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Complete List
with Descriptions |
880103-881211
TOUGH LOVE
| ID: |
880103 |
| Description: |
Family members are faced with the
dilemma of deciding the proper course of action when another family member has been
arrested for DUI and calls his sister to post bail. Past efforts to help this individual
have resulted in repeat offenses. A counselor from the Tough Love Foundation has been
dispatched to assist them in their decision. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
5 * |
| Time: |
6 min. |
THE HOME COMING
| ID: |
880110 |
| Description: |
The wife of a former city councilman
who has recently completed a seven year prison sentence for tax fraud and possession of
cocaine with the intent to distribute, fends off the press as they swarm in to film the
return of her husband from prison. She expresses that the past is past and looks to the
future with optimism. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
6 * |
| Time: |
7 min. |
A FRIEND IN NEED
| ID: |
880117 |
| Description: |
Gossiping office co-workers are
concerned that a friend/co-worker is overly depressed as they believe his engagement and
wedding have been called off and that he is leaving the company. They later discover that
all was a misunderstanding. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
6 * |
| Time: |
10 min. |
KEITH, ARE YOU LISTENING?
| ID: |
880124 |
| Description: |
After struggling through three days
of mid-term exams, two college students return to their dorm room exhausted. While one
attempts to sleep, the other, who cannot, struggles with the relationship he has with his
girlfriend. In an effort to complete his course work before making the commitment to
marriage, he has broken off the relationship and now finds that it has suddenly taken a
mental priority over his previous plans. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
7 min. |
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
| ID: |
880131 |
| Description: |
As the director of Great
Expectations Inc. leads a perspective franchise buyer through the office, they consider
the wide open market for ‘commercially meeting people’s personal
expectations’ and notice the success of the operators, whose catch phrase is
‘Well, what did you expect?’. Just before the buyer is ready to sign on the
bottom line the phone lines jam with angry callers expecting their expectations be met.
Two disgruntled ‘Expectants’ enter and resolve their own problems when they
refuse to pay the exorbitant bill. The perspective franchiser tears up the contract and
when questioned why, simply states, ‘Well, what did you expect?’ |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
7 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
I COULD USE SOME
ENCOURAGEMENT
| ID: |
880207 |
| Description: |
A man’s despair is quelled by
his good friend after his friend, who took the man’s advice (regarding the landing of
a business account) and failed, takes the initiative to encourage and uplift his buddy
knowing he had his best intentions at heart. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
6 min. |
THE DILEMMA
| ID: |
880214 |
| Description: |
A single man discovers that his
neighbor (the single woman he secretly desires) actually has a personality behind the form
when he meets her on his (and her’s) first visit to ‘Video Dating’ where
the encounter initiates a friendship between them. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
7 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
THE GIRL OF MY DREAMS
| ID: |
880221 |
| Description: |
When two single friends meet for
lunch, one discovers that the reason he has not seen his friend in "circulation"
is that he has found ‘the girl of his dreams’. He soon comes to find that
although his friend had committed to achieving certain goals in life prior to looking for
a partner, he made adjustments when the special someone presented herself which were not
at all what he, himself had envisioned. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
7 min. |
THE COUCH POTATOES
| ID: |
880228 |
| Description: |
Two brothers who would rather
vegetate in front of the television watching endless sports telecasts (some of which are
reruns), make excuses and refuse to give up any free time to work-out with a third
brother. You only receive out of life what you put into it. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
2 * + 1 VO |
| Time: |
8 min. |
A DEBT OF GRATITUDE
| ID: |
880306 |
| Description: |
A very grateful gentleman attempts
to give a gift of money to a police officer who he has technically never met, but who
saved the life of his wife after a severe auto accident a year prior. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
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available on video tape!
THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING
| ID: |
880313 |
| Description: |
Two laboratory workers seek to
discover the reason why two male laboratory ‘exhibits’ respond differently to
identical office task stimuli. They soon realize that although one who had been a model
exhibit now appears lazy and non-focused. However, he in fact is responding to a stimulus
unwittingly given, which was not part of the controlled environment tests, i.e. an
encounter with the opposite sex. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
INTERPRETING THE FACTS
| ID: |
880320 |
| Description: |
An outside advisor highlights
attention to a likely financial loss if the acquisition by the company goes through. A
member of the company who has been researching the project, who is lost in his personal
pride, refuses to believe any negative aspect of the endeavor regardless of the facts.
