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  1. The Mysterious Disappearance MT3000

    The Mysterious Disappearance

    By Kirt Shineman.

    Product Code: MT3000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 1m, 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 100 min.
    It is December 1975, after Christmas, and Agatha Christie must finish her autobiography and the final novel before the new year. Yet, Agatha is fixated on an event in her past when Nancy Neele stole her husband. With Mary Westmacott’s help, they contemplate what it would be like to kill Nancy. Even though Agatha considered murdering Nancy, did she really do it, or is her reality disappearing? Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. Beauty and the Beast BN3000

    Beauty and the Beast

    By Max Bush.

    Product Code: BN3000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | TYA
    • 5 to 9m., 7 to 11w., 4 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    In this version of Beauty and the Beast, young Prince Beaumont is turned into a beast when he rebuffs the advances of an older fairy and is to remain cursed until a young woman consents to marry him of her own free will. After trespassing on palace grounds, Beauty’s father reluctantly trades Beauty’s freedom for his own life at the Beast’s behest. As Beauty and the Beast struggle to understand each other, their journey is fraught with difficulty, doubt and danger. Learn More
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  3. Keep on Laughing K48000

    Keep on Laughing

    By Paul Elliott.

    Product Code: K48000

    • Comedy
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 4w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    The ladies of Exit Laughing are back, but now Connie’s daughter, Rachel, has married her 28-year-old stripper boyfriend, Bobby, and they are expecting twins. Connie, Leona and Millie have been touring the world and having the time of their lives, but one of their adventures has gotten out of hand. Connie has met a man in Paris, and he’s proposed to her. Everyone should be happy, but Rachel and Bobby are not—Connie’s new boyfriend is the same age as Bobby. Learn More
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  4. The Bachelorette Party BN4000

    The Bachelorette Party

    By Karen Schaeffer.

    Product Code: BN4000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Dot, Meg, Carol and Ellie are back in Dot’s Northwoods cabin for Meg’s bachelorette party, but Meg and Sheriff Tom Lane have other ideas—a secret plan to elope at the cabin that night while everyone else is still out for the party. Carol and Ellie make similar secret plans to rendezvous with their respective men, Rick and Bubba, making the cabin a bit more crowded than Meg and Tom had anticipated. Throw in Dot’s stash of “special” cookies, an ex-lover and a B and E, and you have a full-blown night of hilarious chaos. Learn More
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  5. Checking In CT5000

    Checking In

    By Tracy Wells.

    Product Code: CT5000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 3 to 6m., 4 to 6w., 5 to 20 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Checking In tells a lifetime of stories including an expectant mom going into labor, a teenager learning to see the world beyond a screen, a couple finding love, the craziness of traveling with kids and, finally, waiting too long to take that dream vacation. These stories, and more, reflect the theme that “life is a journey—travel it well” and remind us that as we travel through life, it's the people we journey with who make it special. Learn More
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  6. Miss Holmes Returns MS7000

    Miss Holmes Returns

    By Christopher M. Walsh. Based on characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    Product Code: MS7000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3 to 5m., 6 to 7w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    A nurse and activist finds herself on the run, wanted for murder. Pursued by authorities who choose to ignore a clear case of self-defense due to her Indian heritage and influence from sinister figures from the shadowy criminal underworld, she turns to Miss Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Dorothy Watson for help. Miss Holmes Returns explores the added challenges and risks faced by these iconic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle characters if they were women, while also examining the intersections of sexism, classism and racism. Learn More
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  7. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd MS6000

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    Adapted by Philip Grecian. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie.

    Product Code: MS6000

    • Drama | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7 to 8m., 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    In the small village of King’s Abbot, Mrs. Ferrars admits to her fiancé, Roger Ackroyd, that she had murdered her husband a year earlier and was being blackmailed to keep the murder a secret. Later, Ackroyd himself is murdered as he sits in his study, and detective Hercule Poirot is called out of retirement to investigate. Every servant and acquaintance in the household at the time of Ackroyd’s murder has something to hide—but who did it? And why? Learn More
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  8. Escaping the Labyrinth

    Escaping the Labyrinth

    By Thomas Hischak.

    Product Code: E97000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3 to 7m., 1 to 3w.
    • 95 min.
    In 1951, Bud encounters a disconcerting man who reveals himself to be a Greek god seeking passage to the Underworld to finally be at peace. Bud dismisses the man as crazy, but seven years later, he finds and falls in love with a waitress whom he knows to be the goddess Artemis. She flees, and for the next 40 years, Bud encounters various gods and goddesses in disguise, but not her. In the end, an elderly Bud finally finds Artemis, who invites him to join her in the Underworld, where they can spend eternity together. Learn More
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  9. Launch Day (Love Stories From the Year 2108) LN6000

    Launch Day (Love Stories From the Year 2108)

    By Michael Higgins.

    Product Code: LN6000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3 to 5m., 3 to 5w., 1 to 3 any gender.
    • 90 min.
    Told through a series of two-actor scenes, Launch Day (Love Stories From the Year 2108) follows six couples struggling with relationship issues in a high-tech but perilous future. These couples face challenges including a robotic arm gone rogue, advertising firms pushing products by implanting computer chips into participants’ heads, genetically engineered hybrid animals like the buffadillo and pandaroo and AI supervisors that may or may not be sentient. Learn More
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  10. MLM Is for Murder (or, Your Side Hustle Is Killing Us)

    MLM Is for Murder (or, Your Side Hustle Is Killing Us)

    By John Bavoso.

    Product Code: MS1000

    • Comedy | Satire
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 4w.
    • 120 min.
    Side hustles—it seems like everybody has at least one these days. For Minerva Ross, it is to write and narrate her own feminist true crime podcast about how and why women commit murder. Across the country, Felicity Evanston has just started selling ridiculously patterned leggings for a multilevel marketing company. The two haven’t crossed paths in years, but when Felicity starts killing off her competition, both women suddenly experience the kind of overnight success they’ve been so desperately craving. Learn More
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