THE GARDEN
SCRIPT INFORMATION
Script Type: Feature
Genre: Character-Driven Drama
Pages: 135 Pages
If we want a kinder more loving world, we must live kinder more loving lives.
Joe, once a Wall Street Whiz turned burnt out billionaire and now a recluse hiding in an upstate compound – a large Victorian home, with exotic animals and unlimited supply of booze – holds a dark secret, buried in his Garden.
Joe’s Garden is a man-made wonderland of gorgeous landscaping, with heavenly music that comes from speakers in the tall trees above it, filled with nature, amazing sculptures, and great beauty. But what lies beneath this oasis of escape Joe has created with is wealth, is a dark, horrible, tragedy, one that has created great suffering within him that he needs to escape, and one that resonates throughout the larger world we live in.
Joe seems to be a Paraplegic, stuck in his wheelchair. But the medical reports show no physical reasons for his paralysis.
Crystal, a beautiful, young, Yale graduate, is desperate to be a famous journalist and seeks information about a major Wall-Street Rip off committed by Joe’s protege from twenty years past. It’s the hottest story of the day, permeating Main Stream Media everywhere.
She finds Joe, hiding in his compound, thinking she can learn more about his long-lost partner, who is now the most wanted man alive. But Joe pulls her into another story, one far more important than the cultural rip off crap we’ve become too accustomed to on the news. A story that grips Crystal deeply, because her inner life mirrors Joe’s, and her escape from it as complex and clever as his.
Runner is a one time petty criminal and drug addict in his youth, who was also a victim in the horrible tragedy that thrust Joe into a lifelong tailspin. But he escaped by becoming a Harvard Graduate and Psychologist who now helps people in his “Center” in the Bowery of New York City immersed in the chaos of the cement jungle in the city.
What starts out as seeking another hot news “story” becomes a journey through three tormented psyches’ trying to free themselves through one another, revealing a far greater and reaching story; one of shared humanity, and a need for transcendence from tragedy and pain – buried deep in The Garden.
SCRIPT INFORMATION
Script Type: Feature
Genre: Character-Driven Drama
Pages: 135 Pages
If we want a kinder more loving world, we must live kinder more loving lives.
Joe, once a Wall Street Whiz turned burnt out billionaire and now a recluse hiding in an upstate compound – a large Victorian home, with exotic animals and unlimited supply of booze – holds a dark secret, buried in his Garden.
Joe’s Garden is a man-made wonderland of gorgeous landscaping, with heavenly music that comes from speakers in the tall trees above it, filled with nature, amazing sculptures, and great beauty. But what lies beneath this oasis of escape Joe has created with is wealth, is a dark, horrible, tragedy, one that has created great suffering within him that he needs to escape, and one that resonates throughout the larger world we live in.
Joe seems to be a Paraplegic, stuck in his wheelchair. But the medical reports show no physical reasons for his paralysis.
Crystal, a beautiful, young, Yale graduate, is desperate to be a famous journalist and seeks information about a major Wall-Street Rip off committed by Joe’s protege from twenty years past. It’s the hottest story of the day, permeating Main Stream Media everywhere.
She finds Joe, hiding in his compound, thinking she can learn more about his long-lost partner, who is now the most wanted man alive. But Joe pulls her into another story, one far more important than the cultural rip off crap we’ve become too accustomed to on the news. A story that grips Crystal deeply, because her inner life mirrors Joe’s, and her escape from it as complex and clever as his.
Runner is a one time petty criminal and drug addict in his youth, who was also a victim in the horrible tragedy that thrust Joe into a lifelong tailspin. But he escaped by becoming a Harvard Graduate and Psychologist who now helps people in his “Center” in the Bowery of New York City immersed in the chaos of the cement jungle in the city.
What starts out as seeking another hot news “story” becomes a journey through three tormented psyches’ trying to free themselves through one another, revealing a far greater and reaching story; one of shared humanity, and a need for transcendence from tragedy and pain – buried deep in The Garden.
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