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FLIGHT OF THE HEN GLIDERS
When strong winds blow a flock of chickens and their coop away from young Emily and Sam's backyard, it's up to the chickens to learn to fly their coop back home.
But just as their lemonade stand opens, a strong gust of wind blasts their chickens -- and the coop -- right out of their backyard.
Emily and Sam search the neighborhood with Mom and Dad to find their beloved chickens, but there is no sign of bird or coop.
The airborne coop lands a mile away, a little banged up, but intact, with the chickens frightened and lost. Roosters Henry Wooster and Emperor, along with fifteen hens (including bantams), work together through trial and error, and summon the courage to attempt flying their coop back home.
With hen Lavira's brooding eggs getting cold at home, it's every wing on deck to make the unthinkable happen (and get a little help from house cat CatJacqui).
As Emily and Sam pine for their pet chickens, and hope for the impossible, the hens, led by Dolcie, Stacy-Q, and Millie's ingenuity, utilize what the wind blew away with them to fly their coop home.
Truly making them the home of the Hen Gliders.
Hen
Hen
Land Before Time
The Emperor's New Groove (gentler chicken version)
Some of my work:
THE WANDERING EARTH by Liu Cixin. Edited the English short story collection; now a movie https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt7605074 (as editor https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Earth-Classic-Science-Collection/dp/1489502858).
GUILTY OF MIND/EVIL MINDS: Edited Lei Mi's translated Criminal Minds novels, now a Chinese TV series & movie.
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Wounds of Love and Conspiracy
After an accident cripples the woman he loves, a guilt-ridden, obsessive man takes on America's scars as his own, risking everything to change the course of history and earn the love she freely gives.
Henry, Henry
A deadly act of violence he committed twenty years ago fractured Henry into two personalities — one driven by guilt and confession, the other by denial and survival; the audience is aware of the division, while other characters see only one eccentric person struggling to keep the future from repeating the past.
Rebecca Saves the Human Web
Afraid of her growing anger, a teenage girl in a violent future inhabits the spirit of her dead grandmother and fights to keep a vast web of hate and violence from triggering civilization's collapse.
Virgin, Warrior, Priest, Hero
Over three decades, Lucy passes through innocence, violent delusion, tenderness, and ultimately grace - fractured versions of a soul struggling to survive a world that continually misreads her.
Six Hundred Years of Love
Across six centuries, a man loses the same woman twice — first to God in Renaissance Italy, then to a post-human future — forcing him to choose between eternal love and the survival of humanity.
Healed
A bitter non-believer holds Jesus responsible for losing her daughter.
Laura's List
After years spent being the perfect wife, mother, and grandmother, a 55-year-old widow decides to reclaim herself by writing a list of forbidden desires.
Bubbling Under the Surface
After an elderly Holocaust survivor is nearly murdered in her nursing home bed, her family and the Muslim carer who saved her are pulled into a widening chain of antisemitic attacks, domestic violence, and police investigation that threatens both communities before the hatred spreads further.
The Cajun
When a notorious pirate, made immortal by the curse of a Voodoo Queen, is invited to a mysterious poker game in modern day New Orleans, he discovers a clue to find the treasure that can set him free.
THE ANIMAL LOVER
Elevated Sci-Fi/Horror/Black Comedy (Based on the PD novel “The Camel” by Lord Berners) After a series of uncharted meteor showers, voracious wild animals begin to hatch and kill their prey throughout the British Isles, the timid wife of a starchy country vicar finds the company of a malevolent albino camel more appealing than her husband's! Comps: THE BIRDS meets THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS)
