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SCREENPLAYS
THAT'LL BE THE DAY
An Australian story set in outback Queensland. When drive-in owner Coll and his wife Tiffany come up against a blow-in mayor who wants to leave his mark on the little town of Lindel, Northern Queensland by building an Entertainment Precinct to include a Live Theatre, Art Gallery and Cinema which pits the council against a ratepayer who has very deep ties to the community. Colls family own and operate not only the drive-in, the only entertainment for a few hundred miles, and the only petrol station in town, but have a bread and newspaper delivery service, giving them a unique position in the community. With Colls mother who still speaks to her dead husband, his big brother who's done time for running the biggest two-up school in the state, his gay son, who Coll thinks is the only gay in town, and his daughter, his only hope for grandchildren, all depending on him to fight his way out. With plenty of help from his mates, and a very crooked football match which sees the mayor doped, he takes on the film company's who favour hard-top cinemas over drive-ins.
Copyright Registered with the Screen Writers Guild Number: 9715
IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT
When an award-winning screenwriter, Anthony Faulkner, shows up to his awards night drunk, his agent rents him a house and buys him a one-way ticket to Portofino, the scene of his greatest success with orders to get sober and write something. The alcohol that used to give him an edge had now blunted his writing skills. His landlady, Katherine doesn't like him on sight, but when her artistically talented daughter Gia arrives and sets her sights on making him her stepfather, their feelings towards each other gradually change. The romance has cured his writers block, and the results become a story about these two remarkable women. (names, locations and professions changed to protect the innocent) but they feel betrayed and send him packing. When it's turned into a successful movie they realise that it's really a love letter to them both.
Copyright Registered with the Screen Writers Guild Number 26128
THE LAST BITE
Richard Blake, renowned American food writer, restaurant critic and television celebrity, has embarked on filming his newest television show to coincide with his latest book release. He and his director travel to Naples and along with a locally hired film crew, plan on travelling into the countryside in search of great food. They quickly discover that they'll need a guide to translate for them and help them get around. When Sophia Russo, an Italian American answers the advertisement, she quickly becomes invaluable. When there's a murder in the hotel room right next door to her, things begin to get complicated. During the investigation the Italian police reveal that Sophia's ex-husband has been implicated in a one-hundred-million-dollar heist from the Vatican Bank. But he's dead, isn't he? When her life is threatened the CIA become involved and they discover that the thieves believe that she knows where the money's hidden.
Copyright Registered with the Screen Writers Guild Number 10796
MURDER ON THE MENU
MURDER ON THE MENU is a light-hearted murder mystery set in New York not long after WW2. We meet Deirdre Hollingsworth a newly widowed woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. After selling everything her husband had built she arrives in New York and through nefarious means lands a job at one of the biggest, most influential newspapers in New York By pushing out the incumbent, she takes over the gossip and entertainment bylines making herself one of the most well-known newspaper columnists in America. Her Poison Pen Gossip column gives her the power she thinks she deserves, but it also spawns enemies. But would any of her 'friends' stoop so low as to murder her on her birthday? Someone did, but who, how and why.
Copyright Registered with the Screen Writers Guild Number 10441
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