Writing A Screenplay

The Whale
HDA reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.

Heartburn
HDShe's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship Heartburn, nothing will.

Return to Horror High
HDIn the early 1980s, a series of gruesome murders occurred at Crippen High School. A few years later, a film crew uses the now-abandoned Crippen High as the set for a film. But an uninvited guest makes an appearance on the set.

84 Charing Cross Road
HDTrue story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
HDThe true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.

Be Kind Rewind
HDTwo bumbling store clerks inadvertently erase the footage from all of the tapes in their video rental store. In order to keep the business running, they re-shoot every film in the store with their own camera, with a budget of zero...

Mao's Last Dancer
HDIn Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.

Mozart's Sister
HDA reimagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang, and a musical prodigy in her own right.

Logan
HD"Logan" is a story about two teenage brothers, Tyler and Logan. Logan, the younger of the two, has got his mind set on a seemingly impossible project which turns out to be much harder than he could ever imagine. At the turn of an ...

On Strike for Christmas
HDJoy Robertson goes "on strike for Christmas" because her husband and sons are wrapped up in their own pursuits and providing no help whatsoever with the many Christmas preparations.

Rabbit Hole
HDLife for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

Ticking Clock
HDA reporter stumbles upon the journal of a murderer replete with plans to butcher specific people, and investigates on his own, finding that every trail leads to a 9-year-old orphan living in a group home.

Death of a Superhero
HDA dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.

Something Borrowed
HDFriendships are tested and secrets come to the surface when terminally single Rachel falls for Dex, her best friend Darcy's fiancé.

Collaborator
HDA playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.

Blue Like Jazz
HDDon, a nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, tries to escape his Bible Belt upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at the most godless campus in America.

The Whales of August
HDTwo aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

Throw Momma from the Train
HDA bitter ex-husband wants his former spouse dead. A put-upon momma's boy wants his mother dead. Who will pull it off?

The Milagro Beanfield War
HDAn accidental breakdown of a valve on the irrigation ditch launches a hot confrontation between local farmers and corrupt authorities.

Stars and Bars
HDA British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.

Crossing Delancey
HDA Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.

Miss Firecracker
HDCarnelle wants to escape her dreary life, so she enters a local beauty contest, much to everyone's dismay.

A Chorus of Disapproval
HDWidower Guy is transferred to an English coastal town, where he joins an amateur operatic society to "meet people" and "have fun".

White Hunter Black Heart
HDA thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.

Chasing Mavericks
HDWhen young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.

Convicts
HDHorton Foote's story of a teen-aged boy in the Depression who finds work on an eccentric's sugar plantation and learns life's surprising lessons from the team of convicts who also work there.

Secret Friends
HDDuring a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John (Sir Alan Bates) into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secre...

Prelude to a Kiss
HDA couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.

Mistress
HDThis self-effacing comedy about film industry blues stars Robert Wuhl and Martin Landau as a writer/producer duo who must deal with the increasingly fickle demands of their film's financiers (Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro and Eli W...

Sweet Talk
HDA blocked writer and a troubled young woman who meet over a phone-sex line go on a journey together.

The Cemetery Club
HDLifelong friends meet weekly to celebrate the past and present.

Stuck in Love
HDAn acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.