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AT THE MERCY OF FAITHA 14 year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter. 18 years later the psychopathic demons from his past, viciously returns to wreak havoc on his home - and to rip-out-his-soul - for the god of their hell. Script Excerpt |
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LEGACY (retitled LEGACY TWO: ORIGINS)A coming of age story about a boy in Ireland named Lachlan who finds himself in a magical world he never knew existed. Kyros, Lachlan’s father, abandoned his son as a young child, and never saw him again. Now Lachlan must deal with the resentment that he feels towards his father while attempting to rescue him on an epic journey. Script Excerpt |
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Seraphim’s MiracleA former war correspondent is forced to confront his tragic past, as he cynically investigates an alleged 'miracle' that might just be the real thing. |
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LUANA (retitled LEGACY ONE: LUANA)After her parents are murdered, the last dragon whisperer — a 16 yr old grieving teenager named Luana — goes on an epic quest to avenge their deaths and rescue her village from blood-thirsty banshees. Script Excerpt |
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The Night WitchesWith outdated biplanes and no radio, no lights, no defenses and no parachutes, these WW2 pilots terrorized the Germans: all women, all true. Sometimes groundbreaking has to be done from the air. |
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South Of Main StreetMom dies and the youngest daughter sues the emotionally challenged Dad for financial control of the estate sending him on a quest to prove he is normal - not an easy task when you are not. |
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The AnklebiterFive years after the Zombie Apocalypse, a couple fighting about whether to start a family adopts a baby Zombie they don't have the heart to kill. |
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HALFWAY HOMEWhen a catastrophic accident causes an athlete to become paralyzed, and all seems to be lost, he finds redemption in the most unlikely place, with a gaggle of colorful characters in a halfway house for the mentally disabled. Winner of 19 'Best Screenplay' awards. Previously #1 on the MovieBytes.com feature Drama & Family 'Winning Lists.' |
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Hell Followed With HimWhen a former Army Sergeant discovers that the crime family responsible for his best friend's death is holding the city of New York hostage, he makes it his personal mission to take them down no matter the cost. |
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LOST CAUSELOST CAUSE: The Tybee Bomb - "DIE HARD” meets “NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN” at sea. A retired Explosive Ordinance Disposal expert salvages a lost nuclear bomb while fighting Black-Ops terrorist off the turbulent coast of the Caribbean. |
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Maeta's Story (prev. Uncle Frits)In the Occupied Netherlands, a widow and her 7 year old son go into hiding with the help of her brother, a WW1 veteran who struggles with PTSD. Script Excerpt |
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In the Footsteps of Thaddeus ThackerayAward-winning buddy comedy set in 1943, where 14 year-old Pennsylvanian nerd Judson Conover dreams of sharing adventures with his newfound favorite movie hero, Dublin McGinn. But when he mysteriously switches bodies with McGinn’s comic sidekick, the diminutive English teenage genius Thaddeus Thackeray, Judson realizes that surviving animated serials is MUCH harder than it looks. Meanwhile, Thackeray – lost within an all-too-real world at war – must figure out how to set things right. And the only one who can possibly help him is Judson's best friend, Kenny, who isn't quick to believe Thaddeus' rather fantastical story. |
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Untouchable!A blonde bombshell in stainless steel rocks the corporate world with an explosion when she collides with the nation's most powerful man unleashing the relentless tiger within and with razor-sharp toothed pen sends him into oblivion. Script Excerpt |
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COOPAn inspirational drama about a disabled dog who assists a recently disabled young athlete find renewed purpose in his life. |
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The 49th DayA young girl’s imaginary friend starts killing her family off, one by one. But how can you stop Death when she wants to play? (This script has won multiple grand prizes and was selected for The 2016 BloodList.) Script Excerpt |
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The Passage of SunThree brothers challenge the Convict Leasing System of forcing African American men into prison in order to continue providing slave labor and county revenue in Alabama following the Civil War. Script Excerpt |
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The Big DAn ambitious young football coach in booming 1980s Dallas, Texas, falls under the spell of a charismatic and ruthlessly competitive mentor, who forces him to confront his relationship to the dark underbelly of college sports. Inspired by true events. |
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THE SOCIAL POLICETwenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media This pilot streamer has it all. It’s a Sci-Fi buddy thriller genre mix with a dash of comedy. Perfect for a series that could run on any of the streamers Netfix, Amazon Prime, HBO, Showtime, Apple, even Disney, just take out the cussing. Script Excerpt |
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HAT TRICKA retired police officer goes to the current-day Army/Navy football game with his two wacky friends intending to jump onto the field and score a touchdown he should’ve scored decades ago when he fumbled during the same football classic as time ran out, only this time dozens of security guards await him, and it’ll be a friggin’ miracle if he succeeds. Script Excerpt |
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GREEN WARSWhen a fast-food executive’s repressed wife finds salvation with a militant vegan activist group, it stirs up hostilities that threaten his job and their marriage. |
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Harm for the HolidaysAfter his brother attempts suicide a few weeks before Christmas, an unrepentant asshole with a heart of gold moves back in with his comically dysfunctional family to help his brother, only to discover that his brother is the sanest of them all (#1 ranked Comedy and GLBT script on MovieBytes). |
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HenriettaOhio, 1887. A multiracial family is devastated by illness after 11 year old Rhett believes she has summoned a demonic power. While her doctor stepfather quarantines the house for cholera, Rhett must fight through an otherworldly dreamscape to protect her mother and brother. (harryaspinwall.com/henrietta) |
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Kill for LoveUnable to contain her homicidal urges, a privileged sorority sister struggles to hide her serial killings from her new boyfriend as she sets Los Angeles ablaze in violence. Script Excerpt |
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The Barking SpiderWhen Joe’s 39 year-old addicted and pregnant daughter appears on his doorstep, his sedentary life is about to disappear forever. Script Excerpt |
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The Mythical Golden TroutWhen a cash-strapped family camping in the Sierras discovers a huge nugget of gold, the local police chief rounds up a posse of clueless misfits and sets out to steal it from them. Script Excerpt |
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CHARMER - BREAKOUT TO MEXICOMaria (a lonely drug runner) enlists Peter (a lonely ex-narc) as her wingman for a dangerous ‘road trip’ to Mexico - with the mysterious aide of Grandma (a venerable DEA agent). |
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Sixgun SaintDuring the Oklahoma dust bowl, after their bushwhacking scam is threatened, America’s last gunslinger and his fast-talkin' demon chum partner with a powerful child to destroy their threat--a posse of surly angels. |
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PICKET CHARLIEPICKET CHARLIE is an ecco-action thriller about a US Forestry Ranger that must defend her precious island reserve of trees from a band of brutal timber pirates in a near-future world devastated by climate change. |
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The Wayward SonOrphaned after his father is murdered in the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885, Bo helps his adopted family of sheep ranchers fight for their land in bloody range wars while struggling with his identity and reigniting a dangerous love affair. (Formerly titled BLOOD LAW) |
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And No One MournedWhen a financial advisor gets diagnosed with a terminal illness, he realizes that instead of wasting his time and money on flashy cars and fancy suits, he should’ve spent more on hookers. |
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ANGEL HAIRWhen a beautiful German teen is used by the resistance to sneak the schematics for the V-2 rocket out of Germany, to the Allies in Paris, and then vanishes, both sides send out their top killers to find her, retrieve the plans and eliminate the young courier. But it is the third thing closing in on her that she fears the most, her past. |
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The Paper RouteOn the eve of the 4th of July, a teenager makes a discovery that could be his ticket out of his hellish small town life, but it means leaving his younger brother behind. |
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Don't You Know Who I Am?A hollywood security guard digs up celebrity dirt for money, but now his efforts to get the goods and evade detection are complicated when he befriends a young actress, and uncovers her dark secret. |
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The Sea DragonEngland, 1810: A sharp-witted young girl who hunts and sells fossils to help support her impoverished family unearths a never-before-seen skeleton that shakes the foundations of science and religion. Script Excerpt |
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RestorationDiscovering a centuries-old religious painting that shouldn't exist, an introverted art restorer slowly succumbs to the evil temptations of the mystical canvas, even as otherworldly forces strive to prevent her from revealing the artwork's unholy secret. Script Excerpt |
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THE BIG IDEATHE BIG IDEA: a jack-ass odyssey. Before the pandemic, a disabled germaphobic/dirty joke scholar, a Black/Swedish hip-hop poet, a multiple personality John Doe, and a martial arts American/Asian Mensa chick want to collect a $10 million court settlement from infomercial giant, fat-man Tony Idoni, for their 'Big Idea' - a telephone condom. But they find that the biggest of big ideas is LOVE. FOUR 'Best Screenplay' award, and ONE 'Best Dialogue' award. Recent winner of Best Comedy feature in the Canadian Diversity FF. |
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SINderAfter losing her father to her serial killer stepmother, Cinder joins forces with an all-female band of warriors to keep her evil stepfamily from murdering their way to the throne. Script Excerpt |
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Murder in Emergency!A dedicated nurse fighting to save her beloved hospital from closure, is shocked when she is alerted to patient murders, and with the same passion to save it, declares war. Script Excerpt |
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VisionsA teenager is haunted by visions of classmates' murders. She suspects her strange father may be the killer. |
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The ZombaysAyana and Deon Williams, a young, hip African American couple turned zombie in a top-secret government program, escape undetected and flee to the suburbs, where great success leads to unexpected notoriety and a cataclysmic showdown. |
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The GladeRose Ferguson just wants the family back she’s never known. Unbeknownst to Rose, an evil as old as time itself, wants to make sure that reunion never takes place. When all seems lost, the one thing she sought might be her only saving grace. |
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The AlphaAn alien fleeing a genocidal war seeks refuge on Earth, recruiting a former Navy SEAL to help save the last of her race's children. Script Excerpt |
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McBridesWhen her male reporters, including her sexist brother, volunteer to take part in a Ukrainian bride service for an article, a senior editor must do all that she can to contain the craziness that follows and guide the guys into finding true love. Script Excerpt |
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SplashdownA mysterious space capsule adrift in the Pacific Ocean pulls a disillusioned Air Force pilot into battle against a shadowy paramilitary force hell bent on utilizing the astronauts' otherworldly cargo to enslave humanity. Script Excerpt |
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KibouA tenacious young Japanese-American's loyalties, duties, and illicit interracial relationship are tested to the limits when his family is separated by the US government and imprisoned during a time of fear and paranoia surrounding WWII. |
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To Lie BeneathAn insidious succubus and her incubus partner, prey on the lives of Marcus, a recently divorced business man and his ex-wife Zora, a dormant witch, in metropolitan Atlanta. Script Excerpt |
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Rational PanicWhen a professor's wife, who suffers a panic disorder, disappears mysteriously during Mardi Gras, the professor obsesses on one of his students who's writing a play with a character eerily similar to his wife and may be in on the disappearance. Winner, Writers on the Storm; Top 16 scripts, Slamdance. Previously optioned to an LA production company. |
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TRAUMATIZEDThe sole survivor of a serial killer, tortured by visions of her ordeal, decides to conduct her own investigation only to realize that her former captor, whom she thought dead, might still be alive and after her. |
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FULL CONTACTWhen the NFLs' most feared linebacker is manipulated into shattering the career of his best friend with a bone-crushing hit, he's forced to battle his own humanity and the blackmailing psychopath who set him up. |
