Loglines & Screenplays by Dep Kirkland

GENRES: Drama

MsTRIAL | Film Adaptation of Off-Broadway Play | An inappropriate but undeniable sexual attraction spins out of control, leading to an internationally famous lawyer being accused of raping his beautiful, brilliant young associate after an alcohol-fueled victory celebration, and sparking a ferocious legal battle with startling results, as the law in all its rigidity attempts to address a very grey, uncertain area of human conduct. | “Devastating” / “Law & Order meets John Grisham” ~New York Theatre Guide | “A Potent Salvo in Détente Between Sexes" ~Los Angeles Times

GENRES: Drama

BREATHING RECOMMENDED

A disaffected young woman's life as a "townie" and self-diagnosed lost soul is suddenly disrupted by two older women – a bitter, older version of herself with a mysterious past – and an irreverent pest with unbridled joy for life. From within the clash that follows, Grace discovers an eternal truth: you can be alive at 75 or as-good-as-dead at 30; it’s a choice. She also finds a grandmother she never knew she had—and might not want to keep.

GENRES: Drama

PERFECT

Raised in a family of high achievers, a young mother gives birth to the dynasty’s first grandchild—a special-needs boy—and becomes obsessed with “fixing” him, her single-minded campaign threatening to destroy her marriage and exacting a psychological toll on her neglected daughter and husband, only to discover the truth about perfection from among the wreckage.

GENRES: Drama

CIRCLE DANCE

CIRCLE DANCE, adapted from the stage play produced in both New York and Los Angeles, is the story of an All-American family: A legendary NFL Hall of Fame dad; a beautiful former cheerleader mom; a brilliant, quirky, freakishly perceptive daughter; and an all-sports champion son. A beautiful family portrait that belies the fault lines under the surface, fault lines that don’t stay buried for long.

“With a title borrowed from a Bonnie Raitt song about heartbreak, CIRCLE DANCE aims, classically, at a portrait of a disintegrating family and a flawed individual who learns his lessons too late.” ~LAWeekly

GENRES: Thriller

LUCIFER’S GAME

A reclusive cyber-security genius seeks revenge against the father who abandoned him and his perfect mother, joining a world-class hacker and his brilliant ex-girlfriend to stage a cyber-heist at the casino where his dad is head of security. But he discovers an uncomfortable truth about his sainted mother, driving him to risk his own life to save the man he thought he hated.

GENRES: Drama

A powerful New York City lawyer suffers a crisis of conscience following a series of tragedies and strives to turn the city’s attention on the weak and suffering.

GENRES: Drama

A story inspired by the true life of Beatrice Pastorius Turner, a 19^th Century woman with a 20^th Century mind, a prescient observer of the world around her, a painter of thousands of canvases but a cloistered mystery, living in a house painted black after her father's death and wearing Victorian clothing until her death in the middle 1900’s. A woman who may have been awakened sexually a good half-century before the phrase was invented. The question is, by whom. One answer lies in a place as dark as the dawn of time.

GENRES: Independent

A socially phobic young lawyer whose brilliant, hidden, carefully guarded self only emerges under the influence of copious doses of vodka and an assortment of drugs, becomes embroiled in an impossible, destructive relationship with a similarly disturbed, internationally famous model, and faces a choice, whether to live long in boring sobriety or live fast in the blissful ether.

GENRES: Drama

Sent to prison due to the incompetence of a silk-stocking law firm dabbling in Pro Bono work solely for the PR benefit, Johnny Giles graduates law school on-line, obtains the reversal of his own conviction, and confronts the firm and lawyers that screwed up his case. He doesn’t want money to keep him quiet and compensate him for their incompetence. He wants a job—as a lawyer—with the firm that sent him to prison. A firm that doesn’t want him.

GENRES: Drama

SKIN is fine. It’s discreet. The bouncers wear tuxedos. There’s a back door for VIP’s with direct access to VIP rooms stocked with champagne and a different set of rules for an ever-changing tableau of characters from sports, politics, pure wealth, and the criminal underworld. SKIN is exclusive and expensive. SKIN is the finest men’s club in the world.

GENRES: Drama

To atone for a life-shattering mistake that led to the execution of an innocent man, former superstar District Attorney JACK KELLEHER fights to reform the corrupt political and legal establishment that created him.

GENRES: Thriller

When a D.C. attorney goes missing on a trip to meet his accused terrorist clients’ families in Pakistan, his headstrong fiancée decides to find him herself, risking her life in a deadly confrontation, not only with a terrorist cell plotting an attack but also with her own country’s intelligence services—those who know her deeply classified identity. (Female Jason Bourne)

GENRES: Comedy

Young ANDREW, left as a child with his fun but borderline irresponsible uncle LARRY, is clearly—at the age of fifteen—the “adult” in their wacky household. Now at the tricky threshold of manhood, Andrew’s world is turned inside out when Larry decides to rent a room to the disturbingly beautiful, 25-year-old, KELLI RATHBONE, confronting Andrew with the challenges facing any 15-year-old boy in the presence of a funny, quirky, female goddess.

GENRES: Comedy

The patriarch of an undiscovered plantation, dismantled in the 1860's and reassembled on a forgotten plot of land on the NY/NJ border, fights to save the plantation, his sheltered grandchildren, and the (supposed) slave family from the outside world, only to discover, in the end... the only slave in sight is himself. Blazing Saddles meets South Park.