As a parent of three children, I have learned that it is in the ability to make the hardest decisions - and the ones that often have proven to be the most painful for me - that have helped my children the most, but this knowledge and understanding only comes with experience, objectivity, and if you're lucky, a great teammate (Thank God I have a wife!). Parents should never be best friends with their kids – that's a recipe for disaster. The same goes for your screenplay; it is NOT your friend. And just as the parent-child relationship is not equal, nor is the…

Screenplay Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy Movie Time: 107 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Tugg Speedman’s (Ben Stiller) future career rests on the film Tropic Thunder – a film based on the memoirs of John “Four Leaf” Tayback (Jeff Bridges). Unfortunately, filming is going terribly. It all accumulates when the crew detonates an explosion at the wrong time – causing millions in lost production expenses. (00:12:13)