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Genre: Drama
Title: Revenge
Logline: Jack Sims is a corporate attorney who violently kills seven people after his doctor informs him that he is dying; he started his killing list when he was twelve.
Synopsis:
The twists in Jack''s life are as unique as his methods of killing and his ability to stymie the police. For years he stocks his attic with clothes, tools, hardware, equipment, a pistol and bullets. After each killing he bundles things he used or touched, and throws the bundle into a body of water with a weight inside to keep it submerged. He is consumed with so much hatred and desire for revenge that he chokes with his hands, strangles with strings of thin wire, crushes skulls with a rock and hammer, and shoots his pistol through a ninety year old woman''s ear. He demonstrates other sadistic acts such as driving an iron spike up an anus until feces come out,and by making a sister of one of his targets for murder perform oral sex on him, then he leaves samples of the feces and semen at the scene of his other victims. One year after the murders he marries a beautiful criminal defense attorney that he mentored twenty years
earlier and who has been in love with him since.
Title: The First Season
Logline: True friends are the ones you don''t see coming.
Synopsis:
Jerry Pasillas and Kaleil Cohen spark the flame that will light the way for a very unlikely friendship during a liquor store robbery. Kaleil finds himself on the wrong side of a 9mm as the masked Jerry holds him up in a last desperate attempt to pay off a debt. So close to each of their lives taking a dramatic turn, the robbery leaves both Kaleil and Jerry rattled to their core as they have nothing more to do than to reflect on how their lives have diverted so far. In an attempt to get their lives back on track, they each resolve to enroll back in school; finding each other once again enrolled in the same psychology class.
The two are paired up as partners and quickly become friends as they recognize the same struggle within each other. With the deck seemingly stacked against them, Jerry and Kaleil understand that to help each other is to help themselves.
Jerry and Kaleil experience the mystery of true friendship as they give way to the blossoming of their own first season.
Title: Neptune Beach
Logline: A smart-mouthed young woman loses her lover and discovers her heart.
Synopsis:
Alameda, CA 1924: Maggie and Jack are neighbors and young lovers. Their innocent, albeit forbidden, nighttime picnic is interrupted by Maggie’s carefree and beautiful brother. Maggie shoos Jack home and as he makes his way across the street, Maggie’s parents’ uncontrolled car slams into him, killing him, and them, instantly.
Three years later Maggie has not recovered from watching her parents and lover die. Her worried brother has coaxed her into joining him at Neptune Beach and as she steels herself for a day with his blithe friends, she realizes that her treasured locket, which belonged to her mother, is missing. Maggie is desperate to have it back, but is it because it belonged to her mother or because it holds other secrets as well? Confronted with secrets on all sides – her own, her brother’s, and those of Max and Jim, two young men drawn to her for different reasons, Maggie must decide her own fate. Will she disappear into her grief or will she choose life and love?
Title: BOB and WEAVE Undercover Cop
Logline: Two men with intrinsic needs, one for a father and the other for a son, one an undercover cop and the latter his Mafia target.
Synopsis:
Having formed a father and son bond with aging Mafia capo Gov Guarnieri, Lt. Dave Green’s dilemma is knowing that he must soon imprison him. Before Gov, Dave’s story in five words was: “mob chaser, arrest without emotion.”
South Florida is Dave’s birth place as well as his undercover arena, increasing personal dangers because it’s where Dave’s real identity has been exposed too often to the underworld during arrests and trials.
A master in the undercover art of bob and weave (advanced chicanery and skullduggery), Dave infiltrates three Mafia families despite being fingered as a cop.
Following the burn, two powerful Mafia bosses order Gov to distance himself from Dave. Gov refuses, deepening Dave’s anguish over concern for Gov’s safety.
Gov’s sacrifice at trial is a contradiction to the edict that all Mafia members are heartless monsters.
Title: Say Your Prayers
Logline: A traumatized football star struggles to keep his head above water after he commits an atypical act of violence that jeopardizes his career.
Synopsis:
College Football star and NFL prospect Charles Jackson thinks he found the love of his life in Tracy. He doesn’t know she holds a dark secret, which will ultimately lead to his demise. He tries to distances himself from Tracy after finding inconsistencies, but she cleverly plays off his feelings to get back in good standing. He commits an atypical act of violence that turns his world upside down.
The pressure becomes unbearable, forcing Charles to leave school and his major love, football. He makes new friends, who have a negative impact on Charles as they lead him down a path of destruction and into jail. Charles meets Rev, a street-savvy convict, who has turned his life around. He guides Charles and passes on his religious philosophies.
Charles struggles once he is released from jail, but leans on his newly taught values to make it through rough times. Charles gets a shot to revive his career by the way of Semi-Pro football with hopes of making it to the NFL.
Title: VESSEL
Logline: When you cross a man of God you may as well expect him to turn the other cheek, but soon...you run out of cheeks!
(Genre: Crime Drama Thriller)
Synopsis:
Pastor William Wilberforce, a GOD fearing leader stands strong in the midst of a decaying city full of gang warfare & corruption. William along with his sister, Vanessa & her son,Jonas,live somewhat normal lives despite the constant increase of gang violence. This all changed when 3 thugs chase a rival gang member into the church & force everyone to watch as they beat the man. This incident drives, Detective Kerry & his partner to push even harder in their efforts to stop the gangs.
Dante, the gang leader, sanctions an intiation killing in William''s direction & his nephew is murdered by Cricket.
Vanessa''s loss, lack of trust, & lack of faith in GOD, causes her to end her life.
William still wants to believe that God is in control, that God has a plan. However, he is challenged by thoughts of confusion, feelings of extreme anger & revenge.
William''s mission becomes clear. When you cross a man of God you may well expect him to turn the other cheek but soon, you run out of cheeks
Title: The Great Storm
Logline: In the year 1900, residents of the island Galveston, Texas must come together to survive one of the deadliest hurricanes in American history.
Synopsis:
Charlie Travers is a writer living along the Texas coast on the Galveston island in the year 1900, and his life, along with the rest of the town, is about to change as a deadly hurricane approaches. Joseph Larson is a local meteorologist who tracks the storm through telegrams sent from other states feeling the impact of the powerful storm. Charlie helps him in his efforts to evacuate the town, but lack of knowledge of these storms makes the citizens not worry and unaware of what''s to come. Torrential winds, pounding rain, and rising surf trap the residents who fight to survive the hurricane, which becomes the deadliest natural disaster in United States history. The Great Storm is a drama, action/adventure disaster story about the true events of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane.
Title: 67
Logline: Mike Pierre is drunk when he finds out that his dead friends daughter was abducted. A series of heinous events follow that will give Mike the chance to redeem himself.
Synopsis:
A lot of men turn to alcohol to cope with things in their lives. The day before his death, Mike Pierre finds himself hitting rock bottom. Not only has he lost his job, but finally his wife and baby boy. These events were preceded by the death of his best friend Jerry who was brutally executed. Jerry was murdered not in some random incident, but was shot dead because he was Mexican.
The two brutes, Jimmy and Freddy, that kidnap the young girl are blatantly racist white men that have a deep hatred for Mexicans. They take Lela to a vineyard shack where things start to turn south for them.
The all out battle to get Lela back leads Mike through old memories, gun fights and to a red farm house where Mike ultimately sacrifices himself for her.
Title: In Bad Faith (a true story)
Logline: Attorney Steve sues State Farm for contacting his employer and getting him fired for submitting a $6,000 claim. He uncovers a shocking conspiracy at State Farm''s corporate Home Office.
Synopsis:
Steve''s employer confronts him for giving his client, State Farm, a "hard time" in his personal auto claim, removes him from partnership trek and forces him out. A friend, Jane Lynch, tells him Claim Superintendent Jim McGhee, and his boss, Section Manager Ute Kenmir, have done this before. When Steve sues, State Farm plays nasty by suppressing files, destroying documents and covering up Ms. Kenmir''s investigation. When Steve wins a big court ruling, Ms. Kenmir becomes his star witness by throwing everyone under the bus to save herself. With unexpected help from former colleagues, the real culprit is revealed to be "retired" adjustor, Johanna Cappadonna, who confesses State Farm managers threatened her retirement and the job of her cancer-stricken lesbian partner unless she interfered with Steve''s career. Steve and his nemesis, State Farm corporate counsel Byron Hansbro, come face to face for the final showdown when the Federal Judge delivers a shocking result no one sees coming.
Title: Caleb, The Last Witness
Logline: A brutal murder takes place in ancient Israel and the elder Caleb is called upon to judge the case. During the trial Caleb relives events that will transform humanity forever.
Synopsis:
A Moabite slave girl is accused of the crime and the tribal elders are unable to agree on a verdict. At a stalemate, they call upon the charasmatic and revered patriarch Caleb, the last witness to the entire Exodus to Judges experience, from slavery in Egypt through the forty year sojourn in the desert to the settling of the land.
During the trial, certain incidents jar Caleb’s recollections of past events. As a teen in Egypt he is privileged to serve the son of Pharaoh’s chief architect and he loves all things Egyptian until reality strikes and his world is transformed. In the desert he witnesses an event unparalleled in human evolution and in his most significant role, he is chosen as one of twelve spies sent by Moses to survey the Promised Land. His encounter with the vile and monstrous giants who inhabit the land is harrowing and gruesome.
This epic story creates a canvas of the biblical world never before seen on film and has unilimited audience potential.
Title: Millions To Burn
Logline: A secretive spendthrift man lavishes his lottery winnings to reclaim his family but finds that he needs to confront his extravagant ways to prevent his life from again spiraling out of control.
Synopsis:
Don Henry is a realtor whose life is out of control.
Having recently separated from his wife Lisa, he loses his job and is running on empty.
He wins the lottery after making a spontaneous decision to buy a ticket and sets about trying to get his life back by lavishing his winnings on his family and himself.
He keeps the prize a secret from his friends and family, letting them think that his turnaround is due to his business acumen.
Despite being an instant multi-millionaire, he soon finds that his burgeoning lifestyle has outgrown his riches and he again faces ruin.
Desperate to avoid insolvency he finally confesses all to Lisa, who then provides Don with the means to successfully re-invent himself.
Title: Square [1]
Logline: He kills his parents to prevent them from destroying his life. Is he guilty? Or was he acting in self defense?
Synopsis:
Escobar Esperanza is a prominent business man and philanthropists on trial for murdering his parents as a teenager. To escape from the sexual abuse and forced drug habits placed on him by his parents, he ignited the Christmas Tree, trapping his parents in a burning house, and rushed his siblings to safety. His most vocal critics have convinced a promising district attorney to prosecute the case to the fullest letter of the law as a means to discredit Escobar and the many socially impacting issues he has taken a stand on that benefit the poor and disenfranchised. To gain his freedom, Escobar must demonstrate that his childhood caretakers, many currently promoted to positions of social prominence, neglected their obligations to his care and ignored his multiple cries for help. But can Escobar overcome the political maneuvering and attacks by those who stand to benefit from his demise, to maintain his freedom, continue his social stand, and keep his family together.
Title: The Ticket
Logline: If you were given a ticket allowing you the ability to take another human life, would you use it?
Synopsis:
The world has changed; no longer are there nations, but one world government. Society has lost any purpose to unite the people, and violence has grown out of control. Dr. Ersatz Soterios, after losing his family, has designed a plan to save the world and end the violence. He creates the ticket which is designed to unify through fear and self-preservation to stop the violence.
Ambrose John Hartman, an ambassador and longtime friend of Soterios, opposes the ticket and is willing to do just about anything to stop before it is too late. He enlists the help of many great people along his journey. What will the world do? Will the ticket become the greatest solution ever created or does it have the potential to destroy the world?
I hope this synopsis creates a desire to read this 107-page gripping screenplay.
Title: The Steel Valentine
Logline: Victoria is young, beautiful, and naive. In 1981 her husband was murdered by Sammy "The Bull" Gravano in Philadelphia. This is a true story.
Synopsis:
In 1971 she meets the man of her dreams. They date, marry and the rollercoaster ride begins. Love, hate, murder and betrayal quickly fill her life. She hides from the FBI and the mob with her two young children for two years to protect her husband. When she is five months pregnant with their third child the mob catches up with them.....
Title: John & Victoria
Logline: Jobs, fraud, scams, and theft are only necessary evils to keep this young and very insular couple together as addiction tries to tear them apart.
Synopsis:
John and Victoria have been together forever. They have each other and they also have something else… a heroin addiction, which is the always present “third wheel” in their relationship. After their routine is devastatingly interrupted when they both find themselves out of work, they turn to dangerous (and increasingly desperate) measures in finding ways to make cash. Refusing to deal with the sickness, and never contemplating separation, they do everything possible to stay together… all three of them.
Title: Only Mondays
Logline: The lives of two teenage cousins intertwine as they witness forced labor, starvation and mass killings from opposite sides of the genocidal Cambodian Khmer Rouge regime.
Synopsis:
As the Communist revolution engulfs the impoverished country of Cambodia, the lives of two teenage cousins end up taking very separate paths. While Rith joins the Khmer Rouge regime, Heng falls victim to the evil it brings. For years, each sees forced labor, starvation and mass killings from opposite sides of the holocaust until, one day, they reunite as soldier and prisoner in a Khmer Rouge death camp.
Title: WHAM!
Logline: Just when middle-age feels like a place of solace, Meryl''s rock-solid husband takes his own life, leaving Meryl with four wacky friends and the question, Why?
Synopsis:
Meryl Jacobson comes home with a carload of groceries, opens the garage door and sees her husband, Hank, hanging by a rope. In shock she gets out of the car, fills her arms with bags and, as she walks past her husband''s lifeless body, orders him to come down and help her.
At the funeral Meryl''s friends come to her side: Sharon, a bartender slinging drinks for a living, Diane, a bipolar time bomb who works as a waitress, and Ada, a stable mother and housewife. Janet, an old acquaintance and ex of Hank''s, comes to give her condolences. Meryl brings Janet into the sisterhood despite Diane''s complaints and hatred towards Janet.
The Museum is the name for the garage. It becomes the gathering place for all the women, with the centerpiece being the rope Hank hung himself with.
Things are being left around making the women look at Janet. No one knows Meryl has the note but is yet to find out why Hank hung himself.
Title: In the Canyon
Logline: Two average cops take chase to silence a young man who has secrets of his own.
Synopsis:
Two Orange County Sheriff’s Deputies on their way to a crime scene encounter a young man on a dark canyon highway. After a physical altercation, they are forced to leave the young man for dead at the edge of the road while dispatched to a nearby traffic accident. When the accident victim turns out to be a local celebrity, the reporters converge and the battered young man stumbles in, alive and center stage. Confronted with their own undoing, the officers must determine how far they are willing to go to hide the truth.
Title: Murder Has Many Faces
Logline: A gangster uncle dies leaving Montague $50m in drug money and meticulous records of their criminal activities.
Synopsis:
Drama
Montague''s inheritance becomes a death warrant from the cartel and from his beautiful wife, who loses everything if her X-Rated past is revealed. He gets there first and fabricates the perfect crime.
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I am published author of seven books and much of my writing has appeared on TV, stage and radio. I hope you will consider looking at this 114 page completed screenplay.
Title: The Angel Maker
Logline: The true story of Amelia Dyer, Britain’s most notorious baby killer.
''This is certainly a page-turner'' The BBC
Synopsis:
This dark and unsettling story, based on true events, takes place during the nineteenth century, a time when it was not uncommon for an unwed or destitute mother to `adopt out’ an unwanted baby. In exchange for a one-off payment, `baby farmers’ would take rejected babies’ without question under the premise of providing them with safe and loving homes. According to historical accounts baby- farming was deemed a profitable business; however, it appears that it was only lucrative if the babies were disposed of instead of re-homing them. This led to numerous inhumane practices, of which, many have been associated with the notorious baby-farmer, Amelia Dyer.
While this atmospheric story will appeal to a broad audience it also serves as a stark and sad reminder of the often brutal and unforgiving era that epitomized Victorian England.
Title: Road Wisdom
Logline: With his conscience at its heaviest, medical insurance director, Daniel Shepherd is forced to recall the young idealist who filled his shoes and meets the calloused man who has taken his place.
Synopsis:
Burdened by marital troubles and compromised morals at work, Daniel Shepherd comes across his old journal accounting the most important summer of his life. The summer before Med School, Daniel takes his motorcycle across country to return to the only place he''s been able to call home, West Virginia. From listening to the open road, to discovering love, mixed with the insights of his idealistic grandmother, Daniel learns life as it isn''t taught in textbooks. Wondering if there is anyway to recapture that youthful fervor, Daniel realizes that, despite it all, everything is meant to happen. There are no accidents.
Title: Beacon
Logline: Michael, a trouble shooter, has an affair during a takeover. He becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the female owner and must find the killer to save the life of his estranged wife.
Synopsis:
Beacon opens with a fishing boat disaster. The " crew perish " the headline reads. No survivors. Or are there?
Michael begins the affair whilst negotiating the takeover of the murder victim''s business. He later becomes the prime suspect. Pending further inquiries he is released subject to a restraining order sanctioned by his wife.
Anna, the murder victim''s body is found in a fishing net during another boat''s- The Cadenza - fishing haul.
Ray McIndoe, a detective, is left with the task of finding the killer without the victim''s name, no documents and only a jet stone as evidence.
Michael protests his innocence and volunteers to help McIndoe''s investigation after meeting McIndoe privately.
The survivor of the fishing boat disaster begins a relationship with Michael''s estranged wife, but the restraining order prevents Michael getting close to her and the killer. He takes the law into his own hands when the killer kidnaps Michael''s wife and victim''s son.
Title: In My Closet
Logline: With the death of her parents, Jacqueline revisits her family home to find her disturbed past stored away in old shoe boxes. Will she recover from the memories, or is this the start of more tragedy?
Synopsis:
As Jacqueline puts her parents to rest, she revisits the family home to pack up their things, as the home has been sold. As she is wondering throughout the home which brought her such pain, she goes into her childhood room and opens the closet to find all her memories stored in old shoe boxes.
With an abusive father, she discovers just what strength is at four years old, however she never thought she would need her strength for the 38 years to follow. Just when she thought the abuse was bad, there was so much more to follow.
The murder, the stalker, the rapist, the bi-sexual experiences, the trip to Europe, the death of her best-friend, the birth of her daughter, the divorce, the drug-addict, the caregiving and the grey hair, is just a quarter of what she has been through and it hasn''t stopped.
Will Jacqueline survive all these memories which she has tucked away in her mind, or will this be the fuel added to a lifetime of pain; is there a monster inside of her?
Title: THE DISTANCE HOME
Logline: A grieving ex-Negro League pitcher befriends an angry white teenager and mentors him from the brink of self destruction all the way to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the major leagues.
Synopsis:
Mark Farmer, a 16 year old delinquent teenager, walks the dilapidated neighborhood streets of his home town, that in themselves symbolize the lifelessness and abuse he experiences at home. He is soon to meet a man that will change the course of his life dramatically. Lloyd Saunders is an ex-Negro League pitcher. He befriends Mark, whose life is spiraling further and further down the inevitable sewer that draws him in like a magnet because of his brutal upbringing. Lloyd becomes the loving father figure that Mark never had. This coming of age story takes them all the way to the Pittsburgh Pirates, in spite of major league setbacks and disappointments as Mark fights Lloyd every step of the way. In a cruel twist of fate, Mark’s career is a race against the clock as Lloyd’s health quickly fades. Will Mark realize his dream to have Lloyd see him play in the major leagues before his friend and mentor dies? Find out by requesting a copy of THE DISTANCE HOME.
Title: Walking City
Logline: He doesn''t pay his respects to the city. The city pays its respects to him, and prays that he even considers returning the favor.
Synopsis:
Tommy and his three stepbrothers live like kings in their early thirties, but never finished High School. Their stepfather, Jack Chase, is Boston''s most powerful crime lord. The four boys were born to fight, to kill. Together, they are Jack''s top negotiators. Pulling the trigger without so much of a blink of an eye is what gets the job done.
When one brother runs into trouble with the police, and another gets beaten mercilessly, the boys turn to Tommy and Jack for guidance. Before it''s too late, they realize that their situation wasn''t coincidental at all, but the works of an old friend. A betrayed friend who''s craving revenge and payback that''s ten years overdue.
Title: Some Change
Logline: A homeless man stumbles upon dirty money.