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AshesA combative college professor accused of Holocaust denial tries to clear his name and repair the strained relationship with his teenage daughter before the scandal irreparably widens the chasm between them. Script Excerpt |
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Boo Hoo FlanaganA black correctional officer coaches a prison basketball team and finds the motivation he needs, in life and on the job, in Boo Hoo Flanagan, an aging, white, crippled inmate who shoots 3-point baskets better than anyone has ever seen. |
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Ajeeta the InvincibleTo chase her dream of becoming a pro football (soccer) player, a 12-year-old orphan escapes from her cruel reformatory and sets out on a dangerous trek from New Delhi to a football academy near Kolkata. (This story is also written as taking place in football-crazy South America) |
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CURIOUS BUDDIESIt's not your mother's buddy movie. It's a combo meal. It’s a little bit of Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, The Social with a side of Taken. Experienced FBI Agent hires and befriends an internet entrepreneur to help rescue a six year old girl taken hostage in a fall out shelter by a ruthless psychopath. Winner LA film fest Best scene 2017. Winner Willdsoud 1 page screenplay 2016 Script Excerpt |
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Healing MarieShe’s a French nude artist’s model who fears gargoyles are dead. He’s a New York artist who fears the city is a living monster. Together they vibrate in harmonic explosive love. Ludicrous sex. Preposterous adventures. Against the world ... but maybe they’re right ... like Don Quixote, this is a documentary about the pain of being happily insane. |
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STORM DRAGONSIn a mystical land where champions fight to the death to keep the peace, the revenge of a chosen warrior against the killer of his family risks starting the bloody war he was bound to prevent. |
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BOSS TWEEDNYC politician William M. “Boss” Tweed loots the city treasury for millions until exposed by the upstart New York Times and immigrant cartoonist Thomas Nast. Political drama/strong contemporary relevance. Heavy non-comic animation and graphics. Professional Coverage: “RECOMMEND” – Dave Trottier (Author, “The Screenwriter’s Bible”) |
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Desert QuarryTwo mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them. Script Excerpt |
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BULLY! (Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal)CHARGE! Rough Rider President Teddy Roosevelt takes on all comers – Banana Republics, Wall Street bigwigs and Congress – to build the Panama Canal. The real story. Can be expanded to TV miniseries. Professional Coverage: “Recommend” Dave Trottier (Author “The Screenwriter’s Bible.”) SEMI-FINALIST Fade In Awards rue Story/Bio Competition Script Excerpt |
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Time and AgainA ruthless politician makes a deal with an ambitious scientist: she gives him unlimited resources and he lets her use his time-bending machine to spy on her enemies. But neither of them knows that the technology has a flaw that will ultimately destroy the world. |
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The GateThe Gate is a fantasy action feature about two crusty bait and tackle guys who must stop eco-terrorists who have opened a time portal to the Pleistocene era and are about to wipe out humanity's ancestors to save the planet. Script Excerpt |
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MorbidlyA young physical therapist slowly loses his grip on reality as he succumbs to the seductiveness of his only patient, a morbidly obese woman with a grisly secret. Script Excerpt |
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Season of MistsA Kurdish escapee from an honor killing is imprisoned in a detention center, from which she must find the strength to resist her captors and gain freedom--forcing a confrontation with the brother that still wants her dead. Script Excerpt |
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Misfortune CookiesAccidentally killing an elderly Chinese chef during a botched robbery, an oafish redneck teenager and her misfit friends begin dying one by one when the chef's ghost returns from the grave, killing them in gruesome fortune cookie-themed ways. Script Excerpt |
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Conduit of EvilAn EMT attempts to save the life of a vicious killer — but the killer's evil spirit passes into him, and through him into his 8 year old nephew. |
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THE FLOWER AND DEATHDeep in the fiery flame of Abssy. where Angels dare not to go , in which it consume the flesh without an end.Death was formed from it to go in the world and consume the spriti.. |
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ELEVEN SUSPECTSTwo brothers try to save their family from the hands of a powerful man. They have to work together with their Family and Family friends in order to save their dignity. |
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My Enemy, My FriendAfter their only child was accidentally killed by a black security guard who mistook him for a thief, a white woman develops a feeling of hatred towards all black people. |
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Something Old Something NewA professional love songwriter, whose in a major slump, falls for her obnoxious cousin's fiancé. |
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Coming of Age - The PilotIn 1965, as the cultural tsunami of sex, drugs, and rock ’n' roll invades Britain, a sheltered teenage girl lands on a bedroom farce tour that is stage managed by her mother. Here she experiences a scandalous sexual awakening, which rocks both of their worlds. |
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LABYRINTH OF DESTINYDuring the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant Ulysses Grant falls in love with a young Mexican woman who helps American slaves escape bondage. The war separates them, but years later they meet again when the woman is dispatched to the United States to seek an alliance to prevent France from conquering Mexico and becoming an ally of the Confederacy. (Finalist - 2018 Academy Nicholl Screenplay Competition, Finalist - 2020 Final Draft Big Break Screenplay Competition) Script Excerpt |
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Diplomatic Ammunity!A struggling Hollywood screenwriter recruits his former best friends to help him write a script about a series of pranks they pulled in high school, and they discover why their friendship fell apart (ADAPTATION meets IDIOCRACY). [12 awards/honors including, 1st in 2017 Los Angeles Screenplay Contestl] |
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Cracked AcesAfter he accidentally defeats a mobster’s spoiled daughter in a high-stakes tournament, a lone-wolf poker player must go all-in with a fiery brothel madam, a septuagenarian showgirl, and an unhinged Girl Scout in a madcap gamble to win back his life. |
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Rebel TidesWhen modern warfare meets medieval, a tyrannical monster of a man takes control of England. A former member of the SAS closes himself off from the apocalyptic world until its savagery finds its way to his doorstep. He will be forced to make a choice, to abstain, or intervene, but what he doesn't know is that the oppressive king is his former brother in arms and best friend, long thought dead. |
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Children's Party WarAfter his children's party entertainer girlfriend dumps him for "Prince Charming," a scorned redneck bouncer decides to win her back by becoming the best children’s party entertainer in town. |
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Hard Candy ChristmasWINNER: BEST SCREENPLAY - Nashville Film Festival. Stranded on route to his hometown, a notorious member of a famous boy band is rescued by a working-class woman that has no clue of his reputation. Longing for a ‘normal” lifestyle, he imposes himself on her and her six-year-old son’s tranquil life. Script Excerpt |
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EuthanizedA grieving animal control officer becomes an unlikely social media hero when she embarks on a vigilante crusade against animal abusers, but her violent actions trap her between friends on the police force and the leader of a citywide dogfighting ring. Script Excerpt |
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ConsumedTrapped beneath a collapsed building, a grieving wife struggles to protect her treacherous husband from a horde of parasitic monsters. Script Excerpt |
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JunkGene, a TV-obsessed recluse, is shocked out of hiding when his favorite childhood actress, Evelyn, reinvents herself as a raunchy popstar. With the help of Katherine, another delusional superfan, he ventures through a bleak near-future on a disastrous crusade to remind the world that it needs the old Evelyn back. |
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Doors of MiraclesFighting fear a young woman is transcended into the Universe as the Doors to God's Miracles are flung open wide to be returned to Earth with supernatural powers to perform miracles, and God speaks. Script Excerpt |
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Moment of ClarityA man on a path to nowhere must make a change to not only to save himself, but those he holds most dear. |
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HeromanAfter accidentally killing his arch-rival, an idealistic superhero finds himself left permanently out of a job... |
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Perfect ContritionA traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys. Script Excerpt |
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VOICESA single mother struggles to balance a business and a new romance with family life when her young adult daughter's bizarre behavior is diagnosed as schizophrenia. She must choose between the love of her life and the life of her child. Inspired by actual events. |
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LOTUS OPERANDIThis one is pure Fun! It's a genre buster, Fosse/Verdon meets James Bond, meets All That Jazz and Cabaret! Asian American Black Belt goes undercover for the CIA, to help track down terrorists. Oh, and did I mention she’s the Lead in a Broadway Musical? This is very musical, but there’s a lot of action! This one is getting a lot of attention right now! The main Characters reside in New York, they are part of an international terrorist group. They include cyber terrorists in New York, arms dealers from Pakistan, and a weapons and explosives ring in China. The saavy CIA Agents discover evidence that they are planning duo attacks on the subways in New York and London on the 4th of July. That’s where the story begins, but believe it or not, it’s really a love story! Script Excerpt |
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and The Devil called!He does not exist yet - continues to appear, in his quest to capture a God-chosen businesswoman to re-ignite the flames of Hell to its former Horror. Script Excerpt |
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Ultraviolet ChildHis name is ‘Harmless’, an innocent, accident prone, high school, art student who sculpts with tornadoes. Beautiful, wonderful, creative art work but Harmless accidentally blows away his own high school -- um -- twice. … But, in the end, he gets the girl, millions of dollars and a used Saturn 5 rocket. Uh-oh. |
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MAMMOTH REVENGEAn Australian woman rescues elephants from Africa and discovers a living herd of ancient Mammoths Script Excerpt |
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The Benefactor!A business woman touched by the plight of farmers at the mercy of predator bankers she sacrifices her income to pay out their mortgages in her quest to prevent murder/suicides on the land as she dodges the hitman. Script Excerpt |
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Devil's ChairOn Halloween night in a backwoods graveyard, a group of cocky teenagers invoke the terrors of hell after sitting in a chair reserved solely for the devil. |
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RETIREMENT ROAD TRIPA commercial pilot (Kyle) plans to retire and do nothing, but comfortably relax in his paid-off custom-built home. However, his plans suddenly change, when a demolition crew levels his home by accident. |
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BITTER BEANSWith nothing but her wits as a weapon, a young Maya woman searches three continents for a fair deal and free her folks of the iron grip of the coffee traders. Script Excerpt |
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Six Hours to Santa MonicaA failed NASCAR driver looking for redemption uncovers a sinister plot involving his ex-girlfriend. With the help of a prototype car, he must defy the odds to get her back. |
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Jail BreakComedy-Action Western. Cowboy (and part-time used-horse salesman) Roy is blackmailed into using his family's infamous (yet often fatal) jail-breaking 'expertize' to break-out his steam-car business rival Clarke, while a gang of corrupt Texas Rangers chase them both down for the reward - DEAD OR ALIVE! |
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Flight PlansFLIGHT PLANS is a biographical crime drama, based on a true story (2008), about two people unbeknownst to each other that plot to steal the same airplane, on the same island, on the same day. |
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Jesse James vs. Jack the RipperAfter faking his own death, Jesse James comes out of hiding to track down the killer of his mistress-- the notorious Jack the Ripper. Can Jesse avoid the law for long enough to exact his revenge on Jack? |
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K-9 CopA cranky police officer dies and ends up in the body of a police dog in order to bring down a criminal organization and help a teenager get over a big loss in his family. Script Excerpt |
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Dangerous GroundFollowing Germany's victory in World War Two, a risk-averse student in modern-day Edinburgh is thrust into joining a rebellion against the Nazis when his family is threatened. |
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The Desert ShrineElizabeth, a beauty shop owner in an Arizona border town, investigates a nun's murder after receiving erotic phone calls from a mysterious stranger. When the murder causes racial division and violence around her, Elizabeth can no longer trust anyone including her own husband. Tired of living in his shadow, Elizabeth becomes drawn into a spiral of sexuality, betrayal, violence, and finally, spiritual awakening. |
