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Best Family Screenplays
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ALTA CALIFORNIAIn 1780 colonial California, a mixed-heritage scout must choose between his loyalty to a Spanish expedition and his spiritual connection to the oppressed Chumash, navigating racism and cultural clash in his quest for identity. |
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Curbside ServiceA recently separated couple finds themselves stranded in the Arizona desert on their way to a family holiday function. |
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PIRANDELLO'S WIFEQuiet, passive, obedient, a wonderful mother to her children and perfect wife to her Nobel Prize winning husband. Then, when it was time, she was locked away in an insane asylum for the final 40 years of her life. Here, she attempts to tell her story. https://pirandelloswife.com/ |
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Doors of MiraclesA young woman’s faith is tested, she is filled with the Holy Spirit and transcended through the universe to the Heavens to be returned to Earth with the power to heal, a direct link to God, God speaks and The Holy Spirit intercedes her response. Script Excerpt |
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Child of the DisappearedMaria Waite is dying and has little time left to come to terms with a tragic past and to find the child that was stolen from her at birth. Script Excerpt |
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South Of Main StreetMom dies and the youngest daughter sues the emotionally challenged Dad for financial control of the estate sending him on a quest to prove he is normal - not an easy task when you are not. |
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Less TraveledA well-known celebrity falls for a girl, unknowingly below his social status. He's torn between honoring his familial traditions and societal expectations regarding relationships or following his heart and true desires regardless of the consequences. |
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THE SCRIPTA mysterious young, Irish girl, who refuses to name herself, insists that Aiden O’Brien, a Los Angeles literary agent read her work—both their lives depend on it! Despite Aiden’s repeated attempts to destroy the script, it returns, together with a host of Celtic demons and a sign, in Gaelic, “The Past Does Not Die.” Script Excerpt |
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The Mythical Golden TroutWhen a cash-strapped family camping in the Sierras discovers a huge nugget of gold, the local police chief rounds up a posse of clueless misfits and sets out to steal it from them. |
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Under No CircumstancesA grounded, independent survivalist, swearing off parenthood, is forced to venture outside of his comfort zone when he reluctantly falls for a lively single mother. |
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Operation MomAn Indian-American teen conspires to become her mother's matchmaker instead of the other way around, but only to find love herself. Script Excerpt |
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The Paper RouteOn the eve of his 16th birthday, a teenager makes a discovery that could be his ticket out of his hellish small town life, but it means leaving his younger brother behind. |
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THE QUISLINGWhen O’Clery, a high-profile Irish terrorist, is arrested at San Francisco airport, his deportation defense is led, surprisingly, by Sean Conlon, an inexperienced attorney. As the twists and turns unravel, Sean’s own family becomes the subject of an old betrayal. http://quislingmovie.com/ |
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Pearl FisherA fruitless search for a missing woman leads a hired detective down a rabbit hole of secrets to surprise revelations involving his own family. Script Excerpt |
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boo hoo flanaganWhen Joe’s 39 year-old addicted and pregnant daughter appears on his doorstep, his sedentary life is about to disappear forever. |
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The Barking SpiderDepression hits Joe pretty hard after his wife died but, when his addicted and pregnant daughter appears on his doorstep a year later, his sedentary life is about to disappear forever. |
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RODEOA wealthy, widowed New York socialite, and a know-it-all preacher enters the unfamiliar world of rodeo, determined to “rescue” the widow’s wayward daughter who has fallen for a young bull rider. But plans go comically awry. Eventually the rodeo and unlikely romances win the day. |
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The SquawkerTwo gonzo grad students and a fearless Native American woman clash with the FBI as they search for an endangered, sacred bird on her tribal homeland that could save the area from loggers. Script Excerpt |
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In Between The RiverKatie (on the spectrum) thinks her nomadic family is normal but as she transitions from child to teenager; her father Donald is frequently absent, her mother Judy tries too hard to hold them together and her older brother Kyle hides a secret that eventually surfaces to expose the family illusion. Script Excerpt |
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Buck and the AngelA young boy, Buck Lynch, fatherless and living with his dying mother in his grandparent’s home, has a strong belief in the power of prayer. But his faith is tested when a mysterious stranger claiming to be an angel leads Buck to believe he has come to make his mother well when he has actually come for his mother’s life on Christmas Eve. Script Excerpt |
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The Magnificent KevinThe Magnificent Kevin, a young magician in the old west, teams up with Harry Houdini and a secret society of magicians to battle their arch-nemesis, Melvin the Mentalist. |
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FamilySeeking a fresh start, a newly married couple and their teenage daughter move to a small town, but the daughter begins to suspect that her stepfather is hiding something. Script Excerpt |
