Entries by tuckwriter

Boy Most Wanted

November 24, 2018 in /by

“What would happen if an abused boy’s imaginary friend had finally had enough, and decided to take matters into his own hands?”

**Top Winner, Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition**
**Quarter-Finalist, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards**
**Semi-Finalist, WriteMovies Screenwriting Competition**
**Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival**

Inspired by True Events

Logline: In 1967, William, the imaginary friend of abused 7-year-old Tim, takes matters into his own hands when he teams the boy up with FBI Agent Mitchell Green. Together the three locate the FBI’s Most Wanted. But a corrupt Agent doesn’t want his target found and must kill Tim to stop him. Mitchell of course saves Tim, but also becomes what William intended all along…Tim’s new dad.

A Moment Too Soon

January 25, 2018 in /by

“Jack finally meets the woman of this dreams. The only problem is…he’s dreaming.”

**Finalist, Creative World Awards International**
**Finalist, Moondance International Film Festival**
**Semi-Finalist, WriteMovies Screenwriting Competition**
**Semi-Finalist, Slamdance Screenwriting Competition**

Logline: Still lost after a breakup two years earlier, a Jack finally finds Emily, the woman of his dreams. She turns his life around until an intervention by friends and family forces him to realize that she is exactly that… a woman who exists only in his dreams. While Jack seeks answers through therapy, his friends discover that Emily does exist and decide to give destiny a little hand.

Inevitable

April 1, 2017 in /by

“What if the only way to the future… was through the past?”

**Winner, Moondance International Film Festival**

Logline: An innocent Irish lad comes to America to dig up his late Mother’s past in the dilapidated family home built by his great grandfather. While being spied upon and manipulated by known parties interested in buying the property, he falls for a beguiling young woman whose wealthy and eccentric family have a hidden agenda of their own.

Father Wishes

May 31, 2016 in /by

“Funny… Charming… Heartfelt… a holiday classic for all ages!”

**Winner, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards**
**Quarter-Finalist, Nicholl Fellowship**

Logline: A charismatic young Irish priest assigned to an American hospital one Christmas, encounters a frail, 9-yr-old girl, who not only begs him to find her future husband, she hands him a HEAP (Happily Ever After Person) List of unusual specifications. Jealous of the Father’s popularity, a rival gets the HEAP List printed in a local tabloid. Father Wishes is banned from the hospital. That is until his nemesis, Head Nurse Barnes, performs a rescue.

Brick’s Oven

April 1, 2016 in /by

“Sometimes the only way to find what’s missing…is to stop looking for it.”

**Finalist, Rhode Island International Film Festival**
**Quarter-Finalist, Creative World Awards International**

Logline: Broke and stranded in the middle of nowhere, an unemployed young woman is forced to take on the job of cooking and cleaning for a gentle but challenged older farmer. Their unusual friendship pushes each to new horizons, discovering themselves and ultimately each other.

All the King’s Horses

January 24, 2008 in /by

Genre: Drama Location: Wooded Lake/Small Town Form: Feature Length: 117 pages * * * Finalist, Moondance International Film Festival * * * Logline: Wary when a slow and troubled runaway comes to his door believing he’s his son, a widowed surgeon pretends to be boy’s father until the abusive grandfather shows up to kill them […]