Loglines & Screenplays by Steve O'Brien

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The Penalty Box

GENRES: Family

Two teenage boys in a New York City neighborhood play roller hockey while learning about life, family and the value of friendship in the fall of 1974.


Closet full of Broken Canes

GENRES: Thriller

Desperate for a normal life of her own, a daughter does the unspeakable to help her grieving mother find companionship. 


22 MINUTES

GENRES: Sci-fi

Thomas (mid 20’s) awakens to find himself clinging to a rusty steel bar in a dark vertical tunnel. Hanging on for dear life to his ankles is another stranger and then another. It is a "human ladder" and time is running out for them all.


JUMP

GENRES: Thriller

Two adolescent boys are playing in an abandoned house when some unexpected visitors arrive. The boys, quietly hiding in the attic become trapped when the house suddenly catches fire and burns around them. They have but one choice to avoid the inevitable.


THE ARROW

GENRES: Comedy

A narrative told by a man who on his birthday accidently creates a chain reaction of multiple disasters. He suddenly awakens in the middle of town with a nasty cut on his head and no idea why. His road home is littered with fallen debris as he seeks answers from those he encounters along the way. To solve this riddle he must find his way back to the very beginning of today.


DOLLAR SIGNS

GENRES: Comedy

A bellhop wins the lottery and decides to stay at the hotel he has worked at for years. His expectations for a first class stay are shattered by a string of interruptions.


THE MARK

GENRES: Comedy

Two professionals are assigned a contract on the same "mark". Not knowing who the other is, they cross paths several times enroute to the assignment. But only one can complete the mission in time.


THE STORY OF...

GENRES: Fantasy

When bestselling author Bill Smith is in a mall for a book signing of his recent novel, there is a stranger in the crowd who goes unnoticed as he races to return a lost item that Bill has unknowingly misplaced.


THE TREE

GENRES: Fantasy

A little girl plants a tree and thousands of years later that same tree is the supplier of life and protection for the remaining inhabitants of our planet. The story follows the little girl and her brother as their ancestors also linked to The Tree.


EVE 625

GENRES: Sci-fi

Lucas and Eve find themselves on a strange beach being bombarded by egg like pods burning through the atmosphere, only it’s not a beach they have ever seen. As they wander through this new world together they see and experience magical events unfolding because of their presence.


I DREAM OF JEANNE

GENRES: Thriller

Steve (mid 50’s) is incarcerated and during a routine prison examination it is discovered that he has special abilities. Steve’s wife has been in a near fatal car accident and the prison doctor thinks Steve’s powers can save her life by using his invention called The Cube.


MY FIRST LOVE

GENRES: Family

How do we honor our mother? Pearl is pregnant with twins and love shows us that there is no barrier to how we can save those we cherish.


RUNNING THE WALL

GENRES: Thriller

Alex and his dad share a one of a kind experience while on a road trip.  Sadly, they do not have the same concept of what is happening to them both.


SHUDDER

GENRES: Horror

On her first day working in a hospital Marie literally "runs" into a handsome patient. Their feelings for each other are too strong to resist. In the heat of their passion the handsome patient goes into cardiac arrest, the events that unfold next shock everyone involved, especially Marie.


Tales of a Sinner

GENRES: Biography

THINK: Basketball Diaries MEETS Raging Bull MEETS Strawberry Fields:

This is a novel revealing the emotional, physical pains and pleasures a young man endures while growing up in New York City during the 1960’s and 1970’s. It is a first-person non-fictional account replete with emotion and stingingly blunt and humorous dialogue. The story is a timely expose of a young male who is constantly struggling internally while he literally must fight to survive life on the streets. He is unknowingly addicted to the drugs and the violence that accompanies him on his journey into adolescence. 


The Trade - written by Steve O'Brien based on the concept from my friend Alessandro De Marco

GENRES: Crime

Alex thought he had left the crime life behind him, only to find out that he has to tread back there to rescue his younger brother who desperately wants to follow in his gangland footsteps. This journey back leads to violence and a re-awaking of Alex's dark side. He finds himself now wanting only revenge.



Sons of Steve

GENRES: Comedy

Steve a father of two very resourceful sons is a brilliant inventor. The stories follow Steve as his inventions backfire and troubles ensues. Read along as Steve's two sons have to "once again" save their dad and family from danger. 


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