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Forced to stay at home following a heart attack, a high powered exec realizes he doesn’t know his teenage daughter when she announces she?s pregnant, prompting him to try and reconnect with her and stabilize the family.
wilsondownunder: The reason I suggested combining the two is because they are major turning points in the both their lives, come unexpectedly and at the most inconvenient time, create maximum complications and force each to deal with their character flaws (whatever they are) and their flawed (nill?)Read more
wilsondownunder:
The reason I suggested combining the two is because they are major turning points in the both their lives, come unexpectedly and at the most inconvenient time, create maximum complications and force each to deal with their character flaws (whatever they are) and their flawed (nill?) relationship.
IOW: the ingredients for a good story.
So I think the combo crisis is a good premise. However, I think the logline needs a little work. Need more time to think about.
See lessWhen her husband dies, Jenny must block the unbearable pain of losing the man she loved with increasingly risky sexual adventures with a womanizer she hates.
Correction: widow, not widower.
Correction: widow, not widower.
See lessWhen her husband dies, Jenny must block the unbearable pain of losing the man she loved with increasingly risky sexual adventures with a womanizer she hates.
Elizabethan >>there is a desire to go back to a good relationship very soon after the death of a loved one... Okay.... BUT that's not the original premise. She's not getting involved with a guy she had a good relationship with. She's "working out her grief" through a womanizer she hates. almiiRead more
Elizabethan
>>there is a desire to go back to a good relationship very soon after the death of a loved one…
Okay…. BUT that’s not the original premise. She’s not getting involved with a guy she had a good relationship with. She’s “working out her grief” through a womanizer she hates.
almiitey:
>>what would happen if a happily married woman loses her husband, feels the cold reality of anhedonia setting in, and runs like hell to get away
My problem is not that she runs like hell, but that she runs like hell into the arms of a womanizer she hates.
It’s the ‘womanizer she hates’ that is the sticking point for me in terms of credible motivation.
In this regard, I happened to re-view “Silver Linings Playbook” last night. The female lead character, Tiffany, played by Jennifer Lawrence, is a young widow who “worked out her grief” by sleeping around with everyone at work.
The story makes quite clear that she and the male lead, Pat, played by Bradley Cooper, are playing with extra jokers in their deck of cards. At their first meet-cute, they share the one thing they have in common: all the medications they’ve taken to cope with their psychological problems.
And at one point she tells him: “I was a big slut, but I’m not anymore. There?s always gonna be a part of me that?s sloppy and dirty, but I like that…”
And I like it too! Because the screenwriter has done the spade work to make it believable.
I am intrigued by the notion of a widower getting involved with a womanizer she hates. But at the moment, I’m not buying the initial motivation for it.
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