The Island of Misfit Toys
The Island of Misfit Toys
Feature
· Drama · 140 pages
Status: Spec
When the Vatican hires cold-blooded fixer the Mantis and unstable Vermont psychoanalyst Thomas to solve the pedophile priest problem once and for all, Thomas uses his crackpot therapy techniques to usher in a return to the Church's golden age of Inquisitions, but a young altar server's quest to find a missing priest turns everything upside down.
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Written by
Ben Johnson
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Vermont
Formed by the long shadow of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, Ben ran far away, but those pumpjacks and red dirt will always be his homeland. He started as an outsider – A fat kid in a skinny world, a free thinker in an evangelical theocracy – and he kept himself an outsider, whether he liked it or not. He ran so far that now he’s snuck up on himself from be...
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Additional Project Info
Part of the Vermont Screenplay Incubator Program; Staged reading of selected scenes at the 2024 Made Here Film Festival in Burlington VT.