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DRAMEDY LOGLINES
"718"
Logline: After college and a 25 year successful business career John loses his
job in the recession. He conceives a plan to return to Brooklyn, with a few childhood friends facing similar career
downturns, to use their business skills to consult wiseguys how to manage their "businesses."
Genre: Comedy Drama
TERMINAL DAZE
Logline: A young man discovers he has only a week to live, so he burns all his
bridges and goes on the mother of all road trips, then doesn’t die.
Genre: Dramedy
LOOKING FOR BOBBIE Logline: A casino accountant fakes her own death and moves to Europe with her three kids to escape her cheating husband. Later she returns to the USA to pursure an acting career, only to fall in love all over again with her ex-husband who does not recognize her. Genre: Drama / comedy GOLD DIGGER Logline: Tired of being broke and supporting a mooching boyfriend; a down on her luck waitress joins with her friends to learns the methods of gold digging. SCRUBS & STRIPES Logline : When a timid nurse enters the county jail for the first time, she discovers a scope of practice that she didn't know existed. She soon finds that inmates are not the only ones to fear as someone wearing a badge has targeted her. Screenplay Genre: Drama/Comedy
SCABS AND SCARS Logline: After a tragic car accident kills his best friend one young man must deal with situations caused by seeing his ghost. Screenplay Genre: Drama/Comedy
WHEN EZRA WOLPERT RAN FOR MAYOR Logline: Ezra Wolpert is an alcoholic, delusional paranoid, narcissist, schizophrenic, and he wants you to vote for him for mayor. Genre: Dramedy
HENRY'S HOUSE Logline: An offbeat Christian psychologist runs a home for "peculiar" people. He orchestrates the return of his long ago love who freakishly ends up in his home not recognizing him. Genre: Dramedy LOST IN HOLLYWOOD Logline: Steven how want to be a big writer in Hollywood ,he will face a lot of problems to reach his goal Genre: drama, comedy THE GREAT RECESSION Logline: Mike Miller was at the top of his game in business until the cash of 2008. He then bounces from one dead end job to another until a german company offers him an out, for him and his son, to come and prosper in their country. They leave an American on the verge of collapse. Genre: Comedy and Drama.
WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE Logline: After catching her boyfriend in the arms of her high school rival at the senior prom, a pregnant 17-year-old Susie O’Connor flees the gymnasium and gets into a car accident, only to wake up from the resulting coma 17-years later when her daughter is 17 and she’s still emotionally 17. Genre: Dramedy EMILIO & BOBBY Logline: A quirky, gritty, based-on-true-life tale of two brothers as they commit criminally comedic capers from Texas to Vegas and steal a few hearts along the way. Genre: Dramedy BOSTON RHAPSODY Logline: Two old eccentric geezer friends, one white, one black, decide to go outwith a bang. One with his last fling with a floozy, the other by renting the Boston Pops to showcase his unpublished music THE LEGEND OF THE GREATEST KARAOKE SINGER Logline: A chain-smoking, binge-drinking, karaoke singer with an Elvis complex, comes across a strange array of characters while trying to gather enough money to save his kidnapped schoolgirl girlfriend. Genre: Action/Dark Comedy
COUGS Logline: A restless suburban woman starts a cougarcall-girl service, but when her husband and children find out, home life gets interesting. Genre: Comedy, Drama FOR THE LOVE OF A DOG Logline: The Love of a Dog Changes Life and Death Genre: Contemporary drama/love story/comedic MONKEY MILLION Logline: The end of the world war drama/comedy. Homeless soldiers have to rebuild a hopeless environment. MALLKILL Logline: It's about a group of young people trapped inside a mall with a serial masked killer. The group must find a way out from the mall, wired with explosives at every exits and entrances, before they get killed one by one by the killer. Genre: Thriller/Comedy
BAGS AND BITCHES TO SMALL CHANGE Logline: Sofia preoccupied with menopause and shopping couldn´t visualize the credit crunch. Genre: Dramedy
LEISURE DAZE Logline: When Phil and Kyle decide to keep the large bale of marijuana they happen upon while fishing in the Gulf Stream, little do they know what kind of problems that decision will cause. Sharing the booty with neighbors in their Florida retirement community doesn't help, and when a Colombian drug cartel gets involved, things go from bad to worse. Genre: dramedy COMPATIBLE Logline: Caitlyn and Curtis are definitely meant to be together but have to endure some of life's toughest lessons to realize that fact. Genre: Comedy/Melodrama/Romance THE ARK Logline: The Ark; a GlennGary Glen Ross tour de force through the business of 21st century marijuana growing meets the sardonic attitude of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Genre: Dramatic Comedy MILQ Logline: A constipated hitman finds love and madness in his own personal hell, a small Hollywood hotel room. Genre: Dark Comedy/Psychological Thriller
