New Chicago based scripts

I have recently finished two Chicago based scripts. I would really like Chicago based input on them. I was born and raised in the city and find it easy to use the city and its locations for some of my scripts.

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Your Chicago scripts

Congratulations! What kind of material are they?

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Comedy / True Crime Drama


 

 

Thanks for responding. I had a company to do this one but they feel they don’t have the money to do it justice.         

                  

                 Early Withdrawal Synopsis

 After pulling what he thinks is his last job, (Joey) is forced to take an unlikely witness, (Jewels) to escape.  After stopping at the Post Office and mailing the money overnight to the Palmer House in Chicago, he thinks he has pulled off the perfect bank job. Little does he know that his gorgeous, high strung, high heel wearing, high maintenance companion is actually shanghaiing him. She stalks him until she finally is able to steal his credit card and driver’s license. She gets him arrested after he drops her off at the St. Louis airport leaving him stranded.

  She takes a first class seat on the next flight to Chicago and hires the limo driver to personally chauffeur her around for her stay in the Windy City. She checks into the Palmer House using Joey’s credit card, convincing everyone that she is the newly wed wife of Joey Santos. After signing for the package Joey sent, she finds the money and realizes what has happened.

  She decides to start spending the money and spread around her newfound wealth, even though it’s not hers. She manages to convince a group of high dollar call girls to work for her using the money and the Chicago Mob as leverage.

  Her rich father, (Addison) sends his right hand man, (Jonathan) to find his spoiled rotten daughter, but she is allusive since she is using the bank money, Joey’s last name, and his credit card. By the time Joey manages to get to Chicago, she has maxed out his credit card and spent most of the money from the robbery in only two days.

  Now she threatens him with the thought of her being his kidnapped victim. On top of that, the crooked cop that put his father in jail in the first place is blackmailing Joey. Jewels, manages to buy his fathers, (Johnny) way out of jail, reuniting him with the crocked cops ex-wife (Faith). The real reason he was locked up in the first place. Jewels sets up the crooked cop, (Detective Sullivan) leaving him holding the bag at the bank, in more than one way.

  Joey finally catches up with Jewels. She is on her Grandfathers yacht waiting for him with all the working girls from Chicago and Chicago’s Mob boss Gino. When he finds out that she is the reason for his fathers’ early release, he asks her to marry him. She presents him with a bogus marriage license supplied by Gino. He finds out that she is worth over a billion dollars.

 

WGA Registered, 92 pages, Movie Magic 6, Copyrighted 2008

This one is based on a true story.

                    Incidental Purpose

 Born to an Italian family on the south side of Chicago in 1950, Frankie grows up in a violent world. As a child beaten and abused by his father he learns early to take and not be taken, to use and not be used. Frankie realizes that money and guns are the equalizer he needs to survive on these mean streets. He avoids being involved with his Mafia family, but uses their resources to accommodate his lifestyle. His accidental involvement with an outlaw motorcycle club plunges him into a world of Harley’s, Brotherhood, money, greed and deception. The club members become his family and he is sworn to the code of Outlaw bikers. His natural instincts for maintaining independence from both worlds and his quick rise to success, drives a stake between his Mafia family and motorcycle club brothers.

  The meth labs and distribution of product that involved bikers and mobsters in Chicago, Detroit and Toronto created a meth epidemic that still remains today. When Frankie’s club brothers (Louie and Rings) decide that they want his connections without paying for them, all hell breaks loose and he is stuck in the middle.

  A contract is put on Frankie’s life and this creates a deadly intervention from his Mafia family. His Uncles Carmine and Tony are made men in the Chicago Outfit and are embarrassed by Frankie paying his club brothers taxes. The decision is made by (Carmine and Tony) to take what they think is theirs, even if it means shutting down their lucrative drug operations.

  When Frankie comes home and finds his mother beaten, he hunts down his father and murders him without hesitation. This sets a off a chain of events that leads to a war. When a made member of the Outfit gets killed, car bombs go off, the FBI and ATF get involved.

   Now the FBI, the Outfit, his club Brothers and the DEA are all hunting down Frankie, but he still manages to survive by his wits. It takes the kidnapping and brutal murder of his long time girlfriend (Barbara) by two of his Uncles to make him surface. Family ties, nor brotherhood, no longer hold any heart for Frankie. His only remaining trusted friend Anton must be called upon for a favor. Anton always cool and in control manages a set up that leads to the arrest of Louie.

  During the trial that ultimately brings those to justice for murder, we finally see how far up the ladder power, control and corruption reach in the Windy city.

 

 

 

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