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Jim Boston
Omaha, United States

I first got interested in screenwriting as a college student in 1979 (Iowa State University); an additional impetus was the paperback version of the "American Graffiti" screenplay.

From 1980 to 1994, I pursued screenwriting with a vengeance...but other things happened in my life.

Since 2016, I've been back chasing the dream...and it's only because I inherited a Power Mac from one of the codirectors (Nick Holle) of a documentary I was in: "The Entertainers," about the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest and Festival. (Nick received the computer from the husband-and-wife couple who helped produce the film, Brent and Jackie Watkins.)

The Power Mac has a copy of Final Draft 6. Armed with that software item, and a greater knowledge of the industry than I had in 1980-1994, I'm more excited than before about working to become a screenwriter whose scripts get produced.

Most important of all: This is my fun.

Scripts By Jim

Got Any More Bullets, Sister?
Two siblings struggling as vendors in 1930 Cleveland seek to better their lives...but while one woman, a bashful sort, decides to enter music, her domineering sister chooses a life of crime.
Feature Action, Comedy, Crime For sale 93pp
12 readers love this script
Pixie Dust
Two modern-day University of Minnesota-Twin Cities students start their own sorority in order to reach out to other female UMN-Twin Cities students tired of being marginalized.
Feature Comedy For sale 117pp
5 readers love this script
Tin Mine
Looking to get their musical careers out of a rut in 1939 New York City, a song plugger and a radio organist become composers...at a time of huge changes in the industry.
Feature Comedy, Music For sale 102pp
5 readers love this script
Kitten on the Keys
In 1876, the death of her husband on a train trip out West forces a college-educated woman to strike out on her own at the next stop: Dodge City, KS.
Feature Comedy, Western For sale 104pp
4 readers love this script
Bleeding Gums
A math teacher at an all-girls' high school in present-day Omaha, NE seeks to fill a void in her school's activities by forming its first jazz band.
Feature Comedy, Music For sale 125pp
3 readers love this script
Jingle Belles
Seeking to usher in the new breed of rock-and-roll hitmakers, a songwriter-manager-record producer and a record-store clerk unite to start their own music-publishing company in 1959 New York City.
Feature Comedy, Music For sale 112pp
3 readers love this script
Small Flyers
In 1946 Albuquerque, two preteen girls decide to take up flying...surprising their father, a World War 2 Army Air Corps pilot struggling to readjust to civilian life, where female aviators still aren't respected.
Feature Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family For sale 120pp
2 readers love this script
Yes, Indeed!
Tired of being out of showbiz, two child TV stars of the 1970s ride the late-1980s swing revival by forming their own big band in hopes of playing a respected Los Angeles jazz club.
Feature Comedy, Music For sale 118pp
2 readers love this script
Fine Tooth Comb
Inspired by a videotape, a teenager in 1994 Davenport, IA forms her own band with the hopes of playing at the local Dixieland jamboree, the Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival.
Feature Comedy, Family, Music For sale 110pp
2 readers love this script
Shorthose and Flaxbeard
An inept comic magician playing Seattle in 1917 seeks to turn her career around by landing herself a partner...a beloved theater organist-piano teacher who's fascinated with vaudeville.
Feature Comedy For sale 115pp
2 readers love this script
Gayle Strawberry and Her Soda Pop Music Makers
It's the summer of 1942, and a Los Angeles teenager starts her own swing band in the hopes of entering it in the first annual National Swing Contest.
Feature Comedy, Drama, Family, Music For sale 126pp
2 readers love this script
The Nutcrackers
Pondering life after ballet and ex-dancer Vanessa Carlton's Grammy-nominated success, two star ballerinas in present-day Kansas City, MO seek to become blues musicians at a famous local bar and grill.
Feature Comedy, Music For sale 126pp
1 reader loves this script
Golden Oldies
Thanks to a phone call from a fellow former Iowa State University student, a librarian in modern-day Ames, IA looks to put her old rock band back together...and conquer a legendary local venue.
Feature Comedy, Drama, Music For sale 121pp
1 reader loves this script
Pipe Up!
An Arizona Cardinals cheerleader, a frustrated musician following in her late granddad's famous footsteps, seeks to save a landmark restaurant in contemporary Mesa, AZ from becoming the area's new Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
Feature Comedy, Sport For sale 124pp
1 reader loves this script
Rivertown Rock!
It's Sunday, February 9, 1964...when the Beatles' appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" inspires a Sioux City, IA teenager to start her own rock group and show that girls can play the music, too.
Feature Comedy, Family, Music For sale 118pp
1 reader loves this script
Rut
In contemporary Sacramento, a retirement consultant and a realtor take their cooking hobby to the next level by opening a pizza parlor...despite knowing nothing about running a restaurant or the industry's ups and downs.
Feature Comedy For sale 107pp
Down to One
A single juror's painstaking caution forces her otherwise-preoccupied, totally-entrenched colleagues to carefully consider the evidence for a highly-informed decision in a murder trial in modern-day Charlotte, NC.
Feature Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery For sale 119pp
Long Way
Annoyed with the demands of their present jobs in modern-day St. Louis, a food server and her best buddy, an office worker, seek to follow in their grandmothers' footsteps...as truckers.
Feature Comedy For sale 114pp
The Street Piano Kid
Looking to get people in her community to interact with each other, a modern-day Las Vegas teenager seeks to bring those colorfully-painted outdoor pianos to Sin City...America's last major holdout municipality.
Feature Comedy, Family, Music For sale 118pp
Fuller's Folly
Driven by her unbroken adventurous spirit, a former slave uses her life's savings to buy an old steamboat and book passengers for tours down the Mississippi River in 1865 Davenport, IA.
Feature Adventure, Comedy, Drama For sale 100pp

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