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THE RIFLE

Logline: A bitter ex-college football phenomenon turned horse trainer gets a shot at the NFL playing on a new expansion team, but as fame and temptation resurface, he must confront the fatal accident he caused that ended his college career—or lose both the game and the life he’s trying to build.

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FALLEN SON

LOGLINE: When the son of a mafia boss groomed to take over the family empire defies his duty by marrying an American instead of the Sicilian girl chosen for him, he is wrongly charged with murder, and must choose whether to remain loyal to his mob family and serve a prison sentence, or defy them by proving his innocence and risk assassination. ____________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS: Chosen as next head of his family’s crime business, the eldest son of a New Orleans Mafia boss facing deportation orders abandons his Sicilian heritage by marrying an American woman and going into legitimate business. After his father is deported and his younger brother inherits the family business, the elder son is indicted for murder when a restaurant owner he had previously refused orders to kill turns up dead. Then he learns who is real family is and risks certain assassination by teaming up with an investigation lawyer against his blood family in court to avoid a death row prison sentence.

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SHADOW WAR

Logline: A suspended Navy SEAL returns to his family fishing business and spots Russian Spetsnaz troops disguised as fishermen blowing up an oil rig. After he is discredited for trying to warn the governor, he uses his battle skills to prevent a hit on their next target--the Trans-Alaskan pipeline—and risks losing his career, his family and his life.______________________________________ Synopsis: On the verge of losing his family because of prolonged overseas duty, a Navy SEAL about to make captain is suspended for disobeying orders to kill terrorists disguised as fishermen caught sabotaging a UAE gas pipeline in the Persian Gulf. When the disgraced SEAL returns home to Alaska to resume the family fishing business during his suspension, he again encounters terrorists posing as fishermen, but discovers they are Russian spetsnaz forces on a covert mission to destroy the Alaskan transcontinental pipeline. After he warns his family and government officials, they accuse him of having PTSD, and the suspended SEAL learns that to win back his family, save innocent lives and prevent an economic death sentence to the U.S., he must sacrifice his Navy career and disobey orders again by engaging the enemy in a tactical fight to the death on Alaska’s frigid waters.

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MARY BAKER EDDY

When the leader of a new Christian religion is targeted by a vicious smear campaign by a leading newspaper, it launches a suit against the popular 85-year-old woman for control of her newly found church; but a famous literary figure (Mark Twain) surprisingly comes to her aid, and the church leader wins the suit and starts a newspaper that decades later wins awards named after the publisher (Pulitzer) that attacked her.

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ACTIVE MEASURES/WET WORKS/DEPT 13

When a KGB sleeper agent and ex-WWII U.S. intelligence agent turned New Orleans restaurant owner and family man is reactivated as a spy seventeen years later for a Soviet active measures assignment involving Fidel Castro and JFK, the sleeper agent accepts the assignment, but tries to back out when his son’s lives are threatened; then he realizes the only way to survive is to take active measures on behalf of his family's side.

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