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CRAZY ATHOL

CRAZY ATHOL
By Cannon Rosenau

GENRE: Romance, Comedy
LOGLINE:

A pint-sized San Diego detective must pose as a big time wrestler's wife under witness protection in Athol, Idaho.

Think: Wrestlemania meets Miss Congeniality

Key attachments: 13 Curves Productions, Oleander PR. Full cast/crew list available on IMDBpro

SYNOPSIS:

Vanessa “Van” Martin has always been a tough cookie as a former varsity high school football player, Army veteran, Columbo aficionado and top high-heel wearing detective with the San Diego PD. She’s a tiny little firecracker.

Ty Diamond, known as the “Diamond Stud” in the pro-wrestling world, is as large in size as his heart is in sentiment. When he finds himself in the middle of a deadly gambling ring, Van is assigned to his case. Despite her best Columbo-inspired efforts to protect him from the hitmen (or hitwomen) they land themselves in the witness protection program which sends them to Athol, Idaho.

They are now the newlywed couple, Bridget and Fred-Joe Wiener: aspiring brewmeisters. Vanessa/Bridget must learn to adjust to life in Athol. It’s the one thing she’s not so good at. She can’t quite put her finger on it, but this case is shaping up similarly to the cold case notes she’s read a billion times on her dad’s disappearance.

Ty/Fred-Joe embraces life in the sticks. They have awesome chemist neighbors (or do they cook meth?) and a new friend named Lloyd who probably is elderly Elvis in the witness protection as well. His unhappy “wife” is the only thing holding him back from this new happy life.

The one thing they agree on is that they must find the bad guys themselves in order to get out of the sham marriage as quickly as possible. They need to stage a huge sporting event that will attract the betting ring. After considering some of the local favorite pastimes of shin kicking, cornhole, mountain unicycling, walking basketball or wife carrying they decide to put on an Athol Olympiad with all the games.

Their plan works and the henchmen come and lead them right to the culprits who coincidentally were involved in her dad’s disappearance over a decade ago. In fact, Vanessa/Bridget couldn’t be more thrilled to get her old life back. Ty/Fred-Joe stays right in Athol with all their crazy new friends. But wouldn’t you know, Vanessa misses Ty desperately. So much so that she takes a job on the Athol Police Department. And they live happily ever after in Crazy Athol.

Jim Boston

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Cannon Rosenau

Great tip! Loglines are the nemeses. I'll rework that with that in mind. Fo sho.

Cannon Rosenau

Maybe:

After a big time wrestler witnesses his coach’s murder, a pint-sized detective with a huge ego must pose as his wife under witness protection in Athol, Idaho until they can catch the hit-woman and her boss.

Robert Sacchi

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Robert Sacchi

I can see where there is a great opportunity in such a story for some good laughs.

Nathaniel Baker

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Cannon Rosenau

Crazy Athol is a quarter-finalist in the Emerging Screenwriter's Competition 2021. Yee-haw!

Cannon Rosenau

AND now a finalist in the Bigfoot Script Challenge (a NW comp in case you couldn't tell. We take our Squatch friend seriously here).

BL Gabriel

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Tasha Lewis

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Maurice Vaughan

I like the concept, Cannon Rosenau. I think the logline can be smoother. How about this (or something like it): "After a pint-sized detective gets assigned to protect a ginormous wrestling star, they end up in witness protection posed as a married couple. In order to split-up, they must catch the bad guys."

Cannon Rosenau

Oh, wow, you are absolutely correct... this was an old (and baaaad) version of the logline. What I send out now is: A pint-sized San Diego detective must pose as a big-time wrestler's wife under witness protection in Athol, Idaho.

Cannon Rosenau

It's funny how the loglines can trip us up so much. Yet we can write an entire feature script. But 20 little words send us all into a frenzy.

Maurice Vaughan

I like the new logline better, Cannon Rosenau. I do, however, think the part about them having to catch the bad guys in order to split up gives the logline a hook.

Maurice Vaughan

You're right about loglines sending writers into a frenzy, Cannon Rosenau. It takes practice to write loglines just like it takes practice to write scripts.

Carol Frome

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Nate Rymer

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Cannon Rosenau

Created a listing for the project, if anyone has any pocket change laying around ;) https://www.stage32.com/jobs/768071/Film-Investor

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