Interpreting the facts your way will not change the truth. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
6 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
THE PRODIGAL SON / PART 1
| ID: |
880327 |
| Description: |
A guest at a party discovers a box
of letters (written by the host’s father) in the wee hours of the morning. The host
believes his father to be more a nuisance and threat to his freedom than his friend and,
treats the letters as less than significant. He further drives home the point by calling
his father to tell him to ‘just leave me alone’. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
5 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
THE PRODIGAL SON / PART 2
| ID: |
880403 |
| Description: |
Thomas refuses to ‘look in the
mirror’ and believe that any way but his own is correct. He continues in his
belligerent ways possibly to his own demise. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
5 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
MODEL FAMILY COMMUNICATION
| ID: |
880410 |
| Description: |
A writer takes a comical look at the
many ways families communicate with one another including: Ward & June Cleaver and
Ralph & Alice Cramden, to how a family of four would manage on a possibly typical work
day of a two income family via notes and answering machine. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
4 * + 1 VO |
| Time: |
7 min. |
WHERE DID THE YEARS GO?
| ID: |
880417 |
| Description: |
Too worn out from their own
day’s work, a mother and father usher their nine year old daughter out of the room to
do her homework on her own. They are confounded when suddenly confronted with a vision of
their ‘little girl’ at the age of 25 on her wedding day, reminiscing of her
childhood. When fantasy returns to reality and their nine year old enters the room, they
jump at the opportunity to help, recognizing the small window of time they have to share
with her before she’s grown and gone. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
PARENT AND PARENT, INC.
| ID: |
880501 |
| Description: |
A husband and wife are overwhelmed
when attempting to organize their ‘private’ business. The urgent matters to be
dealt with are pushed aside as the two complain and fiddle with the day to day activities
that they cannot seem to put to rest and that bind their time until it is mournfully clear
that they have overlooked the significant issues needing their immediate attention. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
10 min. |
TEA PARTY PHILOSOPHIES
| ID: |
880508 |
| Description: |
Three women gather for an afternoon
of tea and friendship where it is discovered that one of them has just learned that she is
pregnant. She is uncertain how to tell her husband of the news as she fears that he may
believe it was a mistake and would interfere with their life style. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
YOU MISS FIRST BASE
| ID: |
880515 |
| Description: |
Three fathers gather to organize a
little league team and prioritize the sequence of events. In an effort to intimidate a
posh image, they overlook the main ingredient to any organization: train the team members. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
THE DEHUMANIZATION FACTOR
| ID: |
880522 |
| Description: |
Earning the title "Salesperson
of the Month", a man enters a ‘greasy spoon’ cafe in the wee hours of the
morning and philosophizes with an incoherent wait person about the name tags society
places on individuals and what possible importance they could possibly mean. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
5 min. |
SO WHAT DID YOU DO?
| ID: |
880529 |
| Description: |
Employees of a company do nearly
everything to respond to the letters sent by the company president while he is away from
the business, by reading, memorizing, studying, meditating, and brooding over them. They,
however fail to perform and try to slough off their responsibility when the boss suddenly
returns, catching them off guard. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
JUST ONE MORE PLACE SETTING
| ID: |
880605 |
| Description: |
Siblings prepare for the graduation
luncheon for their brother and are overwhelmed when the quiet family gathering bursts into
a feast for the masses. God doesn’t want us closing doors just because of no room, he
wants us to love them and let Him take care of the provisions. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
3 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
THE GREAT AMERICAN SUCCESS
| ID: |
880612 |
| Description: |
Unfulfilled with the careers,
money-in-the-bank, beautiful home, and budding offspring that the "Great American
Success Story" has afforded them, a couple seeks psychological counseling. The Dr.
can’t understand how,with everything they possess, something is still missing?
