Loglines & Screenplays by Tom Stohlgren

GENRES: Sci-fi, Adventure

When a young woman leading an ice-climbing trip with a new boyfriend and three strangers receives a futuristic Super-Smartphone from her older self, she’s compelled to solve three robberies, lead a daring escape, and stop a raging killer.

GENRES: Family, Drama

When 12-year-old Betty peacefully protests her older brother joining the military, a social media “influencer” makes matters worse with her family, friends, school, and church until Betty is forced to become her own advocate and influencer.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

When a widow invites her busy grown children and their mates to a remote cabin without phone and Wi-Fi service, they must connect with each other and strange landlords to salvage Christmas.

GENRES: Thriller

When three women seek revenge on university classmates who victimized them with a deepfake video, they become targets of a deepfake kingpin in Hollywood and his mobster boss in Russia.

GENRES: Thriller, Crime

When the RV of the previous owner of a winery explodes in the driveway and a future co-owner is found dead on the patio, a fiery actress takes control of the case from a distracted deputy sheriff before anyone else dies at their Christmas gathering.

GENRES: Family, Adventure

When a wickedly playful teen hijacks her family’s holiday plans from the snowy northeast to the beaches of Belize, she must gain the trust of her younger brother, a teen orphan, and an elderly naturalist to trap dangerous con men and rescue stolen Mayan treasures.

GENRES: Thriller, Mystery

When the widow of a best-selling mystery writer inherits an unfinished novel, competing writers will kill to get their hands on the work potentially worth millions.

GENRES: Mystery, Film-noir

When con artists produce a reality TV show with an estate sale theme, three duped actors soon face charges of grand theft and murder, until the cons get stung at their own game.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

When a kindly American male and an ambitious female Secret Service Agent assist a pregnant illegal immigrant at Christmastime, they all become targets of a wronged and vengeful cartel kingpin.

GENRES: Thriller, Crime

When a history professor needs one great field study to be promoted, she attempts to solve a 90-year-old murder mystery and beat deranged killers to a treasure of buried gold coins.

GENRES: Thriller, Adventure

TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE: When a strict tour guide and her friend sign on to protect and entertain five wealthy teenagers over spring break in Belize, they learn that “it takes a village” to outwit three devious young Pirates.

GENRES: Crime, Comedy

After a philandering RV park owner is found seriously injured, his conniving wife must fend off a relentless Deputy, her ruthless extended family of bird enthusiasts, and a cadre of potential murderers.

GENRES: Mystery, Comedy

When pretentious staff and patrons of a trendy speakeasy start dropping like barflies, an unsympathetic detective must solve the cases before a devious serial killer gives new meaning to “last call.”

GENRES: Mystery, Comedy

When the daughter of a long-hidden couple in the Witness Protection Program vanishes, a young U.S. Marshal must find and protect the girl’s parents before the recently released criminal they testified against kills them.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

The owner's daughter at a Bed and Breakfast tries to solve the non-lethal assaults on her guests over Christmas using her Criminology education before the attacker improves and kills one of them. [Coverage: "Recommended"  Top 2% of Comedy scripts] UNDER EXCLUSIVE SHOPPING AGREEMENT, NO LONGER AVAILABLE]

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

When a brilliant but homeless female veteran snags a temporary job as a middle school art teacher, she must overcome her personal shortcomings to inspire six wildly indifferent students.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy, Drama

When a young Middle-Eastern doctor reneges on her arranged marriage and escapes to a Colorado ski town over Christmas break, she must battle prejudice, and find friendships and love over the Holidays, or her displeased parents will coax her back home.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Horror

Three teens enter and must navigate a high-tech Corn Maze on Halloween with deceptive Virtual Reality “Spirit Guides” linked to a demonic Artificial Intelligence computer with the power to scare them to death. UNDER EXCLUSIVE SHOPPING AGREEMENT, NO LONGER AVAILABLE]

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

It's "Yellowstone" meets "The Office." A wealthy rancher’s younger brother is sent to develop management skills for five years by running a homeowners association and living among the diverse inhabitants of an upscale suburban neighborhood. If he succeeds, he’ll be given half of the family’s enormous ranch.

GENRES: Thriller, Action

When an American detective on holiday in Samothrace, Greece, meets an unorthodox archaeologist excavating an ancient double-murder scene, she must help him solve the case before they both fall prey to a mysterious cult.

GENRES: Family, Crime

When three 16-year-old troublemakers are assigned work-study assignments over Christmas Break, they unknowingly moonlight for an elusive porch pirate who could ruin the holidays for an entire ski town.

