More Screenplays - Loglines/Synopsis

Confessions of a Love Addict 

Screenplay by Samara Shaw

Copyright 2009 

Confessions of a Love Addict is a comedy about abuse, addiction, and the healing process. 

Logline #1

What’s so wrong with being in love?   

For Henry Linsky?  Everything...

Henry, an unconventional psychotherapist, is addicted to love. When he falls in love with his client, looses his job, his apartment, and his best friend tells him she's had enough, he is forced to come to terms with his addiction. 

Logline #2

Henry Linsky is in love… for the fourth time this month.  Because of it, his job's in jeopardy, he might loose his apartment, he’s lost most of his friends, but everything’s ok, because  he’s finally found “The One.”  She's also the one who threatens to kill him. 

Synopsis

Henry, an unconventional psychotherapist has unusually strong romantic feelings for his young, 20something client.  He's always been able to put these feelings aside, but with this girl, things get out of control.  He confides in his best friend, Jessica, who tells him he’s addicted to love, and his life is out of control because of his addiction: 

He falls in love with a new woman every two weeks, he's on the verge of going bankrupt, keeps having car accidents, and his house is piled up with newspapers and magazines, which he cannot throw away.  

Henry finally admits there might be a problem, and tries to change, but when he goes to break up with his most recent love interest, she gets weird.  If he leaves her, she tells him, she'll kill him and herself.  In the end, Henry and Jessica figure out a scheme to keep the psycho-girlfriend at bay.  In the end, Henry falls in love with Jessica.  But, is it really love?  And what is love anyway?  
    

In God We Trust

Screenplay by Samara Shaw

Copyright 2010

Logline 

Raised by wealthy white family with ties to the Coal industry, Peter Fischer, an adopted Native American Lawyer risks everything to find his real family and reveal the dirty secrets behind their success. 

Synopsis

This is a film based on what is happening right now in Arizona with The Peabody Coal Company and the Native American Communities that have been uprooted and polluted because of the company’s shady dealings.
 

It is told from the perspective of a young lawyer, Peter Fisher, as he struggles to free himself from the deceptive world of his adopted family.     

At the start of the film, Peter’s adopted Grandfather is dying of Cancer, and decides he wants to make things right before he goes. He tells Peter of the horrors perpetrated on his biological family as a result of direct actions taken by Peabody Coal Company and his adopted family.  

His Grandfather tells him that Peter's adopted father had an affair with a Native American Woman in Arizona, and that Peter is the product of the affair.  He tells Peter that he and his son pulled many legal and political strings to have Peter taken away from biological mother, and that his biological family now lives in a community that has been decimated by The Peabody Coal Company.

Peter has always been obsessed with the history behind the founding of the United States and the real story behind the writing of the US constitution.  One of his all-time heroes, Sir Francis Bacon, begins communicating with him in dreams, telling him what to do, and encouraging him to continue on his mission, to reveal to the world, the true spiritual destiny of America. 

Peter, following Francis Bacon's advice,  eventually brings his family to court, and sets a legal president that helps to bridge the gap between the two cultures, and bringing healing and reconciliation to both of his families. 

Notes:   

I'm writing this story because I feel a strong compassion for and connection to Aboriginal People everywhere.  The Native Americans of Arizona are, to this day, still given the runaround by our Government, and even their own tribal leaders - all in the name of cheap energy and big profits.             

This story also touches on the details of the founding of the U.S and the influence of the Iroquois Confederacy had on the creation of the US Constitution and on the foundations of democracy. 

The story of the Peacemaker's influence on the founding of the Iroquois Confederacy is woven into Peter's story, as his adopted father is finally won over, in the end, by a song, as did Mudikiwis/ Tododaho was in the Peacemaker story.  

In God We Trust illustrates the ways the American People are finally waking up.  Until now, most Americans have avoided the truth about their government for a few reasons:   

One, because it served them. They were afraid they would loose their comfortable lifestyles if they decided to change.  

And two, because if they admitted their government was as corrupt as it is, they might have to do something about it.  Peter's struggle parallels all of this. 

In God We Trust is a film that reveals the true destiny of America and her people.  We have allowed the corruption for too long, and it is time to stop it once and for all.  

This film will help Americans finally make peace with their history and help to pave the way for peace and reconciliation  between the white and Native American Cultures.