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Best Family Screenplays
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ALTA CALIFORNIAIn 1780 California, a mixed-blood scout, violently torn from his tribe, struggles to return to his people. |
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Curbside ServiceA recently separated couple finds themselves stranded in the desert on their way to a family holiday function. |
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Doors of MiraclesA young woman trembles at thanking God anticipating another disaster, when The Light of Heaven descends upon her projecting her past the Universe to Heaven to return with supernatural powers, miracles and God speaks Script Excerpt |
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Blind FaithA new marriage turns toxic, due to alcoholism. Through the right encouragement and faith, the husband attempts to mend his family, utilizing his gift of screenwriting. |
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PIRANDELLO'S WIFEQuiet, passive, obedient, a wonderful mother to her children and perfect wife to her Nobel Prize winning husband. Then, when it was time, she was locked away in an insane asylum for the final 40 years of her life. Here, she attempts to tell her story. https://pirandelloswife.com/ Script Excerpt |
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Child of the DisappearedIn the shadow of Argentina's Dirty War, a woman facing terminal illness and her supportive husband embark on a poignant journey to find her long-lost son, confronting a pervasive web of silence and complicity. Script Excerpt |
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THE SCRIPTA mysterious young, Irish girl, who refuses to name herself, insists that Aiden O’Brien, a Los Angeles literary agent read her work—both their lives depend on it! Despite Aiden’s repeated attempts to destroy the script, it returns, together with a host of Celtic demons and a sign, in Gaelic, “The Past Does Not Die.” Script Excerpt |
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Saving Mark TwainMARK TWAIN, American superstar, has writer’s block, is nearly bankrupt, and fears his Muse is gone forever. But could an infuriating star-struck fan, RUDYARD KIPLING (23)-- an unknown newspaper reporter from India who invades his life and steals his teenage daughter’s heart-- be the surprising key that unlocks the famous author's biggest secret, restores his confidence-- and saves Mark Twain? Inspired by a true story. |
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The Paper RouteOn the eve of his 16th birthday, a teenager makes a discovery that could be his ticket out of his hellish small town life, but it means leaving his younger brother behind. |
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The Mythical Golden TroutWhen a cash-strapped family camping in the Sierras discovers a huge nugget of gold, the local police chief rounds up a posse of clueless misfits and sets out to steal it from them. |
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Less TraveledA well-known celebrity falls for a girl, unknowingly below his social status. He's torn between honoring his familial traditions and societal expectations regarding relationships or following his heart and true desires regardless of the consequences. |
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Dance of the InnocentThe just deceased spirit of a Black pro-life leader is restored in heaven with the two unaware children of her youth, recounting the events around their earthly loses decades earlier to a teenage abortion and the related miscarriage. The spirit of her one-time White fiancé divulges the explosive secret that had altered all of their lives. Script Excerpt |
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Under No CircumstancesA grounded, independent survivalist, swearing off parenthood, is forced to venture outside of his comfort zone when he reluctantly falls for a lively single mother. |
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Pretty Baby: The Tragic Death Of Marion ParkerBased on a shocking 1927 crime, a grieving woman exposes the decades-old truth about her twin sister's murder to prevent the killer's lawyer from publishing his own skewed account of the tragedy. |
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THE QUISLINGWhen O’Clery, a high-profile Irish terrorist, is arrested at San Francisco airport, his deportation defense is led, surprisingly, by Sean Conlon, an inexperienced attorney. As the twists and turns unravel, Sean’s own family becomes the subject of an old betrayal. http://quislingmovie.com/ |
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RODEOA wealthy, widowed New York socialite, and a know-it-all preacher enters the unfamiliar world of rodeo, determined to “rescue” the widow’s wayward daughter who has fallen for a young bull rider. But plans go comically awry. Eventually the rodeo and unlikely romances win the day. Script Excerpt |
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Pearl FisherA fruitless search for a missing woman leads a hired detective down a rabbit hole of secrets to surprise revelations involving his own family. Script Excerpt |
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PLAYING THE CHANGESThe country's top neurosurgeon, an unfeeling man, sees his perfectly ordered life unravel and, after hitting rock bottom, reinvents himself as a jazz saxophonist in an effort to recover his heart, humanity, and possibly his estranged wife – who is determined to resist his persistent and unwelcome attempts to win her back. Script Excerpt |
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An Empty ChairRather than spend Christmas alone, a college girl with a writing assignment confronts her estranged grandma but can’t let go of the family gossip in her pursuit of truth. Script Excerpt |
