Best Drama Screenplays
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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/ |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!The Rondo Conspiracy
In the late fifties a resident lawyer of Rondo, primarily St.
Judge, Me
Group-therapy lifer-inmates become a jury and must decide if a reporter's expose' of a corrupt judge being elevated to the supreme court should be published.
A Taste of Cold Steel
A Chicago gangster's estranged and addicted son struggles to reunite with his psychpathic brother to get revenge against his immoral father.
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.
Bre'gan's Fist
When Milo, a cook, meets Bastian, a powerful sorcerer, magic happens.
ENDLESS COURAGE ( formerly Drop In Squad)
There’s the family you’re born into and the one you choose: A feisty teen growing up and a political activist growing old forge new paths when aging out of foster care meets aging in place, conquering the housing crisis in a world stacked against them.
FIREFLY: Journey to Ariel
A captain and his crew must infiltrate a heavily fortified medical facility to rescue their beloved pilot before he becomes a guinea pig for a deadly serum.
FIREFLY: Reunion
A down-and-out ship captain must reassemble his crew and embark on a perilous rescue mission to unite his pilot - long thought dead - with the daughter he never knew he had.
ALTA CALIFORNIA
A young mixed blood, determined to avenge his mother’s brutal death, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates through the oppressive and inhumane colonizers of California's “Mission Era.
Roommates
When 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.
