Best Drama Screenplays
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SHEILA'S WEBA psycho-sexual thriller about a Key West sculptor, yachtsman and society drop-out who falls in love with the troubled daughter of a powerful Tennessee Williams-styled family and becomes embroiled in a complex web of madness and murder. A twisted, Hitchcockian tale of a single man's nightmare of sex, romance and paranoia based on Patricia Highsmith's theme in "Strangers On A Train". Script Excerpt |
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TYPHOONAdaptation of Joseph Conrad's novella of an eccentric steamship captain, his ambitious first mate, their motley crew and 200 Chinese passengers caught in the typhoon of the century, set in the South China Seas of 1901. A morality tale of family separation, racism and survival to the extreme during a perilous sea journey as terrifying as "A Perfect Storm", evolving into an epic struggle of hearts and minds that defines the best and worst in men. Script Excerpt |
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KICKERKarate Kid meets West Side Story. An interracial teen romance is caught between two gangs of skateboarders and BMX racers in a park turf war. An Indonesian kickboxer and the white sister of the skateboard leader fall in love against her brother’s wishes. When the turf war turns violent, he has to rescue her brother from a dangerous drug ring. A martial-arts action drama of teen love, rage and betrayal. Script Excerpt |
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LOST AT SEAHigh-seas survival adventure in a lifeboat, based on a true story and a controversial naval murder trial. As a disabled cruise ship is evacuated, one of its lifeboats is hopelessly lost at sea -- in the path of an oncoming storm. A junior officer, acting as captain, faces a moral dilemma when he realizes there are too many people in the boat to survive the storm: he must play God and decide who goes overboard to die, in order to save the majority of passengers. Script Excerpt |
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LIFE WITHOUT FATHERGhost dramedy with family values, a la "Ghost" meets "Parenthood". An acclaimed news cameraman who's been neglecting his family for his career dies suddenly under mystical circumstances and returns home as a ghost to haunt his 12-year-old son a week before his 13th birthday. He only has a short time to teach his son life lessons and to learn how to be, and to redeem himself as, a once-absentee dad. Script Excerpt |
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Coming of Age - The Pilot
In 1965, as the cultural tsunami of sex, drugs, and rock ’n' roll invades Britain, a sheltered teenage girl lands on a bedroom farce tour that is stage managed by her mother.
Coming of Age - Feature Film
It’s 1965, and even as sex drugs and rock’n’roll infiltrate a Britain eager to leave WWII in the dust, 14-year old sheltered and studious Charlotte lands abruptly on an old-fashioned slap’n’tickle bedroom farce tour her mother, Tricia, stage manages.
Twelve Less
Twelve teenagers survive a plane crash, which at first was thought to be caused by a structural flaw.
We Were Young Once
A highly principled and attractive teenage girl finds neither her principles nor attractiveness sufficient to meet life's challenges.
Howlingween 2: Clarry the Clown
Holiday-makers on a beautiful island resort find themselves trapped with a murderous clown.
Doors of Miracles
When a young woman fights fear, the Doors to God's Miracles are flung open wide and engulfed in warm light to the pit of her stomach is transcended into the Universe returning to Earth with supernatural powers, and God speaks.
meet The Devil!
An award-winning journalist who doesn't believe in God or the Devil, interviews an author on those 'mythical' characters in her latest book, landing him in Hell calling for God.
The Benefactor!
A young business woman, haunted by the plight of farmers at the mercy of predator bankers resulting in murder/suicides on the land, sacrifices her income to pay out the mortgages of bank-victims with interest-free loans whilst dodging 'the cleaner' (assassin).
and The Devil called!
The Devil targets a young business woman for his bride in his quest to re-ignite the flames of Hell, but she rejects him time and again in his failure to conquer her mind.
Murder in Emergency!
A dedicated nurse fights to save her beloved hospital from closure, and with the same passion declares war on it when she learns patients are systematically being murdered.
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