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PLAYING THE CHANGESThe country's top neurosurgeon, an unfeeling man, sees his perfectly ordered life unravel and, after hitting rock bottom, reinvents himself as a jazz saxophonist in an effort to recover his heart, humanity, and possibly his estranged wife – who is determined to resist his persistent and unwelcome attempts to win her back. Script Excerpt |
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Mate Matcher's MatchWhen a godless, seemingly carefree bachelor sets course to win a feisty, virginal Christian matchmaker, he collides with a righteous blockade that buckles only when she uncovers the personal trauma that cracked his moral compass. Script Excerpt |
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An Empty ChairRather than spend Christmas alone, a college girl with a writing assignment confronts her estranged grandma but can’t let go of the family gossip in her pursuit of truth. Script Excerpt |
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Stuffing ChristmasA quirky brood attempts to stuff one last downhome Christmas into Thanksgiving weekend after learning their family’s beloved farm will be gone by December. |
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MarloweA brown, Virginia, field mouse moves into the bedroom of eleven-year-old-Cole who teaches the animal to talk and wear clothes. In the end, Marlowe saves Cole and his family and a small group of humans and animals, from a virus that kills all animals globally in less than a year. |
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CYCLONEUNDER NEGOTIATION. Quarter-finalist Screen Lab 2019. Semi-finalist Fresh Voices 2020. Semi-finalist Emerging Screenwriters 2022. Stevie is fifteen years old and well on the way to becoming a hardened criminal; Dave is a cop, natural enemy of Stevie; Susie is Dave’s two-year-old daughter who is kidnapped during a cyclone. The last thing a teenage boy needs is a baby. But it falls to Stevie to save the baby – without knowing who she is and for totally unselfish motives – and thus to save Dave and his family from total disintegration. |
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The Cemetery PlotsIn this dark comedy, three elderly and wealthy ladies each purchase two expensive cemetery plots. Years earlier, their husbands had disappeared in a plane crash. Their bodies were never found. The women don’t want to be buried alone. Thus, begins their quest to find men willing to be buried next to them. Script Excerpt |
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Corporate PolicyGreedy executives of a large corporation implement an illegal downsizing process, and they would've gotten away with it but they didn’t count on a desperate employee whose courage and family loyalty proves much stronger than any of their corporate policies. |
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The Rocking Horse ChristmasA seven year old boy named Cody saves Christmas with the help of his dog and two animated mice. In this action/animated adventure Cody passes through the fire of manhood by saving an ancient Christmas ornament that has been in his family for three hundred years. |
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Furgrow Birds back to the beginning1)When a dog loses his owner, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm and magical crystals that can alter the world..............2)When a former king launches a war with dark magic to reclaim his throne, gifted animals and plants create a hybrid army to save the kingdom.........3)When an evil man uses magic to disrupt evolution, a dog recruits unusually crossbred animals and plants to help restore the earth's balance. Script Excerpt |
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The CallA young, untested convert to the Christian faith, faces and defeats his temptation to steal a wallet containing $1,500 by playing an imaginary baseball game to avoid letting himself and his team of fellow believers down; meanwhile, his adversary, the Devil, and his team, will use every trick in the book to make sure that he does fail. Script Excerpt |
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Faithful Wife and HookerAn outraged, prudish wife avenges her frustrated husband’s "intentional adultery” by disguising as a hooker and blackmailing him for cheating (!), which sets off a series of mutual deceptions that upon discovery ironically amends the couple’s mutual failings and restores their marriage. Think War of the Roses with a happy outcome! |
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Everything I Have Is YoursThirteen-year-old Haylee stumbles on her father's affair with her mother's friend, who has come to stay after her home was burglarized. Haylee develops an unlikely friendship with the woman who is betraying her mother. Script Excerpt |
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Not About MoneyA gal of principle gets her career derailed, goes up against a large corporation with a discrimination lawsuit, and ultimately changes the culture for women in business. |
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Dooda and Rayford, The Alabaster BoysTwo bumbling brothers from the deep Alabaster, Alabama backwoods win a sightseeing weekend in New York City and unknowingly get caught up in a police investigation involving two jewel thieves and the Detectives trying to apprehend them. |
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Where In The World Is Matthew Redstone?A father overcomes memory loss, homelessness and despair when his journalist son finds him languishing in a homeless shelter after searching twenty years for him. NEED AGENT OR MANAGER |
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Turf WarAs Florida neighbors fall in love, their rival lawn ornaments start a war. Script Excerpt |
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Living ProofAdopted at infancy, a pro minor league ice-hockey player searches for his biological parents during a championship season where his dream of playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins hangs on a thread and a prayer. But his quest to find his birth parents is a little more disruptive to his life than expected and he finds himself more on a journey of enlightenment than discovery. |
