"My Imaginary Friends"

Tagline – “A Little Confidence Is All You Need”

“25 words or less” Summary– An awkward, eleven year old boy gains the confidence he needs to ask a girl to the school dance by beating a video game

Full Summary:
Bernie is an awkward eleven year old boy who is constantly bullied at school. He asks his secret crush Beatrice, a similarly awkward girl, to the big Fall dance but she declines because she’s afraid what others will think and say. Dejected, Bernie heads home and confides in his stuffed animals – specifically Murray (a dog), Theodore (a teddy bear) and Mr. Elephant - that they’re his only true friends.

As he’s about to doze off for an afternoon nap, his parents surprise him with an early birthday present – the popular “Chronicles of Prince Valor” video game. Re-energized, Bernie plays the game all day and night when he’s not in school and he daydreams about it when he’s in school. Obsessed, he ends up beating the game within only a few days. Realizing that he has nothing else to do afterwards, Bernie quickly falls asleep right after the game ends.

Once asleep he enters into a vivid dream that places him in the video game as Prince Valor. Murray, his loyal servant, tells him that Princess Adorable has been kidnapped by the evil dragon of Gloomy Glen. After initial reservations, Prince Valor builds up enough confidence to lead the charge to find the Princess.

This sets them forth on an adventure across the kingdom, where Prince Valor and Murray battle bats, spiders, snakes, red ants and an evil vendor looking to kidnap the prince for ransom but who’s also carrying the mystical Sword of Alchemy which could help defeat the dragon. Along the way, they meet Theodore, a curious teddy bear in a forest, and Mr. Elephant, who saves them from a stampede in the Great Savanna, and they join the adventure.

All four of them go to Gloomy Glen to battle the dragon and rescue the Princess. The dragon quickly gets the upper hand and treats Prince Valor just like the school bully treats Bernie. Valor gets fed up and devises a plan to defeat the dragon and free Princess Adorable. Once freed, the Princess, Prince and his friends dance outside the dragon’s castle in celebration.

Bernie wakes up from his dream with a renewed sense of confidence and marches over to Beatrice’s house on Saturday morning to ask if she’ll accompany him to the dance that night. This time, he asks with much more confidence and she says yes. Later that night, they go to the dance together and dance the night away.

P.S. I wrote this as a 3-D animated feature, so keep that in mind when reading.
My Imaginary Friends Screenplay