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PRICEY GARBAGE

PRICEY GARBAGE
By Hatem Manea

GENRE: Comedy, Drama
LOGLINE: When a young writer finally gets his first screenplay finished- moments later realizing it’s already airing on Television

SYNOPSIS:

Thomson finishes his script “Pricey Garbage” , he gets out of his room to tell his parents about it and that he is finally gonna find a producer to achieve his dream. They are sitting in the lounge and feel happy about the new scenario but suddenly a trailer shows up on the TV for a new movie “Pricey Garbage”, they get shocked. Thomson got disappointed but at the end they decided to watch the movie. The movie begins when two robbers John and Brian steal a diamond necklace. The police come and surround them in a housing complex where there is nothing but trash cans. The cop searches their car but doesn’t find anything where Brian has put the necklace on some cat’s neck. Now they have to find that cat, they face a lot of challenges where that place is under the control of a gang of drug dealers. And that cat belonged to Jack, the leader of that gang. They try to make funny ploys to get that cat from Jack. John and Brian separated when Brian decides to return the necklace to Molly -daughter of the owner of the jewelry store - after he falls in love with her. John and Brian compete for the necklace. The necklace falls from the cat’s neck into one of the trash bags. Brian and John run after the garbage truck. The foreman wonders why they are fighting for a trash bag, so he decides to take that bag. But, they offer him a lot of money for that trash bag. The foreman and the rest of the workers were surprised and started to mock them. At the end, John has more money than Brain, so he takes that bag. But something happened later. The movie ends and Thomson gets shocked, the story of the movie was very close to the story in his script. There are just some changes in the names of the main characters but all the rest are the same. Thomson suspects Ben because he’s the only friend who knows about the script. Thomson goes to Ben and punches him but then it seems that Ben wasn’t responsible for that. They search on IMDB to know who the author is. They were shocked when they saw that Thomson is the author. They went to the production company where the company welcomed Thomson and gave him a lot of money because of the success of his movie. Thomson can’t sleep, he wants to know how did all that happen, who is the person who edited his story and made it more exciting. Thomson tries very hard to find that man who made edits without putting his own name. Eventually, John discovers that man, it’s John, that old man who collects garbage everyday and the story that he edits is a real story that happened from 30 years ago with his friend Brian who’s now the owner of one of the hollywood’s companies. John knew about Thomson’s story from some of the trashed versions that Thomson had thrown. John was collecting those versions and he made those edits from his memory. Thomson then learned the lesson that the pricey garbage wasn't actually that contains the diamond necklace but that contains the real memories and feelings.

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Laurie Gabriel

Love the title. storylines and conflict/tension.

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