Best Romance 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. |
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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. |
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PESTILENCEZoe Ohrbach and Brian Snyder are Silicon Valley techies struggling through a pandemic of a new variant of Mad Cow affecting deer, moose, elk, etc. Despite warnings, people continue hunting and eating toxic venison. It was only a matter of time before the disease jumped to humans—a zoonotic “spillover.” Like all prion diseases, it is incurable, untreatable and unpreventable. The new disease, called “Acquired Prion Sociopathy Syndrome (APSS) causes first psychopathy and, inevitably, death. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/20/chronic-wasting-disease-spread-zombie-deer-global-us-aoe Adapted from my novel, Twisted Fate, showcased online pre-publication: https://thewritelaunch.com/2019/09/twisted-fate/ |
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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/ |
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FlushedAmbitious young Wall Street wannabe travels to take an internship with a hot crypto firm. But the company turns out to be a floundering home repair business whose owner faked a requisition to get a financial whiz aboard. About to leave in disgust, the wannabe falls for the receptionist, a runaway who dreams of becoming a cabaret singer. He joins the rough team of under-rated outcasts and learns how to repair things, including his mercenary sense of values. |
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Post Your Script Here!Eternal Blessings
A dying woman must break the spell of her former Indian guru -- or risk having him follow her into the afterlife.
in connection
As Vietnam fractures America and his own family, a disillusioned young man—framed in an FBI drug sting and facing the draft—must outwit the system and flee to Canada before becoming another casualty of a war he rejects.
La Hacienda
An inter-racial Latino/White couple arrive in Mexico, during the Day of the Dead, to renovate a hacienda just purchased by her parents, they soon discover its haunted by the former residents who lived during the Mexican Revolution; they must figure out how to transform their crippling grief over losing a baby, so they aren't doomed to repeat the spirits' murderous past.
Lydia's League of Angels The Justification
A teenage girl inherits a league of angels and a Godly mission to protect children from evil due to the evolution of AI.
Bad Habit
A kleptomaniac young woman raised by quirky nuns is torn between a life of devotion and her passion for art.
To Die For
A wealthy, golden aging woman lives for her aspiring dancer granddaughter.
Slow Burn
Genre: Feature - Psychological Thriller/Romance - 16 - Adult - NYC & Vermont Logline: When a successful businesswoman falls victim to her dangerously, charming husband’s deadly schemes, she escapes with her loyal dog, and they transform from prey to predator to return and take back their lives.
Calico Sisters
In the 1860s six orphan girls from diverse backgrounds unite to protect themselves and others while pursuing their dreams in the West as they spread a trail of righteousness and justice for all.
Woman Afloat
A PTSD stricken cop numbs herself with one-night stands until a near-death experience sends her into hiding on her boat, where a stray dog, a guarded teen, and a man who won’t be used, offer a shot at healing… if she’s willing to feel again.
Vacation Burnout
A couple have twenty four hours to cash it in a lottery ticket stashed away in a wallet.
