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Genre: Comedy
Title: Switch
Logline: Discovering that her husband has a mistress, a jilted wife sets out to change her husband’s floozy into a man by secretly feeding her male sex hormones.
Synopsis:
Jilted wife Belle and her deviant friend Mimi concoct a fiendish new form of revenge against Belle''s cheating husband. Posing as potential trans-gender patients, Belle and Mimi visit a sex change doctor for the purpose of gathering a stash of hormone therapy. The meeting is a bust and they resort to Plan B - breaking into the medical clinic after hours to steal sixty days’ worth of testosterone samples. Mimi arranges a scam for the floozy to be out of her house for an afternoon. Belle and Mimi break in dressed as Mary Kay reps, and inject all of the hormone samples into the floozy’s face cream, toothpaste, shampoo, etc. Then, the transformation begins – acne, male patterned baldness, increased facial and chest hair, breast reduction…
Title: I Wanna Rock
Logline: 17 year old buddies Pete and Miles are high-school nerds in public but Guitar Hero prodigies in private. When they get word of the American Band competition, they put together a rocking quartet.
Synopsis:
Seventeen year old buddies Pete and Miles are high-school nerds in public but Guitar Hero prodigies in private. When they get word of the American Band competition, they quickly put together a rocking quartet, inducting geeky Cambodian drummer Sumbat and mysterious bassist Dylan. Overcoming considerable obstacles (including their own desire for parties, booze, and boobs, not necessarily in that order), the guys make it to the finals, surprising themselves, their hometown, and the country. Even before the final result is revealed, the guys have emerged from the experience better friends, better musicians, and better men.
WGA#1401426
Title: The Crooked Stick
Logline: Deviant Archbishop Morlan Fadesti thinks his escort to Rome, Paulo, is a Franciscan Monk. Paulo is anything but a holy man, and intends to bring down this wicked priest with wit and help from friends
Synopsis:
In the year 1517, a crafty convict, who is sentenced to death, swaps places with his twin brother after he suddenly dies. Yet, when Paulo steps into Peto’s shoes, he must also step into his robes - as Peto was a Franciscan Monk assigned to escort an Archbishop to the Vatican for his ordination as Cardinal.
Just like Paulo, not everything is as it seems with Archbishop Morlan Fadesti. It is not long before Paulo realizes that Fadesti is actually a predator in priest’s clothing, preying on young altar boys; not to mention his involvement in a deadly French plot to assassinate the Pope.
So, Paulo conspires with his friends, the Players, a traveling actors troop, and they concoct a plan that will involve many sins, and hilarious hijinx, but all in the good name of stopping a corrupt Archbishop. Thus answering the question: “Cannot God draw a straight line with a Crooked Stick?”
Title: Oh No! Not You Again!
Logline: The FBI calls them crimes, but Martha calls it "Survival."
Synopsis:
Martha Lantari, is a divorced woman living in NJ with her teenage daughter, Melissa. She loses her job, is evicted from her condo and her car repossessed. Forced to move in with Martha''s mother, Anna and Martha''s crazy brother, John, she turns to a life of white collar crime which she calls "survival." Martha has the ability to pursue many career paths but always seems to lose jobs and fall back to illegal tactics. Martha gets a settlement and buys a house in a fake name. Another job lost, she files for bankruptcy with a phony file number. The FBI is notified and Martha is arrested for bankruptcy fraud. She takes a plea and receives two years probation. She''s assigned to a lunatic but funny PO named, Latasha, who falls in love with Martha''s family and they love her. Martha finds another job but is downsized again. Feeling her life spiraling down, Martha tries to go back to her life of "survival" but with Latasha near by it is almost impossible. Will Martha ever learn?
Title: Fire It Up
Logline: When three unambitious rural American potheads discover two large duffel bags filled with marijuana in the trunk of a car, things get wild. Expect the unexpected.
Synopsis:
When Kyle shows up at Poe''s house with a whole mess of pot that was intended for their dealer, Mike, the guys do what they feel is the right thing, call April and smoke as much of it as possible. They feel good about their decision, especially since Mike loses his temper every time he gets high.
Poe and Kyle have been best friends since they were little. In fact Poe was spending the night at Kyle''s when Kyle lost a tooth and a drunken tooth fairy left a vibrator under his pillow. April is the beautiful, yet crude friend who always gets what she wants from the boys. That includes getting out her strap-on when Poe says he wants anal. Not quite what he meant.
Add to that a show dog that eats a used condom, which is later passed in Mike''s living room, and a man getting mauled by a koala in rural America and you have one very interesting weekend. WGA-East Registration Number I208908.
Title: Grief
Logline: Dark comedy- A washed up self-help author gets hired to help a grieving widow and her family get through Christmas.
Synopsis:
Hank is handsome for a 60 year old, but his good looks are quickly out-weighed by his out-of-shape physique and cynical, condescending nature as far as readers are concerned. Especially considering he doesn’t even write his own books anymore. With his only method of therapy being jogging, a popular fad from the 80’s, he’s become obsolete in today’s world of intelligent psychotherapists and young, charming writers that actually practice what they preach- until a consulting opportunity in suburbia breaks through the surface.
Cheryl, a recently made widow who’s got too much on her plate, blindly hires Hank to help lift her family’s spirits during Christmas- the time of year when social appearances and family are impossible to avoid. Hank, against his agent’s best judgment, thinks it’ll be a walk in the park, ignoring the fact that this is a family knee-deep in the grieving period. As is life, that is far from truth.
Title: Business As Usual, a dark comedy
Logline: A hardworking woman dodges financial ruin while fighting to win a promotion. But the boss is an ass, the competition’s a bitch—and everyone who gets the job, winds up dead.
Synopsis:
Diane Blanchard remortgaged her house to pay her son’s medical bills and send him to college. Now she’s upside-down, stalked by the bank and the repo-man. Her only way out: win a promotion opened up by the death of her company’s vice president.
But the competition’s a killer—and when Diane doesn’t get the job, the woman who does, dies. More than once. As the list of candidates dwindles, the number of suspects narrows.
That’s bad news for Diane’s homicide-detective boyfriend, who’s investigating the case. And his “Uncle Rocky,” a Mob boss with a soft spot for Diane.
Undeterred by an apparent attempt on her life, Diane presses on in the face of heartless creditors, a lecherous boss—and someone who seems to want this job bad enough to kill for it…
Title: Honor Role
Logline: Three friends attempt make ends meet by exploiting the wealthy students at a prestigious private school with a homework for hire scheme, but like most things in their lives, it doesn''t go as planned.
Synopsis:
Fighting hard to stave off adulthood, poverty and sober judgment, three twenty-something buddies, with fleeting hopes of becoming screenwriters, hatch a plan to meet the academic needs of rich and lazy prep schoolers. Brett is a teacher at a prestigious and celebrity laden private school. Ryan is newly unemployed following a disastrous stint in a corporate cubicle farm. Andrew has just graduated from law school...graduated that is from academic probation to expulsion.
Looking for a quick infusion of cash and excitement, they devise a plan to use Brett’s position to mine the wealth and sloth at his school. Despite a series of mis-steps, the plan begins to flourish. Everything is on the up and up until an alcohol impaired decision regarding quality control leads to the unraveling of the scheme. Add to the mix, budding relationships, a woeful break up, and a parent of a student “customer” who’s a right wing, law and order TV commentator and the stage is set for a complicated reckoning.
Title: COUNTRY CORNER
Logline: "Country Corner" depicts over a dozen human-interest stories set in fast-paced Silicon Valley centered around a family friendly store that serves as the community "oasis."
Synopsis:
This comedy is based true-life stories of neighbors, traveling businessmen and contractors, and customers of the Country Corner Deli and family-owned store.
It is unusual in this modern age to find a safe, welcoming place where people are positive, friendly, genuinely neishborly, and supportive. Audiences will discover that such a general store still exists, interesting enough in a busy metropolitan area.
On the face of it, laughter, satire and irony are contained in both the plot and setting of the screenplay (that was originally written as a 3-Act play).
Plot: The story-line develops into entertaining episodes full of humor.
Setting: Country Corner is located in a suburban area between SF and San Jose - among the fast and high-pressure environment of Silicon Valley.
This script comes at a time when America could use more comedy. All ages of character personalities are developed. The production is suitable to becoming a musical comedy.
If only every town had a C.C.
Title: Talk to Me Baby
Logline: Two struggling roommates, disgusted with their current employment situation, find solace in the sleaziest job they can find....phone sex operators.
Synopsis:
Roommates, Roger and Craig, experiencing trouble with employment, decide to give being phone sex operators a shot. Roger is gung ho about the idea but Craig is a little more conservative. After attending a class explaining the job, they find the job is more exciting than they ever thought it could be! The roomies are enjoying their sexually motivated, but humorous conversations with their customers. Even more than that, they love the new financial freedom they have achieved. Though things are going great, Craig feels that he wants to make a career change after falling for a young lady(Amanda) he met at the class.
Roger is upset by Craig''s change of mind; and everything becomes more complicated when Craig thinks that Roger is putting the moves on Amanda. Roger feels bad and has to figure out a way to get his best friend back, and to reunite Craig and Amanda. Turns out that the very job Craig wants to leave, is what he needs to get his life back on track.
Title: Second Chance
Logline: An indiscriminate young woman finds herself in the presence of Saint Peter who denies her entrance into Heaven is given an option, a second chance to redeem herself.
Synopsis:
Rachel Wilshire, a prostitute becomes a fatality on Hollywood Boulevard. She however, finds redemption and eternal love with the man of her dreams and gains grace into Heaven in a fairy tale ending when offered an opportunity to change her way of life.
Rachel is given a stay by Saint Peter to remain on Earth for three additional months and an angel, named Estella in body, is assigned to guide her. They take up residence in a penthouse in Manhattan, New York and Rachel, posing as a humble heiress, volunteers at a home-rehabilitation center.
One of her patient''s is a Wall Street tycoon, Douglas Townsend, who is paralyzed from the waist down. A very wealthy man, he romances Rachel in Cinderella fashion that kindles a relationship.
The comradeship Rachel and her other patients share impact both their lives and make for some funny, trying, joyous and heart felt moments.
U.S. Copyrights #3-438-388 and WGAW Registration. #1391285
Title: Lady Bliss
Logline: Travel back to the grandfather of Spring Breaks – Daytona 1986!
Synopsis:
Jacob Milner is trapped in a mundane job as a typical high school teacher. His friends are either married with kids or single and still chasing women. As a bachelor himself, Jacob is still hitting the clubs but life is empty. One day in class he has a flashback to his senior year in high school as a bartender in a club hosting a live MTV Spring Break, the crazy time when he was on a party ship with hot women and unlimited booze and pot, and all the bands jammin’ during Spring Break 1986 at Daytona Beach. The music and 80s nostalgia will set you on a party binge for days!
Please note this script is registered with the Writer''s Guild of America (Registration Number 834629)
Title: Easy Chair Rider40 year anniversary of Easy Rider
Logline:
40 year anniversary of Easy Rider movie 1969-2009
Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda
DC Superman movie/TV series
Truck Stop confessions TV reality
Synopsis:
Deon, (60) Andrew, Eric, CJ and Michael
Denny, Adrian and Deon Durand are identical triplets. Denny (Fonda) dies in 1969 and his murder has never been brought to justice. Adrian dies. Andrew, Eric, CJ and Michael are Deon’s sons.
They see Eric’s divorced wife, Nichole, in Bikeways magazine as a model. They decide to go to Sturgis South Dakota. The wives say the men can only go if the women can go along too. They take the Winnebago motor home.
Eric’s wife, Nichole on promotion for Bikeways Magazine 25th anniversary. Have concession stand and also going to Sturgis. Eric meets her and she wants to reconcile and start a new relationship. Nichole is under contract to contend for Miss Sturgis beauty pageant. Initiated into the notorious Durand Devils gang led by Jack’s brother, big John. She is the lead gang member’s property till next year and a new one is chosen.
DC Superman movie TV series Truck Stop Confessions reality show
Myspace.com/Dell.Tschudin
Title: A Dog''s Life
Logline: Don''t tell the dog owners, but the winner of the Happy Valley Ugly Mutt contest will turn human for a day.
Synopsis:
Poor Dinky wins first prize in the Happy Valley Ugly Mutt contest. Later, as his owners party downstairs, an angel appears and agrees to make him human for 24 hours. Then, he has one wish. He can wish for anything. Or, he can wish to become a dog again. Dinky jumps at the chance.
Dinky-as-human runs downstairs and says hi to the stunned party guests. He is tossed in jail.
Dinky yearns to be an ugly dog again. But the angel gave him 24 "dog hours", a week of human time! His court appointed psychiatrist has Dinky put into the dog pound as a form of therapy, thinking that he will be shocked to his senses if he has to live with real dogs.
The pound is like a real prison, with armed guards, inmate gangs, and an execution chamber for any dog that lasts a week without being adopted.
In prison, Dinky falls in love with an ugly girl dog, Penny. He uses his wish to save Penny from execution, and now must stay human for life.
Or so he thinks. But angels can do anything.
Title: The Ad Lib
Logline: A middle-aged suburbanite and his show-biz-obsessed wife kidnap a TV star, along with a delusional fan.
Synopsis:
Not long ago, Gordon and Rita were a typical Long Island couple. Then he got downsized. These days, you’ll find them robbing hair salons and convenience stores like the title characters in the box-office hit Sally & Joe.
Sean Phelps (better known as TV detective Sid Flynn) fresh off his Broadway debut, tells his manager he’s had enough of his top-rated TV show and its one-dimensional character. Next season will be his last.
That will be devastating news for Serena. She’s just been discharged from a hospital where she was treated for an unhealthy fixation. During her stay, Serena found a new obsession – TV detective Sid Flynn.
These four lives intersect at 18th and Broadway. After botching a cinema hold-up, Gordon ad libs, kidnapping Sean and his new biggest fan. They head to Gordon’s childhood home, now tended by his shiftless brother Cal, where Gordon begins negotiations with Sean’s manager, who hires a real-life detective to find out who’s taken his star client.
Title: Explorer''s Club
Logline: Jim Cook, idiot-savant and would be explorer, leads an unsuspecting group of tourists deep into the South American jungle on a faulty quest to find the Eye of the Gods.
Synopsis:
Plagued with guilt and failure for his role in his older brother’s death during a recent expedition, idiot-savant James Cook leads an unsuspecting group of travelers on a false and faulty quest of self-redemption deep into the South American jungle on the last great inland adventure, to find the Eye of the Gods.
Enticed into the expedition by a practical joke and without skill, guidance or hope, the team bungles through trial after trial blindly stumbling towards their goal, constantly on the verge of failure, losing everything they possess only to find reward beyond their wildest dreams at the end of their misguided quest.
Title: Diary of A Madman
Logline: Dave Dwyer keeps a steady diary of all his indiscretions while living a life with no rules, only to fall in love in the end.
Synopsis:
Dave Dwyer loves Ozzy Osbourne, girls, his friends and lives life by the seat of his pants with absolutely no rules. Seemingly successful, working in software sales, he''s constantly on the run from love.
Only Dave''s diary holds the secrets behind his mind...until he visits a frail psychiatrist for help. Slowly his life begins to unravel and horror of horrors, return to normalcy. He blames a past flame for his odd behavior.
He moves on from his distressed past to fall in love with a beautiful gal he had met early on. They eventually marry. (This was written with a sequel in mind after they are married - tentatively titled: Diary of A Madman - The Married Life)
Title: Salvation
Logline: A young Major in the Salvation Army initiates a Robin Hood-esque crime spree in his Manhattan neighborhood to save the Women''s Shelter he manages from foreclosure; disaster and violence ensue.
Synopsis:
Marlowe, the head of a Salvation Army-run building for poor women, finds out his building is in foreclosure. Land developers jump in to flip the building for profit. The tenants realize they’ll be thrown out on the streets. They recruit Marlowe to lead them to some sort of salvation. With the help of a teenage runaway, Marlowe forms a "neighborhood watch group" that is actually a front for a criminal gang, meant to de-gentrify the neighborhood just enough to save the building. But soon Marlowe can barely contain the ladies. Women are now being robbed, drugs, graffiti, and gangs are everywhere. Stressed and exhausted, Marlowe falls asleep while smoking and accidentally sets fire to the building and is arrested for arson. The women have lost their home, leader and all their material belongings. But it seems to have an amazing effect on the women. They now have a sense of independence and freedom. They are saved from the trap of the building itself and united by a sense of togetherness.
Title: Open Pit
Logline: After his father''s death, a withdrawn horseshoe player reunites with his dysfuctional family and attempts to win back his ex-girlfriend by taking on a rival, but finds real love with a new woman.
Synopsis:
Losing a loved one is never funny, but moving on can be hysterical. OPEN PIT is an award-winning screenplay that examines a man''s raunchy joyride to recovery, while exploring the fresh backdrop if competitive horseshoes.
Shamus O''Toole, crushed that he wasn''t at his father''s deathbed, quits horseshoes and withdraws from everyone but his girlfriend, Angie. He spends his savings on a ring, and hoping for a memorable engagement night, tosses back a Viagra minutes before his planned proposal. Unfortunately, Shamus gets left hanging...out, that is. Adding insult to injury, Shamus finds Angie with his nemesis, Lance Ringer, who orchestrates a plan that costs Shamus his championship, job, car, license, and the ring. Shamus returns to the life he abandoned in order to beat Lance and win back Angie. However, thanks to his smartass friends, insane family, and a firecracker named Ever, Shamus instead learns to move on and forgive himself.
May I submit OPEN PIT?
Sincerely,
Title: SHERMAN MOTOR WORKS
Logline: The founder of a small auto manufacturer dies and leaves the company in the hands of his greedy nephew, forcing the employees to scramble to save their jobs by foiling his plans to sell the company.
Synopsis:
“SHERMAN MOTOR WORKS” is the story of employees pulling together to save their jobs. When the founder of a small auto manufacturer dies, his greedy nephew Richard takes over and plots to sell the company to a competitor who wants to shut the company down. When Mick, the production manager, uncovers Richard’s devious intentions, he rallies the employees and enlists the help of an eccentric millionaire in order to foil Richard’s plan.
Mick discovers that if the remaining employees can covertly build and present a custom car at the biggest show of the year, it would void the deal to sell the company and save their jobs.
This is a feel-good comedy that will have you rooting for the underdog as the cast of zany characters pull together to overcome all odds.
Title: Payback
Logline: Viewers watch the reality show Payback to discover the clues to $100,000 in cash and prizes hidden in a new city each week.
Synopsis:
When interior decorator Little Dickie gets bumped on the head by a chandelier he suffers amnesia and a personality transformation. Now a lawless biker, Little Dickie and his Gang of Four rob countless establishments across the country with impunity, using Black Ops hypnosis to make their victims see giant pink bunnies instead of their faces. Undergoing hypnosis himself, Little Dickie remembers his previous honest self and decides to pay back his ill-gotten booty to America via his reality show, Payback.
Viewers get their chance at $100K in cash and prizes by unraveling clues hidden in the show as to the treasure’s whereabouts. Dickie further supports the show from advertisers who happily pay a premium for their ads, which are no longer ignored but watched hundreds of times as they also contain clues to the treasure. In this pilot episode we follow a colorful collection of characters as they search for their big pay day in the city of Pittsburgh with fun and heartwarming results.
Title: Men on Skis
Logline: Guys hit the slopes and each other. Leaving their families and careers behind, five guys take on 3,000 vertical feet and plenty of cocktails. Can these "men" handle it?
Synopsis:
As long-time friends get together on a ski trip in Sun Valley, Idaho, they each discover that the other has brought along extra baggage. Paul is unhappy with his career. Jack is adjusting to a death in the family. Gary is a newlywed already losing the marital bliss. Mitch is rebounding from a serious illness. And Tim has primarily lost touch with the others after surviving a near-divorce, prohibition from alcohol, and becoming more religious.
While these friends talk about their lives, their families, their careers, and the recent problems befalling each of them, culminating in a serious incident during the trip, this gathering of friends is filled with laugh-out-loud moments, where these "men on skis" act like anything but. They pull pranks on one another, share their silly yet seasoned perspectives on women, drinking, and using the great outdoors as your own personal bathroom. They also "dogfight" all over the ski slopes, where it is every man for himself!
Title: CHEER DAD
Logline: A building contractor takes over his daughter''s High School Cheer Squad and leads them to a championship.
Synopsis:
Jerry Landers knows everything about contracting but diddly about cheerleading. Raisng a 16 year old and a 3 year old is tough enough, but now In an effort to get close to his teen daughter Jenny, Jerry volunteers to coach her cheer squad. With help from his 3 roughneck friends and his former 69 year old former gymnastic coach Irma Tuttlemeyer, Jerry must build the misfit team to respectability and fill the void in his daughters life left by her very supportive Mom.
