Scripts

Feature Scripts, Genres & Loglines:

  • A Nice, Quiet Life(Drama) – A “coming to terms" story about an orthodontist, embezzlement, and murder.
  • Alternate States(Drama) – Bad things happen when four characters in three parallel worlds step through the holes in the boundaries separating them.
  • American Hangnail(Mockumentary) – A mockumentary on the fictional National Preventive Disease Foundation. "Thanks to you, we're working!"
  • Borrowed Time(Noir) – Accused of murder, Murphy, a recovering alcoholic whose wife recently passed away, accepts help from a young woman who looks like she could be his daughter...if he had one.
  • Guided Grievers (Dark Comedy) – Dark comedy about a man with terminal cancer, a wife in a coma, and people trying to kill him.
  • Last Night at Sal's (Heist Thriller) – A freelance thief plots to steal millions in cash right under the noses of some old school racketeers, a few trusted friends and some hangers-on gathered together for a “gangster fantasy camp” at Sal’s Steak House.
  • Marksman of Death (Western) – A former buffalo and bounty hunter is hired by an unscrupulous railroad baron to find a murderer in the old West.
  • Original Cyn (Erotic Drama) – An erotic noir, sci-fi, romantic drama about a woman with a fecund imagination, an vibrant love life and a missing husband, featuring only four characters and no f/x, explosions or car chases. Low budget script, with high brow themes (e.g., female sexuality, among others), so not for the timid. Optioned by Clay Ayers and Smoke Media; currently in post-production.
  • Prototype (Comedy/Sci-Fi) – Professor Kessler invents a walking, talking, seemingly-alive-in-every-practical-sense computer that will do whatever he wants it to do and in whatever form he wishes it to take. What could possibly go wrong with that?
  • Reckoning in Monument (Action) – Throw together two rival drug gangs, illegal immigration, a Governor who wants to be President, a woman determined to set the record for most-fellatio-in-one-setting, a stubborn small-town Sheriff and a man who sees himself a Hemingway Hero, and there’s bound to be a reckoning in the Southern town of Monument.
  • Secrets, Favors & Lies (Noir) – Vic Halliday thought he had married up and moved on, when two hard men from the old neighborhood come calling.
  • Smoke (Drama) - When an isolated island resort, which caters to the world’s financial, political and cultural elites, closes for the season, a disparate group of attractive young people sit around a campfire and amuse themselves with banter, beer and cannabis, until one of their number becomes convinced that at least some of the others are not who they seem to be.The Brotherhood (Apocalyptic) – Banished by the brutal and misogynistic theocracy (The Brotherhood) for having an adulterous wife, Hunter is offered reinstatement to the inner circle of this order, if only he can discover who is responsible for a heretical cult, “She Lives!” Hunter might otherwise be tempted by this offer, but he cannot accept—he’s already dead.
  • The Brotherhood (Apocalyptic) – Banished by the brutal and misogynistic theocracy (The Brotherhood) for having an adulterous wife, Hunter is offered reinstatement to the inner circle of this order, if only he can discover who is responsible for a heretical cult, “She Lives!”
  • The Cromleys of Crumbly (Dramedy) – Patricia Cromley escapes the small, Southern town her family established two hundred earlier and never looks back; she dutifully returns, however, to act as her mother’s executor and to tie up some familial and personal loose ends. Strong female lead.
  • The Devil’s Due (Dark Comedy) – The Prince of Darkness vows revenge when, just before the Holidays, he's abruptly terminated, without severance, as the Senior Executive Vice President of Wickedness, Malevolence and Sin at Good & Evil, Inc., a privately-held, family firm. (Feathers, an alternate version of the script, is the same story told from the perspective of someone who is either the Arch Angel Michelle or a very sick woman.)
  • Voyage of the Resolute(Sci-Fi) – Sent on a deep space mission to colonize an Earth-like planet, the crew of the CCS Resolute is cut off, cast adrift and abandoned in deep space. Being too far from Earth to safely risk a return, their only hope is to press on, making some difficult decisions along the way.
  • Waiting for MacArthur (War) – In the early days of the Korean War, a handful of American soldiers and Korean civilians hold their ground while waiting for MacArthur's counter invasion. A Western, with tanks.

Shorts

  • A Good, First Impression– Optioned/Produced
  • An Incident at Customs – Optioned
  • Sacking Evil – Optioned/Produced
  • The Doubtful Martyr – Optioned/Produced
  • The Sullen Family Christmas – Optioned