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Fast FadeBiopic of the 1950s film noir starlet Barbara Payton. The dazzlingly beautiful and talented blonde bombshell quickly ascended to leading roles in Hollywood. But her wild partying ways, alcoholism, and scandalous romances brought her career crashing down to back alley prostitution. Script Excerpt |
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Everything I Have Is YoursThirteen-year-old Haylee stumbles on her father's affair with her mother's friend, who has come to stay after her home was burglarized. 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. Script Excerpt |
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The Dressmaker's DaughterAdapted from my Young Adult novel published by Santa Monica Press in 2022. Romania 1940: A teenage girl studying to become a doctor, falls into a forbidden affair with her tutor. As war erupts, the Nazis invade and her family is killed, but a Romanian Iron Guard officer takes her as his concubine and sends her to nurse enemy soldiers. When her lover shows up with a group of partisans, she leads them through headquarters to kill two high-ranking Nazi guests of the officer. Her lover dies in the action but she escapes with the partisans sabotaging German supply lines. Script Excerpt |
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Twisted FateA new mutation of brain disease strikes the U.S. --- turning victims gradually into psychopaths. As science races to stop the pandemic, a young woman tries to rescue her infected lover, held hostage in a lab testing radical treatments. Adapted from my novel published in 2022 and showcased online in The Write Launch: https://thewritelaunch.com/2019/09/twisted-fate/ recently showcased Script Excerpt |
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IMPERVOS ONEEccentric billionaire, convinced that nuclear war is imminent, locks his family and workers into a subterranean luxury bunker. But his builders released a life form living underground for 280 milion years to hunt the humans. Script Excerpt |
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Light FingersLonely quirky teen falls for her lab partner in biology class, who happens to be the world's best shoplifter and begins to learn his ways. Script Excerpt |
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Fair WarningThriller based on the true stalking murder of Berkeley student Tanya Tarasoff in 1969 by an obsessed graduate student, and the legal case that changed doctor-patient confidentiality laws across the country. Script Excerpt |
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Dead LineThe ghost of a beautiful young woman, murdered by a serial killer, enters a young man's life, bringing chaos with her. Script Excerpt |
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Redwood TombMarried assistant DA falls for a free-spirited Santa Cruz artist who is unknowingly entangled with a charismatic serial killer. Neo noir based on a true crime in 1982. Adapted from my short story published in UK crime magazine, Close to the Bone https://www.close2thebone.co.uk/wp/saturday-night-off-2/ Script Excerpt |
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Vengeance IslandA law student interning with the Public Defender office and his visiting girlfriend are stranded with their pilot on a remote Alaskan island outside Angoon in a winter storm. Soon, they realize they are being stalked by spirits seeking retribution for a lie the young man had told native people. |
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MalleusAmid the European famine of 1315, a handsome, cheating husband must burn at the stake when his jealous wife denounces him as a "wolf by night." But a demon transports him to modern day California, where he discovers new powers for both love and murder. Script Excerpt |
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AvianaIn 30 million years birds have become the uber species, living in a landscape teeming with rat-predators, giant insects, intelligent reptiles and other scary life forms. When the village is attacked, the inhabitants are banished to the wilderness. Script Excerpt |
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The Virgin EffectDaughter of an oil billionaire, raped at a frat party, contacts a surgeon to restore her physical virginity. When the surgeon's receptionist learns of the plan, she and her boyfriend blackmail her threatening to put confidential information on the Internet. Script Excerpt |
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GrizzlyAging hacker gets out of prison and plots an act of sabotage to reclaim his status as the terror of the Internet. Script Excerpt |
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Riviera DriveThree Latino felons on the run invade the home of a prosperous Latino insurance executive, who must reconnect with his own violent past to save his family. Script Excerpt |
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JessGhost of a young gambler hanged in 1884 takes up residence in a gold mill near Lake Tahoe and raises mischief in the life of the tour guide. Script Excerpt |
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Sawney BeanHeretic young man facing the stake in medieval Scotland flees to the hideout of the notorious cannibal family. Script Excerpt |
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SunnysideYoung woman gets drunk on her high-tech job and enters a crazy rehab . Script Excerpt |
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Space ReservedLow budget erotic vengeance thriller: one room, four characters, no escape. Young ad exec driving his date home takes a space reserved for another unit and is taken captive by two women. Script Excerpt |
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WrenchedAmbitious young Wall Street wannabe travels to take an internship with a hot crypto firm. But the company turns out to be a floundering home repair business whose owner faked a requisition to get a financial whiz aboard. About to leave in disgust, the wannabe falls for the receptionist, a runaway who dreams of becoming a cabaret singer. He joins the rough team of under-rated outcasts and learns how to repair things, including his mercenary sense of values. Script Excerpt |
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Post Your Script Here!The Confession (Elevated Horror/Drama/Thriller)
A shy eight-year-old Catholic girl commits a petty crime to have a
Radioland! (Coming of Age/Psychological/Comedy/Drama/Memoir
A naïve 12-year-old boy, falls in love with a fantasy, learns the truth about his fatally flawed hero -- a 1960s Top 40 radio deejay -- and discovers the bittersweet
Bewitching Hitler: The Coven that Beat the Nazis and Saved the Wolrd! (Historical Fiction/Dramedy/Romance - based on actual events.)
A plucky UK/New Forest Witch Coven conjure an ancient magic spell to prevent Hitler from winning World War II.
One, Second Summer (Young Adult/Romance/Sci-Fi/Dramedy)
Second Summer on Cape Cod is usually a quiet time, until a spaceship of wacky extraterrestrials come to visit, and two fearless tween-agers, determined to meet them, find out why.
BOOM!Town (Parody of Crime/Mob Story/Dramedy)
After a bloody car bombing, a blown-off human foot lands on the roof of a retired, cash-poor mob cleaner who schemes to extort the Mafia Don that ordered the hit, unaware his wacky plan may help the FBI catch the cut-throat gangster.
The Tortured Journey of Wounded Souls
In antebellum Virginia, after a white woman is raped and her husband is killed while fleeing to Philadelphia, she has to depend on a proud young slave she considers inferior to protect her on the perilous trek north while hotly pursued by bandits and slave catchers.
ARCHIVAL
When a down-on-his-luck reporter is hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of a legendary statesman, he gains access to the presidential library of a disgraced politician— only to find himself trapped in a violent hostage siege.
LINCOLN PLACE
In 2001, a struggling stand-up comic relocates to Brooklyn, where a rundown brownstone full of misfits and a haunted past force him to confront his demons — onstage and off.
Misguided Illusions
In the world of Drag Queens, there's a fine line between fantasy and reality.
SKIP TRACY
After his uncle is injured pursuing a fugitive, a law student must leave school and help run the family bail bonds business, battling deep state operatives to nab a high value bounty.