LIFE IS NOT ALWAYS EASY
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A comedy of lost privilege and redemption.
Class warfare under one roof
Home Alone without the house.
Capital Fund Screenplay Competition's Hot 100 for 2016 (#52)
Quarterfinalist, Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2022
Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards, Season 7
Travis Kingsley, A silver-spooned millennial is forced out of his luxurious lifestyle, after his frustrated parents lock up the family home and leave town. Travis must navigate reality outside the mansion with help from a familiar working class couple.
We meet Travis at birth, he's a happy baby, perhaps he suspects he's been born into privilege. Six months later, he starts to cry and he doesn't stop. His frustrated parents try anything they can think of, finally his mother takes a silver spoon from her spoon collection and hands it to him. That works!
Twenty-four years later, Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley are in therapy, it seems they created an entitled monster by giving him whatever he wanted. The spoon was replaced with stuff and more stuff. Their efforts to course correct and turn Travis into a productive member of society, fell on deaf ears.
One morning, Travis came home from a typical night of partying and found his home, a luxurious mansion locked, his parents gone. For hours, he tries to gain entry to his home, with no success. Fortunately he still had his car, it was low on gas. Attempting to fill up, he realized not one of his dozen credit cards worked. Luckily he meets his girlfriend Stacy at the gas station, she fills his tank and takes him in. Unfortunately a dire verbal slip up during an intimate moment of roleplay with Stacy has Travis running for safety.
Totally desperate, Travis breaks a window and gains entry to his home, unaware he set off a silent alarm. While home and to his horror, he discovers all things are gone, clothes and all. Only what he is wearing on his body, is all he had, a loin cloth, Army boots and dog tags. He's an Army man home on leave, catching up with sexy nurse girlfriend, Stacy, who really is a nurse.
Travis bailed out by his best friend Chazz, a working man, who finds great delight in Travis' trouble. On their most recent night out, Travis asserts he's never had a day of trouble in his whole life. It's the juicy irony Chazz finds incredibly hilarious. After a failed attempt to locate his parents at their downtown office of Kingsley Capital, Travis assumes he can stay with Chazz, just one problem, Imelda, Chazz's girlfriend. She's not too fond of Travis' easy life. Imelda lays out ground rules for Travis to follow, if he is to stay with them, the first being, get a job. Having no choice, he agrees.
Things go comically wrong as Travis has a hard time following the rules, which angers Imelda and puts Chazz between them.
Casting suggestions below.
IS
A comedy of lost privilege and redemption.
Class warfare under one roof
Home Alone without the house.
Capital Fund Screenplay Competition's Hot 100 for 2016 (#52)
Quarterfinalist, Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2022
Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards, Season 7
Travis Kingsley, A silver-spooned millennial is forced out of his luxurious lifestyle, after his frustrated parents lock up the family home and leave town. Travis must navigate reality outside the mansion with help from a familiar working class couple.
We meet Travis at birth, he's a happy baby, perhaps he suspects he's been born into privilege. Six months later, he starts to cry and he doesn't stop. His frustrated parents try anything they can think of, finally his mother takes a silver spoon from her spoon collection and hands it to him. That works!
Twenty-four years later, Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley are in therapy, it seems they created an entitled monster by giving him whatever he wanted. The spoon was replaced with stuff and more stuff. Their efforts to course correct and turn Travis into a productive member of society, fell on deaf ears.
One morning, Travis came home from a typical night of partying and found his home, a luxurious mansion locked, his parents gone. For hours, he tries to gain entry to his home, with no success. Fortunately he still had his car, it was low on gas. Attempting to fill up, he realized not one of his dozen credit cards worked. Luckily he meets his girlfriend Stacy at the gas station, she fills his tank and takes him in. Unfortunately a dire verbal slip up during an intimate moment of roleplay with Stacy has Travis running for safety.
Totally desperate, Travis breaks a window and gains entry to his home, unaware he set off a silent alarm. While home and to his horror, he discovers all things are gone, clothes and all. Only what he is wearing on his body, is all he had, a loin cloth, Army boots and dog tags. He's an Army man home on leave, catching up with sexy nurse girlfriend, Stacy, who really is a nurse.
Travis bailed out by his best friend Chazz, a working man, who finds great delight in Travis' trouble. On their most recent night out, Travis asserts he's never had a day of trouble in his whole life. It's the juicy irony Chazz finds incredibly hilarious. After a failed attempt to locate his parents at their downtown office of Kingsley Capital, Travis assumes he can stay with Chazz, just one problem, Imelda, Chazz's girlfriend. She's not too fond of Travis' easy life. Imelda lays out ground rules for Travis to follow, if he is to stay with them, the first being, get a job. Having no choice, he agrees.
Things go comically wrong as Travis has a hard time following the rules, which angers Imelda and puts Chazz between them.
Casting suggestions below.
