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REMOTE KILL   Written by: M. Morris

Logline:  He is the ultimate weapon of war. One look. One thought. You're dead. The face of war is changing.

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Manipulation   Written by: Vincent Asbjornsen
 
Logline: The police chief in a small town investigates the cause of a sudden string of gruesome suicides. When he discovers that these people were actually coerced into killing themselves, the chief must find the true killer, before his daughter becomes the next victim.
 
Synopsis:   In Jasmine, a small, close-knit Pacific-coast town, something sinister is lurking about.
 
In a courtroom, Dr. Johan Sorensen (60s) is found guilty of giving his female patients Rohypnol (roofies) and then molesting them. Sorensen is sent to prison, where hes murdered by an inmate. In Zurich, Switzerland, Sorensens son, Stefan (25), is distraught at the news of his fathers death.
 
Seven years later: In Jasmine, everyone knows each other, and many of the townspeople frequent the Mystical Bean, where Rachel (30s) makes tasty coffee drinks. One of her customers is Police Chief Patrick Alvarado (50s). Alvarado and Rachel give each other eyes, even though he's a married man.
 
Alvarado soon has his hands full: people in Jasmine begin exhibiting bizarre behavior. A man ties his arms and legs to four horses and is torn limb from limb; a woman dies after drinking an entire can of salt; a teenage boy nails himself to a cross. More and more bodies turn up, appearing on the surface to be suicides. But when Alvarado looks deeper, he finds that there has indeed been foul play.
 
Working together with Dr. Lazarus Cohn (65), Alvarado discovers that all of the victims have been drugged and tattooed. And another discovery: they are all, in some way, linked to the notorious Sorensen case from seven years ago. Some of the victims are loved ones of people involved with the trial. Alvarado himself was present at Sorensens trialmeaning that his daughter, Elaine (20s), could be at risk.
 
With help from Sorensens sister, Helga (70s), Alvarado gains information about Stefan. Helga describes him as Sorensen's evil, distorted son. She presents an old photo of Stefan, and Alvarado notices something familiar about the young mans face.
 
Alvarado puts two and two together just as the killer targets Elaine. Can he get to his daughter before the killer does?
 
 
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The Mystic Bean  Written by: Vincent Asbjornsen
 
Logline:  A series of bizarre murders have struck a quiet Northern California town, and it's up to Chief Patrick Alvarado to solve them. The odd thing is that the murders were committed by the victims own hands.
 
Synopsis:  Seven years after the trial of a psychotic doctor, Dr. Johan Sorensen, who was experimenting on his female patients with mind altering drugs to take advantage of them, a series of grisly murders has struck the town of Jasmine, California.
 
When the first victim has himself torn apart by horses while in a hypnotic state, the Chief of Police, Patrick Alvarado, is set to find the killer. Only, since he does not understand the psychotic mind, he enlists the help of the local psychiatrist, Dr. Lazarus Cohn.
 
Alvarado not only has murder to contend with. A married man with a twenty-something daughter at home, he's at a midlife crisis point in his life and entertaining a romance with the local coffee bar proprietress, Rachel, who owns the Mystic Bean. To add to his troubles, his daughter, Elaine, has been taken under the wing of a local herpetologist, a woman named Martie Rickenbaucker. Now that she has a fascination with snakes, Alvarado is concerned that she is constantly in danger.
 
When a woman, who dies as a result of drinking an entire can of salt, shows up on the victim list, Alvarado and Dr. Cohn find a connection between the two in the form of a numerical tattoo with the Zodiac symbol for Scorpio. When medical examinations of the dead are performed, it's found that they have the same mind altering drugs in their blood as Sorensen's female patients did. As they piece together the puzzle, each victim has penned stanzas of a disturbing poem that alludes to that person's form of death.
 
When other bizarre deaths occur, Alvarado learns that all the victims were involved in the trial that lead to Sorensen's conviction. He can only surmise that the perpetrator is out for revenge, using mind control to cause the victims to take their own lives.
 
Alvarado is concerned about the trial connection because he was the arresting officer in the Sorensen case. When the vengeance finally hits Alvarado, his daughter Elaine is made to suffer through an encounter with one of the snakes at Rickenbaucker's lab and a close encounter with a house fire.
 
When Alvarado figures out who the culprit is, he's both befuddled and angry, but finds a new appreciation for his family, rejecting an affair with Rachel. The culprit is able to escape, but not without releasing a scourge on the small town.
 
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BLACK ANGEL  Written By: Mistretta/Henriques 
 
Logline:  He came to free them.
 