GENRES: Thriller, Drama

When four members of a high school computer club create an online pay-to-play contest paid with cryptocurrency, they get rich quick but become targets of law enforcement agencies, shysters, hackers, thugs, and murderers.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

Childhood friends, a waitress/writer in a historic hotel, and a bookworm history professor can’t reconnect over the Christmas holidays without a little help from Mark Twain’s ghost in Virginia City, Nevada.

GENRES: Biography

When a young man applies as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam war, he must battle the country he loves; bear scorn from his family, friends, and fiancée; and face a five-year prison term.

GENRES: Thriller, Crime

When a competent transgender detective returns to her struggling religious college, she must battle painful memories, her old hardline Reverend, and the secrets and lies of six devilish suspects to solve the murder of the prominent basketball coach.

GENRES: Thriller, Mystery

When rumors of a hidden bar of gold derange a property manager and three wealthy couples renting a snowbound lake house, an inexperienced sheriff’s deputy is sent to recover two bodies before he becomes the third one.

GENRES: Action, Adventure

A young Latina professor on the run seeks to loosen the fatal stranglehold the mega-drought has inflicted on the desperate inhabitants of California.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Thriller

When a wealthy dermatologist down on her luck is left to help human clones battle facial rashes, she must choose between the Hippocratic Oath to save "human" lives or to rid the world of human clones. 

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

When a successful single mom and her daughter escape to a small town for the holidays, they find two less-successful brothers too busy playing Romeo to save their family’s failing diner.

GENRES: Action, Comedy

When two FBI agent trainees are fitted with cochlear implants linked via high-tech eyeglasses to supercomputers, they become super-skilled operatives, but they also become targets of two foreign terrorists they are sent to eliminate in a mountain town. 

GENRES: Mystery, Crime

When a simple but loveable young priest’s vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience are threatened by a dangerous inheritance from a 17^th-century philosopher and three strong-minded women, bodies start piling up on the church steps.

GENRES: Western, Thriller

When neighbors descend like vultures after a rancher is found dead, his immigrant wife proves that a woman alone isn’t a target; she’s a threat!

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

Long after her mother is killed in a car accident, a withdrawn third-grader must come out of her shell before her school Christmas break or her father may never find love again.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

When a modern-day pirate history tour guide’s catamaran collides into Blackbeard’s ghost ship, he must defeat his nemesis Calico Jack, and find true love and a treasure as a pirate in 1717, or he can never return to the present.

GENRES: Thriller, Film-noir

When a 12-year-old trust fund child learns of her surgically enhanced intelligence, she must punish those who exploited her before her IQ returns to normal and her first love seizes her trust fund. Optioned, No longer available.

GENRES: Comedy

When an out-of-work comedian lands a job at a struggling funeral parlor, her lively practices make fast money, but could forever change the way our society deals with death.

GENRES: Mystery, Thriller

When three of five personal assistants for billionaires are found dead under suspicious circumstances at a Yucatan island resort, the smartest remaining suspect must rely on her incredible resourcefulness to survive the full moon. 

GENRES: Comedy, Family

It's Christmas Break, but when a judge orders a bickering family to three-weeks of lockdown in a two-hundred-square-foot "tiny house" in a forest, they must find a new lease on life, love, and Christmas to survive. [Optioned 04/13/23; no longer available.]

GENRES: Action, Drama

Shy professor and beautiful Native American activist face deadly opposition to reclaim a third of Colorado and the Black Hills of South Dakota for Native Americans. (Six 1-hr episodes ready to film)

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

When St. Peter takes a day off at the Gates of Heaven, a pair of thirty-year-old “Almost-Deads” must do a great job filling in or face an eternity in Hell.

GENRES: Adventure, Animation

When a novice musher enters the Iditarod, she must rely on her easily distracted but highly enthusiastic rescue puppy, Bravo, to battle the elements in the most treacherous sled-dog race in Alaska for the greatest reward in the world: friendship. 

GENRES: Thriller, Crime

A diamond courier’s heist goes awry when her jet carrying six vacationing singles to the Caymans gets diverted to an isolated airfield in Canada, leaving the passengers to battle thieves and murderers before escaping. [Optioned 10/04/21; no longer available] 

GENRES: Action, Thriller

When a mountain town experiences a vicious murder, a likable Sheriff must rely on a smart Trainee and her anti-gun stance to help catch a killer and prevent a mass shooting.

GENRES: Drama

When a homeless female veteran snags a temporary job as a middle school art teacher, she must overcome her own personal shortcomings to inspire six wildly indifferent students.

