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My Name is Wallace (Romantic Comedy/Differently-Abled/Dramedy)A lonely, autistic man misunderstands a computer ad, connects to a fantasy-sex site, and falls in love. Script Excerpt |
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MAD DADDY! (Historical Fiction/BIO/Dramedy)A wildly talented, schizophrenic 1950s rock deejay—at the height of his radio success—contemplates suicide, then faces intervention by a series of ghosts from his past. (Based on a true story.) |
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The Confession (Elevated Horror/Drama/Thriller)A shy eight-year-old Catholic girl commits a petty crime to have a "sin" to confess to her priest, thus setting up a cascading series of horrifying events. Script Excerpt |
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Radioland! (Coming of Age/Psychological/Comedy/Drama/MemoirA naïve 12-year-old boy, falls in love with a fantasy, learns the truth about his fatally flawed hero -- a 1960s Top 40 radio deejay -- and discovers the bittersweet meaning of life. Script Excerpt |
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Bewitching Hitler: The Coven that Beat the Nazis and Saved the Wolrd! (Historical Fiction/Dramedy/Romance - based on actual events.)A plucky UK/New Forest Witch Coven conjures an ancient magic spell to prevent Hitler from winning World War II. (Based on documented events.) Script Excerpt |
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One, Second Summer (Young Adult/Romance/Sci-Fi/Dramedy)Second Summer on Cape Cod is usually a quiet time, until a spaceship of wacky extraterrestrials come to visit, and two fearless tween-agers, determined to meet them, find out why. A fable for our time. Script Excerpt |
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BOOM!Town (Parody of Crime/Mob Story/Dramedy)After a bloody car bombing, a blown-off human foot lands on the roof of a retired odball --a cash-poor mob cleaner -- who schemes to extort the Mafia Don that ordered the hit, unaware his wacky plan may help the FBI catch the cut-throat gangster. Script Excerpt |
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Post Your Script Here!Henry, Henry
Convinced that he murdered a priest he caught abusing a child, ex-priest Henry fractured into two warring personalities, until the insights of his illness help him bring down a dangerous child-trafficking network.
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.
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.
e-DEAD
After a near-death experience, a woman discovers her dating app matches are ghosting her because they really are ghosts leaving her clues in order to solve their murders.
Whirlabout
A New York actor returns to his decaying hometown to care for his father, only to uncover dark family secrets, confront a lifetime of abuse, and face a harrowing moral reckoning that could either destroy—or finally heal—his fractured family.
Eternal Blessings
A dying woman enters a time portal to confront her criminal past, only to realize that what she seeks is in the present--but getting back is proving harder than she thought.
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.
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.
A LITTLE FAVOR
A former fighter pilot is asked, by the colonel who blackballed him, to do a little favor: use his quick reflexes to fly to the Sun, reach in and pluck out 2 off-course, discarded doomsday bombs before next Wednesday evening when they’ll explode, nudging the Sun, causing major global warming.
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 rich, white 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 girl, so they aren't doomed to repeat the spirits' murderous past.
