To read a script or request a one page summary, please send an e-mail. Scripts and one page summaries will be sent as attached PDF files (preferred environmentally friendly method), or can be mailed. Scripts for review will be delivered in PDF. Proficient in and owning both Final Draft and Movie Magic Screenwriter, I write in Screenwriter. All scripts are convertible to Final Draft.
Kate ~ (Drama - R) An environmentally friendly Everglades ranger seeks refuge from a category five hurricane with a greedy real estate developer. (With the denouement of this script, it's really suited only to be an Indie film - an evocative script of redemption and reformation.) 2nd Runner Up, Flagstaff Film Festival, 2010. Strong female lead. 118 Pg. Read Kate One Page
It takes a disaster to bring enemies together.
2nd Runner Up
Neon Cactus ~ (Drama, R) A successful businessman encounters his wartime past in the sweltering Arizona desert.
This script, in its first incarnation, was a quarterfinalist in the Academy's Nicholl Fellowship. Recently updated to convert a plot critical scene from Vietnam to Iraq, it's good to go in either Vietnam or Iraq plot scenarios. “Offbeat and inspiring.” The Nicholl Fellowship. 118 Pg. Read Neon Cactus One Page
The cactus has seen it all, and is ready to share.
Quarter Finalist
The Tie ~ (Drama, R, short film) When a man is forced to discard his “lucky” tie, his fate changes course, until through a stroke of luck, the tie returns.
Runner Up, 2010 Independent Short Film and Music Arts Festival (ISFMA), 33 pg.
It's the tie that binds.
Twinks ~ (Drama - PG or G) When an aging, widowed baseball pitcher for the 1949 Hollywood Stars adopts a spit ball, his precocious daughter and Ms. Hollywood Stars give him the cold shoulder. With the help of Twinks, a stray ball yard cat that possesses lucky charm qualities, the hero figures out another way to stay in baseball, without as his daughter calls it - cheating. Very positive female lead. 120 Pg.
A Preliminary Finalist in the 2010 Creative World Awards screenplay competition. This script received a “strong consider” from coverage provided by A Film Writer. Says A Film Writer: “This is an enchanting and engaging family fable that pitches and purrs its way into your heart. The story is based on the real life team of the Hollywood Stars minor league baseball team owned by Rob Cobb. The story will make you smile and cry. It's like magic.” Read Twinks One Page
A cat has nine lives, an fading pitcher only one.
Nuclear Option ~ (Drama/Environmental - R) A geologist must take on a conservative politician of strong religious conviction to prevent him from advancing a campaign of tampering with Mother Nature in order to preserve his anti-Global Warming agenda. 110 Pg. Recently completed script.
Don't mess with Mother Nature.Mirage ~ (Drama - R) A demoted ballplayer drives to a new assignment, picks up a hitchhiker and encounters the fork in the road. 114 Pg. Recently completed script.
If you meet yourself on the road, pull over.
Two Brains Wasted~ (Romantic Comedy, R) Two sincere men truly want to have honest relationships, only to encounter a bizarre flock of contenders. This script is the “good guy” antidote to Sideways and Wedding Crashers. 114 Pg. Read Two Brains Wasted One Page
Two hearts are better than one.
Abby ~ (Children's Action-Adventure, G) A precocious and gifted young girl and her Abyssinian cat apprehend an ATM bandit in Seattle. This could be shot in partial ani (ala Garfield) until the very end to work around some of those uppity cat behavior problems and the necessary wranglers. It's a warm script; children smarter than adults and a true hero's ending. 85 Pg. Read Abby One Page
It takes four paws to catch a thief.
Utsuro Bune ~ (Dramedy, R) A lonely astronomer and an undocumented alien struggle against the odds to make the ultimate geographically undesirable relationship work. 117 Pg.
Does an out of this world love have a chance on Earth?
Ghost of a Chance ~ (Dramedy, R) A psychic manages a relationship though her partner expects she always knows what he's thinking. An incisive look at how assumptions paint the landscape of one's relationship attitudes with a unique twist. 113 Pg.
It's the relationship that goes bump in the night.
Billie Rae ~ (Drama - R) A topless dancer in a grim club in El Paso, Texas wrestles with life's lousy hand and her sexual orientation. Quirky with a strong female lead. 115 Pg.
Life ain' t no dress rehearsal.
The Climax ~ (Thriller, R) Two borderline personality murder mystery writers hole up in a cabin Colorado to bang out their next blockbuster while conniving to rip off the other's ideas. Sexy and psychologically rich. Strong female lead. 116 Pg. Read The Climax One Page
May the better laid plot win... even if it's killer.
Eye of the Storm ~ (Sci-Fi Thriller, R) - An on-camera meteorologist who also serves in the Georgia Air National Guard gets called to duty with the Hurricane Hunters, and discovers an unimaginable truth in the clouds. 109 Pg. Read Eye of the Storm One Page
The eye in the sky watches... and never blinks.
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