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Anatomy of a TownThe Chief of Police investigates the murder of a young woman while confronting the Sheriff, who blocks his every move for jurisdiction, in order to protect himself from the Chief finding out about his ties to both the murder victim and the killer. Script Excerpt |
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When Doves CryIn 1991, a group of high school seniors navigates the treachery of young adulthood, dealing with bullies, homophobes, and abusive authority figures while seeking the ultimate Minneapolis experience; seeing the legendary Prince perform live at First Avenue on Halloween night but a freak blizzard threatens their plans. Script Excerpt |
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One More DayA salesman sends a text message to God flippantly when he’s out for drinks with a co-worker, asking for an extra day that week to get ahead in a sales competition, he gets it, but he discovers that he’s cursed with an extra day every week until he learns how to treat people. Script Excerpt |
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The Topless WidowA lawyer’s former model mother has taken to sunbathing topless in her backyard, unable to convince her to stop, he pays her complaining neighbors to construct fences, but then she takes her antics to the front yard, getting arrested and he goes from defending her against obscenity charges, to helping her accept her impending death. Script Excerpt |
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WatchAn L.A. homicide detective, who also rents spare rooms in his apartment building to aspiring Hollywood actresses, must prove his innocence when one of them is brutally murdered by someone bent on revenge, exposing the detective's voyeurism fetish. Script Excerpt |
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La HaciendaA married interracial Latino/White couple arrives in Mexico during the Day of the Dead, a holiday of remembrance for those who've died, to renovate a dream hacienda owned by her parents and they soon discover it's haunted, by not only the couple's own past but also the murderous pasts of its former owners, who have been forgotten for very good reason. Script Excerpt |
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Shadow on the HeartlandA successful Wall Street attorney reluctantly returns to rural North Dakota to help his family fight against an agricultural corporate giant that's quickly taking over the food industry with dangerous GMO seeds. Script Excerpt |
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Post Your Script Here!River of Dreams
Star-crossed lovers, Hamilton Maywood and Lee Ann Hunter, participants in the 1870 great steamboat races, have a second chance to get it right coming back as Greystone Ducette and Elizabeth Rowland, aboard a modern day re-enactment of the boat race.
Murder by Suicide
Cheated on by her rock star husband, a woman starts a unique and risky agency to save other celebrity wives from the same fate, only to find herself accused of the murder of one of her most notorious and ruthless clients.
But You Can't hide
A missing husband, a soldier of fortune, and an heiress whose touch with reality comes and goes, brings mystery and death.
Never a Dull Moment
A view of the modern world of real estate, where like a dysfunctional family, the agents interact with each other and their clients.
For the Love of Pete
An ultimate bachelor and womanizer, meets a woman he can’t live without who loves kids, so her borrows his brat niece to claim as his own, but like all good plans it backfires.
Dumped
A loser and afraid of commitment in high school, CLARK MCGRAW, now a huge success, hires a woman as his fiancé for his High School Reunion .
This Someone Else Is You
Maggie Thorpe’s mother has just married her fifth husband, who has a son who dumped Maggie three years ago and who broke her heart, and who now see the opportunity for mischief and mayhem.
Nobody's Angel
Obsessed as to why a dead girl is labeled a hooker and an OD, and in spite of no one believing it was foul play, and coupled with the feeling he should know her, a New York detective pursues a case that everyone else has written off.
Second Chance Inn
The Second Chance inn exists only for those who are expected.
NEVERMORE
Edgar Allan Poe, poet, author and detective, investigates a series of mysterious murders - including that of his own wife - in an alt-history 1847 Baltimore.
