5th Down
5th Down
Television (Half-hour)
· Comedy · 35 pages
After his 5th D.U.I., a former star high-school quarterback (and current f*ck-up) is forced by the court to go back to his small hometown — a LITERAL sports movie parody come to life — where he must win as the new football coach or else land in prison.
Written by
Brian Allen
1 Accolade
Accolade Highlights
Quarterfinalist,
ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2017
1 Writer
Los Angeles, CA
Brian writes about f-ups a lot. He’s not one, but he spent enough time there to be deeply credible.
Brian’s joke-heavy scripts explore hilarious topics like addiction, mental health, homelessness, and personal crisis. Sometimes broad, sometimes dark, the comedy disarms audiences so they can connect with what the stories are really about: the types...
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Our hero Vince must navigate all our favorite tropes: crooked boosters and angry townies; a sensitive kid with a no-time-for-nonsense (and very hot) single mom; a scrappy kid who works in a steel mill somehow; old man characters who do things like sharpen skates a lot; kids who learn they can escape the ghetto and cycles of violence with discipline and cone drills…