-a-kind bed and breakfast—forcing him to attempt the only escape he can imagine: faking his own death. Script Excerpt |
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ELECTRICAfter a freak electrical accident gives a tough-as-nails lineman the power to spark instant love between anyone she touches, she becomes a media sensation — except the one man she wants is immune, forcing her to discover what her power really does before it stops her heart for good. Script Excerpt |
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OVERPASSWhen a workaholic cosmetic surgeon survives a highway catastrophe thanks to a cement truck driver’s fatal act of kindness, he’s rewarded not with gratitude—but with a dead man in the passenger seat, demanding apologies, confessions, and a crash course in how not to waste a life. Script Excerpt |
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THE TESTA man worried about his fading relevance agrees to the wrong favor for the wrong stranger, triggering a grimly comic nightmare that turns his wife’s loyalty test into a violent reckoning.? Script Excerpt |
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THE GLAMOROUS LIFE: A fading supermodel fleeing an abusive rock-star boyfriend hides out at a Florida beach house with two mismatched brothers who mistake her for a prostitute—an error that gives all three an unexpected crash course in love, reinvention, and growing up. Script Excerpt |
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DOWN WITH DADThree-time “Man of the Year” Dave McNabb tries to teach his teenage son Lincoln a simple life lesson: do good things, and good things happen. But when past mistakes and unexpected mischief collide, Dave’s world spirals into chaos—much to Lincoln’s delight—and the lesson backfires spectacularly. Script Excerpt |
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!WEIGHT of the WORLD
As seniors vanish and messages appear in mirrors, a skeptical detective is drawn into a parallel world where the forgotten are reborn—and learns she might just be the last warning before humanity is rewritten.
Wounds of Love and Conspiracy
Desperate to prove himself worthy of his civil rights activist wife, whom he crippled in an accident, George obsesses about the JFK promise, turning into a delusional quest to prevent assassination.
Henry, Henry
Henry’s dissociative identity disorder features two personalities bickering over banalities, until the truth is exposed – his psyche split when he murdered a charismatic priest, whom he caught abusing a child - and it heals by using insights of his illness to infiltrate a dangerous child sex ring.
and The Devil called!
The Devil visits God‘s chosen-one five times, gives dates the world will end, "and you will be my bride".
Doors of Miracles
A young businesswoman in thanking God encounters disasters.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale, a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages, leaving nowhere for the perpetrators of the nation's greatest corporate crime to turn, or hide - no 'out'.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
The Sky’s Edge
At the dawn of the aviation age, America's greatest daredevil aviator recounts his meteoric rise from working-class mechanic to national hero as fierce rivalries, personal tragedy, and an obsession with conquering the impossible drive him toward one final, calculated defiance of death.
Six Hundred Years of Love
The Fountain meets Blade Runner 2049: a man risks his life to save the same woman twice — first in Renaissance Italy, then in a post-human future that threatens human extinction.
Rebecca Saves the Human Web
After witnessing a deadly shootout, a teenage girl, afraid of her rage in a violent future, magically connects with the spirit of her murdered grandmother to fight a vast web of hate and violence.
