Loglines & Screenplays by Dar Curcio-Elsbury

GENRES: Drama, Historical

Blindsided by her medic daughter's death in Iraq, a disabled retiree struggles to keep custody of her orphaned granddaughter when Veteran Affairs denies her death benefits promised to her. Dismissed and soon forgotten, Grandma fights the system and changes the law.  (Based on a true story, have rights).

GENRES: Comedy, Crime

Two cops begrudgingly go undercover in drag to bust a transvestite gang that steals and fences haute couture to raise cash for LGBTQ suicide prevention. But, will they be the laughing stock of the police force first? (Inspired by true events.)

GENRES: Comedy

A TV sitcom series set in the 1990s.  An ensemble of asset-driven, corporate climbing Chicago brokerage "Friends" decompress from stressful market highs, lows, even crashes, with pranks, comic office antics, and happy hours, all shared by the indispensable estate and retirement planner, Desiree Drummer. 

GENRES: Family, Romance, Sports

 When a rookie stock trader discovers she's sole heir to her dad's secret swan song, a racehorse in training, she must choose between honoring the living parent...or the dearly departed.

GENRES: Drama, Family

A corporate climber's cerebral virus is misdiagnosed, wrongly medicated.  He plummets into a coma that only a family bedside vigil lures him back from the brink of death, clinically blind yet seeing them more clearly than ever. (Based on a true story for which I have rights).