Without God we know the point that is missing. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Parody-Satire |
| Actors: |
3 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
THE JERICHO PROJECT
| ID: |
880619 |
| Description: |
Approximately 2000 B.C. after
relaying the Lord’s instructions to one of his men, Joshua is whisked away in a dream
to a present day board meeting where his plans are ballyhooed and disregarded as absurd.
When he awakens to his own time, he discovers his men are assembled and ready to perform
as commanded. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
5 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
THE MARATHON RUNNER
| ID: |
880626 |
| Description: |
A runner is enticed into quitting a
race when his psyche is visited by ‘Diablo’ who tempts and makes excuses for him
to cease running. His reasoning nearly works until the runner, who tries, is unable to
stop himself and achieves his ‘second wind’, then is determined to finish. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
2 * + 1 extra |
| Time: |
8 min. |
ONCE UPON A TIME WHILE
WRITING
| ID: |
880710 |
| Description: |
Late at night, ‘writer’s
block’ plagues a man attempting to write on the subject of Servant/Leader. His wife,
striving to complete household chores prior to the family leaving on vacation the
following morning, unwittingly becomes an inspiration. Sometimes we need to do the work of
others before we understand the role of a Servant/Leader. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors |
2 * + 1 extra |
| Time: |
6 min. |
THE BIGGEST PAY-OFF
| ID: |
880717 |
| Description: |
When the D.A. makes a congressional
bid, his campaign is threatened when his opponent initiates a mischievous deed, intended
to be discovered by the press and cause the D.A.’s demise in the polls, by
instigating a large campaign contribution from an unscrupulous land baron which was
unknowingly accepted. His staff, unsure of the correct procedure to remedy the situation
finally decides to return the funds and make a public statement to the effect, thereby
beating the opponent to the punch and thus clearing the D.A.’s name. |
| Category: |
Drama, Melodrama |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
7 min. |
DRAWING THE WRONG CONCLUSION
| ID: |
880724 |
| Description: |
A senior layout artist striving to
land a large account for his firm, is ‘put in his place’ when he condescendingly
intimidates a representative of the prospective client’s firm, mistaking her for
another artist, when she arrives to review and tactfully assist him with his design. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
I FORGIVE YOU ALL RIGHT!
| ID: |
880731 |
| Description: |
A husband has difficulty
understanding his wife’s anger when he makes an off the cuff remark causing his wife
to question the sincerity of his apology from the previous night. The bickering that
ensues appears to be a way of life for them as they have extreme difficulty believing the
sincerity of the other. They are unwilling to forgive, forget, and go on with their
relationship. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
10 min. |
WHY SHOULD I FORGIVE HER?
| ID: |
880807 |
| Description: |
A father has difficulty forgiving
his ex-wife for the pain that she has caused him by instilling untruths about him in their
daughter. His brother and a friend try to help him overcome the ill will, for fear of it
adding to an already confused child caught in the middle. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
3 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
THE TRAIL OF ADAM ANYMAN
| ID: |
880814 |
| Description: |
Prior to meeting with the judge, a
man is confounded as to how to plea regarding the charges brought against him, knowing
full well that he is guilty of each and every charge. The bailiff explains that any and
every conceivable excuse has already been used and that no one has ever been acquitted
with a plea of not guilty. He finds hope and follows suit when another
‘criminal’ enters explaining that when he asked forgiveness, the judge set him
free. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
7 min. |
NO SIMPLE I’M SORRY
| ID: |
880821 |
| Description: |
A director untactfully attempts to
draw out, from an actress, the difficulty behind an attempt to forgive someone who has
taken full advantage of her. His attacks are so insensitive and brutal that when it is
questionable as to whether or not he is discussing his own life, he inflicts an emotional
strain so deep that the actress walks off the set, unable to forgive him. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Melodrama |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
10 min. |
FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME NOT
| ID: |
880904 |
| Description: |
When one of four contestants on a
game show is unwilling to forgive the others as part of a choice given in the game, he
ultimately eats "humble pie" in the end when "what goes ‘round, comes
‘round". |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
5 * + 1 extra |
| Time: |
9 min. |
THE GREAT COOKIE CAPER
| ID: |
880911 |
| Description: |
When the words of a note are
