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Geraniums Are Red
Genre(s): Romance
Logline:
Geraniums Are Red seeks to reveal how a seemingly normal woman can be so attracted to the dark side.
Synopsis:
Anna Kerbey is a bored and restless small-town wife and schoolteacher. She doesn’t know quite what’s missing in her life until she meets Jean-Guy, a poetry-loving bank robber who writes to her from prison. Initially she goes to see him out of curiosity and compassion. But when she meets a charismatic hustler, she succumbs to the awakening of her deepest emotions and falls in love.
When Jean-Guy is released, he sweeps Anna off on a life of adventure which quickly turns into a world of petty crime, broken promises and violence, a world she knew nothing of and now sees only too well.
Author Info:
CAROLYN MAMCHUR is a professor at Simon Fraser University and the award-winning author of several psychology texts and children’s books. She has written seven feature film scripts including Arousal (based on a Barbara Gowdy story) for Back Alley Films; and a half-hour drama for CBC.
CAROLYN MAMCHUR, Writer
(604) 736-4060 Fax
Agent: Shain Jaffe
Great North Artists Management
(416) 925-2051
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Green Gold Rush, The
Genre(s): Comedy
Logline:
A marijuana deal goes awry, ironically winning the participants a much higher price.
Synopsis:
Thirty-five year old Ross sees the pot business paving his way to an early retirement in the Caribbean. His brother Sonny intends to quit after one sale and open a tranquillity tank, The Floating Buddha Stress Reduction Centre. Ross has always dominated Sonny and so of course ridicules this plan (as he has all others).
Tina, who intends to purchase the pot, has been waiting tables and supporting her alcoholic mother. Fed up, she wants to quit work and return to school. Buying the sixteen pounds Ross has for sale and selling it to a cousin in San Francisco will make this possible.
The story takes place on the day of the deal. Comic chaos begins when Sonny's fiancée Sylvia discovers the pot and walks out. Ross and Sonny then go to Luther's to collect the pitbull that will ride shotgun on the dope. Having fronted them ten thousand dollars to set up their operation, Luther warns that failure to repay the money and return the dog means death.
Back on the road, Ross and Sonny start to argue and wreck the car. They lose Luther's pitbull and are pursued by four female thugs who spied the pot in the car. Tina, meanwhile, is forced to bring her mother inon the deal.
As the deal goes down, Sonny finally faces up to both Ross and the fact that Sylvia does not in fact love him. When Tina's mother sees the briefcase full of money, the two women, estranged since the father died, are forced to reconcile.
In the end, the pot is stolen but Tina and Ross have something going. She even offers to lend him the money to pay off Luther and grow another crop -- another Green Gold Rush.
Author Info:
GRANT BUDAY has two scripts under option: Children & Idiots with Anagram Productions, based on a story from his collection Monday Night Man, and White Lung with John Pozer Productions, based on his novel White Lung.
GRANT BUDAY, Writer
(604) 251-2190