Loglines & Screenplays by Darlene Curcio-Elsbury

GENRES: Drama

Blindsided by her medic daughter's death in Iraq, a disabled retiree struggles to raise her orphaned granddaughter when Veteran Affairs denies her death benefits promised to her. Dismissed as an isolated case, Grandma fights the system and changes the law.  (Based on a true story, have rights).

GENRES: Comedy, Crime

Florida cops look like fools, outmaneuvered by a drag queen gang that steals and fences haute couture to raise cash for LGBTQ suicide prevention, until two badges go undercover in drag to bond with and compete against the best dressed of them in pageants. (Inspired by true events.)

GENRES: Comedy

A TV sitcom series set in the 1990s.  An ensemble of asset-driven, corporate climbing Chicago brokerage "Friends" decompress from stressful market highs, lows, even crashes, with pranks, comic office antics, and happy hours, all shared by the indispensable estate and retirement planner, Desiree Drummer. 

GENRES: Family, Romance, Sports Drama

 When a rookie stock trader discovers she's sole heir to her dad's secret swan song, a racehorse in training, she must choose between honoring the living parent...or the dearly departed.

GENRES: Drama, Family

A corporate climber's cerebral virus is misdiagnosed, wrongly medicated.  He plummets into a coma that only a family bedside vigil lures him back from the brink of death, clinically blind yet seeing them more clearly than ever. (Based on a true story for which I have rights).