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Fast Fade

Biopic of the tragic 1950s film noir star Barbara Payton. The dazzlingly beautiful Payton ascended to the heights of Hollywood glamor and opportunity in the 1950s, but her defiance of public morality and breathtakingly bad romantic choices brought her career crashing down. Script Excerpt

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Everything I Have Is Yours

Thirteen-year-old Haylee stumbles on her father's affair with her mother's friend, who has come to stay after her home was burglarized. Script Excerpt

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The Dressmaker's Daughter

Romania 1940: A Jewish teenage girl studying to become a doctor, falls into a forbidden affair with her tutor. As war erupts, the Nazis invade and her family is killed, but a Romanian Iron Guard officer takes her as his concubine and sends her to nurse enemy soldiers in a field hospital. When her lover shows up with a group of Jewish partisans, she leads them through headquarters to kill two high-ranking Nazi guests of the officer. But her lover dies in the action. She escapes with the partisans and spends the rest of the war sabotaging German supply lines. Adapted from my Young Adult novel published by Santa Monica Press in 2022. Script Excerpt

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Home Like a Shadow

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. Script Excerpt

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Twisted Fate

A new variant of "mad cow" brain disease strikes the U.S. --- turning victims gradually into psychopaths. As science races to identify the infected and stop the pandemic, a young woman tries to rescue her lover, held hostage in a lab testing radical treatments. Adapted from my novel published in December 2022 by the Champagne Book Group and showcased online in The Write Launch: https://thewritelaunch.com/2019/09/twisted-fate/ recently showcased Script Excerpt

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IMPERVOS ONE

Brillliant young engineer struggles to extract a family from the subterranean luxury bunker of an eccentric billionaire, who has unwittingly set loose a 300-million-year-old life form that will destroy civilization if it escapes. Script Excerpt

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Light Fingers

Lonely teen, uprooted from Minnesota to Santa Monica, falls for her lab partner in biology class, who happens to be the world's best shoplifter. Script Excerpt

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Fair Warning

Thriller based on the true stalking murder of Berkeley student Tanya Tarasoff in 1969 by an obsessed graduate student, and the legal case that changed doctor-patient confidentiality laws across the country. Script Excerpt

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Dead Line

The ghost of a beautiful young woman, murdered by a serial killer, enters a young man's life, bringing chaos with her. Script Excerpt

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Redwood Tomb

A married, ambitious young assistant D.A. in Santa Cruz falls for a beautiful bohemian artist, unaware that she is also involved with a charismatic killer. Neo noir based on a true crime in 1982. Adapted from my short story published in UK crime magazine, Close to the Bone and in Half Hour to Kill: https://halfhourtokill.com/home/saturday-night-off-by-linda-boroff. Script Excerpt

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Vengeance Island

A young couple are stranded on a remote Alaskan island when their seaplane goes down in a winter storm. Soon, they realize they are being stalked --- and not just by wolves.

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Malleus

Handsome rogue, denounced by his vengeful wife as a "wolf by night" in medieval France and burned at the stake, surfaces in modern day Los Angeles and befriends a fatherless teenage boy. Script Excerpt

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Aviana

In 30 million years birds have become the uber species, living in fortified villages amid a landscape teeming with rat-predators, giant insects, intelligent reptiles and other terrifying life forms. Young soldier, WAGAR, loves LANITRA, the ruler’s daughter. Enemy raptor prince THOTOR is a secret lover of Lanitra’s sister BARI. When Bari betrays the village to Thotor, the inhabitants are banished to the wilderness. Script Excerpt

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The Virgin Effect

Daughter of a middle-eastern oil billionaire, drugged and raped at a frat party, contacts a young L.A. surgeon to restore her virginity for her arranged marriage. When the surgeon's receptionist learns of the plan, she and her boyfriend decide on blackmail. Script Excerpt

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Grizzly

Aging hacker gets out of prison and plots an act of sabotage to impress a Dutch hacker chick and reclaim his status as the ruling terror of the Internet. Script Excerpt

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Riviera Drive

Three Latino felons on the run invade the home of a prosperous Latino insurance executive, who must reconnect with his own violent past to save his family. The tensions heightens when his 17 year old daughter bonds with one of the felons. Script Excerpt

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Jess

Ghost of a young gambler hanged in 1884 takes up residence in an old gold mill near Lake Tahoe and raises hell in the life of the tour guide, a Stanford student. Script Excerpt

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Sawney Bean

Adulterous young husband facing criminal punishment in medieval Scotland flees into the hideout of the notorious cannibal family. Script Excerpt

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Sunnyside

Quirky 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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Space Reserved

Slick, successful young ad executive thoughtlessly appropriates somebody's "reserved" space in a parking garage when bringing his date home and ends up taken hostage by three women determined to avenge a grammar school outrage. Script Excerpt

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Flush

"Wharton" business student with grandiose Wall Street ambitions is phished into taking a summer job at a failing home repair company staffed with ex-cons and colorful "losers." When he falls for the receptionist, a hard-luck runaway who dreams of becoming a cabaret singer, he must confront what's really important in life. Script Excerpt

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