This year features 72 screenplays. Here are the next 10, indexed alphabetically, from C to D.
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Read and download some of the best unproduced screenplays from 2013, according to hundreds of Hollywood professionals who've read and rated them.
We've spilt the collection into smaller batches. For Your Consideration, the next 10 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically, from C through D. Including Patrick Tobin's "Cake," Olivia Milch's "Dude," and everything in between.
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A word about voting... and other important stuff about the "best of" 2013 Unproduced Screenplays.
Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
Also, like all of the screenplays on this site, copyrights remain with the writer(s). 8FLiX does not claim ownership of any screenplay, nor were we involved in voting for, or choosing what makes them the "best of" a particular year.
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Cake (2014)
Written by: Patrick Tobin
Votes: 8
A woman who’s been suffering from chronic pain since the car accident that cost the life of her child finds the will to go on from the most unexpected places. IMDb
Capsule
Written by: Ian Shorr
Votes: 8
A young man’s life is turned upside down when he mysteriously begins to receive metallic capsules containing messages from his future self.
The Civilian
Written by: Rachel LongBrian Pittman
Votes: 16
After an American doctor has his identity stolen by a covert operative, he must assume the dangerous mission of the one who stole it in order to clear his name.
Clarity
Written by: Ryan BelenzonJeffrey Gelber
Votes: 8
What if the world woke up tomorrow to scientific proof of the afterlife?
The Company Man
Written by: Andrew Cypiot
Votes: 10
Based on a true events, this is the story of former CIA agent Edwin Wilson who went behind enemy lines to secure weapons contracts and report information back to the CIA shortly after the Cold War. Edwin had a meteoric rise in the agency until company policies changed and he was unceremoniously fired, but he continued to operate as a man without a country and became public enemy number one in the US Attorney’s office.
Crown
Written by: Max Hurwitz
Votes: 9
In exchange for a lighter prison sentence, a young hacker goes undercover for the FBI in a sting operation to find and steal a super computer virus with the help of a team of unsuspecting hackers.
Diablo Run
Written by: Shea MirzaiEvan Mirzai
Votes: 9
While on a road trip to Mexico, two best friends are forced to enter a thousand mile death race with no rules.
Dig
Written by: Adam Barker
Votes: 7
After his villainous father-in-law kidnaps his daughters, SOL, a tough-as-nails mountain man, travels across the frigid Appalachian mountains seeking vengeance.
Dogfight
Written by: Nicole Riegel
Votes: 16
A 15-year-old boy discovers that his kidnapped older brother has been living in a hidden, meth-producing compound, and infiltrates the camp in hopes of helping his brother escape.
Dude (2018)
Written by: Olivia Milch
Votes: 6
The story of four best girlfriends who must learn how to move forward without moving on, as they come down off the "high" of high school in this "Fast Times-esque" teenage comedy. IMDb
