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Best Drama Screenplays
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ContortionsContortions is a psychological chamber piece that unfolds almost entirely within a dim sitting room. The film blends absurdist dark comedy with existential horror, using physical entanglement as a visual metaphor for emotional and moral distortion. Reality fractures as past and present, life and death, and truth and delusion collapse into one another. Script Excerpt |
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Identity FragmentsThis psychological drama about identity and mental illness begins in 1945, when LUCY is an 8th grade choir girl living in a strict Catholic orphanage, and follows her through 1987 and ultimate redemption. The story weaves seamlessly in and out of her delusions, which are fully realized alternate realities that collapse into one another without warning. Script Excerpt |
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Rebecca Saves the Human WebA teenage girl, afraid of her vindictive impulses in a violent future world, seeks safety in the gentle spirit of her dead grandmother. Together, they learn how to prevent evil. Script Excerpt |
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Henry-HenryIn this virtuoso acting vehicle, one actor plays a dual personality, a defrocked priest with dark secrets and a mildly alcoholic bureaucrat who argue with each other but are able to use their illness to infiltrate a child sex trafficking ring. Script Excerpt |
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A Man Who Thinks He Knows Who Really Killed the PresidentAn old man takes on the scars of the nation and claims to know who killed JFK and that he helped set the conspiracy in motion. His story unfolds through fractured memories of deep interracial love, political idealism, and psychological desperation. Script Excerpt |
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIR
It is a mismatched battle between the high-tech resources available to Charlene, the power behind the throne of a large corporation, and Stram, a lone wolf San Francisco private investigator using tried and true low-tech methods as they race to find the final heir, and chase across California, with Stram straining to keep the last heir safe.
THE BEAUTY OF THE RODEO
A former rodeo queen returns home after thirty years, but her attempt to fit back in is further complicated by the arrival of the daughter she secretly placed for adoption.
Eternal Blessings
A dying woman must break the spell of her former Indian guru -- or risk having him follow her into the afterlife.
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A couple may lose their home for failing to follow a local ordinance: lawns be mowed every two weeks; even when it’s under two feet of snow!
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest shot in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class science project.
