Submission Samples from the Comedy Genre

Title: High Society

Logline: A tragic starving artist and his tenacious landlord conspire to monopolize California's marijuana industry, but find themselves left HIGH and dry.

Synopsis: This movie possesses all the REAL-LIFE makings of a stoner cult classic. George's marijuana-growing adventure embodies the embellishments of a true story! George is naive. He has never measured himself against societal standards. He's HOT but a goofball, and totally unaware of how the world views him. He's fired from the coffee shop, his girlfriend dumps him to date rich and his agent drops him the same day by post mail. Come to find out ... He's being evicted!! When he realizes his life is falling apart, his seemingly sympathetic yet tenacious landlord drags him into a plan to get rich from California's number one cash crop. Catastrophe strikes when their grow room seemingly goes up in flames. The poorly planned excursion takes the unlikely pair through trials and tribulations that result in a fleeing road trip to Mexico while being pursued by Vato and Essay (two Mexican gangsters). George's new heartthrob is unsuspectingly left to clean up the mess, but would do anything for her man

Title: Get on top

Logline: A crime caper that intermingles eleven characters in a game of cat and mouse spawned by a corrupt political candidate.

Synopsis: Get on top WGA# 1142498 A political candidate gets his old friend out of prison to help him rig the state election. They hire a hitman to take care of the FBI agent that is tailing them. After failed assassination attempts by the hitman, two detectives investigate the evidence that is left behind. The same hitman picks up a contract placed on the head of the candidate by his own secretary, the payoff being the dirty money that funds the candidate's campaign. The candidate's associate helps to frame the competition on the day of the big debate, putting the candidate at the top of the polls. The candidate short changes his associate for a job well done. Meanwhile, after the final investigation by the detectives all signs are pointing to the candidate. With the associate wanting what is owed to him, the hitman trying to get the payoff on his contract, and the secretary chasing the score of a lifetime, they all find themselves at a showdown at the candidate's mansion.

Title: Frankenswinger

Logline: Jerry makes a formula that brings people back from the dead and uses it on his friend Vince who returns with a magical singing voice and becomes an overnight sensation.But others want the formula.

Synopsis: Jerry and Vince, two young scientists, working late discover a formula that can bring people back from the dead. Vince is electrocuted accidentally and Jerry has to use the formula on him. It doesn't work at first and Vince is pronounced dead at a hospital, but he comes back to life the next morning with no memory from the previous night. Vince discovers on a date at a karaoke bar that he has a magical singing voice that charms anyone who hears it and becomes an overnight singing sensation. Meanwhile, a group of sophisticated mercenaries pursue them, trying to learn the formula's secret. Unable to find any information,they try to kidnap Jerry, but run into a series of ridiculous mishaps on the way. Finally successful, they bring Vince and Jerry to the seaside mansion of their boss, who's dying of cancer. He takes the formula, but mutates into a raging monster. They set their boss on fire and he runs off a cliff and drowns in the ocean. Vince and Jerry keep the formula secret.

Title: The Sexiest Man Alive - Varsity

Logline: THE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE - Comedy As the result of a curse, a plain, dumpy man is then chased by all women. VARSITY - Inspirational Sports A boy of no natural ability is inspired by a coach.

Synopsis: THE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE - Comedy James T. Travis, a disbarred lawyer and former politician turned con man ((or are all three the same thing?), meets B.K. a plain, dumpy man who claims a curse put on him by a witch makes him irresistible to women who look into his eyes. Travis makes a fortune selling his picture nationwide. Seeing a power base, he becomes President when B.K. is shown on tv endorsing him, and all the women in the country vote for him.(WGA# 894476) VARSITY - Inspirational Sports Matt Anderson, a cross-country coach, has a motivational style which appeals to boys. He has problems with an Athletic Director, who is jealous of Matt's rapport with his athletes. Brian, a boy without athletic ability, is recruited by Matt to join his team. He just misses out on making varsity for the District Meet. After an injury to another boy, Brian gets to run in the meet, and assists in the team winning by one point. (WGA# 1411006)

Title: Satan's Six

Logline: Five, evil demons help an awkward, teen girl win the attention of the school bad-boy.

Synopsis: Cory is an alienated teen girl with a crush on the new, school bad-boy. Problem is he doesn't know she exists... until Cory tries a Satanic ritual promising a solution to her problems and inadvertently summons five, evil demons seeking shelter. It's rough going at first as the demons take over Cory's house and old, earthly, bad habits return with a vengeance. Cory and the demons struggle for control of the house but eventually settle into an uneasy alliance. Each demon gradually takes an interest in Cory and her life. They rally around her, utilizing their respective, diabolical skills to transform her into the ultimate, bad-girl. Loosely based on the comic book by Jack Kirby. WGA#: 1286377

Title: Student Athletes

Logline: The bawdy adventures of two members of a perverted college lacrosse team who struggle to deal with expectations on and off the field, while they attempt to prepare for the real world.

