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A troubled young man, trying to reconnect with his estranged girlfriend, must get through to her new boyfriend first.

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3 Reviews | 5 pages | 2 years ago | Draft 1
Jim, a troubled young man, tries to reconnect with his estranged girlfriend, Nora, who is still grieving over her sister who died last year. She is seeing a jock named Lewis who Jim plans to get through to in order to rekindle with Nora.

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A love triangle is nothing new. It is however what is done with it and how it plays out with all parties involved. I think a different perspective may need to be done with it. Perhaps from the point of view of Dominick? (Just a thought). There are more pages to build upon this if you choose to. I look forward to seeing if this goes anywhere and further. Good luck in your script in the future.
It would have been better if you had gone into more detail about Lewis and who he was as a character. Why did he just kill him, and was it deserved now? Something must happen to get to that place. They both fucked up and cheated, but his killing was somewhat out of business. The twist ending you have is excellent, and you should for sure keep it. I like how we do not realize or know that Jim has done the same thing until the end when Nora and Jim...
This reads like a first draft from a new writer. Using the opening scene as an example: Jim enters the pizzeria, and orders a slice and water to go, and then sits down with it. He ordered it GO. Dominick and Jim don't greet each other like friends. Dominick calls Nora "Ma'am" as if he doesn't know her. If Jim and Nora were together, Dominick has to know Nora. How do I know this? Because in less than 4 pages Dominick and Jim will kill Lewis. Stran...

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