MY LAST WISH Logline: A young boy dieing from cancer, struggles to fulfill his last wish. Genre: Drama/ Comedy MOTIVATION 101 Logline: Our hero is a guess what, a motivational speaker. Her relationships are difficult and not all they could be. But her job is to motivate others. Genre: Comedy/Drama SQUATTERS Logline: Angry, young and homeless, Zen, along with his friends, face a struggle for survival living on the unforgiving streets in this honest, unrated television series. Miraculously, they are somehow fortunate to be able to find humor in their desperation, relying on one another to crack a smile, appreciate life and not remind themselves of what they don't have. Genre: dark comedy
MIND BLOWING DECISIONS E-mail Address: maurice_8th@yahoo.com An underachieving, but smart, Bronx high school graduate finds himself attending a community college in the boondocks of upstate New York. KNIGHT ERRANT E-mail Address: lydialo@comcast.net Logline: "Even a Nowhere Man needs a Quest." On the eve of suicide, Morrie is enchanted with a distressed hooker. Rejuvenated with purpose, he cobbles a ploy to free her, and himself, from their abusive partners. A fiasco, will he regress to the old Morrie now that he's seen what life might be with his Dulcinea? Storyboard of Trailer available. Genre: Dramedy ABUNDANCE E-mail Address: chshell2007@gmail.com Logline: A millionaire new-age guru is confronted by the limitations of his life-long teachings and forced to address the simmering tensions within his family when a charismatic young drifter wanders onto his private stretch of waterfront and sets up home his boathouse. Genre: Drama, Comedy HE DREAMT PRETTY WILD E-mail Address: deanhrose@gmail.com Logline: After a fall, a man's dreams and daydreams are strangely altered with mad confrontations, adult situations, mild violence and growing concern in reality. Genre: Dark Comedy SARAH ON HER OWN E-mail Address: cpringle@skyviewmail.com Logline: A high-spirited, rebellious, young girl, right out of high school defies her parents and goes to the big city. She soon finds out there are many hard bumps in the road in her quest for freedom.
BMPS IN THE ROAD E-mail Address: cprigle@skyviewmail.com Logline: A rebellious 18 year-old girl leaves home only to find that life's lessons hit hard and fast on her road to freedom. Genre: Family, drama (with comedy)
86ME! E-mail Address: 86memovie@gmail.com Ten people want out of they're jobs tonight.. only ten things holding them back. Screenplay Genre: comedy/drama
ASHLEY GOES CONNING E-mail Address: Blakegraves121@msn.com Logline: A young girl moves away from her family of con artists to the big city to make an honest living. After many rejections, she is forced to start conning others to get what she wants until she spins out of control. Genre: Dramedy BONNIE AND CLYDE 2009 E-mail Address: acting@david-gibson.com Logline: A dramatic look at a teenage criminal couple's cross country robbery spree. Dark humor and quirky comedic undertones mix with emotion pulling drama. Genre: Mixed. Drama/Action/Comedy MULTIPLES OF ONE E-mail Address: Wayne@vandalsum.de Logline: An unassuming guy leads a quiet life, with the one goal of not landing back in the psychiatric hospital where he spent his childhood. This becomes increasingly difficult when one of his three personalities gambles away all their money, the other sleeps with the only man who could get it back, and he himself meets the woman of his dreams. Genre: Dramedy THE MORNING NOOSE E-mail Address: writtenbyzack@hotmail.com Logline: A washed-up newspaper reporter uses his knowledge of the police beat to unleash a series of undetected copycat crimes. But when a hardened criminal catches onto his act, he finds himself in a life-or-death situation. Genre: dramedy CAUTION: DETOUR E-mail Address: screenwriter17@hotmail.com Logline: Syd and Nancy, who have lived together for the last six years, each has a secret that they are dying to share with one another. An unexpected turn of events puts this on hold and everything that they treasure in jeopardy. With only one long shot solution available to them, they set out on a most bizarre and inauspicious journey. Genre: Romantic/Dramedy BALLS OF DIFFERENT SIZES E-mail Address: scripts@earthlink.net Logline: "Balls of Different Sizes" Semi-finalist Project Greenlight, Semi-Finalist American Screenwriting Competition. A powerful and touchingly comical dramedy in which a dyslexic teenaged boy with a tough-guy attitude joins a girls' softball team only to discover that the girls are tougher than he is, that it's okay to ask for help, and that there is crying in softball. Genre: coming of age dramedy BAGGAGE E-mail Address: seanhowse@yahoo.com Logline: Four thirtysomethings find themselves in the middle of a wicked game of betrayal and revenge, where no one is safe & nothing is real! Genre: Drama with comedy
AGAIN COMES THE RAIN E-mail Address: bigd5555@hotmail.com A dirty cop gets murdered and restarts his life in the body of a five year old.
