Scripts for Option

Geraniums Are Red

Synopsis:
A woman who leaves her “house on the hill” for an outlaw is usually seeking adventure. But it is not adventure that drives Anna Kerbey. It is the desire for understanding and acceptance. Her handsome husband gives her neither. But Jean Guy, the Cajun bank robber, does.  Or is he a con man? Is it all a sham? How far will she go to protect a man bent on self destruction? How far will he go to prove his love is real?

Anna has struggled with marriage to Eddie, a man who pays attention to little other than his own personal pleasures, which include hunting, fishing, gambling and drinking. He does love her. He just doesn’t know how. Having a sickly child doesn’t help the situation. Eddie feels lost and angry. Anna feels lonely and betrayed. She finds solace in her work as a teacher and writer until a man sitting in a jail reads a story she has written and decides to contact her.

When Anna leaves her job and her husband to go on the run with her daughter and her new found love, she knows things will not be easy. Her lover is an escaped convict. She will live a life on the run. What she has not counted on is Jean Guy’s need to be chased, to be punished, to be living on the constant edge of danger.

Her love is put to the ultimate test when Jean Guy calls Kansas to see if he is still being hunted. His love is put to the ultimate test when he discovers she is permitting herself to be sexually abused to save his life.

Bio:
Carolyn Mamchur, professor, writer, consultant is author of twelve scripts, two children’s books, two books of poetry, four books and over thirty articles on education and psychology. A Jungian, she uses archetype to teach writers, directors and producers.   Another screenplay, Sunnyside Canal, is optioned by Stuart Margolin. She works as creative consultant and story editor for Telefilm and CBC. Currently, she is completing her third trilogy of novellas, The Sun, the Moon, the Stars. You can see her complete CV on her web site www.educ.sfu.ca/mamchur/

CAROLYN MAMCHUR, Writer
(604) 736-4060 Fax

Agent: Shain Jaffe
Great North Artists Management
(416) 925-2051
Or contact Praxis

Green Gold Rush, The

Genre(s): Comedy

Logline:
A marijuana deal goes awry, ironically winning the participants a much higher price.

Synopsis:
Thirty-five year old Ross sees the pot business paving his way to an early retirement in the Caribbean. His brother Sonny intends to quit after one sale and open a tranquillity tank, The Floating Buddha Stress Reduction Centre. Ross has always dominated Sonny and so of course ridicules this plan (as he has all others).

Tina, who intends to purchase the pot, has been waiting tables and supporting her alcoholic mother. Fed up, she wants to quit work and return to school. Buying the sixteen pounds Ross has for sale and selling it to a cousin in San Francisco will make this possible.

The story takes place on the day of the deal. Comic chaos begins when Sonny's fiancée Sylvia discovers the pot and walks out. Ross and Sonny then go to Luther's to collect the pitbull that will ride shotgun on the dope. Having fronted them ten thousand dollars to set up their operation, Luther warns that failure to repay the money and return the dog means death.

Back on the road, Ross and Sonny start to argue and wreck the car. They lose Luther's pitbull and are pursued by four female thugs who spied the pot in the car. Tina, meanwhile, is forced to bring her mother inon the deal.

As the deal goes down, Sonny finally faces up to both Ross and the fact that Sylvia does not in fact love him. When Tina's mother sees the briefcase full of money, the two women, estranged since the father died, are forced to reconcile.

In the end, the pot is stolen but Tina and Ross have something going. She even offers to lend him the money to pay off Luther and grow another crop -- another Green Gold Rush.

Author Info:
GRANT BUDAY has two scripts under option: Children & Idiots with Anagram Productions, based on a story from his collection Monday Night Man, and White Lung with John Pozer Productions, based on his novel White Lung.

GRANT BUDAY, Writer
(604) 251-2190