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UNBROTHERLY LOVE

UNBROTHERLY LOVE
By Nick Abdo

GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE:

Twin twenty-year-old brothers are tasked to transport a half-million-dollar car across Europe.  Can incompetent brothers that despise each other get along well enough to deliver the vehicle in one piece?

SYNOPSIS:

The story opens at Vienna International Airport where HUNTER HAMILTON, a twenty-year-old carefree wannabe musician, emerges from Customs for the start of a “ten-day holiday” with his father, ROD.

It is quickly revealed that they will be joined by Hunter’s twin brother.

JAYDEN HAMILTON, an extremely intelligent neurotic, suffers from anxiety and OCD. While greeted by his dad, he is accosted by many passengers whose flight he disrupted.

At the parking lot, the boys are dazzled by a sparkling new pearl-white Bentley Continental GTC Convertible that they will transport from Vienna to Liverpool to ship to the U.S. as a surprise for their mother's fiftieth birthday.

Bodychecking each other to take ‘shotgun’, their natural feuding is highlighted in a flashback to the womb, where the two fetuses spar to be the first one out of the birth canal.

At the hotel, they discover there are only two beds, so the brothers would have to share one. While Jayden is sprawled out on the bed napping, his mouth open and breathing loudly, a memory of when toddler Jayden, hooked up to a CPAAP machine is doted over by his parents. Making Hunter feel left out.

When Rod is called back to the States on the first day, the boys convince him to let them take the car instead of hiring a transport company. He reluctantly agrees, when they promise to be extremely careful and abide by his rules. They will be rewarded handsomely if they deliver the car unscathed. If not, they can say goodbye to their inheritance.

Hunter desperately needs the money to avoid eviction for non-payment of rent. More importantly, he is determined to succeed and prove that he is not the "screw-up" that his father takes him to be.

That night, Jayden returns to the hotel room to discover Hunter in the room with a woman. He refuses to leave until Hunter repulses him by licking chocolate from his date’s armpit; and offering the other pit to Jayden.

The next day, Jayden walks up to the Vienna Haus Der Music Museum to find Hunter selling their father’s ticket. When confronted about scalping, Hunter assures him it was sold for face value. Jayden then insists on his half for the sale. Hunter puts the cash down his pants, rubs it on his crotch, and offers it to Jayden, who is repulsed.

Inside the House of Music, Hunter gets into a physical altercation with CHRISTOPHÉ, a twelve-year-old German boy. In the process, Christophé absconds with Hunter's cell phone.

About to embark on the journey, Jayden freezes behind the wheel sparking a flashback of the twins learning to drive. After an argument with his brother, en panicked and almost hit a car.

Settling into their room at the Salzburg Hotel, they try to order room service, but can't figure out how to use a vintage rotary dial telephone. Fighting over the instrument triggers a flashback to the tween brothers fighting over a video game controller. Jayden feigns not being able to breathe, causing Hunter to be punished.

At the “Sound of Music" Gazebo attraction, Hunter spots Christophé and attempts to retrieve his phone. In the process, he crashes into the gazebo, causing it to collapse domino-style. He is promptly thrown into jail.

Jayden doesn’t want to bail him out but does because Hunter has the car key. They use their dad’s credit card to post the bond and pay for the reconstruction of the gazebo.

Stopping at a roadside pizzeria, the boys encounter a stranded young woman, ANALISE, heading west. They offer her a ride.

On route, Analise gets them to open up about their past and labels Hunter the Alpha.

At the hotel, shy Jayden, who can’t hide his crush on Analise, invites her to join them for dinner that evening. Analise talks about her past and gets to know Jayden.

While trying to impress Analise, Jayden gets drunk and passes out. Hunter offers Jayden’s bed to Analise by tossing Jayden on the sofa.

Participating in a sculpture workshop at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Hunter confronts Christophé, sparking a clay fight, which results in a pedestaled statue being knocked over, causing a chain reaction of several more to fall in succession.

That night, when Analise returns, Jayden has trouble avoiding lusting after her as she changes clothes.

The next morning, Hunter discovers his money missing. Jayden insists he didn’t take it. Hunter then accuses Analise.

Before heading to London, Analise convinces the boys to stop at a beach. Upon arrival, they discover it is a nudist beach. Hunter eagerly disrobes, but Jayden hesitates. Through a flashback, he remembers an incident from their teenage years when Hunter and his friends stole Jayden's clothes while they were skinny-dipping. Leaving Jayden to get home in the buff.

Returning to the car, they discover that a hit-and-run vehicle ripped off the Bentley’s side mirror. When Rod calls asking about the car, they avoid telling him about the mishap. Even though he could hear the banging of the mirror tied to the door with a pair of boxers.

When Rod tells them about the Channel Tunnel (the underwater tunnel between the UK and France), Jayden has a catatonic panic attack.

Arriving in London, the boys say goodbye to Analise before dinner in an elegant restaurant. Small talk turns into a full-blown fight as they discuss problems in their past.

Having overstepped the limits of friendly warfare, Jayden tries to apologize to his brother. The reasons for their animosity towards each other are laid out. Hunter talks about always feeling that he could never live up to Rod’s standards. And that’s why Rod loves Jayden and not him. Jayden assures him that he is mistaken.

Jayden gets Hunter to talk about his attempted suicide when he was a teenager, which left the scar on his temple.

Sightseeing in London, the boys go to Buckingham Palace to watch the ‘Changing of the Guards’. Hunter witnesses Christophé sling-shooting frozen peas at the guards. Attempting to retrieve his phone, the peas spill, causing the guards to stumble and topple over one another like a line of dominoes.

Driving to Liverpool, the boys get stuck behind a Tourist Bus. When the cleanout for the bus’s toilet breaks free, the poop engulfs the top-down Bentley and the boys.

They are forced to bathe in a drive-thru car wash with the top down.

As they arrive at the port with the car in one piece, Jayden side-swipes a pillar.

Rod shows up before they can load the car on the ship. He reveals that the trip wasn’t about the car. It was about getting the sons to learn to be a team.

Rod lets them know that Analise was an actor he hired to spy on them. Christophé, Analise’s brother, got carried away as a method actor.

Rod races the Bentley up the ramp of the ship and rear-ends a car.

At the airport lounge, Hunter asks for his money. Rod says that he paid Hunter’s past-due rent. Hunter, feeling like a failure, gets the courage to confront his father about not being able to live up to Rod’s expectations. They have a heart-felt conversation with Rod assuring Hunter that he doesn’t see him the way Hunter thinks.

Before boarding the plane, Hunter and Jayden look at Jayden’s YouTube channel highlighting Hunter’s fights with Christophé. The “view counter” rapidly spins upward displaying the monetization. Hunter insists on his share of the money. Jayden puts cash down his pants and rubs it on his crotch and offers it to Hunter. Hunter gladly takes it, repulsing Jayden.

UNBROTHERLY LOVE

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