{"id":432,"date":"2021-02-27T02:31:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T02:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptharmony\/?p=432"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:09:02","slug":"conreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/2021\/02\/27\/conreading\/","title":{"rendered":"Conreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 pages. Comedy<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Logline<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nDuring a reading, a fake medium suffers a life-changing near-death experience that could change the course of his career.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cast<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>CONNOR O&#8217;NEIL: (late 20\u2019s early 30\u2019s) a lanky conman who poses as a medium to scam wealthy elderly people. He is a master in the art of bullshitting. He prides himself on his ability to talk himself out of any problem. A malicious charmer.<\/p>\n<p>ESTHER SMITH (80\u2019s to \u201990s) a classic sweet grandma whose mind is just starting to slow down. She had a wild (and promiscuous) youth and she misses her late husband Richard.<\/p>\n<p>LINDSEY SMITH (mid 20\u2019s) a new age astrology girl who\u2019s obsessed with crystals, auroras, and star signs. She\u2019s technologically savvy and fiercely protective of her grandmother Ester. She sees right through Connor\u2019s scam.<\/p>\n<p>RICHARD SMITH (40\u2019s) Ester\u2019s late husband, and soulmate. He\u2019s a macho military man who acts like a classic, no-nonsense, tough-talking fifties, man. He cares deeply about Ester and doesn\u2019t appreciate a scammer like Connor taking advantage of her.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Locations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>INT. ESHTER&#8217;S HOUSE, an upper-middle-class home tastefully decorated, with a shrine to her fallen husband.<\/p>\n<p>The Writer\u2019s written permission MUST be obtained BEFORE the script can be submitted for approval.<br \/>\nWritten by Jacob Rattner.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/Rattner@chapman.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rattner@chapman.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2026\/03\/Conreading-Final-Draft.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conreading Screenplay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 pages. Comedy Logline During a reading, a fake medium suffers a life-changing near-death experience that could change the course of his career. Cast CONNOR O&#8217;NEIL: (late 20\u2019s early 30\u2019s) a lanky conman who poses as a medium to scam<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/2021\/02\/27\/conreading\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-pages","category-comedy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}