RESUME
Michael Guerrini
41 Elm St. Condo B1
Foxboro, MA 02035
617-833-7979
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EDUCATION;
New York Institute of Technology; B.F.A., Communications with a specialization in Television and Film.
WRITTEN SCREENPLAYS:
THE GARDENER: Psychological Thriller. 102 pages. Two Long Island detectives investigate a series of murders that occur on the same night. As the night turns to morning they figure out something more ghastly than anticipated, the killings all relate to a murder trial five years ago to the day. Silence of the Lambs met up with Ten Little Indians.
CONSTANT CRAVINGS: Crime Drama. 117 pages. A private investigator is caught in the middle of a gang war that’s about to explode and he’s the only who can put the fire out before it engulfs the entire city. Organized Crime Thriller set in Boston. PAGE QUARTERFINALIST
SPA HAB: Comedy. 109 pages. Two New Yorkers , one a successful broker, the other a union steel worker by day and a bookie/dealer/dirty dog/party animal at night, decide they need a break away from their hectic lifestyles and enter a high end rehab center in California to “rest”. The Wedding Crashers meet Cuckoo’s Nest with a little bit of The Hangover thrown in.
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SPRING FEVER: Comedy. 117 pages. Based on the 1940 film, It Happens Every Spring. A former college pitcher, now a meek, Ivy League professor stumbles onto a formula that makes wood repel against it. He decides to take a chance by living out his boyhood dream of pitching in the big leagues. Picture Major League and Flubber joining together.
SUNSETVILLE: Paranormal Thriller. 119 pages. A NYC detective stumbles on a government secret. The government is hiding, funding and supplying a town full of vampires in northeastern Pennsylvania for research and profit. The detective goes to Sunsetville to get his son, realizes the situation and flees back to New York where the sh-- really hits the fan. Picture the X Files combined with The Night Stalker.
SHORTCUT: Thriller. 94 pages. Seven friends, on a reunion in Miami, decide to take a shortcut through the Everglades to Key West, become incapacitated and stranded in the largest swamp in America. Open Water meets up with Deliverance but without the hillbillies rather with other creatures of the neighborhood.
WRATH OF POSEIDON: Sci Fi Thriller. 110 pages. A strange astrological occurrence in the Mid Atlantic spawns the birth of two unique serial killers. A true fish out of water thriller. A combination of Fringe and The Fly.
PORTRAIT OF CHARLOTTE; Crime Drama/Horror Thriller. 98 pages. Jewel thieves’ hideout at a vacant country inn during a raging blizzard but soon realize they are not alone. Piece together Key Largo and Desperate Hours with Poltergeist and add a splash of The Ring thrown in for good measure. PAGE SEMIFINALIST. Purchase Agreement with Boundless Pictures.
THE CHRISTMAS LETTER; A YULETIDE TALE; Family Holiday Dramedy. 103 pages. A desperate, cynical man gets advice about the true meaning of Christmas from an orderly and through flashbacks of Christmases past.
SILVERTIP; Thriller. 115 pages. A giant rabid Grizzly inadvertently ends up in a state forest near a winter amusement park in Plymouth Massachusetts and creates major havoc. A disillusioned police chief, a a Native American tracker with his own issues, and a female zoologist attempt to stop the bloodshed.
ICED AT MIDNIGHT; Mystery/Crime. 115 pages. Logline; Christmas time in picturesque New England. A dead FBI agent. A dead local cop. Stolen diamonds. Gamill’s Point, Maine isn’t the sleepy town one would think.
THE FITZ; Historical Biopic Drama; 114 pages. Logline: On Sunday, November 9, 1975 the freighter The Edmund Fitzgerald leaves Superior, Wisconsin with 270,000 tons of iron ore heading to Zug Island, Michigan, runs into an intense November storm, and sinks the following night with all 29 members perishing. Based on a true story.
CUL DE SAC: Comedy. Television pilot. 34 pages. A Boston bar owner will inherit a house and 12 million dollars if he can change his ways and move in with his pompous ass father and live in a Cul De Sac in the suburbs where his neighbors, two families, may be just as crazy as he is. Combine Easy Money with My Wife and Kids with a dash of Two and a Half Men.
SHORTS
IN THE EVENING; Short Ghost Story/Thriller. 15 pages. A man runs out of gas on a dark highway. He gets more help than he could imagine when a good Samaritan pulls over to help him out.
THE BROCHURE; Suspense/Thriller; 37 pages. An ordinary, average man needs a vacation from his dysfunctional, insane family. American Beauty meets The Twilight Zone.
BIRDS OF PREY; Suspense/Thriller. 28 pages. A good man gets caught up in a bad idea gone sour and suffers the consequences. A modern day revision of Poe’s Tell Tale Heart.
THE REACQUAINTANCE; 23 pages. Suspense/drama. On the night before a big job a hit man gets a visit from an old friend. SOLD TO ISIAH SMITH FILMS, JUNE, 2013. CANCELLED; LACK OF FUNDS.
A SHOT AT THE TITLE; 24 pages. Suspense/drama. A fledging fighter gets his chance at becoming “Brooklyn’s Best”.
THE GOOD NEIGHBOR; Drama. 16 pages. Your neighbors aren’t always quite what they seem or imagined.
A SOFTLY LIT PLACE; Drama; 15 pages; One man’s sanctuary is different than the next man.
THE LONG WEEKEND; Drama; 22 pages. An arrogant emergency room surgeon takes an unexpected weekend trip.
THE SUMMER SOLSTICE; Thriller . 21pages. A young couple return to her hometown to partake in a summer solstice festival.
THE LYCAN ON TRACK 13; Horror. 23 pages. A New York subway train is brought to a halt by a supernatural predator.
ALL SCREENPLAYS ARE W.G.A. REGISTERED
The Gardener Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller Log line; Two detectives investigate a series of murders on the same night and as night turns to day they realize the murders are related to a murder trial five years before. Picture; “Ten Little Indians” combined with “Seven”.
Shortcut Thriller Logline; A group of college buddies get together for a week reunion but the trip turns into a fight for survival when they become stranded in the Everglades where the “neighbors” become restless. "Open Water meets "Lake Placid"
Feeling Gravity Pull Action Logline; A train going from New York to Boston is taken over by terrorists on Thanksgiving Eve and the only person that can save everyone is a recently disgraced NYPD detective turned passeng Combine; “Die Hard” with “Passenger 57” with a shot of “Non-Stop”
Portrait Of Charlotte Thriller Log line; Jewel thieves hideout at a vacant country inn during a Nor'Easter but soon realize they 're not alone.
Constant Cravings Adventure ⋄ Crime ⋄ Film-noir Logline: A down and out private investigator is the only one who can stop a major mob war from spilling into the streets of Boston.
The Christmas Letter; A Yuletide Tale Family Log line; A desperate, cynical man gets advice about the true meaning of Christmas from an orderly and through flashbacks of previous Christmases.
The Reacquaintance Film-noir ⋄ Thriller The Reacquaintance; Suspense/Thriller; 24 pages. A mob hit man is visited by an old “acquaintance” on the eve of a major hit.
Portrait of Charlotte
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Feeling Gravity Pull
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Shortcut
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screenplay Logline; A group of college buddies get together for a week reunion but the trip turns into a fight for survival when they become stranded in the Everglades where the “neighbors” become restless.