KARMIC GURU - SYNOPSIS

KARMIC GURU

-Marilyn

LOG LINE:  Karmic Guru is a black comedy about a yoga instructor who moonlight’s as a karma lifting guru.

SYNOPSIS:  Ken sits at his altar of incense and declares he is to become Karmic Guru a karma lifting near super power.  He will be available to serve the people who are karmic phobic victims in their own lives and relieve them of it for ten thousand dollars.  He is married to his college sweetheart Cindy and they run a yoga studio together Ken and Cindy’s Yoga. It is suggested ET’s are not welcome in this movie as Ken waves some hovering above his house away as he enters returning home. Ken finds his first client for his new services Leslie who has five phobias to cure.  The nature of the phobias is so ridiculous that Ken sets up a laboratory of gags in the spa room of their facilities.  Leslie relaxes on a treatment table and suddenly cold water sprays on her from the sprinkler above Ken covered with mud from self administered mud therapy slugs mud at her also to get her to loosen up and tell him what is behind her phobias by invoking pure rage in her.  He encourages her to scream at him he kisses her she finally screams five curses around the phobias including fear of cottage cheese he has thrown at her. Leslie cannot believe what has happened she’s raged, screamed and is finally cured of her phobias.    

Elated Ken is on a roll with more people interested in his karma lifting services.  He attracts Lance who is afraid of heights.  Ken receives another ten thousand dollars to cure Lance. His therapy involves taking Lester to a nearby bridge where they sit face Lance’s terrible fear finally Ken plunges himself and Lance into the water below.  Lance is saved by Ken is dragged to Ken’s sister’s party after this ordeal where they get dry clothing and sit over drinks.

Ken finds Cindy smooching Fred his yoga instructor in practice for better intimacy with his new flame Geraldine.  They debate the topic and Ken is looking forward to his date with his girlfriend.  Fred has a great date with Geraldine they fight over how to spend the evening, he wanted to listen to music she to watch a crime show they settle on making out on the sofa.

Ken meets Rhona who is afraid of failure he treats her with total freedom of saying anything she wants in job interviews.  She applies for floor manager of a busy fish shop and meets Danny the romantic owner who likes to flirt with women.  After a series of bad jokes ending with the clinic next door where shoppers who are pregnant can go for their medical appointments Rhona decides she is cured of the fear of failure.  Ken is amazed.

Sam meets Ken a young man burned in a horrible fire as a child. He tackles fear of strangers playing a crook with a ski masque on as a gag with a visit to his reclusive widower neighbor Alice. They surprise her with balloons and a cake to say, ‘this is your year anniversary of sitting in this chair watching TV alone.’ Sam realizes his life is not so terrible a surprises can also be joyous not always terrible like house fires. Sam is a cured success also.

After a joyous idyllic time with his wife and the successful yoga studio Ken meets Alison a pragmatic business woman’s wife who has fear of ET’s.  Ken decided to take her to an old dive hotel in a shady part of town where there is tons of crime and ET surveillance.  They sit drink Bloody Mary’s shooting begins outside the hotel and they witness a robbery inside as well at the bar!  ET’s intervene and disable the robber; he falls to the ground after robbing the cash box at the bar.  Cops arrive and get the perp.  Alison and Ken leave the blood soaked premises outside the hotel in a cab and return home Alison is cured of her phobia deciding crime is worse.

Geraldine and Frank heat up deciding to marry in Vegas.  Cindy decides to plan a holiday for her and Ken soon to Wimbledon.  Meanwhile another client shows up for Karmic Guru therapy Peggy who is afraid of time after a car crash on the way to pick up dry cleaning at the last minute before they close. Ken stages a ware house filled with watches to demonstrate to Peggy how time runs you if you allow it. One experience he gives her is a walk on a tread mill holding a watch timing herself as she hates exercise to make the point followed by an activity he likes which creates ‘timelessness.’  She survives the wild labyrinth of the trappings of the mind and finds herself freed from the ‘fear of time’ taking over her life.