Problem is Jerry''s struggling contracting business is in desperate need of the Beef King account and competitor Frank Tank will try all means to destroy his reputation and get the contract himself. Because in the macho world of contractors, coaching a Cheer team isn''t manly and the Beef King wants to hire a Man''s man for the job.
Will Jerry give up on the team and fail Jenny or choose the survival of his company and quit coaching to keep the contract? Find out by requesting a copy of Cheer Dad.
Title: VAMPOCALYPSE
Logline: Three geeks, an ancient evil, a prophecy that hangs in the balance, and a Vampire Apocalypse... what could possibly go wrong?
Synopsis:
Centuries ago, the Babylonian warrior Einin prophesized with his last dieing breath that a descendant of his Bloodline would one day take up his dagger and slay his mortal enemy Kasdeya... the Vampire Lord. Little did Einin known that that descendent would be a comic book storeowner from the 21st century.
Thrust into the role of a Hero when his home town is plunged into a Vampire Apocalypse; Kaden Jarvis, along with his best friend and co-storeowner Glen and their accident-prone employee Rusty face Kasdeya, fulfill his ancestors prophecy, save the world, and rescue the woman of Kaden’s dreams in this ‘Clerks’ meets ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ comedy.
Title: Going Together
Logline: Two hapless lovers in L.A. think common ground might be at Forest Lawn in this quirky romantic comedy adapted from the acclaimed novel, Going Together.
Synopsis:
Paul and Helen meet on an L.A. subway platform and, later, on the Santa Monica Pier. Each suspects the other of planning to take the big, final jump. But as they warily become acquainted, they reveal what is actually an odd fascination with ending it all, and can come up with a list of excuses why not to. She finds the bay far too filthy to jump into; he hates heights, which precludes tall buildings.
A quirky romance slowly builds as they engage in some serious approach avoidance across the Los Angeles landscape, even in a helicopter above it. When the relationship heads for the rocks, it looks like one or both might take the plunge after all. The Washington Times called the novel on which the film is based, “one of the funniest books yet.” And the conclusion demonstrates that all’s well that doesn’t necessarily end well.
Title: Under the Influence
Logline: Permit service $30, Drivers Ed classes $350, first car $2500, A movie that tells what really happens in Drivers Ed. Priceless.
Synopsis:
Five students, one instructor, an office manager, a retarded kid, and lots of bad parenting skills all come together because every teenager has to learn to drive. However, upon starting class we learn that this isn’t your average driver education school. Things really get crazy when boy meets girl and love is in the air. Being in love is hard enough for a teenager but when the people giving you advice include a father who faked his own death to escape fatherhood, a life long stripper, and a pimp; the odds are really stacked against you. Then again, life isn’t much easier for the employees of the driving school. One of our instructors is homeless, another is coming out of the closet, and one is constantly threatened and bribed by the retarded student’s mother who can’t fathom how her child could fail the permit test. In the end everyone gets what they want, or at least what they deserve.
Title: Love and Real Life
Logline: A romantic, who believes love should be like it is in the movies, finds out it isn''t, and then must decide if he''ll take back the girl who broke his heart.
Synopsis:
Riley Kravitz is the main character and he believes and tries things from "romantic" movies in his own love life. His attempts fail time and time again. The biggest heartbreaker in Riley''s life was Holly, the girl in high school. Riley becomes a nurse and is living by himself, fed up with love he decides to burn all of his favorite "romance" movies in a trashcan in his apartment. He accidently burns his apartment down and has to go live with his 3 best friends from high school Brian, Ellis, and Blinky. The three friends get invited to the wedding of their semi-alcoholic multipersonality friend Clint. The wedding ends up being a drug bust to apprehend Clint''s fiancee and future father-in-law. The "sting" was set up by Clint''s best man Cam. After the wedding disaster, Riley is at the airport to pick up a friend, while at the airport Riley takes care of a sick girl in the airport that turns out to be Holly. She wants a second chance, and Riley refuses.
Title: The Grind
Logline: A divorced man begins a new job and is caught in the middle of a war between the friend who got him the job and their new boss: a porn star from the 70''s and 80''s trying to escape his past.
Synopsis:
Gary Puttnam is recently divorced and spends his days getting high and playing video games. When his old friend Cyril Dobbs offers him a job across the country, he jumps at the chance.
Cyril is expecting his own promotion at the company until Tom Muntz swoops in and gets the job. Tom Muntz was formerly known as Tom Grind, porno superstar of the 70''s and 80''s. Not that he''s proud of it. That''s just the kind of secret shame Cyril can use to bully his new boss.
Cyril assumes his buddy Gary will help him in his campaign of abuse. Unfortunately Gary begins to sympathize with Tom''s desire to start his life over and offers Tom a shoulder to lean on in his darker times.
When Tom''s past seems to literally be catching up with him he starts to crack under the pressure, but that may be just the trigger he needs to finally confront his demons. Cyril and Gary''s friendship and future at the company hang in the balance as Tom Muntz tries to come to terms with Tom Grind.
Title: Bank Holiday
Logline: Three nerdy Brits go on holiday to Russia looking for love and end up with a whole lot more than they bargained for in this Road Trip meets Hangover comedy adventure.
Synopsis:
LUCIOUS JONES, FLOYD SLATER, and WANG WONG LEE are three IT network specialists who can connect computers, but can''t seem to connect with the ladies so they decide to take a trip to Russia to find love. Their love tour lands them in a small town in Ukraine instead of Moscow and they enter a very bizarre world inhabited by some pretty unusual people - all that toxic waste gets to people. The three are soon are robbed of their possessions by their hosts and scramble to find a way back to the UK, but getting home without passports and money is no easy task. They reluctantly decide that their best course of action is to track down those who ripped them off and ultimately end up in a battle with the top brass of the Ukranian mafia. The trio is benefitted by help of three women who they met at arrival who also have a beef with the mobsters and the guys end up with their possessions and a whole lot more.
Title: Farewell to the Roxy
Logline: In London L.A. punk siblings lease a rock club. One body, one riot, one handsome posh eccentric bagman later and they are all heading back to California…. Fast!
Synopsis:
It’s ’76. L.A. punk siblings Max and Ruby dream of London. A surprise legacy and suddenly its real. In Soho a failing club lease is too tempting and the Roxy is born. But soon the mob come calling. The huge intimidating Sidestep looks the part but Hamilton a posh schoolteacher bagman, well, no! An altercation bizarrely sees big Sidestep prostrate with a knife in his back and a petrified Hamilton helping Max and Ruby plan of his disposal. But these guys are no experts and time is not on their side. With the mob leader looking for answers and an unlikely romance between Ham and Ruby the club is being neglected. With a spectacular final scene, a riotous audience is trashing the Roxy and Sidestep makes a dramatic reappearance!
The Roxy was a real club as is the music. Used as an incredibly powerful, funny, nostalgic backdrop a low budget high impact global cult movie is guaranteed.
Title: God''s Gift
Logline: Mitch Bloom, a happily married man who can’t resist fantasizing about women, awakes one day to find that he’s God’s gift to every woman he meets. He soon wishes he could return the gift.
Synopsis:
Mitch is a middle-aged assistant professor and failed playwright. He’s a faithful husband and a good father. His only vice is that he can’t seem to resist fantasizing about women. They’re harmless fantasies and nothing ever comes of them.
One morning on the subway, he’s fantasizing about a fellow passenger when the train suddenly stops and the lights flicker out.
It only lasts a moment, but when the train starts again, everything has changed. Mitch is still Mitch, but he is now suddenly, inexplicably irresistible to women. All women: his wife, his students, his wife’s boss, his son’s girlfriend, waitresses, stewardesses, women on the street. All women.
Mitch’s quiet, ordinary life becomes a bedroom farce. Temptations abound. He’s only human, after all.
But magic can’t save him from the disastrous consequences that ensue. Only Mitch himself will be able to resurrect his career, restore his reputation, and repair his damaged marriage.
Title: GOLDENROD
Logline: Pushing forty and his career on the skids, LA’s biggest porn star discovers newfound vitality in the idea of crossing over to the big screen.
Synopsis:
Set in 1989 Los Angeles, out of shape porn star Rod Burley soon realizes his fantasy lifestyle is not all it’s cracked up to be. Visions of Woodstock flash back in his head and the lines between real-life and movie-life become blurred. When young newcomer Rock Hardson threatens to dethrone him, Rod must find a way to pump up his flaccid career, earn the respect of his peers and deal with a strange new feeling called love.
Title: My Big Fat Armenian Brother
Logline: A Comedy about a Reality Show. In the vain of” My Big Fat Greek Wedding”.
Synopsis:
Ken Davitian known for his co-starring role in Borat discovers his estranged brother Michael who is a big movie Star in Armenia wants to come live in the United States. Ken finds out the only way to get him here is on a work visa. Ken recruits the help of his cousin an Armenian studio executive. Together they hatch a plan creating a reality show and hiring Michael to meet visa requirements. Michael enters the country and is caught up in a crazy, world wind reality show consisting of Ken and his wife trying to find him someone to marry.
Ken Davitian has agreed to play the role.
Joe''s Film and Tv credits can be seen IMDB.com
Title: The Family Inheritance
Logline: An incompetent, inept waiter suddenly becomes the Boss of New York''s most powerful mafia family.
Synopsis:
With a deathbed confession, the dying Boss names the families new Boss his son Tommy, who he put up for adoption as a child is to become the Top Wise guy.
The shock of this news causes dissention among the ranks, especially for Raimo Primavera, the overlooked underboss.
Tommy gets a crash course in Mob 101, while trying not to get himself killed along the way.
Madness culminates as Tommy''s first order of business is to sabotage Raimo''s daughters'' wedding day.
Title: SAMUEL
Logline: A young woman (Susan) a gold digger marries an older top Hollywood movie producer (Charley). Shortly after their marriage Charley passes away. Susan thinks she is now filthy rich.
Synopsis:
At the reading of the well things change, Samuel, Charley’s younger retarded brother, is introduced as the beneficiary of Charley’s trust. Susan is only the Executor. As long as Susan cares for Samuel she will receive a small annual income and continue living in the Beverly Hill mansion, driving the Rolls Royce. But, if Samuel predeceases Susan she inherits the trust. Susan sets out to accomplish this goal without being accused of murder. http://samuelthebookandmovie.com From the book SAMUEL by Keith Quincy.
Title: God Cops
Logline: Two British cops find themselves imbued with mysterious powers, using them with dramatic effect in their work, until two criminals with similar powers force them into a spectacular battle of wills.
Synopsis:
PC Mark Watson and PC Gurjit Singh love and hate their job. Dealing with crooks, cons, rascals and reprobates is their daily grind. A burglary in an old house changes all of this, as the cops become affected by a mysterious substance disturbed during the break-in. The following day their work takes on a powerful new edge, as they deal with incidents in a thrilling manner, changing lives for the better. A balance is restored when the cops discover that two burglars have also been affected, thrusting all four into a sensational and destructive showdown . WGA Registered #1363857
Title: Ms. Right
Logline: If women do it, why not men, too? Four womanizing friends infiltrate high society to secure their financial futures, but stumble onto something more lucrative. MS. RIGHT. 109 page comedy.
Synopsis:
Chris Edwards is always looking for the next best thing, especially when it comes to women. It all finally catches up with him and he loses his girlfriend, his job, and his dignity all in one day. While drowning his sorrows in alcohol he sees an infomercial for an internet dating service and concocts a revolutionary scheme. Women date men for money, why can''t it be the other way around? Chris enlists the help of his friends; Jake, Curtis, and Seth, to infiltrate high society women, in hopes to secure their financial futures. Through various contrived encounters, starting with the dognapping of Cupcake, an ex-police narcotic K-9; they soon have their targets eating out of the palms of their hands. However, nothing is ever that simple and Chris soon realizes he is in love with the girlfriend he lost. Chris'' friends aren''t going to let him go down without a fight and they put their scheming abilities to work one last time to help him win back his true love.
Title: The Bordwells
Logline: New York City''s most hated upper-class family is about to be sentenced to the worst punishment ever: suburban life.
Synopsis:
The Bordwells, an upper-class family in New York City, are an extremely unlikable family. Obsessed with image and always ones to look down their noses at others, they are quietly loathed by their friends and even their children. Their world comes to a grinding halt when they are caught embezzling from a charity and are charged with doing so.
After several death threats appear, The Bordwells are sent to live in a suburban community away from New York to protect them, under new identities. While the children adapt quickly to this new suburban lifestyle, the parents remain stubborn and refuse to do so, quietly loathing their friendly neighbors and their middle class values. One night, The Bordwells decide to sneak back to New York to visit some old friends only to realize that they are not missed at all and nobody wants to have anything to do with them. Despite this, they still wish to go back to their old lifestyle, but not if their children can stop them first.
Title: Firesale
Logline: A combination of the comedy of The Office with Wall Street-style corporate raiding.
Synopsis:
The private equity investment firm, Oak Investments, has just taken over the gourmet food chain, Harry''s. The Oak-appointed President, Dick Hastings, is timid and reacting badly to the acquired company''s falling sales. Dick hides in his office and listens to relaxing music to calm his nerves, tells his woes to his IT consultants, and gets air on the roof (while he considers jumping). Meanwhile, the Oak Investment executives believe that their President is rock-solid. When Dick''s secretary informs one of the Oak executives that Dick is on the roof, the executive laughs appreciatively and says that Dick is "trying to get a bird''s eye view of the company."
Harry''s CFO, Thomas worked at Harry''s prior to the acquisition. Thomas is British, resents, the buy-out, and frequently mentions that finance is not an exact science, as he delivers bad numbers to Dick. In fact, most of Harry''s employees are unhappy with the buyout and work to bring about the company''s demise.
Title: Elijah
Logline: As Jews celebrate Passover, and symbolically open their doors to the prophet Elijah, a drunk appears on one family’s doorstep and surprises even the unbelievers that miracles do still exist.
Synopsis:
As a young boy opens the door at his family’s Passover Seder, to his surprise there stands a drunken bum named Eli. While the boy is the first to believe that this is the prophet Elijah, eventually others start to believe it as well when miracles happen that are connected to this strange man in this family friendly comedy.
Title: Recession Men: Minimum Wage, Maximum Rage
Logline: High-stakes hustlers on the run hide out in a coastal town in the Northwest.
Synopsis:
Two Ponzi schemers flee their financial carnage, barely escaping Federal investigators. Holed up in a quiet town on the Northwest coast, Adam apparently has found Zen peace as a bus boy dishwasher, unfazed alike by the bullying loggers and sweet temptresses. Meanwhile, Orion continues to hustle, whipping the locals into a frenzy with his get-rich schemes. A savagely clever con job leaves one to face the town’s tirade (and Federal handcuffs), while the other is hailed a hero.
Title: RMAC: RETURN TO MANUFACTURER
Logline: A high school teen takes a summer job in hopes of buying the popularity and esteem of his peers.
Synopsis:
At Stereo City, employees pride themselves on their execution of the salesman's golden rule: "the customer is always... " wrong?
Matt Moore is about to begin summer vacation following his junior year of high school. Not smart enough to be a nerd and not athletic enough to be a jock, he walks the halls as one of the ordinary and invisible. So what does a normal kid do when faced with the possibility of never achieving high school fame? Simple, he buys it. Matt spends his summer amongst the working class at Stereo City. There he must prove he has what it takes to survive the shark infested waters of commissionable retail sales, where only the strong close the sale.
Title: Remnants of Hammers
Logline: Constant bickering drives this comedy-drama as the plots of immature Bill, rabble-rousing Eldon, and ex-Marine George converge upon poor Dr. FitzUrse.
Synopsis:
(WGA registry # 1305357): Air Force officer turned Geology professor Henry FitzUrse and wife Adele are looking forward to a holiday of shopping, peace, and quiet. But in addition to a crippling blizzard which has raised contention to stratospheric levels, plans are about to be upset chiefly by former student Bill (whose debt-spree is weighing on him), burnt-out Marine vet George, who has fashioned himself a legend, and George’s astonishingly dysfunctional family; some issues are resolved, others made worse, and in the end you have a comical and sardonic look at relationships and choices. Could be very low budget, ensemble, strong language.
Title: Nature Man
Logline: The spoiled host of a popular survival TV show, who lives in the shadow of his famous naturalist father, discovers its not easy to keep a secret - that he has no survival skills at all.
Synopsis:
The spoiled host of a popular survival TV show discovers it's not easy to keep a secret - that he has no survival skills at all - when he's forced to go on a real nature challenge to win the girl he loves and get his show renewed.
Ted Walker, Jr. is Nature Man, the host of his own Survivor-type of show on the Outdoor Planet cable channel. He lives in the shadow of his deceased father, a leading naturalist of the past.
Ted’s problem is that where his father was the real thing, he’s a fake. He doesn’t have any survival skills beyond those of Hollywood. His show is the ultimate put-on, where all of the action is filmed as real, but is actually totally staged.
Trouble comes into Ted’s life when he runs into a sincere woman who believes in his fake persona, and a rival who wants to take the girl for his own and run Ted’s show into the ground as well. Ted has to gear up to face the yearly Survival Challenge to win the Peary Cup before his rival does.
Title: Death Speaks
Logline: Sometimes those we need to forgive are those we so badly want to forget!
Synopsis:
Dear Reader,
My name is Eric Wehr and I have written a feature spec called, "Death Speaks" that I would like to send your way.
"Death Speaks" is a dark comedy along the lines of such movies as "Rushmore" and "Little Miss Sunshine". It begins with a young man named Greg, who after the death of his unloving father and sickness of his mother, finally begins to talk and live. Creating random animal facts, riding a unicycle, visiting dead strangers at the graveyard, and feeding local animals are all ways Greg attempts to normalize himself. But the small town won't make it easy, as they will not forgive Greg for his father's past. Only his mother, and elderly couple, and a young waitress give him the support and help he needs.
I think "Death Speaks" is a unique and quirky perspective on death/forgiveness that will appeal to a broad audience. My script is ready to be sent upon your request.
Best Regards,
Eric Wehr
Title: DEAD AIR
Logline: A phony TV psychic murders his rivals and "discovers" their bodies for the police in order to save his own show from cancellation.
Synopsis:
Murdoch Arcana, a phony TV psychic, has to keep his syndicated TV show, The Great Beyond, from getting the axe while competing with rival Hindu psychic, Vivek.
As Murdoch interviews a guest on his show, the mentally unstable man shoots Murdoch in the head.
Although he survives and recovers in the hospital, his injury has caused him to have severe headaches and hallucinations that trigger murderous impulses.
When he starts to dispatch his rivals and "discover" the bodies for the police he becomes a celebrity and media darling and his TV ratings hit the roof.
But when he is caught red-handed by police killing Vivek, he is arrested. On trial, Murdoch becomes an even bigger celebrity and a media circus spirals out of control.
Title: A Not-so Romantic Comedy
Logline: The guy that wants no one finally meets that someone who just won't go away.
Synopsis:
For some marriage is life's biggest joy, but for Noel Fitzsimmon, marriage is life's biggest mistake. And, when that audacious claim to want no one, is met with someone, that just won't go away—a squatter, Anne Hunter—what ensues is an irreverent but light war of attrition between Noel and the insurmountable forces of matrimony in the Deep South. His assault—sometimes poignant, always absurd—targets the institution of marriage, his best friends imminent wedding in particular as its proxy and Southern culture in general as its champion. Honest love is messy, childish, and ambiguous, but also, when it is true, as we come to find, unconditional. So, while A Not-so Romantic Comedy is at once an indictment of love and marriage—peeling away myth and delusion—in the end it operates as an endorsement, albeit reluctant, by their staunchest foe. It's got the clever comedy and emotional resonance to re-energize the genre. A romantic comedy, finally, that even guys will tell their friends to see
Title: Alfred
Logline: A clumsy old ghost fulfills his hearts desire of becoming human
again. The only way he can do this, is to be around humans.
Synopsis:
Tony and his new wife Grace, are parked by a lake near their house one evening,when a ghost follows them home and refuses to leave. Tony keeps the ghost secret from her, for fear she will leave the house. Alfred,the ghost plays havoc with his new found friends,and
scares the pants off his Mother-in-law when Tony has an accident
and she has to move in. It's a combination of hilarity and heart
warming sadness.
Title: Look Who's Stalking
Logline: She didn't have stars in her eyes...she had one on her back.
Synopsis:
Pam, a young advertising copywriter, is thrilled that Alex Bannister, a star of stage and screen, has agreed to do the voiceover for her television commercial.
At the recording session, Pam is not pleased with how Alex is reading the script. When she corrects him, things get ugly. Apparently Alex has anger management issues.
Shortly after the commercial airs, Pam is fired from her job. She interviews at other advertising agencies, but doesn’t get the job offers she expects. Soon other strange things are happening. Pam spots Alex several times on the street; she has mysterious hang-ups on her answering machine, and receives a nasty letter and a suspicious package with no return address.
