Time to Change

Not knowing she planned on killing him, a disabled businessman finances a time machine so his wife can be saved from an accidental death.

Type:

Short

Status:

For sale

Page Count:

23pp

Genre:

Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

Budget:

Shoestring

Age Rating:

17+

Based On:

My audio script.

Synopsis/Details:

A wheelchair-bound businessman pays for the development of a time machine so his long-dead wife can be saved from an accidental death. Afraid to lose his funding, the machine's developer agrees to make the trip and save her - regardless of what the consequences might be to the timeline. Only too late does he realize that his boss's wife, in the original timeline, was on her way to kill her husband so she could run off with her lover. She is now free to do that again.

Story & Logistics

Story Conclusion:

Ambiguous

Linear Structure:

Non-linear

Cast Size:

Several

Locations:

Few

Special Effects:

Minor cgi

Characters

Lead Role Ages:

Male Adult, Male over 45

Villian Type:

Criminal

Advanced

Time Period:

The 2000s (2000–2009), Contemporary times

Country:

United States of America (USA)

Time of Year:

Spring

Submitted: May 4, 2019

Last Updated: October 16, 2024

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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