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DEATH OF A SHINING STAR
by Debora Hill
TONE:
Romantic drama set in Marin County and San Francisco, covering
a ten-year span from 1979 to 1989. Ensemble piece, similar in
style and pacing to REALITY BITES and BOYS ON THE SIDE with
a technical look similar to CLUELESS or SIXTEEN CANDLES.
SET UP:
A group of recent high-school graduates works for The Marin
Renaissance Faire during the summer of 1979, the summer before
they start college. It is there the heroine, Dorothea, meets
the hero, Robert. They become involved, but Dorothea doesn't
know that Robert has problems with drug abuse, beginning that
summer with cocaine.
STORY LINE:
The film follows the group through the next ten years as they
go to college, select careers, and watch Robert descend into
the depths of drug abuse. Several times he seems close to recovery,
but when he goes to Los Angeles to attend graduate school and
Dorothea and their friend Annabelle go to London on a filmmaking
grant, he begins to inject heroine with a group of friends.
He is eventually diagnosed with AIDS and dies at the end of
the film, though he is never shown in the throes of the disease.
One other man in their group is diagnosed with the disease at
the end of the film.
Copyright 2001 by Debora Hill
Reg. WGAw #620177
DEATH OF A SHINING STAR
has been contracted to ShadowHawk Productions
and is in pre-production in collaboration with 21st Century
Media and Allied Artists.
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