Room mates ‘FINGERS’ (the virgin), 'G' (drop dead gorgeous AND a physics genius), ‘QUENTIN’ (weird and OCD but they’re used to him) and JEN (Greek Freak experimenting with being a pain in the ass and her sexual orientation) are having a party in their crumbling shared house.
By 3am someone is found dead. But who is it? And how did it happen?

Told in fractured timelines, Death At A Party is a mystery thriller that will keep its audience guessing until the very end.

(90' feature/TV movie/multiplatform. Have web series treatment too. There are US set and a UK set version of this script. Looking to find a producer to partner me and attach director)

SYNOPSIS:

An ensemble teen/20-something thriller, the film follows the existential angst, conflicts and sexual tension in a group of university students struggling to find their identities. It wonders how well we know each other, even our room mates and our closest friends and asks if doing nothing makes us just as morally responsible as the person who actively hurts.

Beginning with the police arrival at dawn, their realization that nearly everyone has a nickname and that simply deciphering who is who and what the hell happened is going to be a nightmare, the narrative jumps back and forth in time between the party itself and the police interviews.

As the party gets under way, the Extreme Sports Club arrive: WOODY (beautiful macho boy), ROX (nuts about Woody but never eta anywhere) and MARTY (desired by Fingers who’s about to find out he and Gina are an item) Fresh from a rock climbing triumph, they come shackled together on a rope and make a definite entrance as they do an ‘ascent’ of the main staircase.

‘Quentin’ (not his real name), obsessively records the night on his handheld camera and even sets up a ‘Confessions Room’, where partygoers can bare their drunken souls on camera. He also happens to have eyes on the entire house, unbeknownst to his roomies and bears all the marks of a sociopath if you know what to look for.

The climbing gear is set up on the roof terrace and the chance to rappel down the side of the building is offered up to various partygoers but apparently stops before anyone too trashed attempts it.

After hours of booze and drugs, not to mention a dangerously disturbing ethics discussion, led by the hip PROFESSOR that many of them seem way too influenced by, the party winds down with a vicious, drunken game of Truth or Dare - during which ‘Woody’, the supposed alpha male who constantly boasts of his conquests with women, is outed by ‘best mate’ BUZZ, as gay. His extreme sports buddies are poleaxed. No way! Why would anyone keep this a secret anyway? Silently Woody leaves an utterly stunned room.

Fingers is devastated she has lost Marty to perfect roomie G - he doesn’t understand what he meant to her, clearly, and that for her, as Adele would say, it isn’t over.

Drug dealer and perennial student Buzz has managed to split with his girl and lies in an OD’d mess on the roof whilst a tiny freshman only known as BABYFACE - thought to be suicidal by the girl that dragged him to the party, has drunk himself into unconsciousness in a bathroom.

At 3am a scream is heard and a G catapults into the house to announce that ALEX is on the ground, in the yard, at the end of the climbing rope. Dead.

As the police interview the stunned students into dawn and the next day, they try to unravel the motives, states of mind, conflicts and work out who is who amongst all the nicknames.

Once we know who Alex is, the question becomes -
 Did Alex jump or was Alex pushed? Was it an awful accident - or a murder? And when, if ever, when someone is in trouble, should the idea of ‘collective responsibility’ come into play? Or will this be a case of ‘death by misadventure’, never solved & no one will ever know the truth?