JML Films LLC
CHANCE DAY
LO G L I N E
When two, completely different women have their diagnoses switched - one with only 30 days to live, they change their lives and others’ too.
S Y N O P S I S
HEALTH INSURANCE EXECUTIVE ALEX ARMSTRONG is awarded a reserved parking spot and a trophy for keeping her corporation in the black.
In between puffs on her suicidal sticks, CAFETERIA LADY VINE STEWART imparts the hard truth without a filter to second graders, particularly to ZADIE, Alex’s daughter.
On a chance day at a busy Portland hospital, the fatal prognosis is given to the wrong woman with a time stamp of 30 days.
Now faced with precious time running out, Alex pulls her Zadie out of school to give her a different kind of education.
Inspired by Henri Matisse and his sheer determination to make art even into his eighties and while ill, Alex emulates her muse.
At night, she paints her last messages to her daughter on public buildings around the city.
Meanwhile, Vine still works at the same elementary school that her daughter Gracie had attended. She is mad at God for taking her daughter and her husband away too soon.
At recess, Vine delivers the life advice to the second graders that she was saving for her daughter.
Soon, the girls begin to confide in Vine about their silenced situations at their homes.
Vine helps the girls, and their mothers get out of bad situations.
Back at the overcrowded and understaffed hospital, the women’s new doctor DR. MORRISON, discovers the switched diagnoses were delivered by an actor, who was once a successful child actor on TV.
This “DR. BRACKETT” practices his craft whenever and wherever he could.
Dr. Morrison frantically tries to reach both, although neither answers her calls.
Across the city, Alex is awarded, not arrested, for her guerrilla art, but collapses at the public event.
Vine has quit smoking, landed her dream of becoming a pilot - yet is knocked down on the soccer field when coaching the girls on the same day.
Both women are rushed to the hospital and into the same room.
Dr. Morrison tells Alex her health condition is due not only to chronic sleep-deprivation, severe dehydration, and anxiety, but also because she is pregnant.
While Vine cannot escape the fatal effects of smoking, she does leave a lasting impact on others during the time she had and can be reunited with her family.
G E N R E S
Drama, Women’s Empowerment, Art, Inspirational, Comedy, Cancer, Environment, Family
CHANCE DAY
an original screenplay by Jill Murphy Long
© 2018 WGA# 160141
JML Films
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Special THANKS to the cast and crew, who help to make this concept trailer!
C R E W
DP/Editor Sambaran Chatterjee
AD Hailee More
Sound Callie Day
HMUS Natalie Bruno
BTS Photographer Jessea Grayson
PA Deb Gatiss
Original Song HUMAN and Soundtrack by Moe Kingsley!
C A S T
ALEX Ashley Strom
HOMELESS LADY Jill Sughrue
COLLEGE STUDENT Tida Gherman
ARTIST Deb Gatiss
VINE Brynn Baron SAG
ZADIE Lilian McNeil
CARYN Lily Crow
MOLLY Bela Willmott
LYNDA, CARYN’S MOM Tam Marshall
PRINCIPAL WELTZER Tim Peterson
E X T R A S
Basketball kid Xilena Hardy
Basketball kid Jada Gamboa
Basketball kid Cody Leo
Cellphone kid Austin Leo
Soccer kid James Leo
Cellphone kid David Ingram
Basketball center Angelina Handris
Parent Tonya Osborn
Basketball kid Etta Isles
Cellphone kid Nora Isles
Parent Abby Isles
Cellphone kid Boris Willmott
Cellphone kid Salena Cachola
Soccer kid Olivia Jordan
Soccer kid Thatcher Peterson
Basketball kid Jaca Gamboa
Parent Debbie England
Parent Thuy Phan-Willmott
Parent Debra Schulman
Parent Quynh Nguyen
Parent Nelly Leo
Parent Jenifer Gamboa
Parent Cory Cachola
Thank you to everyone including Jessica More and Katie O’Grady of The Studio NW!
No women or minors were harmed in the making of this video.
Thank you for supporting an indie female filmmaker.