Pam thinks Alex Bannister is behind the bad things happening to her. But since when do stars stalk ordinary people?
Pam then hatches an elaborate plan to get revenge, involving Alex, embarrassing footage, YouTube and blackmail.
Title: BOX OFFICE KILLING
Logline: You want to make sure a movie is a hit? Kill off your star and then release the film as his "last work."
FARGO meets ENTOURAGE in BOX OFFICE KILLING. A partially packaged black comedy screenplay.
Synopsis:
I have had a script produced with Warner Bros. (TWISTED FORTUNE) and finished a writing assignment to co-author a script with Stan Lee.
ERICA realizes her job is in jeopardy when she comes to work and finds her boss trying to commit suicide. Again.
Desperate times call for desperate measures ... such as casting DiCaprio-esque star HANZO, and then hiring serial killer RAY as production assistant in the hopes of making sure the young star meets his demise just before the end of filming.
Not so simple on this movie set. The studio head demands that his Jewish, gangsta wanna-be nephew is in the movie. Ray has had a crush on Erica since high school, and wants to prove his love in a rather morbid manner. The child star is not safe around the pedophile director, and Hanzo spends most of his time having sex with anything that doesn't move away.
Erica can't worry about that because every since she turned down the killer's advances... he's been coming after her!
Title: Take Me Back
Logline: Reformed playboy tries to win his ex-wife back. She's reluctant, so he works on her fiance, taking the nerd out on the town in an elaborate frame-up.
Synopsis:
A reformed playboy attempts to woo his ex-wife, in the romantic comedy "Take Me Back." Slight roadblock for Grant: Irene is now engaged to be married to Henry. He might be a little nerdy, but Henry is serious, reliable and straightforward, everything Grant isn't.
Getting nowhere with Irene, Grant decides to work on Henry. Flattered by the charming, cool sophisticate, Henry sidesteps Irene's warning and agrees to "hang" with Grant. What harm could going to the ball game do, especially since Grant has such great tickets . . . . Three days later (or is it four?), Henry finally resurfaces, hideously late for his own rehearsal party, bleary-eyed, somewhat incoherent, smelling like booze and cheap perfume. Where has he been? Why hasn't he called? How come different women kept answering Henry's cell phone? Why are there night club stamps up and down his arms? Is that a TATOO???
And who's this girl following you everywhere?
Based on a true story. (More or less.)
Title: Your Very Own Ricky Rubato
Logline: Ricky Rubato is a fading nightclub crooner and Greta Sharp is the most ruthless woman in Wall Street. But their offbeat love affair makes a little town rich.
Synopsis:
Seeking representation for this feel-good romantic comedy. It is set in a small town in present-day America, where fading nightclub idol Ricky Rubato is filling in for the star attraction, Beppo The Wonder Dog, who has gone into rehab. His opening night is watched by Greta Sharp, a ruthless corporate raider. She is visiting the town only to close down its last remaining major business. But listening to Ricky's tired nightclub standards she melts and rediscovers her past, growing up in a similar small town. And they make her weep for her long-dead fiance. She falls in love with Ricky and together they restore Beppo. Then with the dog's crucial help, they save the little town. There is a secondary romance, which turns the world's most boring book (called Metallurgy In Turkestan) into a smash hit musical. The movie also reveals the Queen of England's secret life as a rock music fan. WGA registered 1295505, available in PDF.
Title: THE PRANK
Logline: Man plays prank on the wrong person. Office prankster gets the tables turned on him through a series of malicious pranks causing his life to spin out of control.
Synopsis:
Bill likes to play pranks, but when Bill, the company’s golden boy and next in line for partnership plays a benign office prank on the new guy Jonathan, the prank is not received very well. Now pranks are being played on Bill and they are not your average pranks, there is a diabolical maliciousness to these new pranks.
It starts with someone leaving his resume on the company copier where his boss finds it and goes down from there. Bill’s life goes into free fall ironically from someone playing pranks on him.
Bill winds up losing everything that’s important to him, his fiancé, his friends, his job, even his much beloved tropical fish. Now with his life in shambles and a home incarceration bracelet silently blinking at his ankle, what will he do? What would you do?
Title: The Misfits of Mishawaka
Logline: Four losers in a small Indiana town with an addiction to golf, no common sense, an allergic reaction to responsibility and the humor of LSD infested pinheads sucking on crack-cocaine lollipops.
Synopsis:
Joe is a foul-mouthed, angry and bitter man with the temper of Jack the Ripper. He once tried to pass off a jar of brown liquid on Ebay as the Diarrhea of Anne Frank.
Bob is a disgusting fat ass with uncontrollable bowels due to a botched surgery to remove a cyst from his rectum.
Frank once purchased pecker pills from a stranger on the street and is now inflicted with a permanent boner. He's also convinced that
Abe Vigoda is a former Nazi war criminal.
Ken is the leader of the group. Highly intelligent, and a phenomenal golfer with no tolerance for women who don't appreciate golf.
Mix together these four imbeciles and their addiction to golf and you've got a recipe for non-stop laughter with rapid-firing, outlandish dialogue.
Throw in a botched bank robbery, a stint in prison and the twisted thoughts of these borderline psychos and you've got a movie that will have the audience in stitches. Move over Caddyshack. These misfits are in a class all by themselves.
Title: THE MAN FROM NANTUCKET
Logline: Joel, suffering from a birth defect leaving him unable to please his wife, undergoes a procedure that leads him to become the legendary Man from Nantucket. Inspired by true events.
Synopsis:
JOEL is living the American dream. He has a great job, a nice house and a beautiful wife. His dream is suddenly shattered when he discovers his wife has secretly become the town floozy. Joel blames himself for his wife ravaging the town because of his own ability to please her in bed due to a birth defect to his little willy. His best friend ANDREW convinces him to visit a doctor, who performs a procedure on Joel turning him into a renewed man
After the procedure, Joel goes to Nantucket to recover and Andrew enters him in a bachelor contest as the Man from Nantucket. Andrew emails a picture of Joel to the contest, but he sends the wrong picture. He sends a picture of Joel's new and improved willy and hoards of woman flock to Nantucket from all over New England. Not knowing he is the Man from Nantucket, Joel falls in love with Anna, a local girl on the island. If Joel wins the contest, he loses his newfound love Anna and if he loses the contest , he loses everything. WGA 1298328
Title: The Franchise
Logline: What would you do if you find money that belongs to a drug lord?
Synopsis:
Two obnoxious A/C contractors (Jack Daniels and Jim Beam, no relation) who both work for a mayor company, they purchase a mansion that belongs to a confined drug lord and they find millions of dollars behind the walls while redecorating the living room. They spend it by purchasing a franchise of their own without paying taxes and become proud owners. They hire employees with no background check and drug tests are not a requirement just to save money. Based on these actions, the IRS and the Human Resources are after them for those needed documents.
That is the least of their problems. The drug lord gets out of prison and tracks them down to recover the stolen money and takeover the franchise. Jack and Jim won’t let that happen.
Title: The Island Of Lost Boyfriends
Logline: Judy and Katie, two unlucky-in-love women with a novel idea for a business, entrap all their good-for-nothing ex-boyfriends and send them to boot camp hell.
Synopsis:
Judy’s had a procession of bad boyfriends - commitment-phobics, alcoholics, habitual liars, manic depressives and Star Wars fanatics - every one has proved a disaster. She’s relieved to finally be dating Rob, who she believes is serious husband material. But when he turns out to be a love rat, Judy becomes convinced that her idea for a Boyfriend Bootcamp would make a viable business venture. She enlists the help of old school friend, Katie, and together they go about entrapping all their ex-boyfriends in order to teach them a lesson in good behaviour and to act as guinea pigs for the bootcamp. Chaos ensues when the boys are put through their paces with assault courses, lessons in household chores, craft workshops, and tips on how to treat women. And if the old Wookie prisoner trick won’t get them out of it, then maybe building an escape tunnel will. What the girls fail to realise is that it's not only the boys who need to change their behaviour for the better.
Title: Country Comforts
Logline: From waiting tables to writing movies
Synopsis:
Mike and his friends wait tables and wait for their real lives to begin. In the meantime, they debate whether King Kong can truly be called King if there is no dong on Kong, why movie critics always use the word "gripping," steal antique Shoney's Big Boys to use as landmarks for their parties, explain that waiter talk is like Vietnamese in that changing the inflection of words changes the meaning (for example, "May I bring you anything else?" may mean "May I bring you anything else?" "Take your ass home," or "I enjoyed staring at your wife's tits," depending on the inflection), as well as developing friendships, losing love, finding it in unexpected places, and discovering who they are.
What is captured is the "quarter life crisis" that is so prevalent among young people today--the period after college and before responsible adulthood that is stretching ever further--and how easy, frightening, complex, and rewarding the transition is.
Title: Summer of '69
Logline: A ten year old boy learns about love, life and responsibility at Woodstock in 1969.
Synopsis:
TOMMY is an over imaginative ten year old that loves the TV show Batman. When Tommy's parents go away on a business trip they hire LAURIE, a 17 year old next door neighbor to watch over Tommy and his little sister ANDREA.
When Laurie's grandmother dies unexpectedly she convinces her parents to leave her with the kids for a week so they can go to the funeral. After they leave Laurie throws a party and gets talked into going to Woodstock by her self centered boyfriend J.J..
Once at Woodstock Laurie and J.J. lose track of both kids. Tommy explores the Woodstock grounds and learns about love life and responsibility when he delivers a baby single handedly and accidentally has a run in with the Hells Angels. They all barely get home safely from Woodstock just before Laurie's and the kid's parents arrive.
Later, when the parents figure out what happened all hell breaks loose when the Hells Angels show up for revenge and Tommy gets a chance to prove he's a hero.
Title: Me and Christian
Logline: A teenage girl decides that the antidote to her boring life is to meet and woo actor Christian Bale.
Synopsis:
17-year-old SARA COOPER can't stand her lonely existence in the suburban hell that is Simi Valley, California. After catching a newscast announcing that Christian Bale -- her all consuming obsession and frequent fantasy -- will be giving a talk about Beluga whales at the Long Beach Aquarium, Sarah decides nothing is going to stop her from meeting him – not her over-protective phone-in psychic mother, clueless community theater star dad, slacker brother, or the awkward, unrequited love of a nerd. No, Sara will meet Bale no matter what the cost – college, best friend, and virginity be damned.
Title: Teen Messiah
Logline: A modern day teen Jesus must save decadent Roman High.
Synopsis:
A modern day teen Jesus must save decadent Roman High.
Title: Back Seat Driver
Logline: Ray, a Chicago cabby, falls for a sleepwalking waitress while his outrageous
split-personality, cousin Eugene, lusts after their sexy psychiatrist.
Synopsis:
At age 15, RAY's overbearing, showoff cousin EUGENE accidentally dies in
a car accident at a rock quarry. Though innocent, Ray is consumed with
guilt about the horrific event. After years of despair and grief, Eugene is
born again as Ray's split personality and begins to lead a double life that Ray
does not even know exists. Ray becomes haunted by constant blackouts and
begins seeing Dr. Kate, a beautiful and wealthy psychiatrist seeking to
leave her practice and start a new, exciting life.
While Eugene and Dr. Kate kindle a romance, Ray falls in love with Jamie, a
sleepwalking coffee waitress. Ray and Eugene battle and torment each
other until they are finally brought together at Dr. Kate's early-retirement
party. Ray's aunt and uncle and Eugene's parents are invited as surprise
guests by Dr. Kate in order to help Ray. Will the confrontation finally set
Ray's guilt and double life to rest or will it send him over the edge?
Title: Satan's Six
Logline: Five, evil demons help an awkward, teen girl win the attention of the school bad-boy.
Synopsis:
Cory is an alienated teen girl with a crush on the new, school bad-boy. Problem is he doesn't know she exists... until Cory tries a Satanic ritual promising a solution to her problems and inadvertently summons five, evil demons seeking shelter. It's rough going at first as the demons take over Cory's house and old, earthly, bad habits return with a vengeance. Cory and the demons struggle for control of the house but eventually settle into an uneasy alliance. Each demon gradually takes an interest in Cory and her life. They rally around her, utilizing their respective, diabolical skills to transform her into the ultimate, bad-girl.
Loosely based on the comic book by Jack Kirby.
WGA#: 1286377
Title: America's Next Top Video Vixen
Logline: Americas Next Top Model and Flavor of Love Charm School meets Video Vixens. Fifteen aspiring Video Vixens from across the country are chosen to stay in one luxurious house while competing to be ANTVV.
Synopsis:
The Hip Hop culture is under pressure with terms such as “Video Vixen” being given a negative image over the past few years, by America and the entertainment industry. Video Vixen’s are treated unequally and often misunderstood at times due to lack of respect until now. “America’s Next Top Video Vixen” will change the way these women in videos are viewed, by showing America and the Entertainment Industry how intelligent and hard working these females can be in a positive setting. ANTVV will bring hope to other aspiring video girls around the world by showing them that there is a positive side to being a Video Vixen.
All fifteen contestants will be enrolled in Video Vixen School which is a Ten Commandment program that will build character, leadership skills, self-esteem and ensure a stable foundation that will prepare them for the world of entertainment, not only as a Video Vixens but as well respected individuals.
Title: Mr. Stone
Logline: Story of Jason Carlson duped into buying his first home site-unseen. Taken prisoner in his new home. Jason's hopes rely on a wel-mannered statue to provide some assistance.
Synopsis:
Jason seeks out more to life when his boss encourages him to buy a home. Taken in by an agent, his dreams don't match up to his experiences. Enslaved in a child's playhouse by a gang that refuses to leave his home. His only hope lies in the assistance of a well-mannered statue called Mr. Stone. W.G.A. 1284678
Title: The Unthinkable Bawdy Brown
Logline: 40 Year Old Virgin meets Fight Club! When Bill meets Adeline, he realizes he may not be the only one with crazy thoughts! A refreshing look at devious daydreams and office romances.
Synopsis:
Bill fears confrontation and rejection. He lets people run over him, be it his friends, peers or co-workers. Dragged down by a lagging career and lacking social life, life is monotonous and humdrum. His daydreams are defense mechanisms against a world he finds harsh and hostile. Then he meets Adeline, a new co-worker who changes his idea about what it means to live life. Her aggressive & frank nature not only shocks him but begins to rub off on him. Their friendship blossoms and before Bill knows it, he's dealing with an act that scares the hell out of him: asking a girl out. But before he can find the nerve to ask Adeline out, he must confront all of his other fears. The story is first & foremost a love story, set in the comical world of the office and the cubicle. It is a story about finding courage (and fantasizing about it), about expressing oneself, about growing upwards and outwards, and about enjoying life even when it seems nothing in the world is worth enjoying.
Title: Some People Are Just Like That
Logline: A group of small town students at a Historically Black College learn life lessons from the peculiar, sometimes hilarious customers that come into the urban grocery store where they work part time.
Synopsis:
A group of students are desparately in need of money to go home for the holidays, and begin working at the local grocery store against the wishes of their parents. The parents know only too well about the ongoing unfriendly attitude of the local residents against "college people."
The students themselves have come from different backgrounds and have had little interaction with each other until they start working with Mr. Carter; a long time graduate of the college; at his grocery store. They then form an unlikely friendship, and learn life lessons from peculiar and humorous shoppers who come into the store. Mr. Carter who takes on the role as a somewhat father figure, helps them understand how the neighborhood has become so diversified.
From time to time little reminders of resentment toward the students is displayed. At the end, a near death experience changes the hearts of the towns people and the students as well.
Title: Grilled Cheese Virgin
Logline: 2008 Bluecat Screenplay Competition Winner --
Sponsored Staged Reading in LA, Monday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Synopsis:
Free LA Staged Reading for 2008 Bluecat Winner
BlueCat is happy to present a free staged reading of Grilled Cheese Virgin by Steven Arvanites on Monday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the women's club of Hollywood, located at 1749 North La Brea in Hollywood.
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Grilled Cheese Virgin was a recent finalist for the Sundance Screenwriting Lab, a semi-finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship and a finalist at Slamdance. Steven's screenplays have placed or won in over 15 competitions.
The script is available for option.
Logline: When a streetwise hooker and a devout pre-op tranny fry a grilled cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary seared in the bread, one makes it a business opportunity and the other sees the holy "relic" as her salvation.
GORDY HOFFMAN will direct a professional cast of LA actors, as well as moderate a Q&A after the reading.
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Title: NATURE MAN
Logline: The spoiled host of a popular survival TV show, who lives in the shadow of his famous naturalist father, discovers its not easy to keep a secret - that he has no survival skills at all.
Synopsis:
The spoiled host of a popular survival TV show discovers it's
not easy to keep a secret - that he has no survival skills at
all - when he's forced to go on a real nature challenge to
win the girl he loves and get his show renewed.
Trouble comes into Ted’s life when he runs into a sincere
woman who believes in his fake persona, and a rival who wants
to take the girl for his own and run Ted’s show into the
ground as well.
Ted has to gear up to face the yearly Survival Challenge to
win the Peary Cup before his rival does.
The problem is that the contest is judged all the way down
the line, so Ted has to face the wild on his own, without his
crew and support team.
When tragedy strikes and lives are on the line, Ted pulls it
together at the last minute, and finds that he really does
have the power to not be a fake after all.
Title: Yikes! An Internet Audio Book
Logline: "Survivor" meets the cast of "Weeds" when a group of deranged individuals gather in the desert to participate in a reality TV show. Try before you buy in this fully produced audio book called Yikes!
Synopsis:
Yikes! Something strange is happening in the desert. Yikes! An Internet Audio Book has been produced using a cast of 11 actors to give potential buyers of the manuscript the chance to hear how the project sounds. Please visit
http://yikesaudiobook.com/sampleTheStory.html to get a taste of this succulent story.
Written in first person narratives, the cast of Yikes! describe what happened when a group of whackos gathered in the desert to participate in a reality TV show. This kooky cast includes Randall Smoot, a member of the Gay Mafia, Iris Borrman, a burned out hemp grower, and Stillman Walker, a Native American mannequin who can't manage to stand still. Set against a backdrop of a haunted oasis and a bunch of orange trees, this quirky satire keeps the listener wondering what will happen next! Find out for yourself in Yikes! An Internet Audio Book.
Title: First Gentleman
Logline: When Pete’s wife became the first female president, he discovers that the role of First Gentleman is uncharted territory.
Synopsis:
First Gentleman (WGA # 160151) is a comical story of the first-First Gentleman, PETE (42), whose life was turned upside down when his wife, VICKI (47) was elected President. After weeks of being emasculated by the press, PETE decides to have some fun with his new found power. PETE regress’s to child-like behavior. In an effort to gain attention from his Commander in Chief wife, PETE nearly destroys the White House and his marriage. PETE also befriends a wild redneck named TERRY (36) in the process and hilarity ensues. First Gentleman is a bold, comical ride, in an unsuspecting package.
Title: Fireworks
Logline: Watch an up-and-coming fireworks crew navigate the sordid and ultracompetitive world of fireworks shows, battling rivals, the local fire department, and themselves with equal intensity and indecency.
Synopsis:
The fireworks crew of "C4" can handle the annual firefight with rival crew The Paisas and manages to fend off the sabotage attempts of Dutch Diamond and his crew, Diamondworks.
But the gang has no response when an old rejected crew member resurfaces to destroy their stockpile of fireworks.
On the edge of disaster, the crew is contacted by the mysterious Mexican fireworks honcho Johnny Juarez, who invites them to his villa. After being forced to sell drugs to obtain the money, they buy the exotic fireworks and also gain a valuable friend.
C4 gets past the sabotage attempts and monetary issues to respond to their invitation to Bottle Rocket Alley, a fireworks competition in Montana designed to crown the newest performers of the most prestigious fireworks show in the country.
Diamondworks, The Paisas, and C4 compete in front of thrilled crowds and a worldwide webcam audience to determine the champion. Don't miss out on Fireworks!
Title: God and Her Puppet
Logline: OH GOD meets SUPERBAD. GOD AND HER PUPPET is about a sexist schmuck who must content with a somewhat crusty God after landing in a coma. Will he do as She would do or be sent to the claws of Hell?
Synopsis:
Many years ago, Jimmie Martini, 10, is forced to stand by as his mother is raped and murdered. Then, in 2008, Jimmie meets with God as the result of landing in a coma. God is not so sure that Jimmie deserves eternal salvation so She returns the sexist schmuck and prison regular to Earth with special powers and missions toward doing good and proving himself an improved human being.
Much a rascal, he does not always successfully handle the challenges of an idolizing nephew, an abused ex-flame, a sexually adventurous great grandmother, or a giant-assed woman at the grocery store. Jimmie, despite his maltreatment of the aforementioned powers and a loss of faith in God, does learn the virtue of accepting people for who they are. Is it too little or too late?
