Loglines & Screenplays by Linda Manning

GENRES: Drama, Romance

After the mysterious disappearance of her husband, Linda - a jazz singer who sacrificed her career to raise three kids - struggles to save her Bronx Jazz Club, and maybe herself. If only she can stave off nasty creditors, sexy musicians, and her own worst instincts.

GENRES: Romance, Film Noir

An alienated New York City cab driver picks up a desperate fare who takes him on a ride of reawakening.

GENRES: Film Noir, Comedy

Opal has been staring at half a picture her a whole life; but who is the stranger staring back? Skate has been living in the same place his whole life. When Opal returns to confront her past, she and Skate reconnect, and then an undone shoelace unravels everything.

GENRES: Romance, Period Piece

Charlotte Bronte, brilliant, paralyzingly shy, and desperate to break away from her restricted, provincial life publishes her writing under a male pseudonym and then must fight to claim her identity on her own terms.

GENRES: Drama

An introverted teenage girl tries to escape her abusive home when she lies about her age and gets a summer job at a local golf course where she falls into a secret love affair with a thirty year old disgraced golf pro.

GENRES: Drama, Romance

A forty year old former rock singer, having buried her artistic life to devote herself to her husband and children, falls in love with the alcoholic butcher at her grocery store who was once a great musician and risks everything in order to regain her voice.