Genre: ActionPremise: A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.About: Abduction represents that golden screenwriting ticket. A true spec sale that, right after selling, goes racing into production. We should all be so lucky. Former (and current?) rocker Shawn Christensen wrote […]

A quick note to drop by this Wednesday as I’ll be posting a review for the first script to break into my Top 10 in over a year! Genre: Crime/Caper/ComedyPremise: An art curator enlists the services of a Texas chicken farmer to con a wealthy collector into buying a phony Monet painting.About: They’ve been trying […]

Genre: ComedyPremise: After receiving panicked messages from a girl he’s been Facebook-stalking, a meek agoraphobe wrangles together his closest internet friends and journeys into the real world to find her.About: Every Friday, I review a script from the readers of the site. If you’re interested in submitting your script for an Amateur Review, send it […]

The word “rules” stirs up a lot of debate in the University of Screenwriting. Some believe there should be no rules when you write. Others believe rules are the lifeblood of a screenplay. I fall somewhere in between. You definitely need to know the rules. Whether you choose to use them, however, is up to […]

Genre: Family/FantasyPremise: 13 year old aspiring inventor Andrew Henry begins to suspect that the world he lives in is not what it seems. About: Didn’t research this until after I wrote the review, but it appears that Andrew Henry’s Meadow is a well-known children’s book, which would make this an adaptation, not a spec script, […]