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THE BIG BUBBS

THE BIG BUBBS
By Lisa Penner Dang

GENRE: Fantasy
LOGLINE:

When an inventor’s emotional support animal—a giant stuffed Akita—unexpectedly goes viral, he and his wife must navigate their newfound fame and the world's desperate need for their own "Big Bubbs."


SYNOPSIS:

Remington and Maeve Schwartz are hard-working people who value their time and privacy. They value their community. They are seeing the decline of their neighborhood and want to do something about it. Remington was inspired at an early age to become an inventor like his idol, Garrett Morgan, who invented the three-way traffic light and the gas mask. One day, he finds a single hexagon LEGO in his yard. He saves the piece. He gets the idea for Hexa-Homes, a lightweight, recycled plastic system that snaps together like LEGO bricks and can be built in minutes or disassembled. This later leads up to a much bigger solution to end homelessness in a floating city called Aqua Dwell. Remington secretly patents all of his ideas and has them all written in his weathered leather journal

Maeve owns her own successful cleaning business for residential and commercial clients. She fires a top-paying client when she discovers the owner of the advertising agency, Tapley Soren, stole an idea out of her husband's journal for a garbage receptacle. Outraged at the odacity, she stays up all night sewing an emotional support stuffed animal, a replica of their beloved American Akita dog, affectionately called the Big Bubbs, who was killed along with their only son, Kyle, in a tragic hit-and-run car accident.

Remington takes the Big Bubbs to work with him. He works at Brando’s Sporting Goods. The other employees, Dax, Chase, and Ryder, are all younger. Dax bullies him constantly because he is jealous that Remington is the top salesperson. Chase and Ryder just go along with what Dax does.

Determined to put Remington in his place, Dax secretly records video and posts it online to humiliate him. The plan backfires, and everyone is requesting their own custom Big Bubbs.

The Schwartzes become prisoners in their own home. People all over the world are offering them ridiculous amounts of money to cut the line. Maeve teaches Kien, their eight-year-old next-door neighbor, to sew so he can help fill the orders. The demand is so great.

Kien lives in an apartment with a neglectful mother. He relies on the kindness of the Schwarts for food.

The Big Bubbs starts to become more real every day and is getting some of the undesirables out of the neighborhood.

Dax gets chased by the Big Bubbs, and his penchant for fast food works against him. Remington does CPR and saves his life.

On his regular visits to Kyle’s grave, he meets a boy, Derek, and his friends. Something seems off about the kids playing in the cemetery. Weeks later, he returns and is angered when he sees a boy with the papier-mache mask running around, which his son Kyle made. When he confronts the boy, he takes off the mask. Remington’s heart monitor alarm goes off. It’s his son, Kyle. He dies instantly.

Kien goes on to take over Remington’s legacy and discovers all of the patents.

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