When a public transportation strike forces an unprepared creative director to run across the city to make it to an important pitch meeting, he uses the journey through the concrete jungle to develop a winning pitch in an attempt to win the client.
Loglines
I dared myself to write a logline a day six months. Here is that collection of film ideas that will probably never see the light of day.
153. n. Mushroom
When two rival etymologists are challenged by the editor of the most respected dictionary in the world to find the true origin of the word “mushroom”, they set out on a historical and etymological race around the globe to be the first to discover the word’s mysterious beginnings.
152. Star Trek Z
When a group of space explorers stumble on an unchartered planet in the final frontier, they beam down to the surface, only to discover it is populated by hungry space zombies and they must fight their way back to the ship before they are eaten alive.
151. Who’s Boss Now?
When a teenage slacker scoffs that being the boss is the easiest job in the world, his father challenges his son to replace him as CEO of the family toy company for one week and increase profits, only to discover that being the head honcho is not as simple as he once thought.
150. No More Mondays
After a white-collar worker learns that he is literally dying of boredom at his desk job, the doctor prescribes a dose of excitement, causing the worker to set out on an adventure of epic proportions to prevent his own untimely death.
149. Crazy Tryp-tophan
After Thanksgiving dinner four friends fall asleep on the couch only to meet each other in a shared dream in which they must save the city from a giant turkey before it gobbles everything up.
148. Buried Past
When new home owners find a time capsule that hints at murder buried in their back yard, they set out to locate the previous owner and discover the true meaning of mysterious box.
147. Blue Planet
In a permanent colony on Mars, a 30-year-old engineer, who promised his dying father that he would scatter his ashes “back home”, learns about a secret ship bound for the blue planet and must travel to a completely alien world–Earth–to fulfill his father’s dying wish.
146. 30 is the New 20
When a 29-year-old career woman finds a journal entry from her last wild night as a teenager, she sets out to recreate it on the eve of her big 3-0, only to discover that the scene, her friends, her liver function and even she herself have changed a lot in a decade.
145. Please Hold
When a quiet telemarketer is insulted for the last time by a rude customer, he makes it his vigilante mission to track down the rude people of the world and make them pay for the damage they cause.
144. Burying the Hatchet
When two broke and feuding brothers learn that their rich deceased mother left all her savings to her housekeeper, they both devise conflicting plans to get their hands on the money with the help of their devious wives.
143. Return
When a 20-year-old kidnapping victim is returned to her family after 10 years in captivity, she must struggle to reclaim her privacy, identity and her place within her community while living under the microscopic examination of the media and those around her.
142. The ties that bind
When a transgendered woman learns that he is pregnant shortly before his scheduled sexual reassignment surgery, he must reach out to his estranged mother and brother to rebuild the family that he has lost in order to create a positive environment for his unborn child.
141. Feel good films
When a porn star’s best friend is diagnosed with cervical cancer, she sets out to create and debut the world’s first charity porn at the Adult Entertainment Expo and enlists the help of a few good dicks, pussies and asses to raise ten million dollars for cancer research.
140. Reunified
When a 26-year-old man from Dresden discovers that his real father abandoned his pregnant mother just months before the Wall feel in order make a life in West Germany, he embarks on a journey across the country to locate the man who left them behind the iron curtain and never came back.
139. The Cock Blockers
When his ladies’ man best friend hooks up with his ex, a frustrated dude enlists the help of the Cock Blockers—an elite organization of charming and attractive men who have the capability to ruin any single man’s evening—to not only exact his revenge but also teach him the ancient art of blocking cock.
138. Bad Grammar
After a disgruntled ESL teacher at an international school in London learns that he will lose his job if his student’s results don’t improve, he takes them on a weekend road trip / crash course in the English language to save himself.
137. Love from your secret admirer
When a socially awkward postman falls for the new pathological pen pal on his mail route, he begins to deliver his own love letters along with her pile of amorous mail in the hopes she will respond, but as she begins to fall for him in real life, he must keep his secret admirer identity from her or risk losing the one relationship he can no longer put into words alone.
136. Septemberfest
As three best friends on exchange in Barcelona, Paris and Berlin converge on Munich for Oktoberfest, one of them excitedly reveals that her new boyfriend has asked her to marry him and the other two must do anything they can at the biggest party in the world to prevent her from making the biggest mistake of her life.
135. Smuggle Buddies
A border control officer who has his eye on a slippery suspected exotic animal smuggler will go to any lengths to bust the perp, even if it means taking his investigation undercover as a corrupt local pet store owner.
134. Ghost Buskers
A group of restless street musicians killed in a hit and run accident begin methodically and melodically haunting the criminals that struck them to finish their unfinished business and finally hear the fat lady sing.
133. Dead Millennials
A country girl and her father unwittingly stumble into a zombie apocalypse when visiting NYC and must fight to survive in a place where the hipsters that had previously taken over the city are almost entirely indistinguishable from the real zombie threat.
Hello, 22 followers!
I know all 22 of you have been super upset that I took a break from writing my loglines this summer. Well, here we go again. Enjoy!
132. No Stone Unturned
When the young daughter of a friend goes missing, an almost-retired cop who suspects a neighbourhood transient makes it his mission to find the girl, even if it means using unorthodox methods and putting his pension at risk.
131. So you might be dying
When a medical writer who creates pamphlets for terminally ill patients learns that she is dying of brain cancer herself, she decides to shake the industry by getting real feedback from dying patients and writing the first piece of honest literature for people on the brink of death.
130. DBS
After a young man with a deep brain stimulation device to control his seizures gets in a serious car accident, he discovers he suddenly has superhuman abilities and must use his new powers to stop an evil doctor from implanting similar devices into unsuspecting victims to create a superhuman army to do his bidding.
129. Count your chickens
When a business woman who has everything–successful career, soon-to-be-husband, new condo–all planned down to the letter loses everything overnight, her new therapist challenges her to live for 3 months without making a single plan–not even what’s for dinner–and she must learn to live, succeed and experience new love without a framework.
128. Dark Horse
When by luck, a young extra becomes the star of an upcoming sleeper hit and is thrust into stardom overnight, the media begins to stir up his sinister past and he must attempt to struggle back into oblivion–a seemingly impossible task–before the world discovers the truth about him.
127. Beat around the bushes
A documentary film about George Bush, Sr. and George W. Bush and how their seemingly disparate reigns span decades to tell a complete story of the truth about America’s obsession with imperialism, oil and the Middle East.
126. Cut to the Chase
Two full hours of a man being chased… On foot, on a motorcycle, in a helicopter, on the back of a dolphin, basically every conceivable mode of transportation at the end of which, he escapes.
125. Baker’s Dozen
After the 13th cookie awakens fresh out of the oven and is immediately expelled by his 12 not-so-sweet siblings for being different, he encounters a secret group of outcast pastries who set out together to achieve a baked good’s ultimate dream–to be consumed and enjoyed by an appreciative human.
Lauren Greenwood 