THIS PLACE IS TOO WEIRD E-mail Address: anita_sclar@yahoo.com Submit Your Logline: Frank and Candy were high school sweethearts who broke up under most unpleasant terms. Years later, when nasty Candy re-enters widower Frank's life and decides to seek revenge on him through his fourteen-year old daughter, she is met with a far more formidable force than she had bargained for! Screenplay Genre: teen dramedy
JOHNNY TULANE E-mail Address: RLR31215@hotmail.com Submit Your Logline: After discovering he won't be receiving most of his inheritance, a twentysomething playboy is forced to reevaluate his life. He soon falls for a young woman he meets, and the two begin a relationship that helps him discover what it is that's truly important to him. Screenplay Genre: Drama/Comedy
BALLS OF DIFFERENT SIZES scripts@earthlink.net A dyslexic teenaged boy with a tough-guy attitude joins a girls' softball team only to discover that the girls are tougher than he is, that it's okay to ask for help, and that there is crying in softball.
WATER BRATS kevintbaldwin@yahoo.com Six girls from varying backgrounds accidentally get trapped in a sewer and must work together to figure a way out. As they venture further into the damp, dark tunnels, not only do they discover abandoned money left by a bank robber, they also discover a lot of hidden truths about each other.
THE REGENCY ninja1888@yahoo.com A comedy/drama about a day in the lives of doctor, and nurses working at an city emergency room. PICTURE PERFECT r.rone@att.net In a coming of age story, a high school senior soccer player finds fame on the athletic field is of no help with tuff decesions in his life's pursuit of happiness and the girl of his desires.
THE VOODOO BOYS eugenebrodeur@sbcglobal.net The purchaser of a Haitian wishing doll loves how he can use it to loosen girls' inhibitions. But he finds himself caught in a life-and-death struggle for control of its black magic when it turns his Born-Again friend into a power crazed killer. MEL'S BOARDING HOUSE caroladingle@aol.com Based on a true story. Timeless and inspiring story of the tenacity and spirit of a diverse group of people living together during the Great Depression.
GOD BLESS MEXICO lache1984@yahoo.com When two Mexican brothers lose their mother to an American drunk driver, they must face their biggest fear; An American. TOM scottaj2005@hotmail.com Two film students hire a homeless man to appear in their movie, and get more than they bargained for. THE UNAMAZING JIMMY STEWART miko_29_@hotmail.com An amazing journey of an unamazing man. Who happens to be down on his luck.
THE VEGAN VERDICT E-mail Address: m@queenboudica.com Logline: In the near future, small town Americans try to deal with vegan laws that outlaw the eating of any animal products. Genre: Comedy/Drama KILL THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR E-mail Address: leovamd@yahoo.com Logline: Mafia searches for the killer to kill the public prosecutor, but the killer not so simply to find. Someone kills killers. FBI conducts investigation. Genre: Action. Crime. Drama. Comedy DEAD JOE'S SISTER E-mail Address: cmayburgh@gmail.com Submit Your Logline: Callous family and friends critically questions the sanity of a messed-up young prostitute, after a brutally uninspired event transpire during the night that she wins the 20 million lotto rollover jackpot LLOYDFEST E-mail Address: karthur@genphysics.com Logline: When Lloyd's little sister is diagnosed with leukemia, he determines to make his sister's wish come true - to see her favorite band, The Flaming Lips - by transforming his bankrupt family farm into a music festival. Genre: comedy/drama JONNY BOY E-mail Address: MikeCohen05@gmail.com Logline: A smart, handsome 10 year old boy struggles at middle school, making friends, meeting girls and gaining confidence while battling ADHD, meds and a fractured family in this funny, moving family comedy/drama. Genre: Family comedy/drama ANSWERS E-mail Address: jamesafaubion@hotmail.com Logline: A lonely guy learns from two masters the right way to meet women, then learns other useful things about God, politics and business. Genre: dramedy FADED GLORY E-mail Address: writtenbyzack@hotmail.com Logline: A veteran pro basketball player making a comeback must work with a cocky, disrespectful rookie and a coach who has a grudge against him. Genre: dramedy LIVING OUT LOUD E-mail Address: newwriterca@yahoo.ca Logline: What would you do if you had one chance to live out that one dream from your past? Two women take that chance, only to discover the dream, a friendship and family begins to fall apart as it unfolds. Genre: Drama/Comedy
CLEVELANDS GARAGE E-mail Address: dment@juno.com Logline: A limousine driver blackmails his clients, to ride a bet on a horse at the track. A horse held back for years to make the odds an eleven to one pay out. Genre: DRAMA / COMEDY A MANUAL FOR LIFE E-mail Address: lhagen@gto.net Quirky dramedy follows six, strong women from high school through to untimely mid-age death. Their sweetly, foul-mouthed repartee and raucous humor helps them cope with disease, abuse and mammograms that feel like fridge doors slamming on their bosoms. Friendship overcomes death when one accidentally dies and provides a kidney to save another.
