BOOM!Town
After a bloody car bombing, a blown-off human foot lands on the roof of a retired, cash-poor mob cleaner who schemes to extort the Mafia Don that ordered the hit, unaware his wacky plan may help the FBI catch the cut-throat gangster.
Tagline: “In BOMB CITY, U.S.A. – Somebody’s goin’ BOOM!”
TONE: BOOM!Town is best staged as a realistic, menacing character drama. But, by underplaying its dialogue’s eccentricities, there lurks a street-smart comedy.
STORY SKETCH: Set in 1962, Youngstown, Ohio -- a Midwestern, working-class burgh then known as "Bomb City, USA" -- BOOM!Town is the dark, off-beat, character-driven, laugh-out-loud story of NUNZIO PELUSO, a former Mafia "cleaner."
Nunzio, now retired, still misses his peculiar job (mopping up after mob hits), and enjoys keeping souvenirs of his past work as a hobby. No one knows, but in a secret fruit cellar, he’s preserved (in jars of honey), a variety of errant noses, tongues, and fingers he’s snipped off of dead gangsters. Nunzio explains, "Why not? They ain't using 'em no more. Where's the harm?"
Nunzio's daughter, MARGIE, sees her Dad as a lazy, reprobate, pain in the ass, who is turning her 12-year-old son, BUTCH, into his unindustrious protégé. In truth, Nunzio loves and cares deeply for Butch, and their scenes are the sweet/funny heart of the story.
One day, quite serendipitously, Nunzio is pulled into a turf war between current mob families when a man’s foot lands on his roof after a nearby neighborhood car bombing – which was quite frequent those days in Youngstown (really!) On the foot is scribbled a way to find a large cache of money that both crime families believe belongs to them. As the mob chatter roils and heats, the FBI learns "something big is going down." Unbeknownst to Margie, JIMMY – an FBI undercover agent -- begins to secretly court her, initially just to meet and get inside info from Nunzio “who still hears things.” Situations get even more complicated when Jimmy falls in love with Margie.
The final act sends Nunzio, Butch, Margie, the FBI, and a gang of can't-shoot-straight goombahs on the chase of their lives, toward an "I-did-not-see-that-coming!" ending.
Recognition thus far:
Top 7% of all screenplays in Coverfly, 7 First Finalist Awards Semifinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall 2018 Semifinalist, Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition 2024 Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Summer 2023 Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Spring 2023 Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards 2022 Spring Top 100 (Feature or TV Pilot), Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood at AFM 2020 Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards Season 8
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