Sample of One-sheet


WGA Registered

THE SENATOR’S WIFE

a suspense thriller
written by Charles Deemer

Logline: When Duane discovers that his "high school sweetheart", now a Senator's wife, gave birth to his son after graduation, he tries to meet the teenager. Instead he is drawn into a world of political blackmail, espionage and betrayal - with himself as the guinea pig.

Synopsis: Duane never really got over Jennifer, his high school sweetheart. When he sees her at their 15th high school reunion, a flood of memories and desire comes back. Then he learns that Jennifer was pregnant when she fled their small town for big city life. She put his son up for adoption.

Now the teenage boy has contacted her. But there’s a complication - Jennifer is married (albeit unhappily) to a conservative U.S. senator whose enemies would just love to learn that the senator’s wife had an illegitimate child. Will Duane meet the boy in her place? Duane agrees - and they spend the night together in a renewal of passion.

What follows is a series of surprises and reversals:

When the boy refuses to meet Duane, he hires an investigator and learns that the photograph Jennifer gave him is not of his real son.

Duane discovers that Jennifer has been having a long-term affair with one of her husband’s aides. She swears it is over.

Then the senator receives photographs of Jennifer visiting her illegitimate "son" (the boy posing as her son) and confronts her. Jennifer agrees to the public story that she was raped in high school. A potential blackmail has been turned into a courageous argument against abortion - and political victory.

Jennifer explains to Duane that she made this deal with her husband so she can get her freedom and they can be together. Duane falls for it.

The climax begins when it is discovered that secret documents are missing from the senator’s office. His press secretary, a woman who has a drug problem, is the prime suspect. But it is Jennifer who sells the documents to finance her flight to France - and when her real son appears as she is about to skip the country, she sends the boy to Duane.

Although Jennifer dupes Duane once again, having his son in his life is a new beginning.

To request a script:

1-800-xxx-xxxx

cdeemer@teleport.com