BASICS

  • ​GENRES:  Drama / LGBTQ / Horror
  • SUB-GENRES:  Coming-of-Age / First Love
  • PROTECTION:  WGA; West registered
  • LENGTH:  Feature-length
  • PAGE COUNT:  One hundred and six (106)
  • INSPIRATIONS:  During a daily meditation,​ a childhood memory sparked this idea.
  • BEGINNINGS:  Writing began on 05.19.20
  • DRAFTS:  A 5th draft is complete
  • NUMBER:  BOYS is my 13th feature spec​
  • FESTIVALS / SCRIPT COMPETITIONS:  BOYS has been entered into 6 film festivals / script contests so far!
  •  SCRIPT EDITOR / STORY CONSULTANT:  Jonna Jackson
120 second (+) video pitch for BOYS.

quick pitch

The frightening insanity of George A. Romero's
​The Crazies meets the character self-discovery of
Call Me By Your Name meets the unwholesome manipulation of 1985's Smooth Talk.

hey, SHANNON!

In what has become a tradition in most of my scripts, I have a character named "Shannon" within the story.
​In BOYS, "Shannon" is Mickey's beloved childhood doll.

logline

It's the summer of 1982.  Following their parents' bitter divorce,
13-year old Mickey and his older brother Wade stay in the country with their farm-hand father, Acre.  This season of unexpected self-discovery for Mickey coincides with some mysterious and violent changes to the world at large.

feedback

From filmmaker Monte Light, regarding one of the script's later sequences:
"The scene between Acre and Mickey, after Acre's head is injured and Mickey is caught sipping a beer,
​is goddamn poetry.  It's beautiful, poignant, the kind of stuff you win awards for."

reading

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A virtual reading of "BOYS" held September 13th, 2020.
​The Cast:  Ryan Newton Harris, Katherine LaVictoire, Joel Liestman, Monte Light,
Motown Maurice, Matt Mercer, Steve Newman, Whit Spurgeon and Suzanne Voss.