An improving father and son relationship is derailed by a harsh reality.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
11pp
Genre:
Drama, Family
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
13+
Synopsis/Details
LEWIS and ALLY are the happy mid-20s couple; Ally presses Lewis on when she can meet his estranged parents, which Lewis is reluctant to do due to a difficult family dynamic. A call from Lewis’s mother disrupts things with the news that Lewis’s father is in the hospital after suffering a heart attack. Lewis races to his father and takes him home from the hospital. Father and son talk and decide to reconnect after a warm reconciliation. Lewis suddenly wakes up back in his apartment to realise it was all a dream; he sees the dream as a sign, so when Ally asks to meet his parents he readily accepts – but… the harsh reality sets in with a phone call from his mother with the news that Lewis’s father really has suffered a heart attack, but where he survived in the dream he was actually found in his home alone and Lewis will never see his father again. Moral of the story: Time is precious. Never leave it too late. Connect and reconnect with your family.
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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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