Synopsis: A family is shattered by the untimely death of Deb Sinclair,she is gone and the perfect family that was is no more. Deb Sinclair lies in a hospital bed dying of breast cancer. She writes to her children about her hopes and expectations as she wonders what life will be like for them. The children turn to their father for structure and comfort only to find him too busy with work. Life goes on for everyone but not as smoothly as expected. Distance and circumstance drives the family apart. Seven years have passed and Deb's old school is dedicating the new library in her memory. A two-day journey home has Eric, Beth and Daniel remembering just how different life use to be. Nobody is eager to reveal what their lives are like now. Letters from their mother surface causing each to contemplate what they could've been as opposed to what they've become. Confrontation leads to the Sinclair's struggling with memories and past regrets.Can what drove this family apart bring them back together?
Synopsis: Time matters but can it erase the years of hurt and resentment felt by a mother and daughter? That is the question that Denise and Angela Matters struggle with as they deal with the demons of their past. By all accounts, Denise and Angela Matters are not very different. An up-and-coming prosecutor with the Fulton County District Attorney's Office, Denise is an overachiever. Poised to become the county's second black, female district attorney, second only to her mother, Angela Matters. Now, Denise is forced to prosecute a very controversial case over which, to her dismay, her mother is presiding involving a young man who is being prosecuted under the state's new hate crime statute for assaulting a gay student on the campus of Winston State University. Amidst this very public and controversial trial, these women must work against time to deal with their personal issues before it destroys them professionally.
Synopsis: Jeremy knows he looks and acts like his grandfather but he doesn't know that his mother, Jill Nava, a prominent geneticist, frustrated with her father's gambling, drinking and womanizing, cloned her father sixteen years ago and is terrified that Jeremy will adopt his grandfather's bad habits. He just thinks his mother is overly concerned with his typical high school pranks and jealous of his relationship with his grandfather. Strained relations are a matter of course in the Nava family, until in a heated argument Jill reveals the truth about Jeremy to her parents. Family dynamics and loyalties suddenly shift and the experiment rapidly begins to unfold. Jeremy discovers his true identity and struggles with his anger, confusion, and sense of betrayal. Medical issues and a real crisis bring the family back together. Lynette Long, a licensed psychologist, is the author of twenty books, forty articles, and two stage plays. She is a prize winning author and playwright.
Synopsis: Nickel Mines is a screenplay based upon the true events of the Amish school shooting. The story revolves around Rachel Smucker, a 30-year-old single mother who was excommunicated & shunned due to an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Rachel is still living in Pennsylvania Dutch Country at the time of the shootings, and she's come a long way since the excommunication of 12 years ago. Now a woman of the world, Rachel has earned a degree and established herself as a popular local singer/songwriter. The tragedy of the shootings at Nickel Mines One-Room School and the death of Rachel's youngest sister prove to be a powerful catalyst that launches Rachel into a fearless search for forgiveness, family, and faith, as she struggles to reconnect with her family and to find healing. I'm an author/journalist who lives in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, and I have many connections in the Amish community. Info on me and my work may be found on www.lindaoatmanhigh.com.
Synopsis: Two sensitive loners--Peter Benedict who stutters yet dedicated to becoming fluent and to helping the environment, and Edward Stevenson, a proud African American with lofty political ambitions-bond together in the mid 1950's, Louisville, Ky. Both discover inner strengths-Peter's diligence to speech therapy and Edward's ability to gain acceptance within the white political community. Edward, with Peter's help, becomes a state representative and Peter becomes a skillful speechwriter. Peter marries, moves to Washington, DC, yet his obsession to become fluent causes a rift in their marriage. They separate and Peter lives poorly, though gains a grant to write a book on the environment. His fluency increases, he reunites with his wife, and his book wins a Pulitzer Prize. Edward becomes a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and asks Peter to be his speechwriter. Peter proudly accepts the invitation and delivers Edward's nominating speech. WAGA Registration #0788775-00
Synopsis: Romantic Dramedy - 1960's Collapsing with unknown, divine guidance, Count Carl Colisimo's carnival runs out of gas & luck on a vacant hay field. The bitter end of a sad season of midway mud and no money to get home to Winter Quarters. The same morning, Sue Edna Bivens announces to her high school English class she will be attending a Masonic convention in Atlanta. She has no idea of the carnival arrival in her family's field. She has no premonition of the smiling sequence of events that will lead a loving but loveless beautiful heart, to the charms of an unlucky, but wise carnival Count. This magical love story weaves colorful carnival characters and local "rubes" into funny situations leading to the heartfelt outcome. When the carny caravan leaves town with a twistful happy ending, the carnival prize to all is new hope and Autumn redemption.
