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Broken Souls (True Story) Written by: Doris Anne Beaulieu
Logline: A young girl in the 1950s must
leave her strict sheltered home and face the
cruel, harsh realities of the modern world. In the process she learns to
overcome tragedy and to find her place as a true woman of today.
Synopsis: I was very much a child of the 50's. I attended private school and was
constantly under pressure from my strict parents that believed being "
sheltered" from the world was only way to live a pure and healthy life. I was
repressed in everything that I did and as I grew up in this environment. I was
never exposed to any of the harsh realities that most modern children of today
can see by just turning on a television set.
But the day finally came, that I had to leave my hometown. I had
to leave
this blanket of comfort that, unbeknownst to me, was smothering all of my social
development. I was married very young, still a child in mind and body, and I was
thrown into the city and the hard tough world that I could not understand, nor
could I cope with alone.
During this time, I eventually met another woman, similar to me,
and she
became my guardian angel. With her help, and by making the hard decisions I was
able to overcome tragedy in my life and become the person I am today.
This screenplay tells my story. A story of how parents can mean
well, while
doing harm that may take years to overcome. This screenplay sends a positive
message to parents who intend to place their children in private schools or home
school, as well as our politicians. And finally this may help us to see that we
need some guidelines to protect the mental well-being of our children.
More of my personal experience can be found in my book The Torments of the
Modest Secluded Farm Life and it’s screenplay "Broken Souls." I hope,
through my experience, I can soon make a difference for children facing similar
situations.
For a copy of the script please contact:
Doris Anne Beaulieu
http://www.LifesUltimateTest.com
Phone: 207-634-2259
doris2@prexar.com
WGO#1074373
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Lipstick and Rouge Written By: Patricia Greski
Logline: The
story of greed and corruption in the real estate investing world.
Synopsis: Newly divorced real estate investor Kat Pierce discovers that her ex-husband and former partner,
Danny Wade, has stolen her identity to finance one of his deals. To make matters worse, he has partnered up with
her nemesis, Mitch Wheeler. When Kat meets Jack Larson (who later becomes her love interest), a builder who is
losing his $2M+ unfinished lakefront home to foreclosure she masterminds a plot to save it. But to do this, she
needs Danny. She feeds him information on a deal that shes putting together. If he keeps Mitch away
from this deal the identity theft incident will be forgiven. As she predicted, Danny spills the information to
Mitch. What she doesn't know is he did this, not to steal her deal, but rather to save her from danger from Mitch
who has ordered his boys to "take care of her". The second act ends with Mitch outbidding her at the foreclosure
auction and stealing her buyer. But per the buyer, the deal is that all construction on the home be completed before
closing. Although Kats plan worked perfectly, she is angry and hurt because she thinks that Danny betrayed her
to Mitch.
Still stinging from the betrayal the third act sees Kat turning on Danny
with a visit to Attorney Generals office. In the interim Mitch completes Jack's home, but things go awry for him
in a surprising twist the day before closing when Jack files bankruptcy. Mitch and his partners have poured half
a million dollars into completing this home and now they cant sell it. What they didnt know is that their buyer
was a setup, as was the bankruptcy. The buyer that Mitch contracted with was a rich client of Kats father. When
Jacks attorney petitions the bankruptcy court for a relief of stay on his home, it is granted, allowing him to
sell it to Kat's buyer for a huge profit. To add insult to injury, Mitch and his cohorts (Danny included) are arrested
on various charges stemming from the Attorney Generals investigation. In the end, Jack and Kat ride off into the
sunset, happy and wealthy.
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Children In Cold Storage (Based on a true story)
Written by Dewey B. Reynolds. Posted Sept 15, 2007
Logline: The specter of abuse and neglect lurks
within the deep dark inner sanctums of an insanely brutal foster home.
Synopsis:
Children In Cold Storage is a dark and edgy tale that is a true-life
account about the brutal experiences a group foster children and handicapped men encounter in a foster home.
Numerous foster children and mentally challenged men are brutally beaten
at the hands of an evil and cold-hearted foster father. The home is scrupulously unsanitary. The living conditions are surrounded
with extreme filth such as weeks-old soiled laundry. Large rats and thousands of cockroaches are nesting throughout the entire
house. Some of the foster children suffer health-related problems as a result of the unsanitary conditions.
The diabolical foster father proves to be extremely abusive by brutally
raping his fourteen year old innocent and helpless foster daughter. He cleverly evades the law through master deception and
vicious lies. The foster daughter is taken away and sent to another foster home.
