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Movie-story pitches
 
 
Frank Cotolo
July 6, 2023
 
I have so many ideas for movies. I write them down in notebooks, each one a brief explanation of the story. Here are some:
 
A young cannibal defies his parents' pleas and becomes a vegitarian.
 
A family of acrobats move into a haunted house on a hill and learn about the afterlife.
 
While vacationing on a remote island, a lawyer is asked to represent a reggae performer accused of using a banjo.
 
An older couple that has collected shotguns for decades decide to start a winery.
 
Two high-school girls compete to see which one can write the raunchiest diary based on bad choices of sexual advertures in their lives.
 
A Swedish boy obsessed with Elton John's song "Rocket Man" attempts to live like the character in the lyrics by building a rocket without understanding science, working five days a week and burning out his fuse alone.
 
During World War II, four Italian soldiers disguise as a dancing trio and fall in love with the same girl while doing the rumba in an Ethiopian nightclub.
 
After the world's civilizations end, three survivors from different parts of the world meet and explore the possibilities of starting over before they starve to death.
 
A plumber makes a wager with a carpenter that he could charge any amount to install a sink in the bathroom of a royal family's castle as long as the carpenter kills himself.
 
With a vast age difference between them, a woman and her woman lover start a vegetable garden that only one of them will live to see produce healthy food.
 
An ancient statue of a god created by people who prayed to him comes to life and brings back disco music.
 
God appears on Earth and tells everyone he is dying.
 
At a holiday office party, five people plan a major heist, promise to purchase cowboy clothing for one another, play Charades using different languages and agree never to see one another again.
 
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