Finally Ken is faced with the ultimate challenge Lewis who hires him to get rid of his karma from a murder he committed; he shot his boss and stole money that was to go into the company account. Lewis sweats over bad dreams and wants a clear mind on his vacation to the tropics so he hires Ken to cure him of the bad dreams. Ken finds out Lewis’s boss he shot had discovered him as a new sales talent.  Lewis feels guilty about this so Ken has a solution.  Ken takes the ten grand and drives Lewis to a high way.  They park in the rest area and discuss the murder to get it all out. Ken asks Lewis how it felt to shoot his boss and if he could hear his heart beat ebb till he died.  Lewis begins to lose it.  They go for a walk along the high way and talk. Lewis relives the murder hears his bosses heart beat in his brain as he’s running from the crime scene; relives his boss smiling when he first hired him and cracks jumping in front of a truck on the high way.  Lewis is instantly killed by the accident he’s been in committing suicide.  Ken returns home is somber and realizes with Cindy he helps Lewis get rid of his karma for the murder early in this life.

Ken and Cindy book Wimbledon and sit at the game holding hands enjoying life and their mutual success.    

MIND UNDER MANAGEMENT - SYNOPSIS

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.

JACK DANIELS MAN - SYNOPSIS

JACK DANIEL’S MAN

-Marilyn 

LOG LINE:  Jack Daniel’s Man is a story about a man Jasper who lives a comical wife of debauchery and drinking moderately however regularly to get him through the day till he Meets Maryanne.

SYNOPSIS:

Jasper nips Jack Daniels all day he has bottles at home stashed in strange places.  He finds he has no care for the regular life and breaks all the rules getting away with it most of the time with his charm and great insight into life. The plain, waify ugly duckling Maryanne meets Jasper and finds out about his infidelity from him after one night with him.  She goes away deciding she must understand this man through her attraction to him abated and decides to get five men going for affairs to try out his lifestyle.  She takes notes and learns she is evolving in understanding of all this infidelity and experiencing men the way some do women fast and then she’s out of there. Jasper is taken with her bravery and experimentation with the dating scene.  He finds her refreshing to talk to as he lives the same life style.

Gill is an Italian traditional male who has a good time with Maryanne and wants to marry her or his dad threatens the boys if they mess around with women and are dishonourable.  She falls for him initially as he is so devoted to her then he begins to give her the creeps as she gets to know the family’s stubbornness to have their way.  She seeks the friendship of Gill who advises her to be cautious with Gill and to watch out for control tactics.

Maryanne finds evolution at Susan’s dresses shop as clients are disgruntled with white wedding dresses as the main selection for the bride. Gill finds his mother gives him advice to knock up Maryanne and to marry her and she takes Giovanni who has a tendency to get into fights and Gill to a knitting class to make baby outfits with her for future children arriving.

Gill slices through a condom pack and she rushes to the hospital for a pill to avoid pregnancy.  She takes a break from him and sees Jasper who has a girlfriend break off their affair to make her marriage work.  Mutually their love lives are slowing down and he decides to spend more time with Maryanne.  One night they stand outside during a storm he is hit by lightning under a tree ends up in intensive care.  Maryanne is by his side and he comes out of his coma and returns home a few days later. His life is changed as he was shocked into a new perspective and calm relaxation under stress like the booze gave him. 

Jasper tosses Jack Daniels bottles into the garbage and finds he’s happier with a basic martini on occasion. 

Maryanne confronts Gill and leaves him and all her other boyfriends.  Jasper stops returning the girls calls. He and Maryanne spend more time together and realize their intense conversations have led to a deep love and respect for one another. Jasper contemplates his future and Maryanne sees Susan go through a catharsis at work changing the dress shop look to wild display of colorful wedding dresses obliterating traditional white.  Malcolm his partner embezzles his money away from him trying to take advantage of the happy go lucky mild drunk he believes he can fool and his act ends in disaster.  He makes a getaway attempt to the tropics to buy property in Switzerland and is caught by Giovanni by accident when he runs over his expensive Italian shoes with his luggage cart and gets flattened. Alerted by Jasper who sees his partner leave his house with luggage in the morning, the police apprehends him at the airport flattened laying unconscious.  Jasper and Maryanne enjoy a celebratory dinner after the recovery of his money by the authorities.  

