screenplays
SOUTHERNMOST POINT
a dramedy feature film
On his way to the airport, Ray’s life implodes. He's fired from his job and his fiancé dumps him. All he has left is an invite to a wedding in Key West. It's there he meets two women, both of whom make him feel alive again. The island's collection of hopeless romantics, feral chicken wranglers, and hapless drunks all help him see that he’s been living his life all wrong and that the woman from the wedding could be the one. He just has to figure out which of them it is before they both get wise.
CLERMONT
a dramatic feature film
Eddie goes deliberately searching for ‘life experience’, something he’s lacking according to his ex. He encounters Walter, a swarthy drunk with tons of war stories. Walter takes Eddie to the Clermont Lounge, Atlanta’s infamous strip club where washed up strippers go to retire.
There he meets Iris, a train-wreck who traffics her physical beauty for survival. Eddie is purely a tourist in Walter and Iris’ world, but he begins to fall for them both. Not romantically, but experientially. He wants their ‘real’ and ‘visceral’ life. What he never counted on was the very real issues and traumas.
NASHVILLE MOON
a comedic feature film
Theo has always pursued the safest path. In high school, in college, in grad school. That has led him to work under the wing of his mentor Dr. Callen, the only person to inspire him to do more. That’s why Theo is going to be a marine biologist. In truth, he just didn’t have anything else going on. Now, several years in and finishing up school, he works at a land-locked aquarium, still working under his mentor. He hasn’t advanced, he hasn’t ‘risen to the challenge’, he has simply existed at his job.
Other candidates with broader résumes and deeper passions have passed him by. He is stuck. His last gasp of salvation comes from Dr. Callen’s upcoming expedition to Antarctica. Theo thinks he’s a shoe-in, but he very much is not. Once again, Theo is passed over for the coveted research position and it comes as a shock to him, he has evidently hit the ‘glass ceiling’ for boring and unremarkable men. With that knowledge, Theo hits bottom.
On a particularly long bender, he drunkenly awakes in a mobile home on its way to Nashville, TN. Upon auditing his life, Theo finds himself jobless, homeless, and without any prospects. In a rare moment of clarity, he recklessly decides that he is going to stay in Nashville and become a country musician. Just like that. It is certainly not a great plan, but all the great plans he has laid out in the last several years have amounted to nothing.
Theo has always loved music, but he’s never had the guts to do anything about it. He quickly fashions himself as a Nashville busker and takes a journey through the modern Nashville music scene. Aside from the music it’s pretty much a plastic toilet full of commercialized crap, but somewhere in there the monuments of Parton, Jones, Wynette, Jennings, Cash were forged. Along the way he will encounter wannabees, rising stars, barflies, and the ghosts of Nashville past. Each will help him realize that the city holds magic still. And if you see him on the street talking to himself don’t worry, he’s probably talking to the ghost of George Jones.