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4 loglines
27 reviews

Peanut and Cracker Jack — To get back in the game a disgraced little league coach must turn a team of awkward, couch-potato kids with one superstar and the rival coach’s spurned daughter into champions.

April 8, 2016
An unknown, white, Republican candidate runs for office in a poor, Democratic, black neighborhood, setting up his headquarters in a Baptist church where the congregation is hesitant to support him.

January 11, 2016
A disgraced coach gets a second chance but must teach couch potato kids about baseball and life to win a championship trophy, a trophy wife, and the apple of his eye.

January 11, 2016
The great British icon suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous farce when an illiterate English twit, Will, and a black fry cook, Shakespeare, team up to become the world’s single greatest playwright.

December 24, 2012

on Home Invasion – A brilliant engineer and his family get trapped in their home when his highly sophisticated, prototype security device goes rogue.

Any chance the security device is an android dog ?(SPOT - Security Prototype Of Tomorrow) who goes rogue when the scientist develops and introduces Canny the?android cat nanny. Now that would be fun and uncanny. ?Title suggestion: Spot on Canny.Okay…
on An unknown, white, Republican candidate runs for office in a poor, Democratic, black neighborhood, setting up his headquarters in a Baptist church where the congregation is hesitant to support him.

DPG, Sorry for the delay in responding. I thought I'd get a notice if someone reviewed my logline. I hadn't and didn't think to check till now. ?As to your concerns: It's state senate but I disagree that that is…
on After the mysterious arrival of a stolen diamond and her missing brother’s diary, an art forgery expert discovers that her long lost family was involved in an unsolved international crime, and is forced on a quest through the dark catacombs of Siberia to discover the truth

So many disconnects, as Nir pointed out. I'll add just two more. How does and art fraud investigator's background relate to a jewel theft? Why does she go to Europe when Siberia is in Asia? ?I had to google Siberian…
on A revengeful ghost uses their tablet PC to plague a young family. The young mother saves them – at the cost of a horrific sacrifice.Logline:

Agree with the previous posters. Tighten it up and highlight the hero. Example to highlight the mother: A young mother fights to save her family from a vengeful ghost who haunts them through their tablets. Horrific sacrifice tells us nothing.…
on An insecure process server becomes the target of a serial killer and teams up with a private investigator to catch the killer and regains his self confidence.

An insecure person has no self confidence to regain as they never had it. You need a different word for regain or ?change the protag description.
on Al Qaeda unwittingly recruit Inspector Clouseau for their Final Mission.

I love the title. It really makes the logline work. That being said, using a franchised character may present all kinds of hurdles. Doing so makes the logline justifiably short. As much as I'd like to recommend rewriting it without…
on The great British icon suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous farce when an illiterate English twit, Will, and a black fry cook, Shakespeare, team up to become the world’s single greatest playwright.

Geno, did you miss my storyline logline or just not like it? From above: An illiterate English twit, Will, and a black fry-cook, Shakespeare must convert The Beggars Guild into a Theatre Troupe before the sheriff decides to jail them…
on The great British icon suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous farce when an illiterate English twit, Will, and a black fry cook, Shakespeare, team up to become the world’s single greatest playwright.

Thanks Carllord, I hope that is not the case with "the Great British icon' and I think the title, Will 'n Shakespeare, and character names, Will 'n Shakespeare, helps with that a bit. :C) Debbiemoon, I had a logline that…
on When a basketball star learns of his own childhood abduction and time lost with his now deceased father, emotions and fears become his fiercest rival, putting the national championship in jeopardy.

Much, much better! There's a little clunkiness with "and time lost with his now deceased father' but that's going to be a hard concept to 'clean' up. If I think of anything I'll let you know. But, still a winner…
on When a struggling home economics teacher is diagnosed with cancer he opens a bakery to “raise the dough” and secure a financial future for his family.

When a struggling meth dealer is diagnosed with cancer he converts his meth lab to a bakery. But to secure a financial future for his family he must crank out counterfeit Twinkies.

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