GENRES: Action, Drama

Australia is burning, and a young mixed-race professor on the run seeks to loosen the fatal stranglehold the mega-drought has inflicted on the desperate inhabitants of New South Wales. [60-min TV Drama; Ask for the Series Bible]

GENRES: Comedy, Biography

In the span of eight hilarious days in 1964, a young Catholic schoolboy rebels against authority, begins to ask tough questions, and comes of age, thanks to his four, wildly ill-behaved brothers.  [Ask for the 5-pg Look Book and camera-ready script]

GENRES: Biography, Comedy

After nearly 50 years, a man recounts an impulsive decision to hop a freight train with three friends in their late teens going nowhere. What would you tell your younger self?

GENRES: Horror, Comedy

When a crazed waitress seeks revenge on Stoners who failed to tip adequately for many years, an inexperienced Police Officer must step up his detective skills before more innocent citizens fall prey to the Slash and Burn Serial Killer.  [In partnership with Emerald Pyramid Pictures; Matt Sly and Warren L. Madden]

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

When a Texas-trained Chinese doctor gets cold feet about her upcoming marriage in China and escapes to a Colorado ski town over Christmas break, she must weigh the disapproval of her parents against a new nonconformist love and the acceptance she gains from an irreverent group of snowboarders and townsfolk. 

GENRES: Thriller, Drama

When thoughts and prayers aren't enough, a Joan of Arc-like teen and her fellow school mass-shooting survivors kidnap a judge, lawyer, and teacher to prevent the next mass shooting and protect a nation from itself.

GENRES: Horror, Comedy

When four college students open a discount drive-thru crematorium, they make fast friends with a cross-dressing hitman, but overnight enemies of the viciously angry "newly cremated" spirits.

GENRES: Thriller

When a genius 15-year-old girl near Salem, Massachusetts, is recruited by a manipulative female scientist from a genetics laboratory, claims of witchcraft lead to the last witch trial in America where only one of them will survive.

GENRES: Thriller, Biography

Inspired by a true story: When two con-artists ask a prostitute to impersonate a goddess to help scam an entire Mexican village, they find more evil incarnate, torture, and human sacrifices than they, or the villagers, ever bargained for.

GENRES: Thriller, Crime

When an elusive serial bomber abducts a statistics professor to force her help, she must devise a solution to stop him before his next attack at her daughter’s school.

GENRES: Horror, Comedy

When four college students open a discount drive-thru crematorium, they make fast friends with a hitman, but overnight enemies of the angry newly cremated. [We have a 6-page Bible and Pilot script ready to send you.]

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

When a stay-at-home 23-year-old is conned into tracing her family’s ancestral roots (tubers) in Ireland, she must overcome her father’s horrible travel tips and survive a sarcastic, unemployed Irishman to find true love and her grandpa’s buried treasure.

GENRES: Family

When a bickering Chinese boy and his sister discover bedtime storybooks in their home are disappearing, they're forced to confront a mean, old junkyard owner, or no one in their school will hear a bedtime story ever again.

GENRES: Drama

When a stray bullet from senseless gun violence claims the life of a ten-year-old storyteller, her Irish-American mom must fulfill her daughter’s dying wish to have her ashes spread on a ‘fairy tree’ in Ireland, or the mom will never find closure, and the daughter’s stories will be forgotten forever. [In Feature and MOW formats]

GENRES: Mystery, Crime

When a bride is poisoned on her wedding night at her parents’ exclusive winery, a beautiful sommelier-in-training sniffs out the killer before the sheriff arrests the innocent groom or other deserving guests. [Produced, award-winning film, distributed by Vision Films, available on most streaming outlets VOD]

GENRES: Family

A troubled, colorblind little girl makes a Santa Chair that grants wishes for others to save her mom’s tiny mountain town café from closing before Christmas. [Optioned 04/19/23; no longer available. In Post-Production]

GENRES: Sci-fi, Thriller

When a Hollywood dermatologist down on her luck is left to help human clones battle facial rashes, she must choose between the Hippocratic Oath to save lives, or to save the world. 

GENRES: Comedy, Drama

If the high school graduates voted “Least Popular Girl” and “Least Likely to Succeed Boy” don’t complete an ill-fated, less-than-epic road trip across Colorado, they may be defined forever by what others think of them. [Also written as a micro-budget one-hour TV Pilot]

GENRES: Thriller, Horror

When six wildly different fourteen-year-olds are the only ones in their class brave enough to camp-out on Halloween night in a cemetery, the spirits from the Potter’s Field and murderous thugs change their lives forever.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Thriller

When a beautiful Syrian widow brings charges of murder against a defense contractor’s Drone operator and software engineer, the armed, monster-like Drone begins to take matters into his own artificial-intelligence controls.

