In a near-future dystopia, the granddaughter of a conservative Supreme Court justice, pregnant from a sexual assault, attempts to leave her forced-birth state to get an abortion, but is caught by a vigilante group headed by her brother and held in a “Life Mall."
Type:
Feature
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
95pp
Genre:
Drama, Thriller
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
17+
Synopsis/Details

ALLY, the pious teen granddaughter of a conservative Supreme Court Justice, scolds her best friend NIA for letting her herself get pregnant. But soon after, Ally finds herself pregnant (following her father’s late-night sexual assault) and attempts suicide.
 
Recovering in the hospital, Ally reconciles with Nia and the two of them turn to the "Choice Train,” trying escape their forced-birth state to get abortions. Yards from the state border, they are arrested by vigilantes (including Ally’s militant brother SAM) and taken to a “Life Mall” (a repurposed suburban mall) where they are put on trial by CALEB, the Life Mall Warden, and sentenced to remain incarcerated until they give birth. Plus another year to provide an additional live birth.
 
Horrified by their sentence and the conditions at the Life Mall, a remorseful Sam breaks Ally and Nia out. During the escape, Nia is shot. Sam and Ally take her to a safe emergency room, but Life Mall goons soon recapture Ally, tasing Sam into a cardiac arrest.

When Ally’s father and grandfather meet with Caleb to get Ally released, Caleb reveals that he’s the brother of one of the Justice’s law clerks. He plays a recording of the Justice coercing her to have an abortion.

The Justice attacks Caleb to get the recording. In the scuffle, guards burst in, guns are discharged, leaving the Justice seriously injured--and Ally’s father dead. Ally escapes from the mall (again), Caleb is arrested, and her grandfather survives, but his reputation doesn’t. Nia miscarries in the hospital but recovers from her gunshot wound. And Sam accompanies Ally to a free-state clinic for her abortion.

All Accolades & Coverage

2026 Atlanta Film Festival - SEMIFINALIST
ISA Fast Track Fellowship, Fall 2023 - 2nd Rounder

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The Writer: Joel McElvaney

Midway through my education degree, on a lark, I paid for a screenwriting workshop from William Goldman ( Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ). At the end of the class, he handed me the first screenplay I'd ever held in my hand: Body Heat by Lawrence Kasdan ( Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back ). For many years, that screenplay sat on my shelf like a smoldering ember of possibility. It wasn't until I wrote my first feature script, while preparing to teach a screenwriting course to high school students, that the ember ignited a bright flame. I had discovered a new, long-delayed purpose: writing for the screen. Drawing on both my chaotic childhood and my years as a… Go to bio
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