Best Historical Screenplays
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By The Time I Got To Woodstock1969: a young generation is letting their hair down, except for a high school sophomore who’s wound tighter than her ballerina bun. When she accidentally ends up on a magic bus to Woodstock, she goes on a long strange trip to find her true self. |
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Eighty-Eight FrequenciesGorgeous MGM star Hedy Lamarr and her unlikely confederate enter a world of flying notes and moving slots. They make a scientific discovery that could change history while she masters the Hollywood machine. Based on a true story. Script Excerpt |
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Tabula RasaLucy is an Artist. No one understands her. Lucy sees life through the viewfinder of her closest companion, a 16mm Bolex camera. You see, Lucy doesn’t make “movies” — she is a Filmmaker. Lucy’s getting ready to share her Art with the World. But she’s afraid the World isn’t ready for her. Lucy is twelve years old. No one understands her. The World isn’t going to know what hit it. Script Excerpt |
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EquityAre you in or out? The year is 1919. Your name is Frank Bacon, and you’re the author and lead actor of the most successful play in Broadway history. Your fellow actors are about to go on strike in support of their union, the Actors Equity Association. You’ve spent your life fighting for the rights your friends are hitting the bricks to protect. If you go out on strike with them, you risk losing everything you’ve achieved. Your wife doesn’t want you to go out. The managers will fire you and take away the rights to your play if you don’t cross the line. What about it, Frank — which side are you on? Are you in or out? Script Excerpt |
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Stranded in the desert on their way to a chaotic family holiday, a recently separated couple must navigate old sparks, unresolved baggage, and each other - one breakdown at a time.
The Gotaways
When a rising showrunner's hit series is abruptly canceled, she's dragged back to her quirky small hometown, where past loves, old friendships, and unexpected chaos turn her life-and her heart-completely upside down.
Nothing, Then Everything
During a snowlit holiday season, a grieving musician begins to rebuild her life with someone new — until the sudden return of the man she once loved forces her to confront her past and decide if she can risk love again.
Louies Speakeasy
louies Speakeasy is a love, crime drama, story that pits 2 friends that owns speakeasies and their competition for the love of a provocative jazz singer that has become the main draw for their nightclubs during prohibition.
Between the Salt and the Sky
A small Portuguese fishing village in 1942 is on the edge of a war that seems far away.
Undue Influence
An unscrupulous and money hungry debt collector is forced to make hard choices when she becomes the target of a wrongful death law suit.
BUMPED
A deeply troubled man with little hope in life, is thrust into a world between life and death, which may provide the purpose he has long been searching for.
FORBIDDEN PROVISIONS
A journalist goes undercover as an illegal migrant to get a story on how well the government is treating captured immigrants, only to uncover something grizzlier than he expected.
A HAPPY LIFE
A gentle, autistic man with a gift for communication with pelicans and talking smiley-face balloons reaches a breaking point when a houseful of freeloaders consumes his life—and his lifelong dream of opening a one-of-a-kind bed and breakfast—forcing him to attempt the only escape he can imagine: faking his own death.
Yrrem Samtsirhc from Mars
A gentle, highly intelligent alien crash-lands in a small town just before Christmas and forms an unlikely friendship with a girl with Down syndrome.
