Best Drama Screenplays
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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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Home Like a Shadow (AKA "The Spirit Upwelling")College 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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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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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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Riviera DriveThree felons on the run invade the home of a prosperous insurance executive, who must reconnect with his own violent gang-banging past to save his family. 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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Post Your Script Here!Dark Latitude
When a young woman discovers a hidden photograph in the family album of a murdered WWII survivor, she becomes the target of a decades-old conspiracy linking Nazi fugitives, a secret escape flight from Germany, and a deadly cover-up that kills to protect its secrets.
To Die Laughing
A Rastafarian, condemned to die in the electric chair, pleads for clemency.
Bonnie and Hyde
A young hairdresser and her ex-G.
Let's Try This One
A woman's cosplay fantasies play hell with her male co-stars.
The Big Tipper
A smug day trader's practical joke, intended to catch the eye of a pretty waitress, backfires badly.
Temperature's Rising- The Other COVID Story
A hostess' COVID-19 precautions threaten to spoil dinner for her guests.
THE MOONSHINING
NASA sends a young Adam and Eve to the Moon to see if Man can be fruitful and multiply away from Earth.
Pale Male
An Airbnb holiday turns into a nightmare for a young couple visiting the Big Apple for the first time.
The L.A. Kid
A homeless but hustling teen poses as a Reed College lit.
Panama Fever
When the Army sends a young doctor to Panama, his adventures- and misadventures- with the natives, the Army and his wife come fast and furious.
