| Bernie Schallehn |
Screenplays |
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Page hits since 5/6/2003: 1902Page last updated 6/5/07 |
Interested in one, some, or all? Contact me at bernie@berniebooks.com and I can arrange for my agent to get you a copy of the script(s). All screenplays are complete, polished, and WGA registered. |
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Title: PARKIEGenre: Comedy/Dramedy/ Romantic Comedy Logline: After losing both his wife and his job, a white collar Everyman winds up living in a bizarre trailer park. Title: BLACK ICEGenre: Psychological Thriller Logline: American host family takes in adolescent Russian male to partner in ice dance with their teenage daughter, only to find that the boy is a homicidal psychotic. Title: THE TRAVELING CHARBONNEAUSGenre: Drama Logline: Septic cleaner by day, country music troubadour by night, Wendell Charbonneau has spent most of his life dragging his rag-tag family band through the bars and clubs seeking his "neon rainbow." But in the end, after all the searching, he discovers he's already been found. (Novel version to be published in May 2002 by Highbridge Press) Title: TUESDAY IS ALWAYS CHINESEGenre: Murder Mystery Logline: Former motivational speaker shattered by the accidental death of her son retreats to a small college town to become invisible, only to be brought back into the stream of life by the murder of a female Asian student. Title: EVENGenre: Drama Logline: Two brothers, one destined to be a musician, the other an EMT, make their way in the world until drugs intrude into the musician's life. When a cocaine-induced stroke cripples him he asks his EMT brother to save him ...from a life he doesn't want... by giving him euthanasia. Title: RED PEPPER ROWGenre: Drama Logline: In 1944, Gloria Salerno, Italian immigrant, daughter of a former bootlegger now turned saloonkeeper, falls victim to the prejudice of the town fathers who cheat her out of her rightful distinction as senior class valedictorian. Forty years later, the injustice is rectified. (Inspired by true events) Title: I'LL BE WATCHING YOUGenre: Young Adult Drama Logline: After losing his football scholarship, a young man desperate to stay in college schemes to videotape himself having sex with the daughter of a U.S. President (also a student at the college) to be sold for pay-per-view on the Internet. Title: AN AMERICAN ARMY OF TWOGenre: Historical Drama Logline: True story of Abigail and Rebecca Bates, teenage sisters who repelled a British fleet from Boston Harbor during the War of 1812 using only a fife and drum. Title: SANTA OF THE LIGHTHOUSES -a true storyGenre: Biopic
Length: Feature Logline: From Christmas 1936 to Christmas 1981, using his own funds, Edward Rowe Snow, in full Santa regalia, rented an airplane and dropped holiday presents and gifts to the keepers and their families of some of the most desolate lighthouses on the eastern seaboard. In his years of service he battled cynics, his own self-doubts, and the treacherous nor'easters he often encountered on his missions. (I own exclusive story rights) Title: HUG A FAT TREEGenre: Drama Logline: Hypochondriac white-collar attempts to over control his world until the kid in a pick-up runs a stop sign and kills his wife. Blue-collar neighbor befriends him, rebuilds him but the friendship is challenged when the white-collar learns blue-collar’s family secret and is faced with a critical moral decision. Title: SHOT DOWN OVER DOMFRONTGenre: War Drama – Action/Adventure Logline: True story of an American fighter pilot shot down over occupied France in WWII, his adventures and narrow escapes after rescue by the French resistance, and his longing to reconnect with them after repatriation. (I own exclusive story rights) Title: CHANGE OF EQUIPMENTGenre: Inspirational Sci-Fi Logline: The story of six broken individuals aboard a flight bound for Florida who, while en route, begin to spontaneously heal as the viewer gradually comes to the realization that the passengers’ final destination is, in fact, eternity. (Crafted in The Twilight Zone tradition) Title: THE APPOINTMENTGenre: DramA Logline: Death, in the form of a decrepit old woman, comes calling to a household where a sickly old father and his healthy young son reside. When the son realizes that it is his time that has come, the young man tries to cheat his fate by escaping into the city...only to find a surprise waiting for him there. Title: METAMORPHOSISGenre: Drama Logline: An Asian child-bride sold by her family finds the courage to leave her abusive husband. An escape story with a twist. |
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