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    Screenplay Contest - Top 50

    The Top 50 Screenplays from the current Project Greenlight contest are listed below in alphabetical order by User Name (Team Captain's User Name for team entries).

    To view a screenplay, click it's title. As part of their contest requirements, the Top 50 Screenwriters were asked to submit a video telling us about themselves and their script. You can view the videos below.
    The videos are in Windows Media Player format:
    Screenplays are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format:
    THE TOP 50 SCREENPLAYS

    User Name Screenwriter Video Title - Logline
    bgbattles Not Available I Woke Up (In Love This Morning) - A 30ish professional woman, lovelorn and nostalgic, thinks the world is going insane. She might be, too: A week before Christmas, she claims a handsome amnesia victim as her fiance. Inventing his life and their past, things go great, but guilt overcomes her and she seeks to fill in his blanks. When he comes to and finds he's reverted from the ruthless, loveless businessman he'd become to his true self thanks to their encounter, he realizes they are soulmates.
    boboinnes View Good Intentions - A woman robs her husband in order to create a nest egg for their children.
    ClaraBow View Only in L.A. - The comic misadventures of a hyper-intellectual woman who discovers self-worth when pursued by both a charming movie star and her lovestruck best friend.
    coneydogs View Aftermath - The parents of a boy who commits a school shooting are sued by the parents of the victims.
    dawnazeeman View End Games - End Games is the story of a woman whose moral center and sense of competition are so skewed that she will sacrifice her own life to bring about the downfall of another.
    dbelpedio View nevermore - Four modern-day urban high school students learn to deal with life's obstacles while copleting their research paper into tragic life of Edgar Allan Poe. The students' lives and Poe's life and work is shown using an intertwined plotline.
    duckbill View The Hungarian - He would die for his sister, but would he kill for her? "The Hungarian" is a film noir set in the world of the Los Angeles Hungarian Mafia.
    eaand View DISTORTION - A female homicide detective tracks and kills a serial cop-killer, only to discover his final victim is missing and possibly alive, forcing her to pursue him into the afterlife.
    ebeeney View The Battle of Shaker Heights - A young war reenactor makes a friend on the battlefield who helps him use strategy to take on his high school enemy. Driven by newfound confidence, he seduces the friend's fetching older sister and risks the friendship. Reality intervenes when the illness of his ex-addict father forces the anger his irony masks to the surface and he has to decide if staying in a fantasy world is worth the consequences.
    elvis1p View Now and Again - A bookish, well to do, bachelor antique dealer is leading a quiet life in Charleston, S.C. until a 130 year old photograph turns his world upside down, leading him on an ever stranger search for its meaning and the only woman he has ever loved.
    erdrag View Prince Michael - A modern day woman re-evaluates her life after experiencing adventure and romance in pre-Revolutionary war Boston.
    flygirlwu View JUST A GIRL - Battling breast cancer and industry stereotypes, a determined Chinese-American actress gets into film school, masters kung fu, and wins the leading role in an indie feature which mirrors aspects of her own life.
    fontenel View My Brother Jim - Sling Blade -- Italian Style
    FrankMull View RAINBOW HAVEN - A gay rest home in the heart of Florida develops big problems with a conservative Councilwoman when its residents try to stage a public Christmas pageant.
    Frost9 View Second Time Around - Shrouded in the romantic notion that the woman he believes he loves and will someday return his love, short story writer, Connor Randall, finds himself making a second attempt at completing his first novel.
    Gadzooka View Odd Jobs - An ensemble romantic comedy about twentysomethings stuck between the odd day jobs they have and the dream jobs they want.
    hitchmember View Skeletons - After her husband, David, is killed in a horrible car accident, Missy Hunter begins to make some disturbing discoveries about his past. Haunted by memories and pursued by an unknown menace, Missy must uncover the secret of David's relationship to a string of mysterious disappearances...before she becomes the next victim.
    hwalper View Renaissance - A man with no memory and his wife, a concentration camp survivor, build a life together in the years following WW2. But his forgotten past theatens to tear their lives apart.
    jbmdvm View CONVICTION - He prayed for a cure. What he got was a miracle. Understanding the difference would take a lifetime. To bring meaning to his daughter's life, a father must confront his own convictions.
    jemmytee View DARIAN'S POINT - An Irish emigre brings his new bride back to Ireland only to discover his dark and horrifying birthright.
    joeld View Anyone But You - He's at the top of his game. Everybody listens to him. Even the people who hate him...Love him. But can he learn to love himself...Before he hits the ground.
    jokermik View Dogman - A man, culpable in the death of his young son, struggles to maintain his sanity.