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We Shall Not Go HungryIn Viking Age Iceland, Sigrun and her two brothers are reunited with their estranged father, only to fall prey to a horrific curse. After their father goes missing, Sigrun must protect her brothers by any means necessary, but uncovering her family’s history of dark magic may lead her to become the very thing she’s fighting. (harryaspinwall.com/wsngh) |
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La Tierra Que Yo Amo (Land That I Love)After trying for seven years to successfully make it as a dancer in New York, a 30-year-old half-Mexican, half-American woman with dual citizenship reluctantly returns to her hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico and struggles to find her identity. [38 awards/honors including, First Place-2015 Las Vegas Screenplay Contest (Drama Category), and Grand Prize-2015 London Film Awards (Feature Screenplay Category)] |
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Major Players: Ray Ray vs The MonsterAfter a five-year prison stint, a recently-freed boxer must defeat the undefeated champion of Atlanta 'The Monster' to save his cousin from drowning into deeper debt. But the real fight lies outside the ring, where his steps are laden with betrayals, gunfights, and narcotics. Script Excerpt |
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The Meat EatersA teenage fast food manager must lose his virginity to join a cult addicted to eating a powerful aphrodisiac -- a "living meat" that won't stay on the plate. |
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THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIRIt is a mismatched battle between unlimited high tech and resources available to Charlene, the power behind the throne of a large corporation, and Stram, a lone wolf San Francisco private investigator using tried and true low tech methods as they race to the final heir, and chase across California, with Stram straining to keep the last heir safe. Script Excerpt |
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SunbeamWhen the heir to the Russian throne is born with haemophilia, the desperate Romanovs give charismatic but uncouth Siberian miracle-worker Rasputin a coveted spot in the royal household. Biiiig mistake. |
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Attrition20 years after the landing of a refugee alien ship, the humans work with the Ularians to help reverse sterilization in human women. Through a draft lottery, Elena is selected, along with hundreds of other women, to participate in the Arc Project in order to find a way to procreate again. Though, once the project is underway, Elena finds there are more secrets than truths and needs the help of Sgt. Nick Chandler to find which is which. |
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Project EradicateFive thieves pull off a daring jewelry store heist and escape through the sewer where they cross paths with a researcher and police officer documenting the disappearance of city workers. A horrific terror hunts them as they search for a way out of the maze of tunnels. Script Excerpt |
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SpoofsAn anthology of four comedic tales of sci-fi/horror/fantasy. A mudered wife resurrects through her garden; a small space alien is mistaken for an action toy; A base commander dares to challenge a UFO; A young man makes a pact with a witch. Script Excerpt |
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The SquawkerTwo gonzo grad students and a fearless Native American woman clash with the FBI as they search for an endangered, sacred bird on her tribal homeland that could save the area from loggers. Script Excerpt |
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SETTLING THE BOOKSLured by the reading of a billionaire rare book dealer’s will, an investigator and four other heirs are sealed in an airtight panic room, and with only four hours air, must solve the centuries-old mystery contained in the book ‘The Castilian Cypher’ in order to escape. Script Excerpt |
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The DriverRoger Rodas, the driver in the Paul Walker car crash, lived a blessed and cursed life. This is his story. |
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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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SMALLSBy produced writer. 10 feature films. 20 novels. A slave steals a Confederate steamship and sails it past the blockade of Charleston harbor during the Civil War, freeing himself, his family, his crew and their families. True story of Robert Smalls. |
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SEIRIOS/ROBOMUTTA boy finds a dog which is actually a dangerous military prototype. |
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BATTLES COMPANYAnd they are looking for a man named Hekmat Makari, a fugitive terrorist who lives in Afghanistan. This group comes from the International Security Agency. |
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American assassinDavey |
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THE KING'S SIBYLERIC RENATUS' SCRIPTS |
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The Joy CircuitAfter her divorce, a truth-seeking woman tries to find herself, but ends up finding God all the while being haunted by an unceasing, hypnotic soundtrack that inspires her to rethink her own destiny. |
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Art of RevengeA struggling painter agrees a deal with his cat to create the artist’s next exhibition but after critics hail the show as genius the painter reneges on the deal, igniting a chain of betrayals. |
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Code RedA seventeen-year-old high schooler is frustrated by flaws he sees in the educational system and in his peers so he decides to commit a school shooting in order to lash out against them. |
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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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My Father's Worst NightmareWith his boyfriend in tow, a college sophomore takes a weekend trip home for the express purpose of COMING OUT to his family and all hell breaks loose until a near tragedy triggers a father’s journey towards acceptance. |
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Tam LinIn a modern romantic fantasy based on an ancient Scottish fairy tale, a strong young woman risks everything to save her mysterious lover from the evil Fairy Queen, and bring him back to a world he's never known. |
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Sovereign CitizenA single mother joins the doomsday cult of armed, anti-government sovereign citizens that kidnapped her son and makes a desperate bid to win his freedom. Script Excerpt |
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Hapless FuA 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! Script Excerpt |
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There is a SeasonTwo families, one Israeli and one Palestinian, must find a way to break the cycle of violence that has locked their fates together. |
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THE GREAT QUESTBased on the true story of the Buddha: The battles of a Prince who rejects riches and power, risking insanity and death, in a quest to find ultimate freedom. |
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In Between The RiverKatie and her brother Kyle think their unique life is normal but their dad hides a devious secret that separates the family and influences their fates. Loosely based on the writer's formative years. Script Excerpt |
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The Demon of Hope StreetA homeless vet discovers that a deranged street preacher is murdering his followers to send them to heaven — and if he doesn’t stop him, he might be next. Script Excerpt |
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Jericho's PaintingA girl struggling to overcome the death of her mother finds herself falling for a mysterious young artist, unaware that he has sinister- and possibly infernal- intentions. |
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GHOST I.T.After the tragic death of his identical twin brother, he feels guilty and tries to find redemption through an unsuccessful suicide! Then he comes across Hig, a demonic ghost, which promises everything, but only to trick him, so Hig can escape his own hell. |
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ParallelA grieving man is offered the chance to save his wife's life in seven parallel universes, but something's chasing him through the fabric of reality. |
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Mistresses of SleepA young lady receives an invitation from three mysterious hypnotists to unlock the secret of her recurring nightmares of death and destruction. |
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HIGH STAKESIn 1992, two perpetually-stoned perpetual students discover a nest of vampires have cornered the local marijuana trade, and they realize it’s up to them to save the weed – and save the world. |
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OPEN YOUR EYES, DUDEConfronted with the choice between happy bachelorhood and old job, or marriage with eyes toward the Senate and President, a playboy surgeon has one week to find the right woman. (Previously titled, TRICIARELLA, WHO ARE YOU?) |
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Unaccompanied MinorA man accidentally uncovers a pedophilia ring and rescues a young sex worker. When his attempts to get help from the authorities fail, he struggles to smuggle the girl to safety before they are both arrested or captured. |
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TimelessTwo young lovers endure an "on and off-again" romance through the years only to end up in unhappy marriages longing for one another until the star-crossed lovers meet again. |
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The KidnappedIn Mexico, a drug cartel boss kidnaps a washed-up Hollywood director, and the two are driven to insanity while shooting a documentary about the boss's once-powerful cartel--a project meant to help both men reclaim lost glory. |
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AvalonWhen the lost love of her life tracks her down, a reclusive bar owner must face up to the mistakes of her past. The dangers are far greater than she knows as she must find the strength to take back control of her life from those closest to her. |
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Falling from the SkyA troubled teenager, originally known for being the kid who made up a lie about an astronaut falling from the sky after the Columbia Shuttle disaster, witnesses a murder but can't get anyone in his small town to believe him -- except the killer. Finalist, Page International Screenwriting Awards |
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Between The FlamesWildfires are the least of her worries: a college athlete lands a job on a Hotshot Crew in the 80's where she meets her best friend plus two love interests. Script Excerpt |
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T&T PowerA tenacious female detective used to working alone teams up with a wise-cracking out of shape meter maid to track down a kidnapped child held for ransom. Script Excerpt |
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Mate Matcher's MatchWhen a godless, seemingly carefree bachelor sets course to win a feisty, virginal Christian matchmaker, he collides with a righteous blockade that buckles only when she uncovers the personal trauma that cracked his moral compass. |
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EXPLOSION AT BLACK TOM!Federal Agents -- including a young J. Edgar Hoover and a badass female translator -- track German saboteurs plotting the July 30, 1916 Black Tom Island explosion in New York harbor - the terrorist attack on America! Professional Coverage: “Recommend” - Dave Trottier (Author “The Screenwriter’s Bible”). SEMI-FINALIST - Fade In Awards-True Story/Bio Contest Script Excerpt |
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Silver DazeShe wants romance. He just wants to get high. During their silver anniversary trip to Jamaica, full of stalker skinny-cats, nip slips, trips, falls, bearded fireworms, boogers, poop, tinkle accidents and of course adventures in weed, they might find both. Comedic hilarity ensues. |
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Second DanceAn American college student discovers that she's the reincarnation of a 19th-century Middle Eastern belly dancer, and she has an unlikely destiny she must fulfill. |
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One More SleepA grumpy manager wakes at the North Pole to discover that Christmas Eve will keep repeating until he finds his Christmas spirit, inadvertently falling in love with a pixie during his stay. Script Excerpt |
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RavineA lonely school teacher who discovers his deceased father’s closeted homosexuality finds he is unable to cope with his own insecurities and his family’s prejudices—prompting an all consuming obsession with returning his father’s ashes to his British birthplace. Script Excerpt |
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THE ORGANIC SVENGALIShe wants to connect with her dead parents by attending their alma mater; he’s a young genius coasting as a music history professor who cured himself of cancer, and is looking for a fresh mind now that the cancer has returned; their paths and wills are about to cross. Script Excerpt |
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JIMMY AND JARA FROM OUTTA SPACEA twisted sci-fi road comedy with heart, a la “Little Miss Sunshine” with aliens, an interspecies romance and a spoof on classic sci-fi films and the American Southwest’s UFO subculture. JIMMY, a Venice Beach boardwalk hustler, discovers beautiful alien JARA and her two intergalactic circus performers stranded on Earth. He cons them into his “family” of misfit street performers and takes them to Las Vegas. Along the way, sweet-tempered aliens touch jaded human hearts. Ultimately Jimmy must save Jara and her E.T.’s from a ruthless Las Vegas casino kingpin, with the help of Nevada UFO buffs. Script Excerpt |
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The Puzzle PeopleBerlin cold war aftermath: A Woman reconstructs shredded Stasi documents and stumbles upon a murder committed days after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Her curiosity gets the best of her and she almost gets killed. The Puzzle People screenplay is an adaptation of the Berlin Spy Mystery by Doug Peterson. |