Social service authorities are apprehensive about bringing more foster
children to the home after the occurrence of the senseless rape. The cycle of abuse doesn't stop there. The foster father
then impregnates another foster daughter after she is manipulated into giving in to his strong sexual advances.
The foster mother finally suspects her husband is guilty of rape and
child molestation years following her marriage to him. She threatens to end his life after slipping into one of her anger
frenzies. After suffering from a fatal stroke due to her failing health, the appropriate child care services are contacted
and their notorious foster parenting home is finally put out of business.
Many former foster children come back to pay their respects in an overcrowded
church. Children In Cold Storage is based on a powerfully true story which takes you deep into the inner sanctums of an insanely
brutal foster home where the specter of abuse and neglect lurks within its dark shadows.
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The Enemy Wears Blue (Urban drama) Written
by Dewey B. Reynolds. Posted Sept 15, 2007
Logline: The life of a dedicated African American
police officer takes a serious downward spiral once he becomes the main target of a major reverse drug sting operation.
Synopsis:
The Enemy Wears Blue goes deep into the personal and professional life
of a dedicated African-American police officer with the KCPD. He falls deeply in love with a fellow white officer who is a
four year veteran with the police force. He comes from an impoverished background while she comes from a wealthy background.
Narcotics detectives with the KCPD are tipped off about the pair dating one another. They strongly object to both officers
being involved in an interracial relationship. They leave Kansas City to vacation out in Los Angeles. One of the most notorious
drug dealers in the Los Angeles area picks them up at their hotel and takes them to one of the hottest nightclubs in the city.
Neither of the officers are aware that he is under tight surveillance
by the LAPD and the DEA. Detectives with the LAPDs narcotics unit are tipped off by narcotics detectives with the KCPD that
the male officer is possibly involved with drug trafficking back in Kansas City. The officers arrive back in Kansas City and
his life begins to take a serious downward spiral. He faces a tough police chief who prompts his department staff to start
up an intense investigation surrounding his alleged drug trafficking.
The stresses of dealing with crime on the streets of Kansas City begin
to take its toll. A series of bloody drug-related homicides creates chaos throughout African American communities. The officer
is moved to another division and the KCPDs narcotics unit are ready to make their move. He receives a decoy call which leads
him inside a drug-infested apartment building. It is all a part of a major reverse drug sting operation set up by the department.
Video cameras have been installed inside the apartment. The officer takes the contraband which was planted by other officers
with the KCPD. A government star witness diligently testifies against this officer and he is eventually sentenced to five
years in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. The Enemy Wears Blue gives credible details of how fast one police officer had
risen and how far he had fallen.
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Mr. Stankowski Written By Paulette (Paula)
Danzy
Logline: Challenged by an irate high school student,
an American history teacher must choose between integrity and personal gain.
Synopsis:
ACT 1:
Nicholas (Nick) Stankowski, is a high school American History teacher;
he is a happily married man, he lives in a nice suburban neighborhood, in Indiana, and he's in line to become the next principal
of Elliston High.
However, after one of his students, Jamel Carter, returns from spring break, Jamel begins skipping
Nick's American History Class. Regardless of the fact that Jamel is one of the school's star basketball players, Nick is obligated
to report Jamel’s truancy, and speaks to the school's basketball coach about him. The coach advises
Jamel that he must return to Nick’s history class or he'll be cut from the basketball roster.
Angry, Jamel
shows up in Nick’s
class the next day, but becomes embroiled in a racially charged fracas with Steve Feldson, another student who is also on
the basketball team, about remarks Jamel makes about cornerstone documents of American history, and American presidents. Both
students are excluded from school for a week which prevents them from practicing for an upcoming championship game with a
rival school.
Curious about Jamel's attitude, and the remarks he made about American history, Nick pulls out his
old college and high school text books in an attempt to prove Jamel wrong. Unable to locate proof-positive of Jamel’s
erroneous statements, Nick contacts his former professor from college and arranges to meet with him to discuss the issue.
However, Nick is faced with a personal dilemma when the professor advises him that the statements Jamel had made about American
history were true. The professor provides Nick with several texts he’d been prevented from using during his teaching years, and
advises Nick that pursuing the truth as indicated in the texts could cause him to be publicly crucified.
Nick goes to the Carter's home to apologize for allowing Jamel to be
vilified in class, but Jamel refuses to talk to him. Instead, Nick talks to Jamel's father and learns that he and Jamel had
gone to Senegal in West Africa during spring break and had experienced the actual locations where African slaves had been
kidnapped and shipped off to America. After hearing about their emotional trip, Nick decides to push for a correction in the
history book being used in his class.
