Passed Over by JK Jones | Script Revolution

Passed Over

A promising college quarterback enrolls at a Junior College to resurrect his career in 1996 Alabama, but unexpectedly falls in love.

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Everything was going right for Chance Womack.
Womack just led Alabama Technical College to the Junior College national championship football game and earned first-team All-American honors.
But things turned sour when the Warriors were hammered by East Mississippi Community College 39-21. The school, especially its fair-weather fans, put the loss on Chance's shoulders. Things got worse when Chance caught his girlfriend, Cindy Swift, cheating on him.
The colleges in pursuit of Chance to play for their schools suddenly withdrew scholarship offers. His low-income family couldn't afford to pay for his education.
Which direction will Chance take?

Submitted: May 8, 2017
Last Updated: September 5, 2022

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The Writer: JK Jones

JK Jones has been a writer his entire life. For 26 years, he worked at a newspaper on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. "A creative, interesting gentleman who writes real-life stories and dialogue," said Former Stillman College Associate Professor of Journalism Stephen Flanigan Jackson. He’s written E-books under a pen name and had a successful five-year run of best-selling E-books that started in 2009. His debut novel, Picking Cotton, is now a screenplay. During the Christmas holidays in 2014, he decided to pursue a lifelong dream of writing movies. His short screenplay, Instant Replay, was accepted by the Cannes Latitude Film Festival. Jones has written two other screenplays during this time... Go to bio

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