Title: A Place To Call Home Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama Budget: Medium (5M) Edwin Thatcher's an award winning actor who's hit rock bottom and things can't get any worse. His agent and his manager won't return his calls and he has no alternative but to return home, a place he hasn't bee in thirty years. He reluctantly takes a job teaching highschool kids drama and struggles with his personal demons while he finally realizes his purpose in life. Thatcher finds that the people he left behind for the bright lights and glory are the ones that had always been there for him, it took the death of his mother and his own misfortune for him to come to this realization. Title: Devil's Triangle (Based on a true story) Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama/Thriller Budget: Medium (5-7M) Two surfers from Miami Beach are drug smugglers who rip off their clients one time too many. Title: Fakahatchee (Based on a true story) Author: Jack Stone Genre: Horror/Thriller Budget: Medium (5-7M) Set in the 10,000 islands of the Everglades. People begin to disappear having one thing in common, they worked for Ed Watson a sugarcane farmer that holds the entire isolated community in his grip of fear. Title: Folding Old Paper (Based on a true story) Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama Budget: Medium (7M) Private Branigan, a third generation soldier goes AWOL when he finds out his grandfather, a decorated war hero did not go MIA in WWII. Pvt. Branigan goes to Okinawa to search for his grandfather and finds the real reason he never returned home. Title: The Great, Great Valentini Author: Jack Stone Genre: Science Fiction/Psychological Thriller Budget: Low (5 -7M) Watch what you wish for because it may come true! After a debilitating injury a carney wanted for murder receives the gift of a life-time, the ability to see into the future. What he witnesses haunts him to the core. Valentini sees murders before they take place. Only the Great Valentini can stop them before they happen, but at what cost? Title: Hacksaw (Based on a true story) Genre: Drama Author: Jack Stone Budget: Medium (3-5M) Edward R. Jones, at the ripe old age of 17 was sentenced to 10 years hard labor on a notorious Virginia chain gang. His crime… giving a stolen wedding ring to his 17 year old pregnant girlfriend as a wedding gift. (Jones had no knowledge the ring was stolen, purchasing it from another youth.) After witnessing his friend’s cold-blooded murder by the prison guard and warden, Jones plans his escape. Jones became the only person on the FBI’s ten most wanted list for non-violent crimes. His crimes were escaping prisons. 13 prison breaks, which include some of America’s highly touted escape proof penal institutions. Ironically, while on the run Jones always lived an honest life. He had been a drummer in a band that toured with the Doors and a successful real estate property manager. Finally, facing almost 90 years in prison, Jones makes a promise to his dying mother that he will no longer escape from prisons. But when the media taunts Hacksaw and regards Atlanta’s maximum security prison, which housed him as impenetrable, Jones plans one last rendezvous. Footnote: Jones managed to get an attorney to have his original charge overturned. He was a minor convicted as an adult and his sentence was considered excessive. Therefore, all other charges (which were only prison breaks) were dropped. Hacksaw was released, is still alive and a free man. Title: Hell Is Highwater (Based on a true story) Author: Jack Stone Genre: Action/Drama Budget: High (15M) The USS Indianapolis had just completed a secret mission vital to the Allied victory in WWII when a Japanese torpedo turned the cruiser into a fiery coffin, killing hundreds of American sailors and plunging hundreds more into the oily waters of the Pacific. They expected a swift, routine rescue but what they faced was an ordeal that lasted for five agonizing days. Navy high command was unaware that one of its own cruisers had been sunk and that the survivors were slowly dying amidst a sun-parched hell of shark attack, madness and dehydration. By the time the crew was found only 316 men from the original 1196 were barely alive. This is the story of the USS Indianapolis and the unimaginable horror its men had to endure. The shameful aftermath, and an official cover-up and the court-martial of the Indianapolis commander Captain Charles McVay III, a third generation high Naval ranking officer and the scapegoat for an unavoidable disaster. The charges against McVay; "Suffering a vessel to be hazarded through negligence." (Failing to steer a zigzag course.), and "Culpable inefficiency in the performance of duty" (Failing to make his men abandon ship in time.) This is the true story of Captain Charles B. McVay III and the WWII Cruiser the USS Indianapolis that he commanded and the Indianapolis' crewmen. Title: The Ladybug Loses Her Hat Author: Jack Stone Genre: Animation (Children's Story) Budget: Medium (1M) March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. On this spring afternoon the wind begins to blow and takes the ladybug's hat along with it. She goes on an adventurous journey in search of her hat. "Pardon me! Have you seen my hat? I made it myself. It was very dear to me." Title: The Last Messiah Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama Budget: Medium (10M) Since the beginning of time every religion in the world has profisized the return of the Messiah. This is a contemporary passion play where against all odds, one man is chosen to be the savior of the world. The poor and the lowly have hope in this one man, while the powers that be (both political and religious) devise a plan to eliminate him. Title: The Lost Treasure Of Oak Island (Loosely on a true story) Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama Budget: Medium-High (10-15M) Two young boys, best friends are about to be pulled apart forever. There is only one way to