SAILOR
Genre:
Drama/Romance
Logline: To break out of an unhappy and destructive marriage
and find her special someone, Miranda has to overcome different psychological problems, that cause her body to revolt.
Synopsis: Twenty-three year old Miranda is married to Martin, who cares more for money and sports than for his wife.
He hardly shares any activities with her and bosses her around. Miranda, who always believed in true love feels cheated by his behavior, but stays in hope he would change. Sadly she discovers that she’s
lost the fight, on a hot August morning, when she suddenly feels dizzy and paralyzed.
The concurring result of the medical tests she takes, displays that it’s a mental problem –
her romantic and vulnerable soul screams for help and attention. The rescue seems to be near, when she falls in love with
Dallas, a young Chief Petty Officer from the Royal Navy, at the annual Sea Festival in her town. Being shy with hardly any
self-esteem keeps her from talking to him though and so she goes out with the next best thing - Mac, a chef from the same
ship, who chats her up – realizing too late, that Dallas felt the same
way for her.
She gets a chance to explain everything to Dallas and set up a date with him, but when he doesn’t appear that night, she is sure she will never see
him anymore. Little does she know, that he had no permission to leave the ship that night. Miranda takes a chance and writes
him a letter, she is able to talk to him and give him the letter before the ship leaves. But Miranda wants more. She moves
heaven and hell to go and find him and overcomes all the obstacles thrown in her way, in order to be with her one true love.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN HEAVEN
Genre: Drama
Logline: Little Jordan experiences violence and sexual abuse by his own mother while growing up. He has to find a way out of
his nightmare in order to start living.
Synopsis: Jordan is born into a poor family, with his father
leaving on the day of his birth and his older half-sister, Sarah, being procreated by his own grandfather. While he is a baby,
his teenaged mother Elaine promises to protect him and Sarah, so that they won’t have to go through the same horrible
experiences she had to go through when she was little.
Trying
everything she can to feed her little children and survive, she fails in treating them both equally and prefers Jordan over Sarah, who grows a strong hate for her brother and makes nasty plans to teach him a
lesson and get rid of him.
One
night Sarah screams for Elaine, making her believe that Jordan touched her in a sexual way. Elaine, who is totally overtaxed
from having bad nightmares about her father raping her, believes Sarah and locks Jordan in the basement, keeping him away
from all social events, including school.
As
Jordan grows up, Elaine discovers that he looks more and more like his father and now doesn’t only beat him up, but
also starts touching and kissing him. Jordan isn’t able to fight her, because he is petrified. The situation reaches
its climax when Elaine, who by now is an alcoholic and totally disturbed from all her nightmares and bad memories, visits
Jordan in the basement one night and rapes him.
Jordan
manages to escape that night and tries to make it to the big city. On his way he collapses and is found by Jamie, a wealthy
young girl, who helps him and takes him with her. Jamie realizes that something is wrong with Jordan, when he behaves strangely
and always flinches when she tries to touch him. Slowly Jamie gains his trust and a
relationship develops between them. With Jamie’s help Jordan rehabilitates, but he never gets over the fact,
that he can’t fulfil Jamie’s dream of getting closer and making love.
Still
having problems knowing what love is, Jordan comes home drunk one night and sleeps with Jamie in a violent way, hurting her.
When he realizes what he has done to her and knows that he can never take his actions back, he gets scared and remembers how
his mother never stopped hurting him.
For
Jordan there is only one way to stop the pain his mother had caused him and the hurt he had caused his beloved Jamie. When
Jamie comes home that night, she finds a note on her bed and Jordan dead in his room.
DO
YOU BELIEVE IN HEAVEN is a dramatic story about the possible effects on a person who has to suffer from sexual abuse and violence
in his own family.
THE
DENTALMEN
Genre: Comedy
Logline:Two
dentists, best friends, live a completely opposite and chaotic life; but a series of crazy situations make them learn the
ultimate meaning of friendship and how to make their lifetime dreams come true.
Synopsis: James is the kind of guy who seems unable to get
anything right in his life. He is a 35 year old dentist, working real hard and is plagued with annoying, mindless patients.
