All my screenplays are posted on-line for you to download and enjoy. Be aware however, that the screenplays are Microsoft Word 7.0 documents.
The Whitefish
Boy - An underachiever par
excellence at Glenwood High, Jake Justic has nothing going for him in his
senior year. Jake has a class he can't pass, a girl he can't have, and
a fight he can't win. The odds are in Jake's favor because he finally believes
in himself.
"Loosely based on my time at Midwood High School, The Whitefish
Boy was the first screenplay I wrote. I wrote the screenplay after
my first year in law school. When I say that the screenplay was loosely
based, I mean it since 95% of the screenplay is fiction. The idea to do
a screenplay about Midwood High School sprung up during my senior year.
It took me 5 years to finally do the story and I think I did it right.
A recent re-write has shortened the screenplay from the original 157 pages
to a more sensible 120. This screenplay was actually optioned by Big Smile
Productions from January 1996 to January 1997. Instead of bringing this
script to the big screen, they decided to make Kaazam! (a
lousy Shaq movie) and Santa Fe (a Gary Cole headliner which
has never been released). By the way, this screenplay would never have
happened if Allison Sacks would have gone out with me senior year. For
her sake and my sake, I'm glad she said no!"
The Name of the Game-
"I wrote this screenplay
during the winter after The Whitefish Boy. Big Smile quickly
rejected this screenplay, so it has been in the witness protection program
ever since. I like the premise of the story and I think it's a cute screenplay
about the pursuit of perfection and finding love in all the wrong places.
The fact that I never fell in love at that point doesn't help matters either.
The screenplay is cute, but the problem probably rests with the fact that
people can not relate to a main character who is almost perfect. In an
ode to Kevin Smith, The Name of The Game is my Mallrats.
If you enjoy it or hate it, any suggestions on whether I can salvage it
is greatly appreciated. What's the name of the game? It beats the hell
out of me."
Legal Methods
- Chad Hammonds, a smart aleck,
hard working student enters the first year of law school. His goals are
simple: finish at the top of his class and make law review. When an unfair
school system kills his dreams, he puts his career on the line and fights
back.
"I love The Whitefish
Boy, but Legal Methods is my baby. Currently, it is only drama
that I have ever written. The screenplay was actually written during the
spring break of my second year of law school. During that time, I had total
disgust about law school because of my experiences at the American University.
You can read that disgust and heartbreak within the screenplay, I still
believe that parts of my soul are etched in those pages. Based on my experiences
at law school and inspired by Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, Legal
Methods will be a fantastic coming of age film. It's my Chasing
Amy."
Pulse! - A
former child actor turned down and out attorney gets the case of a lifetime.
A Hollywood Executive with a lot of enemies seeks his counsel. When that
executive is murdered, he is the prime suspect. What he knows could kill
him. What he'll find out could kill him too.
"Pulse! is the
first screenplay that was not based on any real life experience. The screenplay
is an ode to buddy action flicks, former child actors, and the film Once
Upon A Time In America. Big Smile passed on it since they were repulsed
by the violence and the filthy language. This screenplay is a satire of
Hollywood and the expensive bombs they produce."
A Fistful of Whitefish
"It's kind
of rare to write a sequel to a screenplay that you haven't sold. I wrote
a sequel to The Whitefish Boy because I wanted to get this story
on a paper and found it a perfect fit to continue the travels of Whitefish.
When I was at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the student
government was run by a corrupt clique. Friends of mine challenged the
system and failed. That true story inspired this screenplay. I know sequels
usually suck, but this sequel is different because Jake Justic learns from
his mistakes in The Whitefish Boy. Jake is the only holdover from
the first screenplay, so new characters and a new backdrop prove that this
screenplay is a not a re-hash of the prequel."
Push Comes to Shove
"Push Comes To Shove
was my first attempt at a spoof. Part spoof of Mafia flicks, Push Comes
To Shove is more of a film about regrets. I have had the pleasure of
never having any regrets in my life. I do dwell in the past (The Whitefish
Boy, anyone?), but some people spend their entire existence of regretting
the choices they have made in life. Johnny Vultaggio regrets almost everything
he has done in life, come to grips with the past is his story. Unfortunately,
Jim Abrahams' spoof Jane Austen's Mafia! will probably kill off
any chance of getting this screenplay to the big screen."
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