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THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF NEW JERSEY
By Jerry Smith

GENRE: Independent, Comedy
LOGLINE:

SWAT team swarms a neighborhood diner as a patron prepares to dab his bread into the yoke of his breakfast; "Drop the toast!!!" Welcome to the People's Republic of New Jersey. 

SYNOPSIS:

Imagine being jailed for driving with a license that has been revoked for not paying a parking ticket you never got from a town in which you have never visited; Bob Farside finds himself in what he thinks must be an episode of The Twilight Zone. Could his conspiracy theorist best friend, Bill Horin, have been right all these years? No, of course not. After all, Bill is the black equivalent of Kramer from Seinfeld and also convinced that Farside is in all reality a super hero himself.

Farside's usual easy going demeanor changes quickly when he accepts his new moniker of "criminal" with which the state has adorned him. Just about at his wit's end, a semblance of sanity shows its head in the form of Barry Hodges, a Christopher Walken type old school State Trooper who dreams of the old days when the state police were more than just traffic cops sitting on the sides of the highways and has a plan to get things back to the way they were; back to the days of "To Protect And Serve". Too bad his plan includes serial killing. Oh well, whatever it takes.

"The People's Republic" is a comedic look at living in the most over-regulated, over-authoritative, over-taxed, most corrupt state in the nation and how a chain reaction of circumstances led a band of unlikely allies to each other and help them deal with their frustrations of not only living in, but more importantly, guide their quest to change the insanity and bureaucracy that surrounds them. The amazing thing; when it comes to the most farfetched laws of the state used in the story, none had to be fabricated,... that includes our legislators who found the time to pass into legislation making illegal the selling of runny eggs in our diners.

Barry A.A. Dillinger

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