The last time he was successful with ladies ended two years ago by him killing his girlfriend’s guinea pig in a tragic
accident. That’s the day when he and his partner Holden move in together and life becomes more complicated for James.
Holden
is about the same age as James, but seems to get everything right in his life. Girls surround him wherever he goes, he gets
the most interesting patients and he owns a Porsche sports car. He spends most of his working time on the beach surfing or
by flirting with his hot female patients, but although he doesn’t do much, he still thinks he works too hard and hopes
for a career change as a bass player in his brother’s band.
James
envies Holden for his easy lifestyle and wonders what he’s done wrong in life. Holden, on the other hand, notices that
he’s become very self-centered and that something has to change.
On
a trip to a continuation course in Painesville/Ohio, they experience lots of crazy situations, from the sadistic teacher to
the weird male concierge who’s got the hots for James. They start to understand each other better and learn how important
their friendship is.
When
James starts to fall in love with his clumsy dentist’s assistant, Jennifer, Holden forgets about being selfish and does
all he can to help James win his true love over. At the same time, James arranges a gig at the annual doctors and druggists
ball for Holden and his brother’s band ‘Ray and the sugar-ants’, to help them shoot their career off.
THE
DENTALMEN lead us on a hilarious trip full of innuendoes and follows James and Holden on a challenging path of becoming better
men.
SNOW BLIND
Genre: Suspense Drama
Logline: When Steven Matthews, a hard working
guy and an unaware drug addict, has a car accident he suffers from a complete breakdown and struggles with imagination and
reality, caught in a web of deceit.
Synopsis: Steven Matthews is a hard working guy with a loving wife and a sweet little son. One Christmas night, he
races through the streets in order to get his son the ultimate Christmas gift. Being late and stressed and with the beginning
snow flurry, he doesn't notice the little boy, stepping into the street, and runs him over. Not being able to cope with this
dramatic and deadly accident, he tries to escape into alcohol and drugs. He neglects his wife, finds himself haunted by his
boy and ends up in a mental hospital on the verge of a divorce. Will it be a life worth living on and did he really kill his
son? In the end he has to learn how to become a better man, in order to win his family back.
SNOW
BLIND is a script in the vein of Sixth Sense meets The Others, but turned around. Curious now? Contact me to request the script.
ME AND MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER
Genre: Family/Romance
Logline: When Christine Bricker suddenly dies, her husband Daniel and their 16 year old daughter Kaylie
have to find a way to understand each other.
Synopsis:Daniel and Kaylie both live their lives, connected
through the loving head of the family, Christine. Daniel is a brilliant and hardworking architect and Kaylie enjoys her school
life and her friends.
One night, when Christine suddenly dies of a brain stroke,
Daniel and Kaylie are thrown off track. Kaylie suddenly has to grow up, take on a part-time job to support the family and
take care of the housework and her father. Daniel has to struggle to keep his job instead of visiting the cemetery every day.
When Luke Sanders, an aspiring singer, appears at Kaylie’s
work to advertize his band’s performance in the town’s small club, Kaylie falls head over heels in love with him,
and vice versa.
Daniel is all but happy about his daughter seeing a rock
singer and when Kaylie sacrifices a family weekend with her father and his boss & date Alexandra, to be with Luke and
comes home later than expected, Daniel forbids Kaylie to ever see Luke again.
Feeling misunderstood and with this enormous craving for
Luke, Kaylie runs off to be with him. Meanwhile Daniel bumps into his one true love Catherine, who vanishes out of his life
quicker than she came. Things get more confusing for Daniel, when through an unexpected incident, he finds out that Catherine
and his ex girlfriend Alexandra are related.
To top things, Kaylie invites her father to Luke’s
next gig, where she not only performs a song, but also reveals her engagement to Luke. At least Daniel coincidentally meets
Catherine there again, who is as shocked as Daniel, that her son is planning to marry.
Pitches:
Land of Legends
Genre:Action/Adventure/Thriller
Pitch:A vampire, a werewolf,
a living dead and a mummy/sand storm - sounds like trouble? Way wrong, in this story they are the heroes. They save an orphan
boy, living in the streets, reunite him with the last remnant of family he possibly has and reveal one of the biggest secrets
in the history of mass murders: the real identity of Jack the Ripper!