ACT II
Nick recommends a new book to the principal of the school stating that
the currently accepted history book did not accurately reflect the truth about American History. But the principal, a bigot,
explodes with anger, flatly refusing to consider a change in books. When Nick advises the principal that he intends to bring
up the issue at the next school board meeting, the principal suspends Nick for insubordination.
Nick's wife, Karin, who wants to enhance their standing in the community,
had asked Nick not to get involved with the controversy because it might jeopardize his chances of becoming the next principal
of the school. When word gets out that Nick has been suspended because of his intention to change the history book, the media
and several hooligans descend upon his home, frightening his wife and daughter, and trashing his front lawn.
Sorry that he'd caused a furor, but advising his wife that he must act
according to the dictates of his conscience, Nick is shattered when his wife tells him she is taking their daughter and moving
out of the house. The situation also causes a rift between Karin and their daughter, Beth, who feels her mother is being disloyal
to Nick in his time of need, and that her mother is also a bigot. Unknown to Nick and his wife, their daughter is friends
with Jamel who had prevented Steve Feldson from sexually harassing her earlier in the school year.
Upset over her argument with her mother, Beth runs out of the house,
calls Jamel, and Jamel picks her up at the local mall. Steve Feldson, and his friends who hang out at the mall, see Beth get
in Jamel's car, and Steve is goaded by his friends into calling the police.
Nick contacts several lawyers to represent him at the upcoming board
meeting, but is turned down by each one. He finally accepts a suggestion by a parking lot attendant to try a black lawyer
who lives just across the county line. Nick sees the lawyer who advises him that the case could go all the way to the Supreme
Court, and that it could also ruin his life.
Karin arrives at her mother's home expecting to find her daughter who
is not there. She talks to her grandmother who calls her a coward and tells her a little known family secret that causes Karin
to rethink her position and go home. Karin arrives back home just as Nick momentarily entertains the thought of suicide. She
tells him how sorry she was for leaving and that no matter what she loves him. The phone rings, and they are told that Beth
is being held at the police station on a curfew violation. When they retrieve Beth, they find out about Jamel saving Beth
from Steve Feldson's unwanted advances. They see Steve and his friends as they leave the police station, and Nick talks to
Steve about his relationship with Beth.
ACT III
The media and everyone in town attend the board meeting where, after
the testimony of the principal and several others, it appears the entire town is against him, and Nick is ready to collapse.
Seeing the toll the controversy is taking on his family, Nick decides to resign. But before he does, he makes a powerful statement
to the board and everyone in the room about the responsibility of being an American. He then advises the board that he does
not want to live or work in a community that does not value the truth, and he submits his resignation. However, the board
reprimands him for thinking he is the only one of integrity in the town, and they refuse to accept his resignation telling
him they have reviewed his research and agree that the book should be changed. In addition, the board offers him the job as
the next principal of Elliston High.
Elliston High wins the season basketball championship when Jamel and
Steve work together to break the tie in the last 15 seconds of the game. Later in the locker room, Steve apologizes to Jamel
and Jamel gives Steve tips on how to win Beth over. The next day, Nick challenges his multicultural class to forget their
ethnic differences and begin again as Americans.
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The Factory Worker
Written by Sam Owens
Logline: "A devoted family man must make
a life or death decision to save his family from self-destruction."
Synopsis:
Having relinquished his dream of going to University when his wife became
pregnant as a teenager, and after twenty years of devotion to his wife, children, and his job as a factory worker, John’s
family life suddenly begins self-destruct. Within days he learns the promotion to management he was promised was given to
a young university graduate, with no experience at the factory whatsoever. He discovers his wife is having an affair, his
young teenage daughter is pregnant, and his son appears to have deeper feelings for his wife’s lover than himself. And
his family blames John for everything, despite the fact that he loves them deeply and has worked double time all these years
to provide the best for them.
John goes on a mission to repair the damage caused by constantly working
at the factory and never being home. And he succeeds, taking his daughter under his wing when she needs him most, and outwardly
proving his love and affection for his daughter and son. His relationship with his wife is beyond repair on both sides; she
tells him that she has remained in the marriage only for the children and John’s money; she promises to take every dime
if he files for divorce. John’s children are most important in his world and he makes arrangements to protect them financially
through trust funds, ensuring their futures despite a divorce. Regardless, the anguish of losing his promotion and hurting
his children assaults him, and he decides on one last act to prove his love; it will be John’s ultimate sacrifice.
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Jackson Creek (Drama, Action, Romance)
Written by Paula Danzy
Logline: A love triangle between childhood friends
changes the course of many lives.
