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THE SIDE HUSTLE
By VIctoria Kodai

GENRE: Art House, Film Noir
LOGLINE:
    • Fed up and tired with struggling to maintain a middle class existence, middle aged Jenifer wants change. She mistakes a business analyst for a hitman and hires him to kill her husband for the insurance money.

SYNOPSIS:

Jennifer is a middle aged working woman with kids. Her life is not going as she would have liked and she feels under immense pressure to keep up with the demands of working, providing opportunities for her children and having a relationship with her emotionally unavailable husband. Jennifer meets, George, a twenty something business analyst. She mistakes him for a hitman and hires him to kill her husband for the insurance money. George takes on the job as a way to compensate for his own insecurities and anger. George is a clever hitman and is able to perform the hit and get away with it. Jennifer is investigated by two distracted detectives but ultimately walks away free and clear. George is so traumatized by the murder he can barely function in life. Jennifer collects the insurance money but cannot escape the economic pit that she has lived in since she became an adult.

James Tucker

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