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LOVESICKContemporary Comedy - Sundance Writers Lab finalist
In 2002, Nick Delfino co-wrote LoveSick with award winning writer/director Q Allen Brocka. A contemporary story set in Los Angeles combines a laugh out loud character-driven comedy with a door-slamming farce in the vein of A Fish Called Wanda meets Something About Mary. LoveSick was a Sundance Film Festival Writer's Lab finalist in 2003. BBE is developing the script as an independent production (5 to 15 million) with Nick Delfino slated as the film’s director. LOGLINE: The intermingled lives and loves of an on the ropes radio talk jock, a paraplegic internet voyeur, a chat room romance, an aging soap opera diva, confused sexuality and a broken nose create a twisting maze of misunderstandings and identity confusion. COVERAGE: LoveSick is a very entertaining script in the tradition of the "door-slamming farce." It's a maze of misunderstandings and identity confusion, but the characters are so effective that the pages turn easily. The ending could use some work, but this script is definitely worth a read. This script does not take itself even remotely seriously, which allows the story to unfold in an outrageous and entertaining way.
The key to the comedy in this story is the cast of colorful characters. We have a morning DJ dealing with his dabbling-with-lesbianism wife and her retired soap-opera diva mother. We have a disgraced detective and his crippled peeping-tom son, who uses his official status as a teenager as a trump card to keep his father in the dark as to his activities. We have a lovelorn telemarketer falling for a woman who thinks she's a man, and her gay boss who is facing a mid-life crisis after being dumped by his much younger boyfriend. One only needs to list the characters and the story is already interesting. The author successfully weaves about five subplots, all of which are separate, but yet intrinsically entwined. The pacing and cuts are handled well, keeping a steady momentum to the plot. The plot does become predictable periodically - for instance, we can predict that Nick is going to crash the secret rendezvous, we just don't know how. We also know that they're all going to end up in the same room in the hospital, as we watch everyone making their own way in that direction. Still, the characters and dialogue make these scenes work. Recommendation: "CONSIDER"
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