"Spring Break"

Tagline – “A Spring Break They’ll Never Forget”

“25 words or less” – A Mexican Drug Cartel kidnaps a beautiful college girl on Spring Break in Cancun and attempts to sell her into slavery with a rival cartel

Full summary:
Amanda Beckett, a beautiful blonde college student from Chicago, goes to Cancun on Spring Break with her boyfriend and two other friends for a week’s worth of “fun in the sun.” After their first day of relaxation and beer funneling on the beach, the group decides to kick up the party before they hit the clubs at night by scoring some drugs. Amanda’s boyfriend, Michael, and his friend, Brendan, approach a couple of shady-looking Mexicans at a bar looking for drugs, they in turn direct them to a safe house away from the watchful eye of law enforcement.

While making the drug deal at the house, Amanda becomes incredibly uncomfortable as she feels several of the drug dealers undressing her with their eyes. Michael comforts her and once they make their deal they go back to the hotel for some hard partying before going out at night. Later that night in the club, the friends get rowdy on the dance floor and at the bar; really enjoying their freedom as college kids on Spring Break. Unbeknownst to them, several of the drug cartel associates followed them to the club and watch them from a far, especially Amanda. After a while, one of the associates drugs Amanda’s drink when she’s not paying attention.

After Michael goes to the bathroom and her other two friends leave, a disoriented Amanda stumbles out of the club by herself. The cartel associates follow her out and abduct her down the street. There is a glimmer of hope when two police officers see this going down and approach Amanda. However in Mexico, the drug cartels have more power than the local police and they end up bribing the cops to turn the other way and leave.

Michael emerges from the bathroom of the club and his world is quickly turned upside down when he can’t find Amanda anywhere. He searches high and low for her in the club but can’t find her anywhere so he runs back to the hotel, grabs his other two friends and they start searching for her.

The cartel holds Amanda back at the safe house and makes a deal to sell her to a rival Mexican cartel that has formulated a plan to ship kidnapped girls from Cancun to Southeast Asian countries where they’ll be sold into the sex trade. Amanda is quickly transported to the Port of Yucatan later that afternoon where she will be sold to the rival cartel and put on a cargo ship to Thailand. To keep her in line, the cartel feeds her a steady stream of heroin to keep her mellow and non-combative.

When the local police offer no help to find his girlfriend, Michael decides to take matters into his own hands. With the help of Brendan, the two go to a shady marketplace in a rundown part of town to buy guns and then go back to the safe house since they have a sneaking suspicion the drug dealers know her whereabouts.

The two friends show up at the house just minutes after Amanda is moved from it, but Michael is able to get one of the drug dealers that were left behind to talk and tell them where they took her. It becomes a race against time for Michael to catch up to the cartel before they reach the Port of Yucatan and transport his girlfriend, Amanda, onto the cargo ship heading to Thailand.
Spring Break Screenplay