Follow the four friends on a fantastic and thrilling trip,
when each of them learns to cope with their given identities; and learn about a complete new way of hearing the story of Britains
most feared killer - the Ripper.
Dark Siberia
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Pitch: Three American gunrunners
are trapped in a Russian gulag, the time is 1943 - The dark shadows of World War II are spreading
over the country. It's the beginning of a venturesome action adventure, because an army of
monstrous vampires kills everybody in the gulag except our heroes (Alan, Michael and Peter) and their nemesis, a cruel and brutal Russian ward. The gunrunners find shelter
in a secluded village, which is overseen by an enigmatic Russian preacher.
What
they don't know is, that their destinies are going to be interwoven. This preacher was formerly
a willing KGB officer.
They are forced to face murdrous, outraging vampires and a revenge seeking
gulag ward, who is leading a bunch of soldiers. Sergej, the preacher, and his new
friends must find a way to protect the small rural community from dangers to come.
Please contact me to read
Land Of Legends and Dark Siberia.
The Backyard Kings
Genre:Action/Gangster
Comedy/Martial Arts
Logline:Two hostile gangs, fighting for their territory; a charismatic ex-killer
on the run, who slides into their feud; an elite commando, trying to bring him back dead or alive! That's only just the start
of an action packed and funny odyssey.
Synopsis:SAM GERSH is one of the best assassins of his time…
well ex-assassin – the day that his partner KANE wants to finish off a bunch of teenagers is the day that Sam leaves
his promising career behind and heads home to his dying mother and his younger brother AARON. But soon, as a salvo of bullets
follows him on his way, he has to realize that his boss, MR. J, had quite different plans with him – not to mention
his ex partner, who got severely hurt in a fight with Sam and is now raging mad. Sam knows that it’s all about the family
and he has to hurry in order to save his.
When he comes home, all the birds have flown out and the empty house bears
no welcome. Looking for his brother to let him know about the latest events and warn him and his family of Kane, Mr. J’s
favourite psychopathic killer, and Mr. J himself – the most dangerous syndicate boss ever - he finds out that his beloved
mother has died of cancer.
As he finds his brother in a billiards bar, he learns that he’s keeping
much worse company, working as a courier for TONY the Italian boss of the Hunters, as well as working for VLAD the Russian
boss of the Black Tigers and Tony’s worst enemy- none of them know about his double shift.
When Vlad hears about Tony’s presence in his favourite billiards bar,
he calls for his men and reaches the bar in no time, where a fight erupts in which Sam is the last man standing. Both gangster
bosses are now interested in Aaron’s little brother and coincidently find out, that Aaron’s playing for both teams
as the courier. Aaron could be in deep trouble, if it wasn’t for their interest in Sam’s amazing fighting skills.
Kane and BENSON, a more human part of Mr. J’s team of skilled killers,
are still after him and find out his address and are on their way to bring Sam back – dead or alive.
During that task they meet Tony’s and Vlad’s men as well as
the gangster’s ladies and Sam’s girlfriend JOSIE. They know they’ll have a good chance of bringing Sam back
home, when they kidnap the whole bunch and torture them a little.
With united fighting skills and strength, Vlad (who realizes that Mr. J is by far a worse enemy than
Tony and his men) and Sam (who finds out that Josie and Aaron are kidnapped as well) travel to Mr. J’s headquarter in
London on a mission to free Tony, the henchmen of the gangsters and the ladies, while trying to avoid to get killed. In the
end Sam has to face the most brutal gangster in order to free his new friends in a matter of life and death.
Dein Freund und Helfer - To Protect and to Serve (German TV movie)
Genre: Romantic comedy
Pitch: Als die junge Mutter Christine sich in Polizeihauptkommissar
und Leadsänger einer Coverband - Daniel Brandner – verliebt, fängt der Trubel für sie erst an, denn wie soll sie es
schaffen den beliebten Musiker für sich gewinnen, wenn alles gegen sie zu arbeiten scheint?
(When single mother Christine falls in love with police officer and lead singer in a cover band –
Daniel Brandner – the trouble in her life begins, because how can she manage to win the heart of this popular musician
when everything seems to work against her?)
