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| Free Radicals |
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Craig Peters
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Genre: Action/Adventure, Comedy
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Logline:
Two college buddies, on a camping trip to the Pacific Northwest, vie for the love of a young Native American woman who's fighting to save her tribal homeland from loggers. Soon
they're battling the logging company, grizzlies, and the FBI. They're in way too deep.
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Synopsis:
Fresh out of college, Duncan and Jake take a camping trip to the mountains of the Pacific Northwest where they meet Shawnee Ray. She offers to be their guide and leads them deep into
the back country to the top of a sacred mountain. Far below a logging company cuts a wide swath through the forest, heading right toward the heart of her tribal homeland.
Duncan and Jake both think she’s incredibly hot -- and before they know it -- they’ve joined her in the fight. They help Shawnee Ray pull off a number of daring raids against the
loggers. First, they sneak a bunch of skunks into the barracks. Then they infiltrate the mess hall and serve up a special dinner with a sleeping-potion gravy. They create diversion
after diversion -- each one more cunning than the one before.
Their story hits the national news. Agent Baines of the FBI arrives to lead a massive manhunt. Shawnee Ray, Duncan, and Jake plan their next caper. The guys lock horns over who
gets to make the first move on her. They launch another quick strike and escape by canoe, plunging over a waterfall.
The FBI closes in. Duncan and Jake know they’ve pressed their luck way too far. Duncan’s ready to bail -- sharing a prison cell with a guy named Bubba wouldn’t look good on his
resume -- but Jake says no, they’ve got to stay and help Shawnee Ray stage one last raid. They’re caught in the act, trapped at the edge of a cliff. Agent Baines zeroes in for the
kill. When all is lost, a hot air balloon touches down to save them in a breathtaking escape scene.
They’re facing impossible odds. The media weighs in on their story and creates a groundswell of national support. Hordes of activists of all ages, colors, and creeds flock to the
mountains to join the fight for Shawnee Ray’s homeland.
A fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the whole forest. The activists, loggers, and the FBI all join forces to battle the blaze. Shawnee Ray and her braves blow up a levee
and flood the fire, washing out the flames and logging compound as well. They’ve saved the forest -- but in the midst of the wild celebration, Agent Baines takes them into
custody.
There’s a huge rally in Washington, D.C. Eight million marchers raise their voices as one to demand that Shawnee Ray, Duncan, and Jake be released. The whole country is in turmoil.
It’s an election year. Intellectually-challenged President Cash is forced to halt the logging and pardon them.
They walk out of prison, new American heroes, and return to Shawnee Ray’s sacred mountain deep in the forest. Both Duncan and Jake would wrestle a grizzly to get a chance to share
her sleeping bag. She needs a warrior, brave and true, to help her defend her homeland and lead her tribe. Duncan’s ready to move on. Jake wants to stay. He’s the one she’s been
waiting for.
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Bio:
After surviving a pair of degrees, Mr. Peters set out to fulfill his life’s true ambition: to become a starving writer. He was immediately successful. His first play was greeted
by rave reviews from friends and family, but never produced. During this trying time, he found solace in the violence of the martial arts. His second play won two national play
writing awards, receiving a total of seven productions in theatres across the country -- and suddenly his mother stopped telling him he should have been a lawyer. Riding the wave of
newfound glory, he launched into screenwriting as well. Mr. Peters has now penned three plays and four screenplays, all based on former friends who have read his scripts and refuse
to speak to him anymore. In the words of the author, Free Radicals, his most recent endeavor, “reeks with promise.” He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two
boisterous, squalling little girls. It’s been ten years since he’s had a good night’s sleep. Like most journeymen screenwriters, Mr. Peters looks forward to that happy day in the
not-to-distant future when he can finally fork over the Guild’s hefty initiation fee. On writing comedy, he offers this one insight, “I need to feel funny when I sit down to write.
Looking funny is not enough.”
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