Synopsis: GUNS BLAZING Nine-to-fiver daydreams from nine-to-five, daydreaming of holding up the bank outside the window. However, the nine-to-fiver's business trip turns into an ego trip when the nine-to-fiver plugs into the virtual reality machine setting you free from your reality and plugging you into your fantasy land. As the nine-to-fiver lives out his fantasies as a bank robber, the bank robber keeps on traveling back through time until the bank robber pulls off the perfect heist. However, every time the bank robber travels back through time and holds up the bank, the bank robber tries to learn from his mistakes. However, something else, something even worse, always happens during each bank robbery - each bank robbery viewed from a different point-of-view - as the bank robberies go south from bad to worse. However, once the hacker hacked inside his mind and uploaded the virtual reality virus uploaded inside the nine-to-fiver, the virtual reality world was no longer a fantasy as
Synopsis: With a history of erratic behavior, Kelly copes by her comedy. She sees her ex-boyfriend at her performance and attacks him. As the audience threatens to boo her off stage, she rips off her blouse. Later, a "modeling" agency dupes her into doing nude shots. The next day these are splattered on the Internet. Kelly and her friend wind up in a casino. Kelly gets drunk and loses 5,000 dollars. Later, she crashes her car and kills a man. The man who dies has a friend who thinks Kelly is a killer. He breaks into her apartment and holds her at gunpoint. He is Kelly's disturbed half brother who has no reason to live. When he finds that Kelly is his half-sister, he commits suicide in an indirect way. Police surround Kelly's house. He forces her to go outside, pushes her to the ground, and fires one shot before police kill him. Kelly copes by turning to her writing and completes a book about her illness. She marries her boss and straightens her life out.
Synopsis: ED SMITH is a drama that exposes the real life of a sex addict. Ed Smith is in the vane of Catcher in the Rye's Holden. He is pathetic but lovable. He fumbles through his quest to meet dream girl Renee Evermore. This story is based on my own struggles with this serious affliction. Ed is thrust from his seemingly safe life into a head on collision with reality. A long relationship with call girl Jenny abrublty ends. Ed finds that his favorite stripper Christy has no real affection for him at all. Ed jumps from one dangerous situation to another. He loses his job and beloved apartment. Ed is arrested by an adrenaline junkie cop. And in the end he is forced to face reality. A previous version of this screenplay made it to the 2008 Bluecat Screenplay competition. scriptsavy.com said "In concept Ed's got a lot going for him dramatically" Also, "the script has a large number of secondary and minor characters". I would like to send you a copy for youe review.
Synopsis: The Greek King of Ithaca (an island in Greece) Odysseus goes to Sparta where to compete for the beautiful Spartan Princess Helen's hand in marriage but fails to do so. Instead Odysseus succeeds in winning her modest cousin Pricess Penelope as his wife. Helen's infidelity causes a war between the Greeks and the Trojans and Odysseus is forced to go to Troy and fight so that Helen can be returned to her rightful husband King Menelaous. Following the conquest of Troy (Northwestern Turkey) with use of Odyssey's "Trojan Horse" Odysseus goes to perform one last task in Thrace (Northeastern Greece.) However, the local people revolt and disaster falls upon Odysseus and his men as they are lost at sea. In brief, Odysseus then adventures in the Mediterranean (Greece, Egypt, Italy and France) and he is believed dead back home in Ithaca. There unwanted suitors come to Queen Penelope's court threatening both his son and his family's rights to the thrown of Ithaca.