Pages: 90
Period: Present
Budget: Very low
Locations: small town in Southern Ontario, but could be a small town anywhere

Primary Character Breakdowns:

MARK EATON (m/late 20s)
Ambitious, he's not adverse to skirting morality (or the law) for a big payoff.

EMALINE (EMMA) CAULFIELD (f/early 20s)
Abandoned by her parents, she'll do anything for her adoptive mob family - including lie, cheat and steal.

Logline

A cable installer on a routine job suddenly finds himself caught up in diamond smuggling, kidnapping, and foul play when he meets a pretty courier who works for the mob.

Overview

CARATS poses the question, "If you could get away with it, would you commit a crime to help yourself and someone else?"

How far would you go to make your dreams come true?

CARATS is a fun, adventurous, low-budget, highly accessible story that takes an average individual and places him in an extraordinary situation in which the lines of right and wrong may shift, depending on who's viewing them.

CARATS was written to be filmable on a very low budget of $1,000,000 and is written with DVD appeal in mind.