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LOVE, MYSTERIOUSKolby's the top agent of Cupid, who happens to be a beautiful young woman, but Kolby's on the verge of losing his job, and Cupid's on the verge of dying, if he can't reunite a special pair of reincarnated soul mates before a deadline causes love to disappear from earth. |
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A Time to RememberThe number one pop star in the world puts his blazing hot career on hold to attend his senior year of high school and play football - much to his record label's dismay. Script Excerpt |
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E Pluribus UnumVirginia 1861 - a highly profitable, free plantation supported by Abolitionists in political, intellectual, and artistic circles is attacked by pro-slavers. Two former slaves - one a fighter, the other a pacifist, head out to seek help from President Lincoln Script Excerpt |
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Fast FadeBiopic of the luminously beautiful but tragic 1950s film noir star Barbara Payton. Script Excerpt |
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Grrrls DroolA sexually repressed Catholic girl who secretly writes erotica meets a riot grrrl hell-bent on getting her voice heard in the punk scene; they join forces to create zines and kill shame. Script Excerpt |
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The CowbirdMarion Duke always struggled to overcome poor life decisions - some inherited, some self-inflicted. When the disparate elements of Duke’s life converge at his funeral, deeply buried secrets threaten to destroy his carefully cultivated image of a devoted father and war hero. |
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The Color Of The PuckAmidst the backdrop of the American civil rights movement, Canadian Willie O'Ree overcomes racial prejudice and a career-threatening injury to become "the Jackie Robinson of hockey," the first black man to play in the National Hockey League. |
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A Noble TruthTwo estranged best friends set off on a road trip to explore what truths unite people in a modern America dominated by apathy and discord. It is soon clear, however, that truth is the last thing either man seeks. [20 awards/honors, including first place in the 2016 London Film Awards, the 2014 Awareness Film Festival, and the 2014 West Field Screenwriting Awards]. |
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TodayTaking place over the course of a single day in 1995's NYC, a 16 year old Pakistani-American punk rocker and his misfit friends desperately search for Ecstasy pills and a ticket to a Smashing Pumpkins concert to impress the girl of his dreams. Script Excerpt |
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The No Fly ZoneJamal Jones has to stop human sized flies from crossing the no fly zone to earth so he can prevent them from capturing his wife and taking over the earth. |
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OR DIE TRYINGAfter witnessing her father's brutal murder as a child, a vengeful lone-wolf detective searches for healing and struggles to bring down the crime boss responsible for her father's death, only to make a discovery that changes everything. Or does it?. |
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Hold FastWhen a gang war threatens to spill into her county, a Texas Sheriff uses unconventional methods to protect it. Script Excerpt |
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The Way Back HomeA young boy who loves animals must cope with his father’s insistence that he will someday work in the slaughterhouse that has employed the men of his family for the past several generations. [21 awards/honors including, Grand Jury Prize winner of 2014 Hollywood Screenplay Contest, Grand Jury Prize winner of 2015 Las Vegas Screenplay Contest, and Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 London Film Awards (Feature Screenplay Category).] |
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Blood of the ManorAn orphaned teen must choose to run for the rest of her life, or find out what happened to her sister and facing a deranged familial spirit out to kill her. Script Excerpt |
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The IntruderAfter a tragic death, a grieving mother moves into an isolated farm to help her troubled teenage son cope – only to discover the farm is haunted by the ghost of a young man who committed suicide there, and he’s targeted her son as his next victim. |
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The Calvary IncidentGreen Berets and Marines time-jump to save history by killing a rogue SEAL team bent on rescuing Jesus from the Cross inadvertently leaving the 21st century a frozen, unrecognizable wasteland. Script Excerpt |
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THE FAT LADY SINGSWhen a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate. Script Excerpt |
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Christmas IslandSissy and Kenneth return to their home in the northern woods for their mother's funeral, to find that their parents plan to snatch their bodies. |
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The InfantoriumThe extraordinary true story of Martin Couney, a fake doctor who saved thousands of babies’ lives through his Coney Island ‘child hatchery’ in the early 20th century. |
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EpiphanyAs the threat of revolution looms, a conflicted detective must stop the One Percent Killer by exploiting their mutual addiction to the visionary drug Epiphany. |
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Hard-Hearted HannahA rookie detective on a routine hotel skip case instead finds himself pitted against a diabolical serial killer with a deadly grudge against the Eighth Air Force, whose reunion is being held there...and no one even suspects a murderer is in the house. Can he stop him before he kills again...and again? |
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DECKED(Family/Animation): In the four kingdoms of Spades, Hearts, Clubs, and Diamonds, where people are ranked by numbers, a group of lowly "twos" tries desperately to stop the Queen of Spades from overthrowing the other kingdoms. (This screenplay was a "featured"/top-rated script on both TheBlackList.com and SpecScout.com.) |
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FALLOUTWhen two women find themselves trapped in separate booby-trapped rooms, they must work together to escape despite knowing only one of them can make it out alive. |
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Nadir/The Fourth HouseA young mother, believed to be suffering from postpartum psychosis, flees her family with newborn in tow to a haunted lakeside bed and breakfast in search of answers to visions of her own murder in a past life. |
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The HoldoutDuring World War II, a Japanese soldier tries to make amends for a tragedy in his youth by keeping his comrades alive until long after the conflict is over. Based on a true story. |
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The Other SideDriven to suicide by an abusive work environment, a young circus performer returns as a ghost to the world she left behind, and decides to seek justice. |
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Burning Old ManA group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration. |
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The Dumb Ox BellowsA 13th-century friar struggles to revitalize Christian theology using logic and reason, but intellectual opposition from peers, malicious slander by envious brethren, and “slavery of the pen” under two Popes drive him to mental collapse and loss of faith in his life’s work -- until God intervenes miraculously to affirm its merit. The extraordinary, true story of Saint Thomas Aquinas.- |
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Long Path To PeaceA drug lord's alienated and incorruptible son, hiding in the Montana wilderness for his protection, saves his mentor - “the father he always wanted” from a living hell. Script Excerpt |
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God's WarriorGod chooses a young woman to be His Warrior but fails to warn her of the dangers. |
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Generational CursesAfter a bitter middle aged alcoholic saves the life of a broken teenaged sex slave, they lift each other from the depths of despair. |
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LIFEMAREA woman name Ria paid guys to eliminate an abandoned museum to build a house for her and her husband to live in, but Ria had no idea that a evil spirit were living inside the museum who terrorized her two years later and no one believed her being terrorized |
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3 HoursHave you ever said something to someone… that you regretted later? 3 Hours is an exciting action thriller with a ticking clock, that has a clear goal yet unsure ending, until the climax. It also has a found footage under-current, which can be used as a great marketing tool to tease and build up the anticipation of the release of the movie. Logline: A desperate young woman gets drawn into the local crime underworld when an ex-con, out for revenge, kidnaps her sister. |
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Fighting Johnny O'BrianFor 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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Destination YesterdayA California businessman discovers, through information provided by a mysterious woman, that his recurring nightmares of a tragic plane crash could be repressed memories of a previous life. |
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GIDEONWhen a mysterious boy with Christ-like powers brings together a racially charged town in the 1940's healing a black boy and a white boy, the mayor's jealous son determines to kill him. |
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A LITTLE FAVORA former fighter pilot is asked, by the colonel who blackballed him, to do a little favor: use his quick reflexes to fly to the sun, reach in and pluck out 2 off-course, discarded doomsday bombs before next Wednesday evening when they’ll explode, nudging the sun, causing major global warming. Script Excerpt |
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PAPER TRAILAn Army brat grows up without a home town, leaves his Army M.P. job to become a P.I. working out of his Grandfather’s storefront in Colorado gold country, his first case revealing a town full of secrets including one that destroyed his family years before, and a new secret that he must forever keep from his fiancée. Script Excerpt |
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4TH DOWNLogline: A former college football star battling survivors guilt from a past fatal car accident gets recruited by a NFL scout as a practice player for training camp on a new expansion team. |
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SEE JANE RUNA young teacher moves back into her hometown. An unknown stalker disrupts her life over and over and almost succeeds to kill her. The investigating officer and preacher's son turns out to be more than a protector of the law and her. "See Jane Run" is an adaptation of Gail Gaymer Martin's inspirational suspense titled "A Love for Safekeeping." |
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VICKI IN VIEWLANDVicki's crush for Jay has her falling head over heels, dropping her in the fantasy world of Viewland, where she must defeat all types of idiotic people and their foolish views in order to return home to Jay and newfound knowledge. |
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BELSNICKLEWhen it seems an evil folklore character begins killing people in a rural town during Christmas week, a young, inexperienced sheriff with his job on the line tries to stop him. |
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Saga of the DwarfA dwarf's plan to save his village lands him in virtual hell but, in order to escape he must depend on a gnome wizard who is literally in hell or join him. Script Excerpt |
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HALL OF PRESIDENTSPrepared to deal with war and economic collapse, the new President faces the one crisis he had not expected: the White House is haunted by the ghosts of ex-Presidents and only he can set them free by righting the historical wrongs they have committed. |
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The Umpire Has No BallsA fiery young woman who has baseball running through her blood and can call the game better than anyone starts her journey through the umpire ranks to achieve her one goal in life – becoming a major league baseball umpire. Her problem? No woman has ever broken through the stainless-steel ceiling of this male dominated sport. |
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The Interrogator aka The State of the UnionA U.S. Army interrogator in Afghanistan uncovers details of an al-Qaeda plot to detonate a nuclear device in Washington, DC as the President delivers his State of the Union Address. But, in the process of interrogation, SHE bonds with her prisoner and fights to save him from the death sentence brought on by his own disclosures. |
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IsolationA guilty husband must protect more than his marriage when his mistress arrives at their isolated, snow-bound lodgings. The situation is complicated by a pair of private detectives attempting to expose infidelities within the group and the mysterious death of a guest. |
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Free IndeedWhen our heroine sees more than what meets the natural eye, she knows she is on a divine assignment, if she doesn't free a woman from spiritual bondage the woman will die. Angels of light fight angels of darkness to protect us. Our prayers influence the outcome of spiritual warfare. |
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BIRDS OF A FEATHERIf he is to earn his gold wings, Jeremy, a young goldfinch, must find the courage to challenge the bird of prey that killed his father. |
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SnowWhen a fierce snowstorm blankets the area, four stranded travelers find themselves in a remote town battling an insidious force more terrifying than the elements. |
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Love and VenomAfter fleeing home as a child to escape the wrath of his deranged mother, a young man returns years later when he learns that his beloved father has just a few days to live and his mother wants to follow him to the gates of heaven. |
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Louisiana StingWhen an undercover FBI Agent is blamed for the death of the woman he was assigned to investigate - her psychotic vengeful husband pursues him while a rookie Cop works to uncover the truth. |
