Screenplay loglines archive, page 36

Fat Man

An 800-pound man drops 600 pounds with the help of a nurse that he is attracted to.

Mike Reiss

The Silence of Six

A man is paid to ask a cryptic question during a presidential forum and then finds himself running for his life.

Stephen Hauser

Somerset Square

A family of low-level gangsters has a tenuous place in the oppressive downtown Kansas City crime scene.

Mark Mallouk

Penelope

A young woman, plagued by a curse, sets out on a journey of self-discovery.

Leslie Caveny

Land of Pleasant Living

A woman is emotionally devastated by the death of her boyfriend. Fifteen years later, battling depression and trying to maintain a failing marriage, she meets her dead boyfriend’s ghost in the form of his little brother, who has grown up to be just like him.

Mark Lord

911

A 911 operator, grieving over the death of her sister, begins to receive spooky emergency calls about murders 24 hours before they’re committed. As she begins to fear for her sanity, a detective helps her unravel the situation.

Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson

The Pugilist

Set in the 1970s, it’s about a rebellious boxer-turned-policeman who discovers that a string of brutal NYPD cop killings is part of a larger conspiracy.

Angus Fraser

Cat Thief

A female private eye becomes romantically involved with the globetrotting master thief she’s supposed to capture.

Stephen Feder

Friends Again

A New York fishmonger and a director, who were childhood friends, find themselves back together for less-than-friendly reasons when the director steals his old friend’s idea for his next movie.

Neal Gumpel

The P.T. Johansen Field Guide to North American Monsters

The son of a Sasquatch hunter defends his evidence against a skeptical Cub Scout.

Andrew Mudge

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

At the Indianapolis 500, a U.K. intelligence agent protects a witness who must evade his enemies while trying to get back to England.

Martin Wheeler

One Time

An urban couple pose as police officers and begin robbing major drug lords around Southern California.

Jason Towne

Into the Sun

A retired special agent is drawn into the treacherous world of the yakuza in order to protect his family.

Steven Seagal, Joe Halpin

Neon Junkies

Described as being in the vein of “Go” and “Pulp Fiction.”

Mike Le

Say Uncle

While visiting his brother and sister-in-law, a “Maxim” magazine-bred bachelor unexpectedly finds himself having to take care of their young children for several nights when the brother’s wife goes into labor and the duo desert him for the hospital.

Scott Bindley

A Lot Like Love

A couple in their 20’s finds each other at the wrong time.

Colin Patrick Lynch

Devil’s Crew

In 1718, a Royal Navy officer volunteers for a suicide mission to track and kill the notorious pirate Edward Teach — aka “Blackbeard” — in the waters off the Carolinas.

Ravi Bains, Alex Harakis

Click

A workaholic advertising executive overlooks his family in favor of his career. One day, he comes across a universal remote that allows him to perform TiVo-like functions on his life, such as pausing events or fast-forwarding over them. When the remote begins creating its own memory and choosing what to fast-forward over, the man sees how much of his personal life has passed him by and realizes the importance of spending more time with his family.

Steve Koren, Mark O’Keefe

Letting Go

Two boomer parents experience severe empty nest syndrome after dropping off their son at college. Instead of dealing with it the hard way, the mother gets deeply involved with her son’s life at school, imagining he is the target of a plot and venturing up to the ivory tower to “rescue” him.

Jason Katims

My Velouria

Two FBI agents investigate the death of an adult film star. Along the way, they discover the murder is far from conventional, as it is the handiwork of a sect of 2,000-year-old vampires.

Marc Wolff

Bad Hair Day

A young woman on a crucial day of meetings, events and dates experiences one hair emergency after another. Depending on the kindness of strangers, creditors and astrologers, she manages to get a job and maintain a shred of dignity despite the destructive forces let loose on her hair.

Jill Pierce

Tangled Up in Blue

A tough female bank robber from the big city has a hit is put out on her, so she is forced to hide out in an idyllic small town, but the town’s effect on her is in some ways more dramatic than the death threat.

Lou Berney

Good Luck Chuck

A man breaks up with his longtime girlfriend only to see her get engaged to the next guy she dates. The same pattern occurs with his next girlfriend and continues to repeat. All of a sudden, he finds himself becoming a lucky charm for women, who all want to date him.

Josh Stolberg

Greatness

A man’s quest for fame and success is endangered when he discovers someone is trying to steal his glory.

Brad Follmer, Lauren Iungerich

Drawn

A man’s obsession with artistic success leads him to make choices that may trigger the emergence of ultimate evil.

Rand Ravich

Grown Ups

The overly protective parents of a 13-year-old awake to find themselves turned into 13-year-olds as well. They enroll at their son’s school in attempt to become his constant companions, but the pressure to conform in junior high school causes havoc in their lives.

Ian Deitchman, Kristin Rusk Robinson

Dali

Famous artist Salvador Dali and his mentally unstable wife Gala conquer America with sex, sin and surrealism only to succumb later to worldwide scandal and misfortune.

Jeremy Walters

Mulligan

An overweight 30-something football fanatic tries to become a field goal kicker for the Washington Redskins.

Sean McGinly

Town Creek

Two brothers experience a haunting.

Dave Kajganich

Four Christmases

A young newlywed couple, whose both sets of parents are divorced and re-married, has four family households to visit over the course of Christmas Day.

Matt Allen, Caleb Wilson

Buzz Kill

Described as being in the same vein as “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.”

Tom Astle, Matt Ember

It’s Not Unusual

Set in 1969, a high school boy falls madly in love with his beautiful housekeeper.

Jeff Franklin

Driving While Infatuated

Follows the adventures of two teenage girls, a mad crush and the car neither of them has permission to drive.

Elizabeth Allen, Kyle Long

The Kids

A divorced mother brings home a new man, but her kids decide that they will not accept him into their lives. They succeed in driving him away but soon realize that he was the right person for their mother and must now do everything they can to bring him back.

Jeffrey Kahn

Made in Italy

A modern businesswoman falls in love with a perfect Italian man while abroad on business. Their relationship is complicated when she learns the extent to which his mother in still involved in his life.

Something in the Air

A sleepy Irish town is revived when the smoke from a recently built Viagra plant begins to seep into the air and the lives of the townspeople.

David McGrath, John O’Driscoll