Loglines & Screenplays by Duane Kellogg

GENRES: Drama, Romance

In 1969, a Japanese American anti-war activist and his conservative, WWII veteran father embark on a road trip to stop the son’s childhood sweetheart from marrying another man.  Stage 32 "Double Recommend"

GENRES: Drama, Family

Based on actual events in the summer of 1973, an aspiring comic attends a comedy camp where he witnesses the natural comedic gifts of 15 year old Tom Hanks and begins a career long battle with envy and alcohol.   Stage 32 "Double Recommend"

GENRES: Music, Romance

When a boozy, almost over the hill Nashville songwriter tries to break out as a country music star, he records a song about his high school sweetheart that leads to a TV interview with a young female journalist where they discover the girl in the song is the journalist’s mother.  Stage 32 "Double Recommend"

GENRES: Adventure, Romance

When a naïve but spunky librarian (25) from Chicago travels to rural Kentucky to deliver some donated books during the Great Depression, she’s caught up in a real-life adventure, as well as an unlikely romance, when she helps a man (30) try to uncover the truth about the murder of his best friend by a corrupt coal mining company.

GENRES: Family, Fantasy

A famous magician suffering from a head injury tries to convince his skeptical daughter that he's an alien from outer space so she'll help him perform one last magic show before an obsessed NASA agent takes him away.

GENRES: Family, Science Fiction

A guilt-ridden neuroscientist wants to reverse a boyhood accident he caused that left his twin brother paralyzed, so he enlists the help of a Native American savant and discovers time travel using music and a special potion, but gets stuck back in his 13-year-old body.

GENRES: Drama, Science Fiction

In a cove off the coast of Maine, what appears to be a real mermaid kisses an abused boy, tells him he’s special, and gives him the confidence to become a celebrated author who credits her with saving his life, setting him on a quest to find and thank her. 

GENRES: Biopic / True Story, Drama, Period Piece

Inspired by the life of John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace", and how the grace of God and the love of young woman influence him to leave the slave trade, become an Anglican priest, and write the lyrics to the world's most loved hymn.