    LeoBeaudet View Order of the Dragon - Rated R History/Fiction Epic tracing events involving an order of knights of Medieval Transylvania, Hungary, and Romania. Mihnea, a shepherd boy, escapes Ottoman enslavement and joins with the crusader army and such knights as Dracul, The White Knight, and Dracula. Through Mihnea's life long association with the crusade knights of the "Order of the Dragon" and the Ottoman enemy, he comes to learn that Holy War is not the will of God, but the will of man.
    Majortom View Getting It Right - Martin lives a life without passion, accomplishment, family or friends. Now with cancer ravaging inside him, his life's only decision will be his last, to choose the manner of his own death. Megan tries to make these attempts exciting and his life meaningful. Megan also struggles to discover the truth about Martin's hidden past without revealing the painful secret in her own. Together, they share the joys of living and discover the road to happiness.
    manteca View MANTECA - SEX, DRUGS, AND LATIN JAZZ -- MANTECA is the tragic true story of Chano Pozo, the brilliant, charismatic, but self- destructive Cuban percussionist who got his start in America playing alongside Dizzy Gillespie in 1947. This partnership would foster the birth of Latin-jazz. But Pozo never saw his dream come to fruition; he was gunned down just as his record "Manteca" became a smash.
    Mesejohn View Scrum - aka: Fug Tup No Teefus - A sports drama in the vein of "Bull Durham" about a squad of rugby players in Louisiana who drink, play, and screw their way to the championships. "Mack," is a somewhat reluctant first- year law student. After a particularly embarrassing first day, he stumbles upon a rugby game in the rain, and joins the motley-crew of colorful characters that call themselves "The Mudders."
    mikecorey View Viagra Highway - Three widowers, armed with a bottle of Viarga and their pensions, road trip to a Nevada brothel, rediscovering life and love along the way.
    Mollywood1 View China Girl - There is a population shortage of marriage-age women in China. A Chinese-American woman doing research there gets abducted and eventually brings down a ring of black market kidnappers who transport women in cattle cars to distant provinces and auction them off into marital s
    MRaab View HOMER - When Cliff loses his wife it's up to Homer, a "special" labrador retriever, to help him along on their comic journey towards life and love after loss. That is if Homer can defend himself against their evil next door neighbor Mrs. Hickey whose flower bed he can't stop watering or the new bully who moved in down the street.
    mraffa View Sins of the Father - F.B.I. Agent Robyn Harper has been called in to assist Detectives Tom Jacobs and Frank Connors as they investigate the first of 3 bloody abductions. As the abductions evolve into a series of bizarre, ritualistic killings, the three must uncover the meaning behind the numeric clues left at the crime scenes and find a missing priest before the killer strikes again.
    Pallas View CURTIS LIONHEART - An abused boy fakes his own death to save his sister.Twenty-five years later the fathers release from prison coincides with the kidnapping and murder of young boys in the 15th Precinct. Their best homicide detective is assigned to the case. But when the journal of Curtis Lionheart resurfaces, the detectives carefully constructed life is shattered. If he's going to save a family he once destroyed, he's got to be willing to die - again.
    parsell View Wanna Bet? - Three wives bet on who will find a husband for their best friend before her thirtieth birthday.
    Patrick31 View Purple Hearts - A Vietnam draft-dodger is forced to confront his demons when his graduating son announces that he's joining the Marine Corps.
    paulromo View The Road to Damascus - Jack, a lonely drifter tries his hardest to form a friendship with Russell a, bitter drunk who is confined to a wheelchair. Only after the two become the best of friens does Russell learn that Jack was the cause of Russell's life of hardship.
