I thought I'd post it here and see if it catches anyone's eye. I figure it's better than sending it out snail-mail to all the studios…or playing the lottery….
MR. ANDERSON—FILM TREATMENT
“His
son was all he had
and
they framed him for murder.
Big
mistake...”
By
Peter Brandvold
That’s the name of a website that distributes free amateur
porn on the Internet. Anyone can
play.
This is the story of a beautiful young college woman who
gets involved with this site and about her young college boyfriend who becomes
blamed for her murder. It’s set in an
affluent small city with a prestigious university boasting a Big Ten football
team nestled in the eastern Rockies north of Denver, Colorado. I’m thinking Boulder--Jonbenet Ramsay
country--but let’s call it Mount Evans.
That stately, snow-mantled peak watches over this
picturesque city along the Big Thompson River.
The young woman, Blaire Reynolds, is found dead in her condo
overlooking the river. Beaten to
death. The last one seen with the girl at
a college hangout where both appeared drunk and were arguing is Danny Anderson,
a star Grizzlies linebacker.
Danny’s a big, good-looking kid from a farm in North Dakota,
affable in a toothy Midwestern way but whose on-and-off relationship with the
capricious Blaire has caused him to drink too much and get into fights, which
is very uncharacteristic of this kid who everyone endearingly calls “Plowboy.”
And now Blaire’s dead--both eyes swollen shut, dislocated
jaw, severe trauma to the brain--and the cops find Danny passed out in his frat
with a bloody towel on the floor, his bloody shoes on the floor, even blood under
Danny’s fingernails. His knuckles are
scraped and swollen, as though he punched a door and maybe a face.
His blood alcohol level is over the top.
The cops discover that Danny’s towel and shoes are covered
with Blaire’s blood. And since he was
the last one seen with her, and they were arguing, and he was seen punching the
door of her car as she was leaving the Blue Boar and trying to get away from
him…
Danny goes to jail.
His father, Dave Anderson, from Limon, North Dakota--a
farm-tough, no-nonsense, square-jawed guy--mid-30’s to late-40’s--drives out to
Mount Evans to find out what has gone so very wrong in Danny’s life. Wearing his traditional soiled feed cap, Dave
pulls into this politically liberal, moneyed town in his muddy Ford F250 truck with
a Winchester racked in his back window, and his scruffy blue heeler, Hank,
sitting the passenger seat like a “Montana date.”
Dave doesn’t believe that his son could have killed this
girl. But after talking to the cops and
his son’s friends, and the people who were in the bar that night, he begins to
believe it’s true.
He doesn’t have money for a lawyer. Danny was attending the U on a full football
scholarship. The bank is about to
foreclose on Dave’s farm. His beloved
wife and Danny’s mother, Denise, died last year when a bridge went out on their
county road, and Dave blames himself because when he drove out looking for her,
when she hadn’t shown up at the bowling alley she worked part-time at, he drove
his car into the same wash in which Denise lay dying, landing atop her car and,
possibly--though he doesn’t know for certain--killing her.
Blaire Reynolds was a California girl. Her father is a wealthy film producer, her
mother a socialite. Her parents drive
out to Mount Evans to make sure the district attorney punishes Danny to the nth
letter of the law and then some. CNN
gets wind of this high-profile murder in the same town in which Jonbenet died
and Robert Redford’s daughter’s boyfriend was also killed, where Mork and Mindy
was set…this beautiful, troubled place…and it becomes a big media event.
Anderson Cooper is here. Bill
Maher. Oprah--“how do we protect our
young women when we send them off to college with thugs?”
The president of the college, Don Christopher, is
interviewed over and over. We see him
and his smiling, well-groomed wife, Georgia, on one show after another assuring
everyone that “Plowboy” will be severely punished, that his university does not
condone violence against women.
The court appoints an attorney for Danny.
