Ten-Best Script Listings

 

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BEST COMEDY:

PARADISE MAN, by Cindy Cody

 

Rom-com set on a tropical island.  A New York billionaire, trying to escape his old blueblood life and his cheating wife, buys part of a remote tropical island from a coconut farmer whose beautiful, high-minded daughter opposes him.  He falls for her, as the two are forced to team up against local forces out to convert their beloved island into a cruise-ship destination.  Will paradise ever be the same again?

 

THE GOOD FAMILY, by Nick Marciano

 

Mob crime comedy.  An aging don with a year to live tries to buy an illegitimate son he sired from the mother for $1 million, feeling it would be his one good deed in life.  But his sister wants her drug-addicted son to inherit the family fortune and hires two dim-witted hit men to whack the don, all of which ends in hilarious violence.

 

BANANA BAY, by Cindy Cody

 

Romantic comedy-action mystery.  When the owner of Frutas Tropicales disappears in the jungles of Panama and kidnappers demand a $2 million ransom, a Boston woman insurance investigator is assigned to peel away the truth.  She teams up with the victim’s hot-blooded son and embarks on a mission to find the missing man – a steamy, adrenaline-soaked ride into the wilds of Banana Bay.

 

THE INCONVENIENCE OF DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP, by Lisa Haeber

 

Film-noir comedy set in Philadelphia.  Interwoven lives of a blue-blood woman and her three Catholic-school friends, each finding no fulfillment in marriage, family, success, gayness, straightness and other aspects of modern life. When one murders her loathsome husband, their friendships – and their sense of humor – are stretched to the limit.  Golden Remi winner at 2006 Worldfest.

 

WINNER TAKES DAD, by John Ellis

 

Two high-school football stars on competing teams find out they’re fraternal twins and have the same father, an absentee truck driver secretly married to both their moms.  They agree that the winner of the big game gets to claim Dad, then go all out against each other, only to discover they’re more family than enemies.

 

NUDE BEACH, by Daniel S. Acuff

 

A family with two teens moves into a beautiful new home overlooking the beach, only to discover it’s a nude beach.  When the dominating wife forms a committee to get rid of the nudists and the conflicted husband buys a telescope, battle lines form amidst a variety of oddball neighbors, a transgendered therapist and a midget mayor.

 

CAR SHARK, by Wayne T. Chapman

 

Character-driven comedy.  A loveable, soft-selling car salesman has twenty-four desperate hours to close one final sale – or his life will topple like a house of cards.

 

MEET ME AT THE CINEPLEX, by Stanley Lombardo

 

Family comedy.  A dying film director’s eccentric will demands that his three daughters marry within six weeks, and at a movie theatre, to qualify for their inheritance.  In a race against time, each daughter deals with her quest in different ways, with hilarious, unexpected results.

 

FLIPPING THE BIRD, by Tim Wiggins

 

A lonely chauffer is unexpectedly dispatched to drive his ex-wife, whose revelation that her austistic son is probably his son causes him to wreck his limo.  Losing his job, he works for an animal-rights group, rescues a smart-mouthed parrot and reunites with the son, who learns to speak from the parrot.

 

CURVE BALL, by Michael Dugan

 

Sports comedy of an underdog, a la “Rudy”.  A dream comes true for an accountant when he's selected from a baseball fantasy camp as a publicity stunt and inducted into the major leagues.  What follows, however, costs him his job, disrupts his family and changes his life forever.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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