Synopsis:
Jimmy is a content homeless man. On a walk one night, he finds a bag of money that was thrown out by some mobsters during a drug-bust. Unsure, Jimmy seeks help from his friend, Tiger. Tiger guides Jimmy, eventually becoming homeowners; meanwhile police investigate, certain that evidence was lost. With the mafia on his heels too, he decides to spend money fast and spontaneously, bringing his friends along for the ride. The mafia eventually finds him, and ambushes his house to get revenge and money. They don’t find the money, but end up killing Tiger. Jimmy is arrested along with the mobsters, for ‘withholding evidence’. He gives a heart-felt speech about his journey, and how he realized that money cannot satisfy like a humble, stress-free life. Everything is taken from him, but in a twist, we learn that the house was in Tiger’s name. And because Tiger had signed his assets to Jimmy in his will, he ends up with the rights to the house.
Title: INTERVENTION
Logline: An intense drama unfolds in Memphis, and angels and devils scheme for its rescue and ruination.
Synopsis:
An interracial couple fight the night he''s stabbed by her possessed ex. Archangel SIDRIEL commissions BAHALIEL to shield her and her unborn child. Fallen Throne FOCALOR sends spirits called GREED, MURDER, BIGOTRY, and RELIGIOSITY to incite an evil pastor against his brother, a holy pastor, who suggests the church finance the victim''s medical expenses. The victim''s brother avenges him, then faces God''s vengeance in a graphic scene inspired by the author''s extensive research of near-death experiences, especially Betty Eadie''s "Embraced by the Light," used near the end. Please watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qQAJWkaYyI, or enter "Intervention Spec Script" in Youtube or Google videos.
Title: Time Matters
Logline: Mother and daughter struggle to overcome their personal issues amdist a very public and controversial trial in this drama blending Class Action and Terms of Endearment.
Synopsis:
Time matters but can it erase the years of hurt and resentment felt by a mother and daughter? That is the question that Denise and Angela Matters struggle with as they deal with the demons of their past.
By all accounts, Denise and Angela Matters are not very different. An up-and-coming prosecutor with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, Denise is an overachiever. Poised to become the county’s second black, female district attorney, second only to her mother, Angela Matters. Now, Denise is forced to prosecute a very controversial case over which, to her dismay, her mother is presiding involving a young man who is being prosecuted under the state''s new hate crime statute for assaulting a gay student on the campus of Winston State University.
Amidst this very public and controversial trial, these women must work against time to deal with their personal issues before it destroys them professionally.
Title: De''Marco then and now
Logline: THE FAMILY CRIME STORY OF HOW A MOTHER RAISE 8 BOYS IN THE PROJECTS OF CHICAGO, AND HOW SHE GUIDED THEM THROUGH, WITHOUT, THE FOES OF JAILS, PRISONS AND DEATH.
Synopsis:
THE LOVE TRUTH & REALITY ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
{ PO BOX 480572 Los Angeles California 90048 }
DE''MARCO ;
“QUERY”
1. New Submission of feature film/movie script “DE’MARCO”
2. DE’MARCO is 160 pages
3. DEMARCO is a Urban Drama or I like to think good drama
4. DE’MARCO is a family crime story taken from the international best selling book “The Promised Land” the great black migration how it changed America.
5. The Haynes / Daniels family is my family
6. The “ Promised Land “ was writte by Nicholas Lemann OF the Washington post.
7. The DE’MARCO Script was Read Grammatically corrected by the Larry Thompson Organization.
8. THE DE’MARCO SCRIPT WAS WRITTEN SOLELY BY ROBERT LOUIS HAYNES /// SCREEN ACTORS NAMES RABIA LOUIS HAYNES
Thank you for your time.
Rabia Louis Haynes. 09/24/2009
Title: Raising May
Logline: "An unorthodox woman gains care of her estranged deceased daughter''s kids, but must change if she is to keep them."
Synopsis:
"A grandmother''s rebellious, adolescent behaviour is reported to a government agency by a con artist, after gaining guardianship of her estranged deceased daughter''s 14 year old children. Given a month to clean up her act, she has to prove herself a worthy guardian."
Title: Heart on Fire
Logline: In Jerusalem, an Israeli soldier refuses passage to a Palestinain woman in labor. The baby dies.To redeem himself he allows her family to take his eye out. In Paris he takes the Mona Lisa as hostage
Synopsis:
At a border crossing in Jerusalem,Ron an Israeli solder, refuses passage to Layla,a Palestian woman in labor. The baby dies. The soldier tries to kill himself. The attempt fails as the car carrying Shonta,New York''s Green Party Candidate for Mayor, carreens into his shed. She invites him to NY city.
Ron drives to Layla''s village in search of redemption. The family demands biblical justice to which Ron agrees.They poke his eye out with a burning rod.
Wearing a white eye patch, in inner turmoil, Ron on the way to New York stops in Paris where he descovers the Mona Lisa. He decides to take the painting as a hostage and demand from the international community 1 billion dollars for the Middle East. The attempt fails and he is sentenced to prison term. Upon release, he heads back to Layla''s village.
Heart on Fire is a superb drama,simply written with explosive visual honesty.Ron''s inner chaos turns him into a living ticking bomb waiting to either explode or find solace for his soul.
Title: WEAPON OF CHOICE
Logline: Outcast Israeli Arab youth is recruited by the Mossad and trained as a lethal weapon which spirals out of control and must be stopped, but not until he completes his final mission.
Synopsis:
An, Israeli Arab, pushed to the breaking point, becomes one of the most feared fighting machines the Mossad has ever produced. Trained in their most advanced techniques, his assignments become a tour de force. From Bedouin sex slave traders in the Sinai, to Muslim Brotherhood assassins in Egypt, to corrupt Hamas big shots in Gaza, he leaves a trail of destruction and collateral damage. Spiraling out of control, his last assignment, to assassinate Yassar Arafat, is set up to be a contract on his own life from within the Mossad itself. A beautiful Israeli woman and a dear Israeli friend stand with him as he becomes Israel''s weapon of choice.
Based on a true story, WEAPON OF CHOICE will suck you into the clash of cultures at the heart of the Middle East conflict and take you deep into the soft underbelly of deception and savagery that keeps Israel from collapsing.
Title: The Secret of the Nile
Logline: Prior to the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt in 3100BC, King Hanor a.k.a. Scorpion King had his undisclosed son, Narmer, assist him in bringing down the upper kingdom and unifying all of Egypt.
Synopsis:
Based on the premise of the renowned Universal Scorpion King movie, The Secret of the Nile is more of a dramatic story set in ancient Egypt around 3100BC which places more of a realistic (yet debatable) view of that timeframe based on historical sources. King Hanor, the king of upper Egypt, has lost his enthusiasm for the throne due to what he feels is going on within his own family. His daughter, Princess Ouca Medann, has involved herself with the commoners of the village and has supposedly fallen in love with the city''s skilled craftsman, Aaron. Ouca soon becomes pregnant with Aaron''s child as a ploy to further the successes of her unfathomable desires, consisting of the unnatural feelings she holds dear for her half-brother, Fabius. The future son of the princess, who will be denied the rights to his true father due to Aaron''s untimely murder, will be called Menes and become the successor of Narmer after Fabius and Ouca are both executed at the hands of Narmer himself.
Title: QUILT OR YEAR OF THE OCTOPUS
Logline: Steve Westly, a middle-aged, out-of-work, sex- addicted architect, considers suicide so that his two children from his first marriage can collect life insurance money.
Synopsis:
Swin, his sex-bomb, Laotian, mail-order bride of three years, and half his age, has gone AWOL. Alone and broke in so many ways, Steve gets inspiration from his kids and from a more famous scriptwriter-turned-architect celebrity, to help pull himself out of the abyss. Steve tries his hand at writing a script himself which is picked up and made into a feature film that is about to premier. In this story within a story, he gets the girl in Act III, but is she his estranged wife? A quirky narrator helps tell the tale which spans locations in California, Asia, Philadelphia, and a climatic scene in “Swin City”. Color coded flashback and fantasy scenes included. (WGA# 1376774)
Title: SHALOM LISBOA
Logline: During World War II, a Jewish French woman races to make it to Lisbon in the hopes of saving the life of her infant. But the diplomat set to issue her visa is under heavy pressure himself.
Synopsis:
From the professional script coverage of SHALOM LISBOA:
Rating: RECOMMEND
Comments: "This is a great script, filled with incredibly noble and selfsacrificing characters, and its greatest strength is the way it presents many of the ideologies floating around Europe during World War II without being overly convoluted.....
....Florette is a strong-willed and compelling character, and the resiliency she shows during the atrocities she endures clearly reflect the heroism or lack of heroism in the characters around her......
.....Adding to this theme is the story of Marcelo and Cristina, speckled gingerly throughout the script. Marcelo risks his career as a diplomat and his own life to issue visas to thousands of refugees who would otherwise be dead at the hands of the Gestapo.... ....Adding weight to the story are some truly great visual moments in the script....
Available on request: full professional scrip coverage and full screenplay
Title: Shoes
Logline: An individual against the establishment. MOSES STONE became a baseball superstar, the death of his brother in Afghanistan, and a hard childhood made him challenge and fight the establishment.
Synopsis:
Moses refused to accept a baseball player superstar salary and refused to represent any commercial interests. He then chose to become a "working people hero" as well as instituting a threat to the establishment (baseball organization, players, industrial companies, etc.). They became apprehensive, as they believed he might be creating a consumer revolution that will work against their interest.
At first, the estabishment (WOODY PIERCE owner of "Joyce sneakers" who Stone "circus media" who negatively affected his company, and SAMUEL SMITH baseball superstar, who represents "Joyce sneakers" and was terrified how his status changed to the worse.) found Moses very hard to convince or to cooperate with them. Yet after much persuasion and manipulation, they ultimately broke him down and once again induced him to become part of the establishment.
Title: Seasons of the Pearl
Logline:
A GI bar in Saigon is the stage for comedy in a war zone. Going home alive is the plan for the final act.
Synopsis:
Sammy and Bugs are a couple of US Army guys working their way through a one-year tour in Vietnam during the war years. With them are a few whacky buddies and the local bar girls whose Pidgin English is all part of their charm. Their hang-out is a small bar, The Oriental Pearl, in Saigon where the girls work. Savannah, an American news correspondent, joins them, befriends the girls, and has an affair with one of the guys. They all go back and forth through the swinging doors of the Pearl bringing with them humor, pathos, and serious war zone emotions. The Americans are there for the four seasons of the year. The locals are there for life...mostly.
While comedy is the central theme, a strong moral and political message is present. It''s a question that seems to be unanswered in the world today. The characters are real people brought together in a surreal atmosphere of an extremely unpopular war.
Sound familiar?
Title: Boys of Wooster
Logline: A young pizza maker from the Italian neighborhood of Wooster Street - along with the help of his "Boys" - must challenge his "safe" existence and make a run at his dream of becoming a writer.
Synopsis:
“Boys of Wooster” is a funny, touching and heartbreakingly realistic journey through the lives of four childhood friends from Wooster Street, now all in their twenties and facing the choice of following the footsteps of their fathers before them, or taking the chance of forging a new path, a personal path, an original path … even if that may mean leaving the safety of Wooster … the safety of HOME. We follow “Jimmy,” a heartbroken local pizza maker who dreams of one day becoming a writer as he struggles to come to terms with who he is and where he really needs to be.
Title: Train 449
Logline: Little Red Riding Hood talks to a stranger;the stranger turns out to be the wolf who eats her.Algernon talks to a stranger;the stranger turns out to be the person who he''s been longing for.
Synopsis:
Growing up,Algernon often had this same dream at night:He was waiting by a shore for a man who''d promised him any treature he''d think of from a far-way land but he always woke up before the man returned.He prayed one day the man could make it before he woke up so that he could meet him.His prayer has been answered;better still,he meets the man in real life.Now a young man chased by loan sharks and in several broken relationships,on an escapade trip,Algernon meets this man and spends 17 hours with him.But he doesn''t know that the man is who he''s been longing for (due to vague recollection in childhood) til the end of the journey,few hours before the man dies.Blunt,crass and troubled,how does Algernon react to the man''s unsolicited interchange?An initiator of the chat,the man must have known Algernon beforehand.What keeps him from identifying himself at the very beginning?What impact may the journey have on Algernon as he later reflects on it?
Title: Last Autumn
Logline: A lost girl in her early teens becomes friends with a male stranger in a week in autumn. Through their friendship, they rely on each other on all aspects of life.
Synopsis:
Jason finds himself in a quarter life crisis. It is now late October, and he is on the verge of becoming despondent on being unable to find a job. However, he and his brother, Alexander, who is also a recent college graduate, have been studying for the GMAT and LSAT, respectively. The week before the exam, Jason finds it difficult to remain focused on the upcoming exam, and he becomes pensive. In an attempt to refocus, he frequents a coffee house. In the coffee house, he becomes acquainted with an individual, Jessica Clarence, with a crisis of her own. Jessica is a precocious, yet coy, teenager from England, who masks her true feelings. Jessica has recently been expelled from her school in England and feels lost in life. Throughout the week, Jessica and Jason frequently run into each other and discuss many things about Jason’s upcoming exam and job interviews, Jessica’s parents being trapped in a town that has just been hit by a hurricane, life, and disappointments.
Title: Out of Pocket
Logline: A noir thriller about a happy marriage threatened by an utterly random event and parallel secrets.
Synopsis:
Sam Dolon tries on a brand new mail-order pair of slacks one day and finds a slip of paper in the pocket. On one side it says: “Inspected by 9.” On the other it says: “Your [sic] a dead man!”
Anybody else might dismiss it as just a prank. But because Sam happens to be living a happy and contented life in the Witness Protection Program, the implications can’t be ignored. Especially when a stranger appears in town and seems to be stalking him.
Who is the stranger? Is he connected with Sam’s former life? Or is he part of his wife Ella’s former life, a life he knows nothing about? That she knows nothing about his former life complicates the issue further.
As Sam and Ella separately try to pin down the identity of the stranger, neither is aware of the danger facing the other. Both pursue their separate paths toward a surprising and disturbing dénouement.
Title: Tupelo Honey
Logline: A musician uses his first national tour to find answers to his brother''s mysterious disappearance ten years earlier.
Synopsis:
The story follows Jack, a guitar god, as he embarks on his first national tour. Along for the ride is his fast talking manager Malcolm, who the label hired to keep Jack’s off and on stage antics under wraps. Malcolm soon discovers that Jack’s issues stem from more than just your typical rockstar persona. While an orphan of the Church, Jack suffered years of abuse, and his brother Camden disappeared without a trace after a music shop robbery went wrong.
As the tour presses on, Jack searches for answers about Camden''s disappearance and on the way falls for a beautiful girl named Diane. Under Malcolm and Diane’s guidance Jack learns to deal with his haunted past through his music, which in turn sparks protests from the Church. The controversy causes a journalist to dig up Jack’s history and people from his childhood soon come out of the woodwork. A former orphan confronts Jack, who is intent on taking the Church to court, and Diane stumbles upon some new info on Camden''s whereabouts.
Title: Who I Am
Logline: A disabled man with a troubled past decides to redo his life and make something out of himself.
Synopsis:
Steve Rodgers can''t let the past go. He was born with a speech impediment and because of that he was often the target for bullies. He had dreams but because of ridicule, he threw those dreams away. Twenty years later, after being inspired by friends, Steve decides to go to college and redo his life...but it isn''t what he hopes it to be.
He faces bullies and discrimination, plus he suffers from seizure-like relapses. He feels like dropping out but when he meets Erica, that all changes. She has a challenge herself: she has cancer. She begins to change Steve for the better and inspires him. But Steve still lets the past affect him and still lets people put him down. Another problem arises when Erica''s ex-boyfriend, Joe comes back and manipulates her to come back to him through violent means.
Can Steve overcome these challenges and accept himself for who he is? You''ll have to find out.
Title: Keep Coming Back
Logline: The Departed meets Good Will Hunting when a career criminal tries to change his ways before a drug war erupts outside an inner-city rehab center.
Synopsis:
When Pete Moglie finds himself in court-ordered drug rehab, he decides to close the door on his criminal past. He soon finds that keeping the straight path is not so easy because of a booming drug trade outside the rehab center.
As the neighborhood becomes more and more perilous, Pete deals with the strict rules of the facility, as well as physical confrontations with past foes. In the end, Pete learns how to be the man he never thought he could be.
Title: A Healing Heart
Logline: He loses his wife and newborn son in a tragic accident, sending life into despondency and emptiness.Through it all he struggles to revive his career, handle being a single father to his only child.
Synopsis:
When a successful businessman loses his wife and newborn son in a tragic accident, his blissful life is derailed. But through it all he struggles to revive his career, handle being a good father to his surviving daughter and finds unexpected new love in this urban family drama about loss, love, and redemption.
Title: Blueprints
Logline: In the afterlife, Darius risks his own eternal life to go back to Earth and try to help his brother leave his sinful lifestyle behind and save his soul.
Synopsis:
DARIUS dies and achieves his ultimate life goal of reaching Empyrean, a Heaven-like utopia. When he arrives, Simon, the gatekeeper, says he has fulfilled all of his goals on Earth, allowing him to enter Empyrean. Darius struggled mightily to achieve all of his goals and he only made it on his 39th lifetime. After reaching Empyrean, Darius hears his twin brother, JOE, is living a sinful life and will likely not be accepted after his 40th attempt. When a soul fails after 40 lifetimes, their soul is disposed of and left to wander between worlds.
Darius'' love for his brother drives him to leave Empyrean and blueprint himself back in to Joe''s life. Blueprinting is the process of incorporating souls into each other’s lives, you have no recollection of blueprinting your life and must rely on sixth sense. Darius must help Joe overcome his virtue of selflessness. If Joe does not achieve his goals, they will both fail to enter Empyrean and both of their souls will be lost.
Title: THE SECOND COMING
Logline: Large nails, from the Holy Cross of Jesus, are discovered in a basement archive of the Vatican. It is further discovered that these nails still have active plasma and DNA samples that are viable.
Synopsis:
A pair of doctors, working in a lab, decide to use the DNA sample in an invitro process. The pregnancy, birth and rearing of this gifted child are witnessed and revealed with a sense of humor by the female lead character telling the story, a nun named Sister Terry. As the gifted child, Cisco, grows older, he developes a soccer team from orphans and castaways brought in from around the world by the Catholic Church. As the team takes shape, Cisco begins to feel his power, and the team become his disciples as they travel around the world playing ball and righting wrongs. But, can it be, this is all a figment of Sister Terry's imaginatiion?
Title: Encounter
Logline: A Chinese ship lands in Columbia in 1422. A Chinese concubine meets a young native, bringing cultural exchange. There is a parallel story of an archeological dig that uncovers this historic moment.
Synopsis:
After a storm off the coast of Columbia, a boy named Pacri-nan discovers that a ship has landed on his beach. While observing the strange occupants, he is saved from a jaguar attack by a pregnant teenage girl named Li Wa. Pacri-nan in turn saves her from bringing poisonous fruit to her shipmates. Li Wa is grateful and communicates with Pacri-nan through pictures, first drawn in the sand and then from a book. After several days Li Wa departs with her ship but leaves behind a baby, a map, several critical items and some of the pictures from the book. In time Pacri-nan becomes chief of his tribe by implementing some of these advanced concepts. Once the child left behind is mature, Pacri-nan understands that Li Wa had left items that were intended to allow her child to survive in this strange land. Eventually Pacri-nan builds a boat from the pictures and brings Li Wa's child back to her in China.
The parallel story follows several archaeologists as they uncover this historical event.
Title: Behind the Eight Ball
Logline: The lives of several down-on-their-luck deadbeats intertwine in a bar over the course of a single night.
Synopsis:
It's quittin' time on Friday afternoon, the weekend is here, and friends Nick and Tony have only one thing on their minds: getting drunk, getting high, and playing pool--and maybe getting lucky. The evening looks promising, but as the night unfolds, events don't play out quite how Nick and Tony expected. Encounters with several colorful characters from various walks of life force the friends to take a long, hard look at their own lives.
Title: The Search
Logline: When he discovers he was adopted, a young man's decision to confront his abusive father leaves him blind and destroys his last chance at a professional baseball career.
Synopsis:
MARK never thought he would get another shot at playing professional baseball after being hit by a pitch, years earlier. He decides to take one more chance at pursuing his dream. This time, though, he needs the money that a big league contract will offer to free himself and his mother from the abuse they have both endured for years. Despite his fear of failing, Mark realizes his new incentive far outweighs the chance of re-injuring himself.
CRYSTAL, his girlfriend, leads Mark to find a newfound strength in faith.