GNATTY NATTY E-mail Address: anita_sclar@yahoo.com Submit Your Logline: A fourteen-year old is so mercilessly teased about not having a boyfriend she invents a fictitious one to gain her peers' respect. When the other kids suspect her secret, she sets about transforming the class nerd into a "hot stud" and passing him off as her "man" at the big school dance. In the process, she discovers he's not such a nerd after all, and learns a good lesson about growing up. Screenplay Genre: teen dramedy MS. BASEBALL E-mail Address: winstonlacroix@yahoo.com Ms. Baseball will make you cheer and make you cry. Samantha is a high school baseball star whose parents die. Rick is an aging star on the Rockies who has a heart attack and is confined to a wheelchair. Together they make baseball history as Rick mentors Samantha with his Telemetry Training System on her road to the major leagues Genre: Drama/comedy
IPO scripts@earthlink.net Dramedy about two teens, their baby sister and their recently deceased mother who grants the baby the power to predict the stock market, but only if the kids use their winnings to help others.
THE KNOCK ON THE DOOR madsen.peter@comcast.net Josh Larsen has it all - hot job, beautiful wife, 4 great kids and a house in the burbs. Then he crashes his car, pisses off his boss and says goodbye as his reservist wife is activated and sent to Iraq. All he has to do is figure out how to feed the grommets, get promoted and pray each day he never gets a knock on the door. FOCUS GROUP FLUNKIES tom_modern@hotmail.com It is the late 90's and Tom and his acquaintances are all struggling to survive in New York City and turn to participating in "Focus Groups" as their main means of support. But as the groups become more scarce, they need to change their identities just to stay in the game. IF GOD COULD TALK p.gabriel.rodriguez@gmail.com Imagine you're making a movie...and your star is the ghost of Grace Kelly. ALMOST, ALMOST FAMOUS Rebel_Ryan54@hotmail.com A comedy inspired by the true story of a young writer touring with a group of "Legend" impersonators, Elvis, Rod Stewart, Sonny Bono, Roy Orbison and Barney Fife, as they perform at countless legion halls across the Midwest.
RETURN TO SAIGON caroladingle@aol.com After experiencing an unforgettable adventure while working at the USO in Vietnam, three women return thirty-five years later, eager to relive lingering memories of that year in Saigon. DRUNKEN PRAWN dlwells4@comcast.net A father struggles in coping with his 13-year old daughter's bizarre prawn-like behavior as she mourns her mother's death from a freakish jet ski accident.
MOST LIKELY TO COMMIT A MURDER StripedLenore@yahoo.com Two outcasts from different social groups form a relationship in their final year of high school and eventually fall victim to murder. CONFESSSIONS OF DIRTY OLD WOMEN shaiyaG@optonline.net Six old broads moan and groan about not having had an orgasm in 30 years.