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The SquawkerTwo gonzo grad students and a fearless Native American woman clash with the FBI as they search for an endangered, sacred bird on her tribal homeland that could save the area from loggers. Script Excerpt |
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By The Time I Got To Woodstock1969: a young generation is letting their hair down, except for a high school sophomore who’s wound tighter than her ballerina bun. When she accidentally ends up on a magic bus to Woodstock, she goes on a long strange trip to find her true self. Script Excerpt |
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In Between The RiverKatie (on the spectrum) thinks her nomadic family is normal but as she transitions from child to teenager; her father Donald is frequently absent, her mother Judy tries too hard to hold them together and her older brother Kyle hides a secret that eventually surfaces to expose the family illusion. Script Excerpt |
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SEIRIOS/ROBOMUTTA boy finds a dog which is actually a dangerous military prototype. |
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The Magnificent KevinThe Magnificent Kevin, a young magician in the old west, teams up with Harry Houdini and a secret society of magicians to battle their arch-nemesis, Melvin the Mentalist. |
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THE RUINS OF OZWhen burned-out ruins appear in a Kansas cornfield, an archeology professor discovers that the Wicked Witch of the West has returned and now threatens the Earth as well as Oz. Script Excerpt |
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FamilySeeking a fresh start, a newly married couple and their teenage daughter move to a small town, but the daughter begins to suspect that her stepfather is hiding something sinister. Script Excerpt |
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Mate Matcher's MatchWhen a godless, seemingly carefree bachelor sets course to win a feisty, virginal Christian matchmaker, he collides with a righteous blockade that buckles only when she uncovers the personal trauma that cracked his moral compass. Script Excerpt |
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LONG PATH TO PEACEAn innocent guy evades a “death-in-custody” via a drug-lord’s dirty-cop partner by escaping into the wilderness, where he saves an immortal Guide from a guilt-fueled nightmare. Script Excerpt |
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FOR LIFEEdged on by his incestuous sister-in-law, the president of a leading euthanasia group faces-off with his estranged anti-euthanasia daughter over the fate of his aged mother. Script Excerpt |
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BIRDS OF A FEATHERIn trying to earn his gold wings, Jeremy, a young goldfinch, must find the courage to challenge the bird of prey that killed his father. |
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Love and VenomAfter fleeing home as a child to escape the wrath of his deranged mother, a young man returns years later when he learns that his beloved father has just a few days to live and his mother wants to follow him to the gates of heaven. |
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Sky...DiamondsFrom inside the mind of an eccentric Woodstock-era grandmother with advanced Alzheimer’s, we journey back ten years, piecing together her story as issues of family and communication surface while 3 generations grapple with her changing state. Funny, sharp and alarmingly direct Monique is a force to be reckoned with. Script Excerpt |
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UnionNICHOLL QUARTERFINALIST!!!! With the holidays fast approaching, twelve-year-old Barnaby is under pressure from his father to discover his sexuality after his three siblings have recently announced that they are gay. |
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CYCLONEOPTIONED. NO LONGER AVAILABLE. Quarter-finalist Screen Lab 2019. Semi-finalist Fresh Voices 2020. Semi-finalist Emerging Screenwriters 2022. Stevie is fifteen years old and well on the way to becoming a hardened criminal; Dave is a cop, natural enemy of Stevie; Susie is Dave’s two-year-old daughter who is kidnapped during a cyclone. The last thing a teenage boy needs is a baby. But it falls to Stevie to save the baby – without knowing who she is and for totally unselfish motives – and thus to save Dave and his family from total disintegration. |
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The Cemetery PlotsThree elderly ladies don't look forward to being buried alone as their husbands' bodies were unfound after a plane crash. Each buys two cemetery plots and begins a quest to find men willing to share the everlasting; however, after signing the agreement papers, the police investigate when two men die. Script Excerpt |
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I Hear YouA belligerent boss berates his employees and struggles with his marriage and hearing-impaired son, but after he is caught pilfering from the company, he must find a way save his career and reconcile his relationships. |
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Faithful Wife and HookerWhen a prudish, repressed wife uncovers her frustrated husband’s "intentional adultery,” in disguise, she replaces his hooker and blackmails him for cheating (!), setting off a series of cascading, mutual deceptions that ironically awakens her libido and restores their marriage. |
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A Couple Of JoesJoey uses his Grandpa Joe as part of a governor's campaign for a school project. But when the campaign is mistaken for the real thing, Grandpa becomes an overnight sensation and finds himself running for Governor, with the help of Joey and his buddies. |