prevent this from happening. Find the lost treasure of Oak Island! Title: Love And Haight Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama Budget: Medium (5M) Seen from the eyes of the detectives, the newspaper editors, the families of the victims and the Zodiac himself. America’s number one serial killer who has never been captured taunts the San Francisco Police Department and San Francisco Chronicles newspaper editors as they attempt to solve his egotistical and maddening crimes. Title: Minor Threat (Based on a true story) Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama Budget: Low (3) The American government has a dirty little secret, they have sent more then three-hundred minors (15-17 year olds) to death row. This is the story of one of those boys. Title: The Monster From Morro Bay Author: Jack Stone Genre: Science Fiction Budget: Medium (5M) A city commissioner opposes the building of a radioactive power plant on a pristine wildlife swamp. In order to get the plant built the commissioner must be silenced. His corpse is weighted down and sunk in the swamp. The radioactive particles from the power plant brings the man back to life and he sets out to revenge his murder and the destruction of the eco-system. Title: Murph The Surf (Based on a true story) Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama/Crime Thriller Budget: Medium (3M-5M) World surfing champion Jack Murphy and his pals rob the American Museum of Natural History of famous and rare gemstones. They use the media to gain notoriety, while the FBI make a deal the playboys can't refuse. Upon his release from prison, Jack Murphy and another criminal perform a greater crime, they rob a Los Angeles business of several thousands in securities with the help of two secretaries. This time Jack makes sure there is no one left to talk and the secretaries are found dead in a Florida swamp. This story delves into the darkside of a highly celebrated criminal from the 1960's. Title: Notorious (Based on a true story) Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama/Horror Budget: Medium [10M] Charles Ng was a Chinese exchange student with great promise. Charles Ng and Leonard Lake were America’s most wanted. Problem is the law had no idea who they were. While stealing some supplies from a hardware store, Charles Ng took off running after being confronted by the stores security guard. Ng left behind his partner Leonard Lake who attempted to pay for the items. When the police arrived at the scene, they found the vehicle they drove was filled with weapons. Lake was arrested began to give a written statement to the police. When the left him alone to write his confession statement, the police returned to find that he had committed suicide and left a note of apology. This began one of America’s most gruesome investigations and search for Charles Ng. This was also the most expensive trial in the history of America. Charles Ng was convicted of murdering, raping, kidnapping and torturing 28 people, whose remains were found scattered about Lake’s remote mountain hideout. Ironically, Charles Ng was captured in Canada after being spotted shoplifting by a security guard in a crowded mall. Ng sits on death row awaiting his fait Title: Objects In The Mirror (Based on a true story) Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama Budget: Low [3M] A mother returns home to find her ten year old son dead. The boy accidentally killed himself while trying to perform a stunt from the Guiness book of World Records. The boy's retired fisherman grandfather (who was indifferent to the boy while he was alive because he was half-Hawaiian.) finds out he'll die soon from cancer. The boy begins to visit the old man nightly in his dreams to help him cope with his fear of dying. Title: Obsesíon Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama Budget: Medium (10M) A middle age man hates his wife. He hates his life. Mentally deteriorating, he begins a forbidden affair with a 16-year-old Columbian, blond-haired blue-eyed beauty whose family has moved in a couple of doors down. He becomes her mentor, teaching her English and gives her a sorrow filled existence, while she becomes his obsession and he, hers. Once the affair becomes public knowledge he must choose to break off the relationship or face the criminal consequences. Title: Restless Sea Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama Budget: Medium (7-10M) Set in Pebble Beach during the John Steinbeck era. A poor man makes a deal with a wealthy elderly man that owns an abandoned house that sits on the waterfront. The man will swim through the stormy restless sea on the most dangerous storm of the year. The event becomes a well-published public affair. If the poor man survives the impossible task, he wins the deed to the house. The story reveals the reason the house was abandoned and how the wealthy man and the poor man have very much in common. The man does win the house and the old man passes on, but his two estranged sons take the man to court with their powerful lawyers claiming their elderly father was not of sound mind when he gave the deed to the man. Title: The Revolution (Loosely based on a true story) Author: Jack Stone Genre: Drama Budget: Medium (10-15M) The founding fathers never figured it this way. Frances Scott Key is writing the American National Anthem. The sun rises and the thick smoke begins to clear. The American flag is no longer waving over the battlefield. It is the British flag that waves in victory. The war criminals/traitors are shackled and returned to England and to his majesty. They will face charges of insurrection and high treason. Ben Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and every other well-known founding father of America is led into court in chains under great security. They have the unenviable task to represent themselves in a hostile British high–profile trial.   Home Literature Screenplays Short Stories © Copyright 2010. All Rights Reserved.