DINER ON TIME - SYNOPSIS

THE DINER ON TIME

-         - Marilyn 

LOG LINE: The Diner on Time is a story about a man who awakens in hospital after a head injury and has partial amnesia however his first memories to surface are of having been James Dean in his past life and the adventure that ensues.

SYNOPSIS:  James is in recovery in hospital after wiping out on ice and hitting his head resulting in a concussion.  He sits in bed bewildered of memories returning from his previous life as James Dean.  The doctor is perplexed and encourages him to be normal and to return to his daily life.  James finally leaves the hospital released lying he is back to normal and is not bothered by any more reincarnation material. James returns to his apartment orders pizza has his old girlfriend shows up hates it he throws her out.

James returns to work as a stock broker he sees his boss who wondered what the hell happened to him for a week he’s glad to have him back.  He gets back to work realizing he’s in a fast paced racket he’s tired of however he naturally does well for his clients.   

On a late evening James hears a flute playing on the street below his apartment as he’s playing his bongo drums. He goes outside and meets Azure a gorgeous dark haired, fair beauty. They decide to meet at a local trendy retro style diner.

Azure is a sky diving instructor she owns the business with a partner.  James is smitten by her remembering she is Pier Angeli reincarnated; his past love in the James Dean life.  They hit it off falling in love quickly and spend time together.  He finally joins her sky diving facing his fear after his accident of ‘falling.’  Having fallen for her already, he has no trouble with the skydiving plunge and is elated by the experience.

A trip to Italy calls Azure off for her holidays.

James stays behind making more money for his stock clients.  She misses him and calls him and spur of the moment he decides to join her in Venice.  They stay in a quaint hotel on the water front have wine ride in a gondola paint the next day on the water front and meanwhile mafia shows up where they are staying looking for a thug who robbed them and they off his father Giovanni killing him.  Later they arrive at his girlfriend’s and rough her up looking for him.

Marlo finds his father killed on the bed in the hotel Monaco and realizes the boys mean business finding him and getting the money he took from them back.  Marlo runs into James at a local book store and overhears he is in investments he asks if he wants to invest for him his money. He gives him quick advice and leaves him meanwhile the mafia are looking for a gun purchase. James dreams cops found Giovanni dead in bed and Azure reveals in the paper the next morning it really happened for James has more psychic ability after his accident. She reads finally the gang leader was found shot dead as well from the mafia foiling their plans to racket guns.

James and Azure leave Italy and get engaged.  He decides to buy out her partner in her parachuting business for her to go solo as a surprise. She is thrilled she moves in to his place to begin a life together and a strange note from James’s mother is sent to them and she shows up as a bilocating apparition in the local park at night to say hi from afar as the film ends revealing his soul mate is Marilyn Monroe; his mom in her past life.   

ILLUMINATED RAIN - SYNOPSIS

ILLUMINATED RAIN

-Marilyn 

LOG LINE:  Illuminated Rain is a fantasy film for the whole family which features real adept masters experiencing whacky hyperspace phenomenon.

SYNOPSIS:  Judy and Jenifer precocious fraternal twins are at the club house having cake and a nice visit when a giant rain drop falls through a crack in the ceiling and gets stuck in mid air.  The girls find Miranda a young, adept masterly teen who was angry with her brother and stopped the rain to sit outside wither slush drink preferring the sun shine. She is discovered by the two little girls who show her the problem with the rain drop. She changes reality again and the raindrop disappears through the roof.

