Archive page 68
Browse page 68 of the Scott Myers screenplay logline archive, covering source records from 1991 through 2025.
Source records
36 records on this page · 72 pages
Set in Baltimore in 1959, a reclusive neighbor helps a 13-year-old boy fit in with the other kids. A central motif is a derelict radio tower, which the kids want to climb before it’s demolished. The boy’s friendship with the neighbor becomes a tutorial as he waits for his turn to perform the rite of passage.
Vince McKewin
Woman is raped and trapped in a scheme between rapist and boyfriend.
Peter Brown
“Cliffhanger” in the desert. Set in Iraqi wasteland after 1991 Gulf War. U.S. government has lost several nuclear warheads in hostile territory, and a race against time to retrieve prize ensues between U.S. commandos and U.S. bad guys. Meanwhile, a howling storm is barreling down on both teams.
Steven Maeda
Boy needs heart transplant. When hospital turns him down because he has no insurance, the father takes hospital’s emergency room hostage.
Jim Kearns
Pharmaceutical terrorists board a center for disease control on a space station.
John Zinman, Duncan Kennedy
True story of Robyn Davidson, who made history in 1978, when she crossed Australian outback alone with three camels and a dog.
Ruth Graham
Road movie about a graduate student in the Midwest who mails breakup letter to his girlfriend in New Orleans thinking that she’s been unfaithful. When he finds his suspicions have been unfounded, he embarks on a cross-country trek to retrieve letter.
Marc Sedaka
Boy meets ghost of football hero and together they team up to confront and defeat their fears.
Linda Taddeo
Surrealistic story about a New York-based insurance adjuster who slowly realizes that what he knows as reality may not be so real.
Andrew Niccol
Set on Maine/Quebec border, the story is about a female Yale forestry school grad and a backwoods’ legend who survive their odd couple partnership to bust an international poaching cabal.
Denis O’Neil
Army general attempts to overthrow government.
Craig Randelman, Michael Berlly
A cool, conniving young Puerto Rican from the Lower East side tries to pass as scion of a wealthy Barcelona family so he will be accepted in the snobby yuppie circles of the Upper East side.
Larry Golin, Lynn Geller
Female lab technician must travel across the country in 7 hours with a new heart for the president, who has suffered a heart attack.
Buckeye Williams
Based on a book by Bernard Taylor
Richard Hawley, Barry Schneider
Three little kids decide to get rid of their mother’s fiancé to make room for a new one.
Z.A.K.
Set in the old west, the story is about the son of a frontier lawman, who dreams of becoming a desperado. When the holdup of the train taking him away from school is botched, the kid saves the bad guy’s lives thus becoming their mascot on several robberies. Dad has to bring son and bad guys to justice.
Phil Kassel
Rogue radio astronomer who is kicked out of government research program discovers proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. He also finds that the aliens are a lot closer than he suspected.
David Twohy
Story of depression era bank robber covers his life from an outlaw to his well-attended funeral in Oklahoma.
Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
Reanimation experiment goes awry when scientist brings back a man from the dead, who then tries to destroy the world.
Michael Browning
“Three Days of the Condor” meets ”The Fugitive.” CIA agent comes out of retirement to track down protege turned assassin.
Reed Steiner
Soon-to-be married man is plagued by the knowledge of his fiancée’s past relationships. He hires a detective to dig up dirt on members of the ex-club, but the investigator falls in love with the fiancée.
Steve Morris, Robin Shephard
Secret service agent can’t cut it as a presidential protector but gets the gig of guarding the president’s rambunctious teenage son.
Tim Kelleher
Young man must overcome the loss of his wife. With the help of his Aunt, he learns how to love again and in turn teaches her how to live.
Ted Henning
Actioner in the vein of “Predator” and “Aliens”. A test tube baby, who is part human, part genetic information, is taken from an alien radio transmission.
Dennis Feldman
Story of luckiest guy in the world. A bumbling innocent who becomes a war hero when every mistake he makes results in military success.
Noni White, Bob Tzudiker
Woman inherits $20 million from dad with the stipulation that she marry within 30 days or lose the money. She marries death row inmate who gets paroled.
Joe Ide
Off-center love story about a series of people who claim to have set a Brooklyn restaurant on fire to prove their love for their significant other.
Morgan Upton Ward
Thirty-six-year-old man, who’s about to get married, goes to apply for a marriage license, only to find out that there is one on the books for him. He finds out that a wacky judge married him and his childhood sweetheart when he was six years old. The man has to track down sweetheart and a romance ensues.
Ty King
Twelve-year-old boy, while vacationing with his mom in Ozarks, discovers a sea creature in a local lake. When plans are made to drain lake of water, kid must take matters into his own hands.
Michael Perry
A boy who never gets what he wants for Christmas kidnaps Santa from local mall and finds out Santa is really a petty thief.
Marianne Wibberly, Cormac Wibberley
Military themed drama.
Lucian Truscott IV
Tiger is captured and taken to LA whereupon he escapes and roams the city’s urban jungle. While the hunter tries to capture the tiger, the police bring in an animal hunter to kill him.
Jerome Gary
Poor fisherman’s life changes when he finds a pearl of great value.
Tom Steinberg
“Die Hard” in a hurricane. Federal agent is charged with protecting a woman from her husband, a powerful crime boss who has taken out a contract on her life to prevent her from testifying against him. The crime boss hunts them down when he discovers their location.
Greg Fitzpatrick
Love story about a woman, whose husband has been dead for nine years. Because of undying love, she embarks on a journey in a parallel universe to find him.
Robert Jacobs
Fifty years into the future, Indian nations take control of arid land in Midwest and bring what has become desert back to life. The U.S. government decides to seize the land from the Indians, sparking an Indian/cavalry war.
John Rice, Rudy Gaines