• Home By Christmas

  • Ben Schwartz
  • Black List
  • 2011
  • Available
  • No Manager
  • Drama
  • 85.5
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Market: Mon, 12 Dec 2011
AgentGayla Nethercott (The Nethercott Agency)
ProductionJon Shestack Productions, Pink Slip Productions
A '50s comedy show heads to North Korea to perform for and visit the troops.
A cynical sheltered young writer accompanies Bob Hope on a USO tour of Korea in 1950, and learns the value of comedy to help people and to bring a healing truth to the horrors of war.
Beloved comedian, Bob Hope, and his crew take a USO show during the Korean War. The events change the life of writer Larry Gelbart.
Film
Film, High Concept, Character Study, Adventure, Biopic, Comedy, Drama, Period, War, Movie Business, Road Movies
108
PG-13
M
White / European
40
Average
“Full Metal Jacket”, “Good Morning Vietnam”, “For the Boys”
5% 1970s Hollywood, 20% 1950s Hollywood, 10% 1950's Japan, 65% 1950's Korea
Mostly different locations in '50s Korea, studio in '70s Los Angeles, studio '50s Los Angeles, Bar in '50s Los Angeles, writers room, living room, airport, '50s air plane, dining hall palace in '50s Japan, hospital in '50s Korea and two stages, woods.
LARRY (21) is a writer on comedian BOB HOPE's (40s) show in 1950s Los Angeles. One evening after the show he goes with Bob to a bar, where MARILYN MAXWELL (29) later joins them. Bob announces he is going to Korea to perform for the troops, and Larry is excited about the news although his parents try and keep him from going. Together with a big cast and crew, Bob, Marilyn and Larry travels to Korea via USO army transport.

On their way to Korea they stop in Japan where many fans have gathered to greet them at the airport, and they are invited to the have dinner at the Imperial Palace with GENERAL MACARTHUR (70s) and his wife. General MacArthur is hopeful the war is almost over and that the troops should be home by Christmas, although it is already October. He also shoots down the rumor that the Chinese are on the enemy side. When nearing and getting ready to land in Seoul the cast and crew find out that the area has been attacked, and they have to circle around for awhile before they can land. Clearly, the war is not almost over. On the ground they are introduced...