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The MaccabeesA father and self-righteous son attempt to live in peace until the Greek King forces them to renounce their religion to follow the many Greek gods and traditions. This means war. |
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Zone OutA man has to come to terms with being rage gay - his inability to only hit men who get his dander up. |
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Grimm LakeWidowed on her wedding day, a cheerleader escapes to a woodland hideaway to take stock, but when a family of psycho troll-bears tries to reclaim the cabin, it’s kill or be lunch. |
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Kings of CabraJust before St. Patrick's Day, aging Dads challenge a younger football team to a 30-day sober challenge in the Cabra neighborhood of Dublin, Ireland. |
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Your Own Personal HauntingCompelled to live in a house that terrifies him, a damaged man with OCD befriends a live-embracing trans man to help him confront spirits and unravel the mysteries of his troubled life Script Excerpt |
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Citizen HansGerman Officer, Town Commander of an occupied European town in WW2, reliving his youth, teaches a talented local boy to be the best world pianists, not knowing that the boy’s family supports the resistance movement. |
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Across the VeilBetrothed as a part of a peace treaty, Nylas, prince of the Unseelie, and Aislynn, princess of the Seelie, court each other between two different worlds. When a long-time foe threatens Aislynn and the peace their families have worked so hard for, Nylas must tread carefully so as not to start an all out war. |
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Shadow of DespairA Chicago homicide detective specializing in behavioral psychology and analytics, pursues a serial killer who extracts body parts from his victims. Script Excerpt |
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Beyond ForeverA man that tragically lost his wife and son decides to leave his remaining family, friends and successful career behind by signing up for a one-way trip to Mars as part of an experimental volunteer space exploration program. |
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Escape To EgyptWhen the Holy Family narrowly escapes a raid on Bethlehem, they take a dangerous journey to stay ahead of Herod’s forces. It’s a biblical thriller inspired by The Protoevangelium of James, various Christian Orthodoxies, and the Writings of Josephus. |
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The Director's GirlfriendHis marriage on the rocks, a once hot screenwriter now turned lush finds himself in over his head when he falls for the sexy, psychotic young girlfriend of his sleazy movie director neighbor. |
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OASISA team of soldiers, scientists and college students are hired by a corporation to locate a rare diamond formation in the Libyan Sahara unaware they are being used as bait for revenge against a monster. |
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True Tears - Timeless Fairy TaleA young maiden who grew up hidden in the woods must find her father the king to save the kingdom from doom – His twin sister and self-appointed Sorceress Queen who banished him almost 18 years ago uses all her powers to prevent a successful journey. |
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The Suppression of TomorrowAfter barely surviving an accident a man sees the twisted visions of a horrible crime he witnessed as a boy. Now he's forced to face the truth and stop his father from carrying out a series of brutal murders. Script Excerpt |
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IT'S A POPCORN WORLDWhen an overzealous government man tries to steal an inventor’s home using eminent domain, the inventor decides to provide alternative land by expanding the world like popping a kernel of popcorn, if his dance-clubbing hunchback lawyer can keep the inventor out of jail long enough to accomplish his task. Script Excerpt |
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Hobby and FitzWhen F. Scott Fitzgerald is hired by a Hollywood producer in 1940, he is given a mentor: Pat Hobby, a hard-drinking schemer left over from the silent era. The pair team up for a series of outrageous escapades as they struggle to create “the greatest movie ever written.” Based on Fitzgerald's "The Pat Hobby Stories." |
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ELIJAHThe king of Israel marries a Phoenician Princess, who is consumed by Baal worship, wanting to kill all devout Hebrews. God’s prophet challenges the king to repent in spite of the threat of death. |
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Street SignsAssigned to human interest stories and articles on local history, a young reporter with dreams of breaking a big story uncovers an arson conspiracy and a secret society that dates back a hundred years. |
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ONCE UPON THIS PLAYGROUNDA portal back to high school, 1972 thrusts a sexy, spoiled volleyball star into old-school, gender-splitting times where she accidentally ruins history and must piece it back together in her own creative way to find her way back home. |
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BloodlinesA gentle teenage Neanderthal living in the remote mountains of modern-day Montana falls in love with the daughter of a redneck rancher and discovers his calling in the rodeo. But, in order to achieve his dreams, he must defy his father, leave his clan, and defend himself against an accusation of murder. |
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THE GO TO GUYWhen he accidentally kills his entire family, a failed science fiction writer does the only thing possible: he impersonates them all until he can figure out how to get away cleanly. |
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There's An Alien In My BathtubWhen a twenty-three year old agora-germaphobe discovers an injured, clumsy extra-terrestrial in his bathtub during a worldwide pandemic virus, he must overcome his fears and a statewide lockdown to get the alien back to its crashed spaceship where it has the cure. |
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Population: OneA nineteen-year-old drops out of film school in New York City following a tragic accident and returns to his small Pennsylvanian hometown, only to be confronted by an array of quirky small town folk, including his detached best friend, his alcoholic single mother and a free-spirited cross-country traveling girl. |
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A FATAL CUREA loyal PR consultant rudely awakens when mysterious deaths confront her with the fiercely saved secrets about BigPharm’s happiness pills. Script Excerpt |
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GeminiWhen a group of drunken friends beat a suspicious man to death in a spur-of-the-moment act of violence, they hide the body in nearby woods and the series of grisly murders that haunt their summer resort town stop...until the remains are discovered by their own children 15 years later with incriminating evidence against one of them. |
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FOR LIFEEdged on by his incestuous sister-in-law, the president of a leading euthanasia group faces-off with his estranged anti-euthanasia daughter over the fate of his aged mother. |
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Quest for the Golden OrbWhen a ruthless arachnologist captures a beautiful Golden Orb queen, a wimpy Orb spider sets out to prove himself by rescuing her. Script Excerpt |
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Cats in the HoodA ragtag group of alley cats risk their famous can-do reputation and their home to save a catnapped show cat. Script Excerpt |
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TOXIC TIDEA young nurse and her fellow Florida refugees attempt a daring escape from an environmental disaster brought on by greed and political corruption. Script Excerpt |
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Eighty-Eight FrequenciesTrue story: A famous and controversial Hollywood movie star and her unlikely confederate make a scientific discovery that could change the course of World War II. Script Excerpt |
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Sofi's JourneyAn obsessive-compulsive twenty-one-year-old Peruvian woman, hoping to find love and relief from her mental illness, travels from Lima to the USA on a work-abroad program and takes a job at a small ski resort in Montana. [9 awards/honors including, Honorable Mention, 2014 Indie Gathering Film Festival and Top Three Finalist, 2015 River Bend Film Fest] |
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Squid JiggersGenre: Drama/Romance -Feature A passionate young woman loses her arm in a lover’s quarrel and then prepares to face down her ex-husband who stalks her after being released from prison. The romantic thriller is set in the Northwest on the Puget Sound |
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Bre'gan's FistCan two men find love and repair their shattered lives while battling for the fate of the planet? |
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REMAKING MARTINA genius scientist needs to be cloned and then befriend his replica to ensure they are identical; however, if he approves the clone, he will die himself. Script Excerpt |
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Between the Salt and the SkyIn a Portuguese fishing village in 1942, she has nothing to lose, and he has nothing to live for. Two little Jewish girls change everything. Script Excerpt |
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ControllerA young fugitive, still traumatized from a high school assault, uses an experimental mind-control device to save a new lover from a jealous techno thief. Script Excerpt |
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BURNER: A Killing in Palm SpringsA Black police detective must put aside her personal problems and fears of discrimination to track down an opioid-addicted hitman who is experiencing bouts of self-doubt, guilt and rage when he accidentally kills the wrong woman. (3 Billboards meets Fargo with sand) |
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The Cemetery PlotsIn this dark comedy, three elderly and wealthy ladies each purchase two expensive cemetery plots. Years earlier, their husbands had disappeared in a plane crash. Their bodies were never found. The women don’t want to be buried alone. Thus, begins their quest to find men willing to be buried next to them. Script Excerpt |
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A ROSE BY THE DOORA God fearing woman finds herself burned out by hurtful tragedies in her life. By trying to hide secrets from the past, she comes to the place where faith seems gone. But she overlooks, that old wounds must be touched and tended before they could be healed for good. A ROSE BY THE DOOR is an adaptation of Deborah Bedford's inspirational novel with the same title. |
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GODSONLOGLINE: When the son of mafia boss leaves the family business and is wrongly charged for murder, he must choose whether to stay loyal to his mob family and serve a prison sentence, or defy them by proving his innocence and risk assassination. _____________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS: Chosen as next head of his family’s crime business, the eldest son of a New Orleans Mafia boss facing deportation orders abandons his Sicilian heritage by marrying an American woman and going into legitimate business. After his father is deported and his younger brother inherits the family business, the elder son is indicted for murder when a restaurant owner he had previously refused orders to kill turns up dead. Then he learns who is real family is and risks certain assassination by teaming up with an investigation lawyer against his blood family in court to avoid a death row prison sentence. |
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Fade OutA teenage rock band trapped inside their stranded tour bus on an isolated road must fight for their lives against a deranged fan. |
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EternityThe movie is about parallel universes |
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Benjamin Lee High SchoolA beleaguered high school principal must contend with a faculty of unstable misfits, as well as a documentary crew, as he attempts to prevent the school from closing in six months. |
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The Biglaws KingdomAfter his wife was wounded by his brother while trying to rape her, an unhappy King who could not have a son to be the heir to his throne passes on strict laws unto his people to make sure that no one is happy. |
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Next Register, PleaseA group of video store clerks cope with the news of their outdated paradise’s downfall. |
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Cleopatra's RevengeA snake's on the loose in Mike Turner's new home and his wife is really freaking out!!! |
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StigmaA young woman decides to solve the mystery surrounding her beloved Grandpa’s sudden health decline and save him, a decision which brings her face to face with her worst fears. |
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ALL LIT UP WITH NO PLACE TO GOBy produced writer. 10 feature films. 20 novels. Re-titled DON'T TELL ME WHEN I'M DEAD. The son of a wealthy businessman assumes a false identity to stage his own abduction and take revenge on a pair of young, love-struck kidnappers. |
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BastardLondon England, 1907, a successful physician and student of the new Sigmund Freud theories, accepts an offer to re-locate to America. Soon after his arrival, he joins a posse hunting a serial killer of young women. The new sheriff leading the posse is the first female sheriff in the old west. |
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3rd and GoalAgainst all odds, the first female quarterback drafted into the NFL battles prejudices and personal tragedy as she attempts to lead her longtime losing team in the quest for a playoff berth. |
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SWING VOTEOne man gets the unprecedented opportunity to recast his damaged and uncountable absentee ballot and single-handedly decide the outcome of an electorally deadlocked presidential election. The candidates, PACs and powerbrokers try everything to get him to vote their way...or stop the vote entirely. (NOTE: written in ’95. Scriptapalooza 2001 - 2nd place. NOT Costner and Stern's "Swing Vote," which was written in 2007. Script was sent to Stern's first producer in 9/00. Said producer also worked on earlier Costner films.) |
