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8-10 page Student Screenplay Synopses

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FROM SCARES TO SQUARES
Issac Loya
iloya@depauw.edu

Shakir, an 18 year old boy from Sudan, travels to the United States as a refugee and goes into a doctor’s office for a check-up. While at the doctor’s office, he is informed that he is extremely unhealthy due to smoking. He tells a story to his doctor about when he was a child and Sudanese soldiers raided his home, taking his father and brother to the war, and killing his mother. He is left homeless at the age of six, and he picks up the habit of smoking because of the lack of a parental unit. Now that he is older, his body lives off nicotine and when he attempts to quit, he goes into a withdrawal. The doctor helps him cut back on smoking through medication and therapy.

 

Michael Motch
MMOTCH@depauw.edu

A slightly rebellious but good-hearted teenage boy struggles to find a way to get the attention he craves from a loving but workaholic father. His ultimate decision to desert his skateboard lifestyle to instead embrace football, a game his father loves and played in his younger days, allows the two of them to bond over a common interest and uncover striking similarities between the two of them they had never known existed.

 

I JUST…
by Jim Gehring
JGEHRING@depauw.edu

In the wake of the sudden death of his girlfriend, a distraught twenty-something man tries to cope with the emotional roller coaster on which he finds himself. In the process, he comes into conflict with a shadowy figure who constantly blocks the man's attempts at finding the closure he is so desperately searching for. As their struggle escalates, it becomes clear the shadowy figure is more connected to the girlfriend's death than it originally appeared, and the man's ability to find closure is brought into doubt.

 

WORKING MAN
By Jeremy Brok
jbrok@depauw.edu

A middle-aged slacker is forced to lurch to the rescue when his brother decides to start a noble life as a super hero. However, it is his
cape-clad brother and his words of virtue that come to his aid when he finds himself in a moral dilemma.

 

CHRISTMAS ON 108 GLENHURST DRIVE
By Jeremy Brok
jbrok@depauw.edu

On the most illuminated street in the state during Christmas, a Jewish family’s house is the only darkened house in a sea of neon. But when
the father of the household finds an abandoned Christmas tree in the garbage, the temptation to trade in the family Hanukah bush for one
holy night becomes just too much.

 

SON OF MINE
By Matt Goodwin

A middle-aged man discovers an incomplete, yet troubling document hidden among some of his mother’s things a year after her death. The man confronts his aging father about the document only to find that what his father is hiding has never entered into his mind until that moment. When the truth comes out, the son finds himself apologizing and his father explaining.

 

Ben Stallsworth
bstallsworth@depauw.edu

A high society lawyer loses his love and then his sanity when he goes on a two week charade of doing the same thing everyday, only to discover that his resolve has only gotten stronger and, perhaps, life threatening...

 

Michael Claus
mdclaus@depauw.edu

A college senior is faced with a dilemma on the last night of his college career. Should he spend the night partying or camping? The question is simple, but the solution is complex, as he struggles to pinpoint his personal philosophy on life and his place in the world.

 

RX
Katy Bremer
kbremer@depauw.edu

A housewife and mother in the nineteen fifties seeks the attention of a psychiatrist concerning her disillusionment with her life at home. While the doctor attempts to uncover the secrets of her unhappiness, her feelings of disconnection and aloneness rise to the surface. When an unwanted discovery surprises her at home, she is forced to make a decision that will change her life forever.

DON’T LOOK BACK
Shane DeLury
sdelury@depauw.edu

A recent college grad has turned to alcohol to get over his newly ended relationship. His girlfriend of three and a half years cheated on him, and he blames himself. He works up the courage to meet with her. Before entering the restaurant where they agree to meet, he realizes that he she isn’t what his life is missing, and the only way to move on is to let go.