Exhausted by routine, Janice is a wife and mom on the edges of a meltdown who is searching to reconnect in even the tiniest of ways.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
8pp
Genre:
Drama
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
13+
Synopsis/Details
Janice is living a lacklustre life in lower Manhattan. A mom and a wife, her days are scheduled around meals and children’s school and appointments. In between she works freelance designing cheesy conference brochures and pamphlets. Janice and her husband Graham hardly cross paths in the apartment they are rapidly outgrowing as a family. She can feel her marriage, her family and herself disintegrating, but not how to fix it. In a revolutionary act, she sends both kids to sleepovers and order some adult food delivered and have a surprise date night with her husband.
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Submitted: 2021-Jul-07
Last Updated: 2021-Jul-07
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The Writer: E. Amato

E. Amato (she/her/hers) is a bad capitalist curious about radical consent and wild inclusion. E. Amato’s writing celebrates subcultures, especially youth subcultures, in bold narratives told through the gaze of multi-dimensional women characters. Her grounded SciFi pilot Majority Rules is a Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Genre Winner and a Semifinalist for The Writers Lab. She is the editor of Judith Weston’s 25th Anniversary Edition of Directing Actors. She earned a BFA in Film from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a Certificate in Directing from the American Film Institute. Hit by a drunk driver at the end of her first year at the AFI, she began a lifetime engagement with chronic… Go to bio
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