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Fast FadeBiopic of the 1950s film noir starlet Barbara Payton. The dazzlingly beautiful and talented blonde bombshell quickly ascended to leading roles in Hollywood. But her wild partying ways, alcoholism, and scandalous romances brought her career crashing down to back alley prostitution. Script Excerpt |
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Everything I Have Is YoursThirteen-year-old Haylee stumbles on her father's affair with her mother's friend, who has come to stay after her home was burglarized. Script Excerpt |
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Home Like a ShadowCollege girl accompanies her new boyfriend to his decaying San Joaquin Valley home town for his mother's birthday and is pulled into family conflicts and lost dreams dating back to the Civil War. Script Excerpt |
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The Dressmaker's DaughterAdapted from my Young Adult novel published by Santa Monica Press in 2022. Romania 1940: A teenage girl studying to become a doctor, falls into a forbidden affair with her tutor. As war erupts, the Nazis invade and her family is killed, but a Romanian Iron Guard officer takes her as his concubine and sends her to nurse enemy soldiers. When her lover shows up with a group of partisans, she leads them through headquarters to kill two high-ranking Nazi guests of the officer. Her lover dies in the action but she escapes with the partisans sabotaging German supply lines. Script Excerpt |
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A Season of TurbulenceA college girl flying to Anchorage to join her boyfriend in the Public Defender office is pulled into her boyfriend's high-octane law cases which involve a level of drama and risk she has never encountered before. Also published online in Eclectica: https://www.eclectica.org/v21n3/boroff.html Script Excerpt |
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The RemnantYoung newlywed struggles with a growing sense that a prehistoric spirit has taken over her brain. Adapted from my novella. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81pPgAcY-IL._SL1500_.jpg Script Excerpt |
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Twisted FateA new mutation of brain disease strikes the U.S. --- turning victims gradually into psychopaths. As science races to stop the pandemic, a young woman tries to rescue her infected lover, held hostage in a lab testing radical treatments. Adapted from my novel published in 2022 and showcased online in The Write Launch: https://thewritelaunch.com/2019/09/twisted-fate/ recently showcased Script Excerpt |
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IMPERVOS ONEEccentric billionaire, convinced that nuclear war is imminent, locks his family and workers into a subterranean luxury bunker. But his builders released a life form living underground for 280 milion years to hunt the humans. Script Excerpt |
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Light FingersLonely quirky teen falls for her lab partner in biology class, who happens to be the world's best shoplifter and begins to learn his ways. Script Excerpt |
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Fair WarningThriller based on the true stalking murder of Berkeley student Tanya Tarasoff in 1969 by an obsessed graduate student, and the legal case that changed doctor-patient confidentiality laws across the country. Script Excerpt |
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Dead LineThe ghost of a beautiful young woman, murdered by a serial killer, enters a young man's life, bringing chaos with her. Script Excerpt |
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Redwood TombMarried assistant DA falls for a free-spirited Santa Cruz artist who is unknowingly entangled with a charismatic serial killer. Neo noir based on a true crime in 1982. Adapted from my short story published in UK crime magazine, Close to the Bone https://www.close2thebone.co.uk/wp/saturday-night-off-2/ Script Excerpt |
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Cherry HillIn 1870s Kansas, after her husband and infant die of fever in their cabin during a blizzard, a desperate young widow goes to work in a Cimarron brothel, where she is drawn into the intrigues of the ruthless, fast-growing power structure. Script Excerpt |
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Vengeance IslandA law student interning with the Public Defender office and his visiting girlfriend are stranded with their pilot on a remote Alaskan island outside Angoon in a winter storm. Soon, they realize they are being stalked by spirits seeking retribution for a lie the young man had told native people. |
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MalleusAmid the European famine of 1315, a handsome, cheating husband must burn at the stake when his jealous wife denounces him as a "wolf by night." But a demon transports him to modern day California, where he discovers new powers for both love and murder. Script Excerpt |
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White CatA lonely woman, attacked by a feral cat she tried to befriend, finds her way back to a lost love. Adapted from short story published in Thoughtful Dog Magazine https://www.thoughtfuldogmag.com/white-cat/ Script Excerpt |
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Angie Gets a JobIn 1968, a rebellious young girl leaves home and finds a job in an Oakland typing pool, where she struggles against life's temptations, with uneven success. Adapted from short story published in Crack the Spine Literary Magazine https://pub.lucidpress.com/crackthespine227/#-nUzgKu47Il. Script Excerpt |