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Sam Fights Back: An engaging, stroppy 12/13 year-old, having blinded his sister, must save for her eye operation by Christmas. He has to outwit ruthless crooks wanting his computer skills, or disappear. |
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Not About MoneyA gal of principle gets promoted into a leadership position, then gets her career derailed by males in power, and goes up against a large corporation with a discrimination lawsuit that ultimately changes the culture for women in business. |
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Turf WarAs Florida neighbors fall in love, their rival lawn ornaments start a war. 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. |
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BraumaruA clever sixth grader must learn to control her dreams or be trapped in them forever by a power hungry janitor intent on world domination. |
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REFUGEA woman has her husband arrested for assault and battery, only the husband has no memory of the event and depends on a young, inexperienced court-ordered attorney to discover what really happened. |
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Space Life (Polished Screenplay)Super Geek kid get in contact with aliens due to cooties issues causing him tissues, as aliens become his friends giving him a special device the kid gets revenge on his bullies, area 51 investigate deeply as an agent gets badly twice. Script Excerpt |
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Pursuit of WisdomThe Pursuit of Wisdom objectives are to find in life, Transcendent Truth, Knowledge, Goodness, Justice, and Beauty. Faith and Reason are essential especially when things are not fully known. The end objective of all wisdom is Perfect Love. |
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SimonA homeless youth must decide between a life on the streets or a life on a farm. |
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The Hidden CompromiseAn Algerian student is detained by French police on terrorism charges and agrees to work with them as an informant on other ISIS members, but his act of compromise forces him to face false and outdated beliefs while considering weighty theological questions with powerful implications on world events. |
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Howlingween 5: Trip AlongFate has dealt another terrible hand to the Forran family. Only wishing to enjoy a road trip across America, the family encounters a human-like wolf, the brainchild of a disturbed seven-year-old boy. Script Excerpt |
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ONCE THERE WERE STORIESIn this family drama, Christmases of long ago, ones of togetherness, family entertainments, and memorable stories, as told by Grandpa Lynn, now living in his daughter, Rhiannon Nolan's, spare room, now contrast with those of the Nolan family with its packaged television and sports, relatives' distancing, and multitude of electronic distractions. Script Excerpt |
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Parenting 101When a successful hair stylist and her goal-oriented husband determine they need to make a decision about starting a family, they struggle with a year-long parenting experiment starting with houseplants, then pets, and finally other people's children. Script Excerpt |
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THE AMAZING TOOTHBRUSHA 11yr old boy receives a special toothbrush. |
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TwistedA young man, scarred in a fire as an infant, exhibits secretive behavioral problems, but must straighten out his twisted thinking at a rehabilitation facility whose head has his own twisted logic. |
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TEXT MEMAN'S BEST FRIEND IS NOT A DOG, IT'S A CELL PHONE. |
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FISHING ON TUESDAYSFriendship is the greatest catch. |
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MAMMOTH REVENGE TRILOGYIt is an awesome action cinematic epic big screen trilogy. It has an exciting ending which has everyone sitting on the edge of their seats. Mammoth revenge Trilogy has an ending that could restart another movie. Mammoths are once again the heroes. There is romance for Frank and Kiana. Script Excerpt |
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HavenAfter crashing on a deserted planet, two sisters fight to meet a deadline window to get rescued while being pursued by bloodthirsty, desperate prisoners who were shipwrecked and left for dead on this planet years ago. |
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Howlingween 4: Beastly MistA surprisingly intelligent swarm of flesh-eating insects is terrorising a small tourist community in Florida, leaving skeletons in its wake. It's left to a professor of entomology and the Forran family to battle the swarm. Script Excerpt |
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GOING ALONEWhen a biologist working on aN important environmental report dies mysteriously, his estranged daughter takes over his work while an assassin is closing in. Script Excerpt |
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DOWN WITH DADA 3-time Man of the Year Dave McNabb tries to teach teen son Lincoln a life lesson -- “do good things, good things happen.” But much to Lincoln's delight and wonderment, while things seem to take a turn for the better for him, they suddenly go south for dear old dad and bad things happen... very bad things. Script Excerpt |
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ARMED:STAYA grieving, young widow and mother will fight through severe depression and panic attacks to protect her family from a somewhat inept intruder who breaks into her home with a gun, a bullet wound, and an oxy addiction. Script Excerpt |
