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CAN'T STOP THINKING BOUT YOU

CAN'T STOP THINKING BOUT YOU
By CJ Brodie

GENRE: Drama
LOGLINE:

   LOGLINE: Three best friends live their lives in work, love, heartbreak, addiction, prison, wives, girlfriends, death. 

SYNOPSIS:

Carl and Greg were there for Jim when he got out of prison and the group was back together again.

They also gave Jim something else. A third of the score of a little job they had planned. See they robbed a Casino. They broke into the room where the casino holds old bills that are to be destroyed. They split $45,000 dollars. Only that was just the first time. There would be more. These men weren’t saint's they just played on the opportunities that came before them. They were real friends and they loved their women.

GREG

Greg is a player of women. He's a Chef and works at a Casino. He's tall handsome and has a perfect body of a 30-year-old man. Greg thinks he found THE ONE. Her name Kathy. He falls in love then moves in with Kathy. The relationship started out fine, but Kathy was hiding something. Kathy likes to drink but when Kathy drinks she likes to fight, I don't mean argue, I mean fight. She would hit Greg, on many occasions. Greg must make the hard decision to leave this woman he loves. Only when he does she begins to stalk him. She breaks out windows, she steals his car, she shots at him. She loves him and wants him back, but Greg's not going back or does he.

Carl and Jim are his friends and they are always there for him. Greg also likes to drink so when he asks his mother to borrow her beautiful Custom 2015 Hummer she insist that Carl drives because Greg has too many drunk driving tickets and been in too many accidents. The three men use this Hummer to go out to bars and relax on the weekends

JIM

Jim is a big man, a muscular man, he's 34 and just got out of prison. Jim did two years for kidnapping his own kid. Carl and Greg sets Jim up with an apartment and a job on his first day out of prison. Carl ask a friend to hire Jim and he does. Jim is a custodian at a new doctor’s office building. Jim goes to work but just can't stop looking at one woman. Her name is Barbara. Barbara was innocent not like any other woman Jim has ever dated. She was nice and kind and when they made love she was so shy that Jim had to be in another room while she gets undressed. Jim fell in love with her and wanted her in his life forever. There was just one problem. Barbara was married with two daughters. Her husband was vice president of a bank. Barbara was in love with Jim. She could never have believed that anyone could love her so deeply. She never had anyone touch her and kiss her and pamper her the way Jim did. She told Jim she could feel he loved her without him ever saying the words. Jim wanted more time with Barbara. He could only see her when her husband was at work. Jim wants to sleep with and wake up holding this woman that he loves so much in his arms. Barbara finds a way for that to happen and they spend one entire week together before she must back to her family. Barbara must make a decision then she gets pregnant and the decision is made for her.

CARL

Carl is a very handsome short man, he’s 33. Carl has an excellent job as head of Housekeeping at a big hospital. Carl's wife Ellen is a nurse. So together they make a pretty good living. Carl love’s everything about Ellen except her mouth. She constantly complains about Carl. How much money he makes compared to her. How much smarter she is compared to him. How she could have married someone better than him. Carl tries so hard to please her. She wants a new house, he gets it for her. He gets her modern furniture a new car and so many other things, but she just is never satisfied. Carl was always a drinker but now he is doing cocaine. Cocaine turns into crack and now he's not coming home. Greg and Jim are his best friends and are very worried about him. They talk him into going into treatment, he does. something tragic happens that Carl will never forgive. He leaves treatment after a few weeks because is marriage is over. Overlooking all the bitching and complaining, now this woman he loved so much is gone, now he's in a motel room with cocaine and whiskey and a gun. Two people are dead and he wants to die too.

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