The One-Page Screenplay
The One-Page Screenplay: Jeff Lowell's The Socialite And The Guy With The Real Job
Welcome to Movieline’s One-Page Screenplay project, a groundbreaking creative experiment that asks Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters to compose a script that exists on a single page — and yet still somehow manages to present third-act stakes-deficiency problems. Today’s estimable contributor is Jeff Lowell, a former TV writer on shows like Spin City and Sports Night, who now works in comedy features, having written John Tucker Must Die and Hotel For Dogs, and written and directed Eva Longoria shrew-from-the-grave comedy Over Her Dead Body. For us, though, he presents The Socialite And The Guy With The Real Job — a breezy and satisfying romantic comedy that practically has Matthew McConaughey’s potato-chip-grease fingerprints all over it.
The Official Bio:
Jeff Lowell began his career as an extremely disloyal television writer, moving from “The George Carlin Show” to “Drew Carey” to “Cybill” to “Spin City” to “Sports Night” to “Just Shoot Me,” among others. On the feature side, he wrote “John Tucker Must Die” and “Hotel For Dogs,” and wrote and directed “Over Her Dead Body.” He recently sold a spec (“Family Bond”) and an adaptation (“Dog On It”) to Universal, as well as a pitch (“Safari”) to Paramount.
Lowell fled Los Angeles a few years ago and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The One-Page Screenplay:
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Posted 01 Jun 2009, 12:40 PM
What's Hotel for Dogs about, anyway?
Posted 01 Jun 2009, 12:59 PM
Over Her Dead Body was really funny! seriously, folks.
Posted 01 Jun 2009, 1:01 PM
...i think more people would have seen it if they had just kept its title as GHOST BITCH
Posted 01 Jun 2009, 3:01 PM
Great sex + keeps bra on = comedy.
This feature is starting to grow on us...
Posted 01 Jun 2009, 5:41 PM
I wish all romcoms were that long! I wouldn't mind going with my girlfriend if they were.
Funny!