Years after an Irish exit and deep in the throes of an early mid-life crisis, a celebrity gossip writer returns to her suffocatingly small hometown in Arkansas to hunt for her late father’s missing ashes;  during her search, she crosses paths with her damaged ex-boyfriend, who forces her to face the complicated past that she fought so hard to escape.

SYNOPSIS:

CHLOE DAVENPORT is a 33-year-old impulsive, yet talented, journalist living in Los Angeles. Newly engaged and in the midst of a full-blown career crisis, Chloe struggles to keep it together, when her life is suddenly turned upside down by an unexpected voicemail from her AUNT CAROL, who asks Chloe to mail some of her late father’s ashes to a redneck family reunion. Only problem is that Chloe doesn’t have them and she doesn’t have a clue where they might be.

On her quest to track down the lost urn, Chloe is forced to return to her insufferable hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after arriving back home, Chloe runs into her first love, JAY MORGAN, a deadbeat, chronically depressed bartender who is secretly struggling with mental health issues, after going through a bad breakup and inadvertently killing his dogs. Once they cut through the initial awkward tension, the pair goes on an adventure to locate the remains of Chloe’s Father.

With Jay by her side, just like that, Chloe gets sucked back into the past that she fought so hard to escape and must face the devastating reality of the life she left behind. Throughout their impromptu road trip, the exes reminisce, reconnect and hook up one last time before the secrets that they’re hiding potentially tear them apart for good. Ultimately forcing Chloe to make a choice between the familiarity of her adolescence and the promise of her future.

HAND TWINS is a unique take on the "city girl returns to her roots" theme and is similar in style to the films Sunshine Cleaning and The Skeleton Twins. The screenplay possesses a somber yet comically endearing thematic tone, while dealing with the delicate concepts of loss, middle-life crisis, substance abuse and the inability to overcome emotional immaturity.

This feature length romantic dramedy would work well for small to mid-size production company and/or studio with a low to moderate budget, due to the limited cast size, small town filming locations and lack of stunts or special effects.

Hand Twins recently WON the award for Best Feature Screenplay at the 2022 California Women’s Film Festival and placed as a Semi-Finalist at both the 2021 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards and the 2021 Scriptation Showcase Script Competition. The feature length screenplay also received nominations for Best Feature Film Script at the 2021 Miami Indie Film Awards, the 2021 Toronto Film and Script Awards and the 2022 Toronto International Women Film Festival.