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This is your chance to discuss the week’s amateur scripts, offered originally in the Scriptshadow newsletter. The primary goal for this discussion is to find out which script(s) is the best candidate for a future Amateur Friday review. The secondary goal is to keep things positive in the comments with constructive criticism.
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TITLE: Home for the Holidays
GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE: A conservative family man looking to move up in his law firm struggles to balance his daughter’s pregnancy, his son’s bullying, and comes to terms with college son’s surprise boyfriend over the Christmas holiday.
TITLE: Revenge Date
GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE: A woman wins a charity auction and a date with the guy who left her at the alter.
TITLE: Closing Costs
GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE: A neurotic insurance agent is caught up in an ambitious starlet’s plan to make it to the A-list.
TITLE: Release the Beast
GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE: A hot young Hollywood playboy, an insecure football player, a groupie loving hip-hop artist, and a jaded female pornstar all enter a 30-day sex clinic seeking help. Only to discover that copulation is not the problem, they are. And now they must break years worth of bad habits and change, or risk losing their money, marriage, and love ones.
TITLE: Orange Crush
GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE: Frazzled from years of bullying and humiliation, a too-school-for-cool college freshman concocts an epic week long plan to show his party side. But will the cool kids once again torment him or finally accept him?
