{"id":1639,"date":"2025-03-12T20:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T20:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:14:31","slug":"a-happy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/2025\/03\/12\/a-happy-place\/","title":{"rendered":"A Happy Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logline: After her daughter\u2019s tragic death, a grieving mother struggles with her feelings about the convicted murderer\u2019s execution, and as everyone around her pushes their own opinions, she realizes she must confront her true emotions before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p>Page Count: 8<\/p>\n<p>Genre: Drama<\/p>\n<p>Characters:<br \/>\nJUDGE (40s) \u2014 A stern purveyor of justice.<br \/>\nSARAH (30s) \u2014 A mother tortured by the guilt and grief of her daughter&#8217;s death.<br \/>\nSARAH&#8217;S MOTHER (60s) \u2014 Nearly gleeful at the prospect of the prisoner&#8217;s death.<br \/>\nPRISONER (40s)<br \/>\nOFFICER 1 (40s)<br \/>\nOFFICER 2 (40s)<br \/>\nFR. MATTHEW (60s) \u2014 A calm priest who wishes for a more peaceful world.<\/p>\n<p>Locations:<br \/>\nINT. Courtroom<br \/>\nEXT. Graveyard<br \/>\nINT. Prison<br \/>\nINT\/EXT. Chapel<br \/>\nEXT. McDonald&#8217;s Parking Lot<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nSofia Caliento caliento@chapman.edu<\/p>\n<p>Read Here: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2026\/03\/A-Happy-Place_-Sofia-Caliento-optional-3rd-draft.pdf-1.pdf\">A-Happy-Place<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logline: After her daughter\u2019s tragic death, a grieving mother struggles with her feelings about the convicted murderer\u2019s execution, and as everyone around her pushes their own opinions, she realizes she must confront her true emotions before it&#8217;s too late. Page<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/2025\/03\/12\/a-happy-place\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-pages","category-drama"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}