Coupled with an invitation to a big audition in front of pro scouts, Mark believes this is finally his time. Just then, his life is turned upside down again when he finds out that all the years of verbal and physical abuse he suffered from his father could have been avoided. Mark discovers he was adopted and a violent confrontation with his father leaves Mark hospitalized, blind and fighting for his life.
Title: Made in Heaven
Logline: Two young girls 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 a successful writer.
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.
Through many adventures, Kim will quickly become one of the hottest stars in the industry, while 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”
Title: K-Pin Split
Logline: Rex, a 30 year-old orthopaedic surgeon, succumbs to drug addiction. To save his medical license and escape felony charges Rex must venture to drug rehab where he forms a life changing relationship.
Synopsis:
Rex, a 30 year-old orthopaedic surgeon, has everything until he falls prey to the disease of addiction. Due to the consequences of his illness, Rex, is terminated from his prestigious New York City job and must flee to an inpatient rehabilitation center in Tampa, FL to save his medical license and avoid felony charges. While in rehab Rex befriends Vern, a multiple relapsing heroin addict, who through empathy and wisdom dissolves Rex's intense denial. We follow Rex's progress in accepting his illness along with the continuously building unique friendship of Rex and Vern. Tragedy strikes Rex in the midst of an effective recovery which makes him question the purpose of sobriety and life.
Title: American Star
Logline: American Star is a coming of age story about Oscar nominee, Merrick Jennings. Merrick endures issues of self-hatred and homophobia, leading to eventual love and acceptance on a very public stage.
Synopsis:
I’m Robert Timsah and I’m currently seeking representation for my script, American Star. American Star is about young Oscar nominee, Merrick Jennings. He is currently the hottest young actor in Hollywood dating beautiful actress, Susan Johnson. When Merrick meets openly gay writer Josh Nichols, outside of a gay club, this forces Merrick to deal with issues of self-hatred and homophobia. With pressure mounting from the world around him, Merrick struggles to find love and acceptance on a very public stage.
This story is very personal to me because I’ve dealt with coming out and wanted to tell the story of a high profile celebrity dealing with self-hatred and homophobia we endure.
If you are interested in American Star I am able to send you the script in PDF format.
Sincerely,
Title: Life of the Undesirables
Logline: An underworld war breaks out in the city streets when the son of the city's most powerful crime boss is murdered.
Synopsis:
Christian Cataldo has spent most of his adult life working for the most powerful mobster in Charlotte, Jimmy Turra. Jimmy was Christian's mentor and good friend. But when Jimmy's son is murdered on a city street, Jimmy holds Christian responsible and retaliates in an act that will change the lives of both men and everyone associated with them, forever.
Title: All for One
Logline: Former New York City investigator plans to rob every store in the New York City Diamond District.
Synopsis:
Former investigator, Alex Jones has been fired from the New York City Police Department. After being fired, he concocts a brilliant plan to make money. With the help of his best friend, Felix, Felix's college buddy Marc, and Felix's long term girlfriend, Nora; each with a different skill to help make Alex's plan flawless by robbing every store in Diamond District.
Yet, after three successful robberies, the group begins to tear apart under Alex's scheming mind with only one of them left to take him down with the help of an unlikely source.
Title: The Great American Loser
Logline: During a trip back to her childhood home, a young woman accidentally falls for a charming yet self-destructive high school teacher who made her teenage years hell.
Synopsis:
Is love really powerful enough to change who we are? And if it is, do we want it to?
After a botched attempt at a real vacation, 25-year-old EMMA DANIELS returns to her childhood home for two weeks of respite from a lame, lonely existence in New York City. Her relaxation is interrupted when she comes face to face with a high school teacher who both tortured and excited her nerdy self ten years earlier – the suave yet destructive JONATHAN BROOKS.
While her two childhood friends MOLLY and STEW do whatever they can to keep her from trusting Jonathan, Emma can't help but be drawn to him and sucked back into her teenage years at the same time. The closer she gets to a man who once caused her so much high school heartache, the more Emma realizes she isn't the only one who can't seem to escape the past.
Thank you for your time and consideration with this query!
Respectfully,
Title: Ghetto Scandalous
Logline: Changing his world in a dream, the dream that changed the world.
Synopsis:
Rapper, Curtis Jones has strong reasons to be happy; a record deal, fame, expensive cars, and lavish houses, but he is not. His actions in High School led to the death of his true love, and now, the memories are haunting him. He meets Jack, an old man, sent by a higher authority, who takes him back into time. With his music, in ten days, he has to rescue Tanya, his true love, from emotional wreckage, before she commits suicide.
Back in time, Curtis is drawn into serious commotions, dealing with gangster rivalry and life threatening High School dramas. Survival tactics from the ghetto become his aid. Judith, the lead singer in the school choir, crucial to his mission, falls for him and becomes a treat to its success. Curtis is victorious in the end, but finds himself back in the present world, to learn that it was a dream, preparing him for his destiny; changing lifes with his music, achieving greatness along the way.
Title: The Hospital
Logline: An NYU film student’s goal of completing a senior film and surviving another 36-hour shift as an X-Ray tech at NYC’s Bellevue Hospital is complicated by a dangerous brother linked to a terrorist group
Synopsis:
In the sticky New York summer of 1976, 20-something film student Jon Sticcato doesn’t see the point of doing much with his life – until his normal 36-hour shift as an X-Ray tech at NYC’s Bellevue Hospital turns out to be anything but. A dangerous brother linked to a Weatherman-like terrorist group, a best friend who might be leaving him forever, an NYU film school thesis, and the sudden emergence of the possible love of his life (in the form of a tarot-card reading nurse), all conspire to change Jon’s life in a way he could never have imagined.
A small ensemble film in the genre of “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints,” “The Hospital” is a dramady that finds solace in the fact that everybody is just a little bit crazy.
Screenplay competition results for The Hospital:
Finalist (top 9) in GothamScreen 2007 Screenplay Contest
Semifinalist (top 50 out of 1,300) in 2007 International Screenwriting Awards
Quarter Finalist 2007 Zoetrope and 2008 BlueCat Screenplay Contest
Title: The Distant Shore
Logline: The last day in the life of President Lincoln.
Synopsis:
On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln, while attending a play with his wife, was assassinated. This screenplay follows the events of this day, from Lincoln's last Cabinet meeting to the heartbreaking bedside vigil of the dying president, from the assassin John Wilkes Booth's meeting with his co-conspirators to the sentencing and hanging of these same people.
We are introduced to some forgotten people in history: Dr. Charles Leale, an Army physician who was in the theater and who was the first on the scene, thus becoming Lincoln's physician for that harrowing night; the actress Laura Keane, who cradled the president's head as he lay bleeding on the floor; the condemned Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt, who became the first woman hung by the American government; and others, each playing a different, yet significant, role in the story.
This a true telling of the assassination, with actual dialogue and words from those who were present.
Title: The Twelfth of May
Logline: The Vietnam War Memorial on a stormy afternoon in the springtime shortly after its dedication, and the stories of three desperate visitors on the Twelfth of May.
Synopsis:
This is a fictionalized tale about war. It is the story of three nondescript individuals visiting the Vietnam Memorial on a stormy afternoon on the Twelfth of May and their connections to loved ones whose names are on The Wall, and who on the Twelfth of May of years past lifted up their M-16 assault rifles in a small country in Southeast Asia...and paid the price for it.
The panorama of action throughout encapsulates the issues of those years: the trepidation of orders issued to return to the theatre of combat; the horror of racial hatred in the American South of the day; and finally, the mental imprisonment of unspeakable trauma locked inside the mind of a soldier on a hilltop on some map leading to nowhere in a jungle that had no meaning to him after the war because of head trauma.
It's about a catharsis, a healing of old wounds, and for one, the end of a long journey crossing the bridge from madness to reality.
Title: Apache Echo
Logline: A Geronimo-like figure emerges in this day and age, and with his band of renegade Apaches, invades a rural area of southern Arizona.
Synopsis:
Ruggles Smith, a feisty easterner, moves to the small, turn-of-the-century mining town of Globe, Arizona after inheriting ownership of the town's newspaper.
After investigating a series of escalating confrontations between white locals and Apaches from the nearby San Carlos Reservation, followed by several thefts of horses, camping gear, rifles and modern bows, Ruggles and his small staff discover that the Apaches are preparing to go back on the warpath.
In an attempt to restore the honor and dignity of his people, Mangas and his modern-day warriors retaliate against the white man by raiding his surrounding small towns and homelands, leaving a trail of terror and bloodshed behind them.
A local national guard detachment of rowdy, beer-drinking "weekend warriors" is called to active duty to stop the Apache onslaught, and the Apache must again take a stand against an overwhelming, sophisticated military force, using only their crude weapons, cunning and instincts to survive.
Title: Tanya
Logline: "You have this one chance to do it right", an old man tells Curtis, before taking him back to into time, to undo the death of his true love.
Synopsis:
Now a hip pop superstar, he has every reason to be happy; expensive cars, lavish houses and women, but he is not. He wishes for a chance to go back into time. He meets Jack, an old man, sent by a Higher Authority, who takes him back under one condition; do it my way. With his music, he has to rescue Tanya from emotional wreckage, before she commits suicide, and must not go to her directly.
Judith, who is crucial to his mission, falls for him and poses a serious threat to his success. At a crucial time, his friends drag him into serious commotions, dealing with gang rivalry. A syndicate creates headaches for him, in a quest to get Tanya for their friend. Curtis has to think fast each time and make only the right decision. Right decisions are however hard to come by every time. The consequences are gruesome. Time is running out. He has ten days.
Title: Two Five (and the Penis Dialogues)
Logline: The lively lives of inmates, guards and their families collide in this eclectic drama/comedy/action film set in a new kind of prison called "Two Five."
Synopsis:
The up-down ride begins with a kidnaping and senseless rape-murder-hate crimes. Fresh, edgy dialog and graphic action carry a twisting plot into the anchor set, a mandatory-for-all boot camp within the prison. Protagonist Sergeant Heath is in charge there.
His principal antagonist is billionaire inmate and Colombian coca-mafioso Jose Lupino who sleeps next to an undercover DEA agent.
Carefully crafted (Penis Dialogues) comedic relief is injected frequently, especially in counselor Phoebe Glebe's quirky group sessions and inmate barracks exchanges, exposing testosterone at its best and worst --- all an audience buildup for nosedives into tense, fresh drama as inmates/guards lives change or end.
Adapted from Daneagle's 2008 epic novel, (visit www.daneagle.us for info/reviews), it is drafted in cinema format, but fills six FULL one-hour episodes which will readily merge to three two-hour teleplays or cherry pick to a feature film and sequel. Cutting satire and original music crop up.
Title: Walls of Deception
Logline: In the U.S. prison system, there rages a war of good versus evil. Within this war, countless battles of perception versus deception are waged. This is the story of one such battle.
Synopsis:
"Walls of Deception" is a dramatic account of the career of Mark Vittorio, a Lieutenant with the Connecticut Department of Correction. Originally taking the job to care for his family, he ended up with much more than a paycheck. In a position where pessimism and tragedy reign supreme, incident after incident throws Mark's foundation of right and wrong into chaos. It isn't until Mark is recognized for his personal sacrifice and trauma that his sense of right and wrong is restored. But then again, who's to say what is right and what is wrong?
Title: Where Loyalties Lie
Logline: The loyalty of a college graduate is put to a life-or-death test when he rescues his corrupted friend from a criminal kingpin by countering the deceit and betrayal that first got him into the crisis.
Synopsis:
The drama starts when Jeremy saves his brother from an abusive environment. To support him, Jeremy delivers for a drug syndicate. However, after a brutal robbery that reeked of foul play, his life hangs in the balance. Andrew tries to free Jeremy of his debt. Yet, Jeremy’s reluctance to accept help rivals Andrew’s eagerness to offer it. As a result, Andrew swears to secrecy. Unfortunately, his promise to Jeremy clashes with his loyalty to his loved ones, who notice the toll the burden is taking. Ultimately, they depend on the wise advice of Andrew’s parents and the sympathy of his friends/love interest. After some brilliant plans of deception, they partake in a high stakes game of chance in which the opponent is the leader of the drug cartel. In the end, Andrew realizes, though a surprising act of disloyalty got them into this predicament, only a supreme act of loyalty can get them out; Jeremy learns not only does crime not pay but it also may cost him more than he can afford to bear.
Title: Pecksie and the Sweet Elf
Logline: A time for rebels and a time for dreamers: the Romantic Age engulfs the whirlwind relationship between Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and radical poet Percy Byssche Shelley. Based on extensive research.
Synopsis:
This dramatic account captures the eight year atypical relationship between two untraditional forces during the Romantic Age, Mary Godwin and unconventional writer Percy Shelley. He called her, "Pecksie"; she called him, "my sweet elf."
From the creation of "Frankenstein", to the emerging eternal friendship with Lord Byron, to coping with tragic deaths of infants, to recording intense feelings in literary pieces, to the unforeseen fatal death of Percy, a tale of impending triumph and relentless tragedy unravels. When Percy wrote "Adonis" as a tribute for the untimely death of Romantic poet John Keats, Percy unknowingly wrote his own insightful personal epitaph.
Title: The Price Of Fame
Logline: Lossing both her parents at birth, Molly Parker Evans is raised by her Grandparents. She soon heads to L.A. to pursue her dream of becoming a star. only to find out that stardom will cost greatly!
Synopsis:
After the death of her mother during childbirth, and her father dying on the way home in a car accident, her grandparents raise Molly Parker Evans. She soon becomes too much for her rural grandparents to handle, and at twenty-one, packs a suitcase, and heads to L.A. to pursue her dream of becoming a movie star. She find out, that stardom will cost her everything!
Title: Coveted Son
Logline: An Asian billionaire unknowingly fathers a child and embarks on a desperate mission to the US to retrieve what can be his only biological heir from his entrenched American family.
Synopsis:
Yeung “Billy” Kim, who, in his younger days as a cadet in the South Korean army, unknowingly fathers a son. Later, as a successful businessman he learns he is sterile and can’t have any children. This personal news is exposed on national TV throughout Korea and eventually the world.
Eva, Billy’s former girlfriend, is shocked of this news and approaches him with the even more shocking news: that although he can’t have any children in the future, he already has a biological son in the world who was given up for adoption several years earlier.
Billy is ectastic about this development and embarks on a desperate mission to the United States to retrieve his only biological heir from his entrenched adoptive family.
After learning of his son’s whereabouts, Kim uses his power and financial prowess to tempt the boy’s financially struggling adoptive family into considering giving up the child for an unspeakable amount of money.
Title: The Advocate
Logline: When he's on your side, he's the best friend in the world. When he's not, there's no place on earth to hide.
Synopsis:
"The Advocate" uses a real-life story of an EMT in San Francisco, who was hired by Social Services to intercept potentially bogus 9-1-1 calls, as a jumping off point to a fictionailzed vigilante drama. He often arrives on the scene before the ambulance, offering the caller temporary housing or treatment options, instead of a costly ride to the SF General ER. After his fiancee chokes to death while waiting for an ambulance, he embarks on a murderous crusade against the very population he had once dedicated his career to helping. As the story progresses the citizens of SF begin to see the killer as a quasi-folk hero. He is simply doing what the politicians and law enforcement have been unable to do to; clean up the homeless problem. There is also a battle for the lead character's "soul" by two female influences in his life.
Title: A Regrettable Twist of Fate
Logline: A top-notch NBA player falls in love with a star player of the WNBA at the same time they compete for the national championship.
Synopsis:
As an author, screenwriter and freelance writer, I am seeking representation.
Tapping into the idea that bad boys always get the girl, A Regrettable Twist of Fate validates that premise by revealing that sometimes what repels her also entices her.
Jay Byrd, NBA champion, is charismatic, witty and is just as outstanding on the court as one might expect. He makes a promise to his dying mother not to break the heart of his first love, Cindy. With every intention of honoring that promise, Jay’s plan is soon halted by his attraction for Jessie Winters, WNBA champion.
When Jessie and Jay first meet, sparks sizzle immediately. Though Jessie is somewhat put off by Jay’s arrogance, she doesn’t dismiss him totally. To make matters more complicated for Jessie, Jay vacillates between his first love, Cindy and the woman he always wanted to love—Jessie Winters.
Torn and driven at the same time, Jay soon learns that not making a decision can sometimes be the worst decision of all.
Title: Eulogy
Logline: A lost young man leaves the island home where he never belonged, only to discover a disturbing world marred by Christian fundamentalism. Little does he know what darkness awaits him there.
Synopsis:
All was not well in paradise. Like many white kids, or haoles, Joshua never felt at home in Hawaii. So, he leaves the islands after high school to reunite with Beau, the charismatic cousin who visited him once several years earlier. However, Joshua is ill-prepared for the strange new world he has decided to enter. What he discovers is an offbeat cast of characters in a community crawling with Christian fundamentalists, and a dark rebellious cousin who now feels like a stranger to him. Since they last met, Beau has had a psychotic break and spent time in a mental hospital. He now copes with the help of alcohol and marijuana, and lashes out with wit and sarcasm at the fundamentalists he has grown to despise.
Will Joshua come out of his shell with Beau's help, or will he remain a passive witness wandering through his life like a lost soul? Will Beau deal with his troubled past successfully, or is he destined for another dramatic breakdown?
Title: Lipstick and Rouge
Logline: The story of greed and corruption in the real estate investment world.
Synopsis:
Real Estate investor Kat Pierce is newly divorced from Danny Wade. Danny has joined forces with her arch enemy Mitch Wheeler. Kat discovers that Danny has stolen her identity to finance one of their deals. Then Kat meets Jack Larson (who later becomes her love interest), a builder who is losing his unfinished lakefront home to foreclosure. She masterminds a plot to save Jack's home, but to do this, she needs Danny. She feeds him enough information to entice Mitch to outbid her at the auction and complete its construction before taking title. Although her plan worked, she's angry that Danny betrayed her to Mitch and she turns them into the Attorney General. In the interim Mitch completes Jack's home, but things go awry the day before closing when Jack files bankruptcy. The court then lifts the stay on his home and Jack sells it to Kat's buyer for a huge profit. The A.G. has Mitch and his gang arrested and in the end, Jack and Kat ride off into the sunset, happy and wealthy.
Title: A Thousand Days
Logline: Her husband died over a year ago. Her mind has yet to catch up.
Synopsis:
Taylor and Connor James are a loving, devoted couple celebrating their anniversary this coming weekend. The romantic getaway Taylor had planned, is suddenly interrupted when Connor is called away on business. Disappointed, she takes advantage of her pre-arranged plans and decides to make the trip alone.
While staying at a picturesque bed and breakfast, she finds herself drawn to a shy, young widower named Aaron Michelson. Though their relationship is purely platonic, the two find solace in each other – filling a void in both their hearts. But their friendship is brought to a halt when the two realize they share more in common than either ever imagined as Taylor learns that her husband died over a year ago. It’s the story of lost love and the oftentimes incomprehensible behaviors associated with death.
Title: No Worries
Logline: Take a leap and the net will appear. A laid off Phoenix executive and trio of illegal Mexican immigrants band together in a small business to reinvent themselves and achieve the American dream.
Synopsis:
A sudden layoff combined with bankruptcy and subsequent divorce leaves a Phoenix executive with no money, experience or place to live. Thrown together with a group of illegal Mexican immigrants, they start a business and overcome constant obstacles and risks in their journey from failure to triumph.
Running from job to job, living check to check, hiding from immigration police and smuggling workers across the border, the pace is hectic and comical as they communicate in broken english and gringo spanish while learning the others culture.
With money tight but belief in themselves, they band together and risk all their money on one last event to save themselves. If it works, their success is guaranteed, if not their leap will not have a net.
This screenplay runs 118 pages and is registered with the WGA East. It has universal themes and dreams for all ages and cultures and appeals to a global audience.
Title: Saying Goodbye to Joy
Logline: A calculating conman uses a deadly elixir on a spiritual woman. He increases his wealth preying on those sympathetic, as she dies. Inspired by actual events this is the crime unpunished.
Synopsis:
Inspired by actual events, this is the fictional story of a conman before he found the perfect crime that put him on the FBI’s most wanted list. These are the missing years, in the history of his cons. Through the use a deadly elixir, he slowly poisons his victim and takes over her life. The conman uses the inflicted illness to his advantage, increasing his wealth, getting only enough medical care to keep his victim alive to collect more money from the sympathetic. He does this all in the name of a higher power and proclaimed love, making the spiritual woman believe she has given up her life and loved ones for her soul mate.
