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THE LUCKY SPERM CLUB

THE LUCKY SPERM CLUB
By Susan Lee Hahn

GENRE: Romance, Comedy
LOGLINE:

A wealthy college kid gets kicked out of his prestigious family by his heartless father and launches the first celebrity sperm donor bank with the help of his brilliant, female African American tutor. Together they turn The Lucky Sperm Club into a global fundraising effort to fight childhood poverty, and he transforms from being a spoiled, entitled kid into a man with integrity and humanity. Only after he finds authentic compassion and empathy for mankind is he finally worthy of her love.

SYNOPSIS:

Overview: The Lucky Sperm Club is about finding one’s humanity in a materialistic culture that’s obsessed with celebrities, wealth, and status. The ability to connect on a profound level depends on becoming a deeper, more compassionate human being. The ‘sperm’ is a metaphor for the energy of new beginnings whether it’s new life or new love or a new idea of what constitutes a family. Their interracial romance and myriad of sperm donors

Synopsis: Eddie Wainwright (21) is a rebel. He comes from a ‘blue blood’ family of lawyers and politicians and longs to be a Major League pitcher. His father, Edward Senior (58) controls his life. The two never got along. In an opening scene at an animated “sperm party” (Eddie’s conception), it’s clear that Senior isn’t his biological father because an aggressive and athletic “Eddie Sperm” swims ahead of all the others in fierce competition for the egg, while his alleged father’s scrawny, unmotivated sperm naps on the couch.

Eddie reluctantly attends the family alma mater, parties up a storm, and nearly flunks out. He hires Josie Emerson (20), a brilliant, African American woman as his tutor. They become close friends. Instead of paying her in cash for the tutoring, Josie instructs him to donate large sums of his family’s money to her favorite charities. Eddie falls in love with her, but she won’t consider him romantically because he’s too spoiled.

Josie recommends a brainy Indian guy to tutor him for his LSATS, but Eddie panics and hires the guy as his proxy instead. They get busted for cheating. His father ‘fires’ him from the family and cuts him off financially. Eddie discovers unspoken secrets about his family’s past and learns some harsh truths about the ‘real’ world. Josie remains his only real friend as he embarks on life without his financial safety net.

To avoid going to jail, Eddie’s father arranges for him to get a hefty community service. Eddie spends most of his time working (and often staying) at a homeless shelter. He makes friends and hatches an outrageous plan to create the first celebrity sperm donor bank. Utilizing his connections from his previous lifestyle, Eddie secures some sought-after celebrity sperm. However, he’s still having trouble turning this idea into a lucrative business, until Josie comes on board. She adds the necessary heart and creates a fundraising component. The Lucky Sperm Club takes off. Eddie and Josie create a global fund raising event called, ‘Sperm-a-Palooza,’ a combination of worldwide music festivals and a ‘real time’ celebrity sperm auction. It’s a huge success, raises millions, and garners some pretty high-profile sperm for the company’s freezer.

Eddie finally proves that he’s worthy of her love. They finally get together and start to make love... He’s elated. She’s ovulating. She dashes to the freezer and ‘samples’ some of the celebrity sperm. The final moments of the script harken back to the opening animation with another wild sperm party going on in Josie’s womb. This time, the Eddie Sperm has some heavy-hitter celebrity sperm to compete against as he pushes and shoves the others out of the way (accompanied by voice-overs or impersonations). It all comes down to him and Stevie Wonder in a fierce competition for the egg. May the best sperm win!

Nate Rymer

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