HOLLYWOODSCRIPT.COM CONTEST WINNER

Date: 7/16/09
                                            
Title: "SUNNY KINCAID"
                                   
Author: PENELOPE SWAN
                          
Format: SP

Pages: 105

Time: present

Locale: Western U.S.A.

Genre: Thriller

Analyst: Hollywoodscript.com

 

PREMISE: When an innocent farm girl learns about men from a bad one, the woman she becomes, walks the dark side.

 

Concept                  EXCELLENT                          

Characterization   EXCELLENT                 

Dialogue                  EXCELLENT                                   

Story Line                 EXCELLENT                  

Setting/Prod. Values  EXCELLENT

Freshness of Story  EXCELLENT

 

SYNOPSIS: Sunny's husband, Jeepers, does her wrong, so she does him in.
She's only fifteen and has just lost both her parents.

Jeepers was a violent cad. His creepy brothers are dumb as rocks. His Sister lives for perversion. His father comes straight from the sewer. Hoodwinking  kindly neighbors and sexual corruption of offspring are honored family traditions.

 So, Sunny's entire hometown looks the other way when Jeepers is killed.  Sunny never even goes to trial.

Ten years later, a woman grown, Sunny is a damn good-looking deputy sheriff with a funny looking dog for a partner. The sheriff swears that Sunny Kincaid is the best law enforcement officer in the county. Bringing bad guys to justice is her passion, her only passion. Sunny always goes home, alone.

Jeepers haunts her still. By day, Sunny is menaced by visions from the past that seem all too real. Nights she spends drinking herself into a sleep too deep to let the nightmares in.

A rich black man from the city, James Worth, buys the largest spread in the county and becomes Sunny's closest neighbor. She has no intention of even meeting him. Nobody in town messes with outsiders. But when a pair of mutilated bodies are discovered on Worth's land, the sheriff sends Sunny o  a neighborly visit to learn what, if anything, he knows about them. James Worth, who bemoans being tied to an emotionally disturbed recluse who married him for his money, is instantly smitten with her.

Sunny Kincaid begins a torrid romance with the married outsider. Secrets, harbored by the community for decades, start to surface. More  bodies are discovered and it becomes all too apparent that a killer who loves to torture and mutilate prowls the dark rolling woodlands. Things  begin to stack up against  Sunny and the town begins to cast a suspicious eye on their deputy.

In the end, in the sun-scorched glare of high noon, with only two bullets left in her rifle, Sunny must duel for her life.

COMMENTS:
If going to the movies is ultimately about compelling emotional engagement, amping up our senses (as well as our interest) to a tangible fever pitch then Sunny Kincaid goes to the top of the charts. It’s a deep and relatable often tragic character study on the visceral level of a film such as MONSTER and THE ACCUSED, while at the same time offering a terrific thriller thruline supplemented by a rich sprinkling of  character fodder all around. What a film it will make. One of the very best projects we’ve seen!
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