Once Young
Two 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.
Actor aged c.18
Actor aged c.38
Romeo and Juliet (play)
American Beauty (1999)
LATEST NEWS
What a way to welcome the new year, 2026, with a new screenplay first completed 3 January 2026. It is called Charlie Chan Island Mystery.
The lead character, Charlie Chan, is a throwback to the Honolulu detective made famous mainly in films of the 1930s and early 1940s. He is the product of novelist Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933).
Over the next 12 years I intend to follow up by writing to the following titles:
Charlie Chan Cruise Mystery;
Charlie Chan Mansion Mystery;
Charlie Chan Train Mystery;
Charlie Chan Carnival Mystery;
Charlie Chan Caribbean Mystery;
Charlie Chan Honolulu Mystery.
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Post Your Script Here!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.
SUGAR GREEN
SUGAR GREEN (Action / Espionage, 91 pages) When an environmental activist with extreme mountaineering skills, known for her spectacular protests, is recruited by a shadowy "committee" to infiltrate a remote meeting of oil company mercenaries, she discovers an assassination plot, and must risk her life to stop it.
BRAVE EARS
BRAVE EARS (Rom-Dramedy, 110 pages)? When a big-city schoolgirl, obsessed with being a broadcast DJ, must move to a tiny town, she lies to win a radio license - by claiming to be Native American.
THE CHECKERED
THE CHECKERED (Action / Drama, 112 pages) In 1970s Indianapolis, a 2nd-generation hot rodder finagles a way to stay out of the Army (and the County Jail) so he can keep doing what he loves - RACING - but a cop with a grudge is obsessed with wrecking his life, and making him pay for ALL his family's crimes.
CHEAP ACTION
CHEAP ACTION (Crime Thriller / Action, 110 pages) A bottoming-out Chicago bartender is the sole survivor of a botched gangland ripoff, and he skates with a cool two million.
THE FIRST GENTLEMAN
THE FIRST GENTLEMAN (Action / Romance, 107 pages) When President Rosa Cortez's secret Camp David peace summit is taken hostage by brutal commandos, her scandalous ex-jock husband Will slips through the cracks.
PLAY THE FOOL
PLAY THE FOOL (Action / Comedy) An eccentric musician recruits his old band to help steal a legendary guitar, unaware that competing military teams from Russia and the US Air Force - both trying to avert WWIII - are after his bass-player's rare, vintage gear.
NIGHTBREAK
After the Earth stops turning, a UN Weapons Inspector (who's also the US President’s daughter) fights to get her husband, a Chinese geophysicist in Beijing, across the Nightside’s empty Pacific-Ocean bed and the chaotic, sun-burned Dayside America to get to Washington - with a plan to save the world.
THE SWORD AND THE SERPENT
When their quiet fishing village is attacked by Viking marauders, the scattered members of one Scottish family must fight for survival.
FRAX
After a fracking drill bit destroys its hidden, underwater nursery, a vengeful river monster in South Texas goes on a rampage against the machines and people threatening it - and an oil company scuba diver must risk everything to save his boss when she’s snatched off her fracking rig by the beast.