    Raltn View PRISONER - A high profile director finds himself hostage in an abandoned prison. As each day passes he's one cell closer to death row.
    richpete42 View Blood Brothers - Inner city gangs invade a suburban New England community, forever changing the lives of some of the residents.
    Rmagnotta View RETRIBUTION - After 11 years in a state prison, Jack Circo returns home to find the doctor who stole his wife, his son, his whole life from him. Little does the doctor know that he and his family will soon face a retribution beyond imagination for a crime he didn't commit.
    Rsalentino View The Rebound Guy - Have you been recently dumped? If so, Ben Bennett is the rebound guy for you! His revolutionary six-step program can accelerate your recovery phase. But what happens when Ben breaks the cardinal rule and falls in love with one of his clients?
    rwhelan View PIANO MAN - After the death of his charismatic older brother, fifteen-year-old Frankie Trumbull learns about love, loss and finally redemption at the hands of black stride piano player, James "Honeybear" Powell. Piano Man is a tale of tolerance, shared humanity and courage in the face of racial prejudice in 1950s mid-America.
    Scarlatti View Botticelli Girl - Botticelli Girl is about an art thief who orchestrates his own daughter's abduction in order to acquire $300 Million in stolen art.
    scaryphantom View Boathouse Drums - Sean and Mac have been best friends their entire lives and together, have become two of the most feared high- school wrestlers in the nation. As they prepare for college, a tradgedy sends them on different paths into an uncertain future, one running from his past, the other fighting to gain the acceptance of a father who can't love him, both searching for a place called home.
    Sean Molloy View The Mystic - A callous, arrogant New York lawyer agrees to close a mysterious real estate deal in remote western Ireland. Once there, he gradually reconnescts with his humanity as he discovers his family's legacy of magic, faith and, ultimately, sacrifice.
    Seragamble View Cheeks - It's Claudia's last night waitressing at Cheeks, a divey LA topless bar. She's saved every tip for the last 8 years and stashed the $200,000 in the club safe to finance her dream of retiring to paint pet portraits. But Claudia's dream is threatened when Jonas, her hottie animal trainer ex- boyfriend, shows up to rob the strip club. Now Claudia must save her dream - with the help of a motley band of strippers, a mob boss, and a danicng ferret named Robert de Niro.
    sheilajenca View The Motherless Nanny - The Motherless Nanny is a satirical comedy about a white trash woman hired to be a nanny for a rich Beverly Hills family.
    shmeckle View The Sixth Chamber - Western Novelist David Westman is stalked by an obsessed fan of his books. When his seven year old son Colby is abducted after a car wreck on a road trip to Tucson, David works desperatly to find him while a greater mystery unfolds in the form of .45 Peacemaker Revolver that becomes the link in saving his son and the man who's taken him.
    Sy Fobb View Donuts At Dawn - An unexpected marriage proposal sets off emotional fireworks in a tight-knit New Jersey family. Working together in their donut shop, three generations of women come to terms with life, love and each other.
    therace View The Achievers - Stuck in a dead-end job at a Fortune Cookie factory, a young aspiring Asian American writer and his downtown roommates deal with sex, love, identity, and homemade "E" as they struggle to defy an eviction notice and their image as "over-achievers" in the cultural mosaic of L.A.
    thisgunforhire View Modern Logic Dictates... - Meet Kate, a young New Yorker (by way of Minnesota) dancing her way through love, life, and unemployment.
    tzembla View Unmasking Moretto - Stefano DiPresso is a struggling artist, searching desperately for that inspiration that once made him the star of the San Francisco art scene. When Stefano and his faithful companion Lucio embark on a quest to reveal the true identity of the popular but mysterious artist, known only as Moretto, Stefano begins to unlock instead those pieces of his heart that have been so long missing from his art.
    WhatTheHell View Fig Nefarious - A young record executive is so desperate for a hit that he's forced to recruit his utterly talentless friend to pose as a rock musician. Together they con the music industry and fans to achieve rock n' roll stardom, but find an ever-increasing struggle to keep their con alive.

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