Friday, November 28, 2008

story/screenplay

A young man's two best friends inexplicably disappear and his world comes crashing down around him as he tries to find them.

A rational and honest man alienates himself from friends and family after he experiences what he believes to be an alien abduction as he tries to convince them of what happened to him.

The comic story of how a "nice young man" makes an effort to be a bit of a jerk so her can get a girl.

How a man spends the last six months of his life with pancreatic cancer.

Something about someone going to see a psychic who turns out to actually have powers. A guy goes there on a dare? By chance? Life turned upside down somehow. The psychic is a gypsey woman from Czech republic.

Some friends move into an apartment that turns out to be haunted. The ghost is not malicious, his presence is a mystery that the roomates figure out.

A teenaged kid wakes up to find the world is deserted: everyone is gone.

A young, average, man becomes tries his luck at getting close to a minor celebrity.

The story of the atom bomb from its inception to the cold war proliferation efforts.

A slacker type of guy decides to fake having issues with depression and anxiety in order to participate in a clinical/psychological study at a university so he can make some extra cash by (in his mind) just showing up and acting sad, taking tests and coming back a week later to do it again. In the process he finds that he might be dealing with more complicated issues than he previously thought and begins to realize that he might need help after all. Throughout the story he begins to turn things around for himself through the help he recieves in the treatment (which turns out to be a placebo?).

Four good buddies are marooned on a deserted island and are forced to confront eachother's shortcomings as friends. (like the Breakfest Club meets Cast Away).

A conflicted young man begins to straighten out his life through the philosophies and practices of Zen Bhuddhism.