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Three Ice Cubes

When a brilliant but alcoholic English professor spirals into despair, her marriage curdles into a duel of cruelty, journals, and secrets — until her meticulous obsession with “three ice cubes” reveals a deadly trap where love, betrayal, and Virginia Woolf’s ghostly influence collide.

In an upper-middle-class home lined with books and bourbon, Margaret Morrison, an English professor obsessed with Virginia Woolf, drinks ritualistically with three ice cubes in every glass. Her husband, David, a historian, retreats into academic irrelevance while enduring Margaret’s sharp cruelty. But beneath the intellectual sparring lies something darker: Margaret has been recording their conversations, documenting her physical decline, and suspecting David of poisoning her. When she stages her own shocking death, the truth unravels in the hands of Detective Bell — and David’s guilt is sealed by Margaret’s final words, journal entries, and tapes. A chilling portrait of marriage as mutual annihilation, Three Ice Cubes blurs the line between performance, confession, and revenge

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Format:
Short Screenplay
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Starring Roles For:
Florence Pugh
Christopher Briney
In the Vein Of:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Posted:
09/19/2025
Updated:
09/19/2025
Author Bio:
DANA WALL - Psychology/MBA/CPA/MFA powerhouse who managed Hollywood chaos before becoming full-time writer in 2022. Daughter of psychiatrist father and PhD English teacher/lawyer mother—basically raised in a think tank where Freud met Shakespeare met legal briefs. Turns industry insider knowledge into sharp fiction, poetry, and short screenplays, full length screenplays, TV pilots that audit souls and expose power's true cost.

Contest Results:
Cannes Screenplay (Finalist, Cannes World Film Festival) [2025]
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