Roberto Alto

Samurai · 535 points

1,965 points to Mentor

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22 reviews

When an orphaned dropout joins an off-grid commune to evade a hometown scandal, but secretly returns to claim an inheritance, he must fight off reporters and protestors who follow him and destroy his commune, which he must rebuild with his windfall.

September 18, 2017
When a grandson running from a media scandal ends up joining a commune, he is encouraged to visit his hometown and claim what’s his, to his surprise, an inheritance left by his adopted grandparents. But when he finds himself fighting off TV reporters who follow him to his new commune, he realizes that by publicly accepting a family secret, he can thwart them off indefinitely and claim leadership of a new commune he builds with his windfall.

September 17, 2017
When allegations prompt a rising Senior to permanently leave home, he must feign loyalty to a commune that hides him so he can attain residency there and take his GED.

September 6, 2017
When a star-struck young buck is forced to hide out in an off-grid commune to evade the police, using the identity he constructed to attain his anonymity allows him to win over the group, who decides to make him their new leader, even after he confesses to a past crime.

September 3, 2017
After abandoning adoptive grandparents who later do not survive a crime he feels he instigated, a Texas senior must defeat hometown demons that follow him on his journey to find a place he can safely call home.

August 26, 2017
After witnessing his grandfather’s murder, a New Mexico high school senior has a nervous breakdown and travels to Taos to remake his life – assuming false personas that are inspired by magazines he collects – while being pursued by his grandfather’s killer, who he discovers is one of his best friends.

August 25, 2017
After the abrupt revelation of a family secret forced a now twice orphaned boy into a life of seedy trailer parks, he sets out on a last-ditch journey to assemble a cast of family members he needs to make a home of his own.

August 23, 2017
After a twister transports a lonely Kansas farm girl to a magical land, she sets out on a dangerous journey to find a wizard with the powers to send her home.

August 23, 2017
When a TV program is set to launch an expose on a commune, a member who sought refuge in the group because his grandfather’s murder was instigated by the media, devices a plan to sabotage the TV network and protect his identity.

August 21, 2017
When an emo-themed magazine is accused of causing a rash of suicides among young girls, a new editor is hired to change its editorial direction. Before starting, the new editor decides to dig deeper into the past editor’s affairs and discovers that an inmate, who believes she was wrongly accused of murder by the neighbor’s babysitter, was controlling the magazine from prison.

August 16, 2017

on When an orphaned dropout joins an off-grid commune to evade a hometown scandal, but secretly returns to claim an inheritance, he must fight off reporters and protestors who follow him and destroy his commune, which he must rebuild with his windfall.

Yes, rebuilding the commune is the story, and rest is the back story, but I am still having trouble making it interesting and inserting irony.
on When allegations prompt a rising Senior to permanently leave home, he must feign loyalty to a commune that hides him so he can attain residency there and take his GED.

This is the problem with squeezing too much info. He runs away because he was named a key suspect but was later proved innocent, after he left, but his adopted grandparents didn't survive so he's orphaned. He can't and won't…
on A domesticated soldier must rekindle her killer instinct by a suicidal Drill Sergeant in order to assassinate her drug trafficking ex-husband before he’s elected President.

It sounds intriguing, but too much information. If you could only describe each person with one adjective describing good, moderate, or bad behavior , how would you do this? This is a good excercise to get at the core of…
on When an agoraphobic author meets his dream girl, a country star, he starts a therapy to join her in public, but a meltdown on live TV reopens old wounds of his deceased love.

This is a bit cryptic. Why a television program, and what does this have to do with a fear of open spaces?
on A young Thomas Edison must win the top invention prize at the Worlds Fair to prove to his dream girl and her disapproving father that he is worthy before she marries a wealthy suitor.

I've done a lot of historical work on world's fairs and teach this topic at a university. There are so many things one could do with this. The one thing that comes to mind is that beyond the situation you…
on LITTLE EIFFEL – The improbable true story of how Gustave Eiffel fought against massive protests, construction fatalities, and structural issues to build the most visited monument on earth – The Eiffel Tower

Potentially a great story line for a movie. Love the title, but why Little? Does it imply something that happens? Intrigued architect here.
on A workaholic midwife becomes pregnant with twins after a drunken one night stand and with the help of her friends adjusts to her new life as a mother.

This sounds like a situation, and no more. Why twins? Does the one night stand figure into the story later? The ending is predictable - adjusting ones life to be a mother because you are pregnant.
on A young girl runs away from her sharecropping life to pursue her dream of becoming a blues legend.

This is a situation description, like, a man goes to college, or, mom goes to the neighbor's house. Just a situation. Do a parallel for the Wizard of Oz. This would produce something like, "a girl travels down a yellow…
on A moody princess meets two men at the edge of forest and takes advantage of their good nature, but one of the men take something else from her.

Is this a serious request?
on An aging radical’s suicide reunites seven of his college cohorts to mourn and reflect on the gap between their youthful ideals and their middle-aged conformity.

It sounds like an Abbie Hoffman movie.