Loglines & Screenplays by Bradford Richardson

GENRES: Drama, Family

Psychiatrist Beth Keene is on the verge of burn-out. When an incident with an influential ex-patient results in Beth’s unjust suspension, she’s required to serve six months as a Crisis Hotline Operator where the ensemble of misfits she must work with to save unhinged callers leads her to rediscover the good in people, and herself.

Comps - The humor and heart of SHRINKING.

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

When real-estate rivals Grace and Alex submit matching bids to buy Christmas Manor. The manor’s whimsical owner proposes a tie-breaker: a scavenger hunt within the manor with a Christmas Eve deadline to solve nine clues leading to the manor’s deed and a treasure of equal value. Grace and Alex reluctantly team-up and despite everything that goes wrong they might just find love too.

COMPS: The sweet competitive & collaborative romance of A MERRY LITTLE EX-MAS. The rivalry, banter and mutual goal of saving Winter's Inn in SNOWED-INN CHRISTMAS. Plus, WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: Lucy’s determination to make her happily-ever-after come true. 

GENRES: Drama, Science Fiction

Happening Right Now: A fugitive group of seven exceptional twenty-year-olds, covertly bioengineered with evolved abilities by rogue extraterrestrials, must find a way to inspire humankind to begin living sustainably with Earth before the Alliance of Worlds’ countdown to humanity’s annihilation runs out.
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Comps: The positivity and optimism of HAIL MARY. This is an ensemble-driven sci-fi with government intrigue similar to STRANGER THINGS and THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY.

Semifinalist: Stage 32’s 7th Annual Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Competition 2023.

GENRES: Drama, Horror

Philly Paramedic, Jordan Ames, grew-up with two ghost-kids from the 80's as his best friends. When he uses the prototype ghost-tech he built to help them cross-over, he accidentally leads them into the grip of an escaped Demon who needs their souls to buy his freedom from the underworld. Can Jordan rescue the ghost-kids before it's too late?

SCREAMFEST 2nd Place Winner.

Comps: The deep heart of SINNERS meets the Action and hijinx of GHOSTBUSTERS.

GENRES: Action, Period Piece

1974. Twin Falls, Idaho. Three aimless high-schoolers share the wildest summer of their lives working behind-the-scenes of Evel Knievel's death-defying Skycycle Jump across the Snake River Canyon. On the night before the big jump these nobodies become the only ones who can prevent a Hell's Angels gang from destroying Knievel’s Skycycle.

Comps: The daring stunts and romance of THE FALL GUY (2024), a nod to the naive fearlessness of the GOONIES, plus the showbusiness egos and hijinx of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD.

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

Sarah never expected her Christmas Wish "for a bit of magic to help save her Holiday Bookshop" would lead to her music-box-Nutcracker coming to life. Stuck with her wide-eyed, gallant gate-crasher until Christmas Eve, their embarrassing roommate moments; bookshop mix-ups; Sarah's snooping Father; plus a nefarious Toy Collector; oh, and the discovery of the Nutcracker’s true heroic origin, leads them to hope this Christmas Wish never ends.

Comps: It's the fairytale magic of THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS and ENCHANTED meets the romantic comedy of ELF.

A Stage 32 Double-Recommended Screenplay!

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

When new friends, Children’s Author, Melody and Handyman Vlogger, Josh ditch their
Type-A Agents’ itinerary-driven holiday to help save Melody’s Mom’s cookie shop, their Agents, who are competing for a big promotion, have got to catch up to them. These four wind-up on two wildly different yet converging Christmas road-trip adventures into love.

Comps: It's the "dating the wrong guy when the right guy comes along" romantic dilemma of THE LIFE LIST and SOMETHING FROM TIFFANY'S (2023) meets PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES.

GENRES: Family, Music

When teenage singer-songwriter, Ally Bailey, leads her band to ditch school and crash a major audition in the city, her self-involved, one-hit-wonder, father arrives in time to see her prove she's got the heart & talent to go further than he ever could.

Semi-Finalist, ScreenCraft Pilot Launch Competition, (as SING IT).

GENRES: Action, Adventure

An Origin Story. 1941. World War II takes a dark turn when Nazis, desperate for petroleum, invade Ukraine. Teenage James Bond stows away on his parents' urgent mission for MI6 to extract a Ukrainian scientist and his revolutionary formula for synthetic petroleum.

2nd Place Winner, New Hope Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA.