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BLOOM
Screenplay by Robert C. Powers
Based on a
Story by Suzanne Gill and Ann Isherwood
GENRE: Romantic Comedy
85 pages
Logline:
A bride-to-be with a ticking biological clock wants to marry, isn't sure she's
found the right man and seeks psychic advice which sets off a chain of wildly
romantic and confusing events
(Hallmark ready. Coverage: an “out of control” romantic situation that keeps the
audience laughing (and loving)).
Synopsis:
HOLLY MORELLI, beautiful and sexy, is finally engaged to ZAN ZANELLI, a handsome
but boring accountant she’s known from childhood.
She expresses concern to older sister JODY, (divorced and bitter) about
becoming “penned in” by Zan’s neat-freak and ultra conservative ways.
Their father, Tony, is dead set on Holly getting married as he faces his
own mortality absent grandchildren.
Jody sends her to Charmaine, a psychic. Charmaine tells Holly she must find ways
to take a leap of faith. Holly takes the word “leap” literally; goes rock
climbing, paint balling and canoeing as she seeks a clear view of her future.
Zan loses his job and takes on being an
appraiser in Holly’s real estate business. Holly and Zan’s relationship becomes
claustrophobic.
Holly goes back to see Charmaine, but she’s gone. In her place, “The Mystic Seer, Herbert”, complete with turban, beard and moustache -— a big, mysterious man. Herbert breaks out a special set of “Bloom” cards, exceptional and breathtaking pictures of flowers which convey meaning; cards he uses on the rarest of occasions because of truths they reveal.
While paint balling, Holly meets KEVIN HOLDER, good looking, a little rough
around the edges. There’s immediate attraction between the two. She goes back to
Herbert with her dilemma. Herbert tells her to try camping and canoeing at the
State Park. She plans on taking take Zan with her, but at the last minute, he
backs out. She goes—and there is Kevin. Again. A volunteer ranger at the park.
Holly cancels the marriage, then discovers that
"Herbert" is Kevin in disguise, decides on flight versus fight, and goes on her
honeymoon trip with her sister and aunt. A water-skiing incident brought on by a
reckless suitor puts Holly in danger, and only one man can save her. Bloom
is a great vehicle for a cast of young, new actors and would be relatively cheap
to produce.
Locations:
eighteen
Characters:
two main, five supporting, eleven minor
Coverage:
A fast-paced romantic comedy, surprises to spare.
From the first page, the audience is “in bed” with Holly as she tries to
sort out her nutty family and become comfortable with her decision, at age
thirty, to marry her childhood sweetheart. The premise is a hilarious case of
mistaken identity and romantic deception as another man enters her life at the
wrong moment. The finale builds to an “out of control” situation that keeps the
audience laughing (and loving).
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