2024 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 5: S to T)
Top screenplays written by new and emerging writers. The next 19 indexed S to T.
Welcome to 2024 Top Unproduced Screenplays (Part 5 of 6), curated from industry reader feedback and year-end lists. This page includes 19 titles, indexed from S to T for easy access.
Highlights on this page include Saturn Return, Stardust Queen, and Turnaround. Use the table of contents to jump straight to a script block.
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Saturn Return
Written by: Gaelyn Golde
Votes: 11
Eve and Anders dated for a decade. Now, Eve is going to see Anders for the first time in years... at his dad’s funeral. Together, they confront their shared past and the infinite nature of love, even after it dies.
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Shutout
Written by: Alejandro Adams
Votes: 15
A talented young pool player from the Bronx navigates the male-dominated world of pool hustling, guided by a seasoned gambler, as she rises to international fame and grapples with the moral complexities of the game.
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Skin
Written by: Matisse Haddad
Votes: 17
When famed Beverly Hills dermatologist Amelia Williams’ status begins to slip as she ages, she makes a revolutionary discovery that allows her to completely revitalize her appearance and maintain her lifestyle. It just requires a bit of murder every now and then.
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Spin the Bottle
Written by: Jeff Feuerstein
Votes: 11
Convinced her disastrous dating life stems from breaking the rules of Spin the Bottle two decades ago, Hallie enlists her former crush to track down–and finally kiss–the boy she rejected that night, hoping to lift the curse and find true love.
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Stardust Queen
Written by: Joe Ferran
Votes: 15
A prodigiously gifted young assassin attempts to escape the rule of her vicious step-mother and ascend to fame as a late-90’s pop star.
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Teller, The
Written by: Ben Ripley
Votes: 12
A timid, overlooked bank teller with incredible sleight-of-hand dexterity teams up with a rogue FBI agent to rob her own bank.
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Test Drive
Written by: Matt Venne
Votes: 20
A down-on-his-luck car salesman takes a mysterious stranger on a test drive -- which turns into a dangerous and unsettling crime spree across the rain-soaked streets of Los Angeles.
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Three Hit Men and a Baby
Written by: David Matalon & Matthew Altman
Votes: 10
Three of the world’s top hitmen must take on their most challenging assignment yet–babysitting an infant who holds the key to their survival.
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Thumb
Written by: Cesar Vitale
Votes: 9
When a lonely and socially-stunted young woman mistakenly receives a severed thumb in the mail, she makes it her life’s obsession to return it to the hand it once belonged to–putting her on a collision course that will upend her world forever.
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Tickle Me Elmo
Written by: Aaron Karo
Votes: 24 (9th overall in 2024)
The true story of how one toy saved Sesame Street, shocked Wall Street, and tickled the nation.
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Timeshare
Written by: Mark Townend
Votes: 15
In the not-too-distant future, where a new technology allows an individual to project their psyche into the body of another, thus creating a body-sharing gig economy, a financially-struggling married couple accepts a wealthy man’s proposal to use the wife’s body for a single night, but soon that decision causes their relationship and lives to spiral out of control with fatal consequences.
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Tipsy
Written by: Barry Galperin & Memo Noriega
Votes: 10
A young couple, feeling the pressures of adulthood, is thrown into a supernatural drinking game that tests their commitment, relationship, and more.
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Toluca Lake
Written by: Mark Fleming
Votes: 15
When Gavin discovers the girl of his dreams is actually a persistent hallucination caused by a rapidly growing brain tumor, he’s forced to question what’s real, what really matters, and what’s the best way to end things with someone that’s slowly–or not-so-slowly–killing him.
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Tony
Written by: Lou Howe & Todd Bartels
Votes: 16
In 1975, a wayward young Anthony Bourdain stumbles into a summer dishwashing job in Provincetown and discovers his life’s calling.
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Trapped
Written by: Jill Blankenship
Votes: 12
A woman trapped in a tight cave shaft must fight to escape when the shaft starts unexpectedly filling up with water.
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True* Mermaid Story
Written by: Matthew Carnahan
Votes: 10
A struggling screenwriter’s life spirals into chaos when he becomes obsessed with telling the true* story of a mermaid’s life and death.
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Turnaround
Written by: Elyse Hollander
Votes: 14
After beloved movie star Tom Adair is found dead, the outpouring of grief and sympathy quickly elevates his best friend Alec Donavan to movie star status. Now Alec must contend with his newfound fame and success–and the fact that he and his agent/girlfriend Karynn Pieper secretly murdered Tom and are haunted by his vengeful ghost.
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Turpentine
Written by: Justin Varava
Votes: 12
When a deadbeat son hires his friends to rob his own mother and father in order to pay an outstanding debt to a local drug dealer, things don’t go as planned, and family bonds are stretched to their furthest extremes.
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Twin Soul
Written by: Dani Feito
Votes: 11
When a psychiatrist and his sickly wife travel to their country cabin for a quiet Thanksgiving weekend, they will have to deal with an unexpected visit from one of his patients, who claims his dead twin brother is after him for revenge. It will quickly become clear things aren’t what they seem.
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