Title: The Mancini Way
Logline: Good and evil are joined at the hip for three brothers, a mafia boss, a cop, and a priest.
Synopsis:
Brothers Joseph, Johnny, and Frank Mancini were born into a notorious Baltimore mafia family with a long history of brutality and corruption. Joseph, the head of the Baltimore Family, laments that his only son wants to join the mafia. Johnny, a 20-year veteran of the police force, struggles with the guilt of working with Joseph to bring down drug dealers. Frank, a priest, wrestles with his faith as he discovers the deep ties between the mafia and the church.
The brothers come together to end a growing feud between the Italian mafia and the Greek and Russian crime lords who are threatening to take over. Two warring gangs, the Crips and the Bloods, are used as pawns in this bloody struggle for power. As the dust settles, the survivors in the Family declare their loyalty to the Mancini Way, but it is an uneasy peace.
Title: UNDERGROUND DREAMS
Logline: For Frankie, it was just another Tuesday morning subway ride to work in the Big Apple. In just a few hours, his world and the world around him will be forever changed.
Synopsis:
UNDERGROUND DREAMS(WGA # 1263459)is a true life story of subway passenger,Frankie(29), whose life was forever changed on September 11,2001.
On that day,like any other day, FRANKIE leaves his apartment in Hell's Kitchen and heads to work. FRANKIE gets on the Number 9 train filled with a cross-section of society whose lives are about to become intertwined. Without warning as the train begins to fill with smoke.
FRANKIE begins a series of underground dreams, reflecting on his life. He remembers days with his alcoholic and abusive father, RAY. While many memories evoke heartache, there are also tender moments. FRANKIE reflects on the love of his life,JULIA.
FRANKIE and the other passengers finally escape the horrors of the subway tunnel, bursting to the streets above.
All aboard for UNDERGROUND DREAMS, as Dito Montiel's "A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints" meets Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center."
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Title: Nickel Mines
Logline: The Amish forgive the killer, but can they forgive Rachel?
Synopsis:
Nickel Mines is a screenplay based upon the true events of the Amish school shooting. The story revolves around Rachel Smucker, a 30-year-old single mother who was excommunicated & shunned due to an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Rachel is still living in Pennsylvania Dutch Country at the time of the shootings, and she's come a long way since the excommunication of 12 years ago. Now a woman of the world, Rachel has earned a degree and established herself as a popular local singer/songwriter. The tragedy of the shootings at Nickel Mines One-Room School and the death of Rachel's youngest sister prove to be a powerful catalyst that launches Rachel into a fearless search for forgiveness, family, and faith, as she struggles to reconnect with her family and to find healing.
I'm an author/journalist who lives in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, and I have many connections in the Amish community. Info on me and my work may be found on www.lindaoatmanhigh.com.
Title: Illusions
Logline: Two brothers create a religion to make money. They did not realize the impact they had on the souls of everyday man, least of all, their own.
Synopsis:
Orphaned brothers, John and Andrew Taylor, struggle to maintain their lives. In a moment of suffering, John, drunk at their usual watering hole after loosing his job, is helped out of the bar by Andrew, but not before the pair catch the news report of a cult discovered that swindled followers out of millions. They decide to create a religion themselves and reap the benefits.
After five years of growth, the brothers have evolved into prophet businessmen. Their religion has reached the far corners of the globe and gains momentum. Enough momentum to attract the attention of government agencies including the FBI.
The brothers become accustomed to their new lifestyle and work hard to maintain it, even so far as murder. Dodging the government, assassins and each other, the brothers come face to face with the monster they have created. WGA registered #1252222, written by Stan Rubakhin and James R. Johnson.
Title: The Lincoln Show
Logline: Two sex scandals, separated by almost 200 years, collide in this story of pride and betrayal.
Synopsis:
1864…
Abraham Lincoln’s lack of a scandalous past won him two presidential elections. Now, at war’s end, he must fend off the most challenging eruption of his life.
Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln’s faithful bodyguard, is confronted with damaging rumors that could affect his standing with the president.
David Pyle, Lamon’s resourceful and obedient assistant, holds a secret that could shock the nation.
2009…
John Ray Dobbs will stop at nothing to make sure that he and he alone controls the strings attached to the school he runs, as well as his rebellious family.
Ned Laverne has been a passive observer up to this point… or has he?
TJ Laverne is more than willing to give his life for a cause. Will he be as willing to give the lives of others?
Millard Stark, TJ’s reluctant lover, must choose between his career and a secret life that may no longer be secret.
Title: Potluck
Logline: POTLUCK, a film about learning the difference between making the most of what you've got, and just making excuses.
Synopsis:
The central character of POTLUCK, Grace McKinley, is a massage therapist, single woman, and aspiring writer in her early thirties, attempting to juggle her own quest for love and meaning with her familial obligations. Her relationship with her alcoholic brother, Justin, serves as a catalyst for her realization that she has been using her family as an excuse to avoid taking risks in her life, professionally and emotionally.
I have drawn directly from my personal experiences as a single massage therapist and sister of an alcoholic, as well as the experiences of my friends and family as we all struggle for more meaningful, authentic lives. In this script, as in life, there is no laughter without tears, and there are no true saints or villains- only ordinary people trying to make the most of what they've got.
Please contact me if you would like to read this script. I would be happy to sign a release form. Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Julie Aitcheson
Title: Populous
Logline: A young woman faces the challenge of her life when aids rebels who plan to take down a national committee that controls population growth though limiting births to families that pass strict tests.
Synopsis:
In the future a young woman called Evelyn gets a job with a committee that controls population growth by requiring couples to pass stringent parental tests.
Soon she sees how sinister the committee is as well as having a very evil and demanding boss. Then later feeling guilty when her best friend fails the parental test she teams up with under ground rebels and sabotage the committee allowing the public to have children the natural way without an exam and requirements.
Title: Criminals are Made, Not Born
Logline: When the town votes to raise taxes to build a new school during the great depression, it puts them on a collision course with evil, Alfred King--who blames the higher taxes for the loss of his farm.
Synopsis:
It is the last day of school for the children of a little town--located in the rural countryside. Just as the last morning bell rings, devastation rocks the small town to its core. As the culprit drives into town he spots the school superintendent. He calls him over, and ignites a bomb--killing them both. Investigators find his farm burned to the ground, with all the farm animals dead and all the trees cut down. As they look around the yard, they find the wife burned to an unrecognizable state. Someone notices a board in the fence with writing on it. He reads aloud, "Criminals are made, Not Born".
My name is J.J. Sizemore. I was raised in a small town similar to the town this story is based on. I used to build movie sets for various companies in Los Angeles before starting my own Carpentry by Design business. I have done work for CCH Pounder, Lisa Bonet, Conni Brazelton, and Debbie Morgan. I decided to write this screenplay because I felt the victims needed to be remembered.
Title: The embryo
Logline: Jonathan has to decide whether to give life to an embryo in the incubator and fight for him after his best friends and genetic parents were killed in airplane accident.
Synopsis:
The embryo in the incubator is waiting to be transplanted into Debbie's stand-in womb. This is when a tragic private jet accident results in the death of Ricardo and Joanna his loving genetic childless parents. Jonathan an old army buddy of Ricardo and currently a widower law professor is appointed as guardian and decides to go on with the plan to honor the dead parents. Rebecca who was to become the heir of her Brother Ricardo’s corporation will do anything to remove her only obstacle, the embryo. Debbie and Jonathan fight for the baby to be born. Courts in Canada and Mexico debate basic issues of death, money and life. Does an unborn embryo have legal claim on his parent’s legacy? Is our bond to our mother through her genes or because she gave birth and life to us? Is Debbie going through pregnancy only for the love she had for Ricardo and Joanna? Is Rebecca only after the money her brother left her or will she need this baby to be well and alive in a surprising twist in the tail?
Title: Coveted Son
Logline: An Asian billionaire unknowingly fathers a child, becomes sterile and embarks on a desperate mission to the USA to retrieve what can be his only biological heir.
Synopsis:
Yeung “Billy” Kim, who, in his younger days as a cadet in the South Korean army, unknowingly fathers a son. Later, as a successful businessman he learns he is sterile and can’t have any children. This personal news is exposed on national TV throughout Korea and eventually the world.
Eva, Billy’s former girlfriend, is shocked of this news and approaches him with the even more shocking news: that although he can’t have any children in the future, he already has a biological son in the world who was given up for adoption several years earlier.
Billy is ectastic about this development and embarks on a desperate mission to the United States to retrieve his only biological heir from his entrenched adoptive family. When confronted with the adoptive parents, epic moral issues ensue that ultimately lead to Billy enacting a kidnapping and murder plot because there's no way he's going to return home to Korea without his "coveted son."
Title: Mike and Brenda (sec. draft)
Logline: Story about Mike, moving to Boston to become a professional drummer. In the big city he faces all kinds of adventures, meeting the shy and solitary Brenda in the mixture of all this.
Synopsis:
Mike(18), the main character being followed the first day he arrives in Boston where he found a bachelor apartment and a job as a mail deliverer. Him being an orphan from a small town in Maine he has great difficult in adjusting to the cities rules. He encounters crime, poverty and other chaos of the city's every day life. At his first days work he meets the shy and distant Brenda(23) who's just another face in the crowd in the crowd like no other. After two weeks he has his first audition and immediately blends into a three piece, non ambitious group. The band takes off and starts to take make name for themselves in the local area. When Mike finally brakes down Brenda's wall and they melt together the band is at a crosspoint of taking a step to the next level. A change that only passes by once. Mike has to make a choice between the woman of his dreams and family life or his childhood dream of becoming a professional musician.
Title: 2009 ALCATRAZ LANE
Logline: Two sisters trapped in a horrible housing project are conflicted; one wants to move, the other wants to stay and try to make it a better place to live.
Synopsis:
Two sisters live in 2009 Alcatraz Lane, the worst housing project in the United States. After the death of their parents, and their individual accomplishments, the sisters are torn. One sister wants to move away from the bad element who infest Alcatraz Lane, and move into a decent neighborhood. The other sister wants to stay and fight, and rid Alcatraz Lane of its vermin.
After one of the sisters is murdered by the project bully, the other sister is convinced that she should stay and fight. She believes if you get rid of the “king pin”, all his bullies will follow. She, along with the project wanna-be-voodoo lady devise an ingenious plan to bring down the bully and make Alcatraz Lane a safe place to live.
Title: Black Panther
Logline: It's genetics versus environment in this story of long lost African American twin brothers who re-unite in the court room amid racial injustices and moral victory.
Synopsis:
Fifty-two year old Rufus Braxton, a former Black Panther associate, comes to terms with his past via a long awaited reunion with his twin brother Raymont. Separated in early childhood and raised in contrasting environments, the two reconnect when a young African American girl is raped by two of Connecticut's young socialites. Will Rufus overcome the obstacles set by his pretentious brother, or will what is right lose in the end?
Title: Black Parade
Logline: A modern day adopted son of Christ, rises to the favor of population. The government afraid of a rebellion seeks to "get rid" of the problem. Will modern day people again allow gods messenger killed?
Synopsis:
When David was a baby, he was annointed as an adopted son of Christ. As he grew, he found that he had special healing powers. In his early 20s, David and his two friends embark on a mission to heal the people and teach the people to treat each other honestly and fairly.
Through this crusade his populatity grows until the United States Government becomes afraid.
David at times is frusterated with people and his own life, wishing he could be "normal". David falls in love, and develops a lot of close friends.
The government plots to end his crusade by framing David, using a few of his followers to set him up.
David is arrested and has a trial. In order to set an example the president orders a televised execution, by lethal injection. The president stays at the prison to witness the execution. The president is sure that everything is fine after the execution, however a Black Parade, arrives at the prison. The president steps down and David's work continues.
Title: Catgirl
Logline: A young woman is found unconscious in the gutter. When she awakes she acts like a cat, and the man who found her searches for answers.
Synopsis:
Elk is an intelligent, independent, and hardworking young man going to school out-of-state for his college education. He lives alone, has a job, and gets top grades in his class. Though it appears that he has his act together, he still struggles to pay the bills and put food on the table. Though they would be more then willing to help, Elk would never ask his parents for their assistance. Things only seem to get worse when he finds a woman who believes she’s a cat.
Not possessing the heart to simply turn her away, Elk must discover what has happened to her, where she belongs, and why in the world she acts like a feline. The young man receives unrequested aid from a female med. student Aida, and an ever-curious Engineering Technologies major going by the name of TNT. While the three search for answers, a mysterious man dressed in a black suit seems to appear all too often. Just what are the true depths to the mysteries that revolve around the Catgirl?
Title: the amazing fightingsongs
Logline: The story covers a criminal family in Alaska. One of the sons becomes a cop. One follows in his fathers fooosteps as a hitman for The Devil.
Synopsis:
The amazing Fightingsongs of Alaska are a notorious criminal family spanning into the late 90's. The oldest son becomes a cop after his fathers death. Second oldest becomes a hitman for his fathers former employer, The Devil. The story jumps back and forth between both boys worlds. The relationship of the boys to their family, friends, and girlfriends is explored. It begins in the 80's and touches lightly on the killing of the father. Most of the movie is set in the late 90's as the boys are in their early twenties. You get to see the temptations of a young man living in the fast lane, the strong bond of family, and the difference between right and wrong. The end is a climactic car chase and shootout. Most of the story is straight dialogue. The action doesn't come until the end.
Title: Singularity
Logline: Singularity is a sharp and humorous look at "thirty-somethings" living on Chicago's trendy North Side who grapple with racism, infidelity, sex, and the ultimate singularity or breaking point, death.
Synopsis:
Bo is a charismatic African American--an Ivy leaguer and one of Chicago's rising architects-- who succeeds by force of talent and personality. But beneath his reinforced exterior is a man whose marriage has been gutted after his affair six months ago and whose career gets caught in the dragnet of corporate racism.
Drop is a self-help guru and a source of strength to millions whose pre-packaged answers to life turn out to be ineffectual when his own health starts to fail after a collapse on stage.
Drop and Bo are the two poles of a screenplay that intesects six characters whose lives follow the scientific concept of a singularity, which is when bodies in the universe self destruct, giving way to new life.
I was Writer/Director of The Quiet, 2003 Winner, Best Independent Film, Screen Magazine, and a finalist for the Sundance Film Festival American Spectrum series. I was previously a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper group.
Thanks for your consideration.
Title: Pretense
Logline: An idealistic young attorney is almost obsessive in her desire to help her law partner keep custody of his daughter, who despises him.
Synopsis:
Eve Arnell will do almost anything to help her law partner keep custody of his strange, hostile daughter. Until painful memories from her own childhood, plus the mysterious and sudden appearance of an old love, cause her to question not only her own motivations but the motivations of everyone around her.
I have been a practicing attorney for many years, have taken many screenwriting courses, and have had several short stories published in literary magazines. I would like to submit my original screenplay "Pretense" for your consideration, and can be reached at MaureenAbato@aol.com, 718-769-4021, or Maureen Abato, Esq., 2732 East 21 Street, Brooklyn, NY 11235.
Title: Conspiracy
Logline: Just when a high school athlete thinks he has it all, his life takes a turn for the worst when he’s accused of a sex crime.
Synopsis:
It’s a story about a popular high school athlete who is falsely accused for molesting a young girl at his mother’s daycare. As he struggles to proclaim his innocence, his family breaks apart, the school and community ostracize him. Against his backdrop, his lawyer works to uncover a possible conspiracy…
Title: 20-20 Hindsight
Logline: Sixteen year old Jeremy doesn’t know it but his grandfather is actually his twin brother and his mother is actually his niece. Impossible? Not when you’re a clone.
Synopsis:
Jeremy knows he looks and acts like his grandfather but he doesn’t know that his mother, Jill Nava, a prominent geneticist, frustrated with her father’s gambling, drinking and womanizing, cloned her father sixteen years ago and is terrified that Jeremy will adopt his grandfather’s bad habits. He just thinks his mother is overly concerned with his typical high school pranks and jealous of his relationship with his grandfather. Strained relations are a matter of course in the Nava family, until in a heated argument Jill reveals the truth about Jeremy to her parents. Family dynamics and loyalties suddenly shift and the experiment rapidly begins to unfold. Jeremy discovers his true identity and struggles with his anger, confusion, and sense of betrayal. Medical issues and a real crisis bring the family back together.
Lynette Long, a licensed psychologist, is the author of twenty books, forty articles, and two stage plays. She is a prize winning author and playwright.
Title: Lefty in the Pen
Logline: The true story of a professional baseball player chasing his lifelong dream of pitching in the major leagues while fighting to maintain his sanity after his part in the death of a close friend.
Synopsis:
During his professional baseball career, our main character finds himself consumed by addiction and injury, as well as a strong desire to please his successful father. But one dark and horrific night in the desert will haunt and alter his dreams forever, as baseball, his saving grace, threatens to slip from his grip, and has ended in the death of a close friend and teammate. As he rapidly descends into a world of psychosis, can he find redemption for his past, or will his demons haunt him forever?
Our story is capped off with an inspirational ending that will cause even the strongest man to shed his tears.
Title: New Dawning
Logline: Drama/action about a young boy and girl, separated after their families move away, who are reunited in their 20s and face urban turmoil.
Synopsis:
In “New Dawning”, an inseparable young boy and girl vow to be friends for life until their families move apart. Time passes and life moves on until fate intervenes and reunites the two in their twenties, when Tommy and Felice fatefully meet one day. Felice is desperate to help Tommy but he may be beyond help. Street fights, anger from a hard life, and time in jail will lead to his one big chance. He’s given the opportunity to have his screenplay produced but his impatience leads him back to the streets and back into the Blazing Hearts gang where he meets his premature demise. Think "Rebel Without a Cause" meets "The Warriors."
Panacea Productions optioned new Dawning before they went under a couple of years ago and was also selected out of 300 screenplays to be considered for production by Eagle Eyes Productions. The final selection was between New Dawning, a drama, and a horror. In the end the horror was selected and produced into a well-known movie.
Title: Falling Rain
Logline: With the world ending in a flood, a detective searches for a serial killer.
Synopsis:
Detective Sam Williver must find the will to keep searching for the perpetrator of a series of brutal murders as he faces a recent divorce and a great flood. Within the chaos the investigation takes a series of missteps, which results in the wrong man being arrested and the killer having free reign. The killer, in his vanity, must have credit for his deeds. He begins a series of phone conversations with the detective. By now, the flooding has grown and Sam cannot find the killer. Alone, and traveling by small boat, Sam perseveres to the location of the phone calls where he faces the killer, and the end.
Title: To the Motherstone
Logline: Young traveler Glen Wakeman has a brief affair with May Wells, rising film actress, which causes difficulties for May and her circle of friends.
Synopsis:
On the eve of May''s return from Australia, her unprofessional assistant allows Glen to bunk down in the Guest House. May, initially dismayed by the situation, decides that Glen isn''t much trouble and allows him to stay on. And she soon becomes fond of Glen, finding him a soothing presence as other parts of her life aren''t going so well. Unhappy about the film she was just in, and stalked by the paparazzi, she is still not over her painful breakup with former flame Rory. Finding herself at a loose end because of all this, and becoming somewhat reclusive, she grows close to Glen. But Glen is experiencing difficulties of his own, adjusting to May''s world. He comes from a religious background, which is at odds with his current environment. To additionally complicate matters, May''s agent June Schaeffer takes an immediate dislike to Glen, and then falls in love with him. The subtext is that religious, secular, and demonic forces are battling it out for control.
Title: The Hit
Logline: When his brother is killed by the mob, a successful businessman devises a unique strategy for revenge: he places a contract on himself with the mob boss, stipulating that the same hit man be used.
Synopsis:
Longtime loser Lenny Cartney is on the verge of finally turning things around. He’s just opened his own restaurant and business is good. Unfortunately, the local mob who loaned him the money are making free and easy use of his establishment for various illegal purposes. When Lenny tries to blackmail them for a bigger piece of the action, the mob sends a local enforcer to cancel the debt, and Lenny with it.
Lenny’s brother Michael, a lifelong over-achiever and former Army ranger, now runs his own highly successful consulting firm. When Michael learns the circumstances of Lenny’s death, Michael goes to the mob boss and offer’s Lenny’s life insurance money to place a contract on himself, specifying that the same hit man be used. Relying on his commando training but more on his business skills, Michael manages to stay one step ahead of the hit man while confronting his own guilt over Lenny’s death and pursuing a more elaborate crusade against the mafia chief who ordered the hit.