Synopsis:  Nick Duncan, an American man, is condemned to life in prison for murder. Nick rapidly withdraws into total silence and subsequently begins a hunger strike to protest his innocence. Unexpectedly, he develops powers which enable him to connect with his fellow inmates minds, live their experiences and act in their interest and on their behalf. Soon, Nick's case contradicts medical science and draws the attention of the media. A mediator named Matt Crowe is brought in to resolve the crisis of the "Black Angel, a nickname given to Nick by the other inmates.
 
But it soon becomes clear that the renowned mediator was actually hand-selected by the Black Angel himself... With his help, Nick will implement measures and reforms to help prisoners recover their integrity and give them a genuine second chance at life.
 
 
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NETWORK OF KILLERS (Crime thriller) Written by Dewey B. Reynolds.
 
Logline:  A pair of powerful Chicago Mafia bosses networks with a sophisticated Kansas City Mafia boss to notoriously orchestrate the killing of an FBI Special Agent.
 
Synopsis: 
 
Network of Killers is an edgy crime thriller about a pair of powerful Chicago Mafia bosses who networks with a sophisticated Kansas City Mafia boss to notoriously orchestrate the killing of an FBI Special Agent. The agent has been assigned by the Washington, D.C. branch of the Organized Crime Task Force Unit to go to Kansas City, Missouri and investigate their suffocating stranglehold on Local Union Forty-Five. It is one of the richest and most powerful midwestern Teamsters Union of its kind.
 
The trio of Mafia bosses learn through crooked, yet valuable sources, how the Criminal Investigative Division of the FBI is sending one of their top FBI Special Agents to Kansas City. The agent has been christened to investigate the unholy alliance between the Teamsters Union and powerful organized crime figures. The three Mafiosos are well aware how their notorious crime families will feel the hot breath of the U. S. government closing in if this agent gathers all of his important data from the FBIs Field Office there in Kansas City. The most precious jewel in their crown is the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters.
 
Diligent U. S. Attorneys with the Justice Department in Washington are vigilant about building cases against them in Kansas City and Chicago.
 
As a last desperate measure, the duo of Chicago Mafia bosses hands the orders down to the Kansas City Mafia boss for the FBI Agent to be killed on Kansas Citys turf. A band of bloodthirsty contract killers have been sanctioned to take out this agent. Network of Killers is a supremely fascinating tale of greed, power, betrayal, and sex, where the shadows of a violent death lurks within its deep dark inner sanctums. It is a compelling story which goes deep into the brutal and bloody world of men who achieve their ultimate goals of maintaining a vicious, violent, and vulgar alliance
 
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FIVE IRON MEN  (crime/thriller) Written by Dewey B. Reynolds. Posted Sept 15, 2007
 
Logline:  A group of five midwestern Mafia bosses continuously plot the murders of high-powered individuals in order to keep their ironclad grip on a white collar criminal enterprise.
 
Synopsis:
 
Five Iron Men is a suspenseful thriller about a group of five midwestern crime bosses who continuously plot the murders of high-powered individuals who pose as threats to their vast criminal enterprise. Welcome to the early nineteen nineties America. It is an era of unprecedented prosperity for a select group of criminal masterminds. The five crime bosses have resurrected a fallen Mafia dynasty once controlled by their sinister predecessors. They have a zestful stranglehold and an ironclad grip on Wall Street, Hollywood, Teamsters Unions, pornography, strip clubs, phony mortgage companies, auto theft rings, narcotics, and health-care fraud.
 
The five Mafiosos from Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City, and Milwaukee often meet to settle disputes which develop within and outside their powerful criminal organizations. Insubordinate rivals who relish in civil disobedience are eliminated in the most brutal fashion. The bosses divide up territory and engage in strategic joint ventures. Their three main objectives are very clear. Making money, exercising power, and if the need arises, maximizing bloodshed, have become their diehard constitutions. The killing cycle is never ending when competitors arent compliant with their wishes.
 
Important meetings are called at the historic Pendergast Mansion in Kansas City to discuss problems of universal complexities. Wall Street brokers, Hollywood movie moguls, Teamsters Union powerhouses, porno magnates, strip club owners, drug kingpins, and health-care icons have become primary targets to the bloodthirsty web casted by the five bosses. The mega-millions in proceeds gives them every incentive to expand their criminal empire.
 
Five Iron Men is a bonechilling tale of how a midwestern criminal dynasty operates in a world where greed, corruption, murder, and betrayal are business as usual.
 
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MY CONFESSION IN NORTH KOREA  (Thriller/Action) Written By Frank Wang -posted June 6, 2007
 
Logline:  An American journalist travels to North Korea to interview the elusive Kim Jong-Il only to discover the lives of a million innocents are jeopardized by a doomsday virus; to save them, he must expose his dark secret to the world.
 
Synopsis:  On Oct 9th, 2006, a shocking nuclear test placed North Korea and the U.S. on a collision course.
 