Not in America. In the end, God keeps him on Earth but with renewed purpose and a better and kinder soul.
Title: BRADFORD
Logline: A retired ball player assumes the role of parent to an extraordinarily dysfunctional and eccentric father while struggling to begin a family of his own.
Synopsis:
Curt Bradford, a retired baseball player living in New York City, is burdened with the job of maintaining the peace between his separated parents after discovering that his pregnant fiancé has betrayed him with a trusted member of his family.
But when an ex-flame returns from Los Angeles to spend the summer, Bradford finds himself conflicted over whether he should try to win her back, knowing that her career, along with his father's failing health and eccentric ways, may prevent him from achieving what he truly wants most, which is a family of his own.
Will Bradford, despite the obstacles, choose to follow his heart, or will those he cares about most make the decision for him?
Title: Cinderella Faces Reality
Logline: Most comedies tell women that if they kiss a lot frogs, they will eventually find true love. "Cinderella Faces Reality" says if you kiss a lot of frogs - - watch out for warts.
Synopsis:
Cinderella's true love has been less than true. Prince Charming has been charming other princesses. So Cinderella and her cat Puss in Boots go in search of a happier ending. Prince Charming and his pal Jack the Giant Killer go on their own quest, where true to form, Charming gets into trouble with other women. After awakening a Sleeping Beauty, he is told by her family he will spend his life as a frog if he does not marry her. Cinderella ultimately finds fulfillment as a successful independent woman, while Charming is tormented by witches with lawyers, and lazy pigs and candy houses that melt...have any other queries featured a talking pig? A good wolf? "Cinderella" does. All of the familiar fairy tale characters, Goldilocks, and other trollop princesses get mixed up in this one wild adventure. It's funny, it's sexy. It's unique. I realize I'm taking a chance sending this to you, but after all, the studios are starved for good material. Prepare for a feast!
Title: Medieval Magic 8-Ball
Logline: Michael is getting pressure from corporate to do a better job forecasting sales. Jim suggests using a Magic 8-Ball. Michael is also watching the Tudors and starts talking in a Medieval accent.
Synopsis:
Michael Scott is getting pressure from Ryan Howard and David Wallace because Dunder Mifflin has missed its Sales for 2 straight months. Michael tells Ryan that an experienced Manager would know that forecasting sales is like predicting the future which is impossible. Ryan says that he does not care how Michael do this (i.e. crystal ball, etc.), but he must have a completed forecast by weeks end. Michael decides to hold an Office meeting for ideas on how he might predict future sales to their customers. Jim Halpert as a joke suggests the Magic 8-Ball and Michael loves the idea and orders a case of Magic 8-Balls for the Office.
As a sideline Michael and Jan have been watching the Tudors and has been talking with a Medieval accent around the office. This compels Dwight to come into the Office wearing chainmail to show his loyalty to Michael and his Crusade against Corporate. Jim and Pam use the combination of the 8-ball and Dwight to have a hilarious day.
Title: One Night In Sleazeside
Logline: Inadvertently Brooklyn mobsters mix their posh girlfriends with mob business. Located in NJ’s summer getaway Seaside, the results create a whirlwind of hilarious adventure and drama.
Synopsis:
Rising mafia star Tony Spasaro fell in love with Maria Russo, who happens to be the estranged niece of New York Mafia Boss Carmine Russo. Tony is forced to make a decision on their summer road trip whether he will marry the woman of his dreams or lose her forever to his growing career in the mob.
But hold on!
Vinny and Sal, Tony’s best friends since childhood may have an influence on his verdict and will do anything to get their pussy-whipped leader back. From botched robberies to falling in love the dark- humored feature will have you gasping and laughing until the end, making ONE NIGHT IN SLEAZESIDE the new mob tale of the younger generation.
I’d like to submit ONE NIGHT IN SLEAZESIDE for your consideration and possible representation. I am a recent Rutgers University graduate who is seriously focusing on writing screenplays. Currently I write and direct a NYC cable TV show and I am polishing a pilot about adult nightlife that would be well marketed for HBO.
Title: Our Man Buddy
Logline: Buddy, a nerdy party worker is duped into being a candidate for congress and wins without the help of "the local party". Once in Washington Buddy is duped again to run for president. Could have won.
Synopsis:
Buddy Duncan, a naive, easily manipulated son of a deceased congressman is the sacrifical lamb for his Daddy's old seat. Chairman Stiller pulls a fast one in getting Buddy on the ballot. Mother is furious. Buddy campaigns by himself and wins, mainly because the incumbent is caught with 10 blondes in a motel. Chairman Stiller tries to invalidate election in court and loses. Buddy goes to Washington. Stiller then takes credit, Mother is proud. Buddy's father appears in ghost-like form throughout giving advice only to Buddy.
Buddy is welcomed for getting his father's seat back, meets Pepper McCormack, a well known "DC" bimbo that latches onto him. Following a White House banquet, Pepper suggests that he run for president. Dr. Brodinski, a shady hypnotist regularly "suggests" to Buddy that he WANTS to be president. Mother is horrified. Buddy becoms a national sensation. Raises millions and goes to convention as the favorite, but withdraws in favor of a lady senator from Iowa. Reg. WGA.
Title: Grandma Roses's Rooming Residence
Logline: A group of quirky roommates join forces to implement fundraisers to raise money to ward off Grandma Roses's foreclosure and in the end find that they are financially in the arrears.
Synopsis:
Grandma Roses's Rooming Residence for Uniformed Professionals was willed to Grandma Roses's by her late husband. Some of the rather different residents are: Chin & Chan, the self conjoined self named Burmese Twins (they wrap a flesh colored cloth around their hips), Tyronne, the wannabe Airline pilot dresses like a WWII pilot; Fanny, the out-of-shape entry level Aerobics instructor; Chief Keith, the little person Chief of Police; Chef Roy Ardee, the corpulent cook; and many other quirky residents.
Chief Keith serves Grandma Roses's with a foreclosure notice. All of the residents band together to conduct fund raisers to eliminate the foreclosure. All of the resident's fundraisers run afoul. After a comprehensive accounting it is discovered their fundraisers are $375,000.00 in the arrears. The villain, Chief Keith, becomes the hero when he has Grandma Roses's Rooming residence declared a Historical Structure forever mortgage free. "All Hail the Chief".
Title: Remember Fern
Logline: What starts out as Cross Gramaldi, an Oscar winning actor, helping Jade Westin out of one of her con-jobs gone bad turns into two strangers trying to put on a facade for his family and the paparrzi.
Synopsis:
Jade Westin takes the thick stack of one hundred dollar bills and slides them into her purse. She glances over the half dressed man in the bed as she exits the hotel suite.
Jade Westin, 28, is a free spirit with checkered past. She's always taken care of herself and has had to fight and scheme for everything she has gotten with the occasional con job not out of the question.
Jade had met her match in a Las Vegas when she is caught trying to out wise a wise guy. Through a twist of fate she ends up face to face with Oscar Award winning actor and Holywood's golden boy Cross Gramaldi who helps her escape the hotel.
While intrigued by the firey stranger, Cross knows she's trouble but can't resist one more conversation when they end up on the same flight.
With the slip of Jade's tongue and a stranger who turns out to be Cross's mother, the two are stuck together for the next four days.
Jade is swept into the world of the rich and famous and into the hearts of Cross's family.
Title: Doubleheader: Two-Headed Steroid Monster
Logline: A small town is scandalized when a popular, light-hitting shortstop hulks up and becomes a raging, home run-bashing “monster” in this steroids-era satire.
Synopsis:
The quiet, baseball-loving small town of Yakima is visited by a scandal that shakes it to its roots, when the popular, light-hitting shortstop ARMON KILLBREW hulks up, and becomes a home run-hitting machine.
Now chiseled like a body builder, the formerly mild-mannered Armon becomes sulky, arrogant and unpredictable – when someone pastes a tabloid story about a “Two-Headed Steroid Boy” to his locker, Armon flies into a rage, nearly killing a teammate. His moodiness carries over to his home life, as his long-time girlfriend ANGIE complains Armon has lost interest in her, now that he spends all his time with BRUCE, his demanding trainer. Some suspect Bruce is loading Armon up with steroids and HGH.
As his personal life spirals out of control, the increasingly bizarre Armon calls a news conference – to “vehemently deny rumors that I have a second head.”
With major league scouts on the way, Armon ends up at the police station, covered in blood.
Title: Moses of the Bulrushes
Logline: A young orphan with a divine gift is ejected from his foster home and sets out to find the mother who had abandoned him at birth in a picnic basket.
Synopsis:
The teen-orphan MOSES is ejected from his home by wretched foster brothers and father, who, after some mishaps, mistake Moses’ divine gift as a curse from God. The boy rescues Granny Hannah and Maid Miriam from this home, angering his foster family who pursue him with a quirky vengeance in a Model T Ford.
With Granny and Miriam, Moses sets out to find his real mother and instead encounters DEVLIN DAMIEN, the evangelical shyster of great proportions, who uses Moses’ special gift for his own diabolical ends until they step onto the turf of EUDORA DROFFIG, the fallen-from-grace tent revivalist turned radio evangelist, who attempts to bring Moses’ rise to fame to an end and instead ends up helping him unite with the mother who had abandoned him at birth in a picnic basket.
The finale brings them all together in a David vs Goliath clash near a pigsty where vengeance is satisfied with a near-hanging, the knees of Jesus, a redemption miracle, and a life-changing discovery for Moses.
Title: Fashion Wars
Logline: Working Girl meets Devil Wears Prada
Synopsis:
Fashion Wars is about Alexia Hermosa, 20, a Venezuelan, kind-hearted, fashion passionate, house keeper whose design idea is stolen by her boss. When her boss is detained by police, Alexia seizes the opportunity to steal it back and enters herself in the 2008 Fashion Wars competition.
The Fashion Wars is an extremely successful televised reality based design contest that pits top designer against top designer, e.g. Michael Kors v. Donna Versace. The contest is broadcast worldwide and is judged live by television viewers, fellow top designers, and internet users. Never before has an amateur been allowed to compete, until this season.
Title: Someone Like Me
Logline: Three uneducated home-schooled kids enroll into a public school.
Synopsis:
Paw's kids, Shimmy, Jinny, and Cole, are forced into public school where they find out just how hard real school is.
Cole finishes high school, where he goes from feak to Fonzy. Shimmy bullies his way through the third grade, as Jinny advances from the second into his class to prove that girls can learn, despite her upbrining.
Paw and his wife Mumma must raise enough cash now to keep their home, or they will be evicted.
Full of high school hi-jinx and smart-ass wit, Someone Like Me is fun for all who enjoy watching the mighty fall and the poor low-lifes struggle to overcome.
Title: School Daze
Logline: A journey back to the fifth-grade shows the social dynamics of childhood played out through the eyes of an overly perceptive group of classmates. Simple rhymes, pranks, and sarcasm color this comedy.
Synopsis:
Eleven year-old Jimmy Baretti is in love with Becky Mazzone. Rushing to school one morning, he loses a poster dedicating his love to her. Jimmy's panic is illuminated throughout the film, interspersed with scenes reminiscent of the fifth grade in this heart warming developmental comedy. The story runs through a week of the typical turmoil associated with the fifth grade from field trip reports, to tracking mud throughout the school, refusal to say the pledge, acting out in music class, seven-up, patriot day, embarrassments, name-calling, tattle tales, teacher blunders, log jams, and the class picnic, ending in the realization that everything works out in the end.
Title: The Candidate
Logline: An average American citizen is drawn into the US Presidential race as a Third Party Candidate and encounters outrageous schemes developed by the Republican and Democrat parties to stop him.
Synopsis:
One month before the Presidential elections, the Democrat Party candidate dies, and Governor Helen Clayford accepts the nomination as a replacement candidate. The Republican President J. Scott Reynolds and his staff develop a secret plan to create a Third Party Candidate to sway votes from Governor Clayford. Jonathan, an average American citizen, is unwittingly drawn into the race for President as the Third Party Candidate. The Media supports Jonathan. He is swept away by the tide of fame and becomes a hero to the American public. In contrast to Jonathan’s popularity, President Reynolds and Governor Clayford’s campaign efforts falter, so the Republicans reverse their plan and devise schemes to foil Jonathan’s campaign. But their plans are thwarted, so the Democrats and Republicans team up against Jonathan to defeat him. Several chase scenes and physical comedy result. The Republicans and Democrats soon turn against each other, and it becomes a three-way race to the finish.
Title: Her Stinking Closet
Logline: It's been at least more than 17 years since the last time Trisha Johnson cleaned up her room
Synopsis:
Behind her picture perfect life, Trisha Johnson has been hiding her stinking reality, her room. Simply out of tremendous laziness. she hasn't cleaned it up for decades. Two weeks before her wedding with Italian Prince charming, a OCD cook who considers her as Betty Crocker, two grudged schoolmates appear to unveil her literally dirty truth that is related to the death of their long lost buddy, Ivan Poverovich.
Title: The Tryathlete
Logline: Can an awkward computer geek, land the girl of his dreams and defeat his nemesis in the ultimate test of endurance and courage? Most likely not, unless his name is Will Johnson!
Synopsis:
Will Johnson is a computer geek who’s desperately searching for true love and will do whatever’s necessary to obtain it. His mission is to become what he thinks all women desire, a stud. With the misguided help of the office jock, his transformation from geek to stud takes him into the painful world of the triathlete where he encounters a newly found nemesis and battles to earn the respect of his best friend and to win the girl of his dreams.
Title: Holiday Spectacular
Logline: Fading screen legend Roman Ramsey reluctantly finds himself directing a middle school play to win over his estranged daughter and revive his career.
Synopsis:
Pompous, washed-up Hollywood legend Roman Ramsey is coaxed into filming a documentary on his family life when all the other offers have dried up. The problem is that his only family is a daughter. Emma, that he hasn’t spoken to in ten years. Roman sweeps into the New Hampshire town where Emma teaches middle school, and when she wants nothing to do with him, he ends up directing the school’s “Holiday Spectacular” in an effort to win her (and the documentary audience) over.
But Roman soon finds he’s in way over his head--between his angry daughter, the talent-less kids, a bitter documentary crew and his unexpected crush on the widowed music director, Roman is forced to rethink not only the project, but the choices he’s made to get him there. When he truly throws himself into the play, both he and his daughter are changed in ways neither could have imagined.
This screenplay reached the quarterfinals for Screenwriting Expo 2007 contest and Filmmaker's International 2007
WGA#1204870
Title: Twisted Logic
Logline: When two young men are dumped by their girlfriends, they must decide to either patch up their relationships or find someone new. With each failed attempt, they grow more desperate for companionship.
Synopsis:
When two young men, Alex and Kelso, are dumped by their girlfriends, Ashley G. and Ashley P., they cannot help but to see the irony of the situation. Alex, an unhappy bartender, and Kelso, an unemployed loser, both find themselves faced with the decision to pursue their old girlfriends or seek new relationships. The situation becomes even more ironic and comical when Alex and Kelso spot the two Ashleys with their new boyfriends, the two Daniels. Alex and Kelso then begin a torrent of activities - everything from parties to ritualistic cleansing to sage-like advice - all intending to attract new companions.
Throughout their journey, they encounter many interesting characters and humorous situations.
Title: Le Boucher
Logline: In a black comedy inspired by a true event, a quiet French village undergoes a sexual revolution, but not without dire consequences as the new butcher "delivers the goods" to the town's married women.
Synopsis:
Far from slapstick, Le Boucher is an intimate, layered story filled with loveable, quirky characters.
In late 1959, Cheval-Blanc was no different than any other small French village. In some senses, time moved forward as villages re-built after World War II. But when it came to the inequality between men and women, husband and wife, time stood still. Against this backdrop, the Algerian conflict raged on.
The catalyst for change occurs when the old butcher dies. Sure, he rigged his scale, but he was a known quantity. Enter the young and handsome stranger, Michel Daudet.
Little time passes before the new butcher starts "delivering the goods". Suddenly, Cheval-Blanc comes alive. Despite the rampant infidelity, the marriages begin to heal as the men, who are eating better and not nagged as much, are happily oblivious and the women regain their femininity. Unfortunately, soon enough, a light is shed on this newfound goodness leaving the men of the village with a dilemma.
Title: Heated Rivalry
Logline: On Sunday, you don't want to be anywhere near the Saturday family.
Synopsis:
Concerning two brothers from Youngstown, Ohio and the fanatical support each has for their respective NFL teams. The entire Saturday family, including the oldest brother, are staunch Steelers fans. The younger brother is the lone Browns fan in the family.The story concerns how the lives of the brothers tend to mirror the fortunes of the teams:The Steelers fan is highly successful and confident in his personal and professional life.The Browns fan is sort of a sad-sack loser type.
Upon the city of Cleveland losing the Browns to Baltimore, the younger brother becomes despondent and makes an assassination attempt on owner Art Modell that goes comically wrong. Depression sets in and he must seek help through modern psychiatry and other non-traditional methods. WGAw # 1190684
Title: Lenard & Eugene
Logline: Lenard & Eugene is a comedy about two hapless brothers determined to improve their anti-social status by hacking their way onto a televised science fiction quiz show and winning the grand prize.
Synopsis:
Lenard & Eugene (early 30's) are two pathetic geeks. They have no job skills, no social skills and certainly no knowledge of the opposite sex. But when told to leave their parent's basement, they strategize a road trip from Utah to California to win a $500 000 grand prize using the only knowledge they have in abundance ... useless science fiction trivia.
Along the way, they pick up a hitchhiker impersonating Marilyn Monroe. After she attempts to rob them, calamity ensues. Their money gets stolen; Eugene destroys their father's prized station wagon and Lenard unknowingly falls for a prostitute who helps him flee a bar fight. After so many setbacks, they consider going home, but Eugene presses to struggle on to California.
When they arrive, Eugene loses his meds and is forced to stay up all night. He enters the game show a complete mess and gets off to a major losing streak. With his brother covertly helping him though, they manage to turn the tables and win the grand prize
Title: The South Sider
Logline: Paul Anderson's road rage gets him arrested, thrown out of the house and puts his business in jeopardy. Paul must get help for his problem, keep his business running and win back his wife's trust.
Synopsis:
Paul Anderson has a beautiful wife and child. He works for his father''s fire protection business and is taking over the company because his father is retiring. His family has hopes that once he takes over the company that they will be financially stable and also help his wife''s dream of opening an art gallery.
A new city ordinance is requiring all high rise buildings to be sprinklered. The work is a gold mine for his company if he can get the contracts.
Unfortunately for Paul he has a problem with road rage. Paul gets into a highway "dog fight" that puts his wife Lisa and their five year old daughter Emilia in danger and leads to Paul getting arrested. Lisa can not tolerate his actions anymore and throws Paul out of the house.
The court makes Paul attend a twelve-step road rage program. While in the program, Paul must learn how to control his road rage, defeat his business competition for the contracts, and he needs to win back Lisa''s trust.
Title: Aliens vs the NFL
Logline: Seven foot alien predators patrol the skies of earth, protecting it from other aliens trying to fix sporting events. An alien casino is located at a stealth location in the Nevada desert.
Synopsis:
Alien predators, Zak and Max are directed to find two 12" invisible creatures (Brad and Mia)who have been sent to earth to fix the super bowl.
Zak and Max must enlist a human (Ace) to help them capture the two creatures.
Ace is handicapped and works for the Baltimore Ravens. He has access to the games and his wheelchair can be equipped with a device that can capture Brad and Mia. Ace refuses at first, but after meeting Zippy, a spider sent to earth to kill Max and Zak, he agrees.
He travels to Oakland with his girlfriend (Liz) and they meet up with Max and Zak.
Liz meets Mia and Brad and they tell her that they want to stay on earth.
In Oakland, they encounter a transformer sent to disable Max and Zak. The two predators are saved by Ace. Max and Zak go to the Oakland game dressed as Raider fans. They sit in the Black Hole, but no one recognizes them.
Mia and Brad end up in Maine doing a kids TV show. Ace and Liz get married in Area 51 Hotel Casino while an alien Elvis sings.
Title: Stereo Types
Logline: Whites, Blacks, Mexicans, Asians, Jews, Pollacks, Indians, Middle-Easterners, fat people, thin people, old people and perverts were all harmed during the making of this film.
Synopsis:
Stereo Types is a raucous comedy filled with just the right amount of sex, crime and racial profiling. It follows two 18-year-old best friends, one a hapless, Jewish virgin, and the other, a self-assured black "playa," on their final day together before going to separate colleges. During their quest for one last escapade, they find themselves tangled up in a crazy kidnapping scheme, and encounter characters and situations that play on all of our greatest stereotypes.
Title: What Will You Wish?
Logline: What if your response to one simple question could explain your past and unlock your future?
