Runner
Story focuses on a black female undercover agent for the DEA.
Judy McCreary
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Poor Holly
In the vein of “Heathers.” Black comedy about identical twin sisters, one good and one bad. Through a twist of fate, the good twin assumes her sister’s identity, thinking she’ll have a better life. Instead, she discovers that her sister’s “perfect” life is a mess.
Stacey Sherman, Karen Ray
Pancho’s War
Munitions expert is sent to the Mexican border to deliver guns to General Pershing in the 1916 Mexican revolution.
Marcel Montecino
Ghosthunter
Psychiatrist tracks down the ghost responsible for killing his wife.
Cory Tynan, John Ries
Getting Even With Dad
11-year-old boy blackmails his ex-con father into going straight by hiding the loot from his latest job.
Jim Jennewein, Tom S. Parker
Multiplicity
Man clones himself so he can have more time to spend with his kids.
Chris Miller, Mary Hale
Stone Cold War
Two gang member brothers. When one brother is jailed, the other kidnaps the premier of Russia in hopes of making a deal for his brother’s release.
William Mosley-Payne
Simon Says
White cop and black civilian activist team up to try and stop a mad bomber in Manhattan. A contemporary “Defiant Ones.”
Jonathan Hensleigh
Death & Taxes
N/A
Traci Alexson
Going West
Killer kidnaps a child of an FBI agent, prompting a cross-country chase.
Jeb Stuart
Him (Only You)
6-year-old girl is told the name of her soul mate. Twenty years later she meets him.
Diane Drake
Thirty Wishes
A young man’s each and every birthday wish to date comes true when he turns thirty.
Elisa Bell
The Santa Clause
Divorced father tries to bond with his young son. After a Christmas Eve accident proves fatal for Santa Claus, a father assumes the jolly old soul’s identity.
Steve Rudnik, Leo Benvenuti
Dad’s Week Off
An accountant, who, because his job is on the line, is forced to stay home alone while his wife and two kids go off to a wedding. During that time, he destroys his house, endangers his dog and ruins his marriage.
Elliot Stern, Denise Halma
Surviving the Game
Homeless man in Portland ends up being stalked for sport in the Northwest wilderness by well-armed, highly trained hunters.
Eric Bent
The Number Four
Young bus driver takes over the rough line from senior driver who’s retiring.
Preston Whitmore Jr.
Milk Money
Three 12-year-old boys pool their milk money to go to the big city and buy a hooker so they can see a real live naked woman. The hooker goes home with one of the boys who wants to set her up with his dad.
John Mattson
Trouble in Paradise
Couple has a nightmare vacation in Hawaii.
Kathy Kloves
Hamlet
A cute, smart piglet who works sniffing out drugs for a crooked cop winds up being adopted by a couple who run a fancy restaurant.
Mike Werb
Uncommon Criminal
Story takes place in the 1940s on inescapable Alcatraz. The main character, who has mastered previous prison escapes, accomplishes the impossible and flees the city.
Michael O’Mahony
Outlaws
Gang of women pillage and rob their way across the West, escaping the clutches of the sheriff and his posse.
Boaz Yakin, Cassidy Heydt
Pants
Businesswoman passed over for promotion, takes on the identity of a man.
Charlie Bohl
The Solomon Organization
A man enlists the aid of a mysterious group to help him regain the custody of his daughter, whom he lost in a divorce settlement.
Andrew Niederman
Boys on the Side
Travails of three desperate women who trek across the country and become involved in each other’s lives.
Don Roos
Passion of Mind
Dual personality of high-powered publishing editor falls asleep and awakens to find herself a young widow living with two small children in Provence, outside of Paris.
Ronald Bass
Dead Beckoning
Female public defender in Washington gets caught up in a conspiracy to assassinate a prominent senator.
Christine Roum
Mom is a Treasure Hunter
Mundane housewife with two young sons unexpectantly gets involved in an Indiana Jones-type adventure.
Colin Greene, David Carpenter, Tim Kirk
Wicked Ways
Spoiled rich, 12-year-old boy, is forced to live with his eccentric, poverty-stricken uncle, who works as a lion tamer for a traveling circus.
Tedi Sarafian
The Family Bloom
30-ish woman moves in with brother to care for his three kids after his wife’s death in a car accident. Brother announces he’s getting re-married, and sister finds herself having to seek a life for herself.
Eric Tuchman
Krask Adventure/Comedy Project
Secret agent Nick Steele accidentally teams up with 11-year-old boy and finds that he once had an affair with the lad’s mom. Agent is then convinced that the boy is his son.
Jeff Krask
Fool’s Gold
Buddy pic set in the old west about a rogue New York cop and an African American deputy Marshall who team up to stop a master criminal from stealing America’s gold reserves.
Tom Reilly, Hogan Sheffer
First Comes Love
Sultan makes deposits in sperm bank in case he is assassinated.
Steven Kunes
The Best Man
Mental patient escapes from institution to be best man at his childhood friend’s wedding. When he arrives, the wedding is thrown into a tailspin.
Majorie Gross, Ron Zimmerman
Nuclear Family
What happens when a family inadvertently camps out on a nuclear waste site and develops extraordinary powers.
Blake Snyder, James Haggin
The Shawshank Redemption
Based on Stephen King’s novella, story is about relationship between two prisoners serving life terms.
Frank Darabont
In the Line of Fire
Secret service agent’s attempt to track down potential presidential assassin.
Jeff Maguire