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Home Like a ShadowCollege 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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BraumaruA clever sixth grader must learn to control her dreams or be trapped in them forever by a power hungry janitor intent on world domination. |
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Somebody Swam AwayWhen a sailing boat badly hurts marine biologist, a talking dolphin saves her life. Wishing to fund research in dolphin communication she accepts to dive for the diamonds unaware that she is in a dirty deal. |
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Pretty Baby: The Tragic Death Of Marion ParkerBased on a shocking 1927 crime, a grieving woman exposes the decades-old truth about her twin sister's murder to prevent the killer's lawyer from publishing his own skewed account of the tragedy. |
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Homeward BoundFamily and friends on earth eagerly pray for the healing of a woman who lays dying in a hospital room; meanwhile, another group of family and friends eagerly wait for the same woman to arrive in Paradise. |
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MISS EVABurdened by her own heartbreak, a gifted young teacher comes to work for a family that has been beset by tragedy and changes all their lives for the better |
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The Hidden CompromiseAn Algerian student is detained by French police on terrorism charges and agrees to work with them as an informant on other ISIS members, but his act of compromise forces him to face false and outdated beliefs while considering weighty theological questions with powerful implications on world events. |
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Just In Time for ChristmasLance and Heather denied their love for each other since they were kids. Being home for The Christmas put them in the spirit of love and exposes their long-lived façade. |
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Christmas Under the MistletoeLogline: When a beautiful marketing pro learns her boyfriend/boss has betrayed her, she must find a way to trust men again in order to find love at Christmas, while trying to make a million dollars for her new boss. Pitch: Christmas Under the Mistletoe is a family-friendly rom-com with several socially relevant themes that has Christmas everywhere, a little bit of magic, a little bit of music, and an uplifting ending. It keeps production costs low by being set in the present day, being primarily set in one location, having only 10 speaking parts, and no CGI. Script Excerpt |
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Howlingween 5: Trip AlongFate has dealt another terrible hand to the Forran family. Only wishing to enjoy a road trip across America, the family encounters a human-like wolf, the brainchild of a disturbed seven-year-old boy. Script Excerpt |
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Stinky SkatesStinky Skates is an adorable story about an old pair of skates getting back out on the roller rink again. The morals of kindness and acceptance of all people no matter what race disability or personality are portrayed throughout the story. |
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The Christmas GiftA woman gives up her inheritance for a chance to stand on her own two feet, but when life becomes full of rejection and tragedy, she must choose between her career and the one that got away. Script Excerpt |
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ONCE THERE WERE STORIESIn this family drama, Christmases of long ago, ones of togetherness, family entertainments, and memorable stories, as told by Grandpa Lynn, now living in his daughter, Rhiannon Nolan's, spare room, now contrast with those of the Nolan family with its packaged television and sports, relatives' distancing, and multitude of electronic distractions. Script Excerpt |
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TwistedAn opportunistic young man, scarred in a fire as an infant, exhibits distorted thinking, but the head of his rehab facility has his own twisted logic. |
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TEXT MEMAN'S BEST FRIEND IS NOT A DOG, IT'S A CELL PHONE. |
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FISHING ON TUESDAYSFriendship is the greatest catch. |
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I Hear YouA belligerent boss berates his employees and struggles with his marriage and hearing-impaired son, but after he is caught pilfering from the company, the threat of losing his career is rectified by a most unlikely source. |
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MAMMOTH REVENGE TRILOGYIt is an awesome action cinematic epic big screen trilogy. It has an exciting ending which has everyone sitting on the edge of their seats. Mammoth revenge Trilogy has an ending that could restart another movie. Mammoths are once again the heroes. There is romance for Frank and Kiana. Script Excerpt |
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HAROLD'S PLACEA COMEDY in the vein of Cheers. A sunny poolside condominium chickee bar & grill in Naples, Florida, patronized by local patrons, tourists, and condo owners that share experiences, tidbits, and jokes with one another as they consume their favorite beverages. Script Excerpt |
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My Father's Worst Nightmare, shortWith his boyfriend in tow, a college sophomore takes a weekend trip home for the express purpose of COMING OUT to his family and all hell breaks loose until a near tragedy triggers a father’s journey towards acceptance. |
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Howlingween 4: Beastly MistA surprisingly intelligent swarm of flesh-eating insects is terrorising a small tourist community in Florida, leaving skeletons in its wake. It's left to a professor of entomology and the Forran family to battle the swarm. Script Excerpt |
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GOING ALONEWhen a biologist working on aN important environmental report dies mysteriously, his estranged daughter takes over his work while an assassin is closing in. Script Excerpt |
