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Hapless Fu

A happy-go-lucky Asian cop in LA loses his confidence, self-respect, job and girl after an embarrassing incident ruins him. Now this fool is mankind's only hope to stop World War III!

Can you imagine an Asian man so incompetent, his own 7-year-old nephew is kicking his butt with martial arts? If you can, then you already know FU RAMRAM. Part Japanese, part Italian, possibly Indian... and all failure, Fu is the proudest, dumbest and most unlucky police officer in the LAPD. On this near-Christmas morning, when Fu spills some coffee on his shirt on the way to work, he could never have predicted the chain of events that accident would unleash on his life. See, there’s this supervillain named KAGEN building a secret base tunneled into Mount Lee under the Hollywood sign. What is this supervillain up to? Don’t worry about that, just yet! Changing his coffee-stained clothes before a big presentation for the mayor, Fu hides behind a stage curtain... only to have the curtain accidentally pulled open by the janitor just as the mayor was sitting down. Standing without any clothes on in front of the entire leadership of the LAPD, Fu costs his precinct some much needed city dollars. His whole life he has wanted to be a hero, now he's nothing but a zero! Reeling from his embarrassment, Fu heads to the grocery store and plans to put his misfortunes behind him. In a series of grocery store mishaps that drive the store’s manager to the brink of insanity, Fu eventually finds himself climbing to the top shelf of an aisle to try and reach his favorite cereal... only to have the entire shelf collapse! Bringing down an entire grocery aisle onto a stack of aerosol products, Fu sets off an explosive chain reaction that literally destroys the grocery store. Because of this and other buffoonery, Fu loses his job at the LAPD, his beautiful girlfriend, and all his composure. In an effort to get Fu out of town by any means necessary, the police chief sets Fu up with a job in the precinct of one of his most hated enemies... all the way out in Chicago. Without any reason to stay, Fu heads to Chicago and ends up getting drunk at a bar with his new boss. Mistaken for homeless people, the two new friends are bussed illegally to Houston in an organized effort to pawn Chicago’s transient population off on another city. Sober and cleaned up, Fu makes the decision to give Los Angeles a second chance. Facing an endless series of misfortunes and mishaps in his effort to find gainful employment and true love, Fu and an ugly woman are ultimately forced at gunpoint to have sex with one another in the middle of a bank robbery. Purely by coincidence, Fu finds himself joined by this same woman on the way to a job interview... but instead of arriving at their new employer’s office, the two of them stumble onto the evil schemes of Kagen! Planning to launch a series of nuclear missiles at Russia on Super Bowl Sunday, Kagen intends to spark the flames of Armageddon while he waits for the smoke to clear in his bunker deep beneath the Hollywood sign! Can Kagen’s plan stand up to the bumbling super-heroics of Fu Ramram? Of course not! Finally reunited with his sexy girlfriend, hailed by the world as a hero, Fu gets the recognition he’s always dreamed of having.

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Format:
Screenplay
Starring Roles For:
Jackie Chan
Ken Jeong
a young Jennifer Aniston type
In the Vein Of:
Police Academy
The Jerk
National Lampoon (Chevy Chase))
Posted:
03/12/2020
Updated:
03/29/2024
Author Bio:
James Day was born in Maine but spent about half his life on the west coast (why, he doesn't know). He triumphantly returned to New England to do what he has always loved most – to write. His first screenplay, Hapless Fu, is a slapstick comedy about an Asian-American man named Fu, a once happy-go-lucky cop in Los Angeles. Due to a terribly embarrassing incident, it causes Fu's life and career go to Hell in a handbasket. The rest of the movie is spent trying to get his life back in order but failing miserably at every turn.

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Contest Results:
Depth of Field (Third Place) [2019]
Austin After Dark (Finalist) [2020]
Rome Independent (Honorable Mention) [2021]
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