Loglines & Screenplays by Darrell Pennington

GENRES: Animation, Comedy

Dave, a suicidal stoner, heads to his favorite restaurant, Nacho Libre's, for his last supper when a cartoon series, The Adventures of Stinky Stephen, now appearing on the restaurant's placemats, gives Dave pause, causing him to re-examine his life. 

GENRES: Horror, Thriller / Suspense

A Manson-obsessed college freshman convinces her new best friends, cousins from Kentucky, to help her film her directing masterpiece and discovers just how much of a secret these cousins hold.

GENRES: Comedy, Drama

When a middle-class couple wins $50k, they impulsively decide to go on a year-long cruise to fulfill their ultimate bucket list item, but encounter a much different year than they expected, returning as transformed and different people.

GENRES: Drama, Thriller / Suspense

A school psychologist lives life isolated and alone, her roommate, Deana, her only real friend. When a student reveals abuse at home, it triggers a reaction inside of Barbara, and she is forced to confront the fragile space between reality and the walls we construct to protect our psyche.

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

A recent widower in his early 60’s looks for a new purpose and direction as he faces a life without his partner of 40 years and leans on a female friend for guidance. She gets caught in the crossfire as her professional advice and knowledge of his marriage backfire on them both.

GENRES: Comedy, Drama

In a Midwestern town, a stressed COO and his wife, an emerging OnlyFans creator known as Dixie Dynamite, juggle grief, local politics, and volatile family crossroads when an unexpected surge of international subscribers triggers a life-changing, split-second decision to travel the world promoting a fledgling Dixie Dynamite Empire.

GENRES: Comedy, Drama

Family bonds are tested as eight people and four generations must learn to co-exist under one roof after a sudden death in the family coincides with a grandmother's fourth shoplifting charge in less than a year and a daughter and son-in-law move in to supervise so she can avoid incarceration and they can keep the family from falling apart.

GENRES: Comedy, Drama

Two generations and conflicting cultures find common cause and unite to preserve a town's historic mall by turning the now nearly vacant and dilapidated building into a hive of activity for two unlikely generations who thwart the efforts of an evil AI data center company, proving that the most effective communities are those that work together in the real world.

GENRES: Comedy, Mystery

Three waitress friends working at a local steakhouse are on separate life paths until an attempted alien abduction bring them together in unexpected ways as Clown Fetish, a Gambling Ring involving 3 to 5 year olds slugging it out MMA style and a Mob Informant turned missing steakhouse cook form the backdrop of a missing persons mystery that threatens to destroy each of them.

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

An investigation of the declining male population in Appalachia turns to a literal Witch Hunt as an award-winning reporter is faced with exposing a centuries-old coven or allowing it to continue doing its work.

GENRES: Comedy

A couple turns to pet sitting across the world to finance an early retirement and accidentally concocts a mixture of weed and local foliage that allows communication with cats and dogs. The weed industry is poised to pay billions, if Darrell can only remember the recipe.

GENRES: Comedy, Drama

When Derek is hired by Ryan Seacrest to be the new General Manager for Olympus, a hidden resort for long thought dead celebrities to live forever, he is thrust into a world of intrigue, conspiracy, and murder as Walt Disney is found stabbed to death. The race is on to find the killer and prevent the world from discovering Olympus and the sinister plans of the mysterious Mr. J.