Standing Dead is a drama/tragedy screenplay in book format. The screenplay is 106 pages. In book format it is 168 pages.
Logline: Jealousy, lies, greed, and desire... Alex discovers too late that secrets can kill.
Synopsis: Alex, Chelsea, Phillip and Donna… college friends whose lives are tightly woven, in an era where being a little too naïve has a high price.
Alex and Phillip, friends since high school, share an apartment through college.
Neither Alex nor Phillip knows the definition of being faithful — each are masters of deception.
Graduation brings dental school for Chelsea, advertising for Phillip, law school for Donna, and a stock brokerage job for Alex where he eventually moves up to a corner office.
Alex and Chelsea tie the knot, and while Phillip is best man, he’s incensed.
Babies and affairs follow.
Phillip gets sick and dies, and the web of deceit begins to unravel.
Chelsea, no longer in the dark, leaves Alex. When their young son becomes ill, Chelsea is forced to leave her successful dental practice.
She must try to make a new life for herself and her children, and watch over her son’s health, and wait…
