This year features 72 screenplays. Here are the next 11, indexed alphabetically, from H to L.
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Read and download some of the best unproduced screenplays from 2013. And, to help you choose where to start, we've sorted them into smaller batches.
For Your Consideration, we have the next 11 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically, from H through L. Including David Weil's "Half Heard in the Stillness," Sang Kyu Kim's "The Line," 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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Half Heard in the Stillness
Written by: David Weil
Votes: 8
A young man, who is inadvertently rescued after living ten years in the basement of the child predator who abducted him, struggles to reunite with his family, while the detective in charge of his case investigates the link between his discovery and the recent disappearance of another local boy.
Holland, Michigan
Written by: Andrew Sodrosk
Votes: 46 (1st overall in 2013)
When a traditional Midwestern woman suspects her husband of infidelity, an amateur investigation unravels.
Hot Summer Nights (2017)
Written by: Elijah Bynum
Votes: 24 (6th overall in 2013)
A teenager’s life spirals out of control when he befriends the town’s rebel, falls in love, and gets entangled in selling drugs over one summer in Cape Cod. IMDb
I'm Proud of You
Written by: Noah HarpsterMicah Fitzerman-Blue
Votes: 10
Based on Tim Madigan’s autobiographical novel of the same name. A journalist looking for a story about television’s role in the Columbine tragedy interviews TV’s Mr. Rogers and, as a friendship develops between the two, he finds himself confronting his own issues at home.
The Independent (2022)
Written by: Evan Parter
Votes: 20 (11th overall in 2013)
With America’s first viable independent Presidential Candidate poised for victory, an idealistic young journalist uncovers a conspiracy, which places the fate of the election, and the country, in his hands. IMDb
Ink and Bone
Written by: Zak Olkewicz
Votes: 12
When a female book editor visits the home of a horror writer so he can complete his novel, she finds that all of his creations are holding him hostage.
Inquest
Written by: Josh Simon (as Sam Cohen)
Votes: 8
After the death of Princess Diana, a reluctant investigator is hired to ascertain whether her death was premeditated. And in the process, he begins to uncover a conspiracy that compromises his own safety.
The Killing Floor
Written by: Bac DelormeStephen Clarke
Votes: 11
An war veteran slaughterhouse worker and his friend discover a small fortune in heroin hidden inside a processed cow and maneuver to hold onto their find and cash out to save his grandfather’s house as the bad guys come looking for their wayward stash.
Last Minute Maids
Written by: Leo Nichols
Votes: 6
Two lovable losers run into trouble after they start a service cleaning up the stuff you don’t want your loved ones to find once you die.
Line of Duty
Written by: Cory M. Miller
Votes: 8
MACBETH meets THE DEPARTED in this modern retelling of Shakespeare's play, focusing on the tragic rise and fall of NYPD Officer Sean Stewart, a heroic narcotics detective pushed to the dark side of police corruption by his scheming wife and a well-timed prophecy.
The Line
Written by: Sang Kyu Kim
Votes: 8
A corrupt boarder crossing agent must decide what is more important- saving his soul or inflating his bank account -- when he discovers a young illegal boy who escaped a cartel hit on the boarder between the US and Mexico.