Title: The Canary Conundrum
Logline: When the gray men of Washington plot the nation’s foreign policy, things can go awfully wrong.
Synopsis:
In the shadows of the Capitol, powerful men meet in private. Very private. With great stealth, some of their schemes worm their way into official policy. The War on Terror was one of those. And that was just the start. When Farhad Hakim, the Deputy Head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, is forced into a corner, the gray men play a hand that has disastrous and far reaching consequences.
Title: Pound for Pound
Logline: A flamboyant young boxer on the rise gets caught up in his new found stardom and takes his friends and family for granted leading to his sudden and isolated downfall.
Synopsis:
Delorean "The Gorgeous One" Shakespeare, 27, fights the unbeatable welterweight champion and knocks him out with a devastating blow to become World Champion. Shakespeare''s self-conscious and weight obsessed wife, Savanna, does not enjoy her housewife lifestyle and she gives her husband the cold shoulder. After being repeatedly rejected by her, Shakespeare meets his trainer''s daughter, Jackie, at a night club and they give in to temptation. When Savanna''s friend takes pictures of Shakespeare and Jackie together and gives them to Savanna, she walks out on him taking their daughter with her.
Meanwhile, Shakespeare is enraged by the Heavyweight Champion''s growing fame and popularity. On television, he challenges the champion to a fight to determine who is the best pound for pound fighter in the world. Days before the fight, Colin catches Shakespeare with his daughter Jackie and walks out on him leaving him only with his cut man in his corner for the biggest fight of his life.
Title: Sight
Logline: What if the world we knew around us was a lie? What happens when we get to see the real world that has been hidden from us for the very first time?
Synopsis:
The ability to see your world affects everything in your life. What if the real truth of your world was obscured by darkness? Centered on Paul Edwards, a man that is born blind, "Sight" is a very intense, character driven drama that travels from the world of darkness to the world of light, from what we believe to be real to the harsh reality of truth.
Paul is orphaned at birth. He is adopted by a Preacher and his wife. He follows his adopted father into the ministry, giving his life to the very God that created him blind. As a married father, Paul is given sight through an experimental procedure. Once he receives his sight Paul now comes face to face with the realization that his life and the world he lives in were never what they seemed.
Infidelity, a tragic death, and long buried faimly secrets enter into Paul''s world and remove the veil of darkness that his blindness has long hidden. What he sees pushes him to commit acts his mind would never have dreamed of.
Title: Lefty
Logline: A rookie knuckleballer injured in the war gets back into baseball, finds his girl in Hollywood and takes Cleveland to a play-off with Boston for the American League pennant. Based on a true story.
Synopsis:
LEFTY is the true story of Gene "Lefty" Bearden, a minor leaguer told he might not walk again after his ship is torpedoed in the Pacific.
His odyssey takes him from two years in Navy hospitals to his long lost sweetheart, Lois, now an exotic dancer at Earl Carroll’s Theatre.
Reunited with Lois and working as a grip at 20th Century Fox, Lefty is rediscovered by Casey Stengel--a washed out manager toiling in the minors.
Lefty is called up by Cleveland and his hypnotic knuckleball takes the League by storm. When the secret of his war injuries is revealed, Lefty becomes the toast of Cleveland. But some in the Indian management doubt the rookie has the stuff to make it.
As he struggles with guilt at being labeled a war hero, Lefty goes into a slump. With the Yankees, Red Sox and Indians in a slugfest for the pennant, he must battle back to give the Indians one last shot at the title -- and prove to himself and the rest of the League he belongs in the majors.
Title: Three Deadly Clues
Logline: An Innocent woman and a terrorist duo lives are changed forever by 3 Deadly Clues.
Synopsis:
My screenplay involves several strong characters all pitting their wits against one another in a conspiracy plot. Vio, the terrorist and Jan are about to destroy and over throw a government Military Base. Connie a Government employee becomes a ploy in this cat and mouse espionage as Jan plays the sincere friend manipulating Connie into her deadly scheme thus leading to the meat of the script. You’ll live through each moment of Connie’s terror as she becomes innocently trapped by the person she calls a friend. How they trap Connie is one of the unbelievable parts of this script. How she manages her escape is even more unbelievable.
Connie with the aid of a FBI Agent, Ross, find themselves reenacting places Jan might have inhabited searching for Three Deadly Clues. A dark alley brings climax to the screenplay where Connie encounters Vio’s , too late to hear Agent Ross yell don’t go into the alley.
Title: Odyssey
Logline: The ancient love story of Odysseus and Penelope, the story of the Trojan War and Odysseus adventures in the Mediterranian sea.
Synopsis:
3000 years ago Odysseus, the King of Ithaca (a small island in Western Greece) goes to Sparta (a city/state in central Greece) to marry the promiscuous Spartan Princess Helen. While Odysseus fails to marry Helen he does marry her modest cousin Penelope instead and together they return to his island Kingdom of Ithaca. Soon after Penelope gives birth to their son (Telemachus) war in Troy (a city state in Asia Minor) breaks out and Odysseus is forced against his will go and fight the Trojans. Years later, Odysseus succeeds in winning the war in Troy with his creation of the well known Trojan Horse but while returning home he finds himself, after a series of unfortunate events lost with his men in the Mediterranian sea. After some time has pasted Odysseus is believed dead by Greece and suitors soon transcend upon his island palace in Ithaca seeking to marry his loyal wife Penelope and usurp his family''s royal rights to the thrown of Ithaca...
Title: BIG SIX
Logline: BIG SIX - AMERICA''S FIRST SPORTS HERO. A true story of friendship and tragedy.
Synopsis:
In the early 1900''s, the most recognized man in the U.S. was a scholar, a singer, an author, an actor, a linguist, a champion checker player and - the best pitcher in baseball. While admired for his good looks and athletic achievements, it was his strength of character that made him beloved by millions of people. His name was Christy Mathewson, and the world knew him as Big Six.
John McGraw was his coach, his best friend, his roommate and - his opposite in almost every regard. Together, they produced some of the most memorable games in the history of baseball. Sadly, Christy''s premature death caused national mourning unequalled in a sports figure.
I am a businessman - a Regional Sales Manager, overseeing two branches of a publicly held company. I have an MBA and BS degrees from Cal Poly Pomona, where I also played baseball as a pitcher. If you would like to read Big Six (WGA Registration #I48928), please feel free to contact me. Thank you for your consideration.
Title: Alcibiades
Logline: Handsome, ward of Pericles, favorite student of Socrates, brilliant military commander, scoundrel, three times traitor, and lecher all were the character Alcibiades.
Synopsis:
Born to privilege and wealth, Alcibiades was a gifted individual who put his talents to work to the strict benefit of himself. Loved and admired by so many he was finally hated and despised by most. His treachery along the way gave him the distinction of being the single person most responsible for the defeat of the Athenians in their war against Sparta. His career shows the vanity of military presumption and the inevitability of eventual defeat as he convinced the people of their imminent victory on the very threshold of defeat. When Socrates is convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens it is of the memory of Alcibiades that everyone is reminded. Things have changed little over time as the currents proponents of easy war still try to convince their followers of the rightness of the deaths of others. Arrogance and military overreach remain the perfect formula for colossal misery everywhere. Iraq comes to mind as the memory of Alcibiades is relived.
Title: TrueBlood
Logline: A member of an all black crime family in the early 1980s conspire to murder his family.
Synopsis:
When the head of a ferocious black crime family uncovers a traitor in the family he must locate an exterminate the conspirator(s) before the family is infiltrated from the inside.
The TrueBlood Crime family was of the most ferocious black crime family in the early 1980s. The family ruled the crime world with an iron fist snd no one dared oppose them. Until, the head of the family is diagnost with a life ending sickness and has to step down, but not before appointing his replacement. His nephew knows he''s next in line to run the family, but decides to take matters into his own hands to assure himself he will be the next head of the TrueBlood Crime Family.
After succeding with his plan, he comes to the realization that everything isn''t always what it seems.
Title: REBORN
Logline: As a young man discovers the secret of his mysterious and controversial birth, he questions his past, present, his relationships, his ability to choose, to love, and even his possibly eminent death.
Synopsis:
Imagine living a life you’ve already lived…but you can’t remember how? Imagine living a life where everybody knows everything about you…except for you? This compelling story examines real people, real relationships, but in unusual circumstances. In a year not to far from our own, society stands violently divided on the subject of cloning, Rebirth. In this thrilling adventure, our hero, Taron, is forced to confront these facts: he will soon be celebrating his second 19th birthday, his loving girlfriend is completely and violently against his birth, his mother has manipulated his being, his father has abandoned the family on his account, his little brother is now his big brother, his friends are now twice as old, and even his death may be lurking in the near future. His world turns upside down as Taron fights to survive, to find himself. Fate vs. free will, nature vs. nurture? Taron discovers the truth about his past and his future realizing all he has is right here, right now.
Title: BAYOU LOCO
Logline: An ailing lieutenant, goaded to attempt murder, reaches an understanding that reopens his future.
Synopsis:
RANSOM has lost his left arm, fiancee, soul. He possseses only a returned engagement ring and an exacting code of honor.
BYRON, a former infantryman, whom Ransom sent to the stockade for killing a civilian, lives on the street enraged at those who judge him.
Six pistol shots of a suicide attempt in stormy bayou landscape open.
Ransom and Byron encounter hours earlier in a Gulf Coast city, equally desolate. Ransom, on convalescent leave and returning early to an army hospital in Texas, is fleeing romantic disaster.
Byron recognizes Ransom on the street and follows him onto a Dallas bus.
Ransom ignors Byron''s goads. Byron is in no hurry to corner him.
Ransom discards the ring in the bus restroom trash. Byron intuitively discovers it. Ransom, minutes later returns to reclaim it, finds it missing, and suspects Byron somehow came upon it.
Ransom and Byron then move irrevocably to the show-down that unexpectedly frees them to begin normal lives.
The suicidal young man?
Title: THE NAZI ATE QUICHE
Logline: A delusional Nazi Commandant can not understand why his Jews want to escape his extermination camp, yet alone kill him.
Synopsis:
A group of older Jewish men are forced to relive their hellish life in the first extermination camp in Poland.
The camp was ran by a beautiful Nazi Commandant who prided himself on taking care of his Jews. He fed them bread and water, allowed them to bathe on occasion, and gave his special ones treats, and even allowed them to serve him. He was good to his Jews, and could not understand why they would try to escape.
Title: Woodley Park
Logline: A single pregnant young woman faces a life and death decision to give birth which may cause her own death or have an abortion. Set in trendy Woodley park, a section of Washington, D.C.
Synopsis:
Beautiful Rachel White is pregnant. Her womanizing boyfriend Dylan and his powerful attorney father try to convince her to get an abortion; to save his future. Disheartened by their insincerity, Rachel turns to college friends Sarah and nerdy Capital Hill intern Sam for support. Rachel finds she has a medical condition that could be fatal during childbirth. Rachel decides at the abortion clinic, at the last minute, to have the child. Through the pregnancy Sam, Sarah and Rachel decide to live as they know best, which is living young. They explore the beauty and culture of the Nation''s Capital. Meanwhile, the womanzining Dylan gets HIV. He is hospitilized as Rachel waits to give birth. Unable to deal with his son''s illness, Dylan''s Father murders his son.
Rachel gives birth successfully. Dylan''s father somehow blaming Rachel for his son''s demise, kills Rachel. In the end, Sam and Sarah marry adopting Rachel''s baby.
Title: The Legend of Cyrus Tony
Logline: An American Life. Epic
Three scripts: Born into slavery in Texas... Cyrus Tony becomes a soldier in the civil war, cowboy, a then a preacher.
Synopsis:
The Cyrus Tony Series
By Lisa Helfer and J.J. Jones
PART I: Blue Sundays: Cyrus Tony escapes to Mexico at age twelve and learns to be a cowboy. Cyrus hops a steamship to New York to join an all black regiment and fight in the Civil War and then joins Texas Governor Edmund Davis’, all black reconstruction era Police Force. © 2006 Jeffrey W. "J.J." Jones and Lisa Helfer. WGA Treatment
PART II: The Saturday Barber: Sadie Tony recounts her life to two journalists. Sadie goes to Texas to marry Cyrus. Loyal to his friend, Pepper Davis attends his wedding. Pepper must save Cyrus from a vigilante mob when the black cowboy is falsely accused of killing a white man. The preacher realizes his lust precipitates the murder, he takes Cyrus’ place and dies at the hands of the mob. © 2006 Jeffrey W. "J.J." Jones and Lisa Helfer. WGA #1159035
PART III: Five Points: Cyrus and Sadie arrive in Denver as the Preacher Bledsoe and fight racism in Denver''s early Five Points jazz era.
Title: The Lady of the Coins
Logline: An adaptation of the novel "Beach Music" by
Pat Conroy.
Synopsis:
The Lady of the Coins is an adaptation of the
amazing novel by Pat Conroy. (Author of The
Prince of Tides, Lords of Discipline and The
Great Santini) The story is about a man named
Jack McCall who runs away from his life and
family to Rome, Italy after the suicide of
his wife. Six years later, a confluence of events
forces him to return home and confront his past
and in so doing finds a way finally move on.
The movie rights are owned by The Ladd Company
and I have contacted them but they stated they
cannot accept a screenplay unless it comes from
a legitimate agent. I am looking for an agent
that hopefully has an existing relationship
with Alan Ladd Jr. and can get him to take a look
at the script.
Title: Twilight
Logline: A junky DEA agent infiltrates his estranged father''s drug cartel in order to track down his partner''s killer.
Synopsis:
DEA special agent Marcos Villanova seeks justice for the murder of his partner and mentor -- a rogue agent known as Wolf -- at the hands of Cuban crime boss Ramon Ortega. The Agency is willing to give him what he wants...for a price: an impenetrable ease built against his father, Arthur" Buddy" Lomax, a powerful New York drug kingpin with secret lies to Ortega.
Marcos arrives at Buddy''s doorstep a broken man, looking for new direction in life. All part of the act, or is it? Isabella Suarez, a smoldering Latina stripper, sees more in Marcos than he lets on. As does Buddy''s underboss, Tony "Ram" Rammazatto, a loose cannon who''ll do anything to keep his spot on the food chain.
The more time Marcos spends in Buddy''s care, the less willing he is to betray him. In the end, Marcos must decide where his loyalty truly lies: with the U.S. Government, his father, or somewhere in between.
Title: Johnson's Pages
Logline: The OC meets The West Wing, Johnson’s Pages is a One Hour TV Pilot set in the world of Congressional Pages.
Synopsis:
When a new class of Pages arrive in Washington, they quickly find themselves embroiled in a power struggle that could change the outcome of the next Presidential election. Led by the cynical and politically savvy Carl Johnson, the Director of the Page Program, the young idealists struggle to balance their beliefs with the realities of life on Capitol Hill.
The series will follow a new class of Congressional Pages and examine the politics of Capitol Hill through the eyes of seven teenagers (16 & 17 year old high school juniors). The opening episode will introduce a new class of Pages as they arrive for orientation and will focus on the conflict between an idealistic Page from Iowa and his new roommate, the cynical son of a powerful Senator.
Johnson’s Pages was developed as part of the UCLA Advanced Workshop: Writing the One Hour Pilot.
Title: My Cherished Blossom
Logline: Two seperated sisters are brought into contact after decades of mutual ignorance and slide into a futureless affection.
Synopsis:
Joan is British. Raised by her mother in England, she was made to believe in being an only child – and that her father had died in an accident at work.
Heather is American. Raised by her moneyed father in the United States, she ran away from home at the age of seventeen – and began to answer the letters her mum had sent overseas.
Heather and Joan are sisters. But they are two strangers who have never met before – haunted by their fate...
A story about the clash between the Great Britain and the United States; a story about the love between two sisters and their exposure to past, sickness and death; a story about the breakdown of a family; a story about the failure of parents – and a story about the rocky way of self-discovery...
Title: Qiblah
Logline: Henry thinks he is the prophet of a new religion. When he becomes a suspect in the rape and murder of a colleague, his only defense is his strange ideas—which have ceased to be abstractions.
Synopsis:
Henry does Comp Studies at an Eastern university, and has delusions. Bukkake, body worship--the things people get off on are ever more removed from sex. Procreation will stop—this is his vision. He binds and gags Pam, and ties her to her bed. Intending only to "venerate" her, he spritzes on her sheets. Shamed, he unties her and leaves. When her ex-boyfriend Kyle rapes and kills her, the DNA on the scene is Henry’s. He’s the prime suspect.
His lawyer, Valerie, decides his odd writings support his story. (“It is more pious to ejaculate outside of a woman than inside of her.”) When Kyle’s bloody shirt is found, their victory in court seems assured. But guilt seizes Henry, and he confesses. Against principle, Valerie urges him to forget what he did—it’s not the crime he’s charged with. But he has opted for martyrdom, taking blame, betraying Valerie, and leaving the killer free. The evidence of his “innocence” comes in the last scene, a flashback of watching Kyle hide the knife.
Title: Vinland
Logline: Vikings, led by Leif Ericsson, discovered America in 1000. This is their story, but not a documentary, rather, an intense drama with action, adventure, romance, conflict & tragedy. Vinland is an epic.
Synopsis:
500 years before Columbus, in a boat with only 1 sail, and not even a compass, Vikings reached the east coast of North America. Their story has NEVER been told on the big screen- or any screen. This screenplay includes vivid action, dazzling romance, breath-holding suspense, heart-wrenching tragedy, and even surprise humor. Vinland (the name Leif Ericsson gave to America) is an epic story in the tradition of Spartacus, Braveheart, & Gladiator. Raised in Greenland by his father, Eric the Red, Leif learns at an early age the difference between the marauding Viking and the exploring kind, and he decides early-on to become the latter. But before sailing west, he sails east to Iceland and Norway, where he finds love and comes of age. Then, when destiny demands that he lead a fateful voyage west, he has all the skills he needs- everything except how to deal with people, including the Skraelings (Native Americans). With passion, emotion, & intrigue, Vinland will bedazzle audiences worldwide.
Title: MARKED FOREVER
Logline: A heinous crime committed on a young boy impacts not only his entire life but those of his two childhood friends as well.
Synopsis:
In 1985, three boys wile away the days of their adolescence in suburban Chicago,IL. At their hangout ,a deserted cabin in the outskirts of town,they find a spot to talk,dream and plan their futures.
Kevin and Jimmy who are black and Joey,who is Hispanic, lose their inocence when Kevin is sexually molested. His life is turned upside down by the incident and their trio is separated as Kevin deals with the aftermath of both losing his mother and being the victim of a heinous crime.
When circumstances occur that result in Kevin having a flood of memories come back to him, he is convinced that his violator is back in his life after fifteen years,.Kevin pleads with Jimmy ,now a Police Detective, to help him seek justice and arrest the man responsible for his pain.Although both his girlfriend Gwen and best friend Jimmy plead with him that he is accusing the wrong person, he is bent on acting out his vendetta.
Title: Mark of Cain
Logline: A father and perpetrator of a hit and run accident, that results in the death of an teenage girl, is forced into a decision whereby he must sacrifice one of his two children as recompense.
Synopsis:
GABRIEL BURKE, the proprietor of a small Northeastern bar, is made to confront the demons of his own guilty conscience when he kills and abandons fourteen year old AMY LINDSTROM in a hit and run incident. PETER LINDSTROM, a religious fanatic and AMY''s chemically imbalanced father, makes it his retributive quest to mete out justice in the spirit of the Old Testament ["an eye for an eye"/"a tooth for a tooth"], when he forces GABRIEL to make a harrowing decision to sacrifice one of his boys. As local law enforcement attempts to locate the identity of AMY''s killer, the illicit secrets and dark sexual past that unite both families come shockingly to light, in MARK OF CAIN.
Title: Odyssey
Logline: The ancient love story of Penelope and Odysseus, Odysseus'' adventures in the Mediterranean sea while returning home to Ithaca and Penelope''s troubles with her suitors.
Synopsis:
The Greek King of Ithaca (an island in Greece) Odysseus goes to Sparta where to compete for the beautiful Spartan Princess Helen''s hand in marriage but fails to do so.
Instead Odysseus succeeds in winning her modest cousin Pricess Penelope as his wife.
Helen''s infidelity causes a war between the Greeks and the Trojans and Odysseus is forced to go to Troy and fight so that Helen can be returned to her rightful husband King Menelaous.
Following the conquest of Troy (Northwestern Turkey) with use of Odyssey''s "Trojan Horse" Odysseus goes to perform one last task in Thrace (Northeastern Greece.)
