- Creator: Michael Ostrowski
- Genres: Science Fiction and Fantasy, Drama
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Time of Your Life
With a week remaining until her college graduation, Alice Martin has her
whole life rigidly planned. That's until her best friend gives her a birthday present she'll never
forget: a chance not only to see her future, but to live it briefly and
return to the present.
whole life rigidly planned. That's until her best friend gives her a birthday present she'll never
forget: a chance not only to see her future, but to live it briefly and
return to the present.
Synopsis:
ACT ONE
With a week remaining until her college graduation, ALICE MARTIN has her
whole life planned. She's marrying a budding politician named JEFFREY,
becoming a publishing mogul, and living happily ever after. That's until
MARIANA, her eccentric best friend, gives her a birthday present she'll never
forget: a chance not only to see her future, but to live it briefly and
return to the present.
TRAL, a brain scientist who looks and sounds like Johnny Cash, has discovered
that a person's existence keeps repeating over and over again (just like
Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence). He has proved our lives are like a
DVD, and that we're simply watching it through our eyes in linear time. But
Tral has invented a potion that allows us to skip ahead to different scenes
in the future.
ACT TWO
Alice is skeptical, but she eventually drinks the strange liquid. And just
like the character in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five", she becomes spastic
in time. Her first jump, 15 years into the future, shows that she's reached
her goal of owning a magazine. Unfortunately, Alice is being sued for libel
by Jeffrey, now her cheating ex-husband. The young woman's entire worldview
is decimated when she returns to the present.
Alice soon breaks off the engagement and begins dating JAKE- a hard drinking
musician who's a student of Zen. As their romance escalates, we learn that
Alice was once a very different person; as a kid she loved Goth music, snuck
out to clubs, and wrote poetry and fiction. More vaults into the future
prove that if she continues on the publishing track, she's in for a Citizen
Kane-like demise. So Alice decides to pursue her buried dream of being a
writer.
With her life completely turned upside down, Jeffrey returns pleading for
another chance. This plants doubt in the new rebel, and she wonders if she's
making things worse. In her next time jump Alice has abandoned writing for a
boring desk job. She's also left Jake, and is now dating a jealous drunk
who, suspecting infidelity, shoots her . . . sending Alice tumbling down a
flight of stairs.
ACT THREE
With a scream of terror Alice returns to the present. She still has
important choices to make, but the brush with death has convinced her to
savor the now instead of worrying about the future. Alice knows that she's
not ready to settle down with any guy or any job, and instead wants to focus
on leading an interesting life that can be put down on paper. She begins by
taking a trip to Europe with Mariana, where we leave them gazing out at Paris
from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
With a week remaining until her college graduation, ALICE MARTIN has her
whole life planned. She's marrying a budding politician named JEFFREY,
becoming a publishing mogul, and living happily ever after. That's until
MARIANA, her eccentric best friend, gives her a birthday present she'll never
forget: a chance not only to see her future, but to live it briefly and
return to the present.
TRAL, a brain scientist who looks and sounds like Johnny Cash, has discovered
that a person's existence keeps repeating over and over again (just like
Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence). He has proved our lives are like a
DVD, and that we're simply watching it through our eyes in linear time. But
Tral has invented a potion that allows us to skip ahead to different scenes
in the future.
ACT TWO
Alice is skeptical, but she eventually drinks the strange liquid. And just
like the character in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five", she becomes spastic
in time. Her first jump, 15 years into the future, shows that she's reached
her goal of owning a magazine. Unfortunately, Alice is being sued for libel
by Jeffrey, now her cheating ex-husband. The young woman's entire worldview
is decimated when she returns to the present.
Alice soon breaks off the engagement and begins dating JAKE- a hard drinking
musician who's a student of Zen. As their romance escalates, we learn that
Alice was once a very different person; as a kid she loved Goth music, snuck
out to clubs, and wrote poetry and fiction. More vaults into the future
prove that if she continues on the publishing track, she's in for a Citizen
Kane-like demise. So Alice decides to pursue her buried dream of being a
writer.
With her life completely turned upside down, Jeffrey returns pleading for
another chance. This plants doubt in the new rebel, and she wonders if she's
making things worse. In her next time jump Alice has abandoned writing for a
boring desk job. She's also left Jake, and is now dating a jealous drunk
who, suspecting infidelity, shoots her . . . sending Alice tumbling down a
flight of stairs.
ACT THREE
With a scream of terror Alice returns to the present. She still has
important choices to make, but the brush with death has convinced her to
savor the now instead of worrying about the future. Alice knows that she's
not ready to settle down with any guy or any job, and instead wants to focus
on leading an interesting life that can be put down on paper. She begins by
taking a trip to Europe with Mariana, where we leave them gazing out at Paris
from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Latest Work
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Script 2 - Michael's 2nd Draft06/29/12
All Work
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Script 1 - Michael's Original Draft06/30/11