Synopsis:
Grad student EVAN COLLINS has a nine-year-long problem. Since his parents’ nasty divorce over eight years ago, Evan hasn’t spoken with his father. This estrangement has become a major compulsion in his life. Waitress JENNY DUNN has her own issues: She blames God for the death of her cousin in Iraq and for her rejection by her parents, who abandoned her and sent her away to live with her loving but loony grandmother. When his father suffers a massive coronary, Evan struggles with the decision of whether he should go to him. Then a friend asks Evan the question that will alter his existence: “At the end of your life, what will you wish you had done?”
“What Will You Wish?” is the tale of an urbane grad student and a small town waitress, both of whom have experienced hurt, personal rejection, and biting anger. In this uplifting comedy, they learn that death is neither the end of life nor the end of love. Along their way to this life-changing discovery, they also discover one another.
Title: What''s Not To Like?
Logline: Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, set in a modern high school. While Ben and Beatrice war on each other with words, Kevin wins Julia and then loses her.
Synopsis:
Ben and Beatrice wage a battle of the sexes, but they’re tricked into believing each is desperately loved by the other. To be kind, they begin acting romantically and absurdly.
Kevin, enlists Casey to help win Julia. Lurking in the background is Casey’s stepbrother, DJ, hoping to humiliate them.
After a comedy of errors at the Senior Masquerade Ball, Kevin wins Julia, but demonstrates a short fuse and quickness at jumping to false conclusions.
DJ finds a way to fool Kevin into believing that Julia deceives him, leading Kevin to insult and denounce her.
Beatrice, Julia''s cousin, is furious and gets Ben to challenge Kevin to a boxing match for the sake of Julia’s honor.
At the boxing match, Kevin realizes he was fooled into thinking Julia cheated on him as Ben knocks Kevin out.
Kevin and Julia are reconciled just as Ben and Beatrice learn they aren’t loved by the other, yet their previous attempts at affection make them realize they might like each other after all.
Title: The Boykin Boy
Logline: Think Jack Black, Ben Stiller, and Jon Heder as Pest Inspectors!
Synopsis:
Pest Inspector by day, pizza delivery man by night--hilarious situations throughout. Meet The Boykin Boy as he takes on devious critters, clueless customers, odd co-workers, & 2 teen-age daughters, all the while living in his ex-wife''s garage & sharing his bathtub with a tub of kitty litter. Climax includes the ultimate pest control training site: The Crawlspace From Hell, where every unspeakable pest control nightmare is lurking. Written by a humorous Orkin Man.
Title: Heated Rivalry
Logline: On Sunday, you don''t want to be anywhere near the Saturday family.
Synopsis:
Concerning two brothers from Youngstown, Ohio and the fanatical support each has for their respective NFL teams. The entire Saturday family, including the oldest brother are staunch Steelers fans. The younger brother is the lone Browns fan in the family. The story concerns how the lives of the brothers tend to mirror the fortunes of the teams: The Steelers fan is highly successful and confident in his personal and professional life. The Browns fan is sort of a sad-sack loser type.
Upon the city of Cleveland losing the Browns to Baltimore, the younger brother becomes despondent and makes an assassination attempt on owner Art Modell that goes comically wrong. Depression sets in and he must seek help through modern psychiatry and other non-traditional methods. WGAw # 1190684
Title: Tad Bit Off
Logline: Lisa has affluent future inlaws, an impending wedding and a depleted bank account. Her sexually aggressive mother spent her wedding fund on a tummy tuck. Sisters try to pull off the impossible.
Synopsis:
Lisa Weatherhead is getting married. She''s found the man of her dreams and the son of an affluent politician.
This should be a time of dress shopping and bridal showers, right? Wrong.
Lisa finds out her obnoxious, sexually aggressive mother spent her wedding fund on a tummy tuck and that her entire dysfunctional family will attend the blessed event.
Burdened with the task of trying to pull off the social event of the season on a shoestring budget, Lisa and her sister dive in to try and overcome one disaster after another.
The quiet man across the hall who agreed to store the reception food in his freezer turns out the be the Super Saver Serial Killer. Deep freeze hauled off as evidence.
On line wedding dress the wrong size, Harley riding wedding planners, recycled funeral flowers and beer drinking cousins from Wisconsin are all part of the equation Lisa must solve to win the approval of her high society future mother in law.
Title: The Pool Boy Wars
Logline: A Pool Boy is forced to buy his father''s pool company, tries to break the ultimate pool party record and ends up in a pool boy war.
Synopsis:
On Pete Chickabiddy''s thirtieth birthday, his father sells him their pool cleaning company. Pete inherits all its debt, clients and employees: Stu, Tan and his girlfriend/receptionist Beth. Pete sees it as a chance to beat the pool party record. Using his clients’ pools, he''ll covertly throw a pool party a week for the whole summer, and then maybe get around to doing a little cleaning. Meanwhile, a disgruntled ex-employee, Cassidy, starts his own pool company and vows to take Pete down. A pool boy war ensues: clients are cajoled, pools are turned red and sex is had with octogenarians. Yes it''s ugly, but so is war. Pete beats the record, but loses his company, his girl and his shorts (literally). Pete realizes he has to take responsibility for what he''s done. To do it, he''ll have to find a way to make his clients'' forgive him, stop Cassidy from making the worst mistake of his life and prove his love to Beth, even if it means getting naked on live TV.
Title: Drunken Prawn
Logline: A father struggles in coping with his 13-year old daughter''s bizarre prawn-like behavior as she mourns her mother''s death from a freakish jet ski accident.
Synopsis:
David, Susan and their teenage daughter, Amy, are on vacation when Susan is tragically killed on a jet ski by getting swallowed and expelled by a "whale-like" thing. Amy grieves through rebellion, profanity and disdain for all fish. To heal, a therapist recommends that Amy eat at a seafood restaurant. Amy instead goes to an authentic Chinese restaurant and eats a bizarre, Chinese Delicacy called Drunken Prawn.
Amy becomes intrigued with prawn and through research realizes that whales are prawns biggest predators. She begins relating to prawns in an odd way and even takes on some of their traits (swims on the bottom of a pool at a swim meet, walks with hump back, etc.). The mystery of Susan''s death is revealed when Dave discovers that a submarine sucked Susan into its ballast air tanks and blew her out when trying to surface and submerge. The US navy settles up with Dave and Amy. The final scene shows a healed Amy riding and smiling on the back of a killer whale at Sea World.
Title: INKERS
Logline: Based on the very real and very funny events that occur in tattoo artists lives. Four young artists
all define the industry & life while battling with the local competion to keep their studio.
Synopsis:
A story based on actual events about a subject that has been around since the dawn of time, yet a major motion picture has never been made about it..
A typical setting in the retail district of suburbia Anywhere, U.S.A. However, the retail establishment in this story is not so typical.. In fact the salesmen or clerks are actually artists, and the product they sell is permanent. Dave, Joe, Slug and Ginger are four tattoo artists who team up to open a tattoo studio that will provide a more professional alternative then what the industry has stereotypically offered in the past. These Characters not only have to constantly deal with the daily backlash of the community and the odd requests by clientel, they are finally put to the ultimate test when they battle the nasty guys at Fun House Tattoos for pinks on their studios at an actual REAL Tattoo convention. This script rolls with humor and educates the mass on just how funny we ALL really are under the surface.Record breaking potential
Title: Shark Tank
Logline: A single night in a gay bar tests the boundaries of love and friendship among a group of friends and strangers.
Synopsis:
A lot of life happens in a very short amount of time. Most of it just happens when we''re not looking.
In my new script "Shark Tank," a close look is taken at the lives of a group of friends in a gay bar over the course of one, single night. Similar to "Crash" in tone, the story shows how for some love is found, for others it''s lost and for others the bonds of friendship are tested to the breaking point. In "Shark Tank," the human condition is examined in the least likely of places.
Title: Whitebites
Logline: A pudgy, pouting former ace newspaper reporter gets his wife and life back thanks to his inventive hobby -- and a little push from an upwardly mobile prostitute.
Synopsis:
Overweight. Under-motivated. Past his best-before date. Once-prolific feature writer and would-be inventor Larry Sorensen just can''t seem to finish anything he starts. He doesn''t have a clue what he wants anymore. It''s only after his unsympathetic wife tells him goodbye that he eventually finds something he DOES want: he wants her back. And a young "escort" who had come oh-so-close to waylaying him during his newfound freedom agrees to help out, putting the squeeze on a few well connected clients in exchange for a piece of Wally''s invention.
Title: Someone Like Me
Logline: Three poor, uneducated, and ugly home-schooled kids are forced into entering a public school where they find out exactly how different “real school” is.
Synopsis:
Paw teaches his kids to be like him--a chauvinistic pig. But Paw gets a rude awakening when “real school” opens some eyes and turns his family against him.
Mumma is the quiet, passive house wife, who’s scared to speak her mind on anything. But when they have little time to get cash for their house or be evicted, she does the impossible: she enters a cooking contest to win money.
Cole is eighteen and after being humiliated for half a year, he gets a wish and is transformed into a stud. However, he is still not smart enough to know that he is dating the hottest gal in school.
Shimmy is Paw’s reflection. But little Shimmy is forced to swallow his disgusting ways and ask his sister for help in school.
Jinny enters the second grade and then advances into Shim’s grade half-way through the year. She teaches her mother how to read and write and cook, constantly proving her father wrong.
SOMEONE LIKE ME is pregnated with high school hi-jinx where the underdogs win!
Title: My Fairy Sister
Logline: Julia Meadows, a young human-fairy from Northern England visits her trendy half sister and ill mother
in Los Angeles to bring a deeper understanding of
the world.
Synopsis:
Julia Meadows, a human-fairy from Northern England
is advised to visit her half sister and ill mother in Los Angeles. What she finds deeply concerns her. Her sister, Cassie, is trapped in a predictable world of cell phones, fashion, internet, iPods, email, cosmetics
and materialism.
Julia strives to open her sister up to a deeper, more conscious life. Julia must also deal with her mother''s illness while avoiding her nemesis, a young, persistent, paranormal investigator who followed her from England. His mission is to expose the fairy realm to the world.
Cassie slowly begins to understand her sister''s teachings. The investigator has a transformation of heart and vows to keep the fairy realm secret. Cassie comes to embrace the power and magic of her FAIRY SISTER. MY FAIRY SISTER is filled with fun and adventure. This TIMELY story will make you laugh and cry. Julia''s message must be heard.
Title: Marriage Online
Logline: A top ten script as voted by readers on Triggerstreet.com! A married couple is forced, by contract, to promote the virtues of the computer company that introduced them.
Synopsis:
In this timely romantic comedy, school teachers Gabe and Lori Patterson, who have been married seven years, advertise for the struggling computer dating company that introduced them, while battling not-so-secret admirers, relationship know-it-all in-laws, and the overly ambitious owner of the dating company, Marriage Online.
Title: THE SECOND STORY SANTA
Logline: When Santa gets mugged, stripped, and arrested on Christmas Eve, a skinny black man who’s afraid of heights gets tricked into taking his place.
Synopsis:
It’s the story of Clifford, the first black Santa. Clifford hates Christmas until he runs into Teresa, the girl he loved back in high school. After that, all he wants to do is to show this beautiful single mother that he can get into the Christmas spirit. But when he puts on the Santa suit, the reindeer trick him into delivering presents. Everywhere he goes he’s mistaken for a thief known as The Second-Story Santa, a fat white guy who’s breaking into houses stealing presents. Even Teresa thinks he’s a criminal. In the end, he has no choice but to go head-to-head with the Second-Story Santa himself.
Title: Belly Up
Logline: An over-extended young woman must pretend to be pregnant in order to get free housing and obtain maternity leave.
Synopsis:
Shelly wants a sugar daddy. Unfortunately, her ideal benefactor won''t marry her until he returns from a four month business trip abroad. Meanwhile, a new boss at work makes Shelly''s life miserable. Caring for her ailing and needy father, she sinks into debt and is eventually evicted from her housing. With no place to go, she comes up with the brilliant idea of obtaining free housing at a home for unwed mothers. A plump padded suit and some falsified documents and she should be fine until her boyfriend comes back, right? With her dad slowly recovering and venturing out into the world again, a boss who is hot on her trail, and a reluctant co-collaborator whom she can''t stand, Shelly needs a miracle to last until her boyfriend returns. Or will he return? Was he even away? Is anyone telling the truth?
Title: Twin Persuasion
Logline: Sexy,disarming and unscrupulous, identical twin sisters form a witty alliance as they conspire to set traps to blackmail unsuspecting executives and become involved in a string of wild robberies.
Synopsis:
After serving a stretch for crime, deceivingly attractive identical twin sisters, Rose, a helicopter pilot and Lila, a professional photographer, use cunning schemes and slick disguises to extricate blackmail money from wealthy romancing executives. The suave charming twins plot a sequence of imaginative robberies.
The sisters are pursued by the persistent police inspector Dupont as he follows their shifting trail to hunt them down. Rose and Lila find themselves caught several times but manage to elude the shuddering inspector''s frustrated clutches.
Title: Hanging Chad
Logline: A liberal news anchor must fight to save his life after he becomes the laughingtock of the country when he fails to vote in the Presidential election and gets the Republican candidate elected.
Synopsis:
Chad ‘Chatterbox’ Urbocks, a news anchor in Des Moines, gets no respect from friends or coworkers thanks to his awkward behavior and quirky fashion sense. Life takes a turn for the worse for the diehard liberal when a humiliating public incident prevents him from casting a vote in the presidential election--and that missing vote is the deciding factor in a Republican victory.
Mocked lovingly by conservatives and nicknamed ‘a**hole’ by democrats, Chad becomes the laughingstock of the country. He loses his job and the woman he loves. Determined to redeem himself, Chad uncovers a local dumping scandal and wins back public favor. Before long, his newfound glory causes a groundswell of support which propels Chad back into the anchor chair and into the arms of the woman he loves.
Title: Muddling Through
Logline: An aimless young man must contend with an acid-casualty uncle who has just moved in with him, and a low-paying record store job, while trying to improve his lot in life.
Synopsis:
Austin is a recent college graduate who finds himself still working at his low-paying record store job, and putting up with one crazy customer after another. He also must contend with his manager, a sexist egomaniac who plays mind games with the customers. If this weren''t bad enough, Austin''s acid-casualty uncle has just moved in with him, and is making a nuisance of himself. However, his uncle gets along great with his roommates, a couple of burn-outs from the record store. He also has a sexy European neighbor who is trying her best to seduce him, while his noncommittal girlfriend looks on. Will Austin find what it takes to stop floundering and make something of his life?
I would appreciate the opportunity to submit my screenplay, MUDDLING THROUGH, for your review.
Thank you.
Title: Anniversa Happary!
Logline: An offensive comedy about a very very very very very very very dysfunctional family that will leave you hating yourself for laughing.
Synopsis:
HENRY, aspiring Chef and stay-at-home-dad, finds out his 43-year old working wife, BETTY, not only wants a divorce, but also dates the Miami Hurricanes’ quarterback who himself realizes that his eyes are not on the ball or BETTY, but are fastened with longing on HENRY. Our hero, 44-year old HENRY has to endure his 9-year old spoiled track star, genetically freak son, HENRY JR and his daughter, MILLY, who is extremely mature (physically) for her age, 7.
Testing HENRY is sleazy, self-promoting sketch artist UNCLE JAKE who enters MILLY in Jon-Benet Ramsay-style pageants and gives HENRY JR energy pills for track.
Overseeing the household, the real matriarch, BIG MAMA resolves to find the good in people. She is a twisted/flipped version of BIG MAMA in Raisin in the Sun(still black). But can she hold strong with the pending closing of her Church or will HENRY save the day by beating his crazy, evil idol CHEF CERPICO in a final cooking showdown that renders you breathless...Or hungry?
Title: Worthless
Logline: Four buddies decide to form a "fake" band to pick up girls and party hard. Through word of mouth and great marketing, "Worthless" becomes a hit. But not all are sure the rock star life is for them.
Synopsis:
Adam and MJ are best friends. One night, the two decide to start a band to add a little fun to their mundane 9-to-5 lives. When the opportunity arises to play a New Year’s Eve show at a house party, they recruit two friends and do a very average show.
Through word of mouth, a rock star attitude and things that have nothing to do with music, “Worthless” becomes a sensation. Things get out of hand when an amateur recording of the show gets to MTV. Realizing they lack the skills, they invent excuses for not playing live.
When an agent enters the picture, this fake band reluctantly becomes a real one. They are convinced to do one live show, which turns out to be in front of 50,000.
Not everyone in Worthless is sure being a rock star is what they want. MJ gets married and dreams of suburbia. Grover and Matthias are just along for the ride, leaving Adam - who loses his job and his girlfriend - to wrestle with the decision to stay the course or retire from the biz with his friends.
Title: RRDG'S REDEMPTION
Logline: AMERICAN PIE meets DODGEBALL in this crazy college romp.
Synopsis:
Some people think beer drinking is something college kids do to pass the time. Others venture to call it a sport, but when you take a simple game and add a twist of full contact flavor, well that spells disaster for Ty Richards. Ty is a popular charismatic senior who’s about to embark on a recently turned raucous sport that will not only test his liver capacity, but his ability to take blows from Vermouth University’s starting defensive linemen. As he prepares for the game of his life to try and gain back respect for his father, he also gets a crack at the campus beauty that he’s been in love with since his freshman year... until her extremely wealthy ex-boyfriend tries to foil their love and steal the championship to continue his family legacy! WGA#1147109
Title: STILL
Logline: Sent to the country from Belfast to avoid authority, trouble and a girl, Wayne finds all three.
Synopsis:
Wayne, a tearaway Belfast city teenager, is sent to his Uncle Sammy’s farm to carry out a community service cleaning order for his misdemeanours. Sammy has a lucrative poteen manufcture sideline. Becky, his late wife’s teenage niece, expertly invests the finances from his nefarious activities. Wayne inadvertently discovers that the poteen helps in his cleaning and starts a business. He wins the contract for cleaning the large government headquarters at Stormont but this turns it pink after a rainstorm. He and Becky fall in love but she leaves after a fight, only returning when Sammy has a crippling accident. They are brought together despite Sammy’s accident and cat and mouse games with the authorities.
Title: Get on top
Logline: A crime caper that intermingles eleven characters in a game of cat and mouse spawned by a corrupt political candidate.
Synopsis:
Get on top WGA# 1142498
A political candidate gets his old friend out of prison to help him rig the state election. They hire a hitman to take care of the FBI agent that is tailing them. After failed assassination attempts by the hitman, two detectives investigate the evidence that is left behind. The same hitman picks up a contract placed on the head of the candidate by his own secretary, the payoff being the dirty money that funds the candidate''s campaign.
The candidate''s associate helps to frame the competition on the day of the big debate, putting the candidate at the top of the polls. The candidate short changes his associate for a job well done. Meanwhile, after the final investigation by the detectives all signs are pointing to the candidate. With the associate wanting what is owed to him, the hitman trying to get the payoff on his contract, and the secretary chasing the score of a lifetime, they all find themselves at a showdown at the candidate''s mansion.
Title: The Weathers Show
Logline: A romantic comedy about a young man who makes some drastic changes to his work & social life to find happiness, only to find that the woman he wants just wants him just the way he is.
Synopsis:
Ben Weathers, perennial under-achiever and third wheel on dates, decides that he has to make some drastic changes in his life to be happy. Leaving behind his stubbornly held views on what the world should be like, he follows the advice of his friend and "dumbs it down".
Replacing porn for preppy clothes, a lemon for something sporty, and his usual slacker cool for a "can-do" attitude at work, his plan is simple - join the human (rat) race. Despite the best intentions (& interventions) of his friends to bring back the old Ben, he persists - only to find that he only needs to be Ben Weathers to get what he has always wanted.
Title: Jilted Brides
Logline: FYI: I won a screenwriting fellowship from The Chesterfield Writer''s Film Project, sponsored by Paramount Pictures. Also, my short comedy, Mulholland Drive Support Group, was a runaway hit on IFILM.
Synopsis:
Three times jilted by the same man, Anita Lowe forms a support group for brides who were left at the altar. The women bond instantly in the spirit of friendship--but the group suddenly turns competitive and cutthroat when a recently jilted groom, who also happens to be a young handsome doctor, starts coming to their meetings.
Title: Big Dogs
Logline: POP GUN, a young lawyer of the country-club set, is seduced by the maverick, cigar chomping, stripper-loving “Big Dogs”. But can the kid run with the Big Dogs? The Graduate meets Wedding Crashers.
Synopsis:
To taste the freedom, POP GUN hops the fence between the country club world into that of the Big Dogs dragging ALEXANDRA along for the ride. On his first ride with the Big Dogs, POP GUN ends up in jail for running half-naked onto the field during a professional baseball game. The publicity from this stunt loses him his job, causes his mother to kick him out of the house and thrusts him into the Big Dog world. PISTOL, his Big Dog mentor, hooks POP GUN up with strippers for roommates and sets him on the path to becoming a street hustling, personal injury lawyer. In quick succession he loses ALEXANDRA who goes back to the country club world, gets on the wrong side with a biker gang, dates the daughter of a mob boss, and pretends to be gay to detach himself from the mob princess. POP GUN is making it as a Big Dog but must break up ALEXANDRA’s impending wedding. In Big Dog fashion, he crashes her bachelorette party as a male stripper to get the job done and win the girl back.