However, the local people revolt and disaster falls upon Odysseus and his men as they are lost at sea.
In brief, Odysseus then adventures in the Mediterranean (Greece, Egypt, Italy and France) and he is believed dead back home in Ithaca.
There unwanted suitors come to Queen Penelope''s court threatening both his son and his family''s rights to the thrown of Ithaca.
Title: Genesis
Logline: A highschool science teacher is about to lose his job because of the evolution and intelligent design controversy.
Synopsis:
WARNING: This screenplay focuses on a subject even more controversial that Mel Gibson''s "The Passion of the Christ." It debunks evolution and emphatically supports intelligent design. This will produce great support from the Christian community, but the wrath of the ACLU and portions of the scientific community. Science teacher, Mr. Kimball, teaches both evolution and intelligent design. But the schoolboard notifies Mr. Kimball that he will not be teaching at that school next year because he so vigorously supports intelligent design. But after rethinking, they decide to have a mock trial to hear from both sides. The evidence is up-to-date science and overwhelming, but what is the outcome?
Title: Odyssey
Logline: The ancient love story of Odysseus and Penelope, the war in Troy and Odysseus'' 10 year journey back home to Ithaca.
Synopsis:
Odysseus goes to Sparta to marry Helen but ends up marrying her cousin Penelope instead. War then breaks out in Troy and the young couple is seperated. Odysseus invents the Trojan Horse and wins the war. The Greeks head back home victorious. Yet for Odysseus and his men that is when the "Odyssey" begins... Odysseus is believed dead and Penelope''s suitors soon arrive to claim Odysseus'' rights to the thrown of Ithaca.
Title: Twilight
Logline: A DEA agent returns home to take down a drug kingpin, a man who just happens to be his father.
Synopsis:
Embattled DEA Special Agent Marcos Villanova seeks justice for the death of his partner and mentor, a rogue agent known as Wolf, at the hands of crime boss Ramon Ortega. The Agency is willing to give him what he wants... for a price: an impenetrable case made against his estranged father Buddy Lomax, a powerful New York drug kingpin with ties to Ortega.
Marcos arrives at Buddy''s doorstep a broken man, looking for new direction in life. All part of the act, or is it? Isabella Suarez, a smoldering Latin stripper, sees more in Marcos than he lets on. As does Buddy''s underboss, Luther "Sully" Sullivan, a guy who''ll do anything to keep his spot on the food chain. The more time Marcos spends in Buddy''s company, the less eager he is to betray him. In the end, Marcos must decide where his loyalty truly lies: with the U.S. Government, his father, or somewhere in between.
Title: musicLove
Logline: When Video Girl, a new reality show begins, a young woman must decide whether the seduction of the industry is worth losing everything she values.
Synopsis:
In this gritty urban tale, we open at the shocking murder scene of the mother of EVE, 6, and we see that her life is no fairy tale. Eleven years later, Eve, plagued by insecurity, an alcohol addiction, and a genius of a little sister, starts working as a ‘video girl’ to support her sister instead of going to college. She meets SOMO STEVENS, an up-and-coming urban musician, who falls for her then rejects her when he catches her shaking it up wearing next to nothing in a video. When Eve gets word of a new reality show about video girls, offering a management contract, exposure, and a large cash prize, she must decide whether she should risk exposing her secret life or pass up the opportunity to make enough money to follow her real dream of going to college. As tensions build, Eve must confront her past before she loses everything that is important to her, including her own self-respect.
Title: Silver Tides
Logline: A depressed and disillusioned psychiatrist, barely clinging to his own sanity, brings five of his patients on a weekend trip to his beach house.
Synopsis:
Glen Blake''s life is on a downward spiral- his wife has left him, he is drinking heavily and confidence in his therapeutic skills is becoming nonexistent. In the aftermath of a client''s suicide, and amidst contemplation of his own demise, Glen invites five of his patients to his beach house for the Fourth of July weekend. What follows is a chaotic, often humorous three days of conflict and emotional turmoil in which Glen must not only deal with issues from his past, but attempt to monitor the clashing personalities and acute illnesses of his guests. Individual fears and insecurities are put to the test and tension rises to crisis levels before a resolution of healing and understanding occurs. Generous doses of humor and touches of symbolism serve to enhance this drama.
Title: Last of the Gnostics
Logline: This is a story of the Cathars, the Gnostics who were eliminated by the Catholic Church using the Albigensian crusade from 1209 to 1229. It’s an epic with Mary Magdelane’s Gospel as its centerpiece.
Synopsis:
The movie opens with Mary Magdalene seeing Jesus after he has risen. He tells her that she has an important mission to accomplish. She has to go to France and spread his message.
Before leaving Palestine, Mary has a meeting with the Apostles and explains her Gnostic gospel. This meeting delineates the spiritual wisdom between the Gnostics the non-Gnostic Apostles.
The movie then jumps to 1165. It tells the story of the final days of the Cathars. It takes the Catholic Church more than a hundred years to murder the Cathar Perfecti.
Many of the characters are based on historical figures. The main characters are a noble women named Blanche who wants to protect the Cathars and her daughter Joanna who is a Cathar Perfecti. Joanna’s life is the focus of the movie.
The battles in the movie are based on historical fact. The Albigensian crusade was actually a twenty year war. The nobles of southern France were Cathar supporters and defended the Perfecti with their lives.
Title: Lucky Shot
Logline: What if an average guy knocked out the “Heavy Weight Boxing Champion of World”, What would happen to both their lives?
Synopsis:
Dear Agent:
Meet John Booker, a New York City garbage man, but if you asked him he’d say “a sanitation engineer.” While on vacation in Las Vegas with his fiancee, he’s forced into a bar fight with the present Heavy Weight Boxing Champ, Lucius “The Lightening Bolt” Ray, an arrogant, hot-tempered, disrespectful womanizer. In front of a large crowd of onlookers at a busy casino, John surprisingly knocks out The Champ. The media frenzy begins. The incident becomes the talk of every major sports news and radio broadcasts. How can this shamefully embarrassed, ego-bruised Champ, redeem himself from the cruel jokes and polarization of the sports media? And how can John protect himself from thugs who want to fight him for street rep, regain his normal life back, and save his family from shady characters trying to cash in? WGA #R20949.
Title: Patriotic Duty
Logline: Driven by patriotic feelings and a possible financial reward, an ex-white supremacist member spies on and harrasses a loyal citize, he suspects to be an Al-Qaeda terrorist.
Synopsis:
DICK NICHOLS is a handyman working for a Prop. Mgmt. Co. in Los Angeles. The September 11 attack at WTC and the anti-Muslim euphoria, combined witrh a potential financial reward to those who provide an information leading to the arrest and conviction od terrorist suspects, make Dick both -angry and vigilant.
The window of opportunity for Dick to show his patriotism and eventually get some fast cash, opens wide when MOSES TUCKER, a black man and ex-U.S. marine wo served several years in Middle-East, moves from NYC to L.A.
While doing a repair job in Moses'' apartment, Dick "discovers" some suspicious materials, making him a credible terrorist suspect. Dick informs the FBI about it, but disapointed with the official response, he launches his own investigation which ultimately ends up in a hostage situation and a deadly epilogue.
Title: A Season of Wolves
Logline: A skid row pawn shop owner bets his life savings on Denver in Sunday''s Super Bowl XXI. But when he discovers his wife''s affair with his bookie, all bets are off and he is out for bloody revenge.
Synopsis:
Pawn shop owner SAM MARTIN needs a win on Super Bowl XXI. The day before the big game, Sam finds a suspicious matchbook in his back office. This leads him to Denver''s elegant Brown Palace Hotel and his worst nightmare. His wife CARRIE is having an affair with his bookie, the evil SOCKET.
With the help of his clerk, EGGS BENEDICT, they ambush Socket and beat him
senseless. Leaving him for dead, locked in the trunk of his car, they abscond with a suitcase full of cash, what they think are bets on the upcoming game.
Socket survives and desperately wants the money back because it belongs to the Mob. His goons track down Sam but Eggs intervenes with a pair of blazing .45s and a briefcase full of explosives. Sadly, he can''t rescue Carrie from her fate at the hands of Socket.
Their lives altered forever, Sam and Eggs leave Denver behind them. But their wish to bury the past ends when they unexpectedly cross paths with Socket in a skid row pawn shop on a backstreet in Reno.
WGA #962353
Title: Fish Fry
Logline: Fish Fry, also used as a metaphor, is a contemporary tearjerker and religious drama examining what might happen if Christianity’s God, widely perceived as infallible, revisited a major decision.
Synopsis:
Thirty-three year old Yvonne, an Italian American woman, visits her hometown for the church’s annual outdoor Lenten fish fry. Characters central to Yvonne''s exploration of her soul are family members suffering varying degrees of moral corruption, eccentric/flamboyant attendees at the event who have had a direct impact on her personal and professional struggles, and a married actor, twenty years her senior, with whom she has an affair. Outwardly comedic elements shape the story as Yvonne''s secret motivations and deeds are revealed.
Title: Winter Quarters
Logline: O''Reilley''s & Carlisimo''s Continental Show finds luck,love and 1962 Autumn redemption when the last legs carnival breaks down in an isolated mountain town on the wrong way home to Winter Quarters.
Synopsis:
Romantic Dramedy - 1960''s
Collapsing with unknown, divine guidance, Count Carl Colisimo''s carnival runs out of gas & luck on a vacant hay field. The bitter end of a sad season of midway mud and no money to get home to Winter Quarters. The same morning, Sue Edna Bivens announces to her high school English class she will be attending a Masonic convention in Atlanta. She has no idea of the carnival arrival in her family''s field. She has no premonition of the smiling sequence of events that will lead a loving but loveless beautiful heart, to the charms of an unlucky, but wise carnival Count. This magical love story weaves colorful carnival characters and local "rubes" into funny situations leading to the heartfelt outcome. When the carny caravan leaves town with a twistful happy ending, the carnival prize to all is new hope and Autumn redemption.
Title: Cousin Jack
Logline: The wife of an English Lord, with the help of her cousin/lover, tries to expose her husband''s treason, unsure who in government is complicit with him.
Synopsis:
This fast paced tale is set in 1895-1899 England. Lady Eleanor Shrewsbury, wife of the brutal member of the House of Lords, Lord Richard Shrewsbury, falls in love with her distant cousin, Jack Barns, an investment banker. In financial trouble, Lord Shrewsbury commits treason, his act overheard by his wife. She flees for her life to Jack, who agrees to help her. With his multiple contacts in White Hall, they try to expose Lord Shrewsbury, only to find themselves pursued by members of Scotland Yard and the Foreign Office. Lady Shrewsbury is captured by government officials, while Jack escapes. His whereabouts are discovered by the murderous Lord Shrewsbury. Jack desperately tries to figure a way out.
Registered with WGA.
Title: Lead The Way
Logline: Several old friends gather for Colonel Richard Stryker''s "retirement" party. The memories shared are exciting, hilarious and even tender. The ending is a surprise double-twist.
Synopsis:
A group of friends from the 30-year Army career of Colonel Richard Stryker have gathered at his antebellum home for a "retirement" party. They reminisce about their experiences with Stryker. His oldest army friend Ellard, now a congressman, begins the story in 1980 as the 2 privates hear the new "Be All You Can Be" jingle while digging a foxhole in Panama.
They all share favorite stories that cover everything from combat training, Desert Storm, Panama and the Global War on Terror to relationships and raising children. Chip (now a State Department operative) and Crews (now a chemical engineer) were young officers together. Tex Steiner, currently commanding the Ranger Regiment, tells stories that span the entire career. The anecdotes are exciting, humorous and very tender. The ending is a surprise double-twist.
Title: Blue Skies Realized
Logline: What happens when you meet someone who redefines you? How does your life change when you realize you are as talented as Michelangelo?
Synopsis:
My name is Michael Raymond and I have just completed a screenplay entitled "Blue Skies Realized". It is a story about the most unlikely of men, Ray hastings, whose interest in the works of Michelangelo combined with the acceptance of a wounded woman uncovers his buried secret. A staggering artistic talent. A chance meeting links the lives of Ray, Carmen and her son Evan and allows for each character''s transformation.
Although this is my first screenplay submission it is not my first experience writing for film. I have written, produced and directed two independent films. I received high marks for my writing at World-Fest Houston where Francis Ford Coppola verbally recognized my efforts.
I look forward to answering any questions you may have regarding this drama. Contact me at:
Michael P. Raymond
93. S. Whtman School Rd.
Buckfield, ME 04220
Title: The Talkin' Tony Shalhoub Blues
Logline: A suicide bomber''s mission to blow-up Times Square during New Year''s Eve is averted by a midnight kiss.
Synopsis:
Arab Terrorist, Abdu is poised to obliterate Manhattan when a chance encounter with
co-ed Sara changes everything. Foiled in the bombing, Abdu uses the girlfriend as a cover to prepare for his next assault while flashbacks to the Middle East trace his conversion to radical politics. Caught between the opportunities of the new world and the harsh realities of the old, Abdu and Sara collide on an eclectic ride ending with a twist which will leave everyone talkin''.
Title: September Seventh
Logline: Sept. 7, four days before 9/11. 3 three friends discuss among themselves and with several women, the roots, causes and present day status of violence in America and around the world.
Synopsis:
Singles night, Max, Tony and Peter are out at their favorite watering hole. Throughout the evening they enteract with two sets of women who have, in their past experienced various forms of violence. Physical abuse, rape by fiancee, wife of victim of a workplace massacre and other situations. Dialogue discusses violence throughout the world, around the country and how it has affected each of the male leads. Throughout the piece Tony laments about the departure of his wife and spirals into a drunken hell. Tony, with Vera, a man-hater, scores in the bathroom, Peter fails to perform in the back seat of a car and Max and April, a cocktail waitress, flirt all night. Eventually Elise, Tony''s mother-in-law appears in a drunken snit and it is revealed Tony''s wife was tortured and murdered by some punks. Tony ends up hitting Elise, is arrested and taken away. Max and April end up at her uncle''s house on the beach, talk, have a drink and end up in tender embrace.
Title: Crisisboy
Logline: While trying to find out who he is, a teenage boy discovers that a mad scientist has implanted a device in his brain that has connected his emotions to the end of the world.
Synopsis:
Sam is a seventeen-year old boy who thinks he already needs to know what his purpose in life is. During his search, Sam discovers that when he was a baby, a mad scientist named Dr. Mechatron implanted a device in his brain that has connected his emotions to the structural stability of Earth. Dr. Mechatron informs Sam that if he becomes too depressed he may literally cause the end of the world. Not sure whether to believe Mechatron or not, Sam must also deal with the challenges of young adulthood, including his bickering friends, his single mother, and the love of his life.
Title: The Creator
Logline: Blair finds past methods of intimidation and manipulation are no match for another''s compassion. This "Partner" steals Blair''s gem from under his nose. Blair is enlightened trying to retrieve it.
Synopsis:
Robin Blair, a wealthy San Francisco Real Estate Developer, has a passion for cars and recognition, but lacks compassion for people. He succeeds at almost everything, until he meets someone whom he has met. Unknowing to him , this ever surfacing visionary, leads him through life''s experiences. Now confronted with the unfamiliar territory of regrets, Blair realizes that his past has not prepared him for what he never envisioned in his future.
Drama, Romance and Comedy
Title: Three
Logline: Who says relationships have to only be two people? When Johnny and Greg meet Poe, their worlds are turned upside down, putting everything into question.
Synopsis:
At first glance, JOHNNY, seems to have it all. But panic attacks have left him virtually housebound, fearful to venture outside. In fact, in the past five years, he hasn''t been further than a half hour away from his house, in case he needs to return quickly.
On a rare night out, Johnny and Greg meet POE, a young, HIV positive dancer. He''s a free-spirit who''s hunger to live serves as a strong contrast to Johnny''s reticence. Johnny finds himself drawn to Poe and the manner with which he leads his life.
As the three men develop a friendship, Johnny starts to become more aware of what''s not working within himself. He finally begins to recognize that what gives him the most stability – his life with Greg, is also what''s preventing him from becoming his own person.
Johnny is then forced to make an impossible choice: will he give up the only thing that''s ever made him happy to finally become what he knows he should be?
Title: Grapevine
Logline: May''s internalized homophobia results in the loss of her daughter. When her son comes out as gay and her husband dies, she gets a second chance to be honest with herself.
Synopsis:
May's dream for a "normal life" is torn apart when daughter Lee comes out as a lesbian and is thrown out of the home by May''s alcoholic husband Bert. Middle child Fiona is barren and suicidal. Years later, youngest son Gary comes out as gay giving May one more chance to confront her internalized homophobia.
May redefines "normal" when Bert dies and her life-long friend Etta, who has been in love with her since childhood, invites May to return to the intimate relationship they began in college.
Title: The Measure of a Man
Logline: The past of a popular newspaper columnist comes full circle as he discovers the true measure of a man is not how he is perceived but how he perceives himself.
Synopsis:
Secluded in his mountainside retreat, is where Kevin Green creates his popular newspaper column entitled “The View from Here”. He possesses the gift to inspire his readers with heart warming, witty and true to life experiences - helping others solve the problems he finds himself continuously plagued with. This weekend is no exception.
In less than 12 hours, Kevin will journey back to his childhood home of Havenwood, New Jersey, for a memorial tribute to his older brother Ben. Though some ten years have passed, the details of the accident are still fresh in his mind, as are thoughts of Hanna Barnes, the girl that captured Kevin’s heart while protecting his brother’s secret. The man with all the answers to his adoring fans, will find himself face to face with a past he still blames himself for. Only this time he’ll discover the true measure of a man is not how he is perceived but how he perceives himself.
Title: Crime Line
Logline: A father and son attempt to steal 45 million dollars to secure his son’s spot in their Irish Mafia business, however, his youngest son also plans to steal the money at the same time.
Synopsis:
After doing two years in jail Cedric Callaghan returns home where his father, Donald Callaghan, has planned to hand down his Irish business down to his oldest son. Donald introduces Cedric to a job in which Cedric and two family-loyal members plan to steal 45 million dollars from an illegal Russian bank transaction. Tony Callaghan, Cedric’s younger brother has other plans. After failing to bribe his older brother to take over his father’s position as a team, Tony allows his emotions to get to him. He murders an innocent man only two nights before the crime. Donald then leads Tony to believe the family is no longer interested in the project due to the current murder. Tony and his two friends copy the paperwork of the crime and plan to do the job on their own and take over the business. Little does Tony know that his father and brother both still plan to attempt the job. Cedric’s team of three and Tony’s team of three meet the very night of the crime, expecting to execute the same plan.
Title: Upon This Rock
Logline: UPON THIS ROCK is a turn-of-the-century drama about revenge between Irish immigrants who are building one of the first skyscrapers in New York.
Synopsis:
In UPON THIS ROCK, several immigrant friends desparately take jobs on one of the earliest skyscrapers in New York. However, the owner of the building discovers that one of the friends is a childhood enemy involved in the banishment of his family from Ireland.
To exact his revenge and create a new type of banishment, the owner tries to turn the group of workers on their friend through a rash of ultimatums and violence. As the worker seeks answers and survival, he and the owner discover the lies their parents told them about the banishment in Ireland.
This is a suspenseful, action-packed story set against the perils of early skyscraper construction and the brutality of the era for immigrants.
Title: STONE LIONS
Logline: On the last bus out of a hurricane-bound Gulf Coast city, two disabled overseas veterans with an unresolved dispute, encounter by chance.
Synopsis:
RANSOM has lost his left arm, his talented finacee, his soul, and wants no part of the past; but BYRON, an agressive infantryman whom Ransom sent to the stockade for killing an unarmed civilian, wants to settle up. There is time yet to Shreveport. Byron takes up with smart sexy ANNIESSE, and her willful son, FRANCIS; old rancher ZITHERS tells the young poet, SAMMY, his hard life story; BERNICE adds Ransom''s story to her "treasure of confidences"; Two Mexicans try to out-macho each other; dotty MRS. ASHWORTH, enroute to rendezvous with her gentleman lover, primps her smuggled spaniel, ROXY; and WYATT, the driver, bearish but tolerant, has his thirty-year experience tested to its limit. Lost across dark storm-wild bayou country, the travellers pick up a mysterious stranded motorist, Ransom and Cartwick draw knives, and a cottonmouth snake advances toward Wyatt''s ankle. It''s a long night''s journey toward day, a bad night for a frog, and need for mercy becomes very strained. What a trip!
