Last Christmas
Synopsis/Details:
A bitter scientist who feels that Christmas is all a waste of money that could be spent in better places uses his boss's time machine to go back to the day of Jesus' birth. He plans to kill Joseph and the pregnant Mary with a gun he has brought from the future.
Fortunately, his boss soon discovers what is happening and transports him back. After the employee is taken away by security, the boss is forced to make the jump himself to retrieve the weapon before it can do any harm.
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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). In the same year, Mike's screenplay Die Laughing was a semi-finalist in the 2025 New York International Screenplay Awards. In 2020, his screenplay Die Laughing was a semi-finalist in the Unique Voices Screenplay... Go to bio
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