Yesterday's Cabbage

Note: This script was originally published under the working title "What's the Big Idea?"

Dickie and Quincy are junior executives at a movie studio in Hollywood. Their life there is pretty cushy until their boss informs them that their last film bombed and the studio is facing bankruptcy.

Forced to find a "tentpole 4Q" by the holidays, the boys scour the tracking boards and contests to no avail, but one day Quincy discovers an old box in the studio basement containing screenplays the studio bought but never produced.

Since they were written in the 40s and 50s, Quincy convinces Dickie to punch up the language and settings to modern times -- and to put a pseudonym in the 'written by' line so the credit goes back to them. The plan works and the scripts get the greenlight, but the studio heads demand more from the fictional writer while a rival producer catches onto their scheme.

Caught in a pickle, Dickie and Quincy must then draw on their own talents to save their jobs and the studio.