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MURPHY'S LAW
By Daniel Fish

GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE:

When street-smart yet blissfully clueless Connor Murphy and cautious, overthinking James Law pull into a shadowy alley for a desperate bathroom break, their accidental “rescue” of what they think is a napping local cast-off sets off a chain reaction among warring criminal factions—catapulting the two friends into an outlaw legend they have no idea they’re creating.

SYNOPSIS:

In the underbelly of a city that thrives on misfortune, two unlikely companions—Connor Murphy, the epitome of instinctual swagger, and James Law, whose every move is measured by caution and second thoughts—find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Their routine pit stop in a dimly lit alley turns upside down when they stumble upon a dead body. Believing the corpse to be nothing more than a local drifter catching a nap, they decide to “rescue” it by dragging it under a nearby tree to keep it safe.

Unbeknownst to them, their clumsy act is watched by two rival criminal factions. One, a disciplined crime syndicate, instantly interprets the duo’s actions as a calculated power move; the other—a vengeful, unruly gang—sees it as a deliberate challenge. With a series of absurd backfires, a stray urine sample linking them to the scene, and increasingly bizarre forensic oddities, their accidental heroics begin to morph into a coveted reputation. Without any inkling of how their every misstep is being mythologized, Murphy and Law slowly ascend as untouchable masterminds—a living embodiment of chaos itself, with their names (even arranged in an Easter egg mailed out as a congratulatory nod) hinting at the unpredictable nature of Murphy’s Law.

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