Synopsis: After doing two years in jail Cedric Callaghan returns home where his father, Donald Callaghan, has planned to hand down his Irish business down to his oldest son. Donald introduces Cedric to a job in which Cedric and two family-loyal members plan to steal 45 million dollars from an illegal Russian bank transaction. Tony Callaghan, Cedric's younger brother has other plans. After failing to bribe his older brother to take over his father's position as a team, Tony allows his emotions to get to him. He murders an innocent man only two nights before the crime. Donald then leads Tony to believe the family is no longer interested in the project due to the current murder. Tony and his two friends copy the paperwork of the crime and plan to do the job on their own and take over the business. Little does Tony know that his father and brother both still plan to attempt the job. Cedric's team of three and Tony's team of three meet the very night of the crime, expecting to execute the same plan.
Synopsis: Bo is a charismatic African American--an Ivy leaguer and one of Chicago's rising architects-- who succeeds by force of talent and personality. But beneath his reinforced exterior is a man whose marriage has been gutted after his affair six months ago and whose career gets caught in the dragnet of corporate racism. Drop is a self-help guru and a source of strength to millions whose pre-packaged answers to life turn out to be ineffectual when his own health starts to fail after a collapse on stage. Drop and Bo are the two poles of a screenplay that intesects six characters whose lives follow the scientific concept of a singularity, which is when bodies in the universe self destruct, giving way to new life. I was Writer/Director of The Quiet, 2003 Winner, Best Independent Film, Screen Magazine, and a finalist for the Sundance Film Festival American Spectrum series. I was previously a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper group. Thanks for your consideration.
Synopsis: This screenplay is a dramatic look at how a split second trajic event can ruin a promising carrer that was taken for granted. It is a story of a star football player who loses everything, when he is hit by a car while prematurely celebrating a major college football scholarship. Joey Ortiz was a 6x MVP, Optimist All Star Wide reciever. His inability to handle success has led him down a path of drug addiction, alcoholism, and reckless behavior. After sustaining life threatening injuries Joey makes history and returns to the football field in 5 short months. Now damaged goods and no longer scholarship material Joey turns to the automobile industry, setting records right out the gate. The car business is full of drunks and Joey fit right in. When the world is caving in Joey has an awakening that changes the course of his life forever, with a return to the gridiron. Correcting a Wreckless Life is a dramatic tale of success, tragedy, addiction, and recovery
Synopsis: In the future a young woman called Evelyn gets a job with a committee that controls population growth by requiring couples to pass stringent parental tests. Soon she sees how sinister the committee is as well as having a very evil and demanding boss. Then later feeling guilty when her best friend fails the parental test she teams up with under ground rebels and sabotage the committee allowing the public to have children the natural way without an exam and requirements.
Synopsis: Racked with guilt, reclusive Connor Ogilvie's ordered life begins to spiral out of control as he struggles to come to terms with the passing of his sister, Mackenzie, and his self-perceived role in her tragic death. New girlfriend Emma Campbell falls quickly for Connor. But, is it true love, or her misguided need to be his savior after losing her own brother to depression and drugs? As Connor attempts to reconcile his desire to make his relationship work with his sense of being unworthy of love, Emma and Connor's best friend, Paul, are floundering in their attempts to keep Connor from destroying himself.
Synopsis: Mike(18), the main character being followed the first day he arrives in Boston where he found a bachelor apartment and a job as a mail deliverer. Him being an orphan from a small town in Maine he has great difficult in adjusting to the cities rules. He encounters crime, poverty and other chaos of the city's every day life. At his first days work he meets the shy and distant Brenda(23) who's just another face in the crowd in the crowd like no other. After two weeks he has his first audition and immediately blends into a three piece, non ambitious group. The band takes off and starts to take make name for themselves in the local area. When Mike finally brakes down Brenda's wall and they melt together the band is at a crosspoint of taking a step to the next level. A change that only passes by once. Mike has to make a choice between the woman of his dreams and family life or his childhood dream of becoming a professional musician.
Synopsis: A brilliant but closeted law student OLIVIA falls in love with her Professor, ALEXANDRA. Alex helps Olivia not to be so afraid of who she is but knowing it will kill any political aspirations if she comes out, Olivia hides her homosexuality. Twenty years later, Olivia, now Secretary of State, is running for President. Will her secret stay hidden or will she realize that she can't be the President she needs to be without Alex's love? Good Will Hunting meets The West Wing; The Lion's Storyteller is a political love story. It is a tale of fear and potential, at war with one another; a tale of the first female Presidential candidate; a tale of love of country and the love of a woman, in a land that won't let you have both
Synopsis: At first glance, JOHNNY, seems to have it all. But panic attacks have left him virtually housebound, fearful to venture outside. In fact, in the past five years, he hasn't been further than a half hour away from his house, in case he needs to return quickly. On a rare night out, Johnny and Greg meet POE, a young, HIV positive dancer. He's a free-spirit who's hunger to live serves as a strong contrast to Johnny's reticence. Johnny finds himself drawn to Poe and the manner with which he leads his life. As the three men develop a friendship, Johnny starts to become more aware of what's not working within himself. He finally begins to recognize that what gives him the most stability - his life with Greg, is also what's preventing him from becoming his own person. Johnny is then forced to make an impossible choice: will he give up the only thing that's ever made him happy to finally become what he knows he should be?
Synopsis: Emily, a self-reliant teenager, resorts to prostitution to make ends meet after losing her money, her job, and her home. She is befriended by Angel, a charismatic young man who keeps her off the streets by opening up his heart and his home to her. Only, their friendship is jeopardized when Angel reverts back to his old life one last time.
Synopsis: In 1971 she meets the man of her dreams. They date, marry and the rollercoaster ride begins. Love, hate, murder and betrayal quickly fill her life. She hides from the FBI and the mob with her two young children for two years to protect her husband. When she is five months pregnant with their third child the mob catches up with them.....