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SELFIE INCRIMINATION
By Sally Ann Marks

GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE:

Former sorority sisters prank selfies of themselves over fake headstones of their exes and post it on social media. When the exes are killed the two women are framed for the murders and must flee their privileged lifestyles and hunt for the real assassin or spend the rest of their lives in prison.

SYNOPSIS:

Penny Fitzgerald and Diane Perry broke a truckload of hearts in their sorority days. Decades have passed but the two friends continue their careless disregard of other’s feelings. Money, beauty (albeit faded) and status have shielded them against their social “crimes” and reckless escapades, but when the two prank selfies of themselves over headstones of their exes and post it on social media as a Halloween caper, the tables turn. Their exes are found murdered and the two women are prime suspects.

Unfortunately the trail of broken hearts the women have left behind include the judge, the district attorney, and nearly all potential jurors (jilted lovers and vengeful wives) in their small town. Penny receives a friendly tip from a potential suitor that the DA is out to get them. He recommends the pair flee until the true killer can be found.

Quickly the women discover that all the money in the world won’t protect them. They are alone.

To make matters worse, while on the lam they discover their access to their bank accounts has been frozen. With no family, no friends and no money, they turn to the only person who can help them. - Lenore Bunkle. Now living in a run-down trailer court in Apache Junction, Arizona, Lenore had been Penny’s and Diane’s sorority project years ago. Lenore was an underprivileged girl and Penny and Diane became her “Big Sisters”. While Penny and Diane only took on the project as part of their mandated volunteer service, they came to care for the girl (now a woman) and have stayed in touch via holiday and birthday cards.

Lenore harbors her former mentors in her small trailer, but they must hide their affluent looks with shabby clothes, prosthetic noses and ugly shoes (oh no!) The only money they earn must come from cash-only jobs such as cleaning houses, scrubbing toilets and walking wayward dogs. The women sell their jewelry to hire a private detective to find the true killer.

Progress is slow.

Penny and Diane find their lives mirror those of undocumented immigrants and face similar challenges when they need to go to a doctor, travel around town on a borrowed, rickety bike, or even shop for groceries. Desperate for solutions, Lenore sets up a meeting with the local psychic, Madame Sheila. Her counsel is the women must perform a multitude of good deeds as retribution for their past crimes against humanity. The downside is possible detection.

While performing their “penance” the women slowly show true remorse, but time is running out. The killer learns of their whereabouts and is now after them. It’s a race against time to atone for their “sins”, avoid detection, find allies, and capture the true killer.

“Selfie Incrimination” is a fun romp that explores aging, social injustice, friendship, love and finding out the true meaning of life. But the lessons are disguised between belly laughs of what happens when a Halloween practical joke goes too far.

Marcos Fizzotti

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