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WhirlaboutA man returns home to care for his father who’s riding a downhill early-onset Alzheimer’s spiral, but dark secrets revealed about the family patriarch’s past shock him to the core, dramatically altering the course of the old man's care... as well as the direction of his own life. Script Excerpt |
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THE GEPETTO PROTOCOLTo stay "real" in the real world after their last creator dies, an action figure, fashion doll, superhero, anime girl, and crash dummy—now real flesh and blood—must find new believers in ten days or be forgotten forever, and get help from two kids and their dad at a cosplay convention. (Animation or Live-Action) |
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On BoardA "ship of fools" indeed: madcap teenagers, a lush head of security, a priest who loves riddles, a captain off death-row, a martial artist challenging a boxer — and a serial killer. Come on board for the cruise of a lifetime. Script Excerpt |
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Howlingween 3: Red River CountyA tourist-dependent town in Florida boasts of a historic inhabitant as being America's first serial killer, only to suffer his reawakening. Script Excerpt |
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Howlingween 2: Clarry the ClownHoliday-makers on a beautiful island resort find themselves trapped with a murderous clown. Script Excerpt |
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HowlingweenA dream holiday turns nightmarish when a family encounters a malicious wolf and traders in fresh human organs. Script Excerpt |
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CounterchanceAn FBI agent goes to any length to save his family. Script Excerpt |
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Splendid IsolationA girl lost in the Alaskan wilderness meets her banished pet tiger — now fully grown. Together they survive many challenges — except, perhaps, one another. Script Excerpt |
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Once YoungTwo parent-less 18-year-olds fall in love and, alone and together, struggle with what love and maturity may look like amid an adult world that is often confusing and sometimes dangerous. A panoramic tale of life as seen through the eyes of innocence. Script Excerpt |
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TEN OAKSAn aging Old South nursing home's residents and management fight to prevent the historical facility from being relocated by an unscrupulous state governor's scheme. |
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NOT ANOTHER VAMPIRE STORYAn embarrassment-prone middle school girl's life gets risky when she suspects her pretty older sister's good-looking boyfriend is really a vampire, and sets out to prove it. (Animated or Live-Action) |
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CHRISTMAS MITZVAHMarita welcomes many of her sons ' LGBTQ friends into her home, creating a new "family" of love and acceptance - especially for those who were rejected by their own families for declaring their true selves. Script Excerpt |
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WIFE SEARCH USASERIES CONCEPT WIFE SEARCH USA By Frank Amobi GENRE: REALITY TV LOGLINE: A wealthy bachelor realizes that women will never love him for himself, so, while in disguise, he embarks on finding a wife. SYNOPSIS PREMISE: AN ORDINARY MAN - NOT AN ANNOUNCED MILLIONAIRE OR PRETEND MILLIONAIRE as has been seen on other "reality" TV shows. The initial profile of the man embarked upon The WIFE SEARCH is presented at the beginning of the show. It reveals him to be an attractive, appealing, good looking and honorable man; a man of moderate income but loved and admired by his coworkers and friends. TWIST IN THE STORY/ADVENTURE: The penultimate show- once a wedding proposal has been accepted by the woman he has chosen, we will reveal through a true biography that he is in actuality a multi-millionaire who is seeking a wife not influenced by his money. At the begining of each segment, there will be a revelation of a packaged gift for whoever decides to drop out for any reasons. The video of the faces of the women who chose the packaged gift rather than proceed to the next level will be priceless. It will show that (for example) rather than being the mailroom supervisor of a successful company or firm, he is actually the CEO or owner of the company/firm. PLOT: Ten young women are selected by the television show's producers and told that unlike the shows they may have seen, the man they will meet is an " ordinary" man who is sincerely and seriously looking to meet " the girl of his dreams." He is "not claiming or pretending to be a millionaire." (This, it will be revealed at the denouement, is true: he did not claim to be a millionaire - in fact, he claimed not to be. Nor was he pretending to be - in reality, he was pretending not be.) This point of interest will be revealed to the TV viewers early in the first show, so that they might follow along on the " inside gag," as it were. RATIONALE: Most famous and wealthy bachelors are afraid that a woman may be interested in them for their money and status and not for who they really are as a person. That is, of course, the reason for prenuptial agreements. An alternative - which this show offers - the ability to live in disguise, as it were, until they find the woman of their dreams who is certainly in love with them as an individual. The revelation will be an exciting and shocking moment for the woman who is chosen. If the woman who is chosen is shocked, think of the women who had chosen to drop out because they did not like his job or 