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Ain't Ethiopia - After local whites lynch his wife as a suspected Communist, African-American Jesse Colton travels to Spain in 1937 to fight Franco. But there he finds that his real battle is with the fascists in the small Mississippi town from which he escaped and that he must return to face them down if his life, and his wife’s death, is to have any meaning. See the full script in MS Word.
By The River - This is a screenplay version of the play A Question of Color. Two people, John Wicks (white) and Susan Morgan (black), defy an early 20th-century North Carolina prohibition against miscegenation and get married. The story follows Susan and John as they struggle to make full lives under the shadow cast by color and prejudice. See the full script in MS Word.
The Nun Drops Her Veil - A nun doing missionary work in Patagonia, Argentina, during the government's "Dirty War" must trust a priest with military ties to find who has been killing the peasants and union leaders who are also her friends. See the full script in MS Word. The Sunlight Dialogues - Based on the novel of the same name by John Gardner, a small-city police chief must confront the meaning and purpose of her own existence when she takes into custody a self-proclaimed anarchist named Sunlight. See the full script in MS Word. Shea Man - An anthropologist plants the bones of the "missing link" on his family's farm to generate hype and cash. But when the "evidence" falls into the hands of a P.T. Barnum-style promoter who sees gold in gullibility, all goes awry. See the full script in MS Word. Georgia's Miss Baby - A young man loses his mother, and to deal with his grief, he joins the Marines. But during his last summer before shipping out, he meets a nervy nonagenarian with her own battles about an absent mother. See the full script in MS Word. |
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Downsize - Hannah spills water on the boss and melts him down, just like the Wicked Witch in Oz. What now? See the full script in MS Word.-- 15 pages How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Boy... - When Lilah Lawton learns that Dr. Jeremiah Kissov, an advocate of "dignicides," has helped her mother die, she determines to get answers, no matter what it takes to extract them. See the full script in MS Word. -- 15 pages Touching Down - Seneca Indian Thomas Touch-Fire, aged and tired, wants to exit his life with son-in-law Lindbergh's help. But Lindbergh, remembering the legends his father-in-law taught him, offers Thomas another way out. See the full script in MS Word. -- 24 pages Everything's Jake - When Jane reveals to Jacqui her strong love for Jacqui, she finds that Jacqui is willing to accept it -- but there is the small matter of someone named Jack that Jacqui needs to talk about. See the full script in MS Word. -- 14 pages In The Fort - At school someone calls Pablo's father a "wetback," but Pablo mis-hears it as "wetvac," which confuses him: his father a vacuum cleaner? Luz, his mom, sooths him but knows that the world is closing in. See the full script in MS Word. -- 10 pages Hold On - As Cappy and Ronnie discuss the end of their relationship, a car crashes on a bridge and teeters on the edge -- only they can keep it from falling over. As they hold on to the car, they wonder if they can hold on to themselves. See the full script in MS Word. -- 19 pages Glory Train - A young woman threatens her fellow subway riders all with a vial of what she says is anthrax. See the full script in MS Word. -- 12 pages Equal. Separate. - - Pat, white, and Chris, black, long-time friends and survivors of being "women in the building trades," lose their friendship when, over a shot and a beer, Chris finds out that Pat wouldn't let her daughter date Chris' son. See the full script in MS Word. -- 17 pages Tips - Two dollars on the counter, a tired waitress eying her tip, and a down-and-out man with itchy fingers. See the full script in MS Word. -- 2 pages. |
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