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FINAL DREAMS

FINAL DREAMS
By Mike Wilczynski

GENRE: Sci-fi, Drama
LOGLINE:

When a global premonition foreshadows the apocalypse, a discontented man confronts temptations and generational wounds, ultimately taking a selfless stand to reunite his loved ones moments before doomsday nears—and the afterlife begins.

SYNOPSIS:

David Grabowski has always been miserable managing his overbearing father’s furniture store. At 6:06am, David & wife are dreaming in bed when he is whacked across the face by their baby who is sleeping between them. They all may have had the nightmare, ending with a flash of light in the sky. Everywhere David goes, he encounters others who panicking because they had the common vision, including a neighbor tearing up his yard and a highway suicide jumper.

David calls his flamboyant and successful brother Joey. David is jealous of his brother's success as a lawyer. “Carefree Joey” does not remember having any dream. David begins to question things, when he learns that communication across parts of the globe have been lost.

David is flustered to see his unappreciative dad, Stanley, in his office repeating his regular complaints about the company’s performance. Later, Joey shows up for lunch with David but also exchanges unpleasantries with their father. Their wonderful mother encourages David to discover his happiness.

David perks up when he receives two major furniture orders. Joey urges David to close the store and head to their old favorite bar. While many are freaking out, Joey is buying drinks and having fun – he doesn’t buy it. David gets propositioned by his old girlfriend. Joey encourages him, but David eventually declines. David is anxious to be home with his wife and daughter. Joey hides his brother’s phone and refuses to take him anywhere. David’s old flame gives him a ride, but she knocks him out of the car after he refuses her advances again. After, David starts running home encountering thieves, wild animals, and a burning church on his route. A car crashes through a police barrier right where he’s running. It’s Joey.

In each time zone, dramatic events are happening at 6:06pm. The Grabowski family is all together, some in prayer. David discovers his wife’s positive home pregnancy test, but is surprisingly delighted. He sees another the chance to be the type of father he never had. His epiphany is that being a good father is the most important thing in the world and he finally appreciates that he’s had a wonderful life. David’s enlightenment inspires Stanley to confess his regrets & admit he had the dream too.

Joey, not involved in the family reconciliation, takes his bottle of booze and climbs onto the roof to be alone. When Joey is startled by a gas line explosion at the crazy neighbor’s house, he slips and falls off the roof, breaking his arm. Their mother succumbs to the pressure of the whole situation and has a heart attack. Even though the roads are closed due to martial law, Stanley prepares to rush his wife to the hospital. As the clock ticks to 6:06 pm, they back down the driveway,,, there is a flash of light,,, and everyone’s cataclysmic dream becomes an instant reality.

David and most of the Grabowski family rejoice with their ancestors and millions of others in heavenly peaceful, eternal happiness. Joey remains in a warped version of Earth. He wanders through total darkness and lies down in his desolate favorite bar. Back in heaven, David is overjoyed to reunite with his daughter, now grown-up, and is euphoric meeting his unborn son. We finish on earth, where Joey has a dream of his own. He see the spirit of David offering to switch places with him and earn a spot with the family. When Joey declines and accepts responsibility for all of his past actions, the two brothers reunite with their family.

FINAL DREAMS

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