He and his dad are in a tight spot, but Danny insists he’s
innocent though he hasn’t a inkling about who could have killed Blaire. He and Blaire had been fighting because she
kept wanting to breakup and get back together, and she’d been taking more and
more pills and seeing other guys, and it was driving him nuts. He went to her apartment that night to make
amends, and that’s when he found her. He
panicked. He ran…
Dave believes Danny because he wants to believe him…he’s his
only son, for chrissakes, and Danny wouldn’t do this…and Dave sets out
to find out what really happened that night.
He tries to talk to President Christopher, see if he can’t
get help with an attorney, but he’s escorted from the campus by the campus
police. It’s not politically correct to
be seen with Farmer Dave, as the media dubs this cap-wearing, rifle-wielding yahoo,
and President Christopher might run for the state senate next year.
What Dave does manage to find out in his fumbling,
amateurish fashion, with the scruffy Hank at his side (the unheeled heeler
offends the sensibilities of the town’s rich yuppies and wealthy hippies here
to attend a prominent Buddhist academy) and his beatup pickup always in the
background of this “green” little city, is that Blaire and two other young
women had a scheme going where they taped movies of themselves fucking their
teachers.
If the teachers didn’t cough up a few thousand dollars, or
good grades, the movies would hit the website PORNAGE. Dave runs down one of the teachers, but not
before the man falls to his death in a rock-climbing accident.
The other two girls gave up the scheme, because they’d both
been threatened by the men they’d tried to blackmail, but Blaire had discovered
she had a flare for this sort of work, and became addicted to the adrenaline
rush of the danger…and kept pulling these stunts until she decided to set her
sites on the biggest game of all--President Don Christopher himself.
Dave learns this from one of the other two
blackmailers--Tiffany Thomas. Tiffany is
scared because someone’s been following her lately, so Dave has a rough time
pulling the information out of her, and just before she’s about to hand over a
flash drive that she insists will clear Danny’s name, she dies in a kayaking
accident on the Big Thompson.
When Dave is on his way to visit the other girl, Angie
Mason, who lives in a sprawling Spanish-style casa in the mountains above town,
his old truck gets a bad case of low brake-fluid, and he puts the F250 in the
river. He saves his dog, however. And his rifle.
Time to go huntin’…
He kills the two men who’d been tailing him to make sure his
brakes failed, and then he climbs the mountain to see Angie Mason. Angie reluctantly shows Dave how the
blackmailing scheme went down right there in her own house. Angie’s parents were always running off to
Tibet to study with their Buddhist monk gurus, so she pretty much had the house
to herself. She shows how the hidden cameras
worked, and then how the taped “sessions” showed up on the website. Dave is shocked to see his own son there,
with Blaire. As if making love isn’t
real enough, exciting enough unless it’s made public, for all to see...
Angie confessed to Dave that she has a copy of the flash
drive--Tiffany copied it because she knew she was being watched. Angie slips it into her computer…and Dave
sees Blaire and President Christopher…and President Christopher’s wife, the
well-bred Georgia, in compromising positions while moaning and groaning with
this beautiful young woman.
The windows of Angie’s grand house shatter in a hail of
machine-gun fire. Dave and Angie escape
through an old mine shaft on the property, and climb down a dangerous rock
wall. Dave with Hank and Angie’s help
kill the gunmen after a long, hard battle--the would-be assassins are three
campus cops who Dave had seen around the college--and he and Angie reach town just
in time to sit in on Anderson Cooper’s on-campus taping of his interview with the
President and Mrs. Christopher.
Dave tries to break in and tell the true story, but he is
wrestled down by other campus cops and hauled off to jail. Angie slips away. Meanwhile, Anderson Cooper’s taping is interrupted
by one of his producers alerting him to a video now being shown all over the
Net--a tape showing the Christophers and Blaire on a giant bed in a large room
appointed in the Spanish style, the wind rustling gauzy red drapes over the windows.
…And then a couple of campus cops beating the screaming Blaire
to death in her dorm room before slipping out a window.
In real-time, we see the Christophers being hauled kicking
and screaming off to jail while Blaire’s moneyed parents watch, shocked and
horrified.
Dave and Angie sit in the raucous stadium bleachers with
Hank, cheering for Danny as “Plowboy” makes a fabulous, touchdown-saving tackle.