SUGAR RUM CHERRY E-mail Address: njrockmore@yahoo.com Juliette is pregnant from a drunken one-night stand, Daniel accidentally enlisted in the Army after 9/11, Apple wants to be a respected actress at any cost, Reeve's been coerced into documenting his siters engagement, Graham is a clown with political ambitions, and Willie is looking for God in all the wrong places. During the summer of 2002 each deals with life's unexpected surprises and their own self-imposed obstacles as they try to stake their claim in the world. Screenplay Genre: Comedy/Drama
I LOVE YOU TWO E-mail Address: mdr1291@aol.com Submit Your Logline: Two men love one woman who's pregnant with both of their children. Screenplay Genre: Dramedy RUNNING IN PLACE E-mail Address: capegreys@yahoo.com Logline: In this "Rocky" meets the Golden Girls" story a 65-year old grandma runs a marathon for the first time. Genre: dramady EMINENT DOMAIN E-mail Address: timjames4855@att.net Logline: A southern families true grit is tested when they refuse to give up their land to a powerful corporation.The outcome of a multimillion dollar merger,a hundred years of family tradition, and a dangerous love triangle; all hinges on the battles of inner demons in the tortured soul of a beautiful young executive. Genre: drama / comedy PATRICK AVERY GOES TO DIE E-mail Address: stephlaw21@yahoo.com Submit Your Logline: An apathetic bookstore clerk questions fate after waking up one morning with a strange notion - Patrick Avery is going to die. Screenplay Genre: Indie/Coming of Age; Comedy/Drama CAUTION: DETOUR E-mail Address: SCREENWRITER17@HOTMAIL.COM Logline: Syd and Nancy, who have lived together for the last six years, each has a secret that they are dying to share with one another. An unexpected turn of events puts this on hold and everything that they treasure in jeopardy. With only one long shot solution available to them, they set out on a most bizarre and inauspicious journey. Genre: romantic/dramedy
CHRISTAMS SPIRITS E-mail Address: denisemcgeown.act@ntlworld.com Logline: A Belfast plumber and father of two, with a drink problem, becomes Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Guided by two elves, who are a comedy act in repetition, he resists seduction by the omnipotent Mrs Claus, and learns serious lessons in personal responsibility. Genre: Dramedy IMAGINARY MONEY E-mail Address: gregbates1966@yahoo.com Logline: After falling for an Internet scam and misreading a restaurant's advertisement, a ten-year-old boy learns that nothing in life is really "free". Genre: comedy/drama OUR PATIENTS E-mail Address: jonsersdowrite@yahoo.com Logline: 'Our Patients'is a comedy-drama about a twenty-four year old budding male writer who believes his seventy-two year old father (one of the best and most experienced psychiatrists around) doesn't know the difference between a psychiatric and a psychological case. He decides to use a particular female patient to prove that he is right. or just maybe wrong. Genre: Comedy-drama HOOD-STERICALLY HOLY E-mail Address: dsanders4119@yahoo.com Logline: "When an Angel comes to the hood." Zaine, a college graduate in communication and father becomes an ex-con after him and his step brother Samuel commits a jewelry heist. His daughters pray for an angel to come down to keep him on the straight and narrow. Genre: Comedy/Drama BUTTER SIDE UP E-mail Address: secondsonofjack@gmail.com Submit Your Logline: Only after Richard Brodie hires a hitman to end his life does he realize he has so much to live for. but has he realized too late? Screenplay Genre: Drama, black comedy IT'S OUR TURN TO PLAY E-mail Address: dab32697@comcast.net Logline: The courageous women of the newly formed WNFL battle for recognition and respect in the universally male dominated arena of professional football. Genre: Sports Drama/Comedy MACK E-mail Address: mackjeffery@yahoo.com Logline: It takes more than love to catch a theif. Genre: Dark Comedy / Crime
FRANKLY SPEAKING E-mail Address: brian@gnaunited.com Logline: After having a conversation with St. Peter, a young iconic rock star, reluctantly agrees to return and straighten out the mess he left behind. Genre: Romantic Dramedy
FOREVER corujuca@gmail.com A woman, after finding out that she is going to die,find a way to live her last month in a " happy" way...
JAY BABY jmpennetta@hotmail.com A pathetic man has an unusual encounter with an infant that he believes is himself come back from the past. The only people that believe him are his cooky religous family and a local bartender
THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT mrpbluiett@aim.com An aspiring fashion designer, frustrated and displeased with her career and relationship, sells her soul to the devil for personal gain.
UNDETERMINED conradcarlo_venzon@hotmail.com A young man, who is thinking on committing suicide, reminisces about his past.
CAN'T LET YOU GO jaa_rule_4@hotmail.com What do you do when everything you worked hard for start to fall apart one by one? Do you give up and run or fight back to get a life you once had?
LEAVING APPOMATTOX craziestben2@hotmail.com An alternately rowdy, contemplative, vulgar, and emotionally complex comedy-drama about a stand-up on the edge -- of stardom or a nervous breakdown -- and the woman who could save him or break him forever.
UPHILL SWIMMING john@s.email.ne.jp A drama/comedy about Theodore, a former reluctant (drafted) military policeman who is hired to babysit a group of throw-away high school students in a special program in a drab school in northern Minnesota in 1975. Theodore doesn't know that he got the job primarily because of an unsolicited recommendation from a state senator who is the father of Theodore's on-again off-again over-dressed and overly coquettish girlfriend, Terry.
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