MIND UNDER MANAGEMENT
-Marilyn
LOG LINE: Mind Under Management is a drama with humor
about news paper reporters and their evolution with the changing times of both
odd human behaviour captured and Extra Terrestrial Engagement.
SYNOPSIS: Quidley a state paper reporter catches wind
of ET’s filling a salmon run with fresh fish. He convinces his boss to let him
write a story on it. His young girl friend Amanda leaves him after her refuses
to loan her money after making a scene in the middle of the street. He returns to work to forget about the
incident and get his life back to normal. Quidley attends a mundane dinner with
his ageing parents who are non committal to supporting his journalism evolution
about ET’s.
He gets a story on a murder
which creates more grim circumstances to ponder rather than helping him to
lighten up and then one day during a rain storm he meets Kylie they warm up
from the bad weather. And exchange
numbers to see one another again.
Kylie struggles at her legal
job with a boss who’s out to lunch too much for her taste causing humiliation
for her and the firm employees at meetings. She shares her frustration with
Quidley who is encouraging about whatever she chooses as they spend more time
together.
Meanwhile Quidley’s father dies
and he refuses to attend the funeral hating funerals in general. His family attends and tells him it was a
basic somber event. Quidley meets Alison
another journalist she reveals an ET event on a highway by a field where people
stalled in traffic some in rage were tranced out by hovering craft; her story
for her paper. Complications unfold as
one of the passengers who got out of the car a woman and took her blouse off
exposing herself. A man took a photo of
it and posted it on a dating site as himself wanting to meet women. Alison gets
the story brought to her by the woman to find him as the police is too slow to
act and her husband’s friend gives her the tip. She catches the perp luring him
as a possible date and finally lies she is a cop and makes him take the photo
down. Quidley acts as a spy to make sure she is fine during all this.
Quidley sees Rick his co
worker go through a near identity crisis as he’s taken off light hearted
stories and given a kidnapping of a young woman in a shady part of town. Quidley heads to a new car exhibit for an
easy assignment. Alison and Quidley finds more ET stories surface; his old
friend Keith visits from up state and his daughter and wife are with him after
engagement by ET’s back home he is perplexed about. Keith asks Quidley for his advice about the
occurrence and then finds the answer to the engagement himself that included
bringing his travelling wife and himself closer to their daughter who is now
attending college.
Alison is given a story by
Quidley as he is swamped it is about children spying on ET’s spying on an
architect building a new house of supreme technology. She follows the kids who
the journalist was originally tipped off by their dad because he wanted to know
why they were disappearing after school for hours late for dinner. She finds
them spying under a tree on a bluff overhang where the house is being erected.
She captures the best shots of huge spacecraft ever taken by a journalist.
Alison spends time with
Quidley strategizing getting a release signed for the photos for her story by
the architect finally she interviews him to include him getting the release.
Kylie quits her job as Corbin is driving her nuts and meets a new law firm
owner who drops a jar of mayo in the middle of the shopping isle. They scrutinize each other and chat and find
a job interview has developed from the encounter of a strange kind.
Closing scenes of success in
work endeavours end this delightful and intriguing tale of investigative
journalism prowess.