To improve ratings for the Primetime News Network, Sean Berkley constructs an under-the-table million-dollar deal, which allows him to interview North Korea leader Kim Jong-Il. During the historical interview, the elusive Kim Jong-Il sends a message to American public and ends the interview after a mere ten minutes. In order to achieve his objective, Sean and his colleagues begin exploring the city of Pyongyang to learn more about Kim Jong-Il and his regime.
 
The news team learns that a doomsday outbreak is taking place in North Korea, with potential to spread throughout the world. Sean secretly scouts the fully guarded quarantine area and is convinced that the lives of a million outbreak victims are in jeopardy; he decides to do whatever he can to protect and save the innocent civilians, and keep the virus from spreading to other parts of the world.
 
An unexpected encounter with Russian virologist and fanatic scientist, Makar Smirnov, reminds Sean about his own dark secret, which he has concealed for almost two decades. He realizes that the intervention of the doomsday outbreak will expose his dark secret to the world and he will lose his career, family, and reputation as an award-winning journalist.
 
After intense soul searching, Sean finds a way to save the innocents and keep his dark secret from being exposed, but an unexpected natural disaster destroys his plans. Sean's failure to contain the outbreak forces Kim Jong-Il to approve a contingency plan to stop the outbreak: the extermination of a million citizens under the guise of another nuclear test.
 
Knowing the doomsday outbreak is a direct result of what he did in the past, and a million people will die because of him, Sean confesses his awful guilt and convinces a group of North Korean Army officers to help him uncover the source of the outbreak, the only way for North Korea to be able to get help from the international communities.
 
After a fierce aerial battle and firefight between the group of North Korea Army officers helping Sean and another group who support the fanatic scientist, Makar Smirnov, Sean eventually discovers the source of the outbreak and presents it to Kim Jong-Il, who uses the evidence to get help from the international community and stop the outbreak.
 
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SOCCER MOM          Written by  Dwayne Conyers -Posted November 13, 2006
 
Logline:   A suburban soccer mom learns that she is a CIA operative with an erased memory.  She is recalled to duty when her former nemesis, thought to be long dead, returns and kidnaps the President’s daughter.
 
Synopsis: 

Act One

VINCENT FRASER returns to CIA headquarters after successfully thwarting an attempt by terrorists to blow up an airliner.  After Section Chief EVELYN SORIANO chews him out for involving his 13 year old daughter KAHALA in the mission, he learns that Euro-Criminal KATARINA “DOUBLE-K” KARTSONAKIS, thought to be dead, has surfaced with financial backing from powerful terrorist groups.  Her target is the vacationing First Daughter, Aimee Simpson.  Evelyn’s plan is to recall agent JULIE BENET, the agent with the most experience with Double-K.  Julie, however, has been under cover the past ten years with an erased memory.  She is suburban soccer mom Sally Dougherty with a ten year old daughter RUBY and a balding, nerd of a husband, GERALD. 

TURNING POINT:  Evelyn travels to Julie’s bucolic suburban community and reverses the memory erasure.  Julie is livid to learn that Double-K is still alive, and at her situation with Gerald and Ruby.

Act Two

Vincent and Evelyn return Julie to Langley.  Vincent insists on taking Ruby, reflecting on the loss of his wife and the affect on Kahala.  While it seems that the threat has dissipated (Aimee’s Secret Service detail doubles and Double-K leaves Europe on a try to Asia.  What they don’t realize is that Double-K has hired a Ninja hit team to carry out the abduction while she delivers a final payment to the Triad via liaison QING LI.  While Julie quickly gets back up to speed, the Ninja (lead by a mysterious woman named XUAN) snatch Aimee from a German nightclub, leaving a trail of bodies in the process.  Vincent and Julie assemble a team that travels to Asia in search of Double-K while Evelyn and her team coordinate intelligence back at CIA Headquarters.  They eventually track Double-K to a safe house in Yemen, an area under Al-Qaeda occupation.  Working with a Yemeni double agent MA’MUN “GUY” HARAZ, they infiltrate the safe house and rescue Aimee.  Double-K and Xuan escape on motorcycles, but Julie pursues them. 

TURNING POINT:  Julie winds up captured by Double-K and Xuan.  The Blackhawk helicopters sent to evacuate Aimee are under fire and have to exit Yemeni airspace, leaving Julie without backup.