Title: Whatsamatta U
Logline: When a powerful Crime Boss’ son runs away and enrolls at University in hopes of finding himself, all he finds is that college can be even more dangerous than the world he left behind.
Synopsis:
Upon graduating top of his class in high school, Donny, the son of high-powered East Coast Mob Boss Frank Giardello runs away from his family and secretly enrolls at Western University against the wishes of his father.
There, Donny meets the beautiful Ashley Brennan, daughter or Senator Brennan, chairman of the Senate organized crime committee. Despite trying to to make friends, make the grade, and keep his identity hidden, Donny is settling nicely into his new life at college.
But when trouble brews at home, and a contract is put out on Donny''s life, Frank must scramble to find Donny and keep him safe before the keg stands, the class load or the hitman kills him.
Title: Convenient Store Four
Logline: Heat without the seriousness but with the same end result.
Synopsis:
Convenient Store Four is about four knucklehead friends that turn to criminal mischief because they are tired of making a living that amounts to squat. It is a humorous story full of silly situations and debacles only these guys can get themselves in to. In the end, they end up losing more than they ever gained and that’s it. I feel my characters and dialogue separate my stuff from the rest.
I have worked with an industry consultant to make sure my format is correct. Look me up on Myspace.com to view some pics and some stuff I’ve written on my blog. I will be moving to LA soon. Call me at (979) 218-8561 or email me at jbb5817@yahoo.com. Thanks.
Title: Not Dead Yet
Logline: Mavis and Leena stick two fingers out to the world determined not to give in to other peoples'' expectations of what old people should be like. A road trip across the USA leads to many high jinx.
Synopsis:
According to their families, Mavis and Leena are two stubborn old women who refuse to do what they''re told. After winning the jackpot at the local Bingo Hall, an anxious Leena causes an accident in the parking lot. She''s forced to subject herself to public humiliation by going to mandatory Driver''s Training. Feeling confident in her driving skills she ditches the course and never looks back. Mavis and Leena decide to take their jackpot winnings and drive to Reno. With hairnets and cold cream safely packed away the adventure begins! Back home their families discover them missing and set out to find them. When the police get involved the ladies adventure comes to a screeching halt. They are forced to return home and face the consequences of their actions.
Title: Mr. Tooth Fairy
Logline: After losing his tool booth job, a divorced amateur magic buff is chosen to be New York City''s tooth fairy and struggles to maintain a relationship with his kids.
Synopsis:
My screenplay has placed in the following competitions:
Nicholl Fellowship - sponsored by the Academy Awards: Semifinalist (top 1% - 2005)
Red Inkworks: Third Place
Page International: Finalist
FadeIn: Semifinalist
20/20: Semifinalist
FilmMakers: Semifinalist
Title: The Little Slugger
Logline: Who says midgets can''t hit the long ball?
Synopsis:
Champ Bigby is a midget who is terrible at everything. Champ can''t catch a ball, making him a disgrace to his father for not following the Bigby tradition, baseball greatness. A Major League owner, who is in desperate need to fill his stadium, spots Champ playing catch. Champ is so hilariously inept, a large crowd gathers to watch and laugh. Champ is hired to play the outfield. The plan works as Champ''s terrible play makes him an instant hit with fans.
Champ''s tiny strike zone draws him several walks until he disobeys an order not to swing. Champ surprises everyone with a homerun, making it apparent the he did inherit some of the baseball genes. Champ terrorizes the league with his tiny bat and leads the team of misfits to beat their arch-rival and win the pennant.
WGA #1134515
Title: THE REBEL
Logline: Can party hero Jim Blacker overcome the objections of his fans – from his parents to his friends to community leaders such as the mayor and chief of police – to reform himself and lead a normal life?
Synopsis:
THE REBEL’s protagonist, Jim Blacker, leads a charmed life. From his college days in the early ’90s to his thirties, he parties every chance he gets, and is rewarded with the adulation of, as he calls them, his “fans”. You know: people like his parents, his friends, the chief of police, the mayor and, of course, women. Quite unexpectedly and despite himself, however, he begins to seek more out of life. Jim’s dream job as a lifeguard just doesn’t do it for him anymore; his group of close friends, including a soldier, an office assistant, a mortician, and a priest, cannot convince him to stay true to his ideals. He begins to do volunteer work; he gets a job helping kids; and he gets involved in an actual relationship. His fans are horrified and make several failed attempts to save him from himself, culminating in their own version of an intervention.
Please contact me by phone or email if you are interested in learning more about THE REBEL.
Title: More Than A Jock
Logline: An arrogant high school jock sees a mob hit and is placed into the witness protection program where he has to pretend to be a geek and play in the school''s band which is social suicide.
Synopsis:
Shayne McConnell is an arrogant high school football star who terrorizes the band geeks at his school to maintain his popularity. Shayne ends up witnessing a murder by two mobster brothers and has to be placed in the witness protection program clear across the country. His looks are altered, and he must pretend to be a geek and play in his new high school''s band. Being the new unpopular kid, this puts him as a fish out of water, only befreiended by a group of students he never thought he would hang out with -- the geeks. He learns through his life changing experience that he is more than just a jock.
"More Than A Jock" is a heartfelft romantic teen comedy that I would like to submit for your consideration. Thank you for your time and have a great day!
Sincerely,
Marla L. Brandon
WGAE no: I39510
Title: A Functional Love
Logline: Can Jessica Davis overlook her dysfunctional past long enough to believe in the love of a functional man?
Synopsis:
A FUNCTIONAL LOVE focuses on Jessica Davis, a small town newspaper reporter and the head of a damaged household. At 25, "Jessie" fights a daily fear that her father, Bob, is going to die, especially after he overdoses...again. And her baby sister Iris is like a lot of girls without a mother, they drink too much and wind up pregnant.
Charlie Pratt may be a professor now, but he still hasn''t grown up. An often too desperate Jessie loves him more than herself, but that hasn''t stopped him from looking for other women.
Jessie''s true problem lies with her poor self-image and her crippling codependent behavior. That''s why when Jake McGrady falls hard for her, she puts him off, until, in a moment of weakness, she ends up seeking him out. It then takes a dramatic confession from Charlie to lift the fog enough for Jessica to peer out and see clearly if only for a moment.
Title: Marriage Online
Logline: A computer matched couple take a look at their marriage, see through the advertising hype and flip out!
Synopsis:
The computer dating company, Marriage Online, landed a winner when it introduced Gabe and Lori Patterson. After seven years of marriage, they consider themselves happily married. But when the couple is forced, by contract, to talk about their relationship to promote the company, they begin to realize how troubled their union is. And the more honest they are, the wilder this romantic comedy gets.
Note: This script was written under the supervision of a respected script doctor in Los Angeles. She said it is one of the best romantic comedies she''s ever read.
I can also be reached at stephenwmaidment@sbcglobal.net
Title: Bullet Holes And Bear Guts
Logline: Fulfilling a dead friend’s dream is a lot harder when you’re being perused by an eccentric, gay mob boss.
Synopsis:
After his friend’s death in a mysterious house fire, pizza delivery man, Guy Fisher comes into a lump sum of money. Determined to fulfill his dead friend’s dream, he sets out for Mexico only to find that the original owner of the money, Bruno Bracco, the eccentric, gay mob boss of the mid-west, wants it back and aims to pursue Guy at all costs, leaving him in a situation of meeting new people that will change the course of his life forever.
Title: Stout-Hearted Men
Logline: A princess from a kingdom where everyone is fat is kidnapped by a kingdom where everyone is thin. Her two chubby lovers unite to bring her back.
Synopsis:
"Stout-Hearted Men" takes place in Chubolia, a mythical land where a kingdom where everyone is fat finds itself at odds with Thinsylvania, a kingdom where everyone is thin. A group of marauders from the thin kingdom sneak over and steal Princess Tunya. But little do they know that she is in love with Hamilton Fatz, the lovelorn captain of the guard, and, she is also in love with Big Jim, a loutish mountain man. The two race to save her but must overcome obstacles such a bridges with weight limits and forests filled with supermarket turnstiles.
But their biggest hurdle is their deep dislike for each other.
Title: Divine Intervention
Logline: The Virgin Mary gets her first Earth-bound assignment to bring young Dominic back to Heaven''s side and stop Armageddon.
Synopsis:
Dominic is obsessed with sex, alcohol and cigarettes. When his girlfriend, Paige, breaks up with him, God is not a happy camper. You see, Dominic and Paige are supposed to be the parents of the second coming of Christ. If Dominic stays on his current path, Satan will use him to release Armageddon. In order to stop this from happening, Jesus assigns his mother, the Virgin Mary, to head down to the surface where she goes undercover as a counselor at Dominic’s high school.
It is now up to Mary to convince Dominic that Paige is his true love, but cannot be with her unless he changes his ways. It turns out to be harder than she thinks when Satan finds out and begins his own push to keep Dominic. It all comes down to the power of love, sacrifice, friendship and the ultimate in Divine Intervention to bring Dominic back to Paige and stop Satan from destroying the world.
Title: Fast Forward
Logline: Two reckless buddies struggle while trying to quickly earn money for unpaid rent. Bad decisions lead their efforts into comical dead ends, until their VCR mysteriously tapes into the future.
Synopsis:
Two reckless buddies struggle with quickly earning money after their landlord gives them 10 days to produce unpaid rent. Bad luck combined with bad decision making leads all of their efforts into hilarious dead ends. Just when they have run out of all options, their VCR mysteriously tapes into the future. Will this strange event produce the answer to their problems?
The screenplay Fast Forward is a cutting edge comedy aimed towards the mainstream 16-35 year old movie goer (A "Swingers" meets "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle"). As you can see this screenplay is a full length feature and production costs would be minimal.
Title: The Feud
Logline: Bonus round collapse causes real life family feud.
Synopsis:
Shawn Lett is a young man pressed into action as a last minute fill-in on a popular game show after his girlfriend''s uncle was tragically killed just days before her family was set to compete on the show.
Shawn''s monumentally embarrassing collapse in the bonus round of the show instantly makes him the laughingstock of the nation and triggers a real life family feud as the dreams of his girlfriend''s father, who planned on starting his own business with the prize money, have now been squashed. The media frenzy surrounding the show sparks a rematch pitting Shawn''s family against his now ex-girlfriend''s family.
Please contact me if you are interested in reading our script. Our wga number is 1034476.
Thank you,
Chris Kellner
Title: Grilled Cheese Virgin
Logline: When a hooker and a pre-op tranny fry a grilled cheese sandwich with the image of the VIRGIN MARY seared into the bread, one imagines a business opportunity while the other sees her salvation.
Synopsis:
My screenplay has placed in the following competitions:
Nicholl Fellowship - sponsored by the Academy Awards: SemiFinalist (top 1% -2005)
Red Inkworks: Third Place
Page International: Finalist
FadeIn: SemiFinalist
FilmMakers: SemiFinalist
20/20: SemiFinalist
Title: The Apotheosis of Greasy
Logline: Fat is the new black, when a group of influential elite shun the beautiful people.
Synopsis:
The Apotheosis of Greasy (WGA#1115742), combines the irreverent hilarity of "Shallow Hall" with the biting social commentary of "Crash". A clique of exalted men at the epicenter of Western ethos become disenchanted with the unappreciative attitude of the elitist women sect. Considering themselves sexual philanthropists, they enter a pact to never again deify women society deems beautiful, but instead focus their sexual prowess toward "the gratefully obese". The confluence of this plan, their lofty stature and a pervasively overweight populous, polarizes public perception of beauty, resulting in a harsh lesson in esthetic Darwinism; taught in part by erstwhile stooge turned unlikely nemesis, whom they''d laughingly bestowed the monicker - Greasy.
Title: There's no business…
Logline: Just when Talent Agent, Tony Thompson, finds a star singer to rejuvenate his career, he gets scammed by a bookie and a local loanshark, then finds the long lost daughter he hasn''t seen in 10 years.
Synopsis:
TONY THOMPSON has three failed marriages, a daughter he hasn''t seen for ten years, and mounting debts. On the brink of suicide, he hears BRONWYN STARR, a new talent that he hopes will make him a fortune. Entering her into a singing competition at the Riverside Club, he obtains a £10,000 loan from loanshark, MIKE TURNER, and places a bet with his former bookie, SIDNEY DEVINE, on the outcome. Little does Tony know, Devine and Turner are also owners of the Riverside Club.
With his future in peril, Tony''s long lost daughter, BETHANY SAMUELS, armed with a starter’s pistol, turns up on competition night to get even with Devine''s nephew, BARRY CROFT, who dumped her for being too possessive. As a shot rings out and everyone dives for cover, Bronwyn steps forward to rescue her old school friend, Barry, while Tony becomes the father he always wanted to be in rescuing his daughter and fleeing with her... but not before giving Devine & Turner a piece of his mind.
Title: Vampire Academy
Logline: Vampire Academy is a "mockumentary" set in the religiously fundamentalist town of Fishkill, which is thrown into turmoil when a mysterious outsider opens a school for aspiring vampires.
Synopsis:
You may be surprised to learn that evangelical Christians share a number of tastes and interests with the modern vampire, among them softball, pickled eggs and music by The Doobie Brothers. But, sadly, these commonalities are often overshadowed by rash judgment and misunderstanding ...
In Vampire Academy, Edgar KlopKlophenhoffen opens a school that teaches personal and professional growth through the modern vampire lifestyle. His good intentions are vehemently challenged by Reverend Bonaventure, the fire and brimstone spouting preacher who worries the Vampire Academy will damage the souls of those who might otherwise be saved.
Vampire Academy was written in response to the proven demand for mockumentaries like Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman – and the current lack of competition (with Christopher Guest) in this sub-category.
We’d appreciate you considering representation of our script.
Title: Rough Draft
Logline: After their script is plagiarized, two young writers set out on an adventure which gives them a few twists and surprises as they uncover material for a new script.
Synopsis:
Two young ambitious writers believe they have a surefire winning screenplay for a writing contest. Their world is turned upside down when their script is plagiarized and entered in the very contest they are vying to win. In order to find material for a new script they embark on a wild ride full of twists and turns which lead them to discover the true nature of being friends and writers.
Title: Roller Balls
Logline: It''s The Karate Kid...on roller skates
Synopsis:
When Chico Marquez and his mother move to the big city, Chico sees the move as an opportunity to pursue his life long dream: competing for a spot on the hit TV show, Big City Roller - a variety show featuring the top roller skaters in the country.
Unfortunately for Chico, the neighborhood bullies - ace skater Chip McNally and his gang - take an instant dislike to him, and set out to make Chico''s life a living hell. Until one day Chico is taken under the reluctant wing of Delroy - once a star skater himself, whose checkered past has forced him to put that part of his life behind him...until now.
As Chico''s talent develops under Delroy''s tutelage, he attracts the attention of Cara, the prettiest girl in the hood and the apple of Chip''s eye. This is the last straw for Chip, who sets out to stop Chico once and for all.
Will Chico get the girl and reach his Big City dreams? Or will Chip McNally thwart him in his tracks?
Title: Wasted Time
Logline: Logline: Two old high school friends attempt to escape their economically depressed hometown and dull lives through a series of misadventures that parody a wide variety of films.
Synopsis:
Synopsis: When Joel Stanton gets fired from his job as a custodian and
catches his longtime girlfriend cheating on him, he decides enough is enough:
It is time to stop making excuses and leave his dead-end hometown and fulfill
his dream of becoming a successful writer. With his old high school friend Chet Tromble by his side, the two engage in a series of misadventures that parody a wide range of films from "The Village" to "Seven" in pursuit of the money needed to leave town for good.
This unique and original screenplay mixes movie parodies, intelligent dialogue and serious themes
into a comedy that looks at what happens when dreams don''t come true and what we''re left with afterwards.
Thank you for your consideration.
Title: Burning Bridges
Logline: Following a string of unfortunate events, Rick O’Shay must force his own termination. Who knew getting fired could be so difficult!?
Synopsis:
Prior to the acquisition Rick was the epitome of professionalism and hard work. As his company is taken over he stands to inherit a large retention bonus and begin working for the hottest software company in the area.
However Rick must now report to his archenemy and former peer, Ms. Chung. Furthermore the company institutes a policy where each employee must work an entire calendar year to receive the full bonus. He wants to quit but can’t because the forfeited bonuses are deposited into a pool that management, including Ms. Chung, will split.
His only option is to get fired and receive the entire bonus upon termination. When Ms. Chung gets wind of his plan he must play an escalating mind game to see who will crumble first.
I’ll gladly send a treatment of this outlandish comedy or complete manuscript.
Thank you for your consideration.
Title: Scarhead
Logline: A chubby, loveable loser, dreams that he''s SCARFACE.
Synopsis:
Jailed in Beverly Hills for stealing a cheesburger and peeing on a car at the mini-mart, Simon Shalinski, a small time thief and pot-head, is faced with a choice. He must go straight and get his high school diploma, or Judge Hand will put him in prison!
On his way home from jail, Simon steals a pizza and a 60''s disco suit -- then hits his head on a stop sign and knocks himself unconscious while gawking at a girl''s enormous breasts as she crosses the street.
With a huge crooked scar across his forehead, driven by his thirst for money, power, and poontang, Simon becomes the dreaded drug-lord, Tony Spinello and re-lives the story of SCARFACE -- only to find that his hero''s life of crime isn''t all it''s cracked up to be.
Title: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Logline: An offended stranger seeks revenge on an entire town by hatching a scheme that produces hilarious and disturbing after-shocks. From Mark Twain’s short story; has added romantic angles.
Synopsis:
Tossed off of a riverboat, Howard Stephenson washes up on the shore of Hadleyburg, the most self-righteous town on the Mississippi. Stephenson needs assistance but instead receives abuse from the town. Befriended and informed by the town’s outsider, Stephenson devises a plot to teach the town a lesson. Stephenson later meets Sarah Robinson, the servant “girl” who longs to escape Hadleyburg but is trapped by her circumstances. The town hall scene is Twain at his most cinematic. Almost all of the town principals are snared by Stephenson’s trap, much to the unbridled delight of the other townspeople. Mr. and Mrs. Richards are allowed to escape the trap, but because they deserve to be punished as much as the others, they suffer severe guilt repercussions, paranoid delusions, and their ultimate demise. This sets Sarah free to finally escape the confines of Hadleyburg and to pursue happiness in the larger world, which happens to be where Stephenson is going as well.
Title: It''s a Horrible Life
Logline: Love may come to those who wait, but after fourteen years with the same guy, even a reasonable girl has her limits.
Synopsis:
Isaac''s girlfriend, Hope, feels like Eleanor Rigby. She has patiently waited fourteen years for Isaac to pop the question. Isaac has spent fourteen years trying to avoid conversation.
But when at a friend''s wedding, Hope develops a reputation for beating up anyone who gets between her and a thrown bouquet, Isaac''s days of being "happily unmarried" may be numbered.
It will take an annoyingly good-looking rival to appear on the scene, a Frank Capra hallucination, and a persistent mugger to make Isaac realize how he truly feels about Hope.
But he may be too late.
My screenplay, "It''s a Horrible Life", is a romantic comedy in the tradition of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Groundhog Day".
I''d like to send you my completed script of "It''s a Horrible Life" for your review and possible representation.
Thank you very much for your consideration.
Title: Economics
Logline: Eric Matthews is facing a crisis. He is about to graduate form college and needs to figure out what he wants to do with his life.
Synopsis:
Eric Matthews has never known what he wants to do with his life and now needs to make a decision. He has reached his quarterlife crisis. He is about to graduate from college and gets his first taste of the working world. He wonders if there is anything worth doing and his friends try to show him that there is. Is he just worrying about something that does not even exist?
Title: Leave The Brother Alone
Logline: A young man gets pulled into the sinister world of Dr. Phil/Pete by two successive women, one of whom is an artificial love doll, only to learn that sometimes it is best to take your own advice.
Synopsis:
Justin Guy is just some 28-year-old guy who gets sucked into Dr. Pete’s propaganda maze. His first appearance on the show is at the behest of his beautiful Dr. Pete-genuflecting girl friend, Diane; his second is prompted by his next mate, an artificial love doll bought online, Dolly, whose ambition is to have her own advice show; and his third visit, the showdown, is a result of Dr. Pete himself challenging Justin to come on his show alone and admit to America that he needs help. Justin’s “problem” is not that he doesn’t listen, but rather that he listens to too many people who are just regurgitating slogans. In the end, he listens to himself, and does what he wants with his life.
