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Best Drama Screenplays
| Script Name | |
|---|---|
| 1 |
JENNA'S GONEJenna’s missing, the only clue is horse tracks leading into the desert, and the untried deputy and an exceptional hunting guide tracking after her both suspect the other of a role in her disappearance Script Excerpt |
| 2 |
THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIRIt is a mismatched battle between the high-tech resources available to Charlene, the power behind the throne of a large corporation, and Stram, a lone wolf San Francisco private investigator using tried and true low-tech methods as they race to find the final heir, and chase across California, with Stram straining to keep the last heir safe. Script Excerpt |
| 3 |
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 |
| 4 |
THE ORGANIC SVENGALIShe wants to connect with her dead parents by attending their alma mater; he’s a young genius coasting as a music history professor who cured himself of cancer, and is looking for a fresh mind now that the cancer has returned; their paths and wills are about to cross. Script Excerpt |
| 5 |
PAPER TRAILMost people have some place that they haven’t visited since childhood and that place remains the same -- in their memories, but can you go back? Script Excerpt |
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!The Fighting Wagners
Log line – It’s the early 1900’s in Greenwich Village.
Traverse Envizib. Invisible crossings. Episode 6: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
Howell and friends enter the tunnels that lead to the central kiva.
Willowbrook C Building (based on a true story)
An entitled college student is assigned an internship at Willowbrook, the Asylum in Staten Island 1972.
Not About Money
A competent late forties corporate gal gets promoted into management, is soon demoted, and faced with a battle of resilience, justice, and a lawsuit while an unexpected ally attempts to redeem himself and discloses the unscrupulous ruler behind the scheme to oust her.
End It On This
A toxic on-again, off-again couple heads to a remote cabin to save their relationship-only to find themselves trapped together when the apocalypse hits, forcing them to choose between breaking up - or surviving each other.
FURGROW BIRDS SPIRITUAL ROSE
When a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world.
Furgrow Birds back to the beginning
When a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world.
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.
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'.
THE FAT LADY SINGS
When 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.