GENRES: Mystery, Crime, Drama

When the town historian is shot, and a priceless gold nugget is reported missing after 130 years, a young, unconventional county sheriff must survive a hornet’s nest of liars, thieves, and murderers to solve the crimes. [Written in Feature-length (or MOW), and one-hour TV Pilot formats]

GENRES: Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime

When the young widow of an old billionaire holds a séance for those named in the will, the inheritors are being scared to death one at a time based on their gullibility, until a skeptical country sheriff sees through the four attempted murders. [All in one room, on one night, with only six actors]

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

When a no-nonsense Latina immigrant is hired by three unmarried milkmen in Tahoe City, California, she must turn around a dysfunctional business, before her immature love interest grows up and commits to marriage to prevent her deportation.

GENRES: Action, Adventure, Drama

When a young Nigerian woman gets a temporary work visa in the U.S. for a better life, she finds slave-like labor conditions and a ring of human-traffickers, leading her to escape home to exact revenge. [In partnership with Arthur O. Thomas, Main Man Films, LLC.]

GENRES: Thriller, Horror

When a history major takes her boyfriend to Ireland on spring break to trace her genetic roots, she thinks the Cóiste Bodhar (Death Coach) may be coming for her at a long-cursed Bed and Breakfast.

GENRES: Biography, Drama

When a young conniving journalist trespasses to interview a multi-millionaire recluse at his Lake Tahoe fortress, she is shot, imprisoned, and unwaveringly determined to get her story, before one of them dies. This is a fictional “exit interview” with a real-life Lake Tahoe multi-millionaire George Whittell Jr., 86 years old in 1968.

GENRES: Action, Adventure

When a beautiful Chinese factory worker retraces her great-grandmother’s footsteps in America, she risks her job and her life to recover her family’s treasure, and bring a century-old massacre of 28 Chinese laborers into a modern perspective.

[In partnership with Arthur O. Thomas, Main Man Films, LLC.]

GENRES: Action, Adventure

When vile human-trafficking kingpins run amuck around the globe, an elite, but troubled, team of ex-military operatives must rescue the victims before it’s too late.

GENRES: Action, Adventure

When Nazi and Japanese spies plan to dive on a shipwreck off Ocean City, New Jersey in 1941, history professor Luke Stone is saddled with a strong-willed female rookie agent to prevent stolen Chinese treasures from falling into the wrong hands, again!

GENRES: Thriller, Horror

When a woolly mammoth dig on a small Scottish island with a violent past is interrupted by crazed snipers, a determined female paleontologist must find a way to stop them before her entire team is killed.

GENRES: Mystery, Thriller

When B-list movie actress, Dani Diego, witnesses a suicide in Cabo San Lucas, she attracts the attention of two local detectives, a handsome investigative reporter, and a crime boss named Bone Crusher, all leading to huge rewards for Ms. Diego if she can survive one more night.

GENRES: Mystery, Comedy

When world-famous mystery novelist, Jezebel Fetchim is found dead at the Crabby Cove Seniors Home, an inner-city detective must deal with seven retired hobbyist detectives to solve the case and prevent a serial killer from going free.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

When a new online matchmaking site linked to a mountain campground looks like a scam, an inner-city public defender in a pre-mid-life crisis must learn to camp and expose the truth, or live a life without love.

GENRES: Family

When bickering twins, Alec and Brenda, discover bedtime storybooks throughout their neighborhood are disappearing, they're forced to confront a mean, old junkyard owner, or no one in third grade will hear a bedtime story ever again.

GENRES: Mystery, Crime

When unscrupulous crime scene investigators from around the country convene in a casino in Colorado, it’s up to small-town Sheriff Ellie May Lyons to solve a mysterious murder.

GENRES: Action, Sports, Thriller

When famous sports heroes around the world die prematurely, it's up to a feisty Latina sports reporter to expose the unscrupulous doctors and a wealthy sports agent who are determined to stop her.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

A long-married woman finally falls in love with her husband on one hilarious night, with the help of uninvited guests, imaginary friends, a memory drug, drama therapy, a jewel thief, and indigestion.

GENRES: Drama

When a likable binge-drinking high school science teacher is sentenced by his wife to a strict Catholic rehab center, he must rebel against authority and religion to find his "off switch” and return to his family.

GENRES: Action, Adventure

Shy professor and beautiful Native American activist race a deadly corporation to find an old Indian treaty that may give a third of Colorado back to Native Americans. [Part 1 of a film trilogy or TV mini-series]

GENRES: Action, Adventure

When heavily armed, ultra-patriotic Americans try to take back a new Indian Reservation, it's up to a gritty Cheyenne chief and her resourceful professor husband to defeat them. [Part 2 of a film trilogy or TV mini-series]

GENRES: Action, Adventure

Beautiful Cheyenne chief and shy professor husband are besieged by angry Tea-Party-like militias fueled by anti-Indian sentiments, culminating in a modern cowboys versus Indians battle for the sacred land. [Part 3 of a film trilogy or TV mini-series]