by
Warren Paul Glover
Genre: Drama
Logline:
He gambled everything on the woman he loved. Only to find that the prize wasn't worth playing for.
Synopsis:
LUCK’S RAN OUT (alternative title: The Gambler) is a contemporary relationship drama set in England and Spain.
TERRY is a decent working-class English man ‘done good’. He runs his own business and is devoted to his occasionally overbearing wife, BRENDA.
When Terry and Brenda decide to try for a family, their marriage starts to disintegrate. Terry finds that, after a car accident, he does not have the required sexual drive to keep at it, while Brenda begins to have second thoughts about whether this is really what she wants. She realizes she is attracted to Terry's brother DENNIS. A holiday to favourite vacation spot Spain does not breathe new life into the marriage - it makes it worse.
Unable to communicate with his wife, Terry attempts to salvage the marriage by buying Brenda her dream villa in Spain as a surprise birthday present. Terry’s secret trips to Spain fuel Brenda’s suspicions and drive her into the arms of Dennis. With his business failing, the property venture in Spain collapsing, and loan sharks after him for his gambling debts, Terry discovers the affair between his brother and his wife. He attempts suicide and almost succeeds.
While receiving treatment for injuries inflicted by loan shark heavies, Terry meets an attractive PHYSIOTHERAPIST. As Terry struggles to master his gambling addiction he faces a most difficult decision: reclaim his first love, or take a chance on another.
Screenwriting contests won:
Winner - WildSound Fall 2010 short screenplay competition (HEART ATTACK)
Winner - Vibe TV/Writers' International Premier Screen Talent (Wipst) 2009 (TABLE FOR TWO)
Additionally - Semi-Finalist 2011 Golden Age of Television short screenplay contest (LUCK'S RAN OUT - short version; and PERFORMANCE HEART); Quarter-Finalist 2011 Fresh Voices short screenplay competition (HEART ATTACK); Semi-Finalist 2010 PAGE Awards (LUCK'S RAN OUT - short version); Semi-Finalist 2010 Gimme Credit International Screenwriting competition (IN A HOLE & ANY LAWFUL IMPEDIMENT)
Bio:
Warren studied screenwriting at Edinburgh University before emigrating to Sydney, Australia in July 2010. Warren has had several poems and short stories published but screenwriting is his passion. Warren has directed two of his short film scripts, '2 x 3' and 'HEART ATTACK'. A third, 'A MAN TRIES TO GET BACK IN', has been shot on location in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, by local film maker Dhalia Hafez. Warren has recently agreed terms with a Melbourne production company to write a romantic comedy - his first professional screenwriting contract.
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