'moderate' lifestyle. A video will capture their faces as they watch a closed circuit screen in a nearby room. A condition of each woman's participation is that if she dropped out,or not chosen as the bribe, she will be required to attend the wedding. DEVELOPMENT: Build a set outside a work district and hold auditions for the would-be contestants of a 'good catch' bachelor. The bachelor, watching through a two-way mirror or a monitor of some kind, chooses ten women he would like to know better. They will not see him during this selection process. The women will be divided into two groups of five contestants. At the end of each episode or segment each woman gets to decide if she will go on to the next round or accept a nice gift basket of diamond bracelets, cash, etc., and drop out. She will be asked about her compatibility with the bachelor etc. and then make her decision. CONCEIVED BY FRANK AMOBI ---WRITTEN BY F. AMOBI & V. GARNETT FRAMOBY REALITY/SIT-COM. & GAME SHOWS TELEVISION© FRAMOBY@AOL.COM_____Copyright, 2003 Library of Congress-wga |
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THE INTELLIGENT PROCESSThey are those people we call the " NERDS " but these nerds are different, they are stylish, they are trendy, they command attention, most of all, they have the highest IQ'S in the world. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the students of THE INTELLIGENT PROCESS. |
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Shadow on the HeartlandA successful Wall Street attorney reluctantly returns to rural North Dakota to help his family fight against an agricultural corporate giant that's quickly taking over the food industry with dangerous GMO seeds. Script Excerpt |
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SWIM FOR YOUR LIVESA dysfunctional father and daughter vacationing in Bali, conflicted over a pending divorce, are sole survivors of a plane crash at sea and try to swim to the nearest coast, fighting both natural and human elements of danger. Alternate version for a different location: British Columbia, Canada. Script Excerpt |
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ME & JACKIEA junkyard hermit (who was friends with the great Jackie Robinson) with guilt from a long-ago tragedy befriends a young latchkey teenager from a poor Baltimore neighborhood. Script Excerpt |
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The Deer and the DolphinThis is the story of a world wide sacrifice teens make to save our planet. In this future history sci-fi fantasy Nick, a solitary sailor, is witness to the degradation of Earth's ecology and becomes a central figure in Earth's recovery. Script Excerpt |
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FLASHDRIVEWashington D.C. area copywriter, Alice, is having one of the worst days of her life. She has a terrible hot flash episode on the Metro, strips, and then gets stuck in the door when she tries to exit! When she gets to work things go even worse for her... Script Excerpt |
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JANIE LOVES BOLLYWOOD!!This is the kind of romantic, fantasy comedy that we all need right now! A fun and fresh reworking of "It's a Wonderful Life!" - but Bollywood style with a Goth girl and a hot Bollywood actor "angel" instead of George Bailey and Clarence. Script Excerpt |
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The Liberty Bell SweepstakesA dazzling young woman who claims she can “invent the future” leads three lovestruck guys on a zany quest to win a big pile of cash on the Fourth of July. Script Excerpt |
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LIFE WITHOUT FATHERGhost dramedy with inspirational, faith-based family values, a la "Ghost" meets "Parenthood". An acclaimed news cameraman who's been neglecting his family for his career dies suddenly under mystical circumstances and returns home as a ghost to haunt his 12-year-old son a week before his 13th birthday. He only has a short time to teach his son life lessons and to learn how to be, and to redeem himself as, a once-absentee dad. Script Excerpt |
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DOWNsizedA young couple who work in a holiday display factory try to make their way back home after mysteriously being miniaturized among model Christmas villages. |
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THE WORD ON THE STREETWhile trying to keep her family together, a young Catholic widow must also deal with prejudice as black families start moving into their all-white parish in 1950s West Philadelphia. |
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Blind Faith
A new marriage turns toxic, due to alcoholism.
The Gotaways
A successful producers world is turned upside down when she's given the unexpected news that her hit TV show has been canceled.
EVERY WEEK
What happens when the vacuum cleaner quits; dust grows, developing limbs, speech, manners; and so Julie battles to save her sanity, and her home from a pair of six foot fuzz balls.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest killed in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
Psycho-Hearts
A world renowned heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy.. A twisted view of the ineptness of modern day psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante assassinating violent domestic abusers (and other deviants) after their third offense.
Perfect Beau
A Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her college senior class project.
The Heart of Fire
When Shane's mother is poisoned, he desperately seeks out the truth.
Dance of the Innocent
The just deceased spirit of a Black pro-life leader is restored in heaven with the two unaware children of her youth, recounting the events around their earthly loses decades earlier to a teenage abortion and the related miscarriage.
