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By: Daniel Curzon
(A romantic drama, with plenty of comedy, based on real events)
A very pretty thirty-something single mother, Corey Christof, is a registered nurse and part-time cocktail waitress, but she is having a very hard time making ends meet despite her two jobs because her abusive ex-husband refuses to make child support payments for their three children, now seven, ten, and twelve. Corey has found it difficult to meet a suitable partner despite her numerous previous efforts. So, consulting with Angelina Lopez, her neighbor and confidante, she has come up with a plan to scrape up some money somehow and go for a night and a day to a very fancy hotel, where she hopes to meet an eligible professional man, someone that she can both love and respect — and one that can accept her three children as well. We see three different men that the heroine encounters in her search–one a married businessman who says he’s divorced, a bisexual gym owner, and a Catholic priest.
The story is conceived as a movie with a strong possibility of a spinoff TV series, with different romantic problems.
When Ned Browne’s screenplay is finally made into a real movie, Ned finds himself in a strange world of kinky producers, insulting directors, pampered stars, striking writers, S&M cats, blind old ladies with guns, but with a chance for revenge — but it may involve being in drag
Eye to Eye tells the story of a man (Bud Mitchell) who learns authentic medical hypnosis techniques while in prison and must struggle, once released, to become a professional hypnotist in the face of opposition of members of the licensing board, who question his credentials. The members of the licensing board have skeletons in their own closet. One of them is a suave, murderous M.D. who preys on elderly female patients.
Bud is helped by a woman doctor (Chris) who has helped trained him, a woman with a troubling attraction to criminals that goes beyond her ability to control her romantic feelings. The ex-con and the woman hypno-therapist are forced to join forces, using disguises and dangerous attempts at hypnosis, to prevent yet more murders.
Eye to Eye is basically a crime/suspense thriller, but it also has some humorous scenes. The use of genuine hypnosis in a fictional story is unique in film.
SUGGESTIONS: This screenplay could easily spin off into a TV series about two medical hypnotists, male or female, who use hypnosis to solve problems and crimes.
(continued) AGENT BERTHA KLAUSNER’S READER’S REPORT:
(about first draft)
“I was undeniably fascinated by the authors’ treatment of the art and science of hypnosis. The authentic representation of hypnotism and hypnotic states and techniques is central to the work, and unique in my experience.” “The story seemed to me to move briskly and energetically and the characters seemed multi-dimensional and likelife. And there is a happy ending, with villains getting their just desserts.” “In short, I think the authors really have something here.”
The story traces the main character (a half-Indian, half-British writer) from the celebration party for his daring book called The Blasphemer, through the Ayatollah’s edict calling for the author’s death, then the hiding out with his wife in a series of secret apartments, his separation from his young daughter, the international rioting as well as the disturbing public statements by officials,
This is a drama about a former actress/singer (Kim Burton), now a voice coach and agent, when she learns that she has scleroderma. Her doctor informs her that in the early stages, a woman of 60 can look 35 because of the illness. Because of her estranged relationship with her husband and not wanting his pity, Kim decides not to tell him of her disease and to allow her facial skin to tighten to recapture her youth, to have a last fling – joy, romance, and maybe love. Only her friend Elena, a Russian immigrant, knows.
She begins coaching Tony Abbott, a young pop singer with some voice problems who has been begging Kim to help him with his career. Kim and Tony become lovers, to the consternation of her husband, who has fallen in love with his wife all over again.
To stay young, the heroine refuses treatment, even the experimental kind, and faces pain and eventual death, growing more beautiful by means of the very disease that is killing her.
In medical terminology, sclero means tight; derma means skin.
Scleroderma is a fatal illness that afflicts 300,000 Americans. Despite extensive research, neither the cause nor the cure is known. Some patients claim they have arrested the illness through treatments in a Mexican clinic, but the A.M.A. does not approve of the treatment.
The story ends with Kim returning from Mexico, cured, but now looking even older than she did at the start of the play. When her lover comes to greet her, he doesn’t recognize her, and Kim decides to say nothing to him and keeps on moving while he stands there still waiting for her to arrive.
The focus of the script is not on the medical aspects of the disease of scleroderma, but rather on the serious relationships of the heroine with her husband and her lover, including Kim’s eventual decision to seek treatment even though it means that she may lose both her husband and her lover.
This is a thriller set in an English manor house, where two sisters, a husband, and a gardener plot and counterplot surprising and clever murders against each other. (Can be played with comic overtones.) Keeps the audience on pins and needles wondering who will win. (The setting could be altered to the United States.)
A little boy in an Eastern European country is taken on a train journey by his cruel grandmother – to sell his bodily organs for transplants, especially his eyes. There is a market for such items in some parts of the world. Will he realize what she has planned for him? Will he be able to escape in time? Is there more here than meets the eye?
The life story of Princess Margaret Rose of Great Britain, the Princess Diana of her day, from the age of 21 to her death at 71, with emphasis upon the three main loves of her life: Captain Peter Townsend, Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon), and Roddy Llewellyn. Just how much of a bitch was Her Royal Highness? What if she could have married the man she loved?
doesn’t entail my family’s secret about my grandfather. I miss him and I want to see him one
last *me!
TEEN: (intrigued) A family secret? What is it? You can tell me! I won’t tell anyone! I promise!
Is it about hidden money or a buried treasure?
YOUNG MAN: (hesita*ng) How did you know? We’ve barely just met! Are you also telepathic
or a medium?
TEEN: (PLEADING) Tell me please where and what it is! Or how about you just think about it
and the MEDIUM will pick it up via her telepathy? I want to show my viewers that Séances
are real and that they are worth the expensive price! I must have some telepathy as I can tell
what my audience and viewers want! (Checks phone) We’ve already got some viewers now!
YOUNG MAN: That’s it, I don’t know where it is. Only my grandfather does but he died
before he could tell me or anyone else. That’s why I came here to hug him, talk to him one
last *me, and 7nd out where he hid his money. (glances at entrance)
MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN ARRIVES AND ENTERS STAGE AND TAKES A SEAT, NERVOUSLY.