While wandering around on the wrong side of his college town, past shop hours, Raphael, mesmerized by a glowing red light from inside a second-hand goods store views a cursed, leather jacket that beckons him to come in for the power, sex, and money that he lacks.

Bio:

ONLINE WITH LOVE in pre-production with William Garcia.

Comedy monologue for TV Host Julia Sun to play off-Broadway.

CHILDISH THINGS (with Chris Soth) feature is in pre-production in Canada and starts filming in 2014.

SAFE WORD will be in distributed in 2014.

Three of my shorts have been produced.

I've been commissioned to write two shorts, five of my spec scripts have been optioned and have placed at various levels in over 20 contests.

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SYNOPSIS:

Life’s falling apart for Raphael Sanson. He’s lost his teaching assistant position because of a sexual harassment lawsuit. His literary agent’s dumped him. Even his suicide attempt is a laughing failure. It’s clear to his hard, beautiful and ambitious fiancée, Dora, that he’ll always be a wannabe who ends up as a nobody. While wandering around on the wrong side of his college town, he’s mesmerized by a glowing light from inside a second-hand goods store. Ignoring it, he crosses the street, only to see the red reflection in the window of the store across the street. The light beckons him to come. Inside the store, Raphael stares at an old, discolored, falling apart, leather jacket that hangs on the wall. An aging hippie, Jobe, with pony-tailed gray hair, bell-bottom jeans, and loud acid rock music coming from an iPod , appears from out of nowhere and taps Raphael on the shoulder. Can he be of any help? The jacket is all Raphael can see. He’s got to have it. Why should he want it? Why would anyone want this piece of junk. But he knows this is his jacket. Jobe tries to dissuade him from purchasing it. There are more jackets on the other side of the shop in his size and better condition and this one is full of curses. Raphael insists on having the jacket. Jobe, convinced this guy is the next, perfect candidate for the demon jacket accepts a twenty from Raphael. “Be careful of what you wish for because you might get it;” sometimes penalties come attached to wishes. This occurs when Raphael notices that with every wish, the jacket gets younger while he develops gray hairs and achy, arthritic joints. A wish for Dora’s love comes back at him in a way that he least expects it. And he ignores Paulina, who loves dearly him. His newly-gained money can’t buy the happiness he needs, only the material things he desires and these cost him his youth. Raphael decides to return the jacket. He can’t do that. Why? Because Jobe pulls a document out of the air and reads Catch 22 that states that the only way the owner can be relieved of the jacket and reverse the aging process is to have someone willing to die for him. Raphael uses the power of the jacket to make Dora love him enough to die for him, but when he finds her lying in a puddle of her own blood in his room, he can’t let her die. Instead he takes her to the ER, hands her off to a med tech on his smoking break, and runs away. In the morning, the spell has not reversed itself. Angry, he confronts Job at the store, asking why he is still aging every minute. Job flatly states that jacket must not be forced or influenced by the owner and may not be under any magic potions or spells to commit their death. In other words, Raphael cheated. Fed up, Raphael, throws the jacket into Job’s dumpster. With guilt building, he buys flowers for Dora, but doesn’t have the courage to deliver them himself. Instead, he asks a nurse to send them up to her floor. As he trudges down the hall, looking back, he notices Paulina wheel in her cancer ridden mother, Isabella. He’s not dead, yet. The jacket could save Paulina’s mother. It’s time he did something right for someone other than himself because so far all his wishing for the good life has failed. But he doesn’t have the jacket anymore. In a car chase, he and Larry follow the local garbage truck and finally manage to stop it. Convincing the driver to give it up is another thing. After a knife fight slashes a large slice in the jacket, the driver freaks out when he sees it heal itself, yelling out it’s haunted and Raphael can keep the smelly thing. During a chance meet in the ladies room at the Down Under Café, Dora meets Paulina. Her intentions haven’t changed and she not wants what she cannot have, Raphael. She tells Paulina about the curse and hints at Paulina giving up her life if Raphael means so much to her. With a final wish for Paulina’s mother to be void of cancer, he drops to the ground, exhausted, convinced it’s time to commit suicide. Passing while jogging, Paulina intervenes, grabbing the knife from Raphael and plunging it into her own chest. While Raphael waits in jail, the curse reverses and his health youth returns minute by minute. He’s told Paulina has miraculously survived the stabbing. Larry makes bail. All is looking well, at least a lot better. A visit from Raphael to Paulina in the hospital becomes an afternoon delight. At night, Behind Jobe’s store, the two ceremoniously burn the demon jacket by dousing it with gasoline and lighting a match to it. Red flames reach six-feet high in a strange swirl and the leather of the jacket crackles as it burns. In the morning, Jobe unlocks the back door of the antique shop, spies the jacket, without a burn or singe, picks it up, dusts it off and replies, “Next?”