1. EVERYTHING BUT THE GROOM
Author - Christina Hamlett
Genre - Romantic Comedy
Length - Feature

Logline/Synopsis - The wedding photographer is an undercover detective. His date to the wedding is a German Shepherd. The Chef just got his teeth knocked out and eases his pain with lots of booze. Everything the wedding planner had lined up is NOT what is on the menu. The groom is a player, the bride is a spoiled brat, and the maid of honor is knocked up. The limo is a hearse with a dead body in the back, and oh, yeah, someone in the wedding party just robbed a bank. This is one wedding you don't want to miss!

2. LOVE: IT'S ELEMENTARY
Author - Brenda Cregor
Genre - Romantic Comedy
Length - Feature

Logline - Who ever said love is child's play?

Synopsis - Craig, a part-time professor, on a Sabbatical, now substitute-teaching, is trying to write a doctoral thesis on the Physiological Correlates of the Human Emotion; Love. Fairalynn is a much beloved Kindergarten teacher hiding her four failed marriages. Charlotte, Ricky, Grace, Vince, and Niko are 6th graders determined to prove how love works, and that it has very little to do with anything they will be seeing in the school's Sex Ed film.

Ricky and Gracie make a bet. Ricky and his boy friends think teaching Craig to send animal kingdom mating signals can get their new long-term sub a life-time companion with three desparate female teacher prospects ( Dona, Gloria, and Cheryl). Gracie and her girl friend think a few elementary lessons in romance can lead at least one of these man-hungry teachers into a life-time of Cosmo-magazine-type romantic love with Craig. But, these children will learn, love is never a simple venture. Craig falls for Fairalynn. When her failed marriages are discovered, she falls from grace ( in the eyes of her former students). Craig winds up accidentally confessing his love to all four women ( in a bridesmaid shoe mishap), and leads the three love-starved teachers to believe that he'll be their ( and only their) dance partner for the school's Valentine's Day Dance. And finally, a child's simple observations on love and Craig's first experience with a heart-felt relationship, enable him to finish the thesis ( which is ultimately rejected), after he wins the imperfect love of his life. And the kids? Well, they learn love is not so "elementary" after all.


3. HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS
Author - Christina Hamlett
Genre - Romantic Comedy
Length - Feature

Logline - Imagine walking up to the Pearly Gates and being told you can't get in to Heaven until you hook the hubby you truly hated up with someone truly worthy of his love and devotion. Could you do it?

Synopsis - It was bad enough finding out that she had just become newly deceased on the morning of a major corporate merger she had spent months putting together. The real bombshell for Gwen Truax comes when she is informed by the powers that be in the Hereafter that she has an assignment she has to complete by Christmas; specifically, to find a new wife for, Dan, the husband she was planning to divorce. Sent back to earth in the frumpy persona of an inept typist, forced to live in a terrible flat above a noisy Chinese restaurant, and-even worse-to be fraternizing amongst the lowest rungs of her former executive ladder, Gwen has yet to discover that all of her actions are being evaluated by an angel in disguise.

NOTE - COMPOSER ATTACHMENT- Jane Ellen; www.janeellen.com has graciously agreed to lend her talents to HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS.


4. ROCKABYE - BYE
Author - Christina Hamlett
Genre - Romantic Comedy
Length - Feature

Logline - What would happen if a rock star knew he was going to lose his voice and, accordingly, his income stream? What if, further, he had an unscrupulous manager who decided his client might be worth a lot more dead than alive?

Synopsis - Joey Matranga, the avaricious manager of rock star Dizzy Gizzard, hires a hit man to murder his celebrity client before word can leak out that the singer is losing his trademark voice. Plans go awry, however, when the cut-rate thug mistakenly knocks off a celebrity impersonator instead. The newly "deceased" rocker suddenly finds himself in the position of trying to frame his agent, protect his dimwitted girlfriend, Vanessa (whom Joey is now romancing), and keep his true identity a secret from Lia Chan, a beautiful Asian newscaster who holds the power to either win his heart or destroy his future.

5. HARRIMAN SPRINGS RESORT
Author - John Bowker
Genre - Romance / Drama
Length - Feature/ MOW/ Series Potential

Logline - You never forget your first true love that was lost. Especially when that love comes back ten years later.