Title: The Foosball Kid
Logline: A klutzy middle-aged volunteer fireman with a boring day job still lives at home with his mother while trying to recapture his youth by playing in Foosball competitions.
Synopsis:
America’s infamous baby boomers have a dark side and this story taps into this virtually unnoticed population. Due to the high cost of living, there are a growing number of people who never left their parent’s home. Based on a true story, our main character Steven Parelli lives at home with his mom at age forty because he doesn’t make enough money to afford his own place. He joined the local volunteer fire department to add more spice to his life however due to his klutzy ways, the other firemen do not permit him to do any dangerous tasks. Steven stumbles onto his one true skill, which is playing and winning foosball games, when he runs into Leo, a talent agent, who helps Steven capitalize on his foosball skills. This story is our first and we believe it is extremely funny and people will be able to relate Steven and/or his friends to someone they actually know. It is a great homage to all those parents who are stuck with middle-aged kids that never left home. WGA:123863.
Title: Learning for Tomorrow
Logline: Dave Wilson revisits his social and academic journey throughout his years at college while contemplating his current place in life. The experience beckons the question was college worth it all?
Synopsis:
Dave Wilson was excited at the prospect of going to college, receiving a top-flight education, and moving on to an outstanding, high-paying career in the workforce. Now frustrated and tired with his place in life, Dave looks back on his experience while enrolled at Filmore State University and wonders about its relevance. His recollections take him through the humorous and odd events that occur during his tenure there. Dave finds that things and people are not always what they seem and that the classroom experience is not what he had envisioned.
This comedy/drama is entertaining and also questions the value of a college education in today's time. This film has great potential in generating interest due to the fact most people are very passionate (positive and negative) in regards to his/her college experience. Many people will also be able to relate to the events that occur in the film and it prompts the creation of the viewer's own opinion on Dave's experience.
Title: My Last Day
Logline: A disgruntled employee and husband wins the lottery and decides, despite the circumstances, that he is going to work tomorrow.
Synopsis:
Ed Boring goes into work on a Tuesday morning, expecting the same old day to transpire, and that's exactly what he gets. His boss reprimanding him over monotonous details, annoying customers, and the never ending and mindless encouragement from his best friend, Phil. On his way home from work, he checks his wife's voicemail and like every other day, hears the message of a mysterious man. After crying hysterically only a block away, Ed finishes his day by coming home to his cheating wife. That night, Ed has decided that he has had enough as he writes a suicide note for his wife in the bathroom. Fortunately for Ed, his wife interupts him and fifteen minutes later, he wins the lottery. Regardless of the fact that he has just won an insane amount of money, Ed decides that he is going into work for his last day. The next day he goes into work and decides that he is going to do whatever he wants for an entire day. What he gets is the best day of his life.
Title: Shank Sherwood
Logline: "Shank Sherwood", is the story of an evangelical preacher who is one of the most passionate and entertaining characters to inspire a generation.
Synopsis:
After two failed marriages and some aimless attempts at stand up comedy, the 40 year-old lost soul finds new life barnstorming town-to-town with his sold out "Concerts for Christ."
He has inspired thousands of people to turn their lives over to God, but as soon as his home community calls on him in the aftermath of its worst natural disaster, Shank is nowhere to be found! His internal conflicts of past sins and present values are bubbling to the surface, compelling him into isolation in a boarded-up boathouse. Shank's loyal girlfriend, two devoted disciples, and a comically incompetent therapist are searching for answers which will hopefully free our favorite preacher of his emotional shackles.
If you are interested in this comedy-drama, please contact me at 608-770-5393.
Sincerely,
Todd Johnson
Title: Here's To Old What's Her Name
Logline: At different times Ron and some of his friends all fell in love with sexy Connie Paradice. One by one she broke their hearts. Sometimes love isn't blind, it's stupid!
Synopsis:
Ron is turning thirty and his wife, Becky, is having some of his old friends over to celebrate. He shares a little secret with four of them. They met each other and formed lasting friendships based on a shared heartbreak. They had each slept with the same woman, Connie Paradice. The discarded lovers have moved on with their lives but as Ron views his life, career and marriage in the remembered glow of Connie's charms, he may still carry a torch. This gathering of friends makes for a party of fond, funny reminisces, soul-bearing declarations and difficult choices as they expose their wives and girlfriends to the long term effects of past love gone bad.
Title: The Amazing Dave
Logline: A Farrelly-esque comedy about an ordinary man who has to deal with the ups & downs of a not just a relationship, but one with a superheroin.
Synopsis:
Dave is an ordinary guy who loves to play pool enjoys the simple life. But when he saves a girl from being attacked, Dave gets a new admire in her beautiful sister Amanda. As Dave & Amanda’s relationship grows stronger, he begins to notice that there is more to Amanda than meets the eye including her abilities to open jars of spaghetti sauce at will, move furniture for vacuuming, beat traffic around Manhattan, and her prowess in the bedroom.
When Dave learns that Amanda is actually Nexa, one of the strongest superheroes in the world, he must come to terms with the fact he has no ordinary girlfriend. Not only that, but Dave must also deal with Amanda’s stalker, superhero ex-boyfriend who just can’t seem to let go. How will Dave deal with all of his issues? Perhaps he can get help in a support group for those with “super-significant others.”
Title: Hero me?
Logline: How could Heaven send us a saviour like this? But, it's better than nothing!!
Synopsis:
Jeremy was flying in airplane, which fell by accident onto an old church in the middle of the desert, inhabited by friars. He helped them fight against a demon who had possessed one of their friars. When he was back in the city, he met Alison, a "lady of the night" and both got involved in a street fight, the police took them to the jail in which the couple participated in a riot, both were taken to a hospital for the injuries that they suffered. While in the hospital, the same demon had taken on the identity of one of the doctors and also kidnapped Alison, to offer her as wife of the Evil. Jeremy is investigated and chased by a police officer; he is blamed for the mysterious death of a girl. The trio get involved in a series of events and comical adventures before fighting the last battle with the most fearsome of all, the King of the Darkness.
Title: Karaoke Kab
Logline: A failed, businessman, forced to drive cab in Las Vegas to survive, finds personal and financial redemption, and rediscovers his boyhood love of singing, by putting a karaoke machine in his taxi.
Synopsis:
Bill Tiernan has what appears to be a very nice life. A family, a nice home, and a successful career. Yet he suffers with the obscure longing for a more authentic life that afflicts most of us.
He gets caught cheating, goes bankrupt, gets divorced, and ends up driving a cab so he can eat.
Hookers, drug deals, horny Japanese businessmen, battered women and helpless drunks bare his soul to the losses of his life, until he finds his voice, singing for tips in his cab.
Until The Grand Idea! Then his life takes off. Karaoke Kab franchises pop up all over the world and he ends up on The Tonight Show and the cover on Entrepreneur magazine.
But his billionaire investor/partner has other ideas, and they settle their score in a high stakes poker game, and an old act of kindness rewards him with the most important thing he ever lost.
RedInkworks Finalist 2002, Austin Film Festival 2nd round, both before rewrite as a comedy.
Title: Campus Heartbreak
Logline: An immature twenty year old must quickly learn the meaning of responsibility after impregnating two college women.
Synopsis:
Kyle Rutherford has everything going for himself. He is young and handsome, good job, and a nice home, BUT he also has a huge problem. He has impregnated two college women during the same time frame. Kyle must now secretly manage relationships with beatiful Anzhanelle Sumner, and the sensitive Patrice DeGarmo. However over-jealous roommate Thomas 'Brush' Phillips will not make that a very easy task. He will do anything from lying to over-protective parents, fighting, and informing Patrice's thuggish boyfriend to see that Kyle's womanizing ways comes to a screeching halt. Kyle ultimately meets up with long time love interest Marie Brown, in whom he is more than willing to put aside his childish games for. Still being the father figure to his two children, Kyle and Marie eventually marry, have two children of thier own, and ejoy life as the Rutherford Family.
Title: Porcelain Dreams
Logline: A housewife suddenly recognizes the illusory component to her life and begins to rebel against her position in a quirky fashion.
Synopsis:
This is a fragmented depiction of an American, upper-class family who appear to represent the epitome of normalcy until viewed behind closed doors. Linda Kirkland is a woman on the brink of turning 45 and slowly realizing that she is living according to an empty social code. She is surrounded by beautiful things that no longer hold any beauty for her and she begins spending entire days crying over soap operas in her pajamas or pasting her headshot on pictures of women in fashion magazines who do more interesting things than her. She is contrasted by a hard-working Chinese housekeeper who desperately wants a life like Linda’s. Linda begins neglecting her teenage kids who explore a transition into adulthood without any guidance.
A series of events forces Linda to realize that people rely heavily on illusion as a means of surviving the mundane repetition of day to day existence. Rather than rebel she comes to accept and maintain the fantasy for the people around her.
Title: Made in Heaven
Logline: Two teenagers Jenifer and her best friend Kim made a pact: To never give up on their dream, to keep on trying until Kim become the next big Hollywood star and Jenifer the next Steven Spielberg.
Synopsis:
Wanting to get closer to their dream, the two childhood friends Jenifer and Kim Lee, now two gorgeous young women in their mid-twenties, decide to leave their hometown to head to Hollywood.
While Kim will quickly become one of the hottest stars in the industry, Jenifer will struggle as a writer. But a very fortunate encounter with Jason St-Johns, her guardian angel pretending to be a studio executive, will change Jenifer’s life forever. Jason’s mission on “earth”, it seems, is to make everything in his power (even breaking some rules) to have Jenifer realising her dream before she soon…. dies. Although that she will never make it in Hollywood before passing away, Jenifer will have the chance to fulfil her dream in a place and in a way she would have never thought possible. At last, she will honour her end of the pact as she got it made, “Made in heaven”
James Sheehy
401 Roberval East, Longueuil,
Quebec Canada
J4L 4S6
450-679-2936
indiana.james@videotron.ca
Title: Skirt Chaser
Logline: A womanizer gets paranoid and funny things happen when he suspects that someone’s out to kill him. He’s still going to try to hijack another guy’s girlfriend, though.
Synopsis:
Somebody's gonna whack Joey (rumor has it), and he doesn't know who because nobody really likes him. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks either, so he’s not about to change his evil ways when it comes to pretty women. You have a doll like Molly on the planet you might as well grab her and sweat the boyfriend later. No problem (he figures), since he’s so expert at looking over his shoulder. Too bad he’s looking over the wrong one.
This is my first script, though, I’m no stranger to the comedy genre. My standup material has been performed by working stage comics from Caroline’s to the Improv. I’ve published humor/satire in: Mother Jones; Yankee Magazine; Maxim Magazine; Philadelphia Style and some adult stuff for the Flynt Group (Larry).
I’d be happy to forward a copy of the WGAE registered script if it’s something that might be of interest to you.
John Dunbar
1889 Kate Brook Road
Hardwick, VT 05843
(802) 253-4472
(802) 253-4404/fax
johndunbar55@msn.com
Title: Leave My Girl Alone
Logline: A naive man needs help to save his lady from the comically unwholesome attentions of a sociopath who won't take no for an answer. Probably because he can't spell it.
Synopsis:
Young lovers need to stay on their toes if they want to keep a step ahead of a career criminal who wants everybody to love him (even if it’s only a one night stand). If this jerk keeps pushing his luck, our hero’s going to work up the nerve to blast him off his mortal coil. Easier said than done, though, because this stand-up guy’s more than happy to blast back. Twists like a pretzel. Funnier than George Bush.
I’ve written for: New York Magazine; Village Voice; New Republic; Hartford Courant; Bangor Times and other, lesser gods. I’ve done some scripted comedy material for radio (WBAI), and New York City comedic stage performances as well. In any event…
…I’d be happy to submit the WGAE registered script if it’s something you’d like to have a look at. Thank you.
John Price
103 Waverly Place
New York, New York 10011
212-777-9515
pricemovie@msn.com
Title: Bum Rush
Logline: They’re hobos. Not bums. Got it?
Synopsis:
Bum Rush is the humorous story of three days in the life of a group of homeless men. The first day features the men living seemingly normal lives: eating out, coaching youth basketball, going to the zoo, and even arguing over grammar. It’s not until the end of the day that their true identities are disclosed. The next two days follow the group as they embark on a journey to give a burial to one of their friends, who died the night prior. This journey uncovers the secrets of their friendship, and the reasons and beliefs attached to their chosen lifestyle.
Title: T'Body Snatcher
Logline: An elderly homeless man learns to move into other people bodies
Desperate to get a woman’s affection he switches bodies by error with a mobster. At end two hit men are send by gangsters to kill him
Synopsis:
An elderly homeless man named Sam witness a man gets murdered and now he must run out of the city or he too will be killed. But Sam is in despair, sick and old and about to give up on life, he is ready to meat his maker when a miracle lightening strikes him and changes his life. Sam finds himself capable of moving in and out of people’s bodies.
Sam must leave town, so he moves to Miami where he meets a beautiful young woman and falls in love with her.
Desperate to get hers affection Sam switch bodies with several peoples in which it creates a commotion, then chaos and confusion. Out of this confusion Sam desperately enters into a mobster’s body by error, at a restaurant ware he was just about to meet his new Mafia boss. And so Sam gets pulled down into a violent life. Finally those gangsters mistrust Sam and as a result they are after him, and after a Jamaican and a New Yorker hoodlum from the black ghetto. The underworld Mafia sends a couple of hit men to find Sam and kill him.
Title: Blind Dates
Logline: Struggling with companionship, Courtney is thrown into the dating scene by her best friend. Plotting a scheme, Elaine sets Courtney up on horrible dates to drive her to a man she already knows.
Synopsis:
A best friend can be a Godsend or a nightmare. COURTNEY, 24 and single is being pressured to get a man. ELAINE, her best friend, has just the thing for her, a blind date!
Elaine and her boyfriend, JASON, plot to get Courtney and Jason's friend, ERIC, on a blind date. They hit it off on their first date, but misfortune strikes. Courtney chokes on her drink and blinds Eric with a piece of food knocking him into another table. On the next date, Eric ends up at the hospital with a concussion and a doctor confuses him with a testicular surgery patient.
Elaine believes Courtney and Eric are meant to be so she sets her up on bad dates. A balding divorcee, a boring museum geek, and a pervert, lead Courtney into depression and Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
Later, Elaine and Jason trick Courtney into having dinner where she finds Eric waiting. She storms off upset, but later realizes she likes Eric and is afraid she's ruined her chance. Eric ponders moving on, but decides to try once more.
Title: One of the Guys
Logline: When a beer-drinking, sports-loving beauty falls for the only unattached guy in a tight circle of friends, the fellas all welcome their new buddy. Their girlfriends don't.
Synopsis:
Tony works in a pet store Loves animals. Fancies himself a ladies' man—one night is his limit. He's also a hypochondriac, a constant worrier. He meets the girl of his dreams: foul mouth, assertive, ambulance-driving Jackie. But afraid of her confidence he keeps dating glamorous but empty-headed Victoria. Jackie convinces him to try for once, and he falls for her. But being in love scares the hell out of Tony, so he tries to dump her. But she won’t let him. She pokes fun at his various fears and he grows. Cooks her a romantic dinner. Praises her beauty. But it's all too much for a girl who's always felt like an ugly duckling. This time it’s she who runs. Their budding romance is complicated by Tony’s boss, his overbearing brother and distant father, and Victoria. Initially resented by Tony’s friends’ girlfriends, her vitality brings everyone together and is the agent that helps Tony resolve family and job woes as all end up toasting with champagne “To a new beginning.”
Title: Another Go Around
Logline: Having missed his senior season of high school football, Mac and his friend Roger, college seniors to be, sneak back into a local high school to live out their football dreams
Synopsis:
Mac entering his senior year of college wonders, with reluctance, what could have come of his high school football career. His fraternity brother and best friend, Roger, responsible for Mac missing his last chance and optimistic about the opportunity to return and play football, convinces Mac.
Once back in high school, they find football success beyond expectations. Off the field, however, they quickly recall the misery of being eighteen. Mac finds himself in love with a high school senior. Finally, leading dual lives catches up with Mac and Roger.
In this comedy of errors, they are, at long last caught. The principal, wishing to save face, and in the midst of a successful football season offers Mac and Roger the option of not going to the police on the condition that they stay eighteen. This forces Mac and Roger to choose between staying in their nightmarish high school world forever or to face the consequences.
Thank you
Title: The Wedding
Logline: When an A-list wedding planner decides to plan her own wedding she gets a wedding from hell. But even in hell romance prevails.
Synopsis:
LAURA PENNINGTON is an A-list wedding planner who has masterminded her own perfect wedding. KEVIN is Laura’s laid back fiancé.That’s what we know. - What we don’t know is that Laura’s best friend, maid of honor and “disgruntled employee” JENNA has her own evil vows for this day. The table is set as: A surprise gift leads to a drunken priest. A fabricated contest leads to the bride’s mom and the groom’s mom wearing the exact same dress. A bridesmaid has bad timing and Terrets syndrome. A groomsman has equally bad timing and narcolepsy. An extravagant food fight undermines an exquisite wedding hall. And- An Elvis impersonator leads the band. As the wedding progresses into a hellish nightmare, Kevin is pushed further away from Laura and into the arms of his co-worker. Can Laura fend off advances from her billionaire ex-lover and salvage her wedding, marriage and reputation? And -Will the best man ever stop talking? I have won several screenwriting contests & optioned my previous script.
Title: The Wrong Stuff
Logline: A sailboat charter captain, forced to smuggle drugs to pay a debt, must find a way to free himself from the grip of an eccentric drug kingpin and win back his wife and daughter.
Synopsis:
Rich had it all – a family and his own charter business in FL. When a drunk spring breaker goes overboard and doesn’t return, so does his business. Rich borrows money from Frankie, an acquaintance in the drug game, but when his tainted reputation prevents him from restarting his business and his wife leaves him, Rich is forced to do “gigs” in order to repay debt. When gigs fail (in hilarious fashion), Rich becomes trapped, looking for that one score that will make everything right. When Rich loses his boat in a deal-gone-wrong, Frankie sends him and 2 other smugglers to Andros Island to pick up a dropped cooler – that contains 1/2 million in cash. What Frankie doesn’t tell Rich is that the cooler belongs to Enrico DePaz, a drug lord who wants his “stuff” and will stop at nothing to get it. In the end, we discover that Rich knew more than he let on, and he ingeniously manages to deliver Frankie and DePaz their just desserts, get rich in the process, and get his wife and daughter back.
Title: The Bindelbaums
Logline: All's fair in love, war and family relationships when musically gifted, but dorky teen, GERTIE, and her perfect SISTER, find out they must compete against each other to win a talent contest.
Synopsis:
Gertie and Tiffany aren't just sisters, they're best friends, that is until they find out only one remaining scholarship exists at a prestigious "Julliard-type" school. And the winner of a talent competition will determine who that person is.
Let the "sister" battle begin!
Coverage on this screenplay was a "CONSIDER!"
"An unusual delivery makes this sister story unique, fresh and funny."
Title: THE GREAT LOVER
Logline: Why does the ghost of Rudolph Valentino haunt a small Midwestern town? For love, of course.
Synopsis:
July 18, 2005
When an ill-mannered mechanic loses his wife to a suave businessman, the ghost of Rudolph Valentino helps him win her back by teaching him how to be a great lover.
Set in present day Crown Point, Indiana, a small Midwestern town where Valentino was married back in 1923.
The inspiration for this story came from two sources. First, I grew up in Crown Point and had always been fascinated by the fact that the cinema's first male sex symbol had been married in my hometown. And second, that there were a few times in my dating life when I could have benefited from the help of a great lover.
I am currently seeking literary representation and would like to send you a copy of THE GREAT LOVER for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Noah Burczyk
Wga reg# 1077522
Title: MULLIGAN
Logline: JACK BUGLE is able to correct mistakes as they occur by briefly snapping back time.
Synopsis:
Former golfer JACK BUGLE is visited by his life caddie JONESEY (that voice in your head that nudges you one way or another when undecided about something) who apologizes for a life altering piece of advice he gave Jack years ago and offers a mea culpa in the form of a round of mulligans (golf lingo for 'do-over'). These mulligans are manifest as case of gold golf balls, and now anytime Jack makes a mistake (i.e. gets in a car accident) he can just drop one of these balls and...FLASH! Time itself suddenly snaps back to the moment before the incident allowing Jack to correct his mistakes.
It's BRUCE ALMIGHTY meet GROUNDHOG DAY when JACK begins using these mulligans to manipulate others as a means to achieve everything he always wanted (fame and fortune) while in the process losing the one thing he truly needs, his girlfriend AMY.
Title: COLLEGE
Logline: A father tells his son a story of his wild fraternity days. His frat house is threatened, and the misfit brothers' all get their acts together and save the one thing they take seriously.
