A street kid’s single mother picks up an old high-school flame on his release from prison; his menacing cellmate, released the same morning, turns their lives upside down.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
37pp
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Family, Music
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
17+
Synopsis/Details
RICKY (17) is a white street kid who hails from Staten Island, NYC aka "Shaolin". School’s out for the last time and the whole summer's in front of him. Life is simple for Rick; he's hip-hop to the bone and swears by Shaolin natives Wu-Tang Clan, while his homeboy E follows the new-wave of auto-tune-heavy raps that have taken over the scene. Naturally, they degrade and insult each other every chance they get as homies do. Ricky's with RONNIE (Ronelle) -- she's black, beautiful and smart and he's crazy about her. Things are sweet until the day his mother picks up her old high-school boyfriend from jail as a favor. His shady cellmate with the sinister past -- out the same morning -- changes everything, and what starts off well, spirals into a nightmare problem that only a showdown will solve. (I had a very specific vision for this story in regards to character, culture and location, but I could've wrote this in any setting really.)

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Submitted: 2019-Apr-26
Last Updated: 2019-Apr-26
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The Writer: Rory Lawie

As far back as I can remember I was always obsessed with film, spending hours studying movies and reading their screenplays when they became available to find online; however, it wasn’t until early 2018 that I decided to try my hand at writing my own. To add a fun angle to a research project I was doing on Scottish history -- William Wallace and Andrew De Moray the topic in question -- I chose to document it as a dual-protagonist feature screenplay to hone my technique and find my own style. The result was a 135-page monster, deliberately long so I could get as much practice in as possible. To gauge my abilities, I entered some of the smaller fish in the competition game, and to my surprise… Go to bio
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