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SLAM BANGOAction-comedy by produced writer - 10 features and 20 novels. An international troupe of Western showmen, led by a befuddled old American star, are forced to use their cowboy stunt skills to save a group of beautiful young women from a gang of real-life sex traffickers. |
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BelieverAn alcoholic with a history of mental illness escapes a murderer and then fights to make sense of her fragmented “visions” in order to save the next victim before the killer’s twelve-hour deadline. Script Excerpt |
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Rod KnockA newly divorced man tries to fit in to the singles world doing handyman work for the ladies he is learning to date, but two male buddies and a Latino gal put his simple nature to the test. Script Excerpt |
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Stone WomanA honeymooner in Belize becomes a reluctant adventurer when an anti-American police chief frames her husband for murder, and the only one on her side is the silent ghost of an ancient Mayan woman. Script Excerpt |
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Sabre IceScientists thaw a frozen cavewoman and unknowingly implant modern brain matter from a convicted serial killer—an attribute they must embrace when their other experiment, two genetically-enhanced sabretooth tigers, break loose within the compound. |
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MIRDAD, A LIGHTHOUSE AND A HAVENIn the late 1800s, a mysterious Man is admitted at a Middle-Eastern monastery, where he reveals new concepts of God, life, and love, which turns the monks into disciples, but also arouses the furious reaction of the local materialistic abbot. Script Excerpt |
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Bonus HitLouis is an assassin with a problem. He's dead. He's also never going to get into Heaven. However, a last chance at redemption is offered. All he has to do is help someone. Unfortunately, that someone happens to be the man who killed him in the first place. |
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THE POOLCharacter-driven psychological horror thriller set in a suburban house, with a disturbed female lead and a shocking twist ending, inspired by Henry James' "Turn of the Screw". Two children seem to be haunted by the ghost of their dead mother's secret lover, as seen through the eyes of a young, troubled woman hired as a nanny while their father leaves town on business. Their suburban house evolves into a nightmare world of psychological evil that seems to emanate from the back-yard pool. Hook: is there a ghost in the house, or is the nanny imagining it and going mad? Script Excerpt |
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INTENT TO KILLWhen his wife dies under mysterious circumstances, an ex-cop unravels a conspiracy involving an impostor presidential candidate with a new world order plot to take over the government. |
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The Man with the PackageOne mysterious agent, a package that has to be mailed back to his boss. What could go wrong? Everything! |
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Hy-BrasilFour lifelong friends go on a search to find a mythological island, which is rumored to grant immortality. |
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Their PresenceInspired by a true story. A troubled youth turned street gang messiah sets into motion an American Dilemma. The founding of Los Angeles’s two most notorious street gangs. A movie envision preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfjW-bbsll4 |
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Stuffing ChristmasOver Thanksgiving dinner, at their beloved family farm, visiting grown kids and grandkids are told by their parents/grandparents that the family farm has just recently sold and will be gone by Christmas so all decide to have one last down-home Christmas by stuffing it into the long Thanksgiving weekend. |
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Astrotopia - The Twelve Realms‘Astrology is brought to life in this fantasy epic.’ When a message of distress reaches the kingdom of the First Realm, the defiant daughter of the king joins her courageous brother on a quest to unite the ‘Trine of Fire’, an alliance between the three Luminary races, to stand against a mysterious menace, threatening to destroy the divine balance of the Twelve Realms. ‘Lord of the Rings meets Mulan.’ Script Excerpt |
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Santa BossWhen an FBI agent is sent to investigate a toy company in a small Wyoming town, she discovers a centuries-old family secret and the source of Christmas magic. Script Excerpt |
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Mermaid of NeverlandAn orphaned maid working for the Darling family doesn’t believe that Peter Pan exists – till she discovers she’s a lost mermaid. She embarks on her own adventure through Neverland’s seas to save the Darling children. |
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Only the Bad GuysIn a dystopian world where killing a killer brings their victim(s) back to life, ex-soldier turned bounty hunter Daniela Dushane makes a killing killing killers as she walks the fine line between hero and villain (THE NICE GUYS meets THE PUNISHER). |
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Cast To KillA respected casting director with a wandering eye for the ladies must fight for his life and reputation after being framed for murder by a vengeful psychopath. |
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Unarmed and DangerousBlamed for a botched bank robbery, a downtrodden teen takes charge and is then assisted by her hostages, reveling in the excitement to stop the new gung-ho detective from arresting anyone. Script Excerpt |
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East Side StoryBernstein. Sondheim. Robbins. Arthur Laurents and Hal Prince. In 1957, before they became legends, Broadway and the world were rocked not just by a new musical but an entirely new kind of musical. Its original working title was East Side Story, based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This is the true story of how East became West and the incredible team who broke new ground with a 360-year-old plot, an unknown rookie lyricist, an operatic score, an interracial theme, and juvenile delinquent gangbangers dancing ballet. |
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Quick ShotQuick Shot is about an ex-marine with the special ability to slow down time and shoot at impossible targets. His life changes when gets recruited by an underground organization bent on taking over the U.S. government. Script Excerpt |
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The Only ShotWhen terrorists plant a series of explosive devices at a greyhound racetrack, a former female Marine and a dog-loving heiress to a Tribal dynasty try desperately to stop the attack and save the lives of humans and dogs alike. |
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Into the SunshineA Naval Officer returns to his hometown Washington, D.C. to lay his younger brother to rest and bring the killer to justice. Script Excerpt |
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SHEILA'S WEBA psycho-sexual thriller about a Key West sculptor, yachtsman and society drop-out who falls in love with the troubled daughter of a powerful Tennessee Williams-styled family and becomes embroiled in a complex web of madness and murder. A twisted, Hitchcockian tale of a single man's nightmare of sex, romance and paranoia based on Patricia Highsmith's theme in "Strangers On A Train". Script Excerpt |
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I'LL DANCE ON YOUR GRAVEA brawny, gun-fighting Irish marshal, Mart Duggan, is selected to tame the fast-growing, notoriously wild and depraved new boomtown of Leadville, Colorado in the 1870s. Script Excerpt |
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CARE PLANSA closeted nurse from a dysfunctional family struggles with love and the meaning of life while working in the gay community during the emerging AIDS crisis in 1970’s New York City. Script Excerpt |
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Hot Rod MonstersIn 1950’s Southern California, a juvenile delinquent battles his fear of the opposite sex and fellow teenagers - who happened to have been turned into monsters - to rescue the hottest girl in school from a mad doctor. Hot rods, teen sexual angst and science gone wild. |
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Cotton-Pickin' HeroesAs the close of the Civil War nears, three disparate black Union soldiers become trapped behind Confederate lines and are forced to hide out on a cotton plantation, trying to blend in and not be noticed by the addled owner of the plantation and his harsh black overseer. But when the Colonel's eldest son declares he's taking the slaves to Brazil -- where slavery is still legal - our heroes decide they have to escape... and plan to take all the plantation slaves with them. |
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Playing the FieldAfter dominating youth leagues and high school football, a young woman struggles with womanhood, academic studies, gender expectations, and family tragedy while trying to find her place as quarterback on her new college team. |
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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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WHITE DEVIL OF SHANGHAIRomantic war adventure set against the backdrop of World War II China. Two mismatched fugitives of war, a jaded American newsman and a strong-willed Jewish refugee girl, escape Japanese-occupied Shanghai to reach Free China. They evolve into unlikely heroes among the Chinese, one as a mercenary destroying lives, the other as a Red Cross miracle worker saving lives. Their stormy relationship ultimately brings them together to save Shanghai's Jewish refugees from Nazi extermination. Script Excerpt |
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Corporate PolicyGreedy executives of a large corporation implement an illegal downsizing process, and they would've gotten away with it but they didn’t count on a desperate employee whose courage and family loyalty proves much stronger than any of their corporate policies. |
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Terror On The RunHow do you wipe out a terrorist organization while also inspiring Arab Sultans in the Mid-East to join Western nations in a global war against international terrorism? Our heroes do it. |
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Potion ManA gifted chemist watches his comfortable suburban life unravel as a long-buried secret talent for creating deadly concoctions is threatened with exposure when it falls into the wrong hands. |
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The VoidThe underachieving son of a coal miner struggles to expose a covered-up mining accident that sparked a raging subterranean fire, but is unaware that the fire has kept ominous creatures at bay for the past twenty years. |
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Who's Beside You Now?A young seminarian volunteers for an experimental medical procedure to restore his failing sight and hearing. The procedure’s a success but now he sees and hears creatures that normal people can’t, including a terrifying being who fights to cross over from another realm to possess him and rule mankind. To stop the entity, the seminarian must learn metaphysics and agree to sacrifice his life. |
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Sky SquadronA gangly emu enrolls in elite Sky Squadron Academy determined to learn to fly, risking banishment from his emu community if he fails. Script Excerpt |
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According to Their KindAfter a famous atheist receives an ancient artifact that may hold the secrets about the origins of life, she’s thrust into an age-old battle between angelic and demonic forces where choosing the wrong side will imperil her life and the world. |
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The Other WashingtonAnother man named Washington surmounts harsh, often violent opposition as he boldly ascends from the illiterate depths of slavery and ignorance to eloquence as an iconic, world-renowned university president and charismatic leader. Based on a true story. Script Excerpt |
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Sam Fights Back: An engaging, stroppy 12/13 year-old, having blinded his sister, must save for her eye operation by Christmas. He has to outwit ruthless crooks wanting his computer skills, or disappear. |
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The Odyssey of John BuchananOur young hero is captured by the British after the brutal murder of his wife and mother. He is thrust into an epic, dangerous journey and is eventually deported as a slave to the colonies. The story lays bare man's inhumanity to man. Script Excerpt |
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SOLID WASTETrashman, Dewey Binder's sheltered world splits wide open when the dysfunctions and sexual missteps of an eco-vigilante family seduce him away from his life long dreams and into a quandary over the true meaning of family . |
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A Risk of ExposureIt’s 1953, and a Russian ballet teacher’s personal mission is to smuggle photos of Stalin's crimes to the United States. With the KGB in pursuit, she finds an unexpected ally. Script Excerpt |
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The Star ThrowerCharlie Morris, photojournalist, tracks Bigfoot into the heart of darkness. |
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Tried By FireAfter a black Pentecostal church burns down, the white pastor of a conservative church tries to take sole credit when the churches merge in a racially polarized town. |
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SHADOW WARLogline: Just when a battle-weary, suspended Navy SEAL revives his family fishing business, he spots Russian spetsnaz troops disguised as fishermen blowing up an oil rig, and fights to prevent a hit on their next target--the Trans-Alaskan pipeline. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Synopsis: On the verge of losing his family because of prolonged overseas duty, a Navy SEAL about to make captain is suspended for disobeying orders to kill terrorists disguised as fishermen caught sabotaging a Caspian Sea gas pipeline. When the disgraced SEAL returns home to Alaska to resume the family fishing business during his suspension, he again encounters terrorists posing as fishermen, but discovers they are Russian spetsnaz forces on a covert mission to destroy the Alaskan transcontinental pipeline. After he warns his family and government officials, they accuse him of having PTSD, and the suspended SEAL learns that to win back his family, save innocent lives and prevent an economic death sentence to the U.S., he must sacrifice his Navy career and disobey orders again by engaging the enemy in a tactical fight to the death on Alaska’s frigid waters. |
