Creative Notes:
This really isn't a true revision. I just looked at the weird gaps that occurred when I went from Final Draft to Rich Text. I should have done that before I uploaded the "first" version.
Visitation Rites
After his divorce, a successful financial consultant takes his son on a vacation, in which he discovers life, love, and his place on the F.B.I.'s Most-Wanted list.
Project collaboration:
Open
Synopsis:
Successful financial consultant Robert Stanforth lives in a comfortable little world. He has everything a man with his wealth could hope for, and then some. A large house in an upper-middle class neighborhood, two luxury cars, a country club membership . . . a teenaged son whom he barely knows, and a wife who loathes him.
One night at supper, Robert’s wife Elizabeth surprises him with an announcement. She is tired of living with passionless zombie and she wants a divorce. Although a fighter in the business world, Robert capitulates on the domestic front. Elizabeth gets her divorce, the house, and a hefty monthly alimony payment. Robert is awarded something he’d rather do without: a weekend per month and a month during summer visitation rights with his teenaged son Jacob.
Forced by his ex-wife’s trip to the Caribbean, Robert takes a month off from the office for his court-ordered visitation. Jacob talks his reluctant father into taking a real vacation. On this trip into the desert, they accidentally team up with a neo-hippie couple on their way back from a “business trip” to Mexico, a group of vintage hippies from a desert commune, a bandit known as the “Desert Robin Hood,” and a Navajo family, especially Violet, with whom he falls in love. In an attempt to aid the “Desert Robin Hood” on his last heist so that he can retire and start a foundation to help the Navajo, Robert unintentionally becomes Number Three on the F.B.I.’s Most Wanted Fugitives list.
VISITATION RITES is a coming-of-age comedy in which the hero comes of age in middle age.
One night at supper, Robert’s wife Elizabeth surprises him with an announcement. She is tired of living with passionless zombie and she wants a divorce. Although a fighter in the business world, Robert capitulates on the domestic front. Elizabeth gets her divorce, the house, and a hefty monthly alimony payment. Robert is awarded something he’d rather do without: a weekend per month and a month during summer visitation rights with his teenaged son Jacob.
Forced by his ex-wife’s trip to the Caribbean, Robert takes a month off from the office for his court-ordered visitation. Jacob talks his reluctant father into taking a real vacation. On this trip into the desert, they accidentally team up with a neo-hippie couple on their way back from a “business trip” to Mexico, a group of vintage hippies from a desert commune, a bandit known as the “Desert Robin Hood,” and a Navajo family, especially Violet, with whom he falls in love. In an attempt to aid the “Desert Robin Hood” on his last heist so that he can retire and start a foundation to help the Navajo, Robert unintentionally becomes Number Three on the F.B.I.’s Most Wanted Fugitives list.
VISITATION RITES is a coming-of-age comedy in which the hero comes of age in middle age.
Latest Work
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Script 2 - T. K.'s 2nd Draft12/23/10
All Work
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Script 1 - T. K.'s Original Draft12/21/10
Creative Notes:After becoming a finalist in a long-ago Scriptapalooza competition yet receiving no bites from agents, directors, or producers, this project got shelved, but taken off the shelf for occasional tweaking. Here is the latest!