modified to suit their own needs, two sisters mislead their father and his friend in
helping them devour a plate of cookies baked specifically by Mom/wife for entry in a
baking contest. When Mom arrives and discovers the cover-up, the girls are ashamed and ask
to make amends. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
5 * |
| Time: |
11 min. |
AN UNFATHOMABLE SITUATION
| ID: |
880918 |
| Description: |
A member of a foursome expresses his
insatiable desire to become captain of his own ship as they vacation aboard a cruise
liner. He disregards their input when the very real dangers and draw backs to his desires
are outlined and questioned why he would seek to do so when there is someone ultimately
more qualified and experienced. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Twilight Zone |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
LOVE’S LABORS LEARNED
| ID: |
880924 |
| Description: |
A bride is overcome with joy on her
wedding day. She expresses to her brother, that she would again go through all the pain
and sorrow suffered in a past relationship, as she believes it strengthened and enabled
her to experience the love she now feels for the man she is about to marry. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
3 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
NO PAIN NO GAIN
| ID: |
881002 |
| Description: |
A man, spurned by a past
relationship, seeks out the woman (who was the object of his ‘affliction’), in a
fitness center, to thank her. The rejection forced him to re’examine areas of his
life, turning them into successful and positive attributes. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
3 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
THE GAMBLER
| ID: |
881009 |
| Description: |
A gambler gives his insight to the
deceptiveness of gambling from the hesitation of a beginner to the ‘all or
nothing’ individual. However, as he takes a spin on the roulette wheel, he confesses
that he, himself would not make a life and death wager without knowing that
‘owner’ of the club would personally fix the game, in his favor, for him. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
4 min. |
COMING HOME
| ID: |
881016 |
| Description: |
A woman tells the immigration story
of her family when her mother was a child. Holding onto a dream, with near overwhelming
feelings of uncertainty as to where ‘home’ was, they kept a vigilant watch for
what was promised and ultimately came to fruition. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
7 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
A RELIABLE SOURCE
| ID: |
881023 |
| Description: |
After fishing all day without a
bite, a fisherman is given information by a ranger that the stocking of the lake will be
occurring that afternoon. His buddies who have been fishing a short distance away return
to his location and attempt to tease him about the vast quantity of fish they’ve
caught. Not falling for it, he attempts to get his friends to believe that the best time
to fish is nearing and that they should join him asking them to follow on faith. They
refuse to believe him until the ranger returns, confirms the information and tells them to
be prepared for a ‘mad dash.’ |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
4 * |
| Time: |
8 min. |
THE MAIN EVENT
| ID: |
881030 |
| Description: |
A husband and wife square off in a
boxing rink and exchange verbal blows (followed with physical blows) regarding various
areas of discontent within their marriage. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
4 * + 1 extra |
| Time: |
11 min. |
I’LL BE THERE
| ID: |
881106 |
| Description: |
A husband and wife are at odds after
she expresses a need for help on the home front with the logistics of the children’s
schedule and he, though verbally loving and caring, is unwilling to change his outside
commitments to help her. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
6 min. |
TWO SHIPS PASSING
| ID: |
881113 |
| Description: |
Attempting to remedy an area of
discontent in their relationship, a married couple discover that over time they have come
to take one another for granted, something they have vowed never to do. |
| Category: |
Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
6 min. |
LIFE CAN BE A CROCK
| ID: |
881120 |
| Description: |
Not unlike the week and half old
split pea soup left in a crock pot and beginning a life of it’s own, a couple come to
terms that grievances between one another, when not addressed and remedied, cause ill will
t to fester and grow where they ultimately take on a life of their own. They learn that to
solve their differences they must honestly seek one another. |
| Category: |
Comedy-Drama, Slice of Life |
| Actors: |
2 * |
| Time: |
9 min. |
CHRISTMAS CATTLE CALL
| ID: |
881211 |
| Description: |
Two friends struggle with the fear
of being "sucked in" by the commercialization of Christmas. They are ultimately
pulled into the crowd by special announcements of items at bargain prices. We can easily
miss the love of God in the birth of His son, when we look at the trappings of the season. |
| Category: |
Comedy, Object Lesson |
| Actors: |
2 * + 1 VO, 8 extras |
| Time: |
8 min. |
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