What Goes Up Must Come Down by Nicholas Zingarelli | Script Revolution

What Goes Up Must Come Down

Nicky Little Gypsy's life is complicated by his girlfriend being pursued romantically by a police officer, little brother becoming more and more interested in a life of crime and a mobster that wants him dead.

Type:

  • Feature

Status:

  • For sale
Page Count: 
119pp

Genre:

  • Crime

Budget:

  • Independent

Age Rating:

  • 17+
Based On: 
To Whom It May Concern...Crime Pays by Nicholas R. Zingarelli
Synopsis/Details: 

Nicky Little Gypsy's life becomes a tightrope act without a net as he tries to balance raising his young brother and keeping him out of the family business, which is crime, a romance with Bitty, his childhood sweetheart, who wants him out of the business for his own good and a menacing neighborhood mob boss that wants him out of the business of breathing.

While all this is happening two cops are literally carving their way up through Nicky's crew. one wants, to steal Nicky's sweetheart, the other, just wants to win the next bet.

All of the friction above reaches critical mass during a Fourth of July fireworks grand finale.

All Accolades & Coverage: 

Film Crash Screenplay Competition First Place Award Feature Drama 2017
The Monthly Film Festival July-August Semi-Finalist 2021
Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival Official Screenplay Selection 2016

Official Selection L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film, Script, Online Festival 2021
Los Angeles Film Festival Honorable Mention Writer's Award Winner 2021
Honorable Mention/Official Selection KinoDrome International Motion Picture & Screenplay Festival 2022
Quarter-Finalist Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition 2025

Submitted: September 19, 2018
Last Updated: January 16, 2025

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The Writer: Nicholas Zingarelli
I have been writing short stories and drawing cartoons since I was in grammar school in Chicago. I was a bit of a delinquent when I was young and got into trouble with the police many times. When I finally wised up, I got a union job in the building trades and subsequently built over two hundred playgrounds for inner-city children in Chicago. I started writing screenplays twenty years ago while recovering from three severe work-related injuries that led to surgeries that have left me physically challenged. Man, I thought getting in trouble with the police, severe injuries, and the subsequent surgeries and growing up in the inner-city was tough, but this screenwriting thing is a whole new... Go to bio

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