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DOWN WITH DADA 3 time Man of the Year dad Dave McNabb tries to teach his teen son Lincoln a life lesson -- “do good things, good things happen.” But much to Lincoln's delight and wonder, while things seem to take a turn for the better for him, they suddenly go south for dear old dad and bad things happen... very bad things. Script Excerpt |
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ARMED:STAYA grieving, young widow and mother will fight through severe depression and panic attacks to protect her family from a somewhat inept intruder who breaks into her home with a gun, a bullet wound, and an oxy addiction. Script Excerpt |
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WhirlaboutA man returns home to care for his father who’s riding a downhill early-onset Alzheimer’s spiral, but dark secrets revealed about the family patriarch’s past shock him to the core, dramatically altering the course of the old man's care... as well as the direction of his own life. Script Excerpt |
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THE GEPETTO PROTOCOLTo stay "real" in the real world after their last creator dies, an action figure, fashion doll, superhero, anime girl, and crash dummy—now real flesh and blood—must find new believers in ten days or be forgotten forever, and get help from two kids and their dad at a cosplay convention. |
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On BoardA "ship of fools" indeed: madcap teenagers, a lush head of security, a pastor who loves riddles, a captain off death-row, a martial artist challenging a boxer — and a serial killer. Script Excerpt |
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Howlingween 3: Red River CountyA tourist-dependent town in Florida boasts of a historic inhabitant as being America's first serial killer, only to suffer his reawakening. Script Excerpt |
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Howlingween 2: Clarry the ClownHoliday-makers on a beautiful island resort find themselves trapped with a murderous clown. Script Excerpt |
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HowlingweenA dream holiday turns nightmarish when a family encounters a malicious wolf and traders in fresh human organs. Script Excerpt |
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CounterchanceAn FBI agent goes to any length to save his family. Script Excerpt |
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Splendid IsolationA girl lost in the Alaskan wilderness meets her banished pet tiger — now fully grown. Together they survive many challenges — except, perhaps, one another. Script Excerpt |
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Once YoungTwo parent-less 18-year-olds fall in love and, alone and together, struggle with what love and maturity may look like amid an adult world that is often confusing and sometimes dangerous. A panoramic tale of life as seen through the eyes of innocence. Script Excerpt |
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A MAN AGAINST THE CITYAs a man drives with his pregnant wife through the night, they fall into an uncovered pothole, resulting in her falling and losing her baby. Later the man discovers a city-wide corruption that turns him into an avenger. Script Excerpt |
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NOT ANOTHER VAMPIRE STORYAn embarrassment-prone middle school girl's life gets risky when she suspects her pretty older sister's good-looking boyfriend is really a vampire, and sets out to prove it. |
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SunnysideQuirky young woman gets drunk on her high-tech job and ends up in a strange rehab where she must come to terms with her choices and history. Adapted from my published short story. Script Excerpt |
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SWIM FOR YOUR LIVESA dysfunctional father and daughter vacationing in Bali, conflicted over a pending divorce, are sole survivors of a plane crash at sea and try to swim to the nearest coast, fighting both natural and human elements of danger. Alternate version for a different location: British Columbia, Canada. Script Excerpt |
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The Liberty Bell SweepstakesA dazzling young woman who claims she can “invent the future” leads three lovestruck guys on a zany quest to win a big pile of cash on the Fourth of July. Script Excerpt |
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LIFE WITHOUT FATHERGhost dramedy with inspirational, faith-based 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!The Cowbird
Marion Duke always struggled to overcome poor life decisions - some inherited, some self-inflicted.
Kibou
A tenacious young Japanese-American's loyalties, duties, and illicit interracial relationship are tested to the limits when his family is separated by the US government and imprisoned during a time of fear and paranoia surrounding WWII.
The Wayward Son
Orphaned after his father and other Chinese are murdered in the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885, Bo helps his adopted family of sheep ranchers fight for their land in bloody range wars while struggling with his identity and reigniting a dangerous love affair.
THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media.
Visions
A teenager is haunted by visions of classmates' murders.
The Paper Route
On the eve of his 16th birthday, a teenager makes a discovery that could be his ticket out of his hellish small town life, but it means leaving his younger brother behind.
Memories of You
After his wife's death, a distraught man undergoes a radical procedure to be injected with her memories only to learn surprising things about her past even as he is targeted by the corrupt company his wife was investigating.
Child of the Disappeared
Maria Waite is dying and has little time left to come to terms with a tragic past and to find the child that was stolen from her at birth.
IN A PICKLE
PETS, PICKLEBALL AND PAST ROMANCE AWAIT FOUR CAREFREE FRIENDS WHO ARE ENJOYING THE RESORT LIFESTYLE OFFERED BY GRANDE WATERS RESORT, A WORLD-CLASS, 55+ ACTIVE COMMUNITY LOCATED IN THE BEAUTIFUL ARIZONA SONORAN DESERT.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
In the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised.