Original Screenplays
Below are log lines (always a work in progress) for finished feature length screenplays that I have written. Some are excluded because they are currently optioned. If you are interested in one of them, please contact me at jeremy.m.lum@gmail.com.
Ace
Raymond, a tennis protégé, is loving life and living high until he drunkenly crashes into his next-door neighbor’s yard, leading him to have to work for cranky old Darlene, who he discovers was once a tennis protégé herself.
All in the Family
Lawrence is an incredible 8th grade teacher who inspires his students, but when he begins to suspect one of his students is being sexually abused by her father, his previous diagnosis as a schizophrenic leads no one to believe him, so, he takes matters into his own hands.
Fool’s Gold
No one believes Dono, a young Irish child with a vivid imagination and love of Irish folklore, when he tells them he’s found a Leprechaun’s pot of gold, until a woman in red, who believes is a Banshee comes looking for it.
Higher Calling
John Allender is a con man at the top of his game and about to score his biggest heist of his life against a Mafia Don, but, there’s one problem; he’s also a Catholic Priest.
Honeymooner
Jessica Self is ready to embark on her honeymoon with her new husband, Corey Booker, only to discover that Corey’s best man and friend, Gavin Rice, who they can’t get rid of, is coming along, putting their new marriage in jeopardy.
The Gift
Mary saw a vision of her first child drowning, which despite coming true, caused people to call her crazy; now, she has decided to take her son Dono to a town that claims to be a refuge for psychics.
The Murder Mansion
Art Dashiell, Chicago’s most famous Detective, has never solved the one case that matters most to him, his sister’s disappearance, until a string of abductions shares a strikingly similarity to his sister’s disappearance, leading him to one of the world’s most famous Pharmaceutical Executives, Dr. Henry Holmes.
Into the Wild
Running from a failed relationship and trying to find God, Mark agrees to help a friend found a horse ranch in the Ozarks only to discover that someone is killing the horses.
The Sentencing
In 1995, Judge Susan Suravo, convinced that a juvenile criminal defendant, Ke Huan Cho, was a monster, sentenced him to death at the age of 15, now, ten years later, Ke wants to ask Judge Suravo forgiveness, beginning a journey that will lead her to her own salvation.
The Unwanted Ones
Dr. Jonathan Mann, working in Africa on a disease that came to be known as AIDS, decides that the World Health Organization cannot contain the outbreak unless they realize that AIDS is not only an infectious disease, but a symptom of the lack of human rights, which the medical community must fight for, leading to his dismissal from W.H.O. and the ostracization of his work.
