GIRL IN TRUNK

LOGLINE:   

Brianna has to outsmart her torturers, get back at her con-man fiancé, and escape from the trunk of a car all at the same time.

AWARDS:

5th Annual StoryPros International Screenwriting Contest, Quarterfinalist

Finalist, Jacksonville Film Festival, 2011.

Finalist for the CLAW Award, Terror Film Festival, 2011

Semifinalist NexTV Writing and Pitch Awards.

Honorable Mention Los Angeles Reel Film Festival.

Honorable Mention Los Angeles Movie Awards.

SYNOPSIS:

Brianna McKinley  hates working at the clinic but loves dating the soave Jack Toland. Jack arrives for tonight’s date completely broke. Brianna makes the dumbest mistake of her life when she agrees to be smuggled into the drive-in theater in the trunk of the car. 

Three minutes later the car is hit and Brianna is knocked out. She wakes up hours later, injured, dehydrated, alone. She cries out for help. No answer.

 Then there are voices. People search the car. She calls out to them. Salvation.

But they don’t take her from the trunk.  They start an interrogation.  Where is your boyfriend? And what has he done with our computer chip?

Brianna’s boyfriend has secrets. Jack isn’t a college student; he’s a corporate spy who just double-crossed his employers.

To escape Brianna has to figure out what Jack was up to, who was working with him, and then pit her interrogators against each other. A tall order for a girl who turned twenty-one while locked in the trunk of a car left abandoned in a junkyard in the desert.

Her torturers deny her food and water, giver her truth serums and other drugs, and fill the trunk of the car with smoke and scorpions. Through it all Brianna keeps the chip safe, studies her captors and locates their weak points.

Her enemies make one serious mistake: they let her keep her handbag. Brianna turns a perfume sprayer and a lighter into an eye-scorching flame thrower.

Turns out Jack isn’t dead, but kidnapped, and when he returns Brianna is the only one who recognizes him.

But once Jack has the chip he pushes her back into the trunk and the car into the crusher.

Now Brianna must fight her way out of the trunk before her steel and plastic Cadillac prison becomes her tomb.

Alison & John with photo by Melanie Pullen

THE WRITERS

John Leary  & Alison McMahan  are an award-winning screenwriting team. Their scripts have won the Los Angeles Script and Film Festival Best Drama Award, the Third Prize in the Jacksonville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, been nominated for the CLAW award (Philadelphia Terror Film Festival), finaled in Story Pro and Scritpoid Screenwriting Competitions, and semi-finaled in the Final Draft, NexTV Writing and Pitch Awards, Writers on the Storm Contest, and Slamdance screenwriting contests. You can read more about their collaborative works at www.HeavenSentMovie.com

Leary has also written movie reviews for the rock and roll newspaper GOOD TIMES, trading card copy for Topps, and a produced script for the Saturday morning Fox series EEK! THE CAT. 

McMahan has over a dozen years of film production experience in the U.S. and abroad. See www.HomunculusProds.com. Her latest documentary is Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs (2010), narrated by Sam Waterston. She is represented by Alexia Melocchi of Little Studio Films, LLC.