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« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2009, 02:50:18 AM »

What happens when she moves in back home? Is there some sort of goal she's working towards or obstacle she's trying to overcome? If you could post this info it would help me try to contribute something more (fingers crossed!) useful. 
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« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2009, 09:18:10 PM »

Thanks i will sleep on it and will rework it tommorow
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« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2009, 08:44:09 PM »

A sex-crazed party girl loses her job and moves home to live with her wacked-out dysfunctional family.

I see some problems with this premise ...

If they're all nutty, they're alike ... that means there's no conflict ... that means it's boring.

Make either her or them complete opposites ... either she's a nympho-Hooters-ho-cum-party-girl or she's Pollyanna's long-lost sister
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The family is ultra-religious perfect do-gooders who live utopian (but boring) lives or they're so raunchy their trailer-trash neighbors ran them out of the trailer park for giving the park a bad name.

When they're opposites, you've got trouble "right here in River City" ... and the potential for lots of laughs. When things don't seem to be going well in developing a storyline ... "pull a 180" and take a totally opposite approach.
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« on: October 05, 2009, 08:16:35 PM »

i am having trouble coming up with a logline

A sex crazed party girl is fired from her job at Hooters after she dumps a drink on a customer who tried to fill her up. So goes home to find out that she has been evicted and all her stuff is sitting outside. She is forced to move back home with her parents. Her Dysfunctional family includes her mom who is having a mid life crisis and starts playing with dolls. Her father who is a plumber and is obsessed with westerns.  And her younger brother who has a crush on his sister. She finds living at home hard to do with all their rules.

i don't know if this will help any
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