• Breaking News in Yuba County

  • Amanda Idoko
  • Produced
  • No Manager
  • 2017
  • Black List
  • 77.8
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Market: Wed, 06 Sep 2017Sold: Tue, 30 Oct 2018
AgentLindsay Dunn, Nick Hoagland, Andrew Mathes, Meyash Prabhu (WME)
StudioAGC Studios
After catching her husband in bed with a hooker, which causes him to die of a heart attack, Sue Bottom buries the body and takes advantage of the local celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband.
A woman tired of being invisible takes advantage of the heart attack of her cheating husband to pretend that he went missing and gain the media's attention. Things get complicated when her husband's money laundering scheme causes a criminal group to look for the husband in search of a missing million dollars, threatening to expose the wife's secrets.
After catching her husband in bed with another woman, which causes him to die of a heart attack, a woman tired of being invisible buries the body and takes advantage of the fame that comes from having a missing husband.
A formerly forgettable small-town wife relishes her rise to fame when she buries her dead husband and reports him as missing.
Film
Female Protagonist, Thriller, Conspiracy, Cop/FBI/CIA, Mid-life Crisis, Organized Crime, Dark Comedy, Affair, Criminal, Guns, Husband/Wife, Robbery, Violence/Violent
118
R
High
F
White / European
43
Average
Gone Girl, Heathers, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Baby Gone, Silence of the Lambs
Present, three days
100% Yuba County, CA. A bakery, multiple houses, int. car, electronics store (eventually burning), bank, restaurant, motel, news station, police station, jewelry store, the woods, diner, warehouse, shopping center,
SUE BOTTOMS (40s) walks into a bakery listening to affirmation-based recordings, reminding herself that she has high self-worth and lots to offer the world. She receives a cake that has misspelled her name and the cashier does nothing to remedy the mistake.

At a nearby electronics store, Sue's brother-in-law, PETER 'PETEY' BOTTOMS (early 30s), is working a menial job stocking electronics. He and the store owner's wife, DEBBIE (40s), immediately erupt into an argument that they seem to have all the time, until the store owner, GEORGE (40s) breaks them up. A menacing looking duo, RAJ (30s) and KAVI (20s), enter the store and threaten Petey, demanding to know where his brother, Bill is. When Petey gives them the information they want - while under duress - they immediately leave the store and head to the bank where Bill works.

At the bank, BILL BOTTOMS (40s) is accosted by Raj and Kavi: they want him to wash a suitcase full of money - a job that he has done for them multiple times in the past. The money is from Kavi's father. They give him 24 hours to do the job before they come back. After they leave, Bill begins to...