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The Barking SpiderWhen Joe’s 39 year-old addicted and pregnant daughter appears on his doorstep, his sedentary life is about to disappear forever. Script Excerpt |
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CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: ACCIDENTLarry David has a hard time being smart without being an ass. A traffic violation leads Larry David to traffic court and community service as a traffic cross walk guard. Meanwhile, the hybrid car maybe a silent killer, and Jeff Green is losing weight while getting Rolf-ed. Winner of 8 'Best Screenplay' awards. |
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THE BIG IDEATHE BIG IDEA: a jack-ass odyssey. Before the pandemic, a disabled germaphobic/dirty joke scholar, a Black/Swedish hip-hop poet, a multiple personality John Doe, and a martial arts American/Asian Mensa chick want to collect a $10 million court settlement from infomercial giant, fat-man Tony Idoni, for their 'Big Idea' - a telephone condom. But they find that the biggest of big ideas is LOVE. FOUR 'Best Screenplay' award, and ONE 'Best Dialogue' award. Recent winner of Best Comedy feature in the Canadian Diversity FF. |
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Desert QuarryTwo mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them. Script Excerpt |
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bad time for a ghosthere those we don't speak of it's not of genre Gasper it is much closer to reality |
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EuthanizedA grieving animal control officer becomes an unlikely social media hero when she embarks on a vigilante crusade against animal abusers, but her violent actions trap her between friends on the police force and the leader of a citywide dogfighting ring. Script Excerpt |
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Last American LynchingThe true story of the black woman in Alabama who bankrupted the national Ku Klux Klan after an FBI investigation into the lynching of her son. |
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Major PlayersAfter a five-year prison stint, a recently-freed boxer must defeat the undefeated champion of Atlanta 'The Monster' to save his cousin from drowning into deeper debt. But the real fight lies outside the ring, where his steps are laden with betrayals, gunfights, and narcotics. Script Excerpt |
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Boo Hoo FlanaganA black correctional officer coaches a prison basketball team and finds the motivation he needs, in life and on the job, in Boo Hoo Flanagan, an aging, white, crippled inmate who shoots 3-point baskets better than anyone has ever seen. |
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Blood and LoyaltyA botched jewelry store hold-up, a fatal hit-and-run getaway and two brothers with a harrowing secret, hidden in the night. |
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Wait A Minute Mr. PostmanA recently widowed baby boomer who happens to be a postal worker, is forced to learn how to navigate through life without his wife. |
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Into the SunshineA Naval Officer returns to his hometown Washington, D.C. to lay his younger brother to rest and bring the killer to justice. Script Excerpt |
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Someone Somewhere Is ListeningTwo police detectives, estranged lovers of years past, risk life and career in an undercover attempt to identify the sociopath conducting a campaign of extortion, robbery, rape, and murder based on information gleaned from personal phone conversations. Script Excerpt |
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ValentineSarcastic priest returns to his crime-ridden hometown to do battle with anyone to keep his parish from closing. Script Excerpt |
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DEEP BLUE: NYC Transit PoliceTV Series treatment and pilot script featuring the legendary NYC Transit Police Department, which patrolled New York's vast subway system and was credited with maintaining record low subway crime statistics in the early 1990s. *Series creator, Ben Fiore, is a former NYC Transit Police Officer. |
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SLAM’NThe ugly duckling meets Cinderella set in a basketball genre and to hip hop music. Mookz an Aboriginal teenager hides behind a secret and a dream to play in the NBA. All the while struggling with a dysfunctional life and other obstacles to reach that goal. |
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Don't forget to be dopeTrying to understand why he’s not further along in his career, the self-described "world’s most okayest dj" recaps his career/life up to this point, and answers every question you did not know you had about djing. Script Excerpt |
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bad time for va ghosthere those we don't speak of it's not of genre Gasper it is much closer to reality |
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Media CircusA mild-mannered doctor hates violence until her family is gunned down during the most deadly school shooting ever, which drives her way beyond the edge to devise her own unique solution to eradicate what she deems the problem’s cause to be. |
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Lil B-EasyAfter a Voodoo Priest puts a life spell on ventriloquist doll, Lil B-Easy, he comes to life and grows with his human big brother, pulling pranks and causing mischief along the way. Script Excerpt |
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Major Players 2: Thunder vs LightningAfter defeating a seemingly invincible opponent and severing ties with his manipulative cousin, a boxer must face an even more intimidating foe. Script Excerpt |
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Dead or AliveA mystical figure in New Orleans questions a Millennial on what she thinks living is. Is it about dead things or living things? Script Excerpt |