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DeathwindTake a deep breath ... just hope it doesn't kill you. A vast area of Central America is sealed off, its inhabitants evacuated and villages razed. Offshore, an American fishing vessel is attacked without explanation. Together these scenarios set in motion a horrifying trail that begins in a biological research station in 1990s Libya and leads to a race to save humanity from a looming pandemic. |
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Sam Katt, DetectiveSam, a down-on-his-luck cat detective, reluctantly agrees to find a missing puppy. As his brother disappoints him, his secretary leaves town and his girlfriend breaks up with him, Sam struggles to change in a demimonde of stray animals and lost souls. |
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IMPACTFor, Elizabeth Bradford, this was just supposed to be another family road trip with her beloved husband and daughter. For, Warren Campbell, this was just another long hours ride back home from another job. The road taken by these two strangers leads them on a unexpected tragic turn of events that will forever change the course of their lives. Life changes are often not of our own choosing. |
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Le TrainLe Train is the true story of the return by train to Paris of the first 300 French women liberated from the Nazis’ Ravensbrück concentration camp for women, told mainly through the eyes of legendary New Yorker magazine writer and Paris correspondent Janet Flanner (“Genêt”). Her “Letter From Paris” column ran for half a century, and she was there at the Gare de Lyon with Gen. Charles de Gaulle, whose niece, a member of the French Resistance, he hoped was on that train. Historical “cameos” include Ernest Hemingway; Jean-Paul Sartre; Simone de Beauvoir; Albert Camus; Gen. Charles de Gaulle and his niece; three professional executioners (two hangmen and a guillotiner); a bunch of Nazis tried and executed after the Nuremburg and Hamelin War Crimes trials; Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas; Sylvia Beach; Natalie Barney; and Djuna Barnes, among others. Major scenes take place all over pre-war and wartime Paris; Buchenwald and Ravensbrück concentration camps; and the war crimes courtrooms and executions of several dozen Nazis. The central part of the story concerns the journey of the 300 women and their Canadian POW convoy from Ravensbrück to Paris. Eleven of the 300 women died en route. |
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MomentumA malicious shape-shifting alien banished to Earth arranges an escape ship with his race responsible for leaving him in exchange for a terminally-ill woman who holds the key to their survival in an interplanetary war. |
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JUST LIKE YOUA young, psych ward gadfly sets on a mission to stop her doctor who farms women for date-rape experimentation. |
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FOXRUNWhen a young widowed mother finds herself caught up in trafficking illegal tech for a friend, she and her son are on the run for their lives. |
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INVISIBLEA dedicated teacher feels invisible after she loses her job, husband and cat on her 50th birthday, until she embraces the people she's always ignored, and embarks on a journey to recreate her purpose, build community and find new love. |
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A Journey With DestinyIn 1906, a young man’s journey by automobile leaves him stranded in a remote mining town about to erupt into a battle royale between company goons and radical labor. Script Excerpt |
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DellwoodA successful but unhappy novelist reluctantly returns to his childhood town to attend a friend's funeral and reminisces about his experiences playing basketball on a city court to escape his abusive home. [Ranked 7th in the Urban category of MovieBytes.com's "Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts"] |
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Gabriel's BonesA Christian zealot determined to create a city of God on the prairies and the savvy captain of the buffalo hunt lead Canadian First Nation people in an epic struggle for survival -- the true story of the Northwest Rebellion. |
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Cold Blooded GoldUnion and rebel soldiers are haunted by their last mission to hide a load of gold. Their captain may have returned from the dead to call them together years later to find the gold and save it for the future. The gold is tainted by the war and a group of "buffalo soldiers" help to save the treasure from an evil force determined to use it for nefarious purposes. |
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MIND'S EYEBY PRODUCED WRITER - 10 FEATURES. And 20 novels. Re-titled DEVIL'S DUE. An FBI agent, haunted by the failures of 9/11, desperately tries to redeem himself by tracking down a serial bomber armed with a deadly new weapon. Winner, Applause contest, judged by script guru Lew Hunter. |
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THE KALAMA AWAKENINGOn a spiritual quest, a young woman ends up in a cult nightmare of betrayal and manipulation, from which she must escape to avoid becoming an Guru's sex slave. |
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East Meets WesternA runaway indentured Asian cook bakes his way into the good graces of a frontier town, where he struggles to win the skills and allies he needs to avoid recapture by the ruthless outlaw who 'owns' him. |
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The Aegis ConspiracyThe CIA gets caught in its own trap when a hacker takes over the Navy's Aegis defense system. |
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The AccompliceA lovable reform school grad, desperately seeking a fresh start in a small town, unwittingly becomes an accomplice in a murder committed by the most popular kid in town. |
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Tabula RasaA young filmmaker encounters ghosts of the past and the present, in service to her Art. Script Excerpt |
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THE KITE FLYERA young widow and her boy, who has Down syndrome, are paid off by her in-laws to disappear. She must learn to cope with life's demands to survive and forgive the people who hurt her to fully live. The Kite Flyer is an adaptation of Gail Gaymer Martin's inspirational fiction, "The Christmas Kite." |
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A Good SoulA sitcom actor risks losing his soul for the chance to prove that he can be more than the lovable big brother he played on TV. His quest for a darker role leads him into the world of underground clubs where he is tricked into playing the killer of a snuff film. |
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MR. JOE PRESIDENTJOE GRANT, an honest, tough firefighter who defies death in raging infernos, risks his life running independently for President against the political Parties, assassins and an incensed, almost father-in-law, ex-Governor. |
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Shades of SinA woman is caught between two men and their long-standing feud with each other. |
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A Long Way From SundayAn edgy, faith-inspired, drama about the relationships of Andre, a mischievous 11year old, and a series of family revelations that lead his grandfather, a working class, Pentecostal pastor, to question his faith, murder his friend, and burn down his church. Script Excerpt |
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The Longest GoodbyeA poignant look at an elderly mother's battle with dementia and her son's commitment to keeping love alive, as memories fade, and life on the road is rearranged to moments in time. Script Excerpt |
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Skyworld - Nyxian Legacy (S1) - PilotOne race, the Nyxians. Three factions: mind-bending manipulators called Kastans, contact influencers called Destans, and the healers called Arkans. Three ships, carrying the future nyxian generation, escape Nyxos, and travel through space heading toward the new home. A bleak tremendous world they left behind, and a formidable wonderful world they found. Script Excerpt |
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Heaven SpentA lonely young man, Micah Cohen, considers suicide, only to be visited by an “agent for the afterlife” who mistakenly thinks he’s already gone through with it. Rejuvenated by his new lease on life, Micah's determined to set things right…but when he discovers that Death itself is hunting him down, it’s up to Micah’s guardian angel – a rookie -- to save him. A dark reverse spin on Capra’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. |
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The Black Sea Of RosesA couple stumbles upon an abandoned cabin. This is not like any cabin -- it's haunted by a family who are stuck in a dark world. Only the couple can save them because little do they know, they are related to this family. But first, they have to walk through the black sea of roses and come face to face with the spirits |
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IniquitousWhen a spell releases an ancient demon, it attempts to bring its fellow minions from hell, through a human woman. And four friends must use a mysterious necklace, to stop the entity from opening a gateway to our world. Script Excerpt |
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Lil B-EasyAfter a Voodoo Priest cast a spell on ventriloquist doll, Lil B-Easy, he comes to life and grows with his human big brother, pulling pranks and causing mischief along the way. Script Excerpt |
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Star Crossed LoversA contemporary Romeo and Juliet story about a budding romance that becomes complicated for two young lovers from rival New York mafia families. |
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SIR HARRY LAUDER TONIGHT!A famed Hollywood actor produces and stars in an Off-Broadway musical about his idle – the acclaimed, world renowned but long forgotten musical hall entertainer, Sir Harry Lauder. A biographical musical extravaganza. All music public domain. Script Excerpt |
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MADAM PRESIDENTSHE WAS THE PRESIDENT! When Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke in 1919, First Lady Edith Wilson launches a mammoth White House cover-up and runs the presidency herself—for 18 months! Think “Iron Lady” (2011). Based on the true, actual historical events. Professional Coverage: “Recommend” Dave Trottier (Author, “The Screenwriter’s Bible”) Script Excerpt |
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False StartUpon graduation, Michael leaves his hometown to start his first semester at Duke University. Unprepared and overwhelmed, he withdraws, returns home, and starts anew while working in a furniture factory. |
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BELLE AND THE BLOOD BEASTA revisionist horror take on the classic fairy tale for young adults -- equal parts romance, action and gore. Belle, a modern, independent beauty rebelling against the man's world of 17th-century France, is forced to live in an enchanted castle to save her father's life. She becomes the defiant prisoner of the Blood Beast, a lonely nobleman cursed with a monstrous body and a predatory savagery powerful enough to hunt and kill twenty men. Both are transformed by a strange, complex love that's threatened by outside forces led by Victor, a cold-blooded cadet captain so obsessed over Belle that he'll destroy them both. Who the true beast is evolves in dark, twisted ways. A romantic horror-thriller date movie, R-rated for violence, not a Disney family movie. More in the style of "Red Riding Hood", "Gretel and Hansel" and "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". Script Excerpt |
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Misguided IllusionsIn the world of Drag Queens, there's a fine line between fantasy and reality. When the two collide not even a serial killer can decide. |
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Autumn BloodBad Apples Don't Fall Far From The Tree... A social worker, tormented by his own abused past, gives aid to an abused, pregnant teen that threatens to become a taboo relationship. The fact that his live-in mother likes to kill socially irredeemable door to door salesmen only makes life worse. When fate deals him a lottery win, his seemingly mundane life falls apart. Script Excerpt |
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Perfect ProphetA death metal atheist with a tortured religious past becomes the target of his satanic fan base because they think he's something more. Check out the novel and its sequel, Prophet Reborn, published in 2018 and 2020. Script Excerpt |
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Spaced OutA female writer suffering from writers block develops a romantic bond with a man who she thinks is perfect, unaware that he is the alien from her story. |
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In the Broad Face of DayHistorical Drama (1843): When a lunatic guns down the secretary of the British Prime Minister in broad daylight in the streets of central London, the ensuing courtroom battle and outcome was to change forever the way insanity was viewed by courts around the world. |
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Turf WarAs Florida neighbors fall in love, their rival lawn ornaments start a war. Script Excerpt |
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In MemoriamThe release of his brother from an institution – accused of killing their father as children – opens a slew of secrets, drama and dark truths for a writer and his family. |
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BORN TO BE YOUA female seagull gets stranded and injured on an island of flightless cormorants. The leader nurses her back to health. He wants her to be his mate with the condition that she gives up flying. |
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Harpo's Bike (Can't Find My Way Home)A young ad artist takes a trip to New Orleans on a Harley inherited from his estranged Marine father to prove to his family that the man was having an affair. Instead, he finds a veteran homeless mute - his father's best friend - who thinks he's Harpo Marx. Script Excerpt |
