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DANCING WITH DEFEAT

DANCING WITH DEFEAT
By Dan Hart

GENRE: Sports Drama
LOGLINE:

America’s beloved quarterback, harboring a repressed ballerina complex, blows the Super Bowl, then seeks redemption by dancing against the world’s most eccentric soccer star and other celebrity losers.

SYNOPSIS:

The Super Bowl is tied. Time for one last play. Our hero quarterback fades back to pass. Cornered, he toe dances like a ballerina. Spotting an open receiver, he lets loose with a pass. BLAM! He’s knocked silly.

Waking moments later, our hero believes he’s thrown the winning touchdown. Jumping to his feet, he celebrates. Yet tragically for him, his pass is intercepted and run the length of the field for the winning touchdown. The world gasps. Hero to zero in one play.

Thus, quarterback Charles I. Farr, aka Chuck It Farr, becomes an abject loser. For redemption, he competes on TV’s “Dancing with Defeat” against other celebrity losers including Mandonna, the Elvis of soccer. On the show, Chuck It can't dance a lick until he remembers and embraces his toddler-aged ballerina brilliance. Only then can he win his wife’s love back and win himself a Super Bowl.

Mandonna, the great “Goaler Bear of Madrid” considers himself too famous to love or be loved. He dances perfectly, yet Mandonna won't touch his All-American partner, Tammy. The first billionaire athlete, he spent every penny on a scheme to move polar bears from the Arctic to the Antarctic where there’s more ice. His secret scheme went wrong, he believes, when the polar bears ate thousands of innocent “pinguinos”. Thus, the bears had to be moved back north. All of this never happened. Mandonna was scammed by his right-hand man and historian, Ramses.

While Chuck It and Mandonna battle on the dance floor, the show's megalomaniacal British producer schemes to destroy both men and their sports. On their way to the epic finals, Chuck It and Mandonna learn more than dance steps and save both footballs for the world.

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