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Ajeeta the InvincibleTo chase her dream of becoming a pro soccer player, a 12-year-old orphan escapes from her cruel reformatory and sets out on a dangerous trek from New Delhi to a soccer academy near Kolkata. (This story is also written as taking place in football-crazy South America - Benita the Invincible.) |
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MotherkillerBased on a true story. Two young boys watch their mother's boyfriend beat her. On her deathbed, she says he didn't do it. He goes free. Twenty years later, a rookie prosecutor - a young woman - fights to revive the cold case. |
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Fighting Johnny O'BrianBASED ON A TRUE STORY. For a parole board hearing, a young civil rights attorney gets appointed - despite his protests - to represent a white man who's been in prison twenty years for killing two black police officers. |
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Bowl 145 to Stay Alive(6 CHARACTERS AND 1 LOCATION) Four men have been bowling together for fifty years when one of them learns his sister was maimed decades ago by one of the other three - but which one? The accuser holds the alley hostage as he tries to force a confession. |
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Bad LiesA feisty and revered old attorney in bad health takes on one last case - a libel trial - after a magazine accuses a famous pro golfer of cheating. (Screenplay adapted with permission from the novel Bad Lies by Shelby Yastrow and Hall-of-Fame golfer Tony Jacklin.) |
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Horse Up a TreeSwashbuckling action as a charming black pirate captain plunders the high seas with his talkative, cranky parrot. Retired in Montana, with no trusting crew depending on him, the captain struggles to find his purpose. Until he finds it in a most unusual way. (This story is also available as a shorter 45-page version, which will be soon published as a kids' book.) |
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Fighting Johnny O'Brian (female lead)BASED ON A TRUE STORY. For a parole board hearing, a 53 year-old black civil rights attorney gets appointed - despite her protests - to represent a white man who's been in prison 20 years for killing 2 black police officers. (Also written with a young white male as the hero, but the female version is better.) |
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Post Your Script Here!Happy New Year, Mr. Kates! (Hoilday/Dramedy/Magical Realism)
A contemporary holiday tale about a grumpy old man who resides in the memory unit of nursing home, and is presented with a gripping bargain by a mystical stranger: the chance to swap his inconsequential life for that of a lost child’s, one snowy New Year's Eve.
FORBIDDEN PROVISIONS
A journalist goes undercover as an illegal migrant to get a story on how well the government is treating captured immigrants, only to uncover something grizzlier than he expected.
End It On This
Trying to salvage their chaotic love life, a careless couple hits the road, just in time for the world to end.
The Silent Rebellion
In this post-apocalyptic thriller, a group of patriots led by a fierce female band together in an attempt to save their loved ones from a tyrannical and seemingly unbeatable new social system.
She Curses Like a Sailor
The perception of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their baffling neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her college senior class project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other twisted souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A satirical view of the ineptness of modern day psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world renowned heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.