by
Eli Flouton
Logline:
Following his mother's suicide, an apathetic teenager bonds with a washed up adult film writer.
Synopsis:
"Nothing but Sunshine" is something like "Superbad" meets "Good Will Hunting", concerned primarily with the relationship between co-protagonists Nate and Grant. Nate is a listless high-schooler resentful of his self-medicating mother and her boyfriend Grant. Grant is an old-hat adult film writer, anxious to return some elegance and panache to an industry which increasingly has neither. When Nate's mother overdoses and dies, he is faced with an impossible choice: stay and live with this man Grant whom he despises, or leave and abandon his half-sister by Grant.
The twist here is that Grant is a genuinely good person who wants to help Nate turn his life around. Nate, having been abandoned by two parents already and unable to see past Grant's professional failures, refuses his help. To earn Nate's trust and return some respectability to his artistically bankrupt vocation, Grant embarks on a bizarre odyssey to produce his tour-de-force adult film. He knows there is only one man who can star in his masterpiece: the famously vanished Teddy Truck, the John Galt of porn. While there are those who whisper of Truck's unconquerable sexual prowess, there are those who claim he may never have existed at all...
With additional help from some rather unlikely sources, Grant and Nate are able to form a meaningful bond that will change them both forever. In the day of the Seth Rogen comedy, "Nothing but Sunshine" is at once an indictment of marijuana use and a celebration of its follies. The script will appeal to anyone with an imperfect family situation where love wins out in the end.
I truly believe this script is the right blend of low-budget and commercial appeal. Please email me if you would like to read and I will be happy to send it over.
Screenwriting contests won:
2008 American Gem Literary Festival - semifinalist
2009 NYC Midnight Screenwriters Challenge - Top-10 (~600 entrants)
Bio:
I am a new writer, a graduate of Cornell University's creative writing program (2006). My combination of youth and diligence is useful and I hope rare; I am able to reflect accurately the parlance of young adults while simultaneously producing polished work.
Contact screenwriter Eli Flouton
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Submission Date: 2009-08-05 18:44:17
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