Synopsis: Sam and Chris prepare for their senior lacrosse season, only they find there is much more to deal with than simply college classes and sports. Their perverted teammates, including a roommate addicted to masturbation, ensure that nothing goes normally when a bunch of overly competitive 18-22 year olds are thrown together to try and win a national championship. Sam is the first of his family to go to college, and is intent upon actually getting his engineering degree, not simply staying eligible like most of his teammates. Chris is a seemingly typical fun loving, entitled lacrosse player with a beautiful girlfriend. Chris sets a goal of a sexual nature for the year with his rich daddy's girl, while Sam meets the girl of his dreams who is way out of his league. Eventually Chris surprises everyone, especially himself, with a level of maturity he did not know he possessed, and Sam must decide if he wants to make his parents happy, or himself.

Title: Back Seat Driver

Logline: Ray, a Chicago cabby, falls for a sleepwalking waitress while his outrageous split-personality, cousin Eugene, lusts after their sexy psychiatrist.

Synopsis: At age 15, RAY's overbearing, showoff cousin EUGENE accidentally dies in a car accident at a rock quarry. Though innocent, Ray is consumed with guilt about the horrific event. After years of despair and grief, Eugene is born again as Ray's split personality and begins to lead a double life that Ray does not even know exists. Ray becomes haunted by constant blackouts and begins seeing Dr. Kate, a beautiful and wealthy psychiatrist seeking to leave her practice and start a new, exciting life. While Eugene and Dr. Kate kindle a romance, Ray falls in love with Jamie, a sleepwalking coffee waitress. Ray and Eugene battle and torment each other until they are finally brought together at Dr. Kate's early-retirement party. Ray's aunt and uncle and Eugene's parents are invited as surprise guests by Dr. Kate in order to help Ray. Will the confrontation finally set Ray's guilt and double life to rest or will it send him over the edge?

Title: I Wanna Rock

Logline: 17 year old buddies Pete and Miles are high-school nerds in public but Guitar Hero prodigies in private. When they get word of the American Band competition, they put together a rocking quartet.

Synopsis: Seventeen year old buddies Pete and Miles are high-school nerds in public but Guitar Hero prodigies in private. When they get word of the American Band competition, they quickly put together a rocking quartet, inducting geeky Cambodian drummer Sumbat and mysterious bassist Dylan. Overcoming considerable obstacles (including their own desire for parties, booze, and boobs, not necessarily in that order), the guys make it to the finals, surprising themselves, their hometown, and the country. Even before the final result is revealed, the guys have emerged from the experience better friends, better musicians, and better men. WGA#1401426

Title: Just A Fantasy

Logline: LOGLINE: Is it okay to cheat on your spouse.....even when you have their permission? That's the moral dilemma haunting Jim.

Synopsis: Jim's turning 40, and married to Kim. They're sitting around having drinks with 2 other couples when the name of a famous hot actress (Pam Anderson?) comes up in conversation. Jim comments that Kim has given him permission to have sex with the star, she also has one celeb she's allowed to do it with, a famous 1980's rock musician (Jon Bon Jovi ?). Jim's buddies, for his birthday, surprise him by getting the actress to come to his guys-only party (they do so by telling her publicist the guy is single and dying)... Jim and the actress hit it off (she finds him to be so 'real'), but when it comes to it, he chickens out. Meantime, Kim finds texts from the actress, assumes Jim's consummated the relationship, and has a one night stand with her boss. Jim decides to come clean, and tells Kim about the actress . After a short separation, Jim and Kim finally decide there's no place like home - and as the movie ends, they learn the movie and rock star are the newest 'buzz' showbiz couple.

Title: Le Boucher

Logline: In a black comedy inspired by a true event, a quiet French village undergoes a sexual revolution, but not without dire consequences as the new butcher "delivers the goods" to the town's married women.

Synopsis: Far from slapstick, Le Boucher is an intimate, layered story filled with loveable, quirky characters. In late 1959, Cheval-Blanc was no different than any other small French village. In some senses, time moved forward as villages re-built after World War II. But when it came to the inequality between men and women, husband and wife, time stood still. Against this backdrop, the Algerian conflict raged on. The catalyst for change occurs when the old butcher dies. Sure, he rigged his scale, but he was a known quantity. Enter the young and handsome stranger, Michel Daudet. Little time passes before the new butcher starts "delivering the goods". Suddenly, Cheval-Blanc comes alive. Despite the rampant infidelity, the marriages begin to heal as the men, who are eating better and not nagged as much, are happily oblivious and the women regain their femininity. Unfortunately, soon enough, a light is shed on this newfound goodness leaving the men of the village with a dilemma.