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THE DISRUPTOR
By Jeffrey Field

GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE:

An aggressively competitive hedge fund billionaire tries to take over a small Midwest supply firm in the hopes of reconnecting with the most memorable one-night stand of her teenage years.

SYNOPSIS:

Katrina Powers, a take-no-prisoners hedge fund billionaire, has the money to buy cars, companies and anything else. The one thing she can't buy is the one thing she's obsessed with: reconnecting with Pete Banks, the fuckboi who gave her the most memorable intimate encounter of her life during a school conference in New York in 1994. She's replayed this night countless times in her head. Not many people can say they had their first-ever orgasm while watching the O.J. Simpson Bronco chase. She's so focused on finding this (finger)blast from the past that even business is taking a back seat.

Using an outdated Instagram photo, she tracks Pete Banks to a small medical supply company in suburban Kansas City. He's married with two daughters, but that isn't stopping Katrina. Against the advice of her trusted personal assistant -- "Keep moving forward," he says -- Katrina flies to Kansas City under the guise of exploring a purchase of Pete's employer.

Katrina tours the firm, surveys the operation and meets with Pete Banks. It doesn't go well. Despite Katrina's inappropriately aggressive talk in their meeting, Pete not only doesn't want a hookup, but he also doesn't even remember her. The only upside of Katrina's whole visit is that she thinks this small company has huge potential and wants to buy it after all. When they won't sell, she decides to create a rival company to force the original out of business.

Pete tells his wife Cherie about Katrina's behavior and, in hopes of scuttling the sale and saving his job, she files a formal sexual harassment complaint. Katrina storms into Pete's house and confronts him about the claim, only to find out why he doesn't remember her -- it's the wrong Pete Banks!

Still hoping to save her husband's job, Cherie offers to help Katrina find the real Pete Banks, starting with the five other Petes in the Kansas City area who were known to be living in New York City on that memorable 1994 night. Their daytrip takes them across town to an iconic Kansas City BBQ kitchen, a World War I battlefield simulation, a maximum-security prison and even a drag cabaret where, after a few drinks, Cherie and Katrina are forced to sing a duet on stage. Spoiler alert: Katrina may be the world's worst singer.

The two women, driven by adrenaline, alcohol and their sexual frustrations, soon find themselves in each other's arms and, after a memorable night together, Cherie is now Katrina's new stop-at-nothing-to-have-it obsession. But Katrina also has to deal with trouble back in New York: a coup and attempted takeover of her own company. She rushes back for one last victory in the board room, only to decide this isn't the life she wants anymore. She steps down to focus on her game-changing supply chain idea.

Returning to the Midwest, she discovers that Pete and Cherie have rekindled their long-term romance and, for once, Katrina accepts that she can't have everything she wants. She hires Cherie for her new company and bankrolls a promising idea of Pete's. As they settle in their new lives, the real fuckboi from 1994 finally emerges from the past and definitively closes that chapter so that Katrina can keep moving forward.

Nate Rymer

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