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ScreenplaysFor more information regarding these screenplays, Bill Armstrong ~ Flaming Rock Productions LLC GigglesGiggles is a screenplay about four pre-teen girls who quite appear normal in most respects. Brittany Stevens has a mother who is trying to push her into a career as a model or movie star. Becky Wilder comes from a wealthy family, complete with a full-time nanny. Since her parents travel most of the time Becky is left in the company of the nanny. Nancy Thomas wants to become a surgeon like her father. She spends much of her time imagining what it would be like to be able to operate on people. Anna Swift and her little brother live with her recently divorced mother who manages a real estate company. The four play for the Wolverines, a girl’s soccer team that is preparing to play for the city championship. All very normal, except that when they get together they become…different. They commit mean-spirited crimes. When their team loses the big game they deliberately break a rival player’s leg. They kill an old lady’s dog and set her house on fire. They push a classmate in front of a car. They commit these acts with little forethought. The crimes are spontaneous and, to the girls at least, they seem as normal as baking cookies. The police are baffled. There appears to be no motivation for the crimes. No one can believe these innocent looking little girls could possibly do anything so evil. Besides, there are no witnesses. People who were in the vicinity claim they saw nothing…except they did hear something that sounded like children…giggling! (Giggles is copyrighted and registered with the Writers Guild of America) ~TOP~ It's just a game ... !Walt Belnap and his wife Doris win a trip to Las Vegas. Walt becomes fascinated by the games. As an inventor he believes he can learn to beat any game. He buys a CD of casino games on his way home. In a short time he has lost $150,000. A few days later his banker calls to tell him that everything he owns has been attached by a company called the Wanko Corporation. After some research his attorney informs him a mob family owns the company. Only then does Walt notice the fine print on the CD. It says that any losses are owed to the Wanko Corporation. Walt tries to reason with the president of Wanko who laughs at him. Walt invents several gadgets to even the odds and sets out to break the bank at a casino owned by the same mob family. His mother convinces him he cannot do it alone and suggests her card club, The Gambling Grannies, can help him. The Grannies prove to be a weird group of women who bicker and fight constantly. Bambi is a Mae West wannabe who thinks every man is trying to hit on her; Big Klara weighs over 500 pounds and is always eating; Mrs. Wu is a tiny Asian woman with a black belt in karate; Pearl wears a faded old housedress and bedroom slippers; Emma Lou always talks in the third person; and so forth. Coincidentally, the mob is meeting at the casino at the same time. They are also a weird collection of personalities: ”Fat Nick” Caruso; “Weasel” Witowski; “Big Nathan” from Detroit; ”Three Fingers” Cerni; “Eddie No Shoes”; and the others, who are engaged in a madcap summit meeting reminiscent of The Godfather and Goodfellas. As the Grannies continue to win, the mobsters begin to sell off their stock in the casino. In a few days Walt and the Grannies win control of the casino. (“It’s just a game…!” is copyrighted and registered with the Writers Guild of America. ) ~TOP~ The Cairn
The Cairn is a screenplay set in the mountains of Arizona. A single pile of rocks…a cairn, marks the Gateway to Hell, the spot where the Apocalypse will take place. The hour of the final battle is fast approaching. The Prince of Darkness and his disciples are preparing to return to earth. Only an old Navajo, his two grandchildren, and a young couple on their honeymoon stand in their way. When the final battle begins the old Indian faces the remaining disciple, Menelaus, in combat to the death. When it looks as though all is lost an unexpected force appears to help Buck defeat Menelaus and the antichrist. (The Cairn is copyrighted and registered with the Writers Guild of America) ~TOP~ Outta SightRick Lee is the twenty-four year old son of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He has been disowned because of his complete lack of ambition and drive. His favorite activities are skateboarding and playing basketball. Rick witnesses a murder committed by The Mongoose, the notorious head of a mob family. After viewing a surveillance tape FBI agents realize Rick is the only witness. They attempt to keep him “outta sight” until they can bring The Mongoose and his gang to trial. Each time the agents attempt to hide Rick he unwittingly attracts attention that leads The Mongoose and his people right to him. In the meantime Rick meets and falls in love with Julie, the daughter of The Mongoose. Julie believes her father is a philanthropist and that his frequent trips to China are to take food and medicine to poor and sick people. The FBI agents make another attempt to hide Rick. They get him a job as a basketball coach at a tiny high school that has won only one game in five years. Rick teaches the motley collection of players to use their unique skills to win games. On the eve of the championship game the newspaper does a big story about the unknown coach who led his team to the finals. The Mongoose comes to the game to kill Rick. He sees his daughter kissing Rick and overhears the agents tell Rick that he and his gang were all killed in a car bombing by a rival gang. The Mongoose disappears and the bizarre team manages to win the big game. (Outta Sight is copyrighted and registered with the Writers Guild of America) ~TOP~ 453 Gleason StreetDerek Foster, a recently divorced man moves to New York City to become a writer. He moves into a small apartment in the Village and tries to find the proper subject material for a great novel. After several weeks of watching people pass by without getting any ideas he begins to become a bit discouraged. Then he suddenly gets an inspiration. Each evening, as he gazes out his apartment window he sees his neighbors across the courtyard…in 453 Gleason Street…living what he sees as normal, yet interesting lives. He begins to write about the residents and the lives he imagines that they are living. He even imagines the resident of the darkened apartment on the first floor is a young woman traveling to exotic places around the world. He later meets another writer, Kendall Curtis, who had lived in the building. She informs him that the people living in 453 Gleason are not the normal people he is writing about, and that the owner in the darkened apartment is actually a serial killer currently in a prison for the criminally insane. When they attempt to interview her they learn she has escaped. It becomes apparent that Derek is being stalked as a pair of eyes watches his every move. He is run down by a hit and run driver. Death threats are written on his door and bathroom mirror. The police find hundreds of photos of Derek in the serial killer’s apartment. When Derek is wounded the police close in and catch the would-be assassin. It is not the serial killer! From across the street the mysterious eyes continue to watch the proceedings. (453 Gleason Street is copyrighted and registered with the Writers Guild of America) ~TOP~ |
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