An Original, Feature-Length Screenplay by Mark Barkawitz

Genre: Action/Adventure Dramady

Budget: Low-Medium to Medium

Logline: Gangs and cops chase a high school runaway out of L.A. and on a coming-of-age quest to find his estranged father in Zen.

Synopsis:
"Huck Finn" meets "Taxi Driver" in this ultra-contemporary, coming-of-age tale. Edward Huck is a sixteen-year-old, functionally-illiterate, high school runaway, who must overcome pursuit by gang-bangers, cops, the FBI, and henchmen in his quest to reach the supposed safety of his father's remote home in mythical Zen, Oregon. Eddie's childhood is dysfuctional: raised by his mother--a self-absorbed, aspiring actress and overweight dancer, who is falling in love with her parish priest--and estranged from his survivalist father--their only communication for the past ten years are the Christmas and birthday cards sent twice yearly from "Dad." Things only get worse in high school, where bad grades and gang-bangers torment Eddie. Julie Love, who sits behind him in Biology class, Driver's Ed, and a possible spot on the track team are his only reasons for attending. But when a high speed chase in Mom's borrowed car results in a series of events which force him to flee L.A., Eddie must leave the behind the girl he loves. From bus depot to hitching rides on street corners, the mayhem only worsens on his road trip north, when he bears witness to murder and saves a young woman's life, momentarily. Upon reaching Zen, he finds his father, crazy as Hamlet, living in a paramilitary retreat on a remote mountain side. When opposing forces meet in a conflagration of gunfire, Eddie's life-- and his family-- are changed forever. But in the end-- live or die-- F.O.G. is a tale of redemption.

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