Tagline – “One Man’s Quest To Find What He's Missing”
“25 words or less” – A New York
City man goes through elaborate means to find a woman he met on a subway platform
after accidentally losing her phone number
Full Summary:
Ben Farmer is a New York City commercial
real estate broker in his early-thirties who’s lucky in business but unlucky in
love. After a series of disastrous
relationships, each worse than the previous one, Ben finds himself at his wit’s
end with his personal life. Worst of
all, his frustrations have reached a tipping point where he’s totally soured on
the opposite sex.
This all changes on the night of a
heavy snowstorm with a chance encounter on a Union Square station subway
platform. While snaking his way through
the crowd of people waiting too long for the next subway to Brooklyn, Ben accidentally
bumps into Stephanie, a pretty girl also in her early-thirties, who was too
busy checking her email to notice she was walking right into someone.
After mutual apologies, the two
quickly strike up a conversation as they wait for their respective trains to
come. Wanting to continue their talk,
Stephanie decides to skip her train when it comes into the station opting
instead to wait for Ben’s train which she can take as well. When the train finally comes, their
conversation extends all the way to Stephanie’s stop in Brooklyn. After a few awkward moments, she offers Ben
her cell phone number which he takes down just as the doors close.
Elated, Ben breaks into song once
he gets out of the subway in his Bay Ridge neighborhood. In an homage to Gene Kelly’s “Singin’ in the
Rain,” Ben sings and dances down the street during the heavy snowstorm. As he sings, he also playfully throws
snowballs, high-fives and hugs strangers, swings around a streetlight pole, helps
an old lady cross the street, twirls an umbrella over his head, stomps through
puddles of slush and makes a snow angel on the sidewalk; all while professing
his love for his new love, Stephanie.
But there’s one major problem that
suddenly tempers his overwhelming excitement, Ben makes a shocking discovery as
he checks his phone when he gets to his apartment building…he never saved
Stephanie’s number.
Undeterred, Ben decides to use the
power of internet search the next morning to find Stephanie based on the scant information
he was able to pick up during their conversation. He combs through countless
Facebook profiles and checks LinkedIn but comes up with nothing. He even goes so far as to create a “missed
connections” post on Craigslist but this doesn’t get him closer to finding
Stephanie either.
He decides that more elaborate
methods are in order so he enlists one of his best friends, and co-workers, to help
him stakeout Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square where she works for the
company as a buyer. This also doesn’t
create any tangible leads.
While Ben conducts his seemingly
fruitless search both on- & offline, Stephanie laments to her younger
sister, Kate, that Ben never called or even bothered to text her. This leads to a wider conversation where she
expresses her frustrations over finding that one true gentleman that she’s
looking for within a city of millions.
After a long night at a club, she even goes so far as to break into song
at a late night pizza joint about her desire to find “the one.”
After nothing else works, Ben
decides to make one last ditch effort to find Stephanie against the advice of
his friends and co-workers who think it’s best for him to finally move on. This time he goes to Williamsburg on a Sunday
afternoon to explore the coffee shops, brunch hot spots and laundromats that
line the busy streets in her neighborhood.
He admits it’s a “Hail Mary” attempt but in his mind he’s all out of
options and he doesn’t want to give up on finding who he believes is his one
true love.
Will Ben eventually find Stephanie? If so, what will her reaction to him be? Will they ever go on that elusive first date that both have wanted since the day they met each other? These questions and more will be answered in this romantic comedy / musical hybrid which aims to tell an inspirational story of hope, desire, dream fulfillment and the power of persistence.
Missed You Screenplay
Will Ben eventually find Stephanie? If so, what will her reaction to him be? Will they ever go on that elusive first date that both have wanted since the day they met each other? These questions and more will be answered in this romantic comedy / musical hybrid which aims to tell an inspirational story of hope, desire, dream fulfillment and the power of persistence.
Missed You Screenplay