Synopsis:
Prologue:
In a small sharecropping community in 1930’s
Georgia, two young black friends, Skeeter Bailey and Charlie Johnson attend a wake for Skeeter’s father….Skeeter
becomes hysterical and Charlie takes him to their childhood meeting place, Jackson Creek….They discuss leaving home
for a chance at a better life, but are suddenly interrupted by a pretty young girl named Anna Lea who has a crush on Charlie
-- Skeeter has a crush on Anna Lea.
Act I
Years
later, Anna Lea tries to seduce Charlie into marriage, but he insists on waiting….Angry that Charlie insists on marriage,
she later meets Skeeter at a roadhouse and goes with him to Jackson Creek….After working for an old white man who has
taken him under his wing, Charlie finds Skeeter and Anna Lea making love….Anna Lea tells Skeeter she is pregnant….Skeeter
runs away….Anna Lea allows Charlie to be blamed, causing him to fight with her drunken step-father – who lusts
after her himself….The fight brings out the humiliating truth about the father of her child…Anna Lea is prevented
from seeing Charlie before he is drafted into World War II.
Act II
In France, Fate causes
Charlie to be assigned to Skeeter’s unit….Charlie’s convoy is ambushed….Skeeter saves his life….Skeeter
visits Charlie in the hospital, confesses his love for Anna Lea, and his sorrow that his friendship with Charlie is ruined….Recovering
from his injuries, Charlie goes on leave and meets Genette Bouchard in Paris….Genette has a missing brother….No
one knows what happened to him except a rich, perverted man who is obsessed with Genette….Happy with the love and freedom
he finds in Paris, Charlie decides to remain in France after the war….Skeeter dies in their last encounter with the
German Army….Charlie and Genette are happy until he is notified of a compelling responsibility at home….He tells
Genette why she cannot go with him to America….Promising to return if he can, he leaves for home not knowing Genette
carries his child.
Act III
Returning to Jackson Creek, Charlie has an explosive
encounter with a prejudiced train conducter….He discovers that the old white man who mentored him has left him a bequest….The
gift allows him to become successful…. Still desperately in love with Charlie, Anna Lea tries to rekindle their romance
but she must deal with a strong and determined adversary….Charlie tries to contact Genette, but the rich man finds an
insidious way to keep them apart. Dejected because she has not heard from Charlie,
Genette marries the rich man to ensure a future for her child, but he abuses her and she finally leaves him….A scorned
woman reveals the truth about Genette’s missing brother….The rich man pays for his crimes….Charlie satisfies
his responsibility at home….He returns to Paris and learns he has a son….They meet and arrive together at a party
Genette is hosting for orphaned children of the war….After 12 years, Genette sees Charlie and their son together for
the first time….
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Oliver's Twist written
by Daniel White
Logline: A man trapped in a one day endless
loop must prevent a senseless murder to set himself free. Now, if only he could figure out how...
Synopsis: Oliver wakes up every morning
at 8:30, it is the same day - every day. He knows that the only way to break free of this cycle is to prevent his ex-girlfriends
murder, the only problem is he does not know where to begin.
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
Written by Matthew Paul Gricar
Logline: A young man triumphs with the help of
an unlikely ally: Abraham Lincoln
Synopsis: The time is 1948. The setting
is Detroit,MI. Fired from his job earlier in the day, Frank Summers has returned home drunk. Striking his daughter, he kills
her. Witness to this is her brother, Michael, the main character in the screenplay.
Placed in a foster care home, Michael is adopted by a loving family.
Eleven years pass peacefully.
Implicated in a crime, Michael is sent to prison. It is here he encounters
Abraham Lincoln for the first time. Mr. Lincoln tells Michael that his sister died also when he was Michael's age. With a
renewed sense of purpose, he completes his prison sentence.
A job awaits Michael when he returns, he befriends a handicapped
person, falls in love and gets married. Returning home from work one day, a discovery has been made. Film footage of Abraham
Lincoln has been recovered from a razed farm house in Gettysburg,VA. Played on television Mr. Lincoln tells Michael he is
being followed.
The birth of a baby, and a reunion with his brother, propel the movie
to its climax: Micheal's last encounter with Mr. Lincoln and the identity of his pursuer.
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Dead Man's Hand Written
By: Matt Luedtke
Logline: A small-town gambler has dreams of making it big at the World Series of Poker. He goes to Vegas with his two buddies
and half of the $10,000 entry fee, but a gambling debt forces him to decide between his dreams and his best friends life.
Synopsis: Andy is a small town gambler
who has dreams of winning the World Series of Poker. Andy loses most of his money in a No Limit Texas Hold 'em cash game at
a local bar. His dad, Dan, is playing in the same game and also loses on the same hand, Aces and Eights, or Dead Mans Hand.