Joley is a young British Indian boy from Judy and Jenifer’s school who is inquisitive about magical things and finds himself out of body sleeping telling himself that he can do anything and to remember in the day time. He mentions this to his dad Binder who finds his mystical child quite engaging. Joley joins the other kids and teens in Enchanted Forest from time to time experiencing adventures. He and Josh his school friend find themselves transported through mirages in the woods to the shores of Aruba where they discover flamingo beach. They return safely having had an experience Joley asked to manifest from within himself; something truly magical.  

The school year is finishing and a summer fete is planned by Jacob for kids who have ventured to Enchanted Forest and have pursued the mystical magical arts in some way. A group joins him at the forest and they make their way to Enchanted Castle. They find it finally and meet Laiola the castle owner who greets them and welcomes them to her castle. She is stylish in very modern dress and leads them in. Inside the group is given a Spot to walk with them; a dragon lizard on a leash with rhinestone collars who sniff out new areas to discover in the castle. The creatures subsist on insects so each person gets a worm to put in their pocket for a snack later for their Spot creature. They venture off to explore and find a variety of rooms which illustrate hyperspace concepts. In one area the TV room the security guard un needed for no one has threatened the castle Malcolm sits watching TV.  Judy and Jenifer find him and must complete rotation of spatial dimensions prior to being able to leave the room to the next one.  They finally complete their rotation and leave Malcolm to watch educational television.

Miranda finds Joley in the floral room lying in a bed of flowers after departing from the green slime brick room lunging through the wall to fall into it. His pit is in heaven devouring flowers and she coaxes him from his reverie to find Josh who he parted ways with accidentally in a hall way leading to different locations.

Meanwhile some have gathered in a main sitting room for a break and snacks Miranda and Ken join them as a surprise along with Malcolm’s long lost sister Wanda. She walks in with an entourage of white cats they disappear and she sits with one. They discuss the deeper meaning of cupcakes and other topics with her brother Malcolm who has joined them.

Finally the group is released to the world again they leave behind the Spots and bid Laiola and her family Malcolm and Wanda who are her children farewell.

The children relax at the castle and plan the future they discuss the betrayals they suffered and caution about who they attract arriving there. Finally in the fall a couple of teens arrive there finding it and bring with them the poetry of longing for past harvests which ends up one of them falling through a trap door to the dungeon. Malcolm consults with the teen below and explains to him the castle is not a place of the past it is a new opportunity to realize previously suspected possibilities. The teen promises he is cured and he and his girlfriend Jayne join Laiola for a beverage in the sitting room.  They agree to pay a fee to tour the castle and re given each a Spot to help them along their way to discover the hyper land attraction of the adept masters who built it for those seeking more in their lives to find.    

CASMIR - SYNOPSIS

CASMIR©

- Marilyn 

Log line:  Casmir is a film about a young boy who’s wealthy parents are killed by bomb attack and he is sets out onto the street in order to escape orphanage care.  He meets Fahad who is also a street orphan and they set upon adventures during war torn life in Baghdad.

Synopsis: Casmir finds his house bombed his parents dead and hits the streets of Baghdad with his friends following him on his adventure to ‘spy’ and make sure he is alright. Casmir and Fahad another street orphan find a coach house to stay in while Casmir attempts contact his parents.

Muhad and Kaveh hear finally from their nephew and then they reunite in Baghdad when they fly home from their business trip. Muhad and Kaveh take Fahad in with Casmir and then they relax in the large house of the aunt and uncle.

Terrorist attacks have escalated in Baghdad and Zotan’s law building; a new structure is protected by a private security firm. Rahan a female daughter of an Iraqui general is trained in the art of sniper weaponry and is a head security lead that works for Zotan.  She watches over the building with the rest of the security staff while Zotan collaborates with other business owners to protest to government that terrorism is wise to legislate illegal activity sometimes in the name of religious zealots like the Al Qaeda because it is the enemy of a healthy economy.

Casmir and Fahad begin school with their friends and are busy adjusting to their new life quite happily. At a Fortune teller there is a cryptic end to a visit by the boys to see a women who reads them psychically correctly and reveals she foreshadows the enemy of change in Baghdad for the better coming to see her. She shows the boys a gun and foreshadows her own possible death in protecting the future of those who desire change.