Act Three

Double-K plans to shoot Julie execution style but discovers she already expended the last of her ammunition.  Julie takes the opportunity to fight her way out of the predicament.  After a two-against-one fight, Julie kills Xuan.  Double-K flees in a hijacked vehicle and appears to escape when Vincent’s Blackhawk returns to blow up the vehicle and extract Julie.  Vincent and Julie return home to discover the housekeeper face down in a pool of blood.  Qing Li and three Triad toughs lay waiting for an ambush.  It would appear Vincent and Julie will meet their end, but Kahala and Ruby, hiding in a secret crawlspace, create a distraction that turns the tables.  Later, Julie’s divorce from Gerald is finalized and she and Vincent plan to raise their girls in the “family business.”  We FADE TO: a Yemeni hospital where the still alive Double-K plots her next move…


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COCAINE APPLES   Written by William D. Colella - posted May 27, 2006
 
 
Logline:  When genetic engineering becomes the newest form of drug smuggling, an LAPD detective and a DEA agent strive to bring down the criminal genius responsible. -- WriteMovies.com International Writing Competition Finalist
 
Synopsis:     LAPD Detective Frank Jerol uncovers a new form of drug smuggling--fruits and vegetables genetically modified to contain illegal drugs called "gen mods."
 
Undercover DEA Agent Kelly Dunbar falls in love with the creator of the genetic modifications, Dale Montrose, who sells his products to hospices and street dealers alike.
 
Frank strives to find a link between the gen mods and an underground network of vigilante cops. Kelly throws off LAPD investigations until she finds a dark secret from Dale's past and her own.
 
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REPRISAL        Written by Kuir Garang -- posted March 27 2006
 
Logline:   When two car accident victims are taken to Smith’s surgical unit, Smith is made to believe his girlfriend killed the victims. As they were pronounced dead in hospital, all eyes fall on him as having killed them to protect his girlfriend. However, the series of murders and kidnapping were to end by showing Smith that his life had been biologically a big lie just like the events that had threatened his licence had been.
 
Synopsis:     Smith is a successful surgeon in Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital. But he doesn’t know that his presumed father (Filion) was a lady’s man who had grudges with guys he’d rob of love of their lives. His mum’s then lover (Pierre) tried to frame Filion out of anger, but then the set-up failed and Pierre accidentally killed Filion’s partner and framed the man’s son as having killed his father.

Now, a then little boy (Daniel) discovered that Pierre is the killer and threatens to blow the whistle and Pierre has to protect himself from going to jail after having left crime years before. Daniels knew his mother loved Filion and was made to believe he was his father. Having discovered that Filion has a son who was to inherit to get a certain amount of dollar, Daniels conditioned Pierre to get him the money or else he let the cat out of the bag.

Pierre invents the story of Michael Brain, the son of then murdered cop (Filion’s partner). He contracts criminal minded guys and the invented Michael is believed to have come back after two decades and wants to kill Smith as the person who killed his father. Pierre doesn’t tell Daniels what is happening and Daniel doesn’t bother about what was happening as long as he gets the money.

Kidnappings happens with Anna (Smith’ promiscuous girlfriend) being kidnapped and forced to say that she caused an accident and killed a woman and her daughter. Days later a charred body that is not recognizable is delivered as Anna’s body with DNA sample having been taken from Anna. The doctor who performed the DNA result is made to believe that Smith is to frame him so that he’s fired or arrested. He accepts to cooperate with the hired gangs.

As the news of Anna as having been dead comes, July, Anna sister is kidnapped. Pierre tells his men to call the detective taking care of the car. But the detectives are the same Daniels and Nelson. Nelson and Daniel are told by anonymous calls that Smith is behind all the problems, but the informative yet lacking in substance to arrest Smith.

But then things start to fall apart with Brain (the one commissioned by Pierre to carry out the mission) and Jack, his accomplice, falling off and hitting rivalry. Jack tells Daniels that the issue Pierre said is what he was taking care of and that Pierre is delaying the issue to kill him (Daniels, who is now the detective taking care of the case that seemingly resulted from him). Greed, mistrust set in and Daniels tried to kill Pierre only for Pierre to end up killing the sent people.

Daniels went out of his way and killed Ezra, Pierre friend. Daniel flees after finding the message that he is the one being sought after by the police. His wife is told that her husband is a guilty a fugitive. When his wife picked him up after he’d kidnapped Leila (Smith’s Friend), he accidentally shot at his wife when Leila struggled to run away. He’s taken in custody only for Pierre to kill him.

Pierre being smart as he was, he’d taken the paper containing Smith inheritance money and left a fake copy of the paper containing the information. Brian takes the paper to Smith only for Anna to Anna (After being freed with July) to throw it into the fire out of over excitement. Now, Smith believes he lost his fortune.

No one knew what was happening and why it was happening for the essence of every event was making no sense however well everyone tried to understand. Then Smith got a call from Pierre in jail. He gives Smith a letter that contains the information of what was cooking, why and what went wrong.

Smith now realizes the mystery and lie his life has been.

 
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