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THE EMPTY SEA (FORMERLY THE FIX)
By David Poulshock

GENRE: Fantasy
LOGLINE:

Everyone one wants Sherman Olney for his uncanny ability to fix things. Then he fixes somebody's dead wife.

SYNOPSIS:

When a homeless drifter named Sherman hits town, the locals soon discover he has an uncanny gift for fixing things, and it’s not long before he’s repairing their chain saws, curling irons, clarinets, even their squeaky shoes. Then, a freak accident traps a little boy under a four-car pile-up that’s about to explode, and he ingeniously untangles the cars, douses the flames and saves the kid in the nick of time. As word spreads about the amazing handyman, he mysteriously moves from fixing things to fixing problems – like taxes and marriages. Then he fixes somebody’s dead wife. A media-frenzied mob descends on the town. Now the whole world wants a piece of Sherman. His final fix will surprise them all.

The screenplay is an adaptation the short story by acclaimed author Percival Everett, first published in New York Stories and Best American Short Stories 2000, and featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts.

Austin Film Festival’s Heart of the Screenplay competition; Worldfest Houston; StoryPros Int’l Screenplay Contest; Sundance Table Read My Screenplay; Slamdance Screenplay Competition, The Writers Network; IFP Emerging Narratives and others.

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