When a college professor loses her job, the last thing she expects is to end up as a rock and roll groupie after she is hired to persuade a “retired from show business FOREVER” ex-musician to get his old  rock band back together for one last gig. Problem is, most of them still hate his guts… Especially the girl he left behind. 

Winning screenplay at Academy Award qualifying film festival.

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“The Jack-O-Lanterns” was a winning screenplay at the Nashville Film Festival (One of the few Academy Award qualifying film festivals. Out of 7,000 film festivals worldwide, only 63 have Oscar-qualifying accreditation).

The last thing 50-something PhD Maggie Withers expected at her age was to get a job as a “rock and roll groupie”. But that’s just what happens when she is hired to reunite a classic rock band for one last gig. First, though, she has to convince its former songwriter/lead singer Jack Bunhill to take the stage one last time. Something he has sworn to never do again. Then, she has to find his old mates and also find a way to soothe their still seething antagonism toward Jack. And lastly, she must find a way to get Alex to meet with his old flame Laura – the girl who burned him years ago (and who also happens to be the one who secretly hired Maggie to get the group back together, for her own nefarious purposes).