COLLAPSE
- topical all-star cast disaster action -
The collapse of the honey bee population reduces the American harvest to 20% causing a nationwide run on banks, food, survival items, and silver and gold in any form since money has no value in a survival economy! Through the widespread panic, job walk offs, hoarding, looting, crime and chaos of the first 24 hours, diverse individuals find their loved ones then team up to get to a tycoon’s 200-ft. sailboat waiting off the Malibu coast as a system with no workers collapses piece by piece around them. (Hollywood Pitch)
unEARTHED
- intriguing high concept journey -
Jim is an archaeological anthropologist obsessed with finding a human fossil from a certain time period. Elizabeth is a NASA geologist whose scientific credibility has been undermined by her sexy feminine style. And Bold Hawk is a native American chief/shaman who takes them on a desert adventure to solve the mystery of the origins of humankind. With the authorities hot on their heels, their ranks grow to include a genius linguist called in by Elizabeth to decipher ancient text, and an Army Corps of Engineers Captain who’s originally out to bust them. Mysticism, science, intuition, math, ancient languages and mythology find common ground in this fact-based journey to our collective past. All the revelations are real world and verifiable. The climatic discovery is so plausible; it’s spooky. (Hollywood Pitch)
ROMANTIC SCHEMER
- romantic comedy -
Debra rents an off-season beach cottage to wind down from an arduous divorce and get away from men for a while. But before you can say “rebound”, she’s being hit on by triplets. She rejects the lifeguard, but dates his cowboy brother for a second before dumping him for the third brother, an artist who feels just right. When she discovers that they’ve been playing her, she engages in an intriguingly fun game of pay back with her sexpot twin Jezebel and their over protective Aunty Offwithit. (Buy the Movie) (Hollywood Pitch)
PLAYED
- topical romantic thriller with action -
A principled young man and his naïve fiancée follow her experienced sister into a dangerous world of glamour and riches controlled by a rich charming deviant and his mean #2. As dreams come true, sinister criminal behavior goes on unchecked and unseen behind the luxurious scenes until circumstances force it out into the open. It may be too late, since the girls have unknowingly become part of the criminality. (Hollywood Pitch)
ANGEL’S PLAYGROUND
- dramatic adventure comedy -
Blocked by a freeway accident and in a hurry to get to Vegas, a high-powered Female Executive, a has-been rodeo Cowboy and a dilettante Ski Instructor, each take the same desert short cut which becomes a long-cut forcing them to team up and flee a pursuing jewel thief to make Vegas on time. Strong wills clash as tough choices prod incisive personalities into amusing repartee, while a mild mannered tow truck Driver runs circles around them all. A tour de force role for an older actress. (Hollywood Pitch)
ESPERANCE
- a novel from antiquity for screen adaption -
The widowed centenarian Mrs. Bonne and her elderly single daughter are the beneficent powerful Christian matriarchs at the center of a struggle for the soul of their beloved nineteenth-century American town-turned-city, Esperance. They care for its inhabitants as if they were their own children, and are determined to protect them from the corrupting influences of the Sixth Ward, where liquor and its associated vices threaten the common decency that was the heart of their once peaceful, stable town. They enlist the aid of journalist and labor agitator Charles Seaman to help them “slay the Dragon” of unethical and immoral behavior. This historically accurate period piece is equal parts political intrigue and spiritual awakening, a masterful handling of the sprawling cast of characters whose interactions paint the broad picture of a town becoming a city, a tale of greed and growth versus good and grounded as resonant now as it was when so eloquently penned a century ago. It offers an authoritative, sophisticated dual performance to a seasoned actress playing both Mrs. Bonnes. (Hollywood Pitch)
ALL’S NOT FAIR
- dramatic action suspense romance -
A female CIA operative seduces a bounty hunter to protect her undercover Interpol partner/boyfriend who’s infiltrated an Al Qaeda terrorist cell in Miami and has a bounty on his head. She falls for the bounty hunter who mistrusts her as all three close in on the Al Qaeda mastermind and his deadly primary operative. (Buy the Movie) (Hollywood Pitch)