Synopsis - Ten year old Tom Naughton, for the longest time, had a crush on Echo Johnson who was five years older than him. One tragic night, while Echo is walking home from the resort she works at, she is struck down by a car that was driven by her own drunken mother, paralyzing her from the waist down and in the process, losing her mom forever.

Ten years later, Tom is still holding on to the love he felt for her and when he discovers that she is coming home to the small resort, he concludes that now is the time to win her affections. What happens over the next several weeks is an emotional roller coaster for both Tom and Echo who become involved in love triangles, a horrific storm and a deadly experience that will either bring them closer together or tear them apart.

NOTE - John Bowker can also be attached in the capacity of Director/Assistant Director for this screenplay with series potential.

6. MI-YOURS
Author- A. Jaye Williams
Genre- Romantic Comedy
Length- Feature

Logline - What happens when a lonely freelance photographer from America marries a glamorous British spy? . . . A dangerous love affair that tickles the funny bone!

Synopsis - Wil Carter is an average young man from Rosemountain, Michigan. His life is slow, unexciting, and going nowhere. Even his friends can't help but feel sorry for Wil. It's not until Wil's mother sends him to Barbados on getaway that things dramatically turn around for him.

Monika Hart, a top British agent for MI 6 is one of the best and most overworked agents in her field. At the command of her superior, she's ordered to take a vacation and to unwind. As chance would have it, she heads for Barbados.

Arriving and staying at the same resort, Wil and Monika meet right away--to the chagrine and irritation of the other. They couldn't be more different than any two people. The friction and conflict between the two constantly flares up due to misinterpretations, coincidences, and the actions of a Russian mobster in their midst.

Nonetheless, romance blossoms and the two find that though they are from different worlds, they suffer from the same needs, desires, and wants that most all human adults do: love. They quickly grow closer and eventually marry.

However, the real fun begins when Wil and Monika return to the respective homes. Wil's friends and family don't believe he's newly married, no matter how hard he tries to convince them--and he ties hard. Monika, for her part, tells only her best friend that she's married and gets right back into her next case.

Once Monika finishes her latest mission, she finally decides to visit Wil. Good news: everyone learns that Wil is indeed married. Bad news: Monika inadvertently brings her work, in the form of the Russian mob seeking revenge, with her.

7. ROMEOVILLE
Authors - Christine DeSmet & Peggy Williams
Genre - Romantic Comedy
Length - Feature

Logline - A little boy lies, cheats and steals his way into the hearts of unlucky fortune teller Jula Byrd and the boy's social services officer Clint Kowalski -- who's about to marry the wrong woman.

Synopsis - Fortune teller and tarot card reader Jula Byrd believes in the magic of love but not necessarily in her own skills. Even though her clients get lucky over and over again, Jula never seems able to locate her own personal Romeo -- someone who can cause an earthquake in her soul. When she meets Clint Kowalski, a by-the-book social worker who refuses to believe in magic and only thinks he knows love, she misreads the signals of her own heart. He's perfect; no he's not. How could he be? He's engaged to a socialite who lives in a mansion, while Jula's about to be evicted from the old rattle-trap Victorian she shares with her mother. And he's haunted by a secret from his past.

Jula works her usual magic on a long line of clients, but finds herself the unwitting target of little Paxton, an orphan who sees only good things between Jula and Clint and assumes there's a family in the making for him. He's got a plan to get the two star-crossed lovers together. Unfortunately it's a plan that goes awry from the beginning. But by now the incorrigible Paxton is starting to work his own brand of magic on Jula and Clint. And lo and behold -- the earth does shake! Crashing right through their souls. Jula finally figures out what the magic of love is all about and foretells the real future -- with both Clint and Paxton in the center of it.

8. LAND OF THE RISING SONS
Author - Christina Hamlett
Genres - Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Family, Ethnic (Japanese)
Length - Feature

Logline - Love is a two-person game that both can win.

