Charles Torres's Lounge Discussions

I submitted my script, "Cyn & Izzy".

Logline: Two women estranged since high school, who are currently experiencing very contrasting mid-life crises, decide to overcome their obstacles by living out their teenage dreams; They start a rock band.

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My Feature Script Title "TO DIE FOR" Logline - A golden aging, wealthy woman, lives for her granddaughter. A plot unfolds to end their lives and obtain her wealth. She realizes dying guarantees her granddaughter living and conspires with three quirky senior citizens to ensure her granddaughter fulfills her dreams. Comps "Knives Out " and "Save the Last Dance." The protagonist, a 70-something wealthy grandmother who rose from poverty was inspired by successful, elderly, trailblazing, sassy women who break the mold regarding Senior Citizens. Then the heartwarming bond a grandmother and granddaughter have for one another is celebrated along with their love for dancing. Throw in eccentric Senior Citizens displaying humor, knowledge, and mischievousness, add the granddaughter's love interest along with, who murdered the grandmother - did she die? The combined genres are designed to entertain with inspiration, mystery, romance, and comedy. The results are a feel-good movie made for all generations that celebrate family and elderly heroes and heroines.

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My script, Breaking and Entering, is a second-time-coming-of-age comedy about two post-menopausal besties who realize life-going-on-sixty isn’t what they expected.

When dutiful housewife, Janet, arrives home after caring for her dying mom in really rural Wisconsin, she discovers a world of unwelcomed change. Her husband and kids are totally self-sufficient, and her beloved hometown is overrun by hipster shops and massive new homes. Not to mention her aging body, which now resembles a sack of cats. To cope, Janet takes up power walking with her lifelong pal, Irene, who’s totally bored with retirement. What starts as a playful dare to break into an empty McMansion, quickly becomes an epic summer of criminal mischief as the two try and outsmart husbands, cops and the vacationing homeowners (with a not-so-smart security system). Can Janet and Irene pull off the ultimate 60th birthday bash – in someone else’s home? More important, can they escape the beliefs that imprison them as adults – and find happiness on the other side of youth?

I sent in FATHER'S DAY. The screenplay is based on a stage play that arose from a poem created in response to a visit with my father at a psychiatric hospital on Father’s Day 1983. Ellen, a 23-year-old grad student talks about going to China for her studies without recognizing that she is really ending her 7-year relationship with Martin, her 30-year-old partner. Her partner is too busy exploring his bisexual side through NSA sex to notice. Their gay friend knows what's happening and tries to keep them together. Running through, the protagonist's uncle, great uncle, and father each die suddenly (my father and his brother died five weeks apart in the winter of 1983-84). Her older brother, estranged from the family, confronts her about her "escape" plan. She leaves for China without expressing her feelings. The story is bookended by the same scene, told once with faulty memory and told again with more clarity and accuracy.