Best Historical Screenplays
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FALLEN SONConcept: What if the heir to a powerful New Orleans Sicilian crime family gave up his birthright for love, only to discover leaving was more dangerous than staying? Logline: The son and heir of a powerful and secretive New Orleans crime family breaks the Sicilian code by secretly marrying the American woman he loves, sacrificing his birthright for an honest life. But when he's ordered to take the fall for a murder he did not commit, he must choose between losing his freedom to protect his family or telling the truth and becoming the family's next target. SYNOPSIS: Inspired by the little-known history of New Orleans’ Sicilian Mafia, Fallen Son follows the heir to a powerful crime family who secretly gives up his birthright by marrying the American woman he loves, believing he can leave the criminal life behind. When his father is deported and the man he refused to murder turns up dead, he’s expected to take the fall to protect the family. Faced with life in prison or betraying the only family he’s ever known, he must decide whether loyalty is worth sacrificing the honest life he fought to build. |
| 2 |
MARY BAKER EDDYWhen the leader of a new Christian religion is targeted by a vicious smear campaign by a leading newspaper, it launches a suit against the popular 85-year-old woman for control of her newly found church; but a famous literary figure (Mark Twain) surprisingly comes to her aid, and the church leader wins the suit and starts a newspaper that decades later wins awards named after the publisher (Pulitzer) that attacked her. |
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Post Your Script Here!I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
When a veteran LAPD detective is framed for the murder of his lover and diagnosed with a fatal neurological disorder that will kill him the next time he sleeps, he has one sleepless stretch of Los Angeles night to uncover the truth, protect his family, and decide how much justice he can live with… while he’s still breathing.
WEIGHT of the WORLD
When elderly people begin vanishing without a trace, skeptical Detective Sandy Marone investigates—until a message appears in her mirror and she is pulled into a parallel world where the missing have been chosen to help reshape humanity’s future.
Whirlabout
A New York actor returns to his decaying hometown to care for his father, who is riding a downwards Alzheimer's spiral.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
F.M.L
After surviving cancer and years of industry exile, a sharp-tongued screenwriter gets an unexpected chance to rebuild the career he lost — if family chaos, PTA warfare and his own self-inflicted disasters don't derail him first.
UNDER OLYMPUS
A disgraced security expert who lost his family wanders the Caribbean islands on his boat as a criminal fixer for the underworld, until he's given a job as head of security at an isolated luxury resort on Olympus Island.
Hook, Line & Sinker
How would a classically trained actor, out of options react when his agent, who was about to cut him loose, gets a call from an old friend who is desperate and needs a host for a Fishing Show?
Storm Dragons
In a mystical land where champions fight to the death to keep the peace, the revenge of a chosen warrior against the killer of his family risks starting the bloody war he was bound to prevent.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
