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Post Your Script Here!Judge, Me
Group-therapy prison inmates are given an opportunity to be a jury and decide whether a vengeful reporter's expose' of a judge, who is to be elevated to the supreme court, should be published.
THE CHRISTMAS GUEST
A homeless man seeking refuge from a storm finds shelter in a church where a funeral mass is being said; in so doing, as stipulated in the will, as the only attendee he inherits the deceased’s fortune and uses it during Christmas season to change the lives of all around him… except his own.
MIRACLE BOY
After dying from meningitis and glimpsing Paradise, a troubled seven-year-old mountain boy is sent back to Earth with a promise of eighty more years—but when he wakens with no memory of his past, he must struggle through a lifetime of doubt, hardship, and temptation to rediscover his purpose and fulfill a divine mission that could save not only his family, but his soul.
RICH KID$
When an imaginative 12-year-old and his friends discover buried cash from a decades-old crime, their secret attempt to live like Rich Kid$ spirals into chaos when newly released convicts come looking for their dough — and the kids must decide what all that money is really worth.
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As Vietnam fractures America and his own family, a disillusioned young man—framed in an FBI drug sting and facing the draft—must outwit the system and flee to Canada before becoming another casualty of a war he rejects.
THE HEALING
Twin siblings diverge violently when one becomes a celebrated, Christ-like preacher and the other courts death through reckless desire—until their bond is tested by miracles, scandal, and the ultimate act of faith.
HOME MOVIES
Circa 1972, tiny Gemini Beach just north of Daytona.
WIZ KID
An 11-year-old farm boy with a genius-level IQ leaves his wheelchair-bound mother and abusive home to attend a Big Ten university—where he finds friendship, first love, and an unlikely place on the football field, proving that greatness comes in all sizes.
A HAPPY LIFE
A gentle, hard-workiing man with a gift for communication with pelicans and talking smiley-face balloons reaches a breaking point when a houseful of freeloaders consumes his life—and his lifelong dream of opening a one-of-a-kind bed and breakfast—forcing him to attempt the only escape he can imagine: faking his own death.
The March of the 18th
In the waning days of the Civil War, a battle-worn colonel leads a regiment of physically shattered but unbroken soldiers on a brutal mission that will test their limits, proving that even the “invalid” can become an army—and that courage is not measured by the body, but by the will to serve.
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