Danny MacIntyre Meets the Molecule by Mike Murphy

After a snowstorm, a pre-teen girl meets a distressed water molecule in her newly built snowman who desperately needs her help.

Type:

Short

Status:

For sale

Page Count:

26pp

Genre:

Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Budget:

Shoestring

Age Rating:

Everyone

Based On:

My audio script.

Synopsis/Details:

When 10-year-old Danielle ("Danny") MacIntyre hears a voice coming from the snowman she just built, she wonders if she's imagining things. She soon learns that what is talking to her is a water molecule - one that really needs her help. For all of his "life," he has never been part of anything big: A little snowstorm here, a sprinkle there. He wants a good story to tell the other, snooty water molecules when he evaporates and goes back up into the sky. He wants to go out "in a big way."

With the help of Danny and her mother's spaghetti pot, the molecule is able to evaporate after washing the face of Danny's little sister. After a tearful goodbye with Danny, the molecule evaporates, but has a great story to tell in the sky.

Story & Logistics

Story Conclusion:

Happy

Linear Structure:

Linear

Cast Size:

Few

Locations:

Few

Special Effects:

Minor cgi

Characters

Lead Role Ages:

Female under 13

Advanced

Equality & Diversity:

Female Protagonist

Life Topics:

Childhood, Childhood Adventure

Time Period:

Contemporary times

Country:

United States of America (USA)

Time of Year:

Winter

Submitted: May 2, 2019

Last Updated: October 16, 2024

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The Writer: Mike Murphy

Mike, a four-time Parsec Awards finalist, has had over 150 audio plays produced in the U.S. and overseas. He’s won a dozen Moondance International Film Festival Awards (winner, finalist, and semi-finalist) in their TV pilot, audio play, short screenplay, and short story categories. A more complete list of awards is presented below by year. In 2025, his TV pilot script Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator was a quarter-finalist in the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards (Season 9), Solutions, Inc. (another TV pilot script) was a quarter-finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Pilot Screenplay Competition, short screenplay The Price of Friendship was a semi-finalist in the Filmmatic Short... Go to bio