This year features 72 screenplays. Here are the next 11, indexed alphabetically, from E to G.
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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.
For Your Consideration, we have the next 11 scripts cataloged and indexed alphabetically, from E through G, for quick access. Including Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis' "Elsewhere," Donald Margulies' "The End of the Tour," and everything in between.
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Some of the scripts listed here may have since been optioned and produced. However, at the time of "voting" they were not.
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Elsewhere
Written by: Mikki DaughtryTobias Iaconis
Votes: 8
After his girlfriend dies in a car accident, a man finds his true soulmate, only to wake from a coma and learn his perfect life was just a dream -- one he is determined to make real.
The End of the Tour (2015)
Written by: Donald Margulies
Votes: 7
Upon hearing of author David Foster Wallace's suicide, writer David Lipsky recalls his 1996 interview of Wallace. IMDb
Extinction (2018)
Written by: Spenser Cohen
Votes: 8
A man must do everything he can to save his family from an alien invasion. IMDb
Faults (2014)
Written by: Riley Stearns
Votes: 18
An expert on cults is hired by a mother and father to kidnap and deprogram their brainwashed daughter. He soon begins to suspect the parents may be more destructive than the cult he’s been hired to save her from. IMDb
The Fixer
Written by: Bill Kennedy
Votes: 7
A man who works in wealth management, and also has his hands in a number of less than ethical enterprises, begins collaborating with a Los Angeles based drug dealer. The dealer just so happens to have the man’s son has one of his runners in the drug fueled LA nightlife.
Free Byrd
Written by: Jon Boyer
Votes: 6
After being diagnosed with dementia, a retired 50-something stunt motorcyclist sets out to perform one last jump.
Frisco
Written by: Simon Stephenson
Votes: 39 (3rd overall in 2013)
A forty-something pediatric allergist, who specializes in the hazelnut and is facing a divorce, learns lessons in living from a wise-beyond-her-years terminally ill 15 year old patient when she crashes his weekend trip to a conference in San Francisco.
From Here to Albion
Written by: Rory HainesSohrab Noshirvani
Votes: 6
A tragic accident in a coastal English town sets off a chain of violence when a malevolent assassin attempts to punish all involved, including a dirty cop who is intent on covering up the truth.
Fully Wrecked
Written by: Jake MorseScott Wolman
Votes: 8
An R-rated talking car from the 80s is brought back into service and teamed up with the son of his former partner, a befuddled cop looking to earn his stripes.
Gay Kid and Fat Chick
Written by: Bo Burnham
Votes: 14
Two high school misfits become costumed vigilantes and take out their frustrations on the students who have bullied them throughout high school.
The Golden Record
Written by: Aaron KandellJordan Kandell
Votes: 19
The true story of how Carl Sagan fell in love while leading the wildest mission in NASA history: a golden record to encapsulate the experience of life on earth for advanced extraterrestrial life.