Synopsis:
Ever reminisce about the bacchanal times you had back in college? Ever want to show your kid that you’re not the anal-retentive loser that he thinks you are, but were once –- one righteous dude?
While taking his son to college for the first time, our “loser”, Rob, reveals his dissipated, darker days in a fraternity. The only thing his frat brothers cared about was beer, bud, boobs and brawls.
When the house fails its fire inspection, this group of misfits is threatened with expulsion unless they can raise enough money to exact repairs in two weeks. Our gang of social retards gets their act together and saves the one thing they take seriously. In the end, Rob gets the money, the girl and, best of all, the respect of his son.
Title: A Box of Love
Logline: A miserable married couple re-ignite their love after each hire the same man to kill the other. A simple divorce is too much paperwork.
Synopsis:
Ralph and Judy Needham spend their days at home watching true crime television shows. Ralph irritates Judy to no end. Judy grates Ralph to no end. To add to that, Ralph is convinced she's having an affair, with good reason, even though he's doing a little mingling of his own by way of instant messenger.
When they catch an episode of “Real Crime” and the sketch of a balding, gun-for-hire, who resembles the grocery clerk at their local supermarket, all rational thought disappears. A story of sudden judgment, thoughtless decisions, and two large boxes shipped FedEx to remote towns across the country.
My script, A MEANS TO AN END, is currently under option at Subtitled Films and my short film, THE MISCONCEPTION OF RANDAL BIMFORD has screened at numerous film festivals including The Telluride IndieFest and The Tribeca Film Festival (2005 Budweiser Filmmaker Discovery Award Nominee).
Thank you for your time and if interested, please contact me.
Title: THE PROFESSOR'S NANNY
Logline: Dancer fleeing murder rap is housekeeper to Humanities Professor. Teaches him real world Humanities. Acquitted and adopted by him, he sends her to drama school.
Synopsis:
Leonardo, a retired, reclusive, widowed Harvard Humanities Professor estranged from his son Lenny, a criminal attorney. Leonardo’s abrasive attitude repels housekeepers. Lenny hires Samantha a disguised go-go dancer fleeing a murder charge. Samantha is befriended by Matilda a neighbor widow in love with Leonardo who calls her the Black Widow. Matilda smuggles meals in to cover up Samantha’s inept cooking.
Leonardo’s snob, embittered attitude antagonizes Samantha an aspiring actress. There are explosive confrontations. Samantha’s gradual attrition penetrates the crusty Professor’s protective armor as she weans him from the Ivory Tower concept of Humanities to real world Humanity. Arrested, she is bailed out by Leonardo and defended by Lenny . The media hype the murder-sex scandal of Harvard Professor in Menage a Trois. She is acquitted and adopted by Leonardo who sends her to drama school. Leonardo is seduced by his next housekeeper, the Black Widow.
Title: Major League Lady
Logline: I've written a new chapter about our National Pastime. It is a high-concept baseball comedy, Major League Lady.
Synopsis:
Chosen as the first female manager of a major league baseball team, Marge Archie struggles to earn the respect of her players and daughter while coaching her failing team to its first playoff spot in ninety-one years.
My screenplays have placed in several contests including a semi-finalist for Fade In. I am also an award-winning playwright (Actors Louisville of Kentucky.)
I look forward to your reply.
Steven Arvanites
400 west 43 Street #38T
New York, New York 10036
MuddHillMovies@aol.com
212-459-4222
Title: Makeover Mavericks
Logline: A stressed out Manhattan public relations exec must compete in a contest to save her job.
Synopsis:
Liz Roberts is dismayed when she doesn't make Vanity Fair’s list of the top ten star publicists. Liz is further frustrated when her boss refers to her as the “bread and butter” of Bing and Bang Public Relations because of her ability to handle the day-to-day operations. While her rival Evan Johansen is the “haute couture line” because of his ability to woo A-list clients. Liz and Evan engage in a game of one-upmanship that ends in public embarrassment.
Their boss hatches a plan to decide who stays and who goes. She assigns them the task of making over a set of twins from Alabama who've just struck it rich. They must take their twin from podunk to Park Avenue and get her crowned queen at a society event.
Liz must lead her unwilling charge through the treacherous terrain of Manhattan’s social scene. Liz ends up falling for Evan and must decide if she can have it all or if she must choose between her career and personal happiness.
Title: Reading Between the Lines
Logline: Imagine what would have happened if you had indeed signed that damn "secret admirer" letter.
Synopsis:
Laney Barfaloft has just recieved her first assignment as a television writer to furnish the next greatest American drama. Only problem is it's about a time and place she'd rather soon forget...high school. With the help of her whimsy co-writer, or possibly against her will, Laney uses her own embarrassing, torturing experiences from high school to launch the next greatest craze in teen drama. But to her dismay, not even good writing can erase the feelings her best friend, Mitch, and herself have always had, but denied for one another. Between remembering family trials, the re-emergence of an old crush, changes in the script, and the ironical fate of one scrap of paper that changes her life forever, Laney realizes that when it comes to love it's all about reading between the lines.
Title: As Good As Dead
Logline: Jack is just like everyone else. He works in an office, he's dating someone new, his dimwitted friend has come back from the dead to enlist his help in catching the killer, and he's the next target.
Synopsis:
I have just completed the feature screenplay “As Good As Dead” that I would like to submit to you for your consideration.
Jack is just like everyone else - he works in an office, he's dating someone new, his dimwitted, recently murdered best friend has come back from the dead to enlist his help in catching the killer, and he's the next target. Other than that, he's doing fine.
In March of 2004, I optioned my screenplay “The Devil & Steve Lear” to Nightshade Films of Chicago, and I am looking for As Good As Dead to continue that success.
Thank you. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Title: The Grandma Show
Logline: Despite the better efforts of his 93-year-old Italian grandmother, Anthony Deficiente, 38, gay, and a virgin, tries to find love.
Synopsis:
Note - this is a full length stage-play.
ANTHONY DEFICIENTE is trying to find his niche in life, but opportunities don't come easy in the dying industrial city of Gloversville, New York. Chronically unemployed, he struggles to make ends meet. All his relatives are “dead from the cancer” and he's the only one left to take care of GRANDMA, who refuses to share him with anyone. His love for Linda Ronstadt sustains him, and his refuge is his bedroom, the only room in the house without "that old lady smell."
The action reveals the insanity of his past and the strong, freakish bond that holds him and Grandma together (for example, her thwarting of his suicide attempt with a frosting spatula). When Anthony meets DOUG, a fellow "Linda Nut" with a secret, Grandma and Anthony must learn how to maintain their relationship while allowing Anthony a little freedom for his own life.
The play requires a cast of 6 playing 13 characters. The approximate running time is 85 minutes.
Title: Work: A Four Letter Word
Logline: A politically INCORRECT comedic Improv artist joins a very "P.C." Corporate HR department where corporate misfits provide fodder and material while in search of his true passion, his own audience.
Synopsis:
WORK – A Four Letter Word is a story following the comedic misadventures in corporate America as seen through the eyes of a human resources manager. As a frustrated comedic improvisation artist who joins corporate America, the most politically incorrect adventures happen to the most politically correct department of a company. The story follows SCOTT through the internal turmoil of holding a steady job versus chasing his dreams of performing on stage. Given the current downtrodden labor market, and individuals who struggle daily to manage relationships and work-life balance, it has never been more fun to watch the hiring and firing of misfit employees.
Title: J.P.
Logline: Jittery banker joins an ex-prisoner, a financial genius, to build a banking empire through chicanery. The teller ends in prison while the ex-prisoner becomes US Treasury Sec is the ironic ending.
Synopsis:
When JP Morton, a nervous bank teller, is robbed and shot by Mack Denife, $10,000 falls into JP’s shopping bag. Mack, a financial genius and former prisoner with a Harvard MBA confronts JP outside later. He talks JP into a banking partnership investing the $10K. Using financial chicanery, including an armored car holdup, they build a banking and business empire.
At the height of success, JP takes a sabbatical for a world wide humanitarian project. He hires a beautiful scientist, Maddy Syants, who has developed a special pill which when added to the world’s water supply, improves health and reduces human aggression. JP marries the girl and receives the Nobel Peace Prize for eliminating war. Research by scientist Igor Beaver, and publication of a scandalous book by reporter Mark Train leads to conviction of JP for financial fraud and crimes against humanity. Mack, now a respected Secretary of the Treasury visits JP in prison to offer ironic advice.
Thank you,
Title: Happy People
Logline: "Happy People" is a comedy where a successful couple is forced to associate with an unfortunate, yet optimistic couple when their beautiful daughter becomes roommates with their dorky son.
Synopsis:
Carl and Candy Calderone appear to have nothing to be happy about. Carl has been fired from his job while Candy, a professional singer, has gotten throat cancer. In addition they have been unsuccessful in trying to adopt a child and both are fighting obesity. Despite all these misfortunes they remain very happy as does their son Cale. In contrast Ken and Laurie Swenson are the American dream. A good looking couple with a gorgeous daughter, Shannon. They are also expecting another child. Perfect on the surface they are a bitterly divided family in reality.
When the housing department at the college both Cale and Shannon are attending screws up and places them as roommates the families are forced to spend time together. Their freshman year turns out to be a comical learning process for all culminating with the birth of the newest Swenson.
Title: Joe Schmoe's Plot
Logline: Dying is the time of his life
Synopsis:
I've recently completed a screenplay entitled Joe Schmoe’s Plot, which I would like to submit to your company for consideration. Joseph Schmoe, pronounced Skamoe, is a public defender tired of defending. After getting a rapist off on a technicality resulting in the victim’s suicide, he is a man tired of living. So when tests reveal an inoperable brain tumor leaving him a month to live, Joseph becomes ecstatic set on planning the perfect funeral. That’s when he meets Evie Mahoney, a funeral home director tired of the business. They form an unlikely bond strengthened by an unexpected death and his neighbor’s pet fish. As the end nears, Joseph wishes it wasn’t; until he finds out he’s not dying, that is.
The WGA registration number is 239940. I look forward to hearing from you.
Title: Mailman
Logline: A bumbling dropout has three months to save enough money for his college education, but winds up saving a whole neighborhood from eviction.
Synopsis:
John Branco fails at everything, until he passes his letter carrier exam and
becomes the new mailman on the Grandview route.
Faced with pimps, gangsters and the seedy side of town, most would give up,
but John's determined to get the mail through.
When he discovers plans to bulldoze Grandview for a high rise office
building, he learns to embrace this diverse world, where people struggle in
poverty but live their lives with passion.
Saving Grandview won't be easy, but then that's the story of this mailman's
life. I am an optioned screenwriter and contest finalist.
I would like to submit MAILMAN for your consideration.
Title: Paging Ambassador Steel
Logline: Stan Steel pays to be paged at global events. Big business and Government hijack his conflict resolution method to avert global catastrophe. In the process Stan goes from oblivionaire to billionaire.
Synopsis:
Stan Steel of Ambassador Steel has himself paged in high places becoming famous but mysterious. He wins a grand Vegas holiday.
A parcel addressed to Ambassador Steel alerts the Casino Boss, a friend of The President.
A union-led industrial crisis looms and "Ambassador Steel’s" opinion is solicited.
He pitches his conflict resolution method - taking adversaries to exotic locations and wining/dining them into agreeable consensus.
A hijacked Stan uses his venue/menu method to save Vegas from ruin.
Enriched, Stan heads home. He never arrives. The President intercepts, enlisting Stan to solve a worsening oil-crisis.
A middle-eastern version of “the method” helps avert a global recession.
Grateful America contracts Stan to supply Steel Starved China with unlimited scrap steel, of military origin.
Stan makes a billion.
Establishing “Ambassadors of Steel”, a training school for famous and connected gentlemen - the world eventually becomes one - at peace.
Title: Three and a Third
Logline: Three and a Third (WGA#839212) is a a quirky comedy of how three sisters rediscover the closeness they shared as children and the ability to change their lives.
Synopsis:
When William Sullivan summons his children to his deathbed, he knows it will be for the last time. His dying request to have his ashes spread on the graves of his wife, his mother, and his father stuns his children. The Sullivan sisters reluctantly agree to honor their father’s last wish.
After spreading their father’s ashes on the graves of his wife and mother, the sisters lay out the ground rules for their trip. Whoever drives has control of the music. There are to be no exceptions. Margaret and Heather grant Elizabeth permission to stop at only one yard sale or flea market per day.
The trip turns into more than the fulfillment of a simple task. It becomes a renewal of the love and closeness they shared as children and provides them the opportunity to re-evaluate their lives and make drastic changes.
Finalist at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference Literary Contest.
Title: Klansman Can't Jump
Logline: The Grand Wizard of the KKK has a secret. His adopted son turns out to be black. You won’t believe the adventures his son gets into keeping this under wraps.
Synopsis:
Hank and Elanore Fugitt are a normal couple. As normal as a couple can be when Hank is the Grand Wizard of the KKK. But, when they find out that having kids is not a possibility the Fugitt’s turn to adoption and things get crazy. Because of a rare skin disease, they don’t discover that their blind child, Rufus, is black until he is 15. At this time they decide to send him and his handicapped gay brother, Jim Bob, to a school set up to hide embarrassing children of the Klan.
At the school we meet Mr. Card. His job is to rehabilitate or get rid of these troubled students. The students at the Georgia Institute of Blinds Queers and Retards compete for top billing at the school culminating with one student being named Grand Wizard of the school. Throughout the movie Rufus the narrator tells us the story of his life while doing various jobs ranging from air traffic controller to security guard.
Title: Nerds Among Us
Logline: To save his fiancee, a nerdophobe enters the world of pocket protectors, bad haircuts, and ill-fitting polyester clothing to thwart a lunatic bent on recreating the world in his own nerd image.
Synopsis:
JAKE BRAVADO, a low-tech greeting card writer, has a problem: his fiancee, JULIE, turns out to be an agent working for NITWIT (Nerd Intelligence Team With International Ties). And now she's missing. So Jake reluctantly joins NITWIT and learns to act, talk, and dress like a nerd. Thus prepared, he goes under cover as a technical writer. Before long, he gets a big break: his boss sends him to a seminar in fabulous Las Vegas. Jake finds out that the city is crawling with nerds, and that some big event is imminent. An informant, DEEP NERD, advises Jake to "follow DIMONNI." Jake meets with Dimonni, but it's a trap! Jake soon finds himself in Area 5.1, the desert compound of HANS NERDFINGER. His plan: to create a nerdocentric society -- and take Julie as his bride. In the end, Jake conquers his inner demons, defeats Nerdfinger, and saves the woman he loves.
Title: The Fake Bakery Chronicles
Logline: Nice guys finish last--not always the case. When a young man sees the girl of his dreams he will stop at nothing to get her.
Synopsis:
A 21 year old student and typical "nice guy" spots a beauty at a tanning salon. He begins to pursue the young woman who is already taken by the University's premiere football player. He gets to know her, finds out she is unhappy but "stuck" with the football star, and ultimately falls in love with her. His friends, 1; a beer drinking, self-proclaimed "ladies man", 2: two pot smoking movie enthusiasts/critics, eventually come to understand their friends plight and decide to "help" him get the girl of his dreams.
The characters' personas shine throughout the script and are high grade exaggerations of present day young men and women, with a little twist. Both intellectual, and toilet humor bring to life the everyday struggle of relationships. Everyone in their late teens to early twenties can relate to these characters. The constant humorous dialogue and everyday situations herein will even give the older viewers something to laugh about.
Title: HITMAN
Logline: A would-be hitman falls in love with his first assignment.
Synopsis:
WGA registraton #994323
Charlotte's best friend Eileen overhears her husband relate a Charlotte sex fantasy to his best friend and takes it for the real thing. Outraged, she orders a hit on Charlotte.
Stefan must comply when his cousin's mafioso boss calls in the loan he used to complete his veterinarian education. A "one time hit" will erase the loan, he says, or else. Stefan reluctantly scopes out his intended victim.
Pinky the dog wants revenge on the man who shot him and left him for dead. He bides his time in snarly loyalty at Stefan's side.
Stefan is love-struck. Too late; he discovers she is his hit. Charlotte overhears her new love interest on the phone. Is he some kind of mafia hitman? Pinky is elated. He has found a familiar scent that may put him on the trail of his assassin.
This whimsical romantic comedy can be uploaded, or I can send a hard copy. Best regards, Elfi.
011 52 998 885 0525
Title: Lost and Found
Logline: Two best friends reunite and move to Vegas to run from their dismal lives. After a run-in with Vegas pros, they learn they cannot run from their old habits. This time they must face what they create.
Synopsis:
A zany look at a young man destined for failure due to his drinking and gambling addictions. After losing his job, girlfriend and happiness, he locates his childhood best friend and talks him into leaving their problems behind by moving to Las Vegas to start new lives. Within 24 hours of arriving in Vegas, the young man owes a crooked casino manager $30,000 while his best friend falls victim to a flawless scam with a one legged prostitute and her crazy midget pimp. The prostitute drugs him, marries him and holds his freedom ransom until he pays them $20,000. During thier uproarious mission to make the money, the two best friends will be faced with their biggest obstacle...themselves.
(WGAw #988637)
Title: Dude, Where's My Plane
Logline: Two pothead cargo pilots have to land in a remote jungle and can't find their 400,000 lb. plane after a night of heavy partying.
Synopsis:
Willie and Matt are young Air Force cargo plane pilots who carry a load of dehydrated military meals. They are forced to land in a jungle community after two engines fail. There the natives party with them; they get stoned and can't find their plane the next day. Instead, they find a topless beach party of European vacationers. A French girl leads them into the jungle to find the plane. They find it but think it's just a shelter, because the natives have turned it into a street fair inside the cargo hold. Eventually, they realize it's the plane. They fix it and invite the partiers to join them on the trip home. Upon landing the general is upset but a "mademoiselle" partier persuades him to forget about it. He ends up giving willie and Matt medals for their diplomatic success and offers enlistments to the natives. Dude, where's my car meets M.A.S.H. We think it will be an instant hit.
Title: Doctor Feel Good
Logline: "Doctor Feel Good" is a comedy where a young, unhappy plastic surgeon gains fame by switching to psychiatry, holding a pathetic life contest, and giving absurd advice.
Synopsis:
Bored plastic surgeon, Travis Riley, follows his passion into psychiatry. He makes a national impact in his new field, in the nature of "Dr. Phil", for his radical "face your fears" philosophy. Travis receives thousands of video entries for his nationally publicized "pathetic life contest". He enlists the help of his goofy parents in the judging process.
Travis guarantees to turn around the lives of the three winners, a dorky tax attorney, an unapproachable super model, and a lonely single Mom, by the end of a therapeutic cruise. Travis succeeds with two of the three contestants while falling in love with the third.
Title: THE BIG SKITCH
Logline: THE BIG SKITCH (LOVE BOAT meets THE GRIFTERS) is a story about the cynical owner of a covert matchmaking service who gets skitched (tricked) into his own perfect match by his two trusted associates.
Synopsis:
SKITCH - (n) hoax, plot, sham, ruse
(v) to defraud, trick, outwit
Cynical PARKER JAMES runs a covert matchmaking service with trusted associates GREG and ZOE. Their fees are high and success rate amazing. They specialize in hooking up those who have everything -but a mate- without them knowing. Parker's motto is "A man's as dumb as he wants to be."
Greg and Zoe intercept a call requesting the gift for Parker and they jump on it.
Too bad they skip every rule, procedure, legal and background check and pick JULES, a gem who walks in off the street. She's married, with a kid, and only signed up to collect the fee and disappear after the requisite 30 days.
Parker "accidentally" meets her and falls hard, never suspecting a thing.
His motto holds.
Lifetime renewed the option on my holiday script WRESTLING WITH ANGELS and expect greenlight soon. CARRIED AWAY is packaged and out to talent via casting agent Todd Thaler. I have a first-look deal at Fox.
Title: HUSBAND, FIRST
Logline: Average American Mike Kitteridge must change careers, uproot his family and relocate to the east coast when his wife gets a new job: President of the United States. “Mr. Mom” goes to “The West Wing”.
Synopsis:
All the talk of Hillary running one day got me thinking. The result is “HUSBAND, FIRST”.
Born into a famous political family MIKE KITTERIDGE has a purpose in life - stay out of politics. So when his wife, KITTY, wins the IL governor’s seat they work out a deal – they’re just any other couple where they both work. But soon Mike finds himself the husband of a presidential candidate. His brother, THOMAS, enters the race and on primary night Mike has to decide between voting for his wife as the Republican candidate or his brother on the Democratic side.
Act 2 starts in the White House where Kitty is called away on one crisis after another leaving Mike to attend parent/teachers night, chip golf balls off the roof with his son, talk his daughter through her first period, and defend against syndicated radio talk show host (and Thomas’ greatest supporter) MAD-DOG PETERMAN who declares war on the Kitteridge White House.
I've studied screen writing at UCLA under Michael Colleary.
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