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Gods Of BellWhen a telephone worker invades the public's privacy by using the telephone lines to find the man who killed his wife, he inadvertently becomes a pawn in a twisted tale of espionage and intrigue. |
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Cage TrapA successful Latina cage-fighter wants to leave the sport to follow her dream of becoming a singer, but she finds that getting out is harder than she thought.(The role of the trainer in this script is written for Jennifer Lopez.) |
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THE BIRTHA young guilt-ridden African-American mother struggles to keep her daughter from being possessed by the spirit of her aborted first pregnancy. |
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Sandoval: Listening WomanAfter four years in the Navy and service in Iraq tracking down bombers and IEDs, and fresh from the Navajo police academy, 26-year-old Navajo Nation Police Officer Irene Sandoval reports for duty and is assigned four bottom-of-the-barrel assignments nobody else wants, including two major cold-case follow-ups, babysitting a rich, white, politically connected daughter of a Washington bigshot -- and arresting an old flame from 10th grade who stole a sheep. Enter a dead frog, a legendary Navajo shaman pursued by Kit Carson, kidnapped Boy Scouts, a ransom demand, and a radical Native American cell ... and Sandoval finds herself neck-deep in entangled cases and cold-blooded killers. |
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A Boy Called ChristmasEveryone is so excited to celebrate Christmas! And when a boy called Christmas comes, everyone celebrates Christmas day! |
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Dunkirk: Miracle of DeliveranceVice Admiral Bertram Ramsay masterminded the plans to rescue the British Expeditionary force from the beaches of Dunkirk. Operation Dynamo would bring them home. |
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Neville & BobNeville Barker leaves an accidental trail of destruction as he tries to get his lovable alien friend (Bob) home. |
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A Death Without MaliceMarissa Sheldon's husband has been in a vegetative state for two years. She is now forced to ask herself - has the time come to let him die? Gold Remi winner, Worldfest Houston |
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Haunt for HireAfter a family enlists the help of a ghost to save themselves from a vindictive neighbor, they start a haunt for hire business and learn that even ghosts can be haunted. 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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HOSEAThe son of the superintendent of international churches is convinced he hears a divine word which he follows, only to face ridicule from his family circle and friends and threats to lose his life from the drug and human trafficking world. This is a contemporary suspense about the prophet Hosea in the Bible. |
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ZwarmAn hi-tech weapons dealer attempts to sell nano-bot technology designed to aid wounded soldiers in combat zones. During testing it malfunctions and ends up trying to repair all imperfect humans worldwide by turning them into drones. Script Excerpt |
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EquityIn the wake of their sudden Broadway success, a husband and wife face hard choices in the 1919 actors strike. Script Excerpt |
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FINDING CHRISTMASA woman gets threatening emails and anonymous calls about her little girl, who had drowned with her husband three years ago. They never recovered her body. Could she still be alive? Finding Christmas is an adaptation of Gail Gaymer Martin's inspirational suspense. |
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The Third ButtonDuring a hit-and-run investigation, a chance love affair occurs leading to a deadly clash between the investigator and the main suspect. It ends up in an unusual reconciliation while the culprit gets a chance to evade the law. |
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SpikeA Native American environmentalist is pitted against his logger brother after a botanist whistleblower is pushed too far in the struggle to maintain the forests of Northwestern Montana. As loggers fight for job security, and as environmentalists fight for their cause, the botanist becomes the victim of both sides, and enacts a dangerous retribution. Script Excerpt |
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Time PassagesA widowed scientist from 400 years in the future comes back to present-day earth to spare the planet (and his civilization) from ecological ruin. In the process, he inadvertently damns his ancestors to annihilation. |
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Because The NightBelieve in love too real to feel. Within the walls of a mystifying seaside mansion, a hard-headed heiress and the house's enigmatic owner investigate a concealed room where they penetrate another dimension and must struggle to comprehend fading boundaries of time, space and reality. |
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The Blues DetectiveA small town Mississippi blues guitarist with big musical dreams embarks on a cross-country search for the parties responsible for the death of a fellow musician, along the way encountering corruption, bigotry, and a mysterious nightclub singer who's not what she seems. |
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THEATRE OF DEATHIn 1903 Chicago, a crusading reporter exposes of the “Absolutely Fireproof” Iroquois Theatre, as a fire trap. He is proven right. Based on the true incident. No one was ever punished. Professional Coverage: "Recommend” - Dave Trottier (Author “The Screenwriter's Bible") |
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Glorious Revolution2056: a new world order. Four prisoners attempt to escape execution by exploiting the judge's weakness for one of them. Script Excerpt |
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The Redemption of John ParkerAn embittered former slave risks life and limb as an Underground Railroad “conductor” until, targeted for death by angry slave owners and a sociopathic slave hunter, he must confront and resolve his inner rage or bring tragedy on his family. Based on a true story. |
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Honor to Pledge the Ending of the Solomon BrotherhoodWhat is there to do when a friendship pledge is the pathway toward turmoil? “Honor to Pledge” is an inspirational movie concerning four men who spent their childhood years together and did just about everything together. They even enlist in the Army together. Their lives are forever changed after making an oath to hold on to many secret that pertained to them, but could harm others. |
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RAGTIME WARRIORA FORGOTTEN MUSICAL GENIUS! James Reese Europe fights racism, Army prejudice and the Germans when he takes command of the “Harlem Hellfighters” band, introduces jazz and pop tunes; he revolutionizes military band music forever. A WW1 action musical biopic; all music public domain. Can be adapted to TV miniseries. Professional Coverage: “Recommend” Dave Trottier (Author “The Screenwriter’s Bible.”) OFFICIAL FINALIST - New York Screenplay Competition SEMI-FINALIST - Black Stories and Screenplay Competition SEMI-FINALIST - Page Turner Screenplays Genre Competition QUARTER-FINALIST - PAGE International Screenplay Competition Script Excerpt |
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The Dressmaker's DaughterRomania 1940: A rebellious Jewish girl, 15, falls into a scandalous affair with her tutor. As war erupts, she is taken prisoner but escapes with her lover to join the partisans and sabotage enemy supply lines. Adapted from my Young Adult novel to be published by Santa Monica Press in 2022. Script Excerpt |
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OutclassedA misanthropic animal shelter owner allows himself to fall for a woman he thinks he can trust--unaware she's a disguised pop star desperately searching for meaning in her own life. 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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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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MeonHumanity seems faced by an imminent quantum leap when the planet Earth is immersed for 20 long seconds in an intercosmic wall of light. Through the combination of ancient, metaphysical codes with the ultimate in modern science, Dr. Sean Saquasta and his team decipher the key to an inexhaustible source of energy , a gigantic golden ball, the control over which unleashes a perfidious battle. |
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Space BratsWhile on a mission to colonize newly-discovered Planet Vistal, five astronaut children set out to rescue their abducted parents from an evil, alien civilization. In the process, these NASA "brats" reign havoc and wreak mayhem in the galaxies. |
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Touch-UpA portrait photographer acquires a computerized photo touch-up program with the power to change a person’s real-life appearance. Initially, he uses it to help the maimed and disfigured. But, his services soon grow in demand among inner-city gangstas - and bugs in the program appear, forcing him to use the program in horrifying new ways. |
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HELLMANPolicemen battle their own fear and despair while fighting the war on crime. |
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MOVING DAYWhen a grifter takes a moving job at a remote mansion for a wealthy recluse, he's tempted by rare valuables in storage, but as an impromptu heist gone wrong leads to a tense stand off, he finds spiritual redemption if not material gain, is well within reach. |
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WAKEAfter three attempts on his life, an ordinary man enlists the aid of a mysterious stranger to fake his death, changing his identity and appearance, but when he attends his own wake to uncover the truth, he gets far more than he ever could have imagined. |
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Servants' RowAfter an indentured servant is brutally beaten by an overseer, the multi-racial servants flee together from their colonial North Carolina plantation with the tyrannical owner in hot pursuit. |
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MOWOODBY PRODUCED WRITER - 10 FEATURES. And 20 novels. Out-of-work auto-workers try to make money and rekindle their marriages by making a movie. English language/Chinese version of the script also available. |
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Gray and Lover - The Hearth Tales IncidentWhile people fear Demons. Demons fear Gray and Lover. A female steampunk duo are contracted to stop "Demon" from terrorizing Seattle before it finds a famous horror writer conjured by his unfaithful and murderous golddigger wife back in LA. Semi-Finalist in Circus Road Films screenplay contest. |
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YOU SAY TOMATOBY PRODUCED WRITER - 10 FEATURES. And 20 novels. Two reporters try to keep their hands off each other while solving the murder of a Hollywood star. In the tradition of The Thin Man, Front Page, and the TV series Moonlighting. TV-movie/pilot version also available. |
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THE COST OF REDEMPTIONTom Bogard, a recluse ex-MD and his new neighbors, a widow and a boy, are forced on the run after the current U.S. President discovers that the woman has evidence that his father was responsible for a murder conspiracy . Screenplay Festival (Semifinalist) |
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The Cascade EffectWhen an government scientist infects himself with a DNA-reconstruction serum, Captain Morgan Gower must lead a team of Marines to hunt him down and keep his genetic mutation from polluting the world. |
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HelixAn assassinated Russian Ambassador, a rogue CIA agent and an out of control biological warfare program throw a counter intelligence agent into a race against time to stop a new, and far deadlier, biological confrontation with Russia. |
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BraumaruA clever sixth grader must learn to control her dreams or be trapped in them forever by a power hungry janitor intent on world domination. Script Excerpt |
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LAST FLAG ON OAK ISLANDWhen a museum curator and his female assistant translate clues in an American Revolution-era journal to a British payroll buried on Oak Island, they must go undercover to unearth the treasure before two rival treasure hunters discover it. Wealth of the century or the island's deft insult? (From the novel Last Assault on Oak Island by Jenn Rekka.) |
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Inhumane TrafficAfter the brutal murder of a missionary, an old-fashioned church woman from the country and an urban undercover police detective team up against ruthless gangsters who run a major slave trafficking network. |
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Somebody Swam AwayWhen a sailing boat badly hurts marine biologist, a talking dolphin saves her life. Wishing to fund research in dolphin communication she accepts to dive for the diamonds unaware that she is in a dirty deal. |
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HEAR NO EVILCriminology student hunts down and kills evil men with a hatpin through the ear, but soon the hunter becomes the hunted. |
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SECURITY ACT 2060What happens in the future when it's against the law to speak out against consumerism? |
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John Milton's Paradise LostLucifer's war in Heaven, the creation of Hell, and the Fall of Man. |
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Vacation BurnoutA couple find a wadded up lottery ticket hidden in some clothes which has the winning number worth a billion dollars which is about to expire within 24 hours before the deadline to cash it in. The problem is they’re out of the country and are held up at the border with no way to get out. Script Excerpt |
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The SchoharieA volunteer firefighter of Native American descent must convince a small town sheriff with a grudge that a vengeful Indian spirit is bent on destroying their town with the flood waters of a nearby creek. Inspired by the actual Schoharie Creek bridge collapse of 1987. Now available as a novel. Script Excerpt |