Andy asks Dan to loan him ten thousand dollars; the buy-in at the World Series of Poker. Dan refuses, much to Andys displeasure.
After losing almost all of the money he had been saving up to buy in
at The Series, Andy finds out that he has been evicted from his house. He goes to stay with his best friend Couch and his
roommate Steve, who is an imbecile that neither of them really likes. However, when Andy and Couch decide to go to Vegas for
the Series, Steve offers Andy five thousand dollars to let him go with them. The three head for Vegas hoping that Andy can
win the rest of the ten thousand dollar buy-in.
Meanwhile Dan runs into his friend Shawn, who is a cop in the small
town they live in. They get drunk and meet Lucky, a drifter who only has one arm and one leg. After a wild night Shawn finds
out that Dan was caught cheating on his wife and is living with his girlfriend in a trailer park. Shawn was also caught cheating
on his wife and is living with his mother. They decide that they have nothing to lose and that they should head to Vegas so
Dan can play in the World Series. Lucky decides to go with them.
In Vegas, Andy starts trying to win the rest of his money at the Blackjack
table. He is surprised when he runs into Dan and learns of his plans to play in the World Series. Andy is also surprised to
see Dan winning a ton of money at the Craps table. Andy begins to gamble and is also on a hot streak, but Steve and Couch
arent having any fun because they are broke. Dan decides to take them all out to a strip club so Steve and Couch can have
a good time. He has won so much money that he pays for the whole night. They rent their own private room at the strip club
and one of the strippers, Daisy, catches Andys eye.
Andy takes Daisy home and they begin to get to know each other over
the next couple of days. Meanwhile, Dan is getting crazy and losing all of his money in the casino. Shawn is trying to monitor
how much he is losing, but to no avail. Lucky is gambling and having a good time, but Steve and Couch are still not having
any fun. Andy and Daisy are winning a lot of money, well over what Andy needs for the series, so he gives Couch and Steve
each two grand and Daisy hooks them up with her two stripper friends.
Finally the Series is about to begin. Andy has more than enough money
and Lucky has enough to cover too, but Dan has lost all of his money and is a drunken wreck. Shawn, Andy, and Lucky try to
sober him up and Andy gives him ten grand so he can play in the Series as well.
Once the Series starts, all three men start doing pretty well. After
two days Andy is the chip leader of the whole tournament. Each day Andy is getting closer and closer to his dream of winning
the World Series of Poker.
Steve and Couch are living it up with their two thousand dollars and
the strippers, and soon decide to gamble a little bit. The strippers take them to a shady bar where there is gambling in the
back. Andy comes home after the Series and finds that Steve has been brutally beaten and the men who did it are holding Couch.
Daisy knows where the place is and she takes Andy there.
The place is called Rays Place, owned by Ray, Daisys boss. He tells
Andy that if he doesn't finish top twenty five in the Series and give all the money to him, Couch is dead. Andy, in fear of
losing his best friend, agrees to the deal. But it is affecting his poker game and he drops out of the chip lead soon after
he learns what happened. He tells Dan, Lucky, and Shawn what happened and they decide to just let Andy take care of it, even
though Shawn wants to go and get Couch out of there.
Andy gets back on track and becomes the chip leader once again. Things
are going great and Andy is almost certain to finish at least top twenty five, but things take another turn for the worst
when he finds out that Daisy and her friends were in on the whole scam. The day before the final table, which Andy and Dan
have both made, he finds out that Ray is going to kill Couch regardless of what happens. They decide that they have to save
him.
Andy and Shawn go to Ray's Place with guns and a lot of ammunition.
They are planning on going in and shooting the place up a little bit, rescuing Couch, and getting Andy back to the series
in time to win the whole thing. Unfortunately they are ambushed and knocked unconscious.
Dan sits at the final table, but Andy is nowhere in sight. The game
starts and they begin to put up Andys blinds and ante, even though he isnt there. Back at Rays Place, Andy, Couch, and Shawn
are locked in a closet, their hands and feet tied. Daisy comes into the room to save them, in an attempt to get Andy to forgive
her. They are almost out the door when Ray catches them leaving. There is a big gunfight, ending when Andy kills Ray.
Andy gets back to the final
table and there are three other guys left, including Dan and Doyle Brunson. Andy's stack of chips is smaller now because of
the antes and blinds, but he still has more than enough to work with. The hands are played out and Dan loses out to Andy.
Dan takes third place, which pays two and a half million dollars. Doyle and Andy play heads up for a while, and it finally
comes down to Andy getting Aces and Eights, Dead Mans Hand. He goes all in and gets second place, earning him four
and a half million dollars.
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