Original Screenplays
CHRISTMAS EXCHANGE
Logline:
A holiday barter agreement between two neighbors leads to love.
Story:
After spending her life in a small town that left her with no prospects for career or love, AMANDA, 28, decides to restart her life in an unfamiliar city aptly named “Possibilities”. Without a job and bleak finances, Amanda relies on the bartering tactics that were popular back home. She offers the owner of a local bakery free, part-time help in exchange for a break on the rent at the apartment upstairs. Once in her new place, Amanda hears her neighbor AUSTIN playing a Christmas song on the guitar and offers him ice skating lessons in exchange for guitar classes. Before they know it, Amanda and Austin are spending more and more time together offering one trade for another. Together, these two lonely souls find themselves suddenly wrapped up in each other and all the possibilities that love can bring, fueled by the spirit of Christmas.
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DELIVERING LOVE
Logline:
When a traveling florist gets in a car accident, a local police officer performs double duty: delivering her flowers and winning her heart.
Story:
Hoping to bring new life to her wilting flower shop, KATE, a meticulous designer, expands her delivery route to a town sixty miles away. When her regular delivery service refuses to drive there, Kate opts to bring the Mother’s Day arrangements herself. But on the way into town, Kate gets into a fender bender that puts her in the hospital. It looks like the Mother’s Day arrangements won’t get delivered, until JACK, the thoughtful police officer that arrived on the scene, saves the day. He teams up with his 12-year-old daughter to deliver Kate’s flowers. The story of the “police-delivery man” gets picked up by the media and before Kate knows it, the orders are flying in. As Kate’s deliveries become more frequent and she spends more time with Jack and his daughter, her perfectionist tendencies start to soften. But is the widowed Jack able to open his heart again to accept Kate’s delivery of love?
HOLIDAY SWITCH-UP
Logline:
A spoiled businesswoman goes from riches to rags at the start of the Christmas season and learns that money does not buy everything.
Story:
AVERY STONE, 30, a self-absorbed businesswoman living way beyond her means (and often on the company’s dime), finally takes things too far when she expenses a business dinner/charity event totaling over $250,000. As payback, her boss threatens legal action unless she can repay the debt by Christmas Day. At the time of the year when she is usually most generous, Avery is spending Christmas broke. She loses her Maserati, her Central Park West apartment and her wages are garnished down to almost nothing. Even her boyfriend jumps ships once the well dries up. JAMES, 32, a waiter at a local diner, takes pity on Avery after she breaks down in front of him, crying into her hamburger. James becomes an unlikely hero, showing Avery how to control her funds and live life richly - even if it is on a budget. Avery rediscovers her passion for cooking and has her faith in relationships restored. Most importantly, in true holiday spirit, Avery realizes that it’s not the size of the gift, but the sentiment behind it that matters.
MOUNTAIN VALENTINE
Logline:
A snowstorm forces a lonely heart to take refuge in a small town right before Valentine’s day.
Story:
Charlotte is the personal assistant to Hannah Gold, one of the nation’s most influential life coaches. A few days before Valentine’s Day, the two drive to a secluded ski resort. While running an errand in the closest town which is five miles down the mountain, Charlotte, and several other hotel guests, find themselves stuck in a snowstorm, snowed out of the ski resort. Storms are common and the small-town locals are used to inviting stranded travelers to stay in their homes. The fledgling town survives on the annual tourism they bring due to their unique Valentine’s Day traditions. But the snow is threatening that and so is Charlotte as she makes a mess of things trying to get out. Sleeping in a stranger’s bed without internet, money or access to Hannah Gold is not exactly sitting well with the pampered personal assistant. Despite her efforts, Charlotte finds herself being pulled into the town’s charm. She even warms up to the cute guy she keeps running into. Now she must figure out how to save the town she is falling in love with and win the heart of the cute guy, without losing her job in the process.
CHRISTMAS CURIOSITY
Logline:
Trapped in a toy-store overnight, a Christmas snoop and the shop’s unsuspecting owner fall in love.
Story:
Located just a few blocks apart from each other, Monty’s Magical Toys and Cappy’s Curiosities have been rival toy stores for over thirty years. This coupled with the fact that online shopping is at an all-time high, is causing both stores to struggle mightily. This Christmas, owner Monty Springer tasks his daughter to save their store. Grayson, 26 has always been a creative person with dreams of seeing the world, not sitting in a store crunching numbers. But when her assistant suggests she finds a “creative” solution to the problem, Grayson gets a big idea for a top-secret North Pole exhibit guaranteed to bring in big crowds.
A few blocks over, Case “Cappy” Capobianco lays the pressure on his son, Peter, 25, who has just come home from Luxembourg after six years away. Peter has earned an international business degree and his father is anxious for his store to benefit from his son’s high-priced education. Eager to please, Peter sneaks into Monty’s Magical Toys with a plan to photograph the mysterious exhibit (which is still under construction) and either copy it or exploit it to deter the large crowds. But Peter’s jetlag causes him to doze off before fulfilling his plan, sleeping through the security guard locking up and a snow-induced power outage. Suddenly Grayson and Peter find themselves alone together, locked overnight in Monty’s toy store. Realizing Grayson doesn’t recognize him from their youth, Peter uses the French accent he learned in Luxembourg and pretends to be “Pierre”, a customer who accidentally fell asleep in the store. Grayson finds herself intrigued by her new foreign friend and spends the night with him talking, playing with toys and games in the store and slowly opening her heart. Once the power returns and the Christmas spell breaks, Peter must decide between betraying Grayson’s trust to carry out his father’s wishes or taking a chance at love.