Loglines & Screenplays by Jim Boston

GENRES: Comedy

Seeking to usher in the new breed of rock-and-roll hitmakers, a songwriter-manager-record producer and a record-store clerk unite to start their own music-publishing company in 1959 New York City.

GENRES: Comedy

Pondering life after ballet and ex-dancer Vanessa Carlton's Grammy-nominated success, two star ballerinas in present-day Kansas City, MO seek to become blues musicians at a famous local bar and grill.

GENRES: Western, Comedy

In 1876, the death of her husband on a train trip out West forces a college-educated woman to strike out on her own at the next stop: Dodge City, KS.

GENRES: Comedy

Looking to get their musical careers out of a rut in 1939 New York City, a song plugger and a radio organist become composers...at a time of huge changes in the industry.

GENRES: Comedy, Family

Inspired by a videotape, a teenager in 1994 Davenport, IA forms her own band with the hopes of playing at the local Dixieland jamboree, the Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival.

GENRES: Comedy, Family

Seeking to break away from the mainstream, three teenage ragtime musicians in 1984 Sioux Falls, SD strive to establish their band's sound...and work to build an appreciative following.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

Determined to strengthen their bond in present-day Chicago, a theater student and her ultrafeminist younger sister become a duo-piano lounge act...that Big Sister's singing ex-boyfriend schemes to horn in on.

GENRES: Comedy

Two modern-day University of Minnesota-Twin Cities students start their own sorority in order to reach out to other female UMN-Twin Cities students tired of being marginalized.

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

In 1946 Albuquerque, two preteen girls decide to take up flying...surprising their father, a World War 2 Army Air Corps pilot struggling to readjust to civilian life, where female aviators still aren't respected.

GENRES: Comedy, Family

Inspired by a piece of 1910s sheet music, a modern-day Omaha, NE teenager wants to honor and emulate the tune's author: Her newly-deceased great-grandmother, a ragtime-era composer-musician-bandleader-arranger.

GENRES: Comedy, Family

It's Sunday, February 9, 1964...when the Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show inspires a Sioux City, IA teenager to start her own rock group and show that girls can play the music, too.

GENRES: Comedy, Drama

It's the summer of 1942, and a Los Angeles teenager starts her own swing band in the hopes of entering it in the first annual National Swing Contest.

GENRES: Comedy

Seeking coveted hands-on instructional experience, and to convert prostitutes, a modern-day music-education student at California State University, Long Beach teaches melodies to the hookers working at a Los Angeles massage parlor.

GENRES: Comedy

Tired of being out of showbiz, two child TV stars of the 1970s ride the late-1980s swing revival by forming their own big band in hopes of playing a respected Los Angeles jazz club.

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

Inspired by radio's The Hour of Charm and eager to repay a colorful mentor, an elementary school teacher in 1935 Lincoln, NE sets out to establish and conduct a women's symphony orchestra.

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

A single juror's painstaking caution forces her otherwise-preoccupied, totally-entrenched colleagues to carefully consider the evidence for a highly-informed decision in a murder trial in modern-day Charlotte, NC.

GENRES: Sports, Comedy

An Arizona Cardinals cheerleader, a frustrated musician following in her late granddad's famous footsteps, seeks to save a landmark restaurant in contemporary Mesa, AZ from becoming the area's new Department of Homeland Security headquarters.

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

Driven by her unbroken adventurous spirit, a former slave uses her life's savings to buy an old steamboat and book passengers for tours down the Mississippi River in 1865 Davenport, IA.

GENRES: Comedy, Crime

Two siblings struggling as vendors in 1930 Cleveland seek to better their lives...but while one woman, a bashful sort, decides to enter music, her domineering sister chooses a life of crime.

GENRES: Family, Comedy

A talented, inventive collegian in search of a vaudeville career in 1924 Detroit squares off against her adopting aunt...a jealous, cutthroat theatrical agent grooming her own three showbiz-minded daughters.

GENRES: Comedy

Annoyed with the demands of their present jobs in modern-day St. Louis, a food server and her best buddy, an office worker, seek to follow in their grandmothers' footsteps...as truckers.

GENRES: Comedy, Drama

Thanks to a phone call from a fellow former Iowa State University student, a librarian in modern-day Ames, IA looks to put her old rock band back together...and conquer a legendary local venue.

GENRES: Comedy

An inept comic magician playing Seattle in 1917 seeks to turn her career around by landing herself a partner...a beloved theater organist-piano teacher who's fascinated with vaudeville.

GENRES: Comedy

A math teacher at an all-girls' high school in present-day Omaha, NE seeks to fill a void in her school's activities by forming its first jazz band.

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

Angry over years of racist slights, four neighboring families in present-day San Diego entice the perpetrators into a sensitivity-training weekend...and hope to teach them about the value of unity.

GENRES: Comedy

A psychology major and a film buff put their University of Oklahoma sorority on the line in an effort to determine if "Animal House" antics fly in today's campus climate.

GENRES: Comedy

In contemporary Sacramento, a retirement consultant and a realtor take their cooking hobby to the next level by opening a pizza parlor...despite knowing nothing about running a restaurant or the industry's ups and downs.

GENRES: Family, Comedy

Looking to get people in her community to interact with each other, a modern-day Las Vegas teenager seeks to bring those colorfully-painted outdoor pianos to Sin City...America's last major holdout municipality.

GENRES: Comedy

Swamped with more vehicles than time to fix them, the three mechanics at an auto-repair firm in modern-day New Orleans cajole their boss into hiring an extra coworker to lighten the load.