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.
Type:
Feature
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
95pp
Genre:
Drama
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
17+
Synopsis/Details
After castigating her best friend NIA for getting pregnant, ALLY, daughter of Supreme Court JUSTICE THOMASON, discovers she herself is pregnant (by her father GREG’s late night assault) and, after a failed suicide attempt, she and Nia turn to the "Choice Train,” and hide in a mini-van headed out of state. Yards from the Georgia border, they are stopped and arrested. The vigilantes, one of whom is SAM, Ally's older brother, shoot and kill the driver and take the girls to a “Life Mall,” a government-sanctioned suburban mall converted to house captured pregnant women until they give birth. While Greg and the Justice work behind the scenes to free Ally, Sam breaks Ally and Nia out of the Life Mall. 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. An angry Greg and Justice meet with CALEB, the Life Mall warden, to get Ally released. Caleb reveals that he’s the brother of HEATHER, the Justice’s law clerk. He plays a recording of the Justice coercing Heather to have an abortion. The Justice attacks Caleb and tries to take his phone. In the scuffle, other Life Mall guards burst in, guns are discharged, leaving the Justice and a guard seriously injured--and Greg dead. Ally escapes. Caleb is arrested. The Justice 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.
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ISA Fast Track Fellowship, Fall 2023 - 2nd Rounder

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The Writer: Joel McElvaney

Joel McElvaney is produced screenwriter specializing in taut thrillers and action comedies. Co-writer of Murder at the Writer’s Retreat (IMDB). Known for taking a workshop from William Goldman in college, then waiting 30 years to start his screenwriting career. A former high school English teacher and screenwriting instructor, McElvaney has garnered accolades for his fantasy/comedy Dragons of the Gloaming, a Top 5 Finalist in the Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge; his dystopian thriller Twisted Justice, a Semi-Finalist in the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition; and his risqué TV pilot The Pineapple Chronicles, a 2nd-rounder at the Austin Film Festival. McElvaney is an active… Go to bio
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