A naive flavorist-in-training is awakened to the bizarre side-effects caused by a corporation’s dangerous, unhealthy, and unethical artificial flavoring concoction.
Leslie Urdang
Favorably compared to Thank You For Smoking, Stephan Eirik Clark’s debut novel tackles the artificial flavoring industry in a comical light.
Dramatizes the romances and artistic conflicts between four characters: a famed story writer, a young girl, a fading actress, and her playwright son.
Logline: Based upon the bestselling novel, story centers on a young girl who, after the death of her adoptive parents, is raised by an unlikely family and an unqualified guidance counselor and tries to build a healing community.
Logline: After spending 20 years living with a kidnapper, a mentally disabled woman tries to acclimate to being reunited with her real parents.
Logline: Follows a son trying to find his identity from behind the shadow of his successful yet troubled father in South Africa.
Logline: A couple of performance artists who routinely sucked their kids into taking part in a variety of bizarre events realize their full-grown children harbor more than a little resentment and blame the performance art for how badly their own lives have turned out.
Logline: Story centers on a young girl who was sold to a rich Chinese family as a bondmaid, and would grow up to become a lovely, yet provocative girl who would capture the heart of their only son.
Logline: A mother is forced to put her life on hold to sustain her daughter’s pain pill addiction and is forced to put a room in her house up for rent.
Logline: Story centers on a man’s romantic relationship with the daughter of a family friend, which turns their lives upside down.
Logline: Set against the warring conflict in the province of Bougainville in Papa New Guinea, story follows 13-year-old Matilda Laimo and her mother, Dolores, as they are unified with the rest of their village in their efforts for survival. Amid the chaos, Mr. Watts, the only white local, offers to fill in as the children’s schoolteacher and teaches from Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations.”
Logline: On an expedition deep into an uncharted area of the Amazon, a science team discovers a prehistoric humanoid fish monster, who happens to fall in love with the one of the female scientists.
Logline: A married couple searches for the happiness they once had before the death of their son in a car accident.