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Jack's HeadTeenage Bonnie was a mantrap -— envied, respected, and hated like poison. Adapted from short story published in Parhelion Magazine https://parhelionliterary.com/linda-boroff/ Script Excerpt |
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Dinner at the Bigelows'Teen girl from a poor family is hired to babysit the children of a wealthy Hollywood studio executive and is drawn into a world of forbidden love. (Published in Nikki Finke's fiction site "Hollywood Dementia) http://www.storyglossia.com/seven/lb_dinner.html Script Excerpt |
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DoctorsIn 1969, Berkeley freshman Katie, 17, takes a part-time job at a doctor's office and learns about life, love --- and the end of both. Script Excerpt |
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The Hundred Thousand Dollar SuitA father and son running an unprofitable tile store let a shirttail relative talk them into investing in his scam. Based on my published short story. https://adelaidemagazine.org/2017/06/17/the-hundred-thousand-dollar-suit-by-linda-boroff/ Script Excerpt |
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AvianaIn 30 million years birds have become the uber species, living in a landscape teeming with rat-predators, giant insects, intelligent reptiles and other scary life forms. When the village is attacked, the inhabitants are banished to the wilderness. Script Excerpt |
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The Virgin EffectDaughter of an oil billionaire, raped at a frat party, contacts a surgeon to restore her physical virginity. When the surgeon's receptionist learns of the plan, she and her boyfriend blackmail her threatening to put confidential information on the Internet. Script Excerpt |
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GrizzlyAging hacker gets out of prison and plots an act of sabotage to reclaim his status as the terror of the Internet. Script Excerpt |
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Riviera DriveThree Latino felons on the run invade the home of a prosperous Latino insurance executive, who must reconnect with his own violent past to save his family. Script Excerpt |
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JessGhost of a young gambler hanged in 1884 takes up residence in a gold mill near Lake Tahoe and raises mischief in the life of the tour guide. Script Excerpt |
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Sawney BeanHeretic young man facing the stake in medieval Scotland flees to the hideout of the notorious cannibal family. Script Excerpt |
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SunnysideYoung woman gets drunk on her high-tech job and enters a crazy rehab . Script Excerpt |
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Space ReservedLow budget erotic vengeance thriller: one room, four characters, no escape. Young ad exec driving his date home takes a space reserved for another unit and is taken captive by two women. Script Excerpt |
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WrenchedAmbitious young Wall Street wannabe travels to take an internship with a hot crypto firm. But the company turns out to be a floundering home repair business whose owner faked a requisition to get a financial whiz aboard. About to leave in disgust, the wannabe falls for the receptionist, a runaway who dreams of becoming a cabaret singer. He joins the rough team of under-rated outcasts and learns how to repair things, including his mercenary sense of values. Script Excerpt |
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Post Your Script Here!FLIGHT OF THE HEN GLIDERS
When strong winds blow a flock of chickens and their coop away from young Emily and Sam's backyard, it's up to the chickens to learn to fly their coop back home.
THE GEPETTO PROTOCOL
To stay "real" in the real world after their last creator dies, an action figure, fashion doll, superhero, anime girl, and crash dummy—now real flesh and blood—must find new believers in ten days or be forgotten forever, and get help from two kids and their dad at a cosplay convention.
GALERIJ
As an art authenticator collects twelve 17th century Dutch Brohm family portraits, she learns the dangers of reuniting the portraits—the Galerij—when an art expert warns her the collection will revive the Brohm family and unleash them into present day society, where they'll resume control over and castrate European trade.
DEAD STATES
A group of resilient small town teens struggle to carve out a new future after a series of TEOTWAWKI events crush the U.
Rod Knock
A newly single man encounters many comical mishaps in his work and social life, but he must prove himself worthy to his deriding buddies and his Latino lady friend.
THE WETTEST SPRING
In the late 1980's, Kurt Maxwell battles puberty and locker room myths, a family in the midst of dissolving, and on top of everything else, he must conquer Date Math at middle school.
THE LIGHT MAN
A woman at a music festival passes off two children to the light toy vendor.
PRETTY
Who can you trust when everyone loves you to death? When a trophy wife is manipulated by spouse and friends, she better find a way look out for herself or lose everything -- including her life.
Time Travel: Many Happy Returns
Two simple-minded brothers work part time at a science lab and find machinery in an unauthorized area that unknowingly transports them to Spain years before their time.
CLEAN LIVING
When her actor boyfriend delays marriage claiming money woes, Isabel tries to turn her inherited Smalltown cleaning service into a quick buck.