American Revolution
Eyes of Fire
Political Satire
$23.99
Drama/Action
Where the Law Ends
Act of God
Eyes of Fire
Logline: When the British fired Thomas Paine, it cost him his marriage. But
it cost the British their American colonies.
This is a story you wish your history teacher had told you.
Thomas Paine arrives in Philadelphia in late 1774 as the door is closing on
American independence. After a life of failure in England, Paine is looking for
a door to open.
He takes a job writing essays for a magazine, and his pen proves popular with
people of all backgrounds. His conviction that the colonies should be
independent, though, puts him at odds with members of congress who are pushing
for appeasement and reconciliation. The thought of severing all ties with the
Mother Country terrifies them.
On January 10, 1776 he fires the second shot heard ‘round the world with
publication of a pamphlet that outsells everything but the Bible. In bold and
irreverent language, Common Sense argues that the king is a “royal brute”
and Americans should waste no time declaring their independence. Six months
after its publication, Congress obliges. The people are clamoring for it.
Paine joins Washington’s army and takes part in the retreat across New Jersey
into Pennsylvania that leaves the troops decimated, hungry, and counting the
days until their enlistments expire at year’s end. In utter despair, Washington
asks Paine for help. Can he write a new essay? The Hessians at Trenton will be
hung-over after Christmas. If Paine can motivate the troops to join Washington
in a sneak attack, the hope for independence will remain alive.
Paine writes by campfire using a drum for a desk. “These are the times that try
men’s souls,” he begins his new piece. He finishes and has copies made, but
there’s a problem. With a winter storm kicking up, the men are walking out of
camp. They’ve had it. When Washington asks why his officers aren’t reading
Paine’s essay to them, someone tells him the copies have been misplaced.
Washington chases down Paine, but finds him staggering in a trance across camp,
devastated from a personal loss and indifferent to the present crisis.
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Logline: Dillon Mudwater tries to take Manhattan by song but finds he has to
buy it back first.
A struggling songwriter, Mudwater must write a hit in six months to inherit a
fortune his fan left him. He's about to invade the airwaves with a new song
when a Manhattan music producer releases a ripped-off version.
With time running out, Mudwater fights to get his song back by reclaiming the
island his ancestors once surrendered for $24.
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Where the Law Ends
Logline: When the law won't save you, Kelly will.
Kelly Blount once killed for riches. Now he kills to help others. Justice
served is his only reward.
Then he sees Ava Palmer on TV.
Her twenty-year-old son had been murdered a year earlier. The few leads went
nowhere. In an effort to flush hate from her heart, she says she forgives her
son's killer.
Shocked by her announcement, Kelly launches a crusade to find the murderer. He
wants to see her forgive him to his face. He also wants to be there if
absolution fails.
Meanwhile, a retired detective dogs Kelly's trail for suspicion of a different
murder. An arrest is imminent when tragedy turns his life into a nightmare.
Kelly devises a strategy to draw the murderer to him. It also brings the
detective and Ava to the scene. The relentless representative of the law has
caught up with the vigilante who wants to avenge the woman he has grown to love.
But she only wants to be merciful.
And the murderer has come to kill again.
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Act of God
Logline: Revenge wrecks ransom.
The rock in her life had once been her husband, Shawn Hale, a
mega-athlete presumed killed in a plane crash 15 years ago, but who instead had
been living in the Ozarks without memory of who he was. When a malign syndicate
abducts their teenage daughter, she desperately seeks him out, only to find he's
now an ordinary joe.
Hale's return to the living also gives the syndicate's crippled
leader a fresh chance at revenge--through his minions, he can torment and kill
the man who turned his life into a perpetual wheelchair ride.
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