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AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, by Philip Naiman

Genre: Comedy

Synopsis:

After being saddled with the care of a niece he has never met a gambler’s life becomes further complicated when he is unable to pay off his kid brother’s bad debt to a Vegas hood.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Marsha Mason
CRYSTAL – Roselie Williamson
PUNTER – David Strauss
BOY – Alan Shonfield

Get to know the writer Philip Naiman:

1. What is your screenplay about?

AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT is a comedy about a gambler whose apparent carefree world is challenged when he is reluctantly awarded custody of an orphaned niece he has never met while at the same time he tries to bail his kid brother out of a debt to Las Vegas hoods.

2. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

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