Title: Project 7
Logline: When you work for Project 7, if you leave, you die, its a rule. But can one man walk away from his country and all that he is, for the love of a perfect stranger?
Synopsis:
Project 7 is a dark, thought provoking drama that sandblasts the luster off of what Americans think they know about their government. From murder, cruel experiments, and a developing love story, it stimulates the mind to explore its furthest corner and put the pieces of the puzzle together. Could the nation ever imagine funding the government’s largest mass murder organization of their own people?
Project 7 is the secret intelligence agency that performs inhumane experiments to see just how far the human population can go. By learning how to break down individuals defenses, they can further strengthen their own nation and army. But what will happen when a new employee who has full intentions of bringing the firm down, suddenly falls in love with everything that she despises?
How will one of the leaders of this secret organization walk out on the firm that owns his life, to save the life of a stranger he suddenly falls in love with?
Title: Indifference
Logline: When just being alive isn’t enough, a depressed, recent college graduate decides to apply for a pistol permit.
Synopsis:
In the game of life, John is the favorite. Young, white, American male. But after graduating from a four year college with nothing to show for it but a useless diploma and a heap of debt, he returns to the only job he’s ever known; working the customer service counter at a supermarket. College was not what he had expected. His grades weren’t good enough. He wasn’t prepared for the few interviews he could get. Life is not how he wants it to be. He thinks about killing himself. He feels like the whole world is out to get him and maybe it is. He applies for a pistol permit. His daydreams become more and more violent. All of his anger and frustration builds up inside him. He meets a girl and falls in love. He learns what it feels like to lose what he never even had. And he comes to the harsh realization that there is only one reason why we all live. Hope.
Title: The Clowns of God
Logline: One man's search for forgiveness and redemption ends up as one of acceptance, surrender and self-sacrifice.
Synopsis:
Sonny MacIntosh has just been paroled after doing 17 years in a New York State maximum security prison for murdering four people when he was 16 years old. He returns to his old neighbourhood in Hell's Kitchen where he developes a relationship with a professional caregiver and her 6 charges,"The Clowns", who inadvertantly teach him how to live and love again. But Sonny's new found idyllic existence is short lived as Sonny's enemies past and present conspire to put him back behind bars in order to take their revenge. The unlikely alliance of a sadistic warden, a powerful mafia godfather, a vengeful detective, a crooked parole officer and a vicious street gang threatens Sonny's freedom and life and when they attack the only thing he truly loves Sonny is forced to protect that love.
Will Sonny vanquish his enemies and protect the Clowns from harm or will he succumb to the overwhelming forces against him doomed to play out a destiny that he is powerless to predict or control?
Title: Old Money
Logline: I just finished ironing out OLD MONEY, the dramatic - sometimes comedic - story of a 70-year-old con’s quest to recover a huge pile of loot he stole years ago.
Synopsis:
Ed “Money” Rothman doesn’t have much left in his post-prison life, but he’s determined to unearth the $6 million stashed below a cruel mob boss’s house – in a nearly impenetrable vault. He battles the mafia and eludes the government with a series of clever tactics that keeps the plot moving. He’s as charming as he is devious. In the twilight of his life, Money wrestles with his past sins and seeks redemption – unsure if there’s any to be had.
This isn’t my first stab at writing. I’m a former newspaperman who wrote about real-life mobsters in my hometown, Cleveland. I’ve finished three other feature-length scripts, and I’ve also penned three short screenplays for movies that recently screened at film festivals in Portland and Seattle. One, HANGING CHAD, even won a Best Screenplay Award. I appreciate that these are relatively small achievements, but they’re all stepping stones leading me to where I am. I think I have intriguing ideas and I execute them well on the page. WGA# 1076661
Title: Chickadee
Logline: An Immigrant Italian girl is the center of a landmark rape trial that unites a town in rural New York State, 1923. Based on a true story.
Synopsis:
LAURINA, 12, and her sister, MINNIE, 13, wait at the gates of a Catholic orphanage to be reunited with their mother, CARMELLA, 30, an Italian Immigrant.
Carmella marries the charming PIETRO, 35, and the children are removed from the orphanage. They relocate to a farm in rural New York, but there, met with the hardships of poverty and racial discrimination, Pietro falls into decline. He becomes abusive to Carmella and the girls and forces them to work long hours in a textile mill to support his gambling and drinking.
Laurina blossoms into a beautiful young woman and becomes the object of Pietro’s sexual obsession. He brutally rapes her resulting in her pregnancy.
After months of terrified secrecy, she finds the courage to go to the authorities.
What ensues is a landmark trial that unites an entire city lending inspiration to a generation of silent victims.
Title: The Winner
Logline: A man, who at the lowest point in his life, wins the largest jackpot in lottery history and is swept away, unprepared, into the world of glamour, fame & the super rich.
Synopsis:
Joe DiPalma has hit rock bottom. With no job, no prospects of one, and deep in debt to many people including his own parents, Joe gambles away the last of his money. He is a broken man. Until he discovers his forgotten winning ticket to the largest jackpot in lottery history. Salvation delivered, Joe can finally make good on promises made. Or can he?
Joe is catapulted into a world where he mingles with celebrities, can buy anything he wants, fulfills his sexual desires, and dates a beautiful Hollywood actress. He ignores his mothers requests to visit his dying grand mother & becomes consumed with his new life-socializing with the likes of Brad Pitt, Tara Reid, Hugh Hefner, Donald Trump and forgetting about the people he's left behind. But when his sick grandmother dies, he must return to his family & his mother, whom is angered by Joe's failure to make good on his promise to say goodbye before she passed away. He must now deal with a situation he can't buy his way out of.
Title: Onus
Logline: With the world in disarray, one boy finds out the truth about himself; he is the son of God, as well as the only one who can stop the demise of mankind.
Synopsis:
Religion has predicted the return of the messiah for ages, but no one could have predicted the truth of which he would bring with him; the end of the human race. As hope begins to fade within the minds of those who once believed, the devil finds the moment a perfect opportunity to make his way back to earth for his final attack on the gates of heaven. With him, he brings the four horsemen of apocalypse and his minions for the war with God to come. With tribulation at hand, and the crumbling of the human race, the only one who can save them and prevent the devil from entering the gates of heaven is one boy who can't even save himself.
Title: Life Forgotten
Logline: Unread letters from the past surface revealing a dying mother's final wishes for her children; causing each to contemplate what they could've been as opposed to what they've become.
Synopsis:
A family is shattered by the untimely death of Deb Sinclair,she is gone and the perfect family that was is no more. Deb Sinclair lies in a hospital bed dying of breast cancer. She writes to her children about her hopes and expectations as she wonders what life will be like for them. The children turn to their father for structure and comfort only to find him too busy with work. Life goes on for everyone but not as smoothly as expected. Distance and circumstance drives the family apart. Seven years have passed and Deb's old school is dedicating the new library in her memory. A two-day journey home has Eric, Beth and Daniel remembering just how different life use to be. Nobody is eager to reveal what their lives are like now. Letters from their mother surface causing each to contemplate what they could've been as opposed to what they've become. Confrontation leads to the Sinclair's struggling with memories and past regrets.Can what drove this family apart bring them back together?
Title: Kazredlaw
Logline: Everyone has a purpose; you just have to choose what it is.
Synopsis:
Kazredlaw is the story of the tumultuous relationships of a twenty two year old. Andrews, the protagonist of the script, is convinced that his past relationship failures are much more than what is on the surface. He is convinced that he possess a purpose that is to change the people around him. This feeling leads him to write his two week notice, however not to an employer, but to God. This letter propels the story that looks closer at the life of Andrews. In the end, the reader will be left with a choice to make: believe in Andrews theories about his purpose, or to interpret them as a way to cope with his failed romances.
Title: BEYOND EDEN
Logline: Adam and Eve struggle to adapt to a world where evil has been unleashed.
Synopsis:
Adam and his helpmate are pushed past the limits of human endurance with no experience for the sufferings that they have brought upon themselves. Satan launches an unmerciful physical, emotional and sexual attack on them until they seek death to escape the torture.
Unwilling that His creation be destroyed, the Word of God promises to return them to their intended place with Him in paradise but they must wait until the time has been fulfilled and fight the continued onslaught by the adversary.
Once their children are born, Satan turns his attention to corrupting their offspring. He eventually convinces Cain to murder his brother and start a nation of unrighteous people.
Adam must persuade his offspring to remain seperate from the children of Cain until God fulfills His promise and returns them to the garden.
Title: Free God
Logline: Long ago Satan Fools the Angels to kidnaping and sadating God. The put him in a prison below the Grandcanyon. Now Peter has to find a way to Free God from the Grand Canyon
Synopsis:
Long ago After Satan was banished from heaven. He Fools the Angels into kidnapping and sedating God. They do this by convincing God to send Jesus to earth to help calm down the humans because they have started to do bad thing they put him in a prison below the Grand Canyon. Now Peter has to find a way to Free God from the Grand Canyon. After that happens all the Angels that have helped Satan turn into gruesome demons and are forced to be Satan’s Slaves. Peter was spared for a reason. He could transform back from demon to angel. And he could not be forced by Satan to be his slave. Of course Satan does not know this. Peter has to find a way to free God. He finds Jesus on earth and they go near the Grand Canyon where god tells them that Jesus has help. He has 4 other brothers names were Muhammad, Moses, Abraham, and Buddha. With their help each of them now have to find a chosen one of their religions to form their army’s to fight Satan’s Demon army. And “Free God”.
Title: Nine
Logline: God replaces the leaders of the US and UK with a nine-year-old girl, giving her supernatural powers and a mission: end the war in Iraq and bring the troops home.
Synopsis:
A girl praying for US soldiers held captive in Iraq is endowed by God with supernatural powers and given the mission to end the war and bring the troops home. To do so, NINE must navigate her way through "Desert Bud", a sanitized video game version of the war invented by the leaders of the US and UK (CHESTER CHURCHILL) which is being used to hold everyone in Iraq hostage.
At the behest of God, Nine replaces Chester and exposes "Desert Bud" as a dangerous fantasy while learning the facts about the real war in Iraq. Using her powers, Nine travels to Iraq and meets the spirit of WWII GENERAL JOSEPH STILWELL, a man who always tells it like it is. Stilwell helps Nine reveal numerous war crimes in Iraq committed by US-UK forces, including the use of radioactive weapons and the imprisonment of Iraqi children.
Can Nine convince the Iraqis to forgive the occupying soldiers for their crimes? Nine does that and more, healing the soldiers’ wounds and securing their safe passage back home.
Title: The Garden Club
Logline: The Garden Club is about the people who inhabit the great mansions of Natchez, Mississippi. It is not a story of bliss and serenity, but one of greed, infidelity, murder and extortion.
Synopsis:
In this Southern drama, a group of prominent women have used their power for decades to control the town of Natchez. Rod Farshall, an eighteen-year old boy, gets caught up in the competition for power, his love for his girlfriend, and his seduction by Shereen Summerville, the wife of the club's financial advisor. It also involves a great fire which destroyed one of the town's magnificent mansions and how the club's resulting actions set the stage for retaliation from Bart Summerville, one of the most prominent men in Natchez. It details the story of three books kept by the local madam, and a plot to kill Rod Farshall, whose name appears in the books and who accidentally discovers the identity of the killers of two prominent Natchez citizens. The screenplay is based on Robert DeBlieux's novel, "The Garden Club." Robert DeBliuex is the club's former CEO. All rights have been obtained. I appreciate your consideration.
Payne Williams
willwill@cp-tel.net
WGA #- 1081815
Title: PUSH CAME TO SHOVE
Logline: Miserably trapped, Oscar Thomas Lansing the 3rd, longs to become a member of the outside world and escape the grasp of an overbearing, eccentric father and their heritage of upscale status and wealth.
Synopsis:
Can having it all, ever become a burden too large to bare? It has for Oscar Thomas Lansing the third. Opting for a life of his own, he enrages an extremely wealthy, overbearing, and cold father. Feeling he has completed his final obligation by becoming an attorney, his fate is sealed by refusing to practice and handle the family's vast fortune. Now disinherited, Oscar is forced to survive on few resources and fewer life skills. In a world once fed upon a silver platter, he ventures now on to a path of fateful twists and turns, near death experiences, highly unlikely relationships, and resolution of years old crime. WGA NO. R04786-00
Title: A Window of Hope
Logline: Three teenage friends living in a small New Jersey suburb, are torn apart by a secret kiss, an untimely death and a love that can not be denied.
Synopsis:
KEVIN GREEN is a journalist living in Southern California. Kevin travels on assignment back to his native New York roots to meet a world renowned author named EDMUND SKYLER, staying with his mother who still resides in the same New Jersey suburb he grew up in. It is his first return home since graduating high school six years ago and as his taxi pulls up to his childhood home, he finds the past is still very much alive and well.
Upon entering the front door, Kevin is flooded with memories of the past and still struggles to understand why his best friend BEN committed suicide six years earlier.
While on assignment, Kevin runs into his childhood friend and secret crush, HANNA BARNES, whom he shared an intimate kiss with before high school graduation. Hanna and Ben were dating at the time and the kiss divided the three friends forever. No matter how much Kevin and Hanna try to deny their feelings for each other, it’s clear that a window of hope still exists for love.
Title: Badwater
Logline: It’s the most grueling foot race on Earth, spanning 135 miles across a desert and up Mt. Whitney. This is Badwater and 100 of the world’s bravest runners will sacrifice everything to conquer it.
Synopsis:
A documentary film crew sets off to record the extraordinary conditions of the Badwater ultramarathon. The crew joins a few dozen men and women at the starting line deep in Death Valley at the height of summer. By noon the temperature soars above 120 degrees. The competitors’ rubber-soled shoes melt upon the asphalt. Contestants battle cramps, blisters, dehydration, exhaustion, hallucinations and their own limitations while pushing their bodies up Mt. Whitney. Most runners succumb to the spirit-breaking gauntlet and never reach the race’s end. Those who do finish the race receive nothing but a simple belt buckle to commemorate their feat.
Yet all who complete Badwater agree that the agony was worth it. These diverse athletes are united by a common pursuit of personal accomplishment. There is no money to be won or fame to be gained at Badwater. The only reward is a towering feeling of achievement. Badwater is a reminder of the true essence of sport and competition.
Title: An Unfinished Life
Logline: A striking love affair between two aspiring college students becomes a whirlwind of mixed feelings as family and friends put their two cents in.
Synopsis:
My screenplay is about an 18 year old girl named Korie who leaves home to attend college. Her mother has dreams of her becoming a successful journalist with the New Yorker and to stay focused in school. Her mother is living vicariously through her daughter. While at school Korie meets Donovan James (a Sophomore) and everything changes for her. Korie and Donovan soon fall in love and she becomes pregnant. They decide that they will have the baby and become a family despite Korie's mother's feelings. Aside from the pregnancy she finds out Donovan has an incurable heart disorder and needs a transplant. Family and friends are interfering in their lives telling them what they should and should not do. Korie's mother telling her to have an abortion, Donovan's mother telling them to have the baby. Her mother will now stop at nothing to keep them apart by using the one thing Korie has always wanted in her life, a father.
Title: SIGHT
Logline: "SIGHT" is the story of a man who is given the gift of sight only to learn, through drastic events, that sometimes your greatest wish could be your greatest regret.
Synopsis:
Sometimes we see things with our eyes that forever alter our lives. Just a momentary glance can leave an impression on our minds that will last a lifetime. "SIGHT" is a very intense, character driven drama that deals with the extremes of human emotion. Paul Edwards is born blind and adopted by the Rev Carl Edwards and his wife Rebekah who raise him as their son. Paul follows his father into the ministry and the work of the church. Later, as a married father of three, Paul is given the opportunity to receive the gift of sight through a remarkable breakthrough in gene therapy. Paul must now wrestle with the sometimes painful reality that although some of the things that he sees in this world are truly beautiful the ugliness of what he also witnesses can become overwhelming. What we see can brighten our hearts and lift our spirits but occasionall what we see pushes us to commit acts that our minds would never have dreamed of before.
Title: The Runner-up Syndrome
Logline: A journalist and his accomplices fake a kidnapping to write a Pulitzer Award winning story and get ransom money. Their plan succeeds but real terrorists find out the truth and punish them.
Synopsis:
A fictional screenplay inspired by a true story.
Three Romanian journalists were kidnapped in March 2005 and freed on May 2005.
A journalist angry that he failed again to get the Pulitzer Award, stages his own kidnapping in Iraq along with two other journalists (who are not in on the plot). He hopes this story will earn him the Pulitzer. His accomplice, an Iraqi-American businessman in big financial trouble, has his own hidden agenda: to ask for a substantial ransom. They concoct a very ingenious plan. The Iraqi gets the money and the newsman gets the publicity. The journalists are freed, but the real terrorists find out the true story and act to punish those who planned it. They kill the Iraqis involved in the fake kidnapping but the journalist barely escapes. He flees to a country that does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S.A. (Andorra) where he lives in fear for the rest of his life.
Title: That Feeling of Flying
Logline: A thrill ride and roller coaster junkie diagnosed with cancer, his long-time companion and their friends take a road trip, strengthening their relationships in the face of tragedy.
Synopsis:
Special Note: This screenplay was awarded Best Screenplay at the San Fernando Valley Film Festival on 4/17/05.
"Flying" is a heart-felt drama, the story of Christopher Aldrich, a thrill ride junkie, his long-time companion, Jimmy Barnes, and their three best friends, Fredy and Lynette De La Hoya and Kimberly Jones. When Christopher is diagnosed with lung cancer, he and his friends seek to leave their problems behind them by taking the ultimate road trip to ride their favorite rides and coasters throughout the country.
Through a series of highs and lows, literally and figuratively, Christopher and his "family" live, love and grow as he slowly starts to acknowledge his own mortality. As their trip progresses, Chris' health declines and he and his friends must come to terms with his imminent death.
"That Feeling of Flying" is an emotional ride, full of tears and laughter on the roller coaster called "life".
Title: The Artful Codger
Logline: Cowboys and Indians in New York City? Sometimes the best advice comes from the most unlikely sources in this tribute to a generation and lifestyle that is all but gone, but hardly forgotten.
Synopsis:
Seth and his recently-divorced mother, Jeanne, are starting out on their own, and are both a little unsure of their place in the world. While the timid Seth's main worries include fitting into a new neighborhood, Jeanne feels her entire purpose in life as a caretaker to her husband has been snatched away.
Seth soon befriends a withered West Texas cowboy, his Osage companion and an elderly grocery store owner who introduce him to a world of the past through their own life experiences. Jeanne's problems, however, can't be solved so simply. Her first "real" job outside the home not only tests her ability to rely on herself, but places her on the bad side of a mentally unstable, potentially dangerous coworker.
Bouncing from the present-day plight of Seth and Jeannie to glimpses of early Twentieth Century America that exists primarily through the memories of our elders, "The Artful Codger" pays tribute to the perseverance of the human spirit that spans all generations.
Title: The Ivory Tower
Logline: An unloved Columbia freshman finds validation in flashy organized crime.
Synopsis:
A naive young man from Ohio attends Columbia University and feels socially outclassed by his wealthy, cosmopolitan peers. His creative and academic efforts are constantly outshone. He falls into the company of an older, suave hustler and gets drawn into some shady enterprises, eventually starting a prostitution ring on the Ivy League campus.
Our protagonist abandons his creative aspirations for the lure of easy money. His fortunes rise, but soon he is caught in a morass of moral bankruptcy, failing grades, botched deals and dysfunctional relationships. He then must struggle to clean his mess and regain his integrity.
The story is like SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION meets RISKY BUSINESS.
WGA Registration #: 942907
Title: CRY WITHOUT SIN
Logline: A humanistic drama about two kids from culturally diverse backgrounds that form a bond of trust and friendship while having to deal with abuse and prejudice that they witness in their lives.
Synopsis:
CRY WITHOUT SIN tells the story of two culturally diverse families, one American and the other East Indian, living in a farming town.
Olivia comes from a lower-middle class white family. While having to "walk-on-eggshells" in her home-life due to the effects of a self-medicating mother's unrealistic expectations on her, she witnesses the daily physical abuse of her little brother at the hands of her father. Joby comes from an Indian middle-class family. He is a quiet child who spends his days drawing in his sketchbook while witnessing a cultural clash between his abusive alcoholic father and his older sister.
Through the course of a school year, we see these two children build a bond of friendship while facing the ramifications of living in environments of prejudice and abuse.
CRY WITHOUT SIN reveals the incredible ability of children to find beauty in the most difficult of circumstances. May I send you a copy of the script?
