A twisted sci-fi road comedy with heart, a la “Little Miss Sunshine” with aliens, an interspecies romance and a spoof on classic sci-fi films and the American Southwest’s UFO subculture.

JIMMY, a Venice Beach boardwalk hustler, discovers beautiful alien JARA and her two intergalactic circus performers stranded on Earth.  He cons them into his “family” of misfit street performers and takes them to Las Vegas.  Along the way, sweet-tempered aliens touch jaded human hearts.  Ultimately Jimmy must save Jara and her E.T.’s from a ruthless casino kingpin, with the help of Nevada’s hardcore UFO buffs.

PKA “Alien Circus”, a three-time script contest winner and two-time finalist.

SYNOPSIS:

A carnivalesque spaceship crash-lands in the Nevada desert, its escaping passengers unknown. Three sets of odd footprints point west toward California.

Venice Beach, the perfect alien’s hideout. JIMMY FLYNN, a chainsaw juggler turned entrepreneur, leads three wayward street performers in his “Freakorama Flying Circus, the Weirdest Show on Earth”. They include dwarf sword swallower WANDA; fire-breathing juggler CHEEKO, an Hispanic illegal migrant; and weightlifter-by-mouth AJAX, the “Lockjaw King”.

Jimmy aspires to revive the circus sideshows of old and hit the Las Vegas circuit, sharing his dream with CARLA, his tattoo-artist girlfriend who runs a body shop on the Venice boardwalk. But he’s on a nowhere track, desperate to find fresh, new blood.

JARA, a naive, green-skinned beauty in disguise, roams the boardwalk, seriously lost. Learning to speak English, she needs a friend and thinks she finds one in Jimmy. Big mistake. When she begs to join his show, Jimmy balks: he doesn’t need body art, he needs a killer act. What can she do?

Jara shows him -- her skin changes colors to her emotions like a kaleidoscopic light show, exposing an inside anatomy of two glowing hearts. Amazed by her, Jimmy recruits her into his show. But Jara insists that he takes in her friends as well.

Jimmy accompanies Jara to an eerie L.A. River drain canal to meet her circus friends in hiding: midget magician ZZZZYK and freakish ape-lizard PUMPY, both far less human and even weirder than Jara. Jara reveals they aren’t human at all, neither is she -- they’re aliens, lost in East L.A.

We learn the woes of three intergalactic circus performers who need desperately to return to their damaged ship in Nevada and leave Earth for home. Jimmy sees a big opportunity here, each alien gifted with otherworldly talents beyond our imagination. Forget what this close encounter means to humanity -- Jimmy’s got a career to think of.

He makes a crooked deal with them: if they work his show and go with him to Las Vegas, he’ll find a way to get them home. He teams them up with his street performers and his business partner Carla, then they all embark on an L.A.-to-Las Vegas road odyssey, performing gigs along the way to finance the trip.

As the Freakorama Flying Circus hits the road in a psychedelic-painted school bus, from a San Bernardino rock festival to a psychic fair and UFO convention, to Sin City, Jimmy discovers that life is what happens to you while you make other plans.

What begins as the strangest showbiz exploitation ever evolves into a comedy of the heart. What lying scoundrel Jimmy never expects is that he’ll fall in love with a two-hearted alien. Or that his carny misfits will be touched by otherworldly kindness, as they learn from extraterrestrials about being human. Or that Jimmy will make good on his empty promises and hopefully save a few good aliens.

By the third act, their arrival in Las Vegas plunges them into the shark waters of an all-powerful casino kingpin who rips off Jimmy and kidnaps his aliens to exploit them for his new futuristic hotel. Trying futilely to rescue them, Jimmy elicits the help of Nevada UFO buffs to battle the casino mogul and his army of sheriff’s deputies.

The surprise climax leaves the ending open to a sequel: the further adventures of Jimmy Flynn’s “Intergalactic Freakorama Flying Circus -- the Weirdest Show in the Galaxy”.

JIMMY & JARA FROM OUTTA SPACE is a cross-generational “E.T.” meets “Little Miss Sunshine”, with lovable aliens for kids and an offbeat romance for young adults. Its comic take on the sci-fi genre, in the way that “Shrek” spoofed fairy tales, pays homage to classic sci-fi flicks like “Them!”, “Day the Earth Stood Still”, “E.T”, “2001: Space Odyssey”, “Men in Black” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.

The story also takes on the eccentric subcultures of the American Southwest, from New Age desert festivals to UFO cults, posing the burning question...

Why do so many people love aliens and UFOs, and why do so many others exploit them for money?

First-place winner of Screenwriting Showcase Awards, second-place winner of Hollywood Discovery Awards and Underexposed Awards. Scriptapalooza finalist and StoryPro finalist. Listed twice by its two titles on Moviebyte’s “Top Ten Contest Winning Feature Screenplays” under the Romantic Comedy genre.

JIMMY & JARA FROM OUTTA SPACE