SYNOPSIS:

Out of Options is a screenplay about a young aspiring female writer, Rachel Rodríguez, 25, who works part time as a ground hostess in the private VIP terminal at LAX. She attends Film School at USC and has written a great script: but no one will read it. Her best friend, Cinnamon Reilly, 25, also works at the terminal and points out that producers, directors and stars pass through the terminal all the time. All they have to do is figure out how to get one of them to read her script. Over the next few weeks she plants a scripts on unsuspecting producers, directors and stars: It’s only a matter of time until everybody in town is reading the script and the calls start flooding in to Cinnamon. Cinnamon knows nothing about being an agent; but she does know how to play poker - soon she’s conducting a bidding war for Rachel’s script. Unfortunately an unscrupulous producer gets wind of Rachel’s script and circumvents Cinnamon; wines and dines Rachel and convinces her to sign with his company despite Cinnamon’s dire warnings. With the advance she receives Rachel leases a fancy car and home and soon has no time for Cinnamon or her old USC friends. When studio appoints their own writer who starts to demand changes Rachel soon finds her script no longer resembles the one she wrote. The rewrite is so bad that the studio drops it – and Rachel. Rachel ends up with no job, no friends, and no money. But despite everything that has transpired, Cinnamon tells Rachel she’ll come up with the money to make the film – which she does in her own inimitable delightful way. Out of Options is a “feel-good” fun film targeted mainly at a younger female audience - the same demographic that propelled High School Musical and Glee to their ratings successes. While it is written for theatrical release it could easily be modified for television.

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