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The Love ShuttleA bomb threat stalls an airport shuttle, forcing 6 desperate people to reveal deep secrets, resolve conflicts, and find romance…and one of them is the bomber. And it’s funny! This is a PG, romantic-comedy with just one location—MICRO BUDGET. |
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The Return of the Bad BoysA group of friends from a working-class Detroit neighborhood cheat their way through a three-on-three basketball tournament to prove to themselves that they’re not losers (WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP meets THE HANGOVER). |
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FROM THE FRONT PORCHThe college admissions scandal results in mass firings at an Ivy so its president hires the first Asian-American female athletic director to make long overdue institutional changes through sports or both will be fired! Selling FROM THE FRONT PORCH: Kim's World meets The Skulls meets Student Athlete Script Excerpt |
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Pale MaleAn Airbnb holiday turns into a nightmare for a young couple visiting the Big Apple for the first time. |
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3 HoursAn adventure in what it truly means to forgive the unforgivable... A desperate sister discovers how to be truly happy in a day filled with bad-guys, payback, a bomb, wannabe spies, and a gun aimed point-blank at her head. |
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SPARKSAn alcoholic’s gifted teenage son and a stripper’s alienated teenage daughter grow up, face their fears of intimacy and adulthood, and come to terms with their dysfunctional parents one summer on the wrong side of the tracks. |
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Show Me The BargainREALITY TV PILOT LOGLINE: The HOST, two sidekicks, and camera crew scout the US in search of bargains on groceries, restaurants/eateries, clothing, amusements, and nightly entertainment. (30 minutes) |
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My BuddyA mafia princess searches for the murderer of her father and finds him in the most unlikely place of all--at her feet.. Script Excerpt |
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Sandwich GenerationA white woman and her longtime Korean boyfriend have to take in their fathers, hers because he’s a broke compulsive gambler and his because his fifth wife just threw him out while a third generation gets added when they decide to foster an at-risk African American boy who keeps breaking into their garage to raid a box of porn magazines. Script Excerpt |
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SnooksThe extraordinary true life story of Nate "Snooks" Gulliver, dancer and drummer extraordinaire, who played with Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong and other greats and was Billie Holliday's childhood sweetheart. Script Excerpt |
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Riviera DriveThree 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. Script Excerpt |
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IN THE SLUGLINEHysterical tales of odd ball commuters and their drivers in the DMV! Script Excerpt |
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CERTAIN ARRANGEMENTSA naïve teen on probation for a first offense gets lured into using an old woman's flower shop where he works as a front for drug trafficking. |
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THE WORD ON THE STREETWhile trying to keep her family together, a young Catholic widow must also deal with prejudice as black families start moving into their all-white parish in 1950s West Philadelphia. |
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THIS MODERN MAN IS BEAT (produced)In the post 9/11 world of cultural confusion and erroneous judgment, Habib bin Habib al Fulan pawns his beloved guitar and reconciles with his young wife. Premiered in 20 countries, 127 film festivals, and won 98 Best Film Awards/12 Best Screenplay Awards. |
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!In Between The River
The Jones family moves from town to town and Katie thinks it's normal but her older brother Kyle disagrees and their mother, Judy tries to balance it as their dad, Donald hides a secret that eventually comes out to separate brother, sister, mother in different ways and seals their fates (fictional characters but certain scenes are based on real events from the author's childhood)
SETTLING THE BOOKS
A rare book dealer uses the reading of his will to seal heirs who he believes wronged him, in a panic room with no air or escape, unless they decode a mystery hidden in a centuries old book.
THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media This pilot streamer has it all.
LOTUS OPERANDI
This one is pure Fun.!It's a genre buster, Fosse/Verdon meets James Bond, meets All That Jazz and Cabaret! Asian American Black Belt goes undercover for the CIA, to help track down terrorists.
CURIOUS BUDDIES
It's not your mother's buddy movie.
NOCTUME'S RAINBOW
Kids and their dogs, find the rainbow bridge in a snowstorm.
CIRQUE D' ETOILES
*** Russian astronaut, thrown out of the space program, hijacks a space taxi going to the International Space Station.
Population: One
A nineteen-year-old drops out of film school in New York City following a tragic accident and returns to his small Pennsylvanian hometown, only to be confronted by an array of quirky small town folk, including his detached best friend, his alcoholic single mother and a free-spirited cross-country traveling girl.
Bloodthirsty
A motley crew of strangers trapped in a secluded London tavern must survive overnight against vicious werewolves.
Bitches with Knives
After her deadbeat ex-boyfriend steals her winning lottery ticket, a hard-boiled trailer trash girl recruits her best friend and a sexy knife-wielding assassin for a revenge plot to reclaim her rightful fortune.
