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Stranglehold
by Christina Hazelwood
GUILT: That gnawing sensation in the pit of your stomach. That ever-present feeling that you did something wrong. That what you did wasn't good enough and whatever you're doing now, isn't good enough either. It stops you in your tracks. You can't move forward and you can't go back either.

This is the feeling Stan wakes up to every morning. It eats away at his self-esteem, preventing him from taking action, any action. And this is where we find him when our story opens...

"Stranglehold" is a feature-length, character-driven, mystery/thriller screenplay about living a lie. Stan, a soft-spoken botanist, becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre murders, bucking up against a hard-nosed police detective, in the midst of midlife crisis. The two push against each other as the truth unfolds in a tale with a twist.

In movie speak this screenplay is: We invite you to read the reviews and screenplays for these films, then compare them with ours. Email us your request to read "Stranglehold."

"Collateral" meet "The Relic"
Quote from "Collateral" Producer/Director Michael Mann that could be said of "Stranglehold:"
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"What I thought was brilliant about the script when I first read it was the simple dialectic of these two different lives coming together and colliding..."
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