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Title: OFF THE ISLAND
Logline: A father-and-son tale of two generations of Cuban baseball players who struggle to escape their communist homeland.
Synopsis:
"Ritmo" Torriente never wanted to be a baseball player -- until the Cuban boy was abandoned by a father who fled their communist homeland in pursuit of his big-league ambitions.
The vengeful young man found himself consumed by a desire to outdo his father and follow his own dreams to America.
Off The Island is the tale of a father and son whose antipathy towards each other masks the reality that they are consumed by identical passions and inner demons.
From post-revolutionary 1960s Cuba to the modern-day U.S., this chronicle of harrowing escape, of family and freedom is unlike any other baseball story ever told.
It is America's national pastime seen through a global lens.
By way of my own introduction, I am the senior political correspondent for The Canadian Press making my first foray outside journalism and into fiction-writing.
The storyline came to me earlier in my career when I covered the Montreal Expos.
Title: Hi, I'm Lily
Logline: A teenage girl with unpredictable behaviour and extraordinary thinking has her life changed rapidly when her family migrates from one country to another and she changes schools almost every year.
Synopsis:
Lily is a pretty, gifted adolescent, who lives in different countries and changes school almost every year. Each new school affects the girl and she on the other hand makes a significant difference in people. Lily is an independent girl. She thinks differently and acts unpredictably. Lily doesn’t have any fear towards anything. In her last school teachers discovered she’s dyslectic. Lily is a teenager looking for friends and finding only misunderstanding because of her behaviour and extraordinary thinking. She often feels as a loser, not fitting to the new surroundings. But she is ready for challenges in life and always becomes a winner in the end. She plans on living an extraordinary, fun and full of adventure life. In fact she believes that her whole life was, is, and gonna be just an adventure.
It'll be a fantastic teenage movie for girls who want to become leaders and make their way and for parents who want to understand how school can change their children. Based on true story
Title: September's Camera
Logline: September's Camera is the graphic account of 9-11 first responder Jeff Scarborough, the WNBC New York cameraman who arrived at Ground Zero just two minutes after the second plane hit.
Synopsis:
As the enormity of the attack unfolds, Jeff Scarborough, NBC's first cameraman on scene, immediately takes over, making decisions and taking actions that result in saving lives. At the tip of the NBC spear, he directs the other responding crews to stay safely back, periously remaining the lone live camera at Ground Zero. He is there for the jumpers, both collapses, explosions, and ensuing aftermath. Live when the first collapse happens, he is feared dead at NBC. Running from the debris cloud, Jeff rescues his TV truck operator, then nearly passes out as it hits. He videotapes the second collapse; then police gunshots erupt behind him as the debris cloud hits, sucking the air out. Found wandering out of the dust clouds by a NBC crew, Jeff is struggling to breathe, covered with dust, and in shock. Through more building collapses and explosions, he returns to NBC, where he receives a hero's welcome, medical attention, and is interviewed. He later receives a 9-11 award from WNBC.
Title: The Red Book
Logline: A novelist is given one last chance after discovering an old journal about two lovers whom disappear and he must find.
Synopsis:
It is 1951 and a once popular novelist, Jordan Anderson, is about to lose everything he owns. Traveling to his cabin hideaway, he comes to the crossroad of his life. Through intervention, he discovers a thirty year old journal in an abandoned house. Desperate for material to rejuvenate his career, he uses the journal and its writing from a twenty year old woman, Olivia. She tells her story of romance and her affair with an older married man, Ben. The entries into the journal suddenly stop and in order to finish his masterpiece, Jordan must find out what happened to the two lovers only to be shocked by the outcome.
Title: Exude Your Class
Logline: A professional horseplayer and a beautiful prostitute save a pregnant race mare from being destroyed by a bloodthirsty maniac who runs a corrupt equine slaughter-for-profit operation.
Synopsis:
After an emotional, self-revealing epiphany, Joey Bender decides to become what he was meant to be - a professional horseplayer. However, he almost loses everything. Luckily, Joey discovers a book entitled "The Class Horse" and begins to win - big.
Joey's profits enable him to buy a race mare named Survivor. Joey's handicapping prowess then takes him to Las Vegas for the World Championship Horseplayer Tournament. There, the story turns as Joey and a beautiful prostitute must save a now pregnant Survivor from being butchered and processed into pet food by a perverted maniac who runs an equine slaughter-for-profit business.
"Exude Your Class" is not about gambling or horseracing. It's a drama with a highly suspenseful climax about finding alternatives and adapting to how the race of life unfolds.
Over years, I've acquired extensive knowledge about horse racing, breeding farms, and slaughter houses, which are the means that move "Exude Your Class" from beginning to end.
Title: Tongues of Men and Angels
Logline: After years of struggle, a stutterer gains fluency and gives a superb nomination speech at the Democratic Party's Primary for his old friend and first African-American candidate, in the year 2008.
Synopsis:
Two sensitive loners--Peter Benedict who stutters yet dedicated to becoming fluent and to helping the environment, and Edward Stevenson, a proud African American with lofty political ambitions—bond together in the mid 1950’s, Louisville, Ky. Both discover inner strengths—Peter’s diligence to speech therapy and Edward’s ability to gain acceptance within the white political community. Edward, with Peter’s help, becomes a state representative and Peter becomes a skillful speechwriter.
Peter marries, moves to Washington, DC, yet his obsession to become fluent causes a rift in their marriage. They separate and Peter lives poorly, though gains a grant to write a book on the environment. His fluency increases, he reunites with his wife, and his book wins a Pulitzer Prize. Edward becomes a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and asks Peter to be his speechwriter. Peter proudly accepts the invitation and delivers Edward’s nominating speech.
WAGA Registration #0788775-00
Title: The West Texas Waltz
Logline: The richest man in a little town brings home his third wife, who tries to seduce the youngest son into the murder of his dad.
Synopsis:
Almost everyone in Pomeroy, Texas would love to see Jesse Freed dead. He is a first class bully, world class cheap and a blood relative to nearly all.
When he brings home a new trophy wife, a smoldering blonde named Enid, she is soon working on his youngest son, Colin. Life would be better without Jesse making everybody miserable. Shouldn't someone maybe kill him?
Out of loyalty and loneliness Colin is the only one in town who actually tries to love his dad. So please, no talk of murder and don't be tempting him with that bodacious bod.
But events lead Colin to poke around in the past, and in his search he finds proof that daddy murdered his real momma when he was but a baby, and got away with it.
Everything changes when the nicest boy in town wants revenge. The West Texas Waltz. Everybody does a dance for love, or money.
A screenplay by the playwright J. Paul Porter, five times published, twice a Drama Logue Award Winner, an O'Neill Playwright.
Title: Dark Side of the Moon
Logline: A young man falls victim to the techno rave scene.
Synopsis:
A young man desperately wanting his father's respect, fails as usual. Graduating college with no show of his father leaves him angry and vulnerable. His best friend uses the young man's vulnerability and turns it into a taste of ecstasy in the rave scene.
As the impressionable drugs and passions take over, the young man finds himself failing everything he accomplished. His loss of friends, family and self-control leads to his ultimate demise.
Dark Side of the Moon is a story of the side of the rave scene never told before.
WGAe #I24847
Title: THROUGH CANADA
Logline: A German family thought they had given their last drop of blood to the Kaiser.
Synopsis:
GEORGE KALLIS raises his family in Koblenz, Germany.
In 1904, George’s oldest son joins the German army and is immediately deployed to Africa where he is killed by African tribesmen.
George Kallis starts a new life in Detroit- via Canada. His remaining sons grow into young men.
The oldest son, LEROY, finds his calling as a baseball player- eventually starring for the Detroit Tigers. His brother, JOHANN, struggles to find his niche. He returns to Koblenz to pursue his advanced studies- only to be conscripted into the German army.
LeRoy immediately crosses into Canada to join the army to find his brother.
The story comes to its shattering conclusion in the actual Battle of the Somme.
LeRoy musters the last bits of his sanity to find his little brother in the utter madness of this fateful morning.
Johann musters his newfound resolve during the absolute chaos to persevere over his abusive superiors and crawls through death… crawling home… through Canada.
Title: Comfort
Logline: A grieving detective must confront his own inner turmoil to find an elusive killer.
Synopsis:
Detective Lindo is an emotionally repressed cop trying to cope with his dying wife, Sara. But when Lindo starts tracking the killer of a beautiful bartender, his emotions begin to slip out of control.
His primary suspect is Bobby, a damaged young man protected by his older sister, Michelle. As Lindo digs deeper into the case, he finds himself increasingly drawn to Michelle— and increasingly conflicted.
Stirred by his attraction to Michelle and wracked with guilt over Sara, Lindo struggles to stay in control as he pieces together the murder night- a night fueled by rejection, deception, and the burden of a violent past. In the end, the only way for Lindo to find the truth is to let go of his own morals and emotions— and face the tragic results.
WGA Registration #: 1019171
Please accept this screenplay for your consideration. I can be contacted using the information below.
Thank you.
Title: The Goode Life
Logline: A young man rescues a teen runaway from a life on the streets and introduces her to high society.
Synopsis:
Emily, a self-reliant teenager, resorts to prostitution to make ends meet after losing her money, her job, and her home. She is befriended by Angel, a charismatic young man who keeps her off the streets by opening up his heart and his home to her. Only, their friendship is jeopardized when Angel reverts back to his old life one last time.
Title: Ploesti
Logline: Ordinary men. An impossible mission. Extraordinary valor.
Synopsis:
Twenty-four years have passed since twin brothers Tom and John Nelson’s father, a WWI flying ace, was shot down mysteriously. Now it’s 1942, and the twins find themselves in bomber pilot training under the command of the man who, unbeknownst to them, was responsible for their father’s death. After a cutthroat rivalry to see who’ll earn their wings first, the Nelson brothers ship off to North Africa for specialized training. They learn their mission is to destroy Hitler’s vital oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania, by attacking in broad daylight at smokestack level. Nothing like it has ever been tried before. They are told the cost in allied lives will be high, and that “coming back is secondary.” Thrust into “Black Sunday” - the daring and disastrous raid of August 1, 1943 - the twins find themselves in history’s costliest air campaign, wondering how they’ll make it back in their battle-torn B-24. They learn about their enemy, themselves, and finally, the truth about their father.
Title: GALINA
Logline: See, hear, and feel Russia in all its savagery and splendor. Sweep back to the dramatic moments of Russian history through Galina's extraordinary life and her personal triumph in attaining justice.
Synopsis:
The enthralling drama unfolds through Galina's extraordinary life on the backdrop of true historical events in St. Petersburg, Russia, my native country which W. Churchill described as "wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".
It still retains its notoriety, therefore, it will always appeal and fascinate audiences.
Minimum dialogue - maximum action, richly enhanced with music and exquisite snippets of cultural entertainment. I am a strong believer that excellent acting supported by music has colossal power to move human emotions.
The story is easy to follow, yet it encompasses history and bitter intrigue, music and culture, fiery passion and crime with plenty of suspense.
Title: Amber Lockheart
Logline: A young girl in search of her past finds more than she bargained for.
Synopsis:
Amber Lockheart was given up for adoption at childbirth and raised by her adoptive parents until their untimely death. A caring social worker, Mrs. Austin, takes the troubled teen under her wing and tries to help her find her past, only to discover Amber was among a group of children sold to the highest bidder. In the process, Mrs. Austin is murdered before she can reveal the details.
At age 16, Amber finds herself on the run from the law and the men attempting to kill her. Amber finds an unlikely angel at the time when she needs him most.
Five years later she meets someone who unknowingly helps her solve the mystery behind the murders, but finds herself on the run yet again.
Title: Unrehearsed
Logline: Set at a Boston music school, this story of murder, romance, domestic abuse, and self-discovery involves two students who become the target of a mob hit and are inexplicably drawn to each other.
Synopsis:
Jason is a music student who serves on a jury and convicts a mob agent of murder. The mob boss Mr. Mofo dispatches three hitmen - Stan, Joe, and Kevin - to kill Jason.
Jody is also a music student with an abusive boyfriend, Mark. She wants to call the police or even kill him, but can't bring herself to do either.
The hit on Jason goes awry. Jody becomes Stan's hostage. Jason mortally wounds Kevin and shoots Stan and Joe. Jason and Jody survive.
Mr. Mofo finds out about the botched hit, and guns down everyone in his organization. He flees the scene.
Jason and Jody spend the day together and end up making love.
Mark visits Jody, and she breaks up with him. Mark tries to kill her but she fights back and mutilates him.
Jody decides to run rather than go to the police. Jason agrees to go with her.
Jason and Jody hide Mark's body in a dumpster and drive away in Mark's car. Unbeknownst to them, Mr. Mofo follows them in his car.
Title: GANGSTER
Logline: Gangsters not only captivated America, but at times held America captive. Where and when did being a gangster and living the gangster lifestyle begin. It all began with one man, Angelo Vestieri.
Synopsis:
The story begins at the turn of the twentieth century, when immigration, prostitution and poverty lived along the streets of New York City. And so did the main character, Angelo Vestieri, an Italian immigrant, who seeks refuge among the "Gophers". The "Gophers", in return, teach him the ways of loyalty, friendship, and the most important of all, money and power.
This is a portrayal of Angelo's need to grasp at the money and the power that the "Gophers" planted in him during his early childhood years, and whether a corrupt city, in an extraordinary century, places it's hands of fate upon Angelo, or if Angelo places his own hands of fate upon it.
This is a portrayal of one man's ultimate destiny. The one man who started it all. America's first true gangster
Title: This Side of Nirvana
Logline: One woman’s search to find family and another woman’s scheme to get rid of hers.
Synopsis:
BRONWYN MURPHY hires an actress to go home with her to the Midwest to play her lesbian girlfriend to get her overbearing mom off her back about getting married and having grandchildren. Arriving in the small town, she and the actress, NICK TRUEBLOOD, instantly create conflict wherever they go. Nick, who comes from a broken family (Mom left and Dad’s an alcoholic), tries to find any family she can call her own. She dreams of the white picket fence and the mini van and sees Bronwyn as her chance to experience family life; even if it’s only for a little while.
Nick and Bronwyn, each searching for identity, end up disrupting the ideas of normal and questioning the values of the small conservative town. Bronwyn’s act inspires her brother to come out of the closet. Her rejection of him spins the world she’s created out of control until it forces both women to confront the truth.
Title: Gatsby
Logline: Money, sex, greed, and the battle for righteousness are what characterized the 1920s. These same characteristics are prevalent in 2003 and this adaptaion of Gatsby will prove that.
Synopsis:
Gatsby is a timeless classic still read and taught in literature classes around the world. For fans of this novel, an adaptation as legendary as the book has eluded them--until now. My adaptation thrusts Nick, Jordan, Tom, Myrtle and Daisy into a 2003 Hollywood society. The setting ranges from Malibu, Santa Anita luxery boxes, the Sunset strip and into the bloody swimming pool of Gatsby.
Nick is a new screenwriter and finds a guesthouse across the inlet from his cousin Daisy, and her husband, producer Tom Buchanan. Through Tom, Nick realizes a sense of racism in Hollywood. Jordan Baker, Tom's assistant, takes Nick on a sinster ride through love as well. He also sees how Daisy has been sucked into this brutal society. And in the middle is Jay Gatsby, a man whose heart is no match for such a careless generation--but whose loves makes the ultimate story for Nick.
Title: The Blue Poet
Logline: Haunted by the ghosts of the past, a talented young musician turns to drugs only to have his struggle interrupted by his sister's dying wish. Love is the greatest miracle of all.
Synopsis:
Set in the mid 70s (except for flashbacks from the Kennedy era), BILLY SANDSTROM, 17, sings and plays bass for one of the most promising rock bands in the Twin Cities (with the help of his best friend, Frankie O'Reilly, on guitar). However, Billy wants to leave the band behind and study art in Paris. But just as he sends in his application, his sister, ANNIE SANDSTROM, 17, is diagnosed with cancer.
Critically ill in the hospital, Annie hands Billy her rosary and asks him to pray for her after she dies. Instead, Billy turns to drugs and overdoses on her morphine. Flash forward to the Paris Metro. Billy sees a figure that looks like Annie from behind. As he looks closer he is startled by a train coming from the opposite direction, sparks shooting off from the base of the train as it emerges from the dark tunnel. And still later. A Minneaplis Nightclub...
Title: Reawkenings
Logline: Summer 1997, The Rave scene in Los Angeles reaches its ultimate peak. Thousands of ecstasy-driven teens descend on the Shrine Auditorium to dance till dawn. For one naive man, life changes forever.
Synopsis:
After several years, Joe Rangel returns to his hometown of Milwaukee to attend his mother’s funeral. Estranged from his parents, Joe delivers his newly completed autobiography to mend his relationship with his father. Entitled Reawkenings, the book encompasses Joe’s life-altering events in Los Angeles. From his philosophical studies under eccentric mentor Uncle George to his street knowledge garnered from ecstasy dealer, Jason, the book chronicles Joe’s extensive transformation.
Centered around this is Joe’s fascination with a beautiful raver girl named Aries. The night they meet, a huge rave party at the Shrine, Joe immediately falls for her. Their subsequent search to find one another, on parallel courses, is recounted from each person’s perspective.
Based on many real experiences, this screenplay gives a brutally accurate first-person account of the mid-1990’s Los Angeles Rave scene.
Title: Tickle Me
Logline: A woman who suffers from bipolar disorder uses her disease for her stand-up comedy material but learns her illness is not all that funny when she kills someone and winds up in a hostage situation.
Synopsis:
With a history of erratic behavior, Kelly copes by her comedy. She sees her ex-boyfriend at her performance and attacks him. As the audience threatens to boo her off stage, she rips off her blouse.
Later, a “modeling” agency dupes her into doing nude shots. The next day these are splattered on the Internet. Kelly and her friend wind up in a casino. Kelly gets drunk and loses 5,000 dollars. Later, she crashes her car and kills a man.
The man who dies has a friend who thinks Kelly is a killer. He breaks into her apartment and holds her at gunpoint. He is Kelly’s disturbed half brother who has no reason to live. When he finds that Kelly is his half-sister, he commits suicide in an indirect way.
Police surround Kelly’s house. He forces her to go outside, pushes her to the ground, and fires one shot before police kill him. Kelly copes by turning to her writing and completes a book about her illness. She marries her boss and straightens her life out.
Title: Breakaway To Majestic
Logline: Committing the unthinkable in his sport, a professional athlete is compelled to return to his hometown. There he struggles with estranged relationships, guilt for past deeds, and a rekindled passion.
Synopsis:
During an intense game aging player KYLE RICHARDS strikes the referee rendering him unconscious and bloody. Suspended, pending investigation Kyle learns his estranged father has suffered a heart attack while watching the game at home. Condemned in the media by his team owner a despondent Kyle journeys home to Majestic Peaks, the ski town where he was raised.
Kyle reconnects with former teammates BRITTANY, a single mother and SERGE his closest friend. Serge, the most gifted, had his chance at the pros stolen. Kyle confronts his guilt for what he did and tries to rebuild their friendship, while snowboarding on Majestic’s slopes. Brittany stirred by Kyle’s return, surfaces their hidden relationship as teammates. Both struggle with their awakened feelings.
During a pickup–up game with Serge and other friends tensions build to where Kyle loses control. In disgust he leaves the ice and is found alone. An emotional encounter ensues as the men discover the dark and shameful secret they had unknowingly shared. Torn up and vulnerable Kyle is drawn into the arms of Brittany.
A young fan’s video of the referee assault vindicates Kyle. A now remorseful team owner flies Kyle and his friends to the All-Star game, in which he was scheduled to play. At a pre-game practice Kyle calls in a favor and arranges for Serge to skate with the pros. A desperate visiting team owner amazed at Serge’s skill, shocks him with an offer. Contemplating life after hockey Kyle unveils to Brittany his plans for a Sportsplex in town and his future with her. Fade Out.
WGA # 965136
Title: A WORLD APART
Logline: Instead of prison, a rebellious teenage boy agrees to live in an Old Order Amish community.
Synopsis:
The scales of justice are tipped with a highly controversial sentencing option after a rebellious teenager is convicted of sexual misconduct with a young woman of the Old Order Amish. The victim's secluded community is offered as a haven for true rehabilitation. The young man's culturally painful two-year commitment is further exacerbated when he eventually ends up living in the same household as his victim. Nonetheless, the boy's character is slowly remolded as he helps the girl overcome her own trauma.
Living in northern Indiana the past 12 years has provided me unique insight into the Amish.
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