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FATHER AND SON
By Ed Tasca

GENRE: Action
LOGLINE:

Son attacks Father on ordinary fishing trip. As they fight, Son is wounded sending Father for aid, only to return to find Son has been dragged off by wolf. Father pursuits wolf to rescue Son, only to find that Son is being protected in the wolf's den, a scene that helps Father discover why the boy attacked him. 

SYNOPSIS:

Stealthily, Son inexplicably attempts to take his father’s life during what appears to be an ordinary fishing trip. When the Son is wounded during the scuffle and the Father runs to camp for aid, the Son is dragged off by a wolf.

The Father, desperate and confused, hunts down the predator to exhaustion, while he tries painfully to figure out why his son attacked him. Shockingly, he believes that his Son is dead. He goes back to his ATV to notify authorities and seek assistance when he realizes the ATV keys are on the Son’s body. He sets out again, further armed with makeshift weapons and growing feeble from his wounds, to recapture his Son’s body, dispatch it with some dignity and kill the predator.

During this hunt, haunted by the Son’s rage, he eventually figures out through flashback recollections why the Son tried to kill him: a back story involving the Son’s Mother and her accidental drowning, which the Son decided wasn’t an accident at all, but the vengeful work of a cuckolded Father.

Father finally encounters the wolf in a feral battle injuring the wolf. He’s then trapped in the wolf’s den where he finds the Son alive and being protected from him by the wolf and she-wolf. Here he remembers the moment he failed to save his drowning wife and why he did nothing while the Son screamed for help. The story then turns the beast into the protagonist and the father as fierce evil doer.

FATHER AND SON

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Chanel Ashley

I have read this again and continue to believe you're onto something here - don't normally like reading a synopsis, but I enjoyed yours, don't give up, Ed, and upload your script, let's see what your execution is like, the premise is a winner, cheers.

Annie Mac

Ed! What's happening to this story? Love the title. If the execution lives up to your premise... Why not upload your screenplay? Waiting to exhale...

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