A thirteen-year-old suburban kid believes he is the reincarnation of John Gotti and attempts to order a hit on Sammy The Bull Gravano.
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Okay; why has this not been thought of before? The writing is nothing less than genius humor and creative satire. I could talk about this one for days but want to hear others too.
When he smells the Sanition scent he felt a connection… Like how is this not incredibly mafia comic gold. The debacle with Sammy the bull, yet as 13 y/o. So much originality here connecting to Long Island Culture and Mob Mentality
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Laugh out loud funny. Burst out cackling in the quiet room of the library at least five times through this.
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“It’s a sad moment when a son realizes he can beat up his old man. For me that moment took place when I was five fuckin’ years old.”
This is a wild screenplay, the type of outrageous thing you can’t help but wish you’d come up with yourself. The parents are hilarious. I want to see Steve Zahn as the dad with his ‘real tough hombres’ gag.
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i’ve only read this screenplay so far but wanted to know is there anything better to check out because this was so good everything else might be disappointing lol. i like comedy and mystery.
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Hi Kiernan, if you like comedy I can recommend Dork Whore or The Mullers, which are very different to Mob Mentality but both extremely funny in their own ways. If you like a mystery, Decomposer and Meridian are both strong, though both have quite a horror spin too. Not sure if you like horror. Maternal is probably the closest I’ve read to a classic crime mystery - a true whodunnit kind of thing - but based on a real serial killer. Not a Poirot style, per se. More like Prisoners or Zodiac vibe.
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thanks i’ll read one or two on the weekend
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hysterical screenplay this has to make it into the next round
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Yeah okay, the hype is real. This is so stupid it’s brilliant. It’s the little things that really made me laugh.
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Like @meara said, I second Dork Whore or The Mullers.
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Welcome to the community, @rdonaldsonsr3378! Glad you’re here!
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Probably the funniest script in the competition. Seemed a little unrealistic from the treatment, but SO glad I read the full script. The tone of the narration makes the humor sing. Would like a different final scene though.
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There’s definitely an absurdist quality to it Steven. It’s all execution based, I could see it being shot in a similar style to Raising Arizona. How would you change the final scene, what didn’t work for you?
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Definitely a funny script. But, I had to fight myself while reading it. I kept mentally de-aging the main character. Think…Boss Baby. I had to remind myself…he’s 13. If I was an interested producer, I’d have to screen test this one. I’d have to see what it looks like with a teenager, because I just never settled into the mental picture.
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what’s up man
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I was picturing the kid from Deadpool 2 and Hunt for the wilderpeople
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That’s more or less what I was picturing too. Or trying to de-age Jonah Hill to 13.
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Hope this makes the next round. nothing else has jumped out at me like Mob Mentality.
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I see that the author of Cooperville was in the comments answering questions. Is the author of Mob a user here, I would lvoe to pick their brain.
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Thanks so much for the kind words, Yoni!
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