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STILL GOT IT

STILL GOT IT
By Barry J. Tidwell

GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE:

In a youth-dominated industry, middle-aged mom Edie Everhart believes performing is like oxygen — without it, the darkness she’s been outrunning since childhood turns her into an impulsive cocktail of desperation and calamity just to stay in the light. Now pushed toward retirement, she’ll risk it all, including her dignity — and her last good knee — to stay in the game: secretly as the league’s oldest pro-football cheerleader.

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STILL GOT IT centers on EDIE EVERHART, a vivacious middle-aged mom whose “Happy Place” of unshakable optimism matches her boundless, infectious energy — the kind that’s kept her performing well past the average expiration date: fourteen years as a Dallas LoneStars Cheerleader.

Meanwhile, her husband JAKE, a one-hit-wonder music producer, hides his failing studio behind charm, while their son TYSON, an aspiring soccer player, wishes his mom’s antics came with a warning label. To make matters worse, their house is brimming with extended family members down on their luck who have clearly overstayed their welcome.

After a blissful tenure at the best job of her life, Edie’s unbridled “Happy Place” faces an unprecedented shake-up when the squad welcomes a new — and wildly incompetent — director whose radical changes threaten not only Edie’s cheerleading career but also her identity and the infectious cheer spirit she brings to her family life.

The squad is suddenly rebranded as a content machine, complete with mandatory weigh-ins, follower quotas (which Edie has always resisted), and now—tumbling. It’s the one skill she doesn’t have. For Edie, this isn’t just professional pressure; it’s personal extinction.

Now caught between the life she’s built and the one slipping away, Edie must confront the darkness she’s long kept at bay — a depression rooted in childhood trauma that performing once rescued her from and has fueled her ever since.

Never one to back down from a challenge, Edie embarks on a hysterically funny journey to meet Misty’s impossible demands, but her efforts culminate in the holy grail of comical disasters when she catastrophically injures herself during a trampoline stunt gone wrong.

Her family rallies together to manage the fallout of her escalating identity crisis and help her stabilize her life, preserve her job, and prevent her from succumbing to her worst impulses — all to prove that she’s still got it.

In the end, after blood, sweat, and fake eyelashes soaked in tears, Edie manages to save her job—at least until a follow-up doctor’s visit reveals a new twist: she might be pregnant.

STILL GOT IT

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Rose Scott

I was a bit confused until the last few words of the logline. I understand that 1.) she is an old(er) cheerleader. 2.) her boss is problematic in some way due to her age 3.) her family life is chaotic. This scenario seems uncomfortable, but not necessarily problematic.

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