Can Winning the Lottery Bring You Love?

SYNOPSIS:

Winning Love for Valentine’s Day was written for the sweet romance movie and hits all the genre requirements. The holiday in the story is tied to a Valentine lottery ticket, but the holiday can be switched to any holiday.

SYNOPSIS:

Who doesn’t love seeing a woman have her dreams come true and find lasting love?

Lexi Morgan, a kindergarten teacher in the small town of Valley Grove, has dreamed of opening an early childhood center in the town. The options for care are limited and desperately needed. While at the bank to secure financing for her project, Lexi meets handsome contractor, Markus Wright, who is also meeting with the bank manager. She and Markus agree they wish they had a pot of gold and all the money they needed.

At Lexi’s meeting, the bank manager turns her down. He tells her to come back when she has secured some assets. Lexi is disappointed but she understands.

Lexi lives with her widowed sister, Kady and Kady’s four-year-old daughter, Violet. Kady has met a new man and is going on a date for Valentine’s Day. It’s been two years since her husband’s death. Kady is apprehensive but excited about the prospect of dating again. Doyle takes Kady out

While at the corner grocery buying milk, Mr. Olsen, the store owner, talks Lexi into using the last dollar in her wallet to buy a lottery ticket in the Winning Love for Valentine’s Day lotto. After she leaves the store, Lexi’s purse tips over in her car and the lotto ticket falls out on the floor. She promptly forgets all about it.

The next week, Mr. Olsen tells Lexi that even though the lotto drawing was on Valentine’s Day there’s been no winner come forward. Remembering she’d bought a ticket; she searches her purse and then finally finds her missing ticket on the floor of her car.

That night, when she checks the numbers, Lexi is shocked to find that she’s the $30 million dollar winner.

Kady tells Lexi that she should use some of the money and buy herself a house. Kady’s new boyfriend, Doyle, and his brother are building a new development on a local lake that Lexi should look at. Lexi agrees.

Lexi arrives at the building site. When she goes inside the house, she runs into her ex-boyfriend from high school, Kyle. Kyle’s moved back to town and asks Lexi out. She’s not sure and puts him off, as Kyle had broken her heart.

Lexi expects to be meeting Doyle, but it’s Markus his younger brother who arrives. Markus and Lexi realize they previously met at the bank. The difference is now Lexi doesn’t need a loan to buy anything. When Kady and Doyle join them, Kady’s excited and loves the house, but Lexi isn’t sure it’s what she wants. Lexi goes along with letting Kady help her with changes because then it might work. Kady tells Doyle and Markus not to sell the house, she’s sure Lexi will buy it.

There’s a problem. Markus and his brother have mortgaged everything to build this new development. If Lexi doesn’t buy the house, Markus and his brother owe the bank more than they have and the first payment is coming due. They need the sale sooner rather than later.

Lexi talks to Markus about her dream of building a childcare center and asks if he can help her with the plans. Then very possibly, she will hire him as the contractor to also complete the center. Lexi is more interested in building the new center for Valley Grove than making decisions on finalizing the lake house and its purchase.

Lexi and Markus grow close as they work together on the center and the house project.

Markus can tell Lexi isn’t happy. Lexi finally admits that the lake house isn’t at all what she wants. He tells her then she shouldn’t buy it. Lexi feels terrible about leading Markus on about the sale and abruptly leaves.

Doyle tells Markus that Lexi has to buy it or they will lose the development and the farmhouse. Their grandfather gave them the lake property and the house where Markus lives now. Markus says he understands the implications, but Lexi isn’t going to be forced into anything she doesn’t want to do just to get them off the hook financially.

Kady overhears what the brothers said and tells Lexi about the mess that Markus and Doyle are in.

Lexi meets with Markus. She’s deposited money into their construction account. At first, he says no, but she convinces him that this money is a down payment to hire him as the construction manager for the center. This will help him pay the bank what he needs for the time being. She tells him again that she doesn’t want to buy the lake house, but she has the perfect solution.

Kyle runs into Lexi at their old drugstore diner hangout. When she joins him, Kyle asks if he can borrow some money to get his business going. Kyle tries to convince Lexi they need to get back together. Before she can tell him no, Kyle kisses her. Markus comes into the diner to show Lexi the childcare center blueprints. He sees the kiss and then leaves upset, misinterpreting what he saw.

Markus thinks his future with Lexi is over and that he’s lost her forever. Plus, why would she want to go forward with him as the contractor? Kyle wants to start his own construction business and then Kyle will take his place.

Kady finds out from Doyle what Markus saw. She tells Lexi if she doesn’t want to lose, Markus she needs to straighten things out…soon.

Lexi meets Markus at the Lake House. He’s distant and professional and that the house is ready. Lexi tells him that she knows he saw her kiss Kyle. The kiss was one-sided and completely Kyle’s call. She has no intention of getting back together with Kyle and felt his attentions was only to borrow money from her. Markus makes her promise that they will always tell each other the truth. She confesses that there is only one man she wants to kiss her and that’s him. Markus kisses her just as Kady, Violet, and Doyle show up.

Lexi tells her sister that the lake house has never been the house she’s wanted, but it is the perfect house for Kady and Violet. Kady doesn’t believe her. Lexi thanks her sister for taking her in when she needed family and she’ll live in Kady’s house until she finds what she is looking for. Kady is in shock but overjoyed with what her sister did for her.

Later that night, Markus tells Lexi that the land they’d picked out has major problems in the city planning department and starting the build could be held up for months. Upset at first, Lexi remembers that the Olsen’s have an empty department store they are trying to sell.

She and Markus view the property the next day. It’s perfect. She buys it for the center.

With a big push, knowing how much the town needs it for the kids, Markus and Lexi open the childcare center in six-months.

Lexi cuts the ribbon at the grand opening. When they are finally alone Lexi tells Markus that she can’t believe he did it and got the center open. He reminds her that it was both of their hard work that made it possible.

Now that Kady and Violet have moved into the lake house, Markus asks Lexi if she is ready to think about the house for herself. He knows her dream house is a farmhouse. He reminds her that he has a farmhouse. He wants to know if, in the future, she’ll share it with him. He wants her to think about it, but what does she think about having a wedding at the farm? Their wedding. After these months working together, he’s fallen in love with her and wants to spend his life with her. She says yes to it all and that she loves him too.

They kiss on the steps of the new childcare center.

This screenplay could be expanded into a second story where Lexi and Markus get married at the farmhouse.

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Video link

https://youtu.be/Tg81yq9DmbY

Website:https://sites.google.com/view/winningloveforvalentinesday/home

Why this story? Why Now?

Everyone dreams of winning the lottery. We heard this story of a young woman, a nurse, who was a single mom. She bought a lottery ticket one night. She dropped it on the floor of her sister’s truck.

She didn’t find it for a week.

She was a Powerball winner!

Lexi can be any of us.

We wish we had the money to buy the things we want but also, money to help those we love around us and make our community a better place.

To pay it forward…or backward.

Why is this personal to me?

We believe in happy endings.

Who doesn’t love a woman who fulfills her dream?

and finds true love.

Recent, successful films with the same genre, tone, and potential market are Hallmark’s ‘My Secret Valentine’ and ‘Valentine Ever After’.