Loglines & Screenplays by Russ Lindway

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THE PLOT, THICKINS!

GENRES: Comedy

A creative couple’s relationship turns meta-bizarre when Jack’s fledgling screenwriting career is derailed by writer’s block just as Imojean’s first book blows up, and Jack’s jealous, delusional insecurities lead him to believe they’re really characters in a movie.


HUSH THE SHADOWS

GENRES: Thriller, Horror

In 1962, as they cope with the unsolved killing of their parents, two siblings discover six mysterious, old recordings at the family’s cliffside mansion which summon a succession of preternatural entities – each more menacing than the last.


THE NEAR DISTANCE

GENRES: Drama

During the COVID-19 pandemic, two neighbors who have never met – a 30-year-old Black mother and a childless, 57-year-old white man – become intimately familiar with each other’s world view in the days following the murder of George Floyd.


MERE MORTALS

GENRES: Thriller, Mystery

A series of harrowing events in which each perpetrator becomes a victim of the next horrific act drives one woman’s quest to prevent her husband’s murder … which has already happened.


NEON SUNDOWN

GENRES: Crime, Adventure

A businesswoman, forced to act as an underworld organization's courier for over a decade, bolts with a half-million dollars in laundered cash down Route 66 just as the legendary highway's heyday is ending.


THE SORROW VEIL

GENRES: Crime, Thriller

Fear grips a rural Midwestern county when three residents vanish between 1977 and 1980 and as a young nurse fights the dread that she or her year-old daughter may be next, the actions she takes to safeguard her family expose horrific truths about her close-knit community.


CRUSHING

GENRES: Drama, Independent, Romance

A week away from her 49th birthday, Gretchen’s life of quiet desperation is rocked when she meets a younger man who may be stalking her, and their whirlwind connection forces her to confront issues that have been emotionally paralyzing her for decades.


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