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Screen Plays
A WORK OF ART
Concept: A COMEDY CAPER
Chiseled from a one-thousand-pound slab of marble the "Flying Porpoise," an abstract sculpture, tumbles killing its creator. On its way to an art exhibit in San Francisco, the "Flying Porpoise," ibit it falls from the back of an armored truck and causes a seven-hour traffic jam on the Golden Gate Bridge. Later, “Flying Porpoise” is blamed for the fire, the minor earthquake and injures its thief. No wonder there's a curse.
When the sculpture lands in the reluctant custody of Peter Tuelly, he does everything he can to return it. But all hell breaks loose, Peter's inept. He's not ready for the big league. Criminals, cops, and the media are after him. Assisted by a woman who craves excitement and a neurotic art critic, Peter dons a new persona and uses some of San Francisco's most colorful and exotic locations to add his own slant on the curse of the "Flying Porpoise."
THE CINDERELLA CAPER
Concept: A TEENAGE COMEDY - ADVENTURE
A week before the prom, Tiffany discovers that the "love-of-her life" has dumped her for a mystery woman and a night at San Francisco's famed "Black and White Ball."
Tiff recruits her two best friends to crash the party. Combining their talents, Tracey an aspiring clothes designer and Moz a computer genius, elude their parents, teachers and fellow students, and ingeniously convert catastrophe into a magical, CINDERELLA night at San Francisco's famous Black and White Ball.
TON EIGHTY
CONCEPT - ROMANTIC DRAMA
Once at the top of his world, Paxton Worth, captain of an oil rig in the North Sea, is brought to his knees when severely injured in a bizarre accident between his rig and a fishing trawler. Paxton loses his job and himself to alcohol. Lurking in the back-alleys of Edinburgh and seeking revenge, he is taken under the wing of the owner of a popular Scottish pub and a former world class dart thrower.
Even from a wheelchair Paxton's a natural dart thrower. His new friends and teammates christen him the "Yank." Under the tutelage of Fiona, the pub owner’s niece, Paxton hones his skills and regains his humanity. At the Ally Pally, Great Britain's premier darting competition, Paxton tosses his way to the finals - only to discover his final opponent is the man who ruined his legs.
A LESSON IN VENGEANCE
CONCEPT - PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
A murdered student and an impotent justice system force a young widow to take justice into her own hands.
The classroom door slams shut behind a lame, grey haired woman.
"Substitute," snarls a punk. "She be hella old. Ready to die."
Using a cane for balance, the woman limps down an aisle to the chalkboard.
"Five minutes and dis bitch begone." Other kids pick up the chant. "Bitch be gone. Bitch be gone."
The woman calmly prints VENGEANCE on the chalkboard, then yanks off her disguise, whacks her cane across a desk. "Which one of you killed my son?"
THE CREATION
with Bill Levinson
CONCEPT - SCI-FI ADVENTURE - HIGH CONCEPT
What if a human created a sentient species? Would the creator be willing to give his life for his creation? And would the creation be willing to let his creator live?
Deep in space, astronauts stumble upon the remains of an ancient alien who might hold the key to the universe. The only way to retrieve it is with a new generation of robot. The robot's creator takes shortcuts and accidentally creates a sentient being. A being driven by the same instincts of all living organisms: to survive; to reproduce. The only way for the creation to survive is for the creator to die and if he does the keys to unlocking the mysteries of the universe disappear.
WINNER TAKES ALL
CONCEPT - PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
A chance encounter with her supposedly dead brother flings open the door to a young woman's nightmare childhood.
A man steps out of the shadows into the life of Keron Moore. Her brother? It can't be. He's dead. He died years ago with the rest of her family in the fire. But it is Adam, the only son in a family of daughters. Adam isn't a knight in shining armor, he's the gatekeeper to hell. And he isn’t just after Keron.
NEMESIS
CONCEPT - PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
The only witnesses to their mother's brutal death, identical twins Lindsey and Dyian grow into womanhood with different agendas. Lindsey wants justice. Dyian wants vengeance.
The twins discover the greatest fear of each of the five killers. Deep in a cave, at the deep end of swimming pool filled with ice, high on a circus tight rope, a kangaroo court is convened. Each killer is given a chance: tell the truth and justice will be served; lie and fate will decide.
As the killers vanish, the police close in on the twins. They try to create a ruse, but Dyian is killed. Now over the edge, Lindsey lures the remaining psychopath into a macabre mimicry of the last day of her mother's life.
GHOUL POOL**
CONCEPT - A BLACK COMEDY - ADVENTURE
A gambling cruise of a lifetime becomes a wager of life and death.
The Nevers, Leo and Catherine, board a cruise ship to right a horrible wrong. Brad Thomas and Tyron Power, partners in the T & P law firm, board the ship to gamble. Gamble big time. Their law firm has ruined the lives of a few clients and has caused the death of others. With the unknowing assistance of a defrocked priest, a lesbian belly dancer, a retired madam, a Vietnamese born Chinese waiter, a voodoo priestess and the invisible, Mrs. Sygank Ram; Leo and Catherine get most of the crew and passengers involved in a "Ghoul Pool." Sort of a football pool, but you only win if someone dies.
Place a bet? We'll be setting sail soon.
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