Loglines & Screenplays by Elise Marenson

GENRES: Thriller, Crime

A New York pulp fiction writer discovers his mother's Navajo heritage when he and a young, paraplegic Navajo man bust human traffickers illegally settled on the Navajo reservation.

GENRES: Thriller

A happily married woman’s perfect life turns into a nightmare when her grifter husband leaves her broke and hires an assassin to kill her. A woman-in-peril MOW script. OPTIONED.

GENRES: Mystery, Crime

After a string of female deaths that were ruled accidents, a sheriff and his teen daughter hunt a killer in their sleepy forest village. Set in present day.

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

A late bloomer in working class Brooklyn kidnaps a hot personal trainer to be her boyfriend.

GENRES: Crime, Drama

Elena Montoya, a sexy, fearless Texas born Mexican-American, investigates social justice cases for a liberal lawyer in her conservative Texas town, despite the prejudice she faces.

GENRES: Romance

When a San Diego zookeeper brings her precious giant tortoise to a South Pacific island where tortoises face extinction, she falls in love with the island’s passionate marine biologist.

GENRES: Independent, Drama

A sheltered young woman tries to make a new life taking care of two eccentric, reclusive brothers and discovers her passionate true self with their hot nephew. 

GENRES: Comedy

Five swindlers, posing as self-help healers, make piles of money conning neurotic suckers into buying their formula for how to get rich.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

A struggling chorus dancer has a hard time accepting the unfamiliar newness of good luck when a lovely rich man out of her league falls in love with her.  

GENRES: Romance, Family

A young mom with two kids reluctantly moves to a crumbling old inn up north with no internet, a grouchy old caretaker and eccentric old staff, when her boss tasks her with its renovation. But they find mystery, new friends, and a romance for mom.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

A young music publicist falls hard for a bad boy rock singer while a sweet, corny guy she mistakes for a beach bum tries to win her heart.

GENRES: Romance, Drama

An idealistic NY lawyer falls in love with her legal opponent, the developer whose plan for a hotel marina in her Maine hometown will destroy her family's fishing livelihood.

GENRES: Romance

A professional chef who hasn’t attended church in years discovers her faith when an unlikely romance blossoms between her and her hometown’s new pastor.