THE
WATCH
MAKER.
(A
Screenplay by Chris Nand).
112 pages.
TAG
LINE
Tag Line: A character driven gangster movie set
in Europe in the 1980's. Underneath the shadowy world of drugs and money
laundering moves a figure seemly destined to die with only his own skill keeping him alive.
PRODUCTION COST: LOW TO MODERATE.
SYNOPSIS
The
shadowy figure of the Watch Maker moves against a background of hard hitting
gangsters operating in Spain. Can he survive when even his girlfriend plots to kill him after he refuses to marry her? Never married, but looking after his 12 year
old daughter the Watch Maker struggles to balance his life.
Sue,
the close friend of a girl that saved his life during a 'drugs run' plane crash -
planned by money launderer Mr. Miller - suddenly needs his protection. With
one drug consignment already missing and another under threat the Watch Maker sets
out to find and kill Mr. Miller before Miller kills them both.
Meanwhile,
in a remote countryside bar where a Heavy Gang and some International Hoods regularly
meet, sometimes under open police surveillance, life tenses up for the bar manager,
Chris. The bar's madman 'Jeckell and Hyde' con-artist owner Paco tries to force him to leave so that he can take another
30,000 pounds fee from yet another unsuspecting English tenant.
Then as a number of his
clients suffer mysterious deaths Chris and his wife discover that their two
children are part of an animal liberation movement. They have broken into the
loosely guarded narcotics factory run by some of their clients who are now
looking for the children. Can the Watch Maker save them, and Sue, while
watching his own back?
Including
short scenes from the famous Pamplona Tomato festival, tense moments as the children
try to stop a Bull Fight; distracting topless girls in the beach scenes, one as
a Microlight crashes during a hit, and the prostitution slave trade from Morocco,
this screenplay packs plenty of punches in more ways than one...
*******
Star Writers' Literary Agency.