Plans to build a solar business block of buildings ensues however the terrorist threat is a concern against the plans.  The business parties weigh the options and decide to forge ahead with private security firm protection and continued protest to government about the threat.

A turn of events occurs with Rahan getting kidnapped by the Al Qaeda after successfully foiling several terrorist attempts in the area. Zotan is irate about the developments and hires an investigator in collaboration with govt. to find her. Meanwhile two men are holding Rahan captive they are asking for ransom to give her back to Zotan. The terrorists bring her to an open area of the desert and drop off Rahan for the ransom money and are met with helicopter assault to rescue Rahan and Zotans funds.  An arrest is made of several terrorists and Zotan saves Rahan.

Zotan proposes to Rahan later and she keeps her security firm post for the time being with the impending marriage having lived through the greatest challenge of her life.

Muhad’s activism meanwhile has helped to get women to write the government about the terrorist damage to business along with Kaveh’s contacts in the business community.  All hope for peaceful change in Iraq from their efforts for themselves and their families.

ASTRID - SYNOPSIS

ASTRID

-Marilyn 

LOG LINE:  Astrid is an epic film that spans the lives of Queen Astrid of Belgium, King Leopold III and his second wife Lillian Baels on through to world war II with their imprisonment in Nazi Germany.

SYNOPSIS:  A unique couple Astrid and Leopold are the hope of Belgium after resurrecting Belgian African colonies cleaning the mess in the aftermath of cruelty there by the previous king Leopold II who committed horrible atrocities against mankind labouring in the rubber tree crops.

Astrid poses in the kitchen with a mixing bowl and batter supporting the life of the commoner by this easy going couple in Belgium in a new Vogue of leadership.  They have three children Beaudoin the eldest Josephine and Albert the youngest and live in a large chateau they call Astrid’s Castle.  Elisbeth the intense mother of Leopold and Albert have taken over and kept the Laeken Palace of royalty in Brussels after his coronation ousting the royal couple to more humble digs. 

Great humor both Leopold and Astrid share making a light hearted style permeate the entire film through wondrous success and strife.  Leopold has a love of the Belgian Congo which was largely abandoned by Elisbeth’s disgust in insects and too much heat.  Astrid and Leopold make the long journey by plane boat and railway to the Belgian Congo to resurrect the people, creating white clothing for them to shielded them from the sun and setting up schools workshops and other facilities for the locals and tending to their export crops and mines. Beauty of the place and wildness gives the royal couple a break from the formalities of their duty and a perspective on the value of all people in all places under their care in the beauteous nature of the Congo.

Shortly after their return Astrid dies in a horrible car accident where the car skids out of control hitting a tree and rolling over.  She dies and the children are left with a grieving father to tend to them with their nannies. He remarries Lillian Baels and she takes on the role of mother hood after he ousts Elisbeth and Albert from Laeken Palace reclaiming it as the proper royal residence. Leopold’s parents take his old address to live in.

World War II breaks out and Hitler imprisons the royal couple in the royal palace of Laeken at first after Leopold surrenders to Hitler’s army to save Belgian lives. As the war intensifies and the Germans interfere with the alliance supported government dispersal of ruler ship under house arrest to Belgium by the king Leopold and his family are taken to Hirchstein to a broken down Chateau in Germany to be imprisoned.  After months of near starvation and battling gangrene in one of the children from a leg wound they are moved to Strobl for the final months of imprisonment where finally the Americans rescue them and set them free as the war ends.

Leopold is exiled from Belgium in a vote damning him for the surrender of Belgium to Germany by just over half the people’s vote.  He and the family live in Switzerland for seven years till the coronation of Beaudoin as king finally in a huge celebration outside Laeken Palace.

Leopold and Lillian travel back to the Congo later to classify species of botanical plants never previously classified as his hobby turns scholarly in his retirement from government with his wife.