My friend James has written many enjoyable & entertaining movie scripts during his long career. Several of his scripts have been finalists in more than one highly regarded screenplay competition. James is also an award-winning playwright.

Below are several summaries of his international-topic scripts. All of his screenplays and his stageplay are certified and registered with the United States Library of Congress.

If you know anyone affiliated with or know someone who has family and/or friends working in the American and/or Bollywood and/or international moviemaking industries, James would greatly appreciate you passing along this information to them for production consideration. Thanks.

They may contact him at:  [email protected]

American Bollywood © (America)

Sita, a young single Asian Indian woman, visits America so to teach classical Indian dance to American-born Indian girls at a modern Hindu temple. The older Indian-American girls are bored with learning traditional dance. They entice Sita to join them at a ballroom dance studio, and meet their single American dance instructor Derek. Sita and Derek are attracted to each other, but she must marry upon returning to India. Chaperone Ameeta surprisingly encounters Sanjay, who were secret childhood paramours in India, but were separated by arranged marriages and later by continental distance. Now middle-aged and single again, they become reacquainted. In the end, love finds a way for both couples. (NOTE: James believes that Deepika Padukone could portray Sita and Derek Hough could portray Derek.)

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Beijing Blossom © (Asia)

A Chinese-American female professor becomes a guest instructor of English at Beijing University. During her China adventure, she is romantically pursued by two very different Chinese men, and emotionally struggles with remaining true to her American boyfriend. At the conclusion of her teaching stint, she is offered not only a permanent university teaching position, but she receives two marriage proposals hoping to entice her to remain in China. She struggles with whether to remain in China or return home, and whether or not to accept either proposal. (NOTE: Story location can be changed to elsewhere in the world.)

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bittersweet © (America)

A middle-aged playwright, directing his award-winning stageplay at his alma mater, emotionally relives two college romances in flashbacks – one good and one bad – while searching for the whereabouts of the two local women during his extended campus visit, so to learn how their lives turned out decades later. True story.

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Mother and Daughters © (America / Asia)

Discovering their quarrelsome widowed Asian mother has led a secret life as a high-class jewelry thief, college-age sisters decide to pursue their mother’s crafty profession using their identical looks and their college educations to their advantage, while embracing their mother’s crackerjack old-school criminal experience, to help the family’s financial woes. (NOTE: Originally set in Japan, the location could be Taiwan, or another Asian country of choice, or San Francisco.)

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Second Chances © (America)

A pathologist, while preparing his university lab so to study the donated brain of a deceased female mystery author he idolizes, encounters the body of a young woman killed in a car accident. Stealing her body from roadside, in his lab he exchanges the two brains between the corpses, so to “hopefully” reanimate a beautiful and intelligent love-interest for himself. Upon surgical success, he has unanticipated problems with his ex-wife, his boss, the deceased young woman’s family; and, in her new life, the young woman desires a book writing career.

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The Magic Circle © (England)

William Shakspur is a mediocre actor and the butt of jokes within the Elizabethan theater. The wannabe playwright is slyly approached to secretly “front” the written collaborations for public entertainment of – The Magic Circle – a clique of gentry within the royal court. However, this clandestine endeavor, if discovered by the queen, is a beheading offense for everyone involved. Shakspur nervously, but willingly, agrees to the risk so to seek fame and fortune. (NOTE: Originally written for and was in development for the deceased Dudley Moore, this story is a perfect vehicle for Rowan Atkinson, or Martin Freeman, or possibly another English comedian.)

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The Painting or Life at the Pace of a Cow © (India)

A remote Asian Indian village is suddenly overwhelmed by many companies unexpectedly competing to paint their business logos on certain exterior building walls. But when the villagers learn that the federal government plans a new highway construction project nearby, they concoct many ways to manipulate the anxious companies into paying more and more for the privilege of painting the choice selection of walls – and also paint all village buildings – setting off a comedic conundrum for the companies to fretfully negotiate through many outrageous demands while trying to outbid each other so to control the outcome. (NOTE: Kunal Nayyar of Big Bang Theory could portray the main character.)

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Windjana Gorge Escape © (Australia)

Two Australian Aboriginal inmates escape a remote Outback prison, and join a Kimberley wilderness tour group as “cover” for their getaway – as to where they will go to hide in their unplanned hurry, the inmates have not decided on that destination. The prison warden reluctantly agrees to a former Aboriginal inmate as a tracker. However, how the escapees are moving about through the Outback is unpredictable, thus leading to a difficult pursuit. (NOTE: In crafting Windjana Gorge Escape, I have participated in an Australian Outback tourist excursion into the Kimberley. I have visited and walked and hiked in all described locations.)

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Where A Certain Future © (Award-Winning Stageplay) (Europe)

Where A Certain Future presents in real-time the true Nazi rationale for foisting the Night of Broken Glass – Kristallnacht – upon the Jewish population throughout Nazi-occupied Europe, an historical event rarely revealed in its entirety in any World War II film documentary.

A 17-year-old Polish Jew, Herschel Grynzspan, murdered a low-level Nazi functionary, Ernst vom Rath, in Paris at the German embassy because of his family being despicably treated and sent to a concentration camp in occupied Poland. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda, used this Nazi’s death to provoke the Kristallnacht pogrom throughout Nazi-occupied Europe destroying Jewish businesses and homes and synagogues, and killing Jews, in November 1938.

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