Synopsis - It's more than a culture collision when foreign exchange student Hiro Nakamori ends up in Arizona as the newest college roommate of the wealthy and arrogant Donnie Zax. With Donnie's parents off in Europe, there's plenty of time to run up their credit cards, throw parties, and try to transform the shy and soft-spoken Hiro into the next Joe Cool. Hiro, however, sees this reinvention as futile, knowing that at semester's end he'll be called back to Japan to work in his family's liquor store. In the meantime, Donnie's roving eye has picked out Aya Watanabe, a beautiful young business major, to be his next conquest. Romance, however, has no place in Aya's life right now; unless she can land her dream job with an American corporation, she's consigned to return home. When Donnie unwittingly sets Hiro up for a date with Aya instead of her flirtatious cousin, Yuki, it will lead to an offer that one of them can't refuse.

9. FANCY PANTS
Authors - Christine De Smet and Peggy Williams
Genre - Romance/Teen/Western/BASED ON TRUE STORY
Length - Feature

Logline - A childless couple overcomes great obstacles to give away hope and 300 free horses to kids in need, particularly one shy girl who helps them solve a theft ring and then rides a special horse in national competition.

Synopsis - When MARLENE marries Midwest horse wrangler BOB "BEAR" HEGWOOD, it is with the hope of a real family and of kids filling the house at Christmas. But Marlene's inability to get pregnant and Bear's sudden, near fatal health problems threaten their dream and even adoption is denied to them. Marlene, instead, focuses on her own "kid," an unwanted Arabian horse, Star King, which she dreams of riding in the Olympics.

To afford an experimental operation to save Bear's life, Marlene faces the necessity of selling Star King and their other four horses. Bear won’t hear of it. No hospital bill will claim his horses. Instead, they’ll give their horses away to kids! In exchange the kids will give them back foals, which Bob will sell to pay off debts. They’re deluged with letters. They keep Star King, but give away horses to shy CASSIE, poor TRISH, lonely JILL, and JEREMY in leg braces. The Hegwoods are famous matchmakers. But Marlene has doubts about all this. She still wants her unattainable dream.
Marlene’s doubts are soon substantiated. When Bear catches teenager REESE lurking around the stable, he puts the teenager to work. He also befriends TONY, an African-American teen in danger of going with gangs but with dreams of being a cowboy. But Bear's good nature is tested when he discovers that Jill has sold her free horse for drug money.

Cassie, so shy and troubled she’s failing classes, begins to compete on Snowball. Cassie loses her first competitions, and is mocked by other, richer kids because of her cheap equipment.

Marlene's pride and joy is a fancy show saddle, given to her by Bob as a wedding gift. It’s the saddle she planned to use in the Olympics. Intruders attack Cassie and blind one of the horses, stealing the saddle. When suspicion falls on Reese, he sets out to get the saddle back. However, he’s killed in an auto accident. Marlene and Bob mourn deeply. Reese was like Bob’s own son.

To Marlene’s surprise, Cassie's astute observations help solve the crime and clear Reese's name. But it’s too late for Cocoa, the blinded horse. But Bob won't give up on anyone. He retrains Cocoa and surprises everyone when she rides again in competition—and wins! Bob, who now suffers from diabetes and an amputated foot, doesn't believe in letting a disability keep you from great things. Marlene works hard to keep everybody together and happy, pushing aside her dreams.

Cassie, more confident, finds the courage to enter the national 4-H Olympics. But she starts to become something of a “fancy pants,” wanting to be like all the rich girls. She whines that there's no way she can win on Snowball, and when Cassie cops a “fancy pants, I deserve more attitude,”

Marlene teaches her a lesson or two. Then gives her Star King! Bear and Marlene are proud “parents” indeed, and Marlene has realized her Olympics dream through Cassie, who has learned humility.

In turn, Cassie gives Snowball to Tony, who can finally realize his dream of being an African-American cowboy. But there's one horse left to give...Reese's. When Bear tries to find the perfect horse for JENAE, a little girl facing heart surgery, Reese's father suggests Reese’s big, but gentle animal. Marlene takes pride in the people from across the country who learn of the “man who gives horses away.” Bear even has a card stamped with that phrase. But what’s left for Marlene? What of her dream for a family with Bear? It happens that Christmas.

Bear and Marlene Hegwood finally find the Christmas they've always wanted—a house full of kids. Dozens show up to thank Bear and Marlene for changing their lives with the horses. That Christmas Eve, the kids watch along with Bear and Marlene as a beautiful foal is born in their barn, signaling hope and a better future for the Illinois rancher and his